Yoga Teacher Training + Writing + Event Curation

Being a senior yoga teacher, in the past 22 years of yoga practice and teaching Claire has had the luck to study with the original 3 masters within the Krishnamacharya lineage. This lineage served Claire’s early career beautifully. Claire adored the years of strict Ashtanga practice and travelling to Mysore to study in depth 21 years ago. Claire was also introduced to the Esoteric Anatomy through Kundalini Yoga in NYC back in the late 1990’s, at the same time doing teacher training with Jivamukti Yoga - this initial experience unfolded step by step into a sequence of experience that each paved the way for the next whether physical or meditative in nature. There was a time where becoming a yoga teacher was about the art of assisting and learning over years and years of study. This was a time in western yoga practice when there was no 200-hour trainings, and hierarchy reined. In many ways, a traditional time of Guru Shisya and long apprenticeship.

Having created the first Vinyasa teacher training in the UK in 2009, Claire was paramount in the evolution of this style of yoga in the UK. Certified in Kundalini Yoga, Jivamukti Yoga, Pregnancy & Post-Natal, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, Claire now leads trainings in Traditional Yoga, a synergised method, drawn from years of in depth study, apprenticeship and spiritual practice. Claire herself feels deeply supported by her teachers, and by continued study, research and an academic research based approach to yoga philosophy and practice, and is no longer affiliated with any one school or teacher for the practice, in order to ensure a non-dogmatic approach that is able to grow and evolve without any high-control dynamics that may hinder self expression. Non-traditionally traditional.

“I appreciate all the teachers that I have met, studied with and apprenticed with on this path. I offer my most devoted pranams to Neem Karoli Baba for creating a lineage that is filled with supportive, devoted love through Ram Dass and Krishna Das. Time I spend in Kainchi is sacred: I feel supported, safe and calm. I appreciate so much my Parampara at the Ramakrishna Ashram/Kali Mandir, who lead my Vedic academic research in a way that is kind yet challenging…

There are many teachers and lineages that have been hugely positive, inspirational and foundational to my method now. However, I do recognise that we are also now able to see how we can move forward: to understand more clearly as women how we are supported by contemporary teaching and practice of yoga, and by teachers who support community networks rather than dogmatic hierarchal leadership structures, while maintaining high ethical standards and being a competent leader who has the deepest integrity in that moment. I am hugely grateful to Seane Corn for always showing me how to lead with humour and heart. ”