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Claire has been teaching yoga for over 25 years and completed her yoga teacher training at The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari Ashram in Kerala, Southern India. She has also practiced Iyengar, Bikram, Yin Yoga, Vinyasa Flow and Ashtanga Yoga. She has studied with and been greatly influenced by some exceptional teachers, notably Roger Newton, Shiva Rea, Sarah Powers, Bernie Clark, Paul Grilley and Sri Dharma Mittra.

 

Over the years Claire has incorporated aspects of all the major disciplines and of the ancient yogic teachings and traditions to create a unique class, with the idea to prompt students to look far beyond the physical dimension of yoga. Although the practice is fairly strenuous, she has taught students of all ages and ability over the years and is confident that people can achieve more than they ever dreamed possible in yoga.

 

Claire wants her students to attend their classes with the intention of transcending the limited ideas they have of themselves, their practice and their communities. She believes in the power of practicing in a collective frequency where students can feel encouraged and supported by the other practitioners around them. Claire has witnessed the abundant physical benefits of yoga both in herself and in all her students, but it is her dream that the yogis she teaches will ultimately absorb yoga on a much deeper and more profound level.

 

The emphasis of Claire's teaching is to encourage students to move away from the “arbitrary standard” in modern yoga and the aesthetic questions such as “who is the best at yoga”. She believes that a more profitable and less dogmatic approach is to explore what the practice feels like and not just what it looks like.

 

“We all have limitless potential to access spiritual data through our meditation and yoga practice. To experience our realities beyond the five limited apertures of the senses. An opportunity and possibility to explore our own human architecture and to understand our anatomical uniqueness. To deepen our awareness of our “essence selves” and become more in tune with the living matrix of intricate pathways which intersect through our bodies.”

Claire Allen
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