Claire uses a strong foundation in technique combined with sensitive intuition and humor to offer classes that balance exacting instruction with fluid movement and deep breath. Initially trained in the lyengar method, Claire was mentored for many years by Patricia Walden and traveled to India three times for extended study at the lyengar institute in Pune. She’s also a graduate of Ana Forrest’s Foundation and Advanced Teacher Training programs. She loves learning new methods of movement and meditation and integrating them into her own teaching and practice.

Claire began practicing yoga in the early 1990s and teaching in 2000. In 2008, she reduced her teaching schedule partly to pursue other professional endeavors and also to reevaluate her relationship with yoga. With the 2011 relaunching of this website, she’s thrilled to present an exciting new set of yoga offerings.

Before becoming a yoga teacher, Claire worked on humanitarian assistance projects around the world. Before that, she earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and worked on Wall Street. She currently directs the study abroad program at Lesley University

“Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.”
— Erich Schiffmann