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E-RYT200 RYT500 YACEP
Lic. Ac. Claire is an honours degree level qualified licenced acupuncturist, who specialises in yoga for health and wellness.

She teaches how to apply yoga and ayurveda to alleviate symptoms, and prevent imbalance and ill health.

10/04/2025

Today is hair day with my Stacey. Hoorah. A long 3 hr drive ahead, but when you have a person, you have a person 🥰 Right?

Anyway, aside from that, I woke up thinking about rules in science that we all accept, but maybe shouldn’t. For example, a widely accepted one is that caffeine wakes us up and can make us a little jittery or anxious. Right? Some people are even convinced that they need coffee to function, (and so they do).

Not me. Caffeine makes me sleepy. If I’m awake in the night, a cuppa will help me doze off. And if I have a coffee around midday, I need a 20 minute nap, because I cannot stay awake. I know I’m not alone, and it only really clicked after a brief discussion with my cousin who reacts the same way. Sometimes we are so hardwired to believe the official narrative over what is actually occurring, that it’s confusing and difficult to connect to our own body and, ultimately, our personal reality. Hmmmm.

I wonder if anyone else has any examples of their body responding in a different way than is to be expected? I’d love to hear, if that’s the case.

Good morning to you. Happy, happy new day ☀️

07/04/2025

For so long I took sessions with mostly distant clients, “doing what I do”. People would ask “what I do” and I’d give an abstract answer around working intuitively, bringing awareness to acupuncture points, or just parts of the body, and creating release. This work actually precedes both my acupuncture and my yoga.

During lockdown, this work was also introduced to my clinical clients, who I was unable to see in person. As they were often patients with physical symptoms, rather than mental, spiritual or emotional, we were delighted to see physical pain disappearing from the body; knees, backs, shoulders. Fixed.

Through my travels, I continued to keep this work alive at a distance.

Then I happened upon a course with the Institute of Applied Somatics, and after speaking with the professor, I decided to sign up. I didn’t know why, but followed my gut.

And this wonderful man has taught me what it is that I do, and how I can deepen and amplify the practice by incorporating gentle physical exercise for my clients.

I could become certified in this very quickly, but I’m choosing to take the entire 12 months to be with my own body and trapped emotional energy, so that I can deeply understand the process.

I will, however, be offering some complimentary and exploratory group zoom sessions, each centring on a specific part of the body, so if you, or someone you know, is living with unexplained pain, you’d be so welcome to join me and see what is possible.

I am currently staying with a dear friend, and will be in my own home in a couple of months time, so please feel free to DM me if you’d like to be informed of the sessions when they begin.

What is possible? Shall we find out together?

02/04/2025

Do you believe you are a victim to life, or that life is always moving you to higher ground?

These past years of travel have convinced me of the latter; life is creating through us, again and again.

I recently visited Cambodia, despite last minute reservations, and then returned not too long thereafter.

The lodge and Fire the Heart was not simply a building, but years of dedication, training and community, that is reforming. And had I not returned when I did, I would have purchased a problematic home, and not the perfect one for the work I do.

Some say don’t share your dreams until they are manifest, because people will spoil them. I say share them with clarity, and gently remove those who do not share your heart and vision. Harsh? No, I don’t think so.

It will be some months before my new space is ready, but one thing I will be offering is residential yoga teacher training, especially for those with a more introverted nature. Two or three participants, at most.

Having taken part in many YTTs these past couple of years, it is clear that challenges can arise between large (and small) groups of people, and this can be uncomfortable for some who simply want to take the inwards journey through their training.

YTT is not simply a training in the asana and pranayama, but a journey to the heart, and we all process differently, in different environments.

I look forward to sharing more soon, but don’t hesitate to DM me for further information 🌻

19/03/2025

You are not in a relationship with the person and people you are with. You are in relationship with your own expectations and desires, projected onto the person and people you’re with.

Look within, not without, to find your happiness. Know yourself 🌻

08/03/2025

Happy International Women’s Day.

This is a very vulnerable, and somewhat rambling message as I sit in the airport about to leave beautiful Cambodia three weeks earlier than planned.

I’d normally just brush a situation like this off, but there was a young lady sharing some of my class time and it’s important for her that I don’t. And my daughter. And any young lady who might sign up and not be able to articulate what she’s feeling like in a bully’s presence.

It’s not a rant, I’m at peace. But it needs to be spoken out loud.

Just because you’ve invested doesn’t mean you have to accept what’s being served.

Hold your head high, don’t be manipulated back into the toxic gameplay by what they are withholding from you, and smile at your win as you walk freely out of the door.

10/01/2025

Happy new year, everyone 🎉

Here’s a little update from a beautiful day in Nepal. New house, new yoga teacher training and much more, coming soon, for those who have been asking 🙏🏻 🤍

27/12/2024

Did you know that in order to open a yoga school, you are now required to have the E500-RYT designation by the Yoga Alliance. This is a wonderful change and most needed.

I’m busy writing my manual now, in the beautiful surrounds of Thailand, NZ, Bali, Nepal and Cambodia, before I come home and find the new space. I want my yoga teacher training to be an affordable, immersive teacher training experience, focussing not simply on the mat practice, but on health, nutrition, Ayurvedic wellness, sound, and how to apply yoga to alleviate symptoms and improve the quality of this one life. I’m so grateful to all the inspirational teachers in my life as I write.

Collaborative opportunities are also raising there head, so I look forward to sharing more in due course.

Happy new year to you all. Wishing you peace and happiness for this next chapter of the big book 💖

13/12/2024

Good morning from beautiful Bali 🌼

It has been such a long time since I posted here. It felt like time to update you, although I still have much more to do:

I sold the lodge a year ago, and have been travelling for 14 months, studying yoga, ayurveda, acupuncture, sound healing and massage all around Asia and Australasia, and it will soon be time to settle in a new UK venue, where I hope to see you for new treatments, workshops, retreats and strategies for life. It’s been amazing and wild, and even though I’m away for another four months, I’m feeling myself turning back towards home and work, and I’m so looking forward to the developing chapter two.

As some of you know, I’m still working online with private clients, so please reach out if I can help in the meantime. I miss you!

Happy Friday 13th. May the day bring you all things wonderful.

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