Clare is a highly experienced Yoga teacher who has been practising Ashtanga Yoga since 1993 and teaching since 2000. In 2001 she moved to Derby where she has taught hundreds of students as well as local yoga teachers.
She brings a flexible approach to Ashtanga Yoga, basing the classes on the Ashtanga sequence but modifying it to suit all capabilities.
Clare has had an interest in alternative therapies since her teens and has studied nutritional therapies such as naturopathy and herbalism.
She has also studied mindfulness and life coaching and is commencing study in sports therapy (a physiotherapy aimed at rehabilitating people with sport injuries).
It was during a 6 month backpacking trip to India in 1993 that Clare first began her study of yoga and became hooked on Ashtanga yoga for the way it energised and balanced the body and helped release years of accumulated tension. .
Clare then studied intensively with Derek Ireland whilst working at his yoga retreat centre in Crete from 1995-1997 and she completed her teacher training with him in Goa India.
She has studied with some of the most respected Ashtanga teachers including John Scott, Kino MacGregor, David Swenson, David Williams,Hamish Hendy and Gingi Lee. She has also extended her understanding of yoga through studying with teachers of other branches of yoga including the Satyanander school.
claretxu
Ashtanga Yoga Derby