Akirayoga – Claire Green
Yoga teacher, yoga therapist & passionate yin yogi. From Claire’s very first encounter with yoga, she was hooked. She fell in love with the pure raw healing potential of the practice: the contrast between the strength & power of a yang practice compared to the grace & surrender within a yin practice & enjoys the beautiful flow between the two extremes. Claire is passionate how yoga empowers people in the healing process. Rather, than being a passive recipient of treatment, the student is actively engaged in the path to their own well-being. Her role, as a teacher, is to guide you to listen & be present to your own subtle messages your body offers & directing you to the tools to connect & re-balance; teaching you the way to implement these tools.
Claire started practicing yoga 18 years ago following having sciatica & pelvic pain. Also suffering from anxiety & a high alert state as a young adult, self medication in numerous ways was a habitual pattern. Rather than take pain killers for the sciatica, yoga entered her life after stumbling across a yoga video at a yard sale.
Initially, due to the social anxiety it was very much a personal self taught practice not entering a class for two years. Organically submerging into Yin Yoga in particular turned Claire’s life around in terms of healing, over coming the many layers & attributes of social anxiety & dealing with associated physical pain and in-balance; reconnecting with herself as well as with others. As a highly sensitive child yoga enabled a tapping into skills to help others rather than feeling dis-connected with the world.
Claire holds a degree in Psychology, Sociology & Politics, a degree in Community Justice, & a classroom Teaching Level 4 Diploma. Eight years as a previous probation officer. She then worked for five years within the Adult Education system as a Yoga Program manager building city wide free classes for people with mental, emotional & physical health problems & for those seeking interactive community links.
A grateful student of her vastly knowledgeable yoga teachers, Claire teaches a fusion of the styles that she has studied with a strong emphasis on using the whole body, & the breath to develop strength, essential for a Yang practice & the sacred balance of effort & surrender in the Yin practice. Her classes find equal emphasis on strength building of the mind, body & soul, as well as graceful acceptance. Akira means ‘graceful strength‘ in Sanskrit & ‘bright’ in Japanese. Researching the biblical meaning of the name Claire, it also came up as ‘bright’. Claire found her yoga name.
“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.”
–The Bhagavad Gita
Claire has over 1,500 hours of teacher training & 16 years of teaching experience; initially completing the 100 hours British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) Foundation course. She gained the 500 hours Teaching Yoga Diploma with the BWY in 2005, & completed level one Birthlight Pregnancy Yoga in 2009. In 2011 she gained the BWY Foundation Course Teacher Trainer certification & began to deliver the British Wheel of Yoga Foundation course based on the Hatha yoga tradition.
In 2014 Claire completed Advanced Yoga training with Ana Forrest & in 2015 a further 570 hours Yin Yoga & Yoga Therapy with Maggie Reagh, following the Krishnamacharya lineage & the major trends in current Yoga Therapy, including Chair Yoga, Yoga Nidra, & Yoga for Conditions including Scoliosis, Chronic Pain, Cancer, MS, Parkinson’s, & Disabilities, continuing these studies in Chennai, India, with teachers D.V. Sridhar, Viji Vasu, & Radha Sridhar at Yoga Raksanam. In 2019, Claire completed a further 200 hours Yin Yoga teacher training with Jo Phee & Joe Barnett in Bali.
Claire provides Chakra wellness retreats, 15 & 30 hour online Yin yoga teacher training courses, online Yin yoga class packages & live 55 & 100 hour Yin Yoga & Myofascial Release Yoga Alliance continuing education teacher training courses.
Also offering an equally balanced 200 hour Vinyasa, Yin Yoga & Myofascial Release teacher training with the option of registering as a Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance, on the Nusa Lembongan island of Bali, minutes from the beach.
Claire also provides online personal packages upon request, offering one hour free online skype one to one consultations with private yoga class package options & specific yoga therapy tailored to your personal needs & has a you-tube channel offering free full hour Yin yoga classes, short tutorials & meditations. She has a Facebook community Yin Yoga online resource page ‘Myin’ for worldwide yin yoga teachers & practitioners.
If you wish to contact Claire directly about any of her services please use the contact form available on the contact page.