Meet claudine whealing: Yoga Teacher at This Is Yoga
What was your inspiration for becoming a yoga teacher?
Yoga caught me off-guard. I didn’t expect it to be this good. The practice of showing up each day to practice, to tune in, to breathe and move, has been transformational for me. A key part of the transformation is connecting to community, sharing space and breath with the people around you. Whether or not to teach didn’t feel like a question, it felt like the clear path. Yoga is too good not to share.
Your favourite yoga pose if you have one?
My favourite pose is ardha chandrasana (half moon). It’s an opportunity to both ground down to the earth, embracing the single-minded presence of balance, and expand and open to the sky, fingertips reaching up. Grounding and expansion perfectly balanced, what a two-for-one deal!
What do you enjoy most about teaching?
Sometimes at the end of class, someone will come up to me and say they were having a bad day, but they’re walking out of yoga feeling much better than how they walked in. Helping someone turn their day around, now that’s a privilege. How good.
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About claudine:
Claudine’s yoga journey began with the Ashtanga tradition under the tuition of Martine Allars and she has since trained in Vinyasa, Hatha and Yin. With a background in dance and free movement, Claudine knew when she discovered yoga that it would be a practice for life. Claudine believes that tuning into the body and moving with the breath creates the potential for immense transformation. In a world filled with noise and distractions, Claudine leads a yoga practice to help you quiet the mind, connect to the breath, and tap into your own inner strength.
She has studied under Don Peers, Duncan Peak, Gina Brescianini, Simon Park, Karolina Syzmala, Patrick Beach and Carling Harps.
Claudine’s classes are intelligently sequenced, dynamic, and designed for all.