About Of This Body
Of This Body began with a simple question:
What happens when spirituality remembers the body and the world we are living in?
For many years I moved through spaces where practice invited presence, but often left parts of our lived experience outside the room. The body was welcomed, but not always the complexity of being human within it.
This work grew from a desire for something more honest.
A way of practicing that honours sensation, emotion, relationship, and the wider world that shapes our nervous systems and lives.
Rooted in non-dual Tantra and informed by somatic and nervous system awareness, Of This Body is a practice of staying.
Staying with sensation.
Staying with emotion.
Staying present to the world we are part of.
Not to fix or transcend experience —
but to meet it with care, steadiness and awareness.
Because the body is not separate from life.
It is where life is felt.
Embodiment here is not performance or perfection.
It is participation.
A remembering that presence is something we practice together.
The Body Behind Of This Body: Claire
“I teach because my body taught me.”
My own practice showed me that spirituality which floats above the body cannot hold the full truth of being human. Real practice meets us where we actually are — in sensation, emotion, relationship and life.
Over the past decade I’ve taught yoga and held retreats across the UK and internationally, drawing from training in yoga, Trika Shaivism and somatic practice.
But more than methods or techniques, what shapes my teaching is a commitment to care, honesty and relationship.
Students often describe my teaching spaces as grounded, thoughtful and deeply human. There is depth, but no pressure to perform spirituality or become someone else.
You don’t need to arrive calm, certain or “healed”.
You are simply invited to arrive as you are.
Why This Work Came Into Being
Before creating retreats, I spent nearly a decade teaching weekly studio classes in London.
Those rooms shaped my life.
The rhythm of returning each week.
The quiet intimacy of shared practice.
The way breath and movement can soften the edges of a difficult day.
And alongside that, I began to notice something.
Many spiritual spaces spoke about presence and compassion, but struggled to acknowledge the realities unfolding beyond the studio walls.
Yet our bodies are not separate from the world.
Our nervous systems respond to the conditions we live within.
We carry stress, grief and uncertainty in our breath, our muscles, our sleep.
Ignoring that never felt honest to me.
Of This Body emerged from the desire to create spaces where practice can hold the fullness of our humanity.
Where we can cultivate steadiness without pretending the world is simple.
Where care for the body also includes care for the collective.
Where embodiment becomes a way of meeting life with more courage, clarity and connection.
This is not yoga as escape.
It is yoga as relationship —
with ourselves, with each other, and with the world we are part of.
