Claire Missingham: Finding Flow and Having Faith

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Yoga, Yogaland, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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My guest on this episode is London-based teacher, Claire Missingham. Claire has over 16 years teaching experience and and runs a successful yoga teacher training program having trained over 125 teachers in the UK in the past few years. She is a Senior Teacher at triyoga, Europe's leading yoga studio and teaches worldwide. Claire is also a triathlete, competing regularly in Sprint Distance Triathlons after learning how to swim and cycle only in the past couple of years since turning 40!Claire is thoughtful, funny, and a devoted mom and she has a fascinating life story that led her to yoga — from her family’s practice of Sufism to her years leading a professional dance company, we piece it all together and talk about:* Her spiritual childhood and the effect it had on her* The importance of modeling self care and practice time for your children and family* Her creating magic workshop (which I wish I could take!) and some of her ideas for carving out creative time* Creating monthly themes for classes...

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0:30.0	Hi everyone, it's Andrea Ferretti and this is episode Teacher Claire Missingam.
0:45.0	Claire is a hugely popular teacher in London and she teaches workshops and trainings around the world.
0:51.0	To me Claire is an all-around fascinating person with an utterly delightful voice.
0:56.8	I know you will love listening to her voice today.
0:59.9	She was raised in a Sufi household and she studied dance seriously as a child and then became
1:05.3	a professional dancer before becoming a yoga teacher.
1:09.0	So what I see in Claire is this ability to both understand and communicate esoteric or
1:16.0	spiritual thought and also communicate very practical down-to-earth physical embodiment.
1:23.6	So pretty much the perfect combo for a yoga teacher.
1:27.8	So Fia and I went to London a few years ago
1:30.3	when Jason did a month-long teacher training there and Claire was so generous to our family.
1:35.2	She took Sophia and I out to play with her daughter.
1:38.4	She had us over to her house and she's absolutely one of those people who lives her yoga.
1:43.7	She's kind, she's truly humble, and she has a great sense of humor,
1:49.2	which I think is really important in the yoga practice.
1:52.0	And she also cares deeply about her
1:54.8	students so I'm so happy to share her story and her insights with you today here
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