Class Description: Enjoy an hour of feel-good stretchy yoga to unwind from a day of sitting at a desk, or in a car, or in a conference room. We'll move slowly and rest quietly in relaxed poses to gently open tight spots. (60 minutes)

Instructor Bio: Clara is a world-traveling, forest-loving, hill-walking yoga teacher who you will sometimes see on the big screen. She teaches feel-good stretchy yoga to busy people to help them live a life of more ease and more everyday creativity. Clara is a recovering people-pleaser. She spent a lot of years fitting herself into a box that (she thought) made other people happy. She loved yoga, but she didn’t always get to class. She spent a lot of time driving for work, driving her son to school and to his activities, sitting hunched over a computer – she knows how bad it feels to put off feeling better. She also knows how good it feels to take action toward feeling better. Can you relate? Many of us have jobs that keep us sitting at desks, or responsibilities that keep us sitting in the car. Whether you are hunched over a computer at the office or hunched over the wheel in the carpool line, all that sitting can make our backs sore, our hips cranky, and our necks and shoulders chronically ache. Even if we enjoy a regular walk, or hit the gym for a workout on the way home, our bodies can feel stiff and sore. We need to stretch it out and move our bodies into shapes that work out the kinks.

She chose to earn her Yoga Teacher Certification at a program with a robust anatomy component, Asheville Yoga Center in Asheville, North Carolina. She is continuing her studies there for an Advanced Certification, focusing on therapeutic applications of yoga, mindfulness and meditation, and even more anatomy.

Clara wants to help you develop a practice that leads to greater physical ease and comfort, because she knows from experience that when you feel better physically, you feel better mentally and emotionally. Her classes and workshops offer a chance, not just to move and "do yoga," but a chance to catch a glimpse of that person you are when you feel best about yourself.