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“You have your whole life to get the pose. Once you get it, you’ll be on to wanting something else. Enjoy the pose you have right now, enjoy the journey.”
-C. NEUMAN

BIO: CLAUDIA NEUMAN

At the age of eight, Claudia attended her first yoga class with her Mother in 1966.

As a native of Santa Monica California, Claudia was in the right place at the right time for the opening of a studio called Yoga Works. Prior to this she studied with the Integral and Sivananda Yoga Societies, as well as her beloved first real teacher, Ragavan, who inspired her to begin teaching.

Claudia continued to teach and train at Yoga Works, completing several teacher training programs there; studying with Rod Stryker, Eric Shifffman, Anna Forrest, and the honorable Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, the creator of Ashtanga Yoga.

In 1991, Claudia was faced with loosing the used of her left arm when she encountered a car head on, on a Los Angeles freeway. She sought an alternative to surgery by embarking on a mission to rehabilitate herself through the Pilates method, which was beginning to gain popularity at the time. While interning with Siri Dharma Galliano of Live Art in Los Angeles, she became a Pilates Instructor.

After a teaching assignment in Istanbul, Turkey, where Claudia was among the first to bring Pilates and Yoga to that city, she was lucky to find her real teacher, John Friend, the creator of Anusara Yoga. At the suggestion of fellow yogini, Claudia went to Austin, Texas to take her first class with Mr. Friend at the Southwest Yoga Journal Conference.

Her immediate dedication to Anusara Yoga has resulted in passionately completing many hours of level one and two Teacher Training’s, Therapy Training’s, Intensives and Workshops with John Friend and some of the other top Anusara teachers in the country.

Claudia moved to the east cost in 2004 by invitation to teach at one of the first Anusara Yoga studios in Baltimore, Maryland, Quantum Yoga. Currently she is a full time Anusara Yoga Instructor, teaching in both the Baltimore and D.C. areas. She is also the director of the Yoga program for the Maryland Athletic Clubs in Timonium and Harbor East, Maryland. Claudia offers Corporate Yoga programs, workshops in Anusara Yoga, Power Yoga classes in the Anusara Yoga style, Pilates Sculpting workshops, New Thought Counseling and private and group instruction in Anusara Yoga.

Claudia is also working on a media project with the intention to bring Yoga to more people who might otherwise never be able to study.

Claudia is a musician and an artist with new, original material in the works at all times. Claudia became a certified Anusara Yoga Instructor in 2005.