A Yoga Journey That Gently Transforms Lives
From Personal Practice to Purpose
For Claudette, yoga began as something deeply personal — a way to reconnect with herself, find balance, and move through life’s challenges with more awareness and compassion. Over time, that personal practice evolved into a calling: to create spaces where others could experience the same sense of grounding, calm, and self-connection.
Her journey into teaching was never about pushing limits or chasing perfection. Instead, it was rooted in listening — to the body, the breath, and the subtle signals that often get lost in the noise of modern life.
A Teaching Style That Meets People Where They Are
Claudette’s classes — including Vinyasa Flow, Yin, and Restorative Yoga — are known for their gentle pacing, clear guidance, and emphasis on breath. Rather than focusing on how poses look, she invites students to explore how they feel.
Choice, presence, and nervous-system awareness are central to her teaching. This creates an environment where people feel safe to slow down, soften, and reconnect — whether they are new to yoga or long-time practitioners.
The Impact on Her Students
The effect of Claudette’s work is often felt far beyond the mat. Students regularly describe her classes as calming, nurturing, and deeply supportive. Many arrive carrying stress, fatigue, or emotional overwhelm — and leave feeling lighter, steadier, and more at ease.
Some speak of immediate shifts: better sleep, reduced tension, a sense of emotional reset. Others describe longer-term changes, such as feeling more grounded in daily life, responding to stress with greater clarity, and reconnecting with themselves in a meaningful way.
Retreat participants echo this experience. They often describe Claudette’s presence as quietly transformative — creating an atmosphere of trust, rest, and reflection that allows genuine renewal to take place.
Yoga as a Way of Living
What sets Claudette apart is her understanding that yoga doesn’t end when the class does. Her teaching supports people through real life — busy schedules, transitions, recovery, pregnancy, burnout, and change.
Today, teaching in the Algarve through classes, retreats, and specialized sessions, Claudette continues to guide students toward a simpler truth: yoga isn’t about doing more — it’s about being more present. And for many, that presence has been life-changing.
Vinyasa Flow helps build and maintain strong bones, muscles and connective tissue to maintain a high metabolism, healthy posture, and an active and alive body.
The physical work of Vinyasa Flow yoga ensures that we will have the strength, balance and function to maintain health lives into our senior years.
“Breathe
It is our beautiful reminder to do what comes naturally.
It is the first thing we do when we enter this world and the last thing we do when we leave”
The science behind yoga:
The central nervous system is made up of two parts: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for our fight or flight mode, which most of us tend to function in on a daily basis due to the tumult around us. The parasympathetic nervous system supports our autonomic functions such as breathing, heart and metabolic rates, and restores balance. When this part of our central nervous system turns on, blood is directed to our digestive organs, endocrine glands and lymphatic circulation, while blood pressure and heart rate are lowered.
How to balance the nervous system:
Yoga can effectively reduce the body's stress response by decreasing the production of cortisol, which happens when the sympathetic nervous system is overworked.
Since many of us function in the sympathetic nervous system, think answering emails at any hour, being blasted by ever-changing imagery on social media, and dealing with the stress of our jobs and busy lives, our bodies are producing high amounts of the hormone cortisol. This hormone can actually start to wreak havoc on our brains by dampening our reflexes, our ability to focus and our memory, thus affecting our entire lives. So naturally, the aim is to restore balance and reduce cortisol levels by intentionally activating the parasympathetic nervous system. A strong central nervous system is a balanced one.The practice effectively does this by increasing the coordination between our minds and our bodies through the physical postures, breathing techniques, and conscious relaxation methods that help stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system.
Conscious breathing and conscious execution of yoga postures actually strengthens nerve transmissions from the body to the brain, decreasing our stress and muscular tension. Fully supported, restorative yoga poses activate the parasympathetic nervous system, allowing anxiety, fear and anger to leave our minds. Allow yourself to experience that life is better lived when you don’t centre it on what’s happening around you and enter it on what’s happening inside you instead.
Let’s work on yourself and your inner peace.
Claudette x
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