Claramarie Burns, CYT

Claramarie Burns

Claramarie began Yoga practice at the age of fourteen, becoming a student of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, whose teaching focused at that time on core Advaita Vedanta and Yoga practice. Since that time Clara while continued to deepen her practice and broaden her experience through exploration of various traditions and teachers, including Kashmir Shaivism; Zen, Theravada, and Tibetan Buddhism; Hasadism & Jewish Renewal, and world spiritual practices/belief systems.

Claramarie completed The Master Course, a program offered by Himalayan Academy, attending classes at the Academy’s San Francisco Center twice weekly, as well as retreats at the mountain desert monastery in Nevada, while completing an intensive course in meditation and Yoga, and attending high school. After her graduation from Himalayan Academy, Clara traveled for nine weeks on pilgrimage to India, Nepal, and around the world with Gurudeva and sixty-four other students, visiting ashrams and temples, meditating, and enjoying the darshan of many spiritual teachers and sacred sites.

At Naropa University, she studied Body Mind Psychotherapy as part of her BA in Dance and Movement Studies; and after completing her MFA in Writing and Poetics, she fulfilled a long-held desire to enhance her Yoga practice with a deeper knowledge of the Sanskrit language, completing Naropa’s two-year graduate Sanskrit program.

Claramarie is also an artist, poet, translator, librarian, and gardener.