Claire Metrick (she/her)

Claire has had a movement practice ever since she can remember: dance classes as a child, pilates in college, and even marching band in high school in TX (she credits her facility on the icy sidewalks of Boston to her roll step). She has been interested in shapes just as long, eventually focusing on biomechanics in engineering school and now studying the submicroscopic structures of biomolecules in order to understand diseases and develop new treatments. Based on her background, it’s no wonder that Claire has fallen in love with the flow and alignment aspects of vinyasa, Iyengar, and Katonah yoga.

Though Claire started a regular physical yoga practice more than a decade ago, but the benefits of the other limbs of the practice became a lifeline as she pursued her PhD in biochemistry and it remains essential as she continues her career as a professional research scientist—a calling that requires you to ask “why” and “how” but rarely as it applies to the self. Always compelled to use her knowledge to help others, Claire completed a 200HR yoga teacher training program in 2018 at Back Bay YogaWorks with Renee LeBlanc and Caitlyn Visconte and a 300HR program in 2021 at Boston Yoga Union with Tim Kelleher, Emily Tevald, and Caitlyn Visconte.

By focusing on understanding through experimentation in class, she strives to create a playful and welcoming environment for svadhyaya/self-study in asana/poses so that all students feel empowered to translate the internal investigation on the mat into aspects of their lives that feel more nebulous. Claire uses her personal practice as a reminder to find balance between effort and ease, doing and resting, and ebb and flow and apply the myriad lessons of yoga to a daily life off the mat.