Meet Clementine Cummer.

Breathe. Move. Embody.

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My father brought me to my first yoga class over 40 years ago when I was in Jr. High. The class was in a large quiet room in a woman’s home where we practiced breathing techniques and meditation.  I know now that she was a Kundalini teacher; at the time I just loved the feeling of deep calm and connection to my internal experience.  I found yoga again when I was in my late teens.  The slow meditative movement of yoga in the Iyengar tradition was a welcome balance to the more outwardly focused movement practices that I was enjoying at the time like modern dance, contact improvisation, and Capoeira. 

I have sustained a committed yoga practice for over 25 years and have been a yoga teacher for over 20 years.  My practice has evolved as my physical and emotional needs have changed.  I have been drawn to different approaches in the rich yoga tradition as my life has unfolded.  My first teachers were students of BKS Iyengar and my practice remains rooted in that tradition.  I love the attention to detail in the Iyengar practice: orienting my bones in gravity and learning to work with my breath through pranayama.   Over the years I have expanded my knowledge of applied anatomy with Amy Matthews and Leslie Kaminoff, deepened my seated meditation practice, and learned more about how to support people with cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, and stroke.

I find the support I need for the movement I love through the stabilizing and healing connection to breath and internal awareness.  My personal daily practice and ongoing professional development are the foundation of my teaching: I teach what I practice.  My personal practice encompasses movement, breath work, and seated meditation. Practice is where I nourish myself and where I explore new knowledge to share with my students.  My teachers have been invaluable to my evolving practice, to my own healing, and to my deepening understanding of the role of yoga in health and wellness.  I am grateful to each of them and I aim to offer all of my experience & knowledge to my own students.    

 

Primary Teachers & Certifications (in chronological order):

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  • Certificate Course in Meditation and Psychotherapy at The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, Harvard Medical School (2023-2024)

  • Tom Alden- mentor, 2017- 2019

  • Adaptive Yoga Training Program with Terry Roth Schaff (July 2019)

  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher Training Fundamentals at The Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society, UMASS Medical School (2017)

  • 5 day silent meditation retreat with Sarah and Ty Powers (June 2016)

  • Amy Matthews- Professional training: Principles in Embodied Teaching (2015- 2016)

  • Kimberly Carson – Mentor in Meditation Practice and in Cancer Work (2015-2016)

  • Certification in Yoga of Awareness for Healing from Cancer at Center For Integrative Medicine, Duke University (2015)

  • Leslie Kaminoff- Anatomy and Breath Centered Yoga (2014)

  • Bo Forbes- Supervision in Working with Individual Students (2013-2014)

  • Bo Forbes- Advanced Training in Yoga Therapeutics (2008- 2010)

  • Bo Forbes- 200 hour Teacher Training (2008)

  • Bo Forbes- primary teacher (2006- 2014)

  • Arthur Kilmurray- primary teacher (2001-2006)

  • Zoe Stuart- mentor in teaching (1999-2001)

  • Zoe Stuart- primary teacher (1997- 2001)

  • Peentz Dubble- primary teacher (1995-1997)