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Claudia Florian McCaffrey is originally from Argentina.  Her love for teaching draws from her professional training in dance, yoga, meditation, and motherhood.

To observe Claudia is to watch art in motion. Her elegance, vibrancy, and passion are visible in all that she teaches. Her strength lies in the ability to elicit beauty and perfection inherent in each individual. To this end, she teaches people how to move with intention from the inside out – taking the utmost care, while at the same time bringing forth an innate joy for life.

Claudia is a certified yoga teacher since 2005. She was trained in yoga by leading yoga teachers – Noah Maze, Jim Baernart, Sianna Sherman, Abby Tucker, Jane Austin, Judith Lasater and Mary Richards. She deepened her knowledge of the philosophy of yoga with Carlos Pomeda. Her training has been influenced by the styles of Anusara, Iyengar, Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga. She aslo bring to her yoga teaching style  other modalities such as Laban Movement Analysis, Feldenkrais Method, the Alexander Technique, Dance, Pilates and Mindfulness. She is trained in therapeutic yoga, experiencial yoga anatomy, movement analysis, and relaxation techniques to heal people suffering from chronic pain.

After giving birth to two childrens, Claudia understood that the fear of giving birth was unnecessary. By learning to relax and calm the mind and body, mothers could approach birth with ease and confidence. In 2005, she began to specialize in prenatal and postnatal yoga, using breathing, strenghtening and stretching techniques to prepare mothers for the natural process of childbirth.

Claudia is also certified in Prenatal Yoga, Infant Massage, a Reiki Master, and a Childbirth Educator in HypnoBirthing®.

Claudia  teaches Yoga to children, teens and  adult. She brings joy and lightheartnedness to her classes with a suddle  touch to dive into the depth of the heart of Yoga.

Currently Caudia  leads  Yoga Teacher trainings globally specializing in Hatha Yoga and Yoga for Prenatal and Postnatal and yoga for youth.

Since 2011 she works at the Northern California Restoration Clinic, Emmeryville, California supporting patients with chronic pain and mental stress through therapuetic movement and yoga, relaxation techniques, self hypnosis and mindfulness.

Claudia Florian McCaffrey graduated in dance from The Juilliard School in 1993 in New York City, where she gained a thorough knowledge of the physiology and anatomy of the body, as well as the art of performance. Her training enabled her to become an artist in her field. She developed stamina, strength, and a love for the body as a vehicle of grace. Claudia’s movement and dance curriculum has its roots in José Limón Technique, Paul Taylor Technique, Martha Graham, Bartenieff, and Hatha Yoga. She has taught modern dance, performance skills, and composition. She has been commissioned by universities and seminaries across the USA and Argentina to bring dance into various performing spaces in theaters, outdoor settings, sacred settings, and learning environments. Claudia has collaborated with composers, visual artists, and poets to translate their vision into dance performances. A few of the venues she has choreographed and performed are:

The Contemporary San Martin Theater and Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, and Cami Hall, New York, New York.The American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina. Jacobs Pillow, Massachusetts, New England, US.

Claudia developed a multi-cultural dance curriculum, performing in California, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan, and internationally.  She teaches in both Spanish and English. Claudia worked with the SYDA Foundation fsince 2002 - on, developing a movement curriculum for children, teens, and adults. In 2006 she joined The Julia Morgan Center of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing dance to public schools as a modality to support children in their learning of math, history and other academic classes by integrating art with movement in their school lerning environment and taking these learning not only to their academics but also into their daily life. 

She trained preschool teachers in the Bay Area, Walnut Creek California to bring dance, yoga and movement into their classrooms.  She has been a choreographer  and performer for the dance department at the All Saints Church in Hayward, California for  11 years and has been a member of the Omega Dance Company since 2002 as a performer and teaching artist till 2022. She continues to freelance teching dance and movement classes in the US and Europe.

During the pandemic Claudia enjoyd becaming certified as a Zumba dance instructor to support her continuous dance teaching with a mutlicultural flavors.

Claudia loves sharing her joy of dancing with everyone who takes her classes.