Clare Bassett

Founder, Teacher and Senior Instructor

Biography

A teacher and philosophy graduate, Clare started her yoga journey in Spain in 2001 with her formal training with the Yoga Training and Therapy Centre from 2006-2012.

She has a deep love of teaching and her natural way to teach is fun, clear and learner centered. She empowers her students by leading them to discover and listen to their own inner wisdom while challenging themselves to achieve their full potential.

A great believer in lifelong learning, she has also studied and taught reiki, yoga for kids, fertility yoga, pregnancy yoga, and mum and baby yoga and she qualified to teach yoga for menopause in 2020.

Clare teaches mindful yoga classes, pregnancy classes, workshops, and hatha flow. She is a lead tutor for the 200 hour mindful yoga teacher training course and the lead tutor on the yoga for pregnancy diploma training and post natal yoga teacher training certificate.

She lives in County Galway with her husband, her son and all their pets. 

Dates and qualifications

1996

Certificate in Teaching English (Words and languages)

1998

BA Philosophy and English lit. (UCD)

2001

Reiki 1, 2 and master level (Madrid)

2003

MSC World heritage management (UCD)

2009

Meditation teaching diploma (YTTC)

2009

YTTC Tutor Diploma

2009- 2016

Taught on the YTTC 200 hour Teaching Diploma from 2009 to 2016

2010

YTTC Level Two Diploma

2012

Post graduate diploma in Education (Maynooth)

2012

Pregnancy YTT (Yoga Therapy Ireland)

2013

Rainbow kids yoga

2015- Today

Lead tutor and course designer on the YA Pregnancy YTT

2016

Reflexology

2018- Today

Barefoot yoga teacher training

2020

Yoga for menopause (Niamh Daly)

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Clare Bassett

Founder, Teacher and Senior Instructor

I set up Yoga With Clare in 2009 because I was passionate about sharing the life changing skills of yoga and meditation.

Paula Flood

Lead tutor on our Mindful Yoga Teacher Training course

Registered Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals UK, Paula has been practising yoga since the mid-nineties and teaching for over 20 years.

Emma Calahan

Guest tutor on the pregnancy yoga teacher training

Emma is a guest tutor on the pregnancy yoga teacher training. She also joins in some of the pregnancy yoga classes to share some tips and answer questions.

Michael McCann

Guest tutor on yoga teacher training courses

A senior teacher trainer with twenty years experience, Micheal teaches mantra and mudra on the pregnancy yoga teacher training.