Claire Arnesen, MFT
Claire is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been exploring the interface between psyche and spirit for over 45 years, first as a university professor in the fields of psychology and interdisciplinary religious studies, and currently as a workshop leader and professional and spiritual mentor. For more than 25 years she has been a psychotherapist specializing in healing trauma and supporting clients who want to understand who they are beyond family and cultural conditioning. She has trained rebirthers, gestalt therapists, play therapists, and psychotherapists who used EMD-R in their practices. For the past 20 years she has passionately explored the physical, energetic and subtle bodies as gateways to psychological health and spiritual maturity.
The current focus of Claire's teaching and mentoring is how fundamental consciousness moves as embodied presence. Her workshops provide participants with both conceptual and experiential understanding of how the felt sense of experience can be the guide to deep acceptance, healing and ultimate freedom.
Claire has been nourished by many teachers from a full spectrum of traditions. She has studied extensively and is especially appreciative of the following paths: Christian mysticism, Kashmir Shaivism, Advaita Vedanta, Siddha and kundalini yoga, Conscious Embodiment, Zen meditation, Gestalt Awareness Practice, Realization Process work, Feldenkrais, Embodied Life Practice and Continuum. She has blended all of her explorations in a deeply integrated way.
Claire teaches at the Awareness Barn located on Sonoma Mountain, east of Santa Rosa, California. This space is vibrantly alive, providing a rich field in which to drop down easily into a deep resonance with the earth and the many nature devas.
Claire is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been exploring the interface between psyche and spirit for over 45 years, first as a university professor in the fields of psychology and interdisciplinary religious studies, and currently as a workshop leader and professional and spiritual mentor. For more than 25 years she has been a psychotherapist specializing in healing trauma and supporting clients who want to understand who they are beyond family and cultural conditioning. She has trained rebirthers, gestalt therapists, play therapists, and psychotherapists who used EMD-R in their practices. For the past 20 years she has passionately explored the physical, energetic and subtle bodies as gateways to psychological health and spiritual maturity.
The current focus of Claire's teaching and mentoring is how fundamental consciousness moves as embodied presence. Her workshops provide participants with both conceptual and experiential understanding of how the felt sense of experience can be the guide to deep acceptance, healing and ultimate freedom.
Claire has been nourished by many teachers from a full spectrum of traditions. She has studied extensively and is especially appreciative of the following paths: Christian mysticism, Kashmir Shaivism, Advaita Vedanta, Siddha and kundalini yoga, Conscious Embodiment, Zen meditation, Gestalt Awareness Practice, Realization Process work, Feldenkrais, Embodied Life Practice and Continuum. She has blended all of her explorations in a deeply integrated way.
Claire teaches at the Awareness Barn located on Sonoma Mountain, east of Santa Rosa, California. This space is vibrantly alive, providing a rich field in which to drop down easily into a deep resonance with the earth and the many nature devas.
What others say about Claire:
"Claire is a skilled and powerful guide into the secrets of somatic learning and embodiment. She is a longtime practitioner of different forms of awakening--both of the spirit and the body. She brings her gifts fully into everything she offers."
~Sally Kempton, Author of Meditation for the Love of it and Awakening Shakti.
"Claire brings warmth, perception and spiritual depth to her work as an embodiment and Realization Process teacher.
I highly recommend her."
~Judith Blackstone, Founder, Realization Process, www.realizationprocesscenter.com
" I have always been moved by Claire's dedication to the path of awareness and her capacity for communicating in deep and compassionate ways. As a very experienced meditator, therapist and somatic oriented "journeyer of the spirit" Claire's offering in her beautiful Awareness Barn will be a gift for humanity."
~Russell Delman, International Feldenkrais trainer and founder of The Embodied Life School, www.russelldelman.com
"Claire is an amazingly deep, compassionate, alive, wise woman. Her Presence reveals her connection not only to divine energy but also to Mother Nature."
~Roma Hammel, Realization teacher, www.romahammel.com
"Claire is a skilled and powerful guide into the secrets of somatic learning and embodiment. She is a longtime practitioner of different forms of awakening--both of the spirit and the body. She brings her gifts fully into everything she offers."
~Sally Kempton, Author of Meditation for the Love of it and Awakening Shakti.
"Claire brings warmth, perception and spiritual depth to her work as an embodiment and Realization Process teacher.
I highly recommend her."
~Judith Blackstone, Founder, Realization Process, www.realizationprocesscenter.com
" I have always been moved by Claire's dedication to the path of awareness and her capacity for communicating in deep and compassionate ways. As a very experienced meditator, therapist and somatic oriented "journeyer of the spirit" Claire's offering in her beautiful Awareness Barn will be a gift for humanity."
~Russell Delman, International Feldenkrais trainer and founder of The Embodied Life School, www.russelldelman.com
"Claire is an amazingly deep, compassionate, alive, wise woman. Her Presence reveals her connection not only to divine energy but also to Mother Nature."
~Roma Hammel, Realization teacher, www.romahammel.com