ACTING IS THE LABORATORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

About Claire

I'm an award-winning classical actor and coach, trained at the Juilliard School. I spent 25 years working as a professional actor and singer on some of the greatest stages across North America and abroad, and in memorable, featured roles in film and television. I've performed with world-class companies including the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.

I'm grateful for those years. None of it gave me the fulfillment I believe every actor is actually seeking, before we get lost in "the business" and its traps: communion with what's real in us, and the freedom to let it shine, unafraid. I had outgrown the unexamined life of an actor, so I left. What followed was a decade of disillusionment, ego death, and loss of identity, alongside years of spiritual and coaching training, before I understood why.

Through all my years as a performer, and all my years since as a teacher, guide and coach, I found I was always doing the same thing: helping people find an honest, grounded relationship with themselves, in body and in spirit. My own life taught me to embody what I now teach, and teaching it has deepened that embodiment even more. Slowly I came full circle, back to acting, and saw it clearly for the first time.

Acting can be a spiritual path, if you're really willing to go there. You can't grow as an actor if you aren't willing to grow as a human being. That's the whole premise of this work. Stop performing. Start being. The 12 Rays aren't a technique to learn from the outside. They're emanations of who you already are. This is where you meet them.