Claramarie completed The Master Course, a program offered by Himalayan Academy, attending classes at the Academy’s San Francisco Center twice weekly, as well as retreats at the mountain desert monastery in Nevada, while completing an intensive course in meditation and Yoga, and attending high school. After her graduation from Himalayan Academy, Clara traveled for nine weeks on pilgrimage to India, Nepal, and around the world with Gurudeva and sixty-four other students, visiting ashrams and temples, meditating, and enjoying the darshan of many spiritual teachers and sacred sites.

At Naropa University, she studied Body Mind Psychotherapy as part of her BA in Dance and Movement Studies; and after completing her MFA in Writing and Poetics, she fulfilled a long-held desire to enhance her Yoga practice with a deeper knowledge of the Sanskrit language, completing Naropa’s two-year graduate Sanskrit program.

Claramarie is also an artist, poet, translator, librarian, and gardener.

Monica graduated from the University of Denver in June of 2009 with a Master of Music degree. While studying opera at DU she was chosen two summers in a row to sing in Italy with both the International Institute for Vocal Arts in Chiari and the International Lyric Academy in Viterbo. After graduation, Monica began teaching with “Music Together” in Denver, as well as offering voice lessons for adults at her own studio. In August 2009 she began her training at Whole Yoga and received her certificate in December. Monica is a student of Rishi Maha Mandaleshwar Sri Shambhavananda.