clearlight gerald (MA, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, RPYT)

Clearlight Gerald is a leading expert in the field of mindfulness-based yoga and meditation for pregnancy, for childbirth and for motherhood, and has guided thousands of women in all stages of their lives for over 20 years.

Based in Canada, she is a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT) and a professional-level yoga teacher (E-RYT500/RPYT), with students locally and internationally. Clearlight is a founding member of the iRest Institute in California, where she is a Senior iRest Trainer, an iRest meditation teacher and an iRest Mentor and Certification Supervisor for the teacher training program.

Clearlight shares with her students the teachings and transformative understandings that have emerged from close mentorship with her teachers Richard Miller and Joan Ruvinsky. She combines her decades of immersive study and engagement in yogic wisdom teachings with a grounded and skillful application of physical practices. Her background includes many years of professional tutelage in therapeutic yoga and rehabilitation exercise, and childbirth attendance – all supported by a deep understanding of the complex issues relevant to women’s experiences gained in her life experience (including as a mother of twins) and in her intensive graduate studies.  

Clearlight passionately shares practices and strategies that transform, enlighten, and empower women to navigate life’s joys and challenges from a place of grace, wisdom and confidence… and offers ways to reclaim a unwavering sense of wellbeing amidst the ups and downs of life’s journeys. 

And, in case you are wondering...  she was indeed named Clearlight at birth!