Claire Lautier • Faculty
Claire Lautier is a graduate of The Juilliard School Drama Division, and received her bachelor of arts, magna cum laude, from Duke University. Her extensive acting credits span the worlds of film, television and theatre, in New York, regionally and internationally.
Claire received her Gyrotonic® certification as a Level 1 trainer from Juliu Horvath in 2004, and is also certified to teach Gyrotoner®. She completed her training with one of the great master trainers, Sebastian Plettenberg (New York and Boston), apprenticed with Alesia Fowler (Washington, DC) and worked with Kathy Van Patten (Boston). In 2005, she taught Gyrotonic® in the Los Angeles area, including LA Body Kinetics, The Absolute Yoga & Pilates Studio and White Cloud Studio of Santa Monica.
She moved to Shady for proximity to acting work in Manhattan, and became a Gyrotonic® teacher at The Moving Body in summer 2007.
I began to study Pilates in 2000 after practicing many types of bodywork, including ballet studies as a young girl and, when I moved to New York City, at Steps. Martha Yoshida turned me on to Gyrotonic® during resistance band training in 2002-2003, and that’s when my real interest took hold.
To me, Gyrotonic® is about connecting, and that’s also what I love about acting. It’s about concentration, focus, inner listening and being at one with what you’re doing. It gives me more personal power, more confidence, and opens me up to the majesty of the physical body and how it’s connected to the mind and spirit.
I like Gyrotonic’s® focus on range of motion, fluidity and its circulatory, spiraling, movements. There are many commonalities with Pilates, which is a great way to get to know your core. I hope to see the practice of Gyrotonic® really develop here in our area. I always love to see it everywhere!
I learn so much from every body I work with, and feel really honored to work with very ordinary people who are open, and have really flowered and developed, even healed themselves, with this work. Most people I’ve worked with have normal jobs and are not necessarily inclined toward bodywork; they’ve started either because of injury or curiosity, and then developed from there. Gyrotonic® is truly for everyone.
The Moving Body changed my life. It keeps me on track.
Christine Oliveira