Before he was a yoga practitioner, Claiborne was a tennis player who was developing strength imbalances.  “Racquet sports tend to overdevelop muscles on one side of the body, so I realized it was important not to neglect my left half!”  A friend convinced him to attend his first yoga class.  “After that one session, I was hooked.  I had the idea that yoga was passive, but soon realized it’s actually an active and precise way of tuning the body, both physically and mentally.  It’s done wonders for my tennis game and for my life in general.”

Claiborne is honored to represent Yoga Tune Up® in New Orleans.  He completed the Level 1 training with Jill Miller and Lillee Chandra in New York City.  He earned his first yoga certification through Wild Lotus Yoga’s Soul School teacher training program.

Claiborne created a “Yoga For Athletes” course based on Yoga Tune Up® and has previously taught yoga to Tulane University’s baseball team.

He worked a number of years in the television news business and credits yoga with maintaining his sanity throughout odd work hours and ever-present deadlines.