Claire Coenen is a writer, yoga teacher, and facilitator with a passion for sharing the renewing and liberating powers of the creative process with her community. She is also the founder of Sophia’s Center for the Healing Arts, a gathering place dedicated to nurturing wisdom of the heart through creative expression in community. Claire’s first collection of poems, The Beautiful Keeps Breathing (published by Kelsay Books, 2024), explores themes of imaginative power, loss, and healing. Claire offers mentorships, workshops, and retreats focused on writing, collage, and creativity online and locally.

As a registered yoga instructor and former psychotherapist, Claire integrates her understanding of the body’s wisdom and depth psychology into her offerings. A lifelong learner, Claire earned a Master of Education & Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt University and received her Master of Social Work from The University of Tennessee.

Claire loves living in Nashville, TN with her husband, Davey, and dog, Lion.

I write because I want to move toward the mysteries—the meridians beneath the soles of my feet, the stream of something watching my thoughts, the hush of the exhale scrubbing worries from my mind. I write because I want to know the edges of the goddess, to touch the hem of the holy, to catch one glimpse of love’s extravagant green.