Teacher.
Writer.
Founder.
Mother.
Claire Robbie is a meditation teacher and facilitator with over a decade of experience guiding people through sustainable habit change, emotional regulation, and self-inquiry. With over 10,000 hours of teaching and personal practice, she also trains teachers in Awareness Insight Meditation, supporting the next generation of facilitators to guide with depth, integrity, and embodied understanding.
What makes Claire’s work unique is the way she weaves together clinical understanding, contemplative practice, and real-world experience. She doesn’t teach from theory alone; she teaches from having walked the path herself. This creates a space that is both deeply informed and deeply human, where accountability feels supportive rather than punitive, and change feels possible rather than overwhelming.
Her work in the Alcohol Reset Pathway is grounded in extensive training in meditation, nervous system awareness, and trauma-informed approaches, alongside her own lived experience of long-term alcohol freedom. Claire is trained in Compassionate Inquiry, a modality developed by Dr Gabor Maté that explores the roots of coping behaviours with curiosity and kindness, and she integrates principles from Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help people understand and work with the different “parts” that drive habits, protection, and self-sabotage.
The Alcohol Reset Pathway is not about willpower or abstinence as an endpoint. It is about awareness, nervous-system safety, emotional honesty, and rebuilding trust in yourself. Claire’s approach blends meditation, parts-based inquiry, compassionate reflection, and practical structure to support lasting change that is intelligent, embodied, and sustainable.
“These days I live very differently to the existence I felt trapped in for many years. It’s a messy, mundane, yet rich and exciting life. The best parts are the people I get to work with and the community I get to call my own. Most of all, I know what living on purpose feels like.
I do a few things. I run the meditation centre I founded, The School of Modern Meditation. I work with people who want to leave alcohol behind via a six-month program I have developed called the Alcohol Reset Pathway. I teach people to meditate, as I feel getting to know human and I mentor yoga and meditation teachers who need support stepping into their purpose more deeply.
A couple of decades ago, I existed in the world in a very different way. My life was a series of reactions and responses, coping mechanisms and patterns that were not just unhealthy but also dangerous. My mind wasn’t a kind place, and my relationship to myself was one of judgment and perpetual not-enough-ness. The trajectory of living the way I was wasn’t sustainable, and it reached a critical point.
Through processes of unlearning and discarding perceptions and beliefs that weren’t mine, I started walking a path that has led me to some beautiful places. One step at a time, I made different choices, asked myself important questions, and slowly discarded the habits, behaviours, and beliefs that kept me stuck and small. Life expanded, I evolved, and I also realised the truth in the saying:“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
I now call this path, The Light Heart Path. Each day we live is a series of pick-a-path moments. Each choice that we make has a trickle-down (karmic) effect on our lives and the lives of those we come in contact with. In my experience, the paths that are the most habitual or automatic led me to some dark and destructive places, as did the path of least resistance.“Old ways won't open new doors”, so The Path is the way of authenticity, of curiosity, creativity, expansiveness, integrity and alignment, but most of all health and happiness.
The Path or the choices that make up The Path may not be easy at times, but in the long run, the accumulation of the choices that align with who we are on a soul-level results in a life that is truly our own.
On this path, we may take missteps, we might stumble or need to rest, or we might lose our way. These moments are Detours - important data collection points where we get to reflect, refine and reset our compass. This very important part of The Path is where we learn and take radical responsibility for ourselves and our decisions.
Our compass on The Path is individual. It is made up of your own dreams, visions, and the values you will need to hold for these to become your reality. We hold these visions in our minds and then each day take the tiny actions and steps required to move in the direction of our dreams.
What I teach, are tools and practices that make each step a little lighter.”