Audra Carmine

she/her

How many identities can we shed to get to the heart of who we really are?  This is Audra’s primary inquiry in her life, her practice, and her teaching.
Audra is an internationally known teacher of yoga, meditation, and philosophy. A dedicated practitioner and student of both Yoga and Buddhism, Audra brings delight, humor, compassion, levity, love, and a multi-faith perspective to her classes. The physical practice is an invitation into flow, where students have the opportunity to drop into the vastness and connect with the largeness that exists both inside and outside of themselves. As a dharma and meditation teacher, Audra weaves the esoteric teachings seamlessly with the personal, inspiring students to take the two wings of wisdom and compassion into the simple moments that make up the content of their daily lives. She is deeply connected to the fact that even the practices themselves can become a trap, an identity to cling to, and thus another self to shed. It is through humor, lightness, and not taking herself so seriously that she continues to to disentangle herself from spiritual materialism, the white supremacist hierarchy, the patriarchy, and the spiritual bypassing that is so prevalent in the wellness world. Audra is busy working toward her graduate degree in clinical psychology with a focus on somatics at Antioch, and is one year into a two year training program to be certified as a meditation and mindfulness teacher with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. She is grateful to her teachers Manorama, Christina Sell, Jack, Mary Grace Orr, and Tara.