Clair Thomas
Clair Thomas is a seasoned yoga instructor and co-owner of Solstice Yoga School in Las Vegas, with over 10 years of experience. She is passionate about promoting overall well-being and spiritual, physical, and emotional health through yoga, Reiki, and positive intelligence. Clair specializes in yoga philosophy and is a certified Positive Intelligence Coach. Her approach to teaching is that of a storyteller and puzzle builder, taking different learnings and weaving them together into a beautiful tapestry.
The Energy Shift to Mental Fitness While Living with Grief
In this workshop, "The Energy Shift to Mental Fitness While Living with Grief," end-of-life professionals will learn how to integrate Reiki and Positive Intelligence (PI) to support mental fitness in hospice care and grief management. Participants will explore the impact of grief, gain practical Reiki techniques, and apply PI tools to build emotional resilience. Through demonstrations and group exercises, attendees will leave with strategies to support both patients and families, offering a holistic approach to healing during times of loss.
What was the catalyst for you stepping into this work? How did you end up here, at this moment, doing what you do?
In the space between discovering my relationship with God and learning about yoga, I realized that I had something big I was passionate about sharing. I dedicated several years to learning everything I could about how yoga, and eventually Reiki, could impact our emotional wellbeing and mental fitness. I started researching, practicing and then eventually teaching how these tools help us accept and process the spectrum of emotions associated with the human experience - and how they better allow us to be content despite the roller coaster of emotions we inevitably go through in a lifetime.
What do you hope people get from working with you or interacting with your services?
I want people to lean into grief and realize that it’s part of the human experience- and that we have tools to process the emotions, not eradicate them.
What do you wish was different about the way we are supported when dying, grieving, and navigating end-of-life in general? What would you change?
I wish we had more education around the inevitability of the end of life in order to recognize that it is or can be a celebration and not something we fear. That there is beauty in knowing we are so multifaceted that we can both grieve and be content with the cycle of life and death. I wish we had more in life than surviving a 9-5, living for the weekends, and fearing death.
What would you say to someone who is nervous about attending events about death or grief?
If someone was nervous about attending events about death or grief, I’d start asking questions to learn the root of their nerves. Sometimes it’s truly the discomfort of the unknown and the discomfort of the pain associated with death and losing people we love. Other times, it’s the fear of not having lived the life of your dreams. My answer would be based on their fear - but the main takeaway I hope they’d hear would be “live a life you’re too busy living to worry about leaving.”
If someone meets you at the resource fair - what's a question you invite them to ask you?
What exactly is Reiki? Can anyone do it?
