Miriam Clare

Miriam is a social anthropologist, researcher, and meditation teacher whose work explores how humans relate to animals, plants, and the wider living world. Drawing on Buddhist contemplative traditions, anthropology, and nature-based practices, she offers guided meditations and short talks that invite imaginative connection with non-human beings as a form of reflective practice. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, where her training emphasised close attention to the worlds people make and inhabit, and a questioning of categories often taken for granted — such as nature and culture, or human and animal. This perspective continues to inform her teaching, encouraging openness, curiosity, and respect for other ways of being alive. Miriam also holds a diploma in herbal medicine from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, shaping her interest in plants as living presences with therapeutic potential. Her meditation practice developed within the Buddhist tradition and later incorporated imaginative and visual approaches, which she now uses as teaching tools. Her work is rooted in a deep commitment to the natural world and offers accessible practices that require no prior meditation experience — only time, attention, and a willingness to be curious.

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