About me: Professional training.
Fully certified, insured and a member of the Yoga Alliance Professionals.
550+ training serving the Wicklow/Wexford area or online via zoom.Trained in Hatha yoga, vinyasa flow yoga, chair, restorative, yin, children’s yoga, trauma informed and cancer conscious yoga. Professional pre and postnatal yoga training. Click for more details
About me: I began my journey to yoga in my early 20’s but continued to practice in a non committed way throughout my 20’s as we often do.
I developed my skills initially as a massage therapist, mainly focussing on understanding and healing dysfunctional anatomy through massage techniques, offering my skills in spa’s both in Ireland and abroad, traveling and evolving with continued training in different styles of massage and body therapies. I progressed to deepening my personal meditation practice and finally committed to a daily yoga practice. This is when I really allowed myself to discover the true value of a yoga practice. Due to personal health issues including regular debilitating migraine and chronic pain from a combination of daily stress and the physical effects on the body from my profession in the Spa industry, Yoga became the practice that brought the much needed balance and healing to all aspects of my life.
Returning to Ireland from years abroad, my commitment to Yoga gave me so much it became a natural progression to take an immersive training which led me to meet my first inspirational Saraswati, Clara Doyle at Earthwise Yoga in Wexford. The experience was invaluable, a study of Ayurvedic practices intertwined with functional anatomy and held together with a deep respect for the ancient traditions of Yoga. Being in front of a room full of people, as a teacher, is way out of my comfort zone, but my training was so inspiring and the practice itself so important to me personally, I let that knowledge and my passion to share the benefits of the practice guide me, despite my many doubts.
I have since continued that immersive training and completed a 500 hour advanced training with another beautiful teacher, Tara O’Neill at Vitality School of yoga. I am ever grateful to the grace and generosity of all my teachers and my fellow yogi’s, as well as my students who have made this road an illuminating one. I have added a full specialist training in pre and postnatal yoga also but consider myself an eternal student.
Knowing oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within. Methods for gaining self-knowledge and self-mastery through conscious awareness strengthen the mind’s capacity to act as its own impartial observer. Among the simplest and most skillful of the meditative techniques taught in many spiritual traditions is the disciplined practice of what Buddhists call ‘bare attention’. Bare attention is directed not only toward what’s happening on the outside, but also to what’s taking place on the inside.– Gabor Mate Author & psychologist – In the realm of hungry ghosts.
Hours Training
I have completed over 550 hours of Yoga teacher training
Years of Personal Practice
I have been personally practicing yoga for 20 years now
Years Teaching
I have been teaching yoga in private, public and online classes for over five years