Teachers

Therese Tierney

Tel: 087 776 7728

Therese began her personal practice in 2000 in Ireland. Since then she has followed the path of yoga training in Ireland and India and has been teaching here in Cork since 2003. Therese's path is to facilitate the experience and learning of traditional Hatha Yoga practices. She is guided by the enlightened teachings of Swami Sivananda of Rishekesh, Swami Vishnu Devananda and Swami Nityananda. She is a dedicated teacher and student undertaking regular training in Europe and India in both yoga and meditation.

Shirley Healy

Ashtanga Yoga & Hot Detox Yoga Flow

Tel: 087 965 2288

Shirley started her yoga practice in 2001 here in Ireland. Soon afterwards she moved to America and that's where she really got a chance to expand her practice, explore different styles of yoga and had the opportunity to practice with many experienced teachers. It was there her love (fond obsession) for yoga really blossomed!! After two years in America with its huge variety of teachers, styles and abundance of yoga classes she returned to Ireland to find very little yoga available to her. This is when she decided she would help spread the yoga love and get the chance to deepen her own practice by starting an Ashtanga teacher training course with Deborah Corradino and Veronica Larson in The Elbow Room, Dublin. She continuously attends workshops and classes both here and anywhere she finds herself in the world. Shirley has been teaching for 3 years. Her classes are Ashtanga Vinyasa based but she often incorporates what she has learned from other styles such as Kundalini, Bikram, Iyengar and Hatha into her class.

Linda O'Mahony

Beginners Level 1 Yoga

Tel: 086 2476705

Linda started her yoga practice in October 2007 and fell in love with it immediately. She was amazed that even though it wasn't an uncomfortable strenuous work out she was feeling benefits after a few weeks. The benefits she experienced were not only physical and she was so inspired she started her teacher training course in April 2008. She qualified in October 09 and has been teaching in cork ever since in various yoga studios. She is a trained therapeutic massage therapist and found that yoga helped her immensely with the physical demands of her work.

Emer O'Sullivan

Pilates

Tel: 085 7430722

Emer has been practicing pilates since 2003. She was inspired to do her teacher training with the Michael King Pilates Institute in London and has been teaching since 2004. Emer has aslo completed a courses in Bodyfirm Pilates in Dublin and is currently completing a BSc in General Nursing

Tomas O'Connor

Integrative Meditation

Tel: 087 9968993 Email: tomasconnor@eircom.net

Tomas O'Connor has been practising meditation for the last eight years and has been teaching in professional settings for the last three years. He is a Certified Bodytalk Practitioner and a Registered Reflexologist. He is registered with both ARCHTI and NRRI. He has trained with a number of meditation teachers in India and the USA over the years and has also trained with the Stress Management Institute of Ireland. Tomas is committed to empowering people to access their own natural strengths and abilities to make themselves happy, healthy and relaxed.

Francesca Giusti

Hatha Yoga Flow Level 2

Tel: 087 2075060

Francesca trained as a Yoga instructor at the Yoga Arts School in Byron Bay, Australia, completing their teacher training in 2004. Amongst her teachers are Tomas Zorzo, Luisa Sear, Lino Miele, Dena Kingsberg, Emil Wendel, Ski K. Patthabhi Jois, Manju Jois, Paul Dallaghan. When she completed her second teacher training with David Curtis (Vinyasa Flow) in Ireland in 2007, she also started studying the Iyengar yoga method with teachers in Ireland and Europe. Her classes are influenced by this strong and precise system. She completed 2 modules of "Somatic Movement Education" in the tradition of Thomas Hanna with Brian Siddartha Ingle. She traveled to India between 2007 and 2008 where she spent four months in the South, practicing the physical and the devotional aspect of Yoga. She studied with renowned teachers in Mysore (Yogacharya V. Venkatesha), Kerala and Goa (Sharat Arora, Brahmani yoga, Purple Valley). The India experience was so rich that it inspired her to hold her classes with a sense of devotion towards the Inner space that dwells within each person, inviting a sense of Self inquiry and going beyond the obvious physicality of the Asanas. Her more recent studies include a Yin yoga inspired practice, where the elements of strong Vinyasa yoga combine with the stillness of poses held for longer, to stimulate the physical and energetic body, in a balancing and powerful blend.