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TEACHERS
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 Ciara Cronin is a yoga teacher and qualified holistic therapist. She has studied yoga for over 10 years with Shiva Rea, Richard Freeman and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois among others. Ciara brings her broad experience of meditation and holistic health to her teaching style; her classes are a dynamic, flowing moving meditation; focusing on attention to form, integration of breath and cultivation of awareness. Creating a supportive environment and taking to heart each student's experience, Ciara addresses individual needs and encourages a deep and focused practice in class. Attention is directed to building core strength and proper alignment while cultivating and sustaining an inner calm. Ciara is founder of The Yoga Room.
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 Annemarie Carney
A trained Birthlight and Yoga Bugs teacher Annemarie brings her wide experience of birth and children to her Pre- and Post-Natal yoga classes. A mother of three her enthusiasm and deep caring ensures a safe supportive environment is offered with an emphasis on catering to the needs of individual students.
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 Kanta Barrios
Anusara Inspired Teacher Kanta, had her first experience of yoga at the age of six in her hometown Mexico City. She spent 12 years as a long term resident student of yoga, meditation, and philosophy in Siddha Yoga Meditation Ashrams in India, the United States and around the world traveling with her main teacher, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda. She has also studied hundreds of hours with some of the world's leading yoga teachers and Yoga Schools: among them Ashtanga Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Vinyasa Flow and over 500+ hrs for Anusara Yoga certification, one of the most professional and demanding programmes in the industry of yoga teaching.
Kanta's classes are creative and dynamic and have a strong emphasis on breathing and alignment though always with a flow to keep the pace invigorating. The intention of every class is to cultivate strength, develop awareness and help students find balance, light-heartedness and rejuvenation within themselves. In her teaching she expresses her deep love and gratitude for yoga and her teachers and joyfully shares her lifelong experience and practice with her students.
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Frank Brooks  Enjoy the heart-opening practise of Anusara-Inspired yoga with Frank Brooks . Frank's inspirational teaching style can guide your practice to new levels. "My intention is to serve you by helping you to open and soften your heart, to align with the bigger energy around you and to feel a sense of empowerment. You will learn specific bio-mechanical alignment principles which will afford greater opening, helping to prevent injury and allow for greater freedom in your yoga postures. 'Inner Body Bright, Side Body Long' is something you will often hear in Anusara yoga classes - reminding us in each pose to allow the inner light to expand and to soften and pause before applying self effort. Inner Body Bright reminds us to Open to Grace, to tune in to the currents of our heart and to the pulsating ocean of consciousness within us." |
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 Luna Dolezal has been practising yoga for over ten years and teaching for the past five. She trained in Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT) in Santa Catarina, Brazil and has practised and taught with teachers worldwide, in Australia, Portugal, Canada, the States, Ireland, Anguilla and the UK.
Influenced by her Vipassana meditation practice and her IYT training, Luna encourages students to ‘tune’ into their bodies in her classes, using asana, pranayama and meditative practices to develop corporeal awareness, inner sensitivity and an increased sense of physical, spiritual and emotional wellbeing.
She has completed training with RYE (Research on Yoga in Education), for using yoga techniques in an educational setting and is a dedicated Vipassana meditator. She is in Dublin completing a PhD in Philosophy, writing about the social and philosophical significance of introspective body practices.
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 Gillian Mooney Gillian is one of a small number of Ashtanga yoga teachers worldwide to have received the official Authorisation to teach from the Shri K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India. In fact she is one of only two Authorised teachers in Ireland, and the only woman! She has spent many years studying at the source of this ancient practice under the direct supervision of her teacher, Sharath Rangaswamy and Guruji, the late Sri K Pattabhi Jois. Gillian is passionate about imparting this traditional yoga system as it is taught and practiced in India.
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 Georgina Brennan Connecting people to themselves, to others and to nature. Georgina's initial training and self practice was Ashtanga Vinyasa Flow Primary Series. Over the past two years Georgina has allowed herself the space and freedom to experience other schools of yoga and her personal practice has evolved, through integrating the philosophies of Ayurveda, Hatha and Kriya yoga into her own practice and therefore into her teaching.
Searching to find ways that can assist herself and others to grow and heal is a continuous journey. Still teaching Ashtanga she also likes to put her own, lively,Vinyasa/Hatha flowing sequences together where students can enjoy the flowing system of vinyasa, yet they are encouraged to take time to hold postures for longer, exploring the ease, stability and grace found through subtleties of alignment and effective use of the breath.
Georgina trained in India with Rachel Hull, Emil Wendel and Julie Martin. In Ireland she trained with Deborah Corradino, Veronica Larson and David Swenson.
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 Michael Ryan is trained in yoga, holistic health and healing. He has been practising yoga since he was a child. His teaching style draws from his wide experience of vinyasa flow yoga, Somatic Yoga and teacher training with John Friend in the heart-opening practice of Anusara yoga. Michael is mindful of each individual's need to find their own balance in their yoga practice. He gently guides and encourages each student to explore and open to their fullest potential.
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 Paul Clancy is a certified Pilates teacher and registered Hatha Yoga teacher. He holds an MA in Contemporary Dance Performance from the University of Limerick. He has also trained extensively with the Saratoga International Theatre Institute in New York, specialising in The Viewpoints methods of physical training, improvisation and performance. Paul’s classes bring together his unique knowledge of pilates, yoga and dance in a challenging and dynamic synthesised fusion of styles.
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 Tony Purcell was one of the first people to teach ashtanga yoga in Ireland in the mid 1990s. A teacher of over 15 years experience, Tony originally qualified in Iyengar yoga. Over the years he has studied with most of the world’s leading Ashtanga teachers including David Swenson, Lino Miele, Danny Paradise and Nancy Gilgoff. He continues to travel to India for several months every year to renew his practice. Tony is one of Dublin’s most popular yoga teachers; creating an enjoyable and encouraging atmosphere in his classes. His original approach to teaching focuses on attention to form, alignment and breath awareness.
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Orla Punch  is one of Ireland's most experienced and popular yoga teachers, leading individuals and groups in Dublin and abroad deeper into their practice for many years. She recently obtaned here senior level in Iyengar Yoga. Orla's other qualifications include; a Diploma in Health and Fitness, a Diploma in Clinical Stress Management, Certificate in Autogenics and a Certificate in Yoga for Back Therapy. Orla teaches a regular Monday morning and Thursday morning class at The Yoga Room. She will be restarting her classes on Monday 6th September. Please check out www.orlapunchyoga.com or phone: 087 934 0839 for bookings and further information about Orla's classes at The Yoga Room and elsewhere.
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