Yoga Workshops & Guests

www.yogaflows.net

Author of the highly acclaimed, Yoga Flows, and founder of Heartspace Yoga, Mohini’s heritage stems from a unique combination of ancestral yogic traditions, from India, on the paternal side, and deep rich cultural diversity and influence from Egypt, on the maternal. Her interest in yoga arose out of personal calling, which then grew into a passion to share the benefits she derived from yoga with everyone else!

A practitioner and teacher of yoga for over 20 years, Mohini’s background is artistic - theatre and performing arts, having spent many years as a singer, story- teller, percussionist, her experience spanning the local concert to the opera platform. Mohini’s Yoga integrates all aspects of traditional hatha yoga, woven together and spiced with spontaneous yoga, fun, humour and passion, providing an all-encompassing "spiritual experience".

www.appleyoga.com

Katy Appleton was a professional ballet dancer before qualifying as a yoga teacher in 1998. She has her own yoga school called Appleyoga. She was Geri Halliwell's personal yoga teacher and devised and featured in the massively successful Geri Yoga and Geri Body DVDs, as well as her own Katy Appleton Yogaworks.

Katy is a Sivananda, Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow Yoga trained teacher and she adapts some of these methods within her classes to suit the students she works with. This is Katy’s second workshop for Yoga Therapy Ireland.

www.aurolabyoga.net

Sama Fabian founded Aurolab Yoga Project in 1999. She has been practicing Yoga for 24 years and teaching since 1985. Her style is the result of dedicated studies of all the aspects of the practice. Her hallmark is to put the student in touch with profound layers of experience utilizing the full Yoga Sadhana of structural and energetic body-work, vinyasa flow, pranayama and voice resonance, visualisation and meditation.

Sama has studied with prominent teachers in the field: Sri Satchinanda of Madras (Concentration: the power of mind) , Ma Gandha (Vini Yoga) Silva Mehta & Sylvia Prescott (Iyengar Yoga) , Angela Farmer (Unfolding the Feminine), Dona Holleman & Orit Sen Gupta (Dancing the Body of Light, the Future of Yoga) , Mukunda Stiles (Structural Yoga Therapy).

Her spiritual guidance has always come from the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother of Pondicherry. Sama’s practice as a qualified Craniosacral Therapist and her on-going experimentation with art are also reflected in the course’s ideas and philosophy.

Yoga Junction

Tara Fraser took her first ever Yoga class alongside her mother at the age of 6. She trained professionally as a dancer and has been teaching Yoga since 1993. Her style is eclectic drawing on many traditions but heavily influenced by the personalised and therapeutic approach of TKV Desikachar which has been her own practice for a number of years.

Tara is qualified by the British Wheel of Yoga and teaches everyone from tiny babies to 100 year olds. She believes Yoga can help everyone to live well, feel good and age gracefully.

Tara is the founder and co-director of Yoga Junction where she teaches regular classes and courses and BWY teacher training programmes. She is the author of the best selling Yoga for You and Live Better:Yoga and The Easy Yoga Workbook(DBP) and a contributor to Yoga and Health Magazine and Health and Fitness Magazine. She lectures and teaches nationally and internationally.

Clonea Yoga Studio

Hanne Gillespie born in Norway, now resident in Ireland has been practising and studying yoga since 1980. Over a ten-year period she attended numerous courses and workshops in Ireland and abroad, exploring different approaches to yoga.

Hanne is inspired by T Krishnamacharya and his son, TKV Desikachar.  Hanne trained and studied in this approach under Paul Harvey, and more recently in association with Peter Hersnack, a long-standing student of TKV Desikachar.

Yoga Junction

Nigel Jones has been practicing Astanga Yoga since 1992. He lived and worked at The Practice Place in Crete (now Yoga Plus)and studied with Derek Ireland for two years. He returned to London in 1996, where he continued to practice with John Scott. Subsequently Nigel took the British Wheel of Yoga Teacher's Diploma.

He has been teaching Astanga Yoga classes, courses and workshops in London since 1996. He has taught in most of London's Yoga Centres and has taken many students from beginners level to becoming teachers themselves. Being naturally rather a stiff person, he has much sympathy with people of a similar constitution. He likes to encourage all types of people to take up yoga, not just the strong and flexible. His classes are friendly and un-intimidating and he encourages students to achieve some sort of autonomy in their Yoga practice, where they can begin to think and make decisions for themselves, without dogmatic interference from a teacher. He has a very hands-on approach and believes in getting as much feedback as possible from his students.

Yoga Society of Ireland

Anne Marie McGlinchey, founder of the Yoga Society of Ireland, gives hugely popular yoga workshops. If you have not as yet experienced Anne Marie’s unique, holistic and very spiritual approach to Yoga, you deserve to come along to her next workshop as a gift to yourself. Check our website regularly for updates or sign up to our ezine for reminders!

Yoga Teacher, Author, Broadcaster and Lifestyle Expert

Howard is a respected yoga teacher who works in a gentle yet powerful style of yoga, suitable for students of all levels. He is a regular contributor to a number of publications on yoga and well-being, and is a best-selling author with his book on yoga and pilates. He appears regularly on television, and has a series of successful yoga videos with GMTV as well videos with Special K and Boots.

Howard teaches at some of the main yoga studios in London, Tri-Yoga, Holmes Place and The Life Centre. His early background includes work for some of the great names in fashion: Yves Saint Laurent, Chloe, Karl Lagerfeld, and shoe designer Manolo Blahnik. He has also worked as an actor in theatre and film, and later as a film director and photographer.

His enduring interest in yoga has included a decade of study in India and Europe. Howard fuses contemporary living with an ancient practice and has long believed in the Zen saying, "It's a wise man that you can't tell the difference between his work and play".

Yoga Therapy Centre

Mukunda Stiles — Yoga Therapy Center Director & author of Structural Yoga Therapy, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali & Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy

John Stirk Yoga

John Stirk is one of the UK’s leading yoga teachers. He has studied self development and biomechanics through yoga and osteopathy for more than 30 years. He conducted body mind workshops with R. D. Laing in the 1970’s, had personal tuition from Vanda Scaravelli for many years and is the author of “Structural Fitness” first published in 1988. John teaches extensively throughout Europe and America’s east coast, He has trained many yoga teachers in the UK, is currently based in London’s Notting Hill and on the Sussex coast where he runs both weekly classes and residential workshops. He also teaches at Triyoga, London’s leading yoga centre.

John’s style of teaching focuses on grounding, gravitation, the breath, centering, and the potential depth that may be realised in practise by working from ‘inside out’. John’s passion for his work combined with his deep understanding of anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and psychology which he blends with eastern thought, brings these subjects together experientially in his workshops.

Yoga Quests

Philip originally trained with Dr. Swami Gitananda in India in 1980. Since this time he has taught Yoga and Pranayama continuously at all levels. Philip is an inspiring mentor. His teaching is sensitive, pragmatic, empowering and grounded; always leading students onwards towards a more subtle appreciation of the process of yoga.

Yoga is freedom. In its sanctuary, I feel at home: I am at peace. Mind and body concentrated on the practice, the spirit is free to play and rejoice, innocently, in wonderment at life’s awesome beauty and profound mystery.

Yoga found me, integrating and harmonising my abiding practices: Martial Arts (Shotokan Karate), Philosophy (BA Hons), Soto Zen Buddhism and Reflexology. Faith, dedication and devotion blossomed, strung on the thread of mindfulness, commitment and Grace.

I have been blessed with many wonderful teachers: my parents, Ven. F. Taiten Guareschi (Soto Zen Master), Ateeka and Fabrizio Dalle Piane (Systemic Yoga and Tantsu), Shaun Kelly, Roz Peters, Amanda Johnston and David Soeharto (Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga). I have been privileged to learn from John Scott, Alex Medin, Lino Miele (Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga), John Friend (Anusara Yoga), Swami Anantananda and Swami Krishnadevananda (Sivananda Yoga), Jai Uttal (Kirtan and Bhakti Yoga).

I have also been deepening my understanding of Yoga philosophy, Hindu religion, and especially Buddhism by studying the scriptures, reading books, attending courses, and recently obtaining an MA Buddhist Studies under the guidance of Prof. Peter Harvey from Sunderland University.

Yoga is continuous life transformation. When the body opens, the heart expands and our spirit flows freely, joyfully, in unison with life. I feel deeply humbled when my students say that I am “a highly focused, knowledgeable, profoundly spiritual, passionate, inspired and inspiring teacher.” May Yoga find you as it found me.

The Yoga Sutras Institute

Salvatore Zambito is a well-known mystic, rogue scholar, and world-traveling recluse.

In 1967 while a sophomore in college, Salvatore discovered Hatha Yoga and massage. This was the beginning of his active, and very personal, bodymind research in transpersonal psychology and anatomical kinesiology.

He began his exploration of yoga as a student of Hatha Yoga with the Sivananda Yoga Centers in Chicago and Val Morin, Canada. He was gently coerced into becoming a teacher in 1969. The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjalientered his life in 1969.

Through the years, Salvatore has established several yoga centers in America and taught yoga related subjects at institutes and universities around the world. From 1980 to 1986 he taught Yoga and Stress Management at Boise State University. During this period, he also served as BSU’s Chief of the Anatomical Kinesiology Laboratory, where he directed cadaver dissection and prosection, and served as a teaching assistant. He provided stress management consultation to the Boise business community and taught stress management strategies at St. Alphonsus Hospital in Boise and Mercy Medical Center in Nampa, Idaho.

Salvatore always looks for interesting areas to explore. In 1980 he researched, proposed and administered one of the first two national pilot programs for the application of Hatha Yoga as a functional improvement and comfort modality for Multiple Sclerosis. He administered the program for several years.

In 1988, Salvatore’s research finally took him to India, where he lived for two years. To his surprise, he found himself teaching in ashrams and universities there. Salvatore returns to India regularly to study and teach.

Salvatore is the author of The Unadorned Thread of Yoga: The Yoga-Sûtra of Patañjali in English, which presents each of the 196 sutras, with text analysis and twelve authoritative translations.

Salvatore is the founder of the Yoga-Sûtras Institute. His teaching areas span meditation, the Yoga-Sûtras of Patañjali, anatomy, kinesiology, and physiology. He is on staff at several yoga centers and ashrams, the most notable being the Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in R’shikesh in northern India.

Salvatore lives with his wife, dogs, and a flock of pampered chickens on a tiny hobby farm in western Washington State.

Zoe Knott is a Diploma Course Tutor (DCT) for the British Wheel of Yoga and also is their DCT training officer. Over 30 years of yoga practice with many different teachers from a variety of traditions has resulted in an eclectic style of teaching that has been influenced by all those she has worked with.

Her fundamental approach is to build strength as the cornerstone of the practice and from there all poses become possible.

Asanas are broken down and analysed. Zoe looks at the muscles that need to be strong or flexible and works in detail gradually building up the components of a pose.

Zoe has taken the additional BWY modules in Pranayama and Pregnancy. As well as running regular yoga classes, the Foundation Course, Teacher Training and travelling around giving workshops and taking In service training, Zoe is a popular teacher at BWY Congress and runs yoga holidays in Mallorca.

Tanya Fitzpatrick, Somatics and Yoga Somatics is a type of mind-body training that gives you the tools to heal yourself by 'unlearning' the bad postural habits that lead to pain, tension and stress.