YOGA TEACHER TRAINING - INSTRUCTORS

Lisa Wilkinson

Owner, director and teacher at The elbowroom, Lisa has been practicing yoga for over 18 years. Training initially in Sivinanda yoga in 98, and Ashtanga yoga in San Francisco, Lisa has been teaching for over 8 years. She is a fully qualified bodywork therapist, a Pilates Instructor, Pre-natal educator and is certified in Anatomy & physiology, massage therapy, craniosacral therapy and ancient thai massage. Lisa will be assisting in the course using her experience in body work to ensure everyone enjoys a safe practice. Lisa will also be leading the anatomy through movement section of the course and making sure everyone is happy!

Veronica Larson

Veronica teaches Yoga full time in Dublin. She has a degree in painting, and in Fine Arts Virtual Realities. With many years of intensive and extensive practice and training, including the Introductory Iyengar Yoga Teacher Certificate, and five years of study, training, and apprenticing with Graeme and Leonie Northfield, her focus is on developing awareness, self-knowledge and inner balance through the science and practice of yoga and meditation. She experiences the transformative power of body and mind through a daily yoga practice, not as a dogma or set of beliefs, but as a process, that can help to bring about awareness and healing on many levels. We practice so that we can remember, who and what we honestly are, not in order to become something else, that we are not! Hopefully it will enable us to ever expand our horizons and revel more fully in the great mystery we call life. Veronica returns yearly to continue her studies and training with her teacher for a couple of months.

Debbie Corradino

Originally from Boulder, Colorado, Debbie has been practicing yoga for over 12 years. In 1996 she began her Ashtanga studies with Richard Freeman and practiced at his studio for 4 years. She has also studied with Tim Miller and Dena Kingsberg. Debbie's teaching is primarily influenced by the Ashtanga vinyasa system with an emphasis on precision of movement and breath. Debbie's approach allows students to explore yoga in a way that encourages genuine interest and curiosity in a safe, light-hearted environment. Debbie believes that a willingness to trust in the practice, allowing what emerges from a natural curiosity and patient inquiry is where we find true yoga.

Since moving to Dublin she has been involved in Public Health Research at UCD and contributed to the Obesity Task Force Report, for which she researched the effects of Physical Activity on health and obesity. Debbie also practices Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in Dublin specialising in women's health, allergies, auto-immune and musculoskeletal disorders.

Dr Anthony Sharkey

Dr. Anthony Sharkey learned how to meditate when he was 13 years of age while studying martial arts. He used the practice to help himself and his friends to live peacefully in Northern Ireland during the turbulent 1970's. He continued his martial arts training for 14 years and eventually attained Black Belt status in Judo.

He qualified in Medicine from Trinity College Dublin in 1982. Three years after this he discovered Buddhism and decided to take a year off from his career to explore the teachings. This year lasted for 20 years.During this time he trained and was ordained into the Buddhist tradition and received the name Ratnabandhu. After Ordination he lived and was on the staff of a semi monastic retreat centre for 3 years, here he helped organize and teach intensive meditation retreats.

In the early 90's he returned to Dublin where he helped establish the Dublin Meditation Centre and initiate several residential spiritual
communities. During the years of the rising Celtic Tiger in Dublin he taught several thousand people how to meditate and do yoga.

He returned to live in Dublin in late 2005 and currently spends his time teaching meditation and yoga, running workshops on the Law of Attraction and practicing as a Medical Doctor - privately specialising in the treatment of Anxiety and Depression using Acupressure(EFT), Homeopathy, and NLP. Publicly he works as a community health doctor.

Jaananda

Jaananda is a spiritual guide and meditation teacher. Jaananda brings more than 30 years of meditation experience to his workshops. Through his teachings he shows that much of the happiness humans are looking for, can be found within them selves. Jaananda teaches practical chakra awareness, purification and universal life force energy meditation techniques. Jaananda will be teaching philosophy, meditation, kriyas and ethics.

Karen Ward

Karen Ward is a Holistic Therapist treating her clients physically, mentally emotionally & spiritually. She has an honours degree in Biology from UCD (B.Sc Hons) & holds many holistic health qualifications including Holistic Psychotherapy (MIACP, MEAC) & Stress Management Counselling (MIHCA), Reflexology (MIRI) & Aromatherapy Massage (ITEC). Karen is also an Holistic Dietician (IHCA & ITEC), a Yoga teacher (YTTC) & a Body Sculpting & Pilates Instructor (MAABS, BodyFirm).

Mark Sexton

Chartered physiotherapist. Working as a physiotherapist & accupuncturist, Mark instructs anatomy & physiology. He brings a great wealth of body work.