TEACHERS

All teachers in The elbowroom are fully qualified.

• Lisa Wilkinson teaches Hot Yoga on Tuesdays. She also practices Craniosacral therapy.
  
  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 6 years. She is a fully qualified bodywork therapist, certified in Anatomy& physiology, massage therapy, craniosacral therapy and ancient thai massage.



• Brian Buckley teaches Pilates at The elbowroom on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
  
  After completing his studies in Sports Science at UL in 1991, Brian began to work as a personal trainer. Fourteen years later, his career has evolved into him being a freelance trainer and Pilates teacher. Brian discovered Pilates as a youngster when he had a keen interest in gymnastics and dance and certified with the Pilates Institute in London as a matwork teacher four years ago.  
  
  Since then his studies in Pilates have seen him further certify with Irelands Progressive Pilates School as a matwork teacher and a personal one to one teacher, focusing on the pilates needs for special populations.
  
  Today, Brian teaches classes at the elbowroom on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays and is available for one-to-one lessons.
  
  Brian has comprehensive pilates training so if you are suffering from back problems or recovering from injury, Brian can develop a personal Pilates plan for you.



• Dave Cohen teaches Hot Yoga on Mondays and Vinyasa Flow Yoga on Fridays and Sundays.
  
  Teaching since the 90's, Dave has a unique style and approach to his teaching focusing on proper alignment during asana and mechanics of the breath. As a teacher of Yoga, martial arts (Capoeira, Tae Kwon Do, Kung FU, Ju Jitsu), meditation, massage, strength and conditioning, Dave now combines his unique multi-disciplinary approach to help you realise your greatest physical, mental and spiritual potential.
• Dave is also a qualified Massage Therapist at The elbowroom.
  
  
• Helen Byrne teaches Hatha at The elbowroom on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
  
  Helen qualified as a teacher of English and History in 1981. She has worked in the area of education in Ireland, England and Australia since then. She was awarded a post-graduate diploma in psychology while living in London in 1993 and qualified as a Family & Systemic Therapist in 1996.
  
  Helen was a latecomer to any form of physical activity bar what was absolutely necessary until stress-related illness forced her hand in 1997. She was living and working in Wexford at the time and found a wonderful Iyengar yoga class. She was delighted to have found some form of physical movement she could actually enjoy. She was even happier to discover the beneficial psychological and emotional effects of developing a consistent Yoga practice.
  
  On her return to Dublin in 2002 Helen joined Susan Church's (of Centre Studios) Hatha Yoga class and, with Susan's support and encouragement, started training with Yttc as a Yoga teacher in October 2003. She graduated in January 2005.



• John Hanrahan teaches Iyengar at The elbowroom on Wednesdays.
  
  John Hanrahan has been practicing yoga for ten years. He started in London during his student days.  Having a lot of free time, and a yoga centre right on his doorstep, he happened to 'stumble' into the South London Iyengar Yoga Institute one morning.  Inspired by his teacher Glynis Shephard, and the immediate wellbeing he felt, he started going to classes about three times a week.
  
  "I found that it really complemented my cycling.  I cycled everywhere, and worked part-time as a cycle courier, but my body was suffering as a result and I was always tired.  I was cycling myself into the ground, my knees and legs were suffering !.  Yoga made everything pop back into place and energised me. It allowed me to carry on cycling the hundreds of miles I would cover each month, but my body was stronger and more resilient.  I discovered so many other positive changes as I continued to practice yoga. I became 'mentally fit',  I felt stronger, happier, and more focused.  My lifestyle became much healthier, negative thoughts and desires fell away".
   
  "I feel very lucky to have discovered yoga and to have studied yoga in India, Nepal, Thailand, U.S.A., and the U.K. as well as Ireland, where I successfully completed the Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training course". 
   
  "As a teacher I feel very priviledged to be able to pass on the knowledge that allows such powerful transformation to take place".



• Linda McConn teaches Ashtanga at The elbowroom on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
  
  Linda has been practicing yoga for 7 years. Having been first drawn to yoga for its stress relieving benefits in 1999, her practice steadily developed shifting towards the more challenging style of Ashtanga yoga, which she learned from Tony Purcell. The benefits of regular practice, working with awareness, breath and core strength in each asana, has had a hugely positive effect on her life. Linda has travelled to Goa's Purple Valley to further her studies and has trained with respected teachers such as Anto Kearney, Danny Paradise, Matthew Sweeney, David Swenson and Nancy Gilgoff.
  
  Linda is also a qualified massage therapist and has studied Reiki to master level.
  
  
• Sorcha Carroll teaches Iyengar at The elbowroom on Fridays.
  
  Sorcha Carroll's interest in yoga began in early childhood. Initally, this involved copying her mother's morning Hatha practice, but her interest became more serious during the last ten years. Sorcha's Iyengar studies started in Sligo with Helen Gillan and in 2001 she began training with Senior Iyengar teacher Pen Reed. She qualified in 2004 and has also recently received the Junior Intermediate Certificate Level One. Sorcha is currently working on Junior Two with Aisling Guirke and Pen Reed.
  
  She also has spent time studying in France with Advanced teacher Christian Pisano and Senior teacher June Whittaker. Iyengar yoga is meant for all and is a way of life. The use of props, such as wooden bricks, belts and foam blocks was designed by B.K.S. Iyengar to help all practitioners to achieve perfection in any asana. His method focuses on precision, alignment and safety in each posture. It builds strength, flexibility, stamina and balance. Regular practice of 'Iyengar Yoga' definitely integrates the body, mind and emotions.

• Debbie Corradino teaches the Ashtanga Teacher Training course.
  
  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 for 4 years at his studio. She has also studied Ashtanga with Tim Miller and Dena Kingsberg. She trained in Australia with Frances Liotta, studied Yoga Anatomy with Tias Little and pranayama with Emil Wendel. Now based in Dublin, 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 and 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.
  
  Debbie also practices Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in Dublin specializing in women's health, allergies, auto-immune and musculo-skeletal disorders.
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• Veronica Larson teaches the Ashtanga Teacher Training course.
  
  Veronica teaches Astanga 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.