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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 and Saturdays.
After completing his studies in Sports Science at UL in 1991, Brian began
to work as a personal trainer. Eightteen 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 eight 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, Wednesdays 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.
- Melissa Curtis teaches Pre-natal Yoga
Melissa was born in Dublin in 1974 and was encouraged to travel from a very early age. The year after leaving school, Melissa embarked on a 10year journey around the world. It was in San Francisco in 1997 that Melissa took her first yoga class at the Sivananda Yoga Center. A few months previous during a trip to India her curiosity grew after seeing men practicing yoga by The Ganges in Varanassi. In 2000 she was introduced to Bikram yoga and after taking classes for 2 years under some of Mr. Bikram Choudrey's most highly regarded teachers, Melissa went on to become a teacher of Bikram Yoga in September 2002 after which she began teaching in San Francisco.
Melissa is also a trained Pre Natal Yoga Teacher. Taught and certified by Robin Sale in Santa Cruz, California. She has also taken workshops with Colette Johnson, one of West Coast America's most renowned Pre Natal Yoga Teachers. Melissa's Pre Natal Yoga classes combine a mixture of postures, breath work and relaxation in a positive, safe and comfortable environment. The class is also a wonderful opportunity for the Mother-To-Be and Baby within to connect. It also gives the mother time for herself on this very special journey.
Having just returned to Ireland after 10years with her husband Jim, Melissa is delighted to be able to teach in the Elbowroom and to share her knowledge of yoga with others.
- Helen Byrne
teaches Hatha
at The elbowroom on Mondays and Wednesdays.
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.
- Linda McConn teaches
Ashtanga
at The elbowroom on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Linda has been practicing yoga since 1999. Having been first drawn to yoga for its stress relieving benefits, her practice moved from Iyengar towards the more dynamic style of Ashtanga yoga. 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’s practice has taken her to India and Thailand where she has studied with respected teachers Emil Wendel, Danny Paradise, Matthew Sweeney, David Swenson, Donna Farhi and Nancy Gilgoff. Linda has recently achieved her PreNatal yoga teacher training certificate having participated in the Trust in Birth Antenatal teacher training course with the Elbowroom and now teaches pre natal pregnancy yoga.
Linda is also a qualified Pilates Instructor and Massage Therapist and has studied Reiki to master level.
- Tanya Fitzpatrick
teaches Hatha Yoga
Tanya Fitzpatrick is a yoga teacher who specialise in adapting the practice of yoga to her clients needs. Her focus is leading the client to greater awareness within their body, building strength safely and to increase their range of flexibility. By combing her knowledge of anatomy, physiology, massage and sports training, Tanya's style of yoga has helped many people to become pain free, strong and healthy. In 2002 Tanya earned her teaching diploma with Yoga Therapy Ireland. Her knowledge of the body and skill in adapting this to many clients made her a sought after teacher. She has her own private practice and taught many public class.
In 2004 she travelled to Vancouver, Canada where she undertook an advanced teacher training with world renowned yoga teacher Donna Farhi. Tanya has continued to work with Donna, and is now assisting her in worldwide with teacher training and workshops.
In 2006 , Tanya set up a holistic holiday company in Portugal, specialising in yoga and detox holidays. She worked with many clients from all over Europe and was featured in the Irish and English Times, Irish Independent, Sunday business post, Elle, Image and Prudence magazine.
In May 2008 Tanya began to train with the school of Body Mind Centering in San Francisco, where she is currently completing an in-depth course in embodied anatomy and yoga. Tanya is also training to become a somatics educator with the International Institute for Somatic Movement Education.
Tanya Fitzpatrick is a yoga teacher and Somatic movement Educator with over ten years experience in the field of mind-body training. Her focus is leading her clients to move with awareness and to regain enjoyable, natural ease of movement no matter what age or fitness level they may be. Tanya's approach is based on viewing the mind and body as one and working with the principals of developmental movement. Her knowledge of the body and skill in adapting this to many clients made her a sought after teacher. Tanya leads workshop's nationally and internationally.
Tanya first earned her teaching diploma with Yoga Therapy Ireland. She then travelled to Vancouver, Canada where she undertook an advanced teacher training with world renowned yoga teacher Donna Farhi. Tanya has continued to work with Donna, and is now assisting her in worldwide with teacher training and workshops. Tanya then qualified as a Somatic movement Educator and is currently training with the school of Body Mind Centering in San Francisco, where she is currently completing an in-depth course in embodied anatomy and yoga.
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.
- Elaine Griffin teaches Pilates
at The
elbowroom on Wednesdays.
Elaine has been a pilates instructor for three years and is qualified to offer tuition on a private or class basis concentrating predominantly on matwork from beginners through to advanced levels. She is also qualified in pre- and post-natal Pilates. In 2003, Elaine gained a Bachelors Degree in Dance from the University of Surrey, London which was where she first encountered Pilates. As well as teaching Pilates across Dublin, Elaine also works as a professional Dancer and Dramatherapist.
- Andrea Boudin
teaches Yogaat The elbowroom.
Andrea was born and grew up in Germany, where she went to her first hatha yoga class in 1994. Recovering from several chronic illnesses, yoga became over time the most important aspect in her life. Utilizing yoga to improve physical and spiritual health for herself and her students, opening up body and mind to the freedom that yoga can give, she gratefully keeps learning from her teachers to practice and teach safely and patiently.
Over the years, Andrea was blessed to learn from many great teachers like Patthabi Jois, Chuck and Maty, Anto Kearney, Emil Wendel and Nancy Gilgoff , besides the deeply valued ongoing Vinyasa Flow teacher training with Dave Curtis and Ruth Walshe.
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