Teen Yoga Teacher Training

Melissa has been teaching yoga since 2002, having started practicing in her 20’s in San Francisco. Her yoga journey started out as a Bikram Yoga Teacher and she is now a fully trained Hatha, Yin, Pre&Postnatal, Pilates, Kids Yoga teacher, is a 500hr qualified yoga teacher, is currently taking a second 300hr training with world-renowned Amy Ippoliti, is a certified senior & yoga teacher trainer with Yoga Alliance UK professionals.

Melissa has always loved working with children, now has 3 children herself and after the birth of her 2nd child, she went on to become a qualified Kids Yoga Teacher in 2010 and then took another training in early 2014 before taking over the Kids Yoga Teacher Training at The elbowroom. An experienced teacher and teacher trainer, Melissa brings us the highest of standards of quality teaching which is always confirmed by every trainee that trains with us. Melissa has been teaching on and has created numerous teacher trainings since 2007 and is passionate about empowering anyone that wants to embark on a new adventure of teaching kids whether they have teaching experience or not. This course is for absolutely anyone that loves yoga and wants to teach its benefits to children. Lots of fun guaranteed too!

Melissa’s knowledge, experience, gifted way of training and dedication to maintaining the excellent standard of manuals given means everyone will be ready to teach from the moment they finish this course.

Mary has been passionate about music and movement her whole life. Her yoga journey began in 2010 initially been drawn to yoga by the sense of escape and very quickly grew to love the mind, body, spirit connection.
She began her teaching career in Miami in 2012 before moving to Dublin, teaching restorative yoga  Bikram yoga, children’s and additional needs yoga and Vinyasa flow.  She has enjoyed watching students of all ages light up from the practice of yoga ever since. She enjoys travelling and teaching yoga and sharing her love it.

Her mission as a yoga teacher is to help others see that Mindfulness can be achieved through a variety of approaches such as yoga, music, meditation and healthy living and being present in everything you do. While not flowing on her mat, Mary teaches music, plays violin in an orchestra, snowboards in winter and lies forever under the sun during the summer.

Róisín Kenny is a qualified Art Psychotherapist, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher as well as a Children’s Yoga Teacher. She specialises in Trauma Processing, Emotional Regulation and Maternal/ Infant Mental health. She has trained in London with renowned yoga and meditation teachers such as Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Michael Stone.