About Us
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I started practicing and studying yoga in Ireland twelve years ago. Since then, I have studied with a number of senior yoga teachers all over the world. I originally trained as an Iyengar teacher, and I still value the Iyengar method for its precision and attention to details, but my practice and teaching have been influenced by a number of other yoga styles, particularly ashtanga (which I loved right from my first vinyasa), and also by the atma vikasa style of Venkatesh, and the Shadow yoga style of Shandor Remete. In addition to my morning asana practice, I regularly practice pranayama and meditation. A few years ago, I gave up a promising :) career managing a small IT company, went to India, and come back only to teach yoga full time. I still work with computers, though, as I am the webmaster of the Yoga-ireland.com and yogaholidays.net sites, and sometimes do house calls for my island neighbours who have troubled computers. I also passionately love cooking (I am French after all...) and have a keen interest in ayurvedic nutrition. My past loves, sailing and horses, are getting a new lease of life on the island, and I am developing new interests such as gardening and growing trees. Theo and Maud are currently teaching me the art of fatherhood, which I enjoy very much.
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Ciara Cullen I came to yoga in a round about way, after a background in dance--both ballet and modern, as well as cross-country running. After exploring various alternative forms of movement and exercise, I found myself doing yoga and immediately felt 'at home', and have been practicing now for over ten years. Ashtanga yoga has had the strongest influence on my practice, and I have studied intensively with John Scott, Graeme Northfield, Patthabi Jois and most recently Nancy Gilgoff,in Europe and India. I have also enjoyed greatly the 'lyrical' and 'poetic' styles of teaching from a number of Scaravelli influenced teachers including Rosella Baroncini, Victor Van Kooten, and of course, Paddy MacGrath.
For me, yoga is about
practicing alone, facing one's self with one's breath on the mat. My own
personal practice has also been greatly influenced in the last three
years by two pregnancies and two very happy homebirths.
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