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Yoga I have been teaching Yoga for 15 years. I also hold an Advanced Diploma in Nutrition Coaching and a Pilates Mat teaching qualification.

I support people one-to-one in nutrition and exercise. I hold weekly classes and occasional workshops in Greystones and online. I train other Yoga teachers around the world in my Certificate in Teaching Yoga for Menopause, and run a CPD in Menopause Awareness for Wellness Professionals. Teaching retreats a few times a year, which are very popular, I also love offering a blissful immersion into all aspects of Yoga in stunning surroundings in the West of Ireland. Hatha Yoga is the basis of all Yoga styles, and gives beginners and experienced practitioners an essential insight into all it can provide. My classes are aimed at bringing you towards greater strength, comfort and health, with essential focus on the healthy alignment of the joints and spine to avoid the injury that can come with a less refined practice. I teach pragmatically through evidence-based techniques that enhance the benefits of yoga for all, and especially for women who are in the throes of their perimenopause transition, or in the years beyond.

10/02/2026

Yaay! She gets it!

Yoga-plus for Bone Health live online Thursdays, get the recording if you miss it.

Not just Yoga, not just Pilates bits, but also applied neuroscience for strength and balance.

New participants always welcome!

09/02/2026

There is so much information (and misinformation) about menopause right now.
And yet, many women are still confused, unsupported, and trying to join the dots on their own.

As yoga teachers, we don’t need to “fix” anything.
Sometimes, simply acknowledging menopause in our regular classes is enough to bring relief, gratitude, and a deep sense of being seen.

You don’t need to teach a big, specialised menopause class.
Menopause-aware teaching can live in every class — through language, awareness, and gentle adaptations.

This is what I teach in my Yoga for Menopause and Beyond yoga teacher training.
If you’d like to learn more, comment MENOPAUSE and I’ll send you the course information.

08/02/2026

You may be surprised that it’s my first Yoga for Menopause and Beyond retreat, given my 11 years of devotion to this subject!

The retreat centre that hosts me has always wanted to be inclusive of everyone, and not allow any retreats to be too niche.

But I kept poking, and finally my teaching heart’s desire is realised!

If we you can’t grab the last two spaces for the March weekend, I hope to see you in July (3rd-9th) where you can stay the whole week with me, or just do a couple of nights if that’s all you have time for.

There are single en suite, all the way to dormitory accommodation to make things more affordable.

Located in an unspeakably beautiful part of the world where we we not only get to indulge in wonderful practices, but also break bread together (incredible food!), hike, wander, maybe swim… and nourish each other in community.

Can’t wait!

07/02/2026

When teaching yoga for menopause, how we hold space matters just as much as the poses and practices we teach.
A sharing circle isn’t about oversharing or fixing symptoms.
It’s about offering information, reassurance, and practical support — so women feel seen, safe, and empowered in their bodies.

As yoga teachers, our role is not to diagnose or treat, but to remind our students that:
✨ what they’re experiencing is real
✨ support exists
✨ and gentle tools can make a difference

This is menopause-aware teaching.

I teach this in my Yoga for Menopause and Beyond yoga teacher training.
If you’d like to learn more, comment MENOPAUSE and I’ll send you the course information.

06/02/2026

It is a vibrant, mercurial job as a teacher holding sharing circles, to hear, assimilate and respond, as some experiences we are used to hearing, but also there are details that are unique.

Every Yoga for Menopause sharing circle is different.
🌟 But it’s always rich.

As a yoga teacher, you can learn to hold these circles with me, with a background of your experience, mine, that of the hundreds of other teachers who have taken the training, and most importantly, a background of accurate knowledge.

Yoga for Menopause February training is full, but there is space for the next dates which are in May.

How do you feel holding space for women through the menopause transition?

And does this conversation about an awakening connection to our future resonate with you?

03/02/2026

Yet again, a big wellness influencer shared this appallingly flawed and widely debunked study as fact (even calling it new, which indicates the lack of detail with which he read it).

With comments saying things like “as a yoga teacher this is great news” and “what 12 poses?” I know that the fears I had since I first came across this irresponsible piece of misinformation are well founded: it makes people think there’s an easy answer, and yoga teachers are carrying on thinking their practice and teaching is enough for them and their students to avoid osteoporosis.

I shout loud: IT’S NOT!!
these are not 12 magic poses, they are in pretty much everybody’s yoga practice. Yet I and countless practitioners and teachers have developed osteoporosis despite years and years of yoga practice.
Yoga
is
not
enough
to
keep
your
bone
density
in
normal
range

Osteoporosis is not simple. Building bone density is not simple. Reversing osteoporosis is extremely difficult, especially the older you get, and it is not going to take 12 minutes, 12 poses a day.

even my Yoga-plus for Bone Health training clearly states that what we offer is not enough for the consistent and continuous reversal of osteoporosis (we even add resistance bands to make it more strenuous and positively stressful). What it does claim, is that it includes a large number of widely respected evidence based routes, for fracture risk reduction for people with any bone density.

The image above is from a blog on my website giving you the facts about why the study should be thrown in the bin (and possibly burned because it would be very important that no one else ever stumbles across it).

Please, Yoga teachers read and share widely, and let us be responsible and truthful.

https://yinstinctyoga.com/2024/08/12-yoga-poses-for-osteoporosis-debunking-the-myth/

28/01/2026

Just a word I made up.

I think it should go in the dictionary.

27/01/2026

How we love chaturanga!

How we love our familiar yoga postures, and how that regularity makes us FEEL our improvements.

How we don’t know how, or want to make it difficult again 🫣! This option is a new challenge…

Learn why we must, and how we can add benefit, while still getting to love our yoga asana.

Yoga for Bone Health trainings are open for booking.

Did you try it? ✍️ ⬇️

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Wicklow

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http://Www.yinstinctyoga.com/

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