Yinstinct Yoga

Yinstinct Yoga 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.

Just a word I made up.I think it should go in the dictionary.
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? ✍️ ⬇️

Country by country, it seems that the world we thought we knew is being torn apart.Thinking of everyone who has done not...
26/01/2026

Country by country, it seems that the world we thought we knew is being torn apart.

Thinking of everyone who has done nothing to deserve the fear, threat and denial of human rights being doled out with impunity.

My nervous system is awry. I can’t imagine how much care those closer to the centre need.

May all beings be safe and well.

This pic is full of stories! As I was on Zoom (waiting for a group of personal trainers and Pilates instructors to show ...
24/01/2026

This pic is full of stories!

As I was on Zoom (waiting for a group of personal trainers and Pilates instructors to show up for my Menopause training for FitPros), wifi issues forced me into what used to be my kids playroom.

Behind the screen was the mural my sister painted for them 8 years ago, a big expression of love and creativity.

I pulled a book from the shelves to lean on to write, and it was this fantastic book I bought for them when they were little, in the hopes of empowering them to take a strong stance as women in this world.

10 years on, their mother is an educator and supporter of women and those who they look to for wellbeing.

I don’t still don’t know how my girls will show up in adulthood, but I hope little things like these books, like seeing their mum educating professionals who support women, seeing love and help from their aunt, and witnessing a life unfolding outside the norm (mine 😃), will bring them strength, creativity, a valuing of family, individuality, and courage.

That was a big moment for me, all these strands joining together. 🥹♥️

Thanks for reading!

21/01/2026

Yoga for Bone Health class is at 1pm Irish time every Thursday online for 50 minutes.

You can receive a recording if you can’t make it live.

These classes have been running for a year now, but I’ve been teaching for over 21 years.

Teachers who’ve done my Yoga for Bone Health training might enjoy them to steal further ideas for your classes, 🤫

People who have never done Yoga before are also welcome.

The 2016 trend.But I’m doing it differently… cos the first photos on my phone are from 2018 😃 Which started with me real...
20/01/2026

The 2016 trend.

But I’m doing it differently… cos the first photos on my phone are from 2018 😃 Which started with me realising I could do a yoga shoot in boots and a skirt!

2) My light approach to serious things (which I also take seriously)… this was my fave photo for years after, and I recreated it 6 years later, post-menopause, and naked!

3) It was the first time had photographed me. She went on to take the photos for my book, Yoga for Menopause and Beyond years later. see here how important rest, props and personal adaptation were, moving away from extreme shapes. I was in the middle of my perimenopause, experience and research showing me our musculoskeletal system needs a different approach. I had become so aware of the damage Yoga asana could do.

4) This was my first logo, developed then, along with my website. I loved it… illustrating my desire to allow our yoga practice to be sensual and pleasurable, to respond to our instincts and be less formalised and top-down. I can now edit and build my own pages on my website. I can’t quite believe it!

5) Not yet training teachers, I was regularly selling out workshops I called “Yin Safe Hands” which combined yin and restorative with hands on mini massages, based on my training as a Thai massage therapist and in hands-on for restorative. People deeply need/ed this treat. I didn’t return to these classes after the pandemic, because my post-menopause energy didn’t allow me to deliver them while also minding myself.

6) in the thick of perimenopause, I still needed a fan for sleep! That fan is now sold… I’m here to tell you, you will sleep again!

7) my kids were still little. My sister did this mural for them. We kinda helped! She REALLY helped me, throughout my life, parenting, perimenopause and separation, as did all my siblings. Minding my kids emotional health was the priority in my separation which was 2 years in.

8) A shoot later that year. I ended up using it as I dipped my toe in to online dating. I did NOT enjoy that. So glad to have met the beautiful man I am so loving connecting with now. 🥰

#2016

The 2016 trend.But I’m doing it differently… cos the first photos on my phone are from 2018 😃1) My light approach to ser...
20/01/2026

The 2016 trend.

But I’m doing it differently… cos the first photos on my phone are from 2018 😃

1) My light approach to serious things (which I also take seriously)… this was my fave photo for years after, and I recreated it 6 years later, post-menopause, and naked!

2) It was the first time had photographed me. She went on to take the photos for my book, Yoga for Menopause and Beyond years later. see here how important rest, props and personal adaptation were, moving away from extreme shapes. I was in the middle of my perimenopause, experience and research showing me our musculoskeletal system needs a different approach. I had become so aware of the damage Yoga asana could do.

3) This was my first logo, developed then, along with my website. I loved it… illustrating my desire to allow our yoga practice to be sensual and pleasurable, to respond to our instincts and be less formalised and top-down. I can now edit and build my own pages on my website. I can’t quite believe it!

4) Not yet training teachers, I was regularly selling out workshops I called “Yin Safe Hands” which combined yin and restorative with hands on mini massages, based on my training as a Thai massage therapist and in hands-on for restorative. People deeply need/ed this treat. I didn’t return to these classes after the pandemic, because my post-menopause energy didn’t allow me to deliver them while also minding myself.

5) in the thick of perimenopause, I still needed a fan for sleep! That fan is now sold… I’m here to tell you, you will sleep again!

6) my kids were still little. My sister did this mural for them. We kinda helped! She REALLY helped me, throughout my life, parenting, perimenopause and separation, as did all my siblings. Minding my kids emotional health was the priority in my separation which was 2 years in.

7) another favourite from a photo shoot at the end of the year. The first time I thought “hey, I can do yoga in a skirt and my boots!”

8) part of that shoot. I ended up using this as I dipped my toe in to online dating. I did NOT enjoy that. So glad to have met the beautiful man I am so loving connecting with now. 🥰

#2016

Greetings, from a less than lovely Irish January! For anyone who has subscribed to my mailing list, please check your in...
19/01/2026

Greetings, from a less than lovely Irish January!

For anyone who has subscribed to my mailing list, please check your inbox for a ridiculously special offer, only for you, ppl that ends at the end of tomorrow.

I know it’s hibernation time, but what would be better than to stay indoors and study Yoga for Bone Health with me, starting this Friday!

You will get all the information you need to keep your students safer, and proactively reduce their fracture risk, and can graduate this 15 hour training in under three weeks!

There’s also a special offer in that email for Yoga for Menopause starting February 6th

stay warm, stay safe.

Niamh

17/01/2026

Yoga for Menopause and Beyond

Tried and tested by hundreds of teachers worldwide.

Affordable
Honest
Achievable

15/01/2026

♥️ Women have always, and will always need and deserve support and teaching that’s relevant to their actual needs!

Yoga for Menopause and Beyond YTT is fully certified, and taught by a world-recognised expert and author on the subject.

No in-fighting, no doom and gloom.
🙏 Just evidence based training based on more than a decade of research, and experience, supporting over 1,000 actual people and teachers living life and loving yoga 40+

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