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Lindsay O’Leary

Posted on: 13 January, 2024

Lindsay O’Leary, Cork, Ireland, discovered the transformative power of yoga whilst pursuing a BA in Contemporary Dance. Discovering the practice led her to complete her 200hr Yoga Teacher Training with Himalaya Yoga Valley in 2022.…

Viriam Kaur

Posted on: 23 January, 2020

Viriam has been teaching yoga philosophy for Teacher Training courses with Himalaya Yoga Valley since 2011. She is from the UK and has lived in India for the last fifteen years. Having trained with the…

Laura Dempsey

Posted on: 28 March, 2024

Laura fell in love with the practice of yoga while studying for her masters degree as a way of managing stress. She has always been interested in health and fitness, but this was the first…

Elena

Posted on: 5 January, 2024

Elena grew up in the sunny Mediterranean island of Cyprus. She was a national gymnast up to the age of 17, when she moved to the UK to study biology. She lived there for 9…

Madeleine

Posted on: 25 May, 2023

Madeleine’s yoga journey began in 2015 when she was seeking a way to relieve job stress and find mental separation between work and home life. In yoga, she found a way to center total energy…

Pablo de la Medina

Posted on: 12 November, 2023

Pablo de la Medina has been practicing yoga since 2015. His passion for yoga continued to grow and lead him to complete a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training course in August 2019, with Yogacharya Lalit…

John Poland

Posted on: 18 October, 2023

John embraced Yoga at the start of the global pandemic. Free online classes provided by Himalaya Yoga Valley were very much appreciated at an uncertain time in all our lives. Regular Yoga practice provided John…

Cassandra Carey

Posted on: 18 October, 2023

Cass has been teaching for over 4 years and has accumulated over 800 hours in training within the modalities of Hatha, vinyasa, yoga Nidra, restorative, and pranayama. She loves hosting breathwork ceremonies and workshops where…

Shauna

Posted on: 30 July, 2023

Shauna fell in love with yoga in her teens and has been practicing since. She originally start practicing to help relieve stress and anxiety but the practice then led her on a spiritual journey. She completed…

Stefanie Blech

Posted on: 22 August, 2023

Stefanie Blech, used to practice Yoga together with her sister in Germany when she was small, watching the old tapes her mother brought with her from abroad. For a while her focused changed to practicing…

Iva

Posted on: 22 July, 2023

Iva, a spirited individual from Croatia, embarked on a life-changing adventure when she moved to Ireland several years ago. In 2018, she initiated her transformative journey with yoga. Despite facing some private challenges that led…

Edina Lebhardt

Posted on: 15 February, 2023

Edina discovered yoga in 2006 while working abroad. During her travels, she has tried many different styles of yoga. She started practising Iyengar yoga regularly after moving to Ireland. To this day,  she continues studying…