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We're delighted to bring you the team that will make your holiday a time to remember. All our members are professional and friendly, helpful and fun. Each member has lived for some time in all the destinations we offer and they have a wealth of local knowledge invaluable to any holiday. We're sure you will enjoy them as much as you do you our beautiful locations...

Michelle Riordan

Michelle is from Ireland and is the cofounder of Yogatraveller. She has been living and travelling abroad for the past 10 years. She was first certified as a Sivananda yoga teacher in India and has worked and taught yoga in Egypt, Thailand, Hong Kong, Ireland, Switzerland and Africa. She believes that yoga is for everyone and that to live a healthy life, emotionally and physically, it must be balanced with fun and adventure. Besides yoga, she is a Pilates teacher and complementary therapist. She is also an experienced scuba diving instructor, English teacher and writer and has spent time living and working in Asia, Africa, Europe and Micronesia as well as having travelled the other remaining continents. She enjoys snowboaring, hiking, rock-climbing and all water sports and believes that the key to a healthy mind is a healthy body. She is currently learning to surf.

Michael Moroney

Besides having lived and travelled the corners of the earth, Michael Moroney loves a game of golf on Ireland's fine courses and a pint of Guinness in his local pub. He has worked as a Pirate in the Caribbean, has fed sting rays for a living and has hitch-hiked his way around Tibet. As co-founder of Yogatraveller he is acting host, booking manager and mountain guide for the skiing and snowboarding holidays in Switzerland. He has worked as a professional tour-guide and has spent more than a few winters snowboarding in the Swiss Alps. He enjoys rugby, pool and the occasional stretch and he certainly knows how to have a good time.

Erinbell Fanore

Erinbell became a certified yoga teacher by training with Dave Curtis in vinyasaflow and is certified by the Yoga Alliance. She teaches a dynamic flowing Hatha class and encourages and instructs her students to find the integrity, beauty, and strength of Tadasana (Mountain Pose) not only on the mat in all the asanas but also off the mat (where perhaps it counts most). She was was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada and at 18 left to study theatre in Toronto, after which she left to go backpacking through Europe. She then travelled and lived in France, Japan, Ireland, Germany, India. She is currently living on Gozo with her husband and two small children. Yoga has been an active part of her life over the last ten years, as has teaching, whether it be theatre, writing, or yoga. She is delighted to be sharing her knowledge of yoga on this charming, stunning, tiny Mediterranean island.

Regina Wei

Born in Seattle, America, Regina has lived and worked in places as diverse as Mongolia, Maine (USA), California (USA), Beijing and Thailand.  Her two passions are yoga and healing. Regina practices and teaches a Vinyasa style Hatha yoga that is inspired by the Iyengar and Ashtanga traditions.  She first began practicing yoga with Mike Stokes while attending graduate school at UCLA (Los Angeles) in the Fall of 2003.  She met and worked with Diana Colonna Suryasakti in Beijing in 2006 and was awarded a teacher training certificate by the Suryasakti Yoga Center (Ljubljana, Slovenia) in the Winter of 2006. Regina's yoga philosophy centers on the ideas of compassion for self and others, mindfulness, and self-healing.  She firmly believes that while yoga should be calming, centering and strengthening, it should also be practiced in a spirit of ease and fun. Regina is a Reiki Master in the Tera-Mai Reiki tradition and is trained in Sacred Geometrics Healing Work (a form of energy healing). She strives through her teaching to bring a balance of concentrated attention with a sense of lightness and good humor into her students' practices.

Joanna Collins

Joanna was born in Dublin and spent her youth training in London. Her yoga practice stems from a dance background namely classical ballet, contemporary and modern, so her teaching is rooted in an innate and precise sense of physicality. Her study of yoga evolved through dance leading her to continue training in India where she spent the last year experiencing yoga as a way of life. Her main practice there was in the Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition, gaining a teacher training certificate in Yoga Education from Yoga Vidyha Dham Institution as well as practicing with V. Venkatesh (Atma Vikasa, Mysore) and V. Sheshadri (Mysore Mandala Shala). She completed her teacher training in Los Angeles at the renowned Yoga Works studio in Santa Monica. Her practice there adapted to more Vinyasa flow based style. In addition, she studied under Saul David Raye,Erik Schiffman and has just completed an advanced teacher training course with David swenson. Joanna is specifically drawn to the discipline of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga because of the precise alignment and placement it demands on the body and its connection of breath with movement. She is currently apprenticed to David Curtis and will be assisting him on the Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training courses in Dublin.

 

Simone MacKay

Born in Canada and educated in Switzerland, Simone served as a counselor for several years before completing her yoga teacher training in Australia with Yoga Arts instructors Louisa Sears and Lance Schuler. She also holds certifications in both reflexology and aromatherapy. Basing herself primarily in Asia, Simone travels throughout the world teaching and facilitating workshops and retreats. In addition, she has served as resident instructor at the exclusive COMO Shambhala Resort in the Maldives, taught Vinyasa Flow and Yin Yoga at Bali Spirit Yoga Studio in Indonesia, and offered Power Yoga classes at The Sanctuary Resort Spa and Wellness Centre in Thailand, where she also facilitated fasting and cleansing programs for guests. During her travels, she continues to train with top yoga professionals, including Dharma Mittra, Danny Paradise, Ganesh Mohan and Louise Ellis, one of only six women worldwide to be certified by Ashtanga Yoga founder Pattabhis Jois.

 

Niamh Collins

She began practicing Yoga in the Rainforest in Australia when she was 20, and never looked back since. She trained for three years in Contemporary Yoga with Charlie Stevens and Marianne Gabriel who inspired her with a deep respect and love for the beauty of yoga practice. She believes in Yoga for all ages and all body types and has trained with Yoga kids, Perinatal Yoga and also with David Curtis in Vinyasa Flow Yoga. Niamh loves Nature. After years of travelling she now lives with her 6 year old daughter in beautiful Co. Kerry, and loves to photograph the mountains, lakes, beaches, sunrise and sunsets there. She is a Holistic Therapist and Reiki Master and believes wholeheartedly in a united Body Mind and Spirit. Yoga symbolises for her a marvellous tool to tune into our creativity,
joy, inspiration and all round health by allowing our own innate sense
of wellbeing and harmony to emerge.

  

Oonagh Carroll-Holden

Oonagh is qualified with the International Yoga Alliance, completing her training with Debbie Corradino and Veronica Larsen at the Elbow Room, (Dublin). She was drawn to Ashtanga yoga for the challenges it proved to her body firstly, but the experiences she met on her journey led her to the belief she holds true to her practice today, that the foundation of progressing and making beneficial changes is through a consistent and very thoughtful practice. Oonagh emphasises the use of and the quality of ones breath within the practice and is a firm believer that we should use it as the primary guide to where we should be in our practice on any given day. The class is fashioned in the traditional Ashtanga style, building up heat within ones body through the use of movement and breath.

Claire Nichols

Claire has been a Complementary Health Practitioner in the UK for the past 10 years. She combines her skills as a yoga instructor with massage, aromatherapy, reflexology and healing. Claire is also a qualified Reiki Master and healer. She gained a degree in World Religions which set her along her spiritual path and cemented her love of travel and exploring different cultures. She works as a freelance therapist and yoga teacher in London. Claire's philosophy is to use her intuition as a guide and treat each person as a unique individual, choosing a treatment that will best restore energy and balance the mind, body and spirit.

 

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