Yoga

“Yoga is selfless, cleansing, freeing, balancing, inspiring and joyfully performed: a vision in which one experiences peaceful interconnectedness with all life around them.”

~ The Bhagavad Gita

Yoga

Having practised yoga for sixteen years, in early 2018, Eilís felt a calling to learn more about this ancient practice. She completed her 200 Yoga Teacher Training with Naomi Sturdy and Sibylle Dallman at The Art of Teaching Yoga. Eilís has since gone on to deepen her study in Pranayama, Meditation and Mantra with Sian Pascale at The Light Collective, Restorative Yoga with Ciara Cronin at The Yoga Room, and a range of further yoga courses on Awakening the Chakras with LucyBloom Yoga, Yoga Philosophy and Sutras with Naomi Sturdy.

She facilitates Yoga Classes on the mat in the local community:

Eilís believes in the sacred lineage of the practice; she teaches yoga with passion, creativity, and warmth from the heart. Eilís guides her students into the yoga postures, with mindful movement and awareness, using the yogic breath, meditation, mindfulness, mantra, compassion, and loving-kindness. 

Eilís interweaves the connection with moon cycles and astrology energies throughout her classes. She has completed courses with many astrologers, including Pam Gregory, Christopher Renstrom, The Astro Twins, Stormie Grace, Whole Woman and Astrology Hub.

Eilís also facilitates Chair Yoga and Kids Yoga.

Over the last few years, she has also taught yoga at the following studios:

  • The Community Centre - Cong

  • Áras Pobail - Corr na Móna

  • Ballinrobe Physiotherapy Clinic

  • Elements Yoga

  • Hush Yoga

  • Republic of Fitness

  • Functional Fitness

  • The Nurture Room

  • Dartry Health Club

  • Icon Health Club

  • Urban Fitness

 

Corporate Organisations 

 

Bringing yoga to corporate organisations offers huge benefits to employees both physically and mentally during their work day. Corporate yoga classes are a great way to improve workplace morale, increase productivity and reduce stress.

 

Community Classes

 

Eilís teaches weekly classes to the community and on-line.

 

Private Yoga Classes

A private yoga class can cultivate your yoga practice in a way that is as individual as you are based on your health, body type and lifestyle.

Private yoga classes are available at my home studio or from your home within the South Mayo area.

Private yoga classes are also available online via Zoom.

 

Researched Benefits of Yoga

The below findings are based on the research made by doctors and scientists worldwide. They provide proven, evidence-based benefits of yoga for physical and mental health and overall wellbeing. This is by no means an exhaustive list but it gives an indication of the potential use of yoga to prevent and cure various health conditions.

This information was correlated by The Irish Federation of Yoga Teachers and I can gladly share the articles if anyone would like to read in further detail:

Yoga for mental health: Yoga is extensively used as a main treatment or adjunctive treatment for a variety of mental health disorders. It can reduce symptoms of stress or generalized anxiety, schizophrenia, depression, PTSD, suicidal behaviour and addiction.

Yoga for brain health: Yoga practice can positively impact brain health mitigating the risk of age-related and neurodegenerative diseases.

Yoga for chronic pain: Yoga practice has a prominent effect on psychological aspects of living with chronic pain, reducing associated depression and improving quality of life.

Yoga for stress: Yoga is positively related both to stress reduction and coping with stress.

Yoga for low back pain: Yoga practice is effective in treating and preventing chronic low back pain by improving function, decreasing pain and improving the quality of life of people affected by it.

Yoga for preventing inflammation and fibrosis: Yoga practice reduces local connective tissue inflammation and fibrosis.

Yoga for bone health: Yoga practice improves bone mineral density in spine, hips, and legs.

Yoga for improving the overall quality of life: Yoga improves energy levels, increases the feeling of happiness, has a positive effect on social relationships, sleep, and contributes to healthy weight control.

Yoga for self-regulation, mood control and resilience: Yoga practice facilitates self-regulation and resilience in the face of stress-related physical or emotional challenges.

Yoga for immunity: certain meditation, yoga postures, and breathing practices may be effective adjunctive means of treating and/or preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection by reducing stress, enhancing the function of the immune system and counteracting some forms of infectious challenges like pandemic-associated negative inflammatory and psychosocial stress factors.

Yoga for the cardiovascular conditions: Yoga proves to help to treat heart conditions, reducing cardiovascular risk factors and high blood pressure (hypertension).

Yoga for asthma: For asthma, the breathing component of yoga has been linked to improvements in lung function and asthma symptoms.

Yoga for HIV: Yoga is used effectively as a treatment for people with HIV.

Yoga for IBS: Yoga proves to help to treat irritable bowel syndrome.

Yoga for cancer care: Yoga interventions are beneficial in improving the adverse symptoms in cancer patients – caused either by the disease or its treatment (such as fatigue). Yoga improves the physical and psychological symptoms, quality of life, and markers of immunity of the cancer patients.

Yoga for the mind: in cases where yoga does not offer significant relief from physical disease, it can still offer some measure of relief from mental suffering. In this sense, yoga can provide a different way of looking at pain, which in itself can potentially alleviate suffering.