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TEMPLE BAR YOGA TEACHERS

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Greg Walsh

YOGA TEACHER AND OWNER/DIRECTOR OF TEMPLE BAR YOGA

Greg Walsh Has been teaching yoga since 1999… before some of his students were born! He set up Samadhi in 2005, which became Temple Bar Yoga in 2023, having run Prana Yoga Centre for 3 years. Greg is deeply passionate about yoga, as a practice, as a philosophy, and as a subject. He has taught yoga all over Ireland, Europe and the USA. He loves providing space for good yoga.
Greg says: I was introduced to yoga in my mid 20’s whilst traveling in Nepal. I didn’t think it would be for me, but in fact I really took to it straight away. I initially practiced Satyananda yoga, but on my return to Dublin I was introduced to Iyengar yoga. Its strong physical challenge, focus on strong body awareness and attention to detail appealed to me immediately. I have studied primarily Iyengar yoga for 20 years, and really appreciate its clear physical focus. I was awarded my Introductory Iyengar Teacher Training Certificate in 2002 after 2 years of intensive teacher training. In March 2016 I received my Intermediate Level 3 Certificate. I have stepped back from using the Iyengar name, as I often teach in a more exploratory and less rigid way than traditional Iyengar yoga is often presented. For me, yoga is not a physical practice, it is an exploratory philosophical and energetic practice which uses the body to access the inner essence. We use yoga to gain control and mastery of our body, we use our body to access the breath, and we use the breath to gain mastery of our thoughts, our mind, our consciousness, our whole being.

Contact Greg: greg@templebaryoga.ie.ie
  • EXPERIENCE
  • Teaching yoga since 1999
  • Certified Iyengar Junior Intermediate Level 3
  • Yoga Alliance Professionals SYT (senior yoga teacher)
  • Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 Certified
  • Yoga Alliance YACEP (Yoga Alliance continuing education provider)
  • Diploma in Anatomy & Physiology
  • Formerly co-owned and co-managed Prana Yoga Centre 2002-2005
  • Owner/Director of Temple Bar Yoga, formerly Samadhi, since 2005
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Greg, yoga teacher and owner of Temple Bar Yoga
yoga teacher Annie Hughes

Annie Hughes

HATHA & VINYASA YOGA TEACHER

Annie Hughes began taking Bikram and Vinyasa-style yoga classes in 2015. After years of running and cycling to stay fit, practicing yoga offered new and exciting challenges, both physically and mentally. Learning about meditation and the power of ritualistic settling down in savasana drew her into deepening her knowledge of yogic philosophy and ethics. As her practice developed, she became increasingly interested in forms of yoga like Iyengar, which focuses on the structural alignment of asanas. After completing the 200 hr YTT at Samadhi, Annie was inspired to share her experiences of the many benefit of yoga with other people. Annie teaches a Hatha class for level 2. The concepts of Hatha yoga take on many different forms – Annie’s class aims to focus on the tradition of beginning with difficult postures with the intention of leading towards a meditative and reflective ending.
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Aoife McEvoy

VINYASA YOGA TEACHER

Aoife started practicing yoga about twenty years ago as a way to access a sense of peace and inner calm whilst also strengthening and improving muscle (and mind!) condition.

She primarily practices Vinyasa and Hatha yoga. Having spent many years dancing, Aoife appreciates the flow and movement of Vinyasa sequences and enjoys how they can provide a more meditative and mindful quality to the poses allowing greater sense of oneness with the practice.

As a graduate of Samadhi yoga teacher training, Aoife is keen to share the practice of yoga with others and create a space where people can come and enjoy a strong, well rounded practice and leave feeling lighter and well stretched.

Aoife is currently on Maternity Leave.

Aoife McEvoy yoga teacher
Cara Chotiner

Cara Chotiner

HATHA, VINYASA, RESTORATIVE & SIVANANDA YOGA TEACHER, SAMADHI TEACHER TRAINER AND YOGA NIDRA SPECIALIST

Cara’s original training was in the Sivananda tradition, which continues to be the main influence in her teaching style today. Additional styles include Vinyasa, Astanga, Iyengar, Satyananda, Ananda & Bikram. All of which have deepened her personal and teaching practices. She has studied pranayama within the Sivananda Yoga tradition and also with Phillip Xerri.
Cara has had the privilege to train with such respected teachers as David Swenson, Granville Cousins, Godfrey Devereux, Danny Paradise & various Iyengar teachers of all levels. She has been teaching yoga since 1997 and is one of the resident instructors for Samadhi Studios Teacher training. Incorporating a varied approach from many yoga schools, Cara brings a challenging yet very therapeutic sequence accessible to all levels in her classes. 
“Atma Namaste to the Samadhi TT team for their unconditional yoga kinship and bringing me into the Samadhi family. Thank you for your fun, friendship & teaching! My practice of meditation and pranayama is from the guidance and instruction of my most beloved Sat Guru Maha Atma GMCKS. I will always be eternally grateful & inspired by his loving direction and dedicate my practice & teaching to his life’s work and priceless service to humanity.”
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Ela Nylec

CALM YOGA TEACHER

My journey with yoga began in 2006 when I was introduced to the profound concept of chakras, Indian philosophy, and the flow of energy within our bodies. Then came along the physical practice and the interest in how quickly my body, posture, and well-being are changing, giving me more energy to be happy. Samadhi was actually the first yoga studio I’ve picked to go to. I loved their individual approach to each student. Around 10 years ago, I wholeheartedly committed myself to the path of yoga.

I finished the YTT in Samadhi, former Temple Bar Yoga ,under the watchful eye of Greg and the rest of my fantastic mentors. 

In my practice, I like to pay attention to synchronizing the posture with breathing, of which we often forget when we exercise. I like to think about it as each inhale and exhale inviting a new pose. 

One of the highlights of  my classes is gentle flow for all levels and the soothing Savasana, where I guide practitioners into a state of deep relaxation, leaving them with a sense of bliss that lingers long after the class ends. I’m excited to share this journey with you and guide you towards a more balanced and harmonious state of being through the practice of yoga.

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Ela Nylec, Calm yoga teacher in Temple Bar Yoga
Ewa Szczupak

Ewa Szczupak

ASHTANGA & VINYASA YOGA TEACHER & SAMADHI TEACHER TRAINER

My yoga journey started back in 2009 and a few years later led me to a teacher training in Temple Bar Yoga Studios, from where I graduated in 2014. The guidance and support of the Teacher Training Faculty has given me confidence to start teaching straightaway, and I was humbly grateful when I was invited to teach asana practice on the teacher training in 2019.

Ashtanga yoga method found me in 2010 by chance in a local yoga room, and I immediately felt at home. At first, I enjoyed the physical intensity of the practice most, but with commitment to the practice came internal strength and clarity and I soon began to experience deep transformation and healing.

I always consider myself a student of yoga first and to deepen my practice I attend Ashtanga workshops in Europe and at home and have practiced with many renowned Ashtanga teachers such as Hamish Hendry, Kino McGregor, David Robson and Mark Robberds. I am truly grateful to have practiced with Sharath Jois during his last four trips to Europe.

 I feel privileged to share my experience of yoga and I am indebted to all my teachers over the years for their guidance, encouragement and inspiration.



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Hilary Fennell

YOGA TEACHER

I discovered yoga when I was struggling with neck pain from a whiplash injury over twenty years ago. I immediately felt the benefits of the practice on my body and, unexpectedly, on my mind. My own experience has taught me that yoga really can do amazing things for the body’s strength and flexibility and for peace of mind. It helps me cope with all the demands of modern day life. 
 
I teach Hatha yoga, suitable for beginners, but all levels are welcome. A class involves a set of physical postures practised more slowly and with more static posture holds than a Vinyasa flow or Ashtanga class. I teach with clarity and a focus on safety and alignment.
 
I invite you to join me and to use my class as an opportunity to connect your mind and your body which, I hope, will help you find some inner stillness.
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Hilary Fennell yoga teacher
yoga teacher Jeanette Keane

Jeanette Jeane

CALM & FLOW YOGA TEACHER

Yoga has been part of my life from as long as I can remember. My yoga practice has been rooted in Ashtanga, and as a former dancer and now teacher, I am passionate about the way we move and release restrictions in the body – all of which informs me as a yoga teacher. I am keen for people to access the inner workings that yoga has to offer through understanding of the yoga postures; moving in and out of them with ease; uniting breath with movement.

I love seeing the impact yoga has on people I teach and practice with; which they may not be expecting or consciously seeking out. Just like every day is different so is every practice.

For me, there is a beautiful, deep, internal working that takes place through the practice of yoga, regardless of flexibility. I see this becomes stronger the more we practice – as the practice becomes richer, the mind becomes quieter, hearing turns to listening, inhales become deeper and exhales become longer.

I’ve studied with many renowned teachers internationally and continue to with a daily practice and more concentrated periods of study in history and philosophy.
I have completed my 200 hr YTT in Ashtanga, 300 hr in Vinyasa in addition to Restorative and Meditation practice, and go back to Toronto to practice regularly with my mentor.

 
I teach Hatha yoga, suitable for beginners, but all levels are welcome. A class involves a set of physical postures practised more slowly and with more static posture holds than a Vinyasa flow or Ashtanga class. I teach with clarity and a focus on safety and alignment.
 
I invite you to join me and to use my class as an opportunity to connect your mind and your body which, I hope, will help you find some inner stillness.
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Lauren Godfrey

FLOW YOGA TEACHER

Info to follow…
 
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Patanjali statue in temple bar yoga studio, Dublin
Maria Caldwell

Maria Caldwell

FLOW, ASHTANGA & VINYASA YOGA TEACHER, PRANAYAMA EXPERT & SAMADHI TEACHER TRAINER

 

I’ve been practicing yoga for 15 years, and I continue to enjoy being a student and exploring my practise of yoga asana, pranayma and meditation on a daily basis.
I primarily practice Ashtanga Yoga, and I teach this style to beginners, introducing them to this powerful method. I also teach dynamic vinyasa yoga, yoga for sports, and gentle yoga. For me yoga is a fundamental part of my life and lifestyle – its is a tool for helping me to live life in a better way with more awareness of the world around me. Gratitude to my teacher Paul Dallaghan for his continuing guidance, and all those teachers whom I have been fortunate to learn from and meet both in the yoga world and elsewhere.

 

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Maya Fields

FLOW, AND STILLNESS YOGA TEACHER

Maya became a certified yoga teacher in 2017 with Trimurti Yoga in a multistyle (hatha, vinyasa, ashtanga) 200hour YTTC in Dharamsala, India, and completed her 100hour yin yoga teacher training in the summer of 2021. Growing up between Denmark and California with a yoga teaching mother, Maya has been a yoga practitioner since birth, but it was in the process of healing after injury that yoga became her own personal refuge, and she now enjoys sharing yoga as an accessible practice to students of all shapes, sizes, ages, and mobilities. “When I teach, I pay special attention to practicing safely with good anatomical alignment, and moving with breath. I believe that yoga is not about a certain body-type or lifestyle, everyone can practice yoga. So in my classes, I aim to create a safe space to reconnect with body, mind, spirit, and perhaps even invite in a little bit of joy, humour, and bodily appreciation.”
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Maya Fields, yoga teacher
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Melanie Taylor

SENIOR IYENGAR YOGA TEACHER & ALIGN YOGA TEACHER

Melanie began practising Yoga in London, and after moving to Dublin in 1996, started her training in Iyengar Yoga with Aisling Guirke & Elizabeth Connolly.
Since then she continues to attend workshops and trainings with many senior Iyengar teachers in Ireland and the UK, including the Iyengar Yoga Association’s 2009 Convention in London with Dr. Geeta Iyengar. She holds a Senior Intermediate Level I Teaching Certificate and has been teaching Iyengar Yoga in Adult Education.
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Paul Donnelly

CALM, FLOW & ALIGN YOGA TEACHER

Inhale! Exhale! And Breathe…..

I was the cynical yogi only turning up for class as a favour to a friend who just had a baby and needed to get out of the house for 90mins and have it to herself. I couldn’t tell my left from my right and declared I wanted to stand on my head as I entered the studio.

Well nearly 12 years later, friends moved on, tutors and studios changed but the one constant in my life became Yoga. From Vinyasa Flow to Ashtanga sequences, once weekly classes to everyday self-practice, yoga is now a companion in my daily routine centring me and grounding my anxieties making them manageable. Out of this, confidence grew so much that I took the plunge to change direction from a stressful and hectic career path to become a teacher, right here at Samadhi.

Guided selflessly by my teachers over the years, each like yoga let me become my true self, encouraging my awkwardness and humour to become strengths, helping me progress more in my understanding and appreciation for the lineage of yoga – so much so that my new best friend is Pranayama. To All, I am so grateful for that direction.

If I am not on the mat, you will find me in the nearest sea, open water swimming, and like yoga its meditative and repetitive calming brings me deeper inwards, in understanding and practice.

And yes… I can now stand on my head!

Ekam sat, viprahā bahudha vadanti

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yoga teacher Paul Donnelly
Sharon Brady

Sharon Brady

CHAIR, FLOW & THRIVE YOGA TEACHER

I began practising yoga about 15 years ago when a friend asked me to go along to a class. Little did I know then that I would grow to love it so much and go on to become a teacher! Initially my yoga practice was purely about exercise and keeping fit. Over the past few years, and particularly since I began training to become a teacher, I realise that there is more to yoga that making nice shapes. For me my mat is a place of total calm where I have learnt a lot about myself and become stronger physically and mentally. Connecting the body and breath brings a sense of inner stillness which is invaluable in the hectic world in which we live. While Ashtanga yoga is my first yoga love, I have developed a real connection with the flow of Vinyasa yoga which I feel is like a dance between your body and breath.
I am committed to yoga being for everyone, regardless of age, fitness or flexibility. For me, what’s most important about yoga practice is what you as an individual get out of it and how it makes you feel, learning to listen to your own body, mind and spirit. I am also fascinated by anatomy and how the body works – such a truly incredible machine which we can only too often take for granted!
 
On my yoga journey I have met some fantastic people, teachers and students, who have taught me so much and to whom I am eternally grateful. I am particularly thankful that I walked into Maria Caldwell’s class a good number of years ago and for her encouragement to give teaching a go. I try to bring what I have learnt from all these wonderful people to my own practice and teaching. I believe that it is important to bring a sense of fun and curiosity to everything we do in life and I hope that I bring this to my practice and teaching too.
 
I look forward to seeing you on a mat soon!
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