Meditation & Yoga

Workshop Title: Movement for Health Bios:

Younis Fakhfakh lives in Ireland, and has studied martial arts, body awareness, Amatsu and Japanese healing systems since 2002. He has taken the best from many oriental healing traditions and masters, bringing them to Ireland, where he practices and facilitates. He is the only Cheng Hsin facilitator and teacher in Ireland. Connection with the body's intelligence is at the heart of its movement, but on a practical level, it increases our body’s intrinsic strength. He incorporates the best techniques from both martial arts and Amatsu. The result is that movement becomes more fluid, relaxed, graceful, and completely integrated.

Saralee Cassidy has been practicing and teaching Seiki-soho (Japanese breathing awareness) through yearly events and gatherings.  She has ongoing connections with the international Seiki community, and wishes to bring Japan to Ireland. She says, ‘Japanese healing has the power to re-connect Ireland to its authentic natural wisdom, connection to nature, life and breath.' She is one of two Seiki practitioners in Ireland and has an MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her work focuses on somato emotional release, physical therapies that create emotional and mental release from the body.

Workshop Blurb : Both therapists have come together to create a fusion of movement therapy for health combining Tai Chi, Chi Gong, Seiki and Body-Being. Such findings release personal restrictions and produce real feelings of well being, bringing the mind into a deeper presence

Both have over 30 years experience between them.

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Workshop Title: Movement for Health Bios:

Younis Fakhfakh lives in Ireland, and has studied martial arts, body awareness, Amatsu and Japanese healing systems since 2002. He has taken the best from many oriental healing traditions and masters, bringing them to Ireland, where he practices and facilitates. He is the only Cheng Hsin facilitator and teacher in Ireland. Connection with the body's intelligence is at the heart of its movement, but on a practical level, it increases our body’s intrinsic strength. He incorporates the best techniques from both martial arts and Amatsu. The result is that movement becomes more fluid, relaxed, graceful, and completely integrated.

Saralee Cassidy has been practicing and teaching Seiki-soho (Japanese breathing awareness) through yearly events and gatherings.  She has ongoing connections with the international Seiki community, and wishes to bring Japan to Ireland. She says, ‘Japanese healing has the power to re-connect Ireland to its authentic natural wisdom, connection to nature, life and breath.' She is one of two Seiki practioners in Ireland and has an MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her work focuses on somato emotional release, physical therapies that create emotional and mental release from the body.

Workshop Blurb : Both therapists have come together to create a fusion of movement therapy for health combining Tai Chi, Chi Gong, Seiki and Body-Being. Such findings release personal restrictions and produce real feelings of well being, bringing the mind into a deeper presence

Both have over 30 years experience between them.

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During the Autumn season we use our corresponding lung body to move with the rhythm of the breath. When we use the body and all our sensual capacities we move toward regeneration, transformation and reformation. This workshop will be an invitation to move rhythmically to attune to your inner call of life. This class is open to all and everyone. Bring a mat, a blanket or 2. It’s a good idea to wear loose comfortable clothing.

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Hello I am Chris based in Dublin. I can’t wait to meet you on the mat at The inaugural Lisnavagh Festival on October 15th & 16th. Come along to move your body in a fun and playful manner. You don’t need any yoga experience just come as you are and prepare for a carefully guided morning of movement.

What is Yoga? - Yoga is a spiritual and physical journey, one that never ends. The history of Yoga is a history of the World, no matter how we come to Yoga we are met with compassion, guidance on how to live a true life and acceptance of our true selves. Yoga is a tool to use through life’s journey rather than a fix it all pill. 3 elements that inform my yoga teaching are – Yoga history & Philosophy, Nature and Creative Living. Nature, how we inhabit this world, how we show up. This involves the relationship to ourselves, to all human & sentient beings & to Mother earth herself. Creative living expressed through the food we eat, embracing the ever seeking & curious mind, going for a dip in the sea no matter how cold, digging your hands in the ground, smiling at the sun and making time for music and dance. I teach public classes in studios but outdoors is where I’m most at home, workshops, retreats & in office yoga.A bit about me - After studying Social Science in the London School of Economics I knew I wanted a career that involved seeking to understand our united and communal role on this earth. I trained in the Yoga Room, Dublin with Ciara Cronin, studied with Doug Keller, have been shaped & influenced by practicing with the wonderful Lou Horgan’s female centric yoga. Summers have been spent practicing with Sol Viegas enjoying the Iyengar lineage. Each class with me is intelligent, fun, functional, but most of all, authentic.

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A bit about Lisa

Lisa is a senior Movement & Mediation teacher with 15 years’ experience of teaching. She has been resident teacher here at Lisnavagh for six years and teaches retreats and workshops several times per year both at home and abroad.  From a young age she studied contemporary ballet and jazz and returned to movement & meditation studies in her late twenties, attending several accredited  programmes in Ireland and the UK,  gaining qualification up to diploma level.  

Lisa says, " I enjoy facilitating exploration into the felt sense of our inner landscape using asana, stillness and free movement. As a student of the Tantric and Buddhist schools of philosophy, I employ techniques that assist in the skillful mastery of an invisible art form that permits us to know ourselves as both the Wave that navigates the Ocean and the Ocean itself in which we abide. This eternal dance that goes on either with or without conscious presence until the end, is the most worthy subject to inform a life time of practice and enquiry enabling us to live with each passing year in a state of greater joy and contentment

Instagram: Lisa Quish Yoga ‘A Place to Be’

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High Vibrational Yoga flow with beats rhythms and mantras weaved thru the session as I teach the  body wisdom and lead the group… the essence is Bhakti Fluid Flows of asana and grooves to awesome sounds of mantras @yogasacredspace

I have been a yogi most of my life… it began in the womb for me with many spiritual awakenings from a young age. My first physical class was at age 14 .

Later on I went into an Ashram ( a spiritual school) in Nasik in Northern India to train in the deep tradition of yoga. Since then I have been on the path consistently and constantly absorbed in the deep wisdom of Yoga .

I opened the second school of yoga in Ireland 2005 and have had the honour of training many students of yoga with my foundational course from this most beautiful studio in Wicklow.

Although I let the studio go during 2020, as it was time. I have expanded globally through the power of technology and get to teach from my home studio and as a guest in Dublin studios .

It is my joy my passion and feel I am deeply immersed in this lifestyle that yoga offers and help others to vibrate higher through the tools of yoga. I feel I am a seed planter, I help to sow the seeds in the garden of the heart, mind and body so then the blooming is witnessed by the students as they master the practices themselves and experience becoming free from within.

Pam's Bio

Yoga drew me in from the start, and gradually became an established practice. Eventually, it felt obvious that it was time to share what I knew of this rich, holistic practice.

Yoga has been transformative. It opened a new way of being. It was challenging in a way I’d never experienced, and my limitations were not an obstacle but simply part of the process, part of who I was on that day. There was no competition, a novel idea for me as a competitive skater and basketball player. The main instruction from my wonderful and highly skilled teacher, Sravanya, seemed to be: “Breeeeaathe!”

Over time, my enjoyment and practice evolved until the next step became clear: I wanted to share this ancient internal art. Eight years after I came upon yoga, I trained to teach hatha yoga.

Soon after I started teaching, I was introduced to Shadow yoga. It was as if an important question, one I hadn’t even formed yet, had been answered. I had understood intellectually that yoga is an internal art; Shadow yoga helped me feel it. The skilful application of simple, effective techniques combining breath, bandhas and mental focus pulled me inwards like never before.

Shadow yoga became my personal practice but it was another 15 years before I took the next step: Training to teach this hatha yoga form. I am grateful for the expert guidance of Karen Watson (islingtonyoga.com) and for the rigorous training sessions with Sundernath and Emma Balnaves (shadowyoga.com). I now teach introductory Shadow style hatha yoga and the first Prelude forms, and welcome beginners and improvers to learn this unique expression of a deeply traditional yoga practice.

Pam will be in conversation with Sheana Keane on Sunday 16 October in the Lisnavagh Library on the subject of YOGA PHILOSOPHY and why we practice it. 

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