Inclusive Yoga Classes at Mandala Yoga Emporium

Sharon has been a practicing yogini since her early 20's (over 30 years ago) when she first attended Iyengar classes in Bristol, UK. She then moved to Portugal for several years, where her practice evolved into a deeper connection with the ethical principles of the yoga path. This journey led her to embrace heart centred yoga, learning to move respectfully, responsively, and intuitively in relation to nature, alongside the rhythms of the land, rivers, mountains, and sky.  

The freedom to express and to move through the ebb and flow of time, outside of the constraints of the urban industrial machine, has informed her approach to sustainable yoga.  

In 1996, she moved to Ireland, which took her deep into the rural Irish landscape of magic and myth, immersing herself in the dharma of living and embodying the path of Organic Principles.  

'I live on a 4-acre Organic Smallholding with a family of humans, animals, insects, and wild nature that both inspire and challenge in equal parts.'  

Sharon is a certified and insured yoga instructor with over 1,000 hours of training and 14,000+ teaching hours accumulated over a 24-year teaching career. She is passionate about offering yoga for women that feels inclusive, ensuring that any woman who comes to her class feels seen, valued, and accepted for where they are in their journey.  

There are no difficult or extreme postures in her classes, only a deep respect and honouring of the right to self-agency and autonomy within practice. Her approach includes mindful movement, meditation movement, embodied movement, movement as medicine.  

Exploring the interrelated connections between the yoga path and her instinctive love and intuitive appreciation of nature has led her to create some of the products and services offered.  

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