Niamh has been teaching Hatha Yoga since 2004. She is an RYT with Yoga Alliance and a registered Senior Teacher and Teacher Trainer with YAP. She holds an Advanced Diploma in Nutrition Coaching, is a Pilates Mat I&II teacher and a Somatic Education Coach.
She is an expert in the field of menopause, sought after worldwide by teachers and women seeking balanced, evidence-based training, information and/or support. Her book “Yoga for Menopause and Beyond” will be published in early 2024.
She teaches men and women of all ages, and specialises in Yoga for Menopause, and trains Yoga teachers around the world how to adapt Yoga to support women in this phase of life.
She created Certificate in Teaching Yoga for the Stages of Menopause in 2020, at the time it was one of just 2 courses of its kind in the world.
She also runs accredited menopause CPD courses for exercise and nutrition professionals, psychotherapists and counsellors.
After qualifying as a yoga teacher, she completed a mentorship with Marlene Ffrench Mullen, and has continued to study and professionally develop with Donna Farhi, renowned Clinical Anatomist & facia expert John Sharkey, Integral Anatomist Gil Hedley, Sarah Lo, the Irish Institute of Nutrition & Health, Sarah Church (Pilates training), Lisa Petersen (Somatics training), Rebekah Rotstein (Buff Bones training) and others.
She has trained in Hatha Yoga, and studied and/or practiced most of the variations of Yoga from its most traditional roots in India, to new approaches and hybrids. Responding to what Yoga has become in the west, and the prevalence of injury in the quest for linear “improvement”, her own style of teaching is an offering to students of her knowledge, but with an invitation to take what speaks to them and make it their own, and to let go of that which doesn’t sit well with them.
She teaches YTTs, classes and retreats, and also supports women one-to-one through yoga, exercise and nutrition.