>>How does this colour your Retreats? I only pick the best of yoga and meditation teachers and try to find teachers who are living the life of yoga, rather than just teaching yoga classes. We have bee

>>What is the reality of running a retreat centre? Impossible to describe 😉 Mountains and mountains of work. Swami Nishchalananda has described my own path as that of a karma yogi. Putting in huge amo

>>Can yoga play a role in mental health I believe that yoga and meditation are the most inspirational practices that I have ever come across. The full range of practices have a huge effect on one’s ph

>>How do you see yoga today? I think that some of today’s yoga classes have deteriorated into mainly fitness classes, or at least primarily a physical focus of the practice, without much reference or

>>Who/what are your yoga influences. As mentioned above, I have huge respect and gratitude towards Shraddhamurti and Chetanmurti who started me off with Satyananda yoga, honouring the age old traditio

>>You mentioned that it is important to ‘practice yoga on your own’. What do you mean by that? I believe that it is very important to go to yoga classes with a very experienced yoga teacher who has im

>>What has yoga got to do with meditation? Yoga is over 5,000 years old. 1,000 years ago there were only 6 yoga postures. And each of these was a crossed legged sitting posture. The implications of th

>>Describe your yoga journey. In 1978 at the ripe age of 19 one of my lecturers in college spoke about meditation, and I was fascinated. A few weeks later I signed up for a Transcendental Meditation c

Spring 2017 Win a Free Yoga Weekend   The Winner of the competition is Naoise Kelly from Dublin. Congratulations! You will receive a voucher for €320 which you may use anytime before August 2018.

Summer 2016 Win a Free Yoga Weekend   Congratulations to Siobhan Clancy The draw took place on Friday 9th September 2016, and the lucky winner is Siobhan Clancy who wins the voucher for 300 Euros

Win a Free Yoga Weekend at Burren Yoga and Meditation Centre   The draw for the competition took place on Monday 15th February 2016. The winner is Ronah Corcoran from Galway. Congratulations Rona

Karma Yoga at Burren Yoga Centre For anybody who is completely new to Karma Yoga, this post explains some of the background where it comes from, and also some tips when experimenting with it for the f

Win a Free Yoga Weekend at Burren Yoga and Meditation Centre   This competition is now closed and the winner is June Carmody Congratulations to the winner of the Free Competition June Carmody. Yo

Weekly Yoga classes Details of classes: Top Menu option “Other”, and then “Weekly Classes” We run weekly yoga classes for local people from 8th September 2014 until end of May

Sustainable Transport The Burren Yoga and Meditation Centre encourage you to consider Sustainable Travel in order to make your way to the centre, and we also use car sharing on all our guided outings.