Paola Catizone

Paola has been teaching Yoga, Meditation and body awareness for over twenty years. She began teaching in the late Eighties in Spain, with the local Yoga Association (GFU) in Gran Canaria.She then came tor Ireland where she trained with the Irish Yoga Association in Dublin. She attended their Teacher Training Course between 1987-1990, and completed the course successfully.

She moved on to become one of the two tutors on the IYA teacherr Training Course, and she tutored there for the following six years. She also started running her own Yoga classes which included four years ofrnteaching in Portlaoise Prison, running courses for addiction clinics inr Dublin (Soilse), teaching in schools, (RMDS) and in a variety of other settings.

During that time she trained in Counselling and NLP with IICH inr Milltown Park Institute, in Dublin, qualifying as a Counsellor. She attended and completed a two-year Training course for Yoga teachers, ‘Yoga of the Heart’ with Jenny Beeken.

She attended meditation courses with the Dublin Meditation Center for several years, studying Buddhist meditation and philosophy and developing meditation-teaching skills. She became interested in Dance training, attending dance courses for nine years.

She developed a one to one practice, which combined body awareness, meditation, counselling and creativity.

She ran her own training courses (Deepening the practice), which were accredited by the IYA. She also started practicing as a painter, and showing her work in Dublin.

Trained in Dance with Kalichi from 1997 to 2005

In 2000 she moved from Dublin to Dundalk, where she started teaching yoga at the imperial Hotel, with the VEC, in secondary schools, (St. Louis) and with FETAC as well as in DKIT. She combined her teaching practice with her art, which she continues to exhibit regularly, and with the caring and bringing up of her three children. She has just finished facilitating two Yoga courses for women\’s groups for the WAND project, run by the Dundalk Rape Crisis Center , she isrnteaching a follow up course with those groups following participant’srnrequest. She is currently teaching her own gentle brand of Yoga , Movement and Relaxation in several venues in Dublin, which include community work and classes for special needs students. (See classes and events) Her facilitating style focuses on self-awareness and self-compassion. She emphasizes the importance of slowing down, clearing physical and mental space to listen to the body at a deep level. She incorporates elements of Somatics, Alexander technique, Feldenkrais method, Dance and Focusing in her teaching.

Attended one year course in body mind centering and Authentic Movement with Joan Davies in Gorse Hill Center in 2007

Taught in secondary schools (Alexandra College) Workplace (Nationalr Treasury and ran own courses (Olive tree Centre) in Dublin between 2007rnand 2009

Running courses in Rathmines College, Dublin.