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Greg Walsh

YOGA TEACHER AND OWNER/DIRECTOR OF TEMPLE BAR YOGA

Greg Walsh Has been teaching yoga since 1999… before some of his students were born! He set up Samadhi in 2005, which became Temple Bar Yoga in 2023, having run Prana Yoga Centre for 3 years. Greg is deeply passionate about yoga, as a practice, as a philosophy, and as a subject. He has taught yoga all over Ireland, Europe and the USA. He loves providing space for good yoga.
Greg says: I was introduced to yoga in my mid 20’s whilst traveling in Nepal. I didn’t think it would be for me, but in fact I really took to it straight away. I initially practiced Satyananda yoga, but on my return to Dublin I was introduced to Iyengar yoga. Its strong physical challenge, focus on strong body awareness and attention to detail appealed to me immediately. I have studied primarily Iyengar yoga for 20 years, and really appreciate its clear physical focus. I was awarded my Introductory Iyengar Teacher Training Certificate in 2002 after 2 years of intensive teacher training. In March 2016 I received my Intermediate Level 3 Certificate. I have stepped back from using the Iyengar name, as I often teach in a more exploratory and less rigid way than traditional Iyengar yoga is often presented. For me, yoga is not a physical practice, it is an exploratory philosophical and energetic practice which uses the body to access the inner essence. We use yoga to gain control and mastery of our body, we use our body to access the breath, and we use the breath to gain mastery of our thoughts, our mind, our consciousness, our whole being.

Contact Greg: greg@templebaryoga.ie.ie
  • EXPERIENCE
  • Teaching yoga since 1999
  • Certified Iyengar Junior Intermediate Level 3
  • Yoga Alliance Professionals SYT (senior yoga teacher)
  • Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 Certified
  • Yoga Alliance YACEP (Yoga Alliance continuing education provider)
  • Diploma in Anatomy & Physiology
  • Formerly co-owned and co-managed Prana Yoga Centre 2002-2005
  • Owner/Director of Temple Bar Yoga, formerly Samadhi, since 2005
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Greg, yoga teacher and owner of Temple Bar Yoga
Cara Chotiner

Cara Chotiner

HATHA, VINYASA, RESTORATIVE & SIVANANDA YOGA TEACHER, SAMADHI TEACHER TRAINER AND YOGA NIDRA SPECIALIST

Cara’s original training was in the Sivananda tradition, which continues to be the main influence in her teaching style today. Additional styles include Vinyasa, Astanga, Iyengar, Satyananda, Ananda & Bikram. All of which have deepened her personal and teaching practices. She has studied pranayama within the Sivananda Yoga tradition and also with Phillip Xerri.
Cara has had the privilege to train with such respected teachers as David Swenson, Granville Cousins, Godfrey Devereux, Danny Paradise & various Iyengar teachers of all levels. She has been teaching yoga since 1997 and is one of the resident instructors for Samadhi Studios Teacher training. Incorporating a varied approach from many yoga schools, Cara brings a challenging yet very therapeutic sequence accessible to all levels in her classes. 
“Atma Namaste to the Samadhi TT team for their unconditional yoga kinship and bringing me into the Samadhi family. Thank you for your fun, friendship & teaching! My practice of meditation and pranayama is from the guidance and instruction of my most beloved Sat Guru Maha Atma GMCKS. I will always be eternally grateful & inspired by his loving direction and dedicate my practice & teaching to his life’s work and priceless service to humanity.”
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Cris Fuentes

FLOW YOGA TEACHER

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I’m an Ashtanga and Hatha yoga teacher and, above all, a perpetual student and practitioner. I’ve always been curious — always drawn to learning, exploring new ideas, and understanding the world from different angles. That curiosity is what led me to yoga, its philosophy and its way of living. I stepped onto the mat over 11 years ago alongside two of my closest friends. What started as a new hobby became a lifelong path of self-discovery.

Before yoga, I was a world-class overthinker. My mind was always five steps ahead — planning, analysing, trying to control every possible outcome. Yoga was already part of my life by then, but it was during lockdown that my practice really took hold. With more time to slow down and reflect, I read everything I could on Buddhism, mindfulness, philosophy, and how the mind works. What I found there changed how I approach both yoga and life.

Today, yoga is far more than a physical practice for me. It shapes how I live, how I relate to people, and how I approach every new project. My classes are thoughtful, balanced, and built to offer more than movement alone. I draw on the discipline of Ashtanga, the foundations of Hatha, and the precision of alignment-based practice to create accessible, meaningful sessions where students can explore, reflect, challenge themselves, and enjoy the process. I believe a class can be a space where people reconnect with themselves and leave feeling lighter than when they arrived. Everyone is welcome, everyone is supported, and nobody is judged.

Cris Fuentes
Ewa Szczupak

Ewa Szczupak

ASHTANGA & VINYASA YOGA TEACHER & SAMADHI TEACHER TRAINER

My yoga journey started back in 2009 and a few years later led me to a teacher training in Temple Bar Yoga Studios, from where I graduated in 2014. The guidance and support of the Teacher Training Faculty has given me confidence to start teaching straightaway, and I was humbly grateful when I was invited to teach asana practice on the teacher training in 2019.

Ashtanga yoga method found me in 2010 by chance in a local yoga room, and I immediately felt at home. At first, I enjoyed the physical intensity of the practice most, but with commitment to the practice came internal strength and clarity and I soon began to experience deep transformation and healing.

I always consider myself a student of yoga first and to deepen my practice I attend Ashtanga workshops in Europe and at home and have practiced with many renowned Ashtanga teachers such as Hamish Hendry, Kino McGregor, David Robson and Mark Robberds. I am truly grateful to have practiced with Sharath Jois during his last four trips to Europe.

 I feel privileged to share my experience of yoga and I am indebted to all my teachers over the years for their guidance, encouragement and inspiration.



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Jorie Lagerwey

YOGA TEACHER

My yoga journey started in LA in 2003 when a boy I liked asked me to come to class with him. I started attending 3 or 4 days a week and never stopped. For years, my practice was primarily vinyasa flow. During covid, however, I started working almost daily with Greg at TBY and shifted my focus to yoga based on precise alignment, long holds, and building physical strength. I found I relished the level of body awareness and precise attention to detail that this style of practice required. It brought with it an intense mental focus that built calm, resilience, and mental strength. 

I completed my teacher training in 2025 in TBY with the incomparable Greg, Ewa, and Cara, and I was delighted to be invited to join the teaching team in 2026. My classes follow the alignment-based style I’ve come to over the past several years. My yoga teaching builds on my day job as a university lecturer, and I work to make all my classrooms relaxed and welcoming spaces where we work hard together, ask and answer questions, and finish a class feeling better than when we started. And if sometimes people call me mini-Greg, I am only honored by the comparison.

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Yoga teacher Jorie Lagerwey
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Melanie Taylor

SENIOR IYENGAR YOGA TEACHER & ALIGN YOGA TEACHER

Melanie began practising Yoga in London, and after moving to Dublin in 1996, started her training in Iyengar Yoga with Aisling Guirke & Elizabeth Connolly.
Since then she continues to attend workshops and trainings with many senior Iyengar teachers in Ireland and the UK, including the Iyengar Yoga Association’s 2009 Convention in London with Dr. Geeta Iyengar. She holds a Senior Intermediate Level I Teaching Certificate and has been teaching Iyengar Yoga in Adult Education.
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Noam Maoz

FLOW & STRENGTH YOGA TEACHER

I have been teaching for a couple of years after completing my teacher training in TBY in 2024. I bring the same focus to my classes that I love in my own practice: physical, precise, and grounded in good alignment. 

My practice is a physical one, and unashamedly so. I love yoga that asks something of the body — building real strength, working with weights, and paying close attention to alignment in every pose. And at the heart of it: core, core, core. A strong, switched-on center makes every other movement safer and more powerful, and it’s the thread running through all my classes. Expect to work hard and leave stronger.

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Patanjali statue in temple bar yoga studio, Dublin
yoga teacher Paul Donnelly

Paul Donnelly

CALM, FLOW & ALIGN YOGA TEACHER

Inhale! Exhale! And Breathe…..

I was the cynical yogi only turning up for class as a favour to a friend who just had a baby and needed to get out of the house for 90mins and have it to herself. I couldn’t tell my left from my right and declared I wanted to stand on my head as I entered the studio.

Well nearly 12 years later, friends moved on, tutors and studios changed but the one constant in my life became Yoga. From Vinyasa Flow to Ashtanga sequences, once weekly classes to everyday self-practice, yoga is now a companion in my daily routine centring me and grounding my anxieties making them manageable. Out of this, confidence grew so much that I took the plunge to change direction from a stressful and hectic career path to become a teacher, right here at Samadhi.

Guided selflessly by my teachers over the years, each like yoga let me become my true self, encouraging my awkwardness and humour to become strengths, helping me progress more in my understanding and appreciation for the lineage of yoga – so much so that my new best friend is Pranayama. To All, I am so grateful for that direction.

If I am not on the mat, you will find me in the nearest sea, open water swimming, and like yoga its meditative and repetitive calming brings me deeper inwards, in understanding and practice.

And yes… I can now stand on my head!

Ekam sat, viprahā bahudha vadanti

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Sharon Brady

CHAIR, FLOW & THRIVE YOGA TEACHER

I began practising yoga about 15 years ago when a friend asked me to go along to a class. Little did I know then that I would grow to love it so much and go on to become a teacher! Initially my yoga practice was purely about exercise and keeping fit. Over the past few years, and particularly since I began training to become a teacher, I realise that there is more to yoga that making nice shapes. For me my mat is a place of total calm where I have learnt a lot about myself and become stronger physically and mentally. Connecting the body and breath brings a sense of inner stillness which is invaluable in the hectic world in which we live. While Ashtanga yoga is my first yoga love, I have developed a real connection with the flow of Vinyasa yoga which I feel is like a dance between your body and breath.
I am committed to yoga being for everyone, regardless of age, fitness or flexibility. For me, what’s most important about yoga practice is what you as an individual get out of it and how it makes you feel, learning to listen to your own body, mind and spirit. I am also fascinated by anatomy and how the body works – such a truly incredible machine which we can only too often take for granted!
 
On my yoga journey I have met some fantastic people, teachers and students, who have taught me so much and to whom I am eternally grateful. I am particularly thankful that I walked into Maria Caldwell’s class a good number of years ago and for her encouragement to give teaching a go. I try to bring what I have learnt from all these wonderful people to my own practice and teaching. I believe that it is important to bring a sense of fun and curiosity to everything we do in life and I hope that I bring this to my practice and teaching too.
 
I look forward to seeing you on a mat soon!
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Sharon Brady