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Contact Me (Maeve)

Phone: +353 (0) 87 367 9132

Email: ebbflowyogaireland@gmail.com

About Maeve (Owner)

Hi! I’m Maeve founder of Ebb & Flow. Education & mastery are hugely important to me, I’m passionate and dedicated to learning as a life-long student. Have a peek through my educational achievements below to see what I mean!

Ebb & Flow has grown and evolved over the years, from being a friendly yoga community, to soulful, nature inspired wellbeing workshops and events. I began Ebb & Flow with a passion for Yoga, that opened up the door to a wide array of holistic health and self-care practices for me. I explored many other styles of yoga and also holistice wellbeing practices and went to study a Diploma in Yoga Therapy (adapting Yoga for health conditions, ailments & injuries), Pilates, Qi Gong, Forest Bathing etc.

Special areas of expertise & interest:

  • I specialise in helping people with stress & anxiety, back & neck injuries, arthritis and older-age mobility and stroke recovery support

  • I am one of only 14 Yoga for Healthy Backs Teachers in the Rep of Ireland. Certified to offer a specialised evidence based proven effective 12 wk programme to back pain sufferers

  • Corporate & organisational wellbeing - with my background and previous career history, I am very well placed to support employee wellbeing strategies

My Story

I was once a very stressed, overwhelmed, no time for myself, desk bound, unhappy woman. Feeling burnt-out, exhausted, suffering from back pain and feeling a little disillusioned with where I was in my life. Around that time I found yoga - a style of power yoga called Fierce Grace. I got started originally for fitness, as I was a reluctant runner looking for an alternative and wanted to lose weight, to feel better in my skin. My busy job was stressful, with a ridiculous commute and badly needed the ‘down-time’. I initially got hooked on the physical benefits I felt from yoga, but I began to find myself more and more drawn in by the mental balance I came enjoy from regular practice and it blossomed from there. Back in early 2017, I made the leap, leaving Dublin and the corporate working world behind to move home to Tralee, Co. Kerry. Back to my beloved beach (Banna!) to teach Yoga & Pilates full-time and it's been an amazing experience! I’ve also made it a goal to offer innovate, creative workshops & events to our growing Ebb & Flow Community.

Over the years, Ebb & Flow has grown and evolved and I offer regular pop-up workshops, events and retreats - usually weaving in the elements of nature, life, community and self-care. To see what’s on offer this season, visit the events section of my website here

My other passion in life, is writing - I love poetry, writing nonfiction, journaling - anything that involves pen and paper! When I’m not working or writing, I can be found cooking, thinking about food and walking my dogs on the beach, surfing my longboard (badly!) or getting lost in the woods. I also create receipes and write blogs for the sheer joy of creativity. And I’m an eternal student - of yoga, photography, writing - I’m forever doing a course!

Pre- Ebb & Flow Qualifications:

  • Diploma in Career Coaching – Dublin Institute of Technology (2012)

  • Advanced Certificate in Learning & Development – CIPD (2011)

  • Irish Business Employer’s Confederation (IBEC) Certificate in Industrial Relations (2009)

  • Masters in Human Resource Management – UCD Smurfit School of Business (2008)

  • Bachelor of Social Science – University College Cork (2002)

Health & Wellbeing Qualifications:

  • Diploma in Yoga Therapy with Yoga Therapy Ireland

  • 200 HR Vinyasa Flow with Init Yoga, Dublin

  • Pilates Mat 1 & 2 Teacher with Pilates Teacher Training Ireland

  • Fitness Instructor

  • 90 HR Yin Yoga, Mindfulness & Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory with Josh Summers

  • Qi Gong for Yoga Teachers & Qi Gong Teacher Immersions with Mimi Kuo-Deemar

  • Certified Prenatal Yoga Teacher with Yoga Therapy Ireland

  • Postnatal Pilates with Pilates Teacher Training Ireland

  • Bone Health CPD with Pilates Teacher Training Ireland

  • Certified 40 HR Aerial Yoga Teacher

  • Forest Bathing Guide

  • Yoga Detour Informed Teacher

  • Certified Functional Range Conditioning Specialist (FRCms)

  • Sports Yoga Training with Sarah Ramsden (Yoga Teacher for Man Utd & Man City Football Clubs)

  • Animal Flow Level 1 Training

  • CPD Modules & Master classes with Noah Maze, 90 Monkeys Amy Ippoliti, Bryan Kest Power Yoga, Ana Forrest, Cecily Milne, Kathryn Budig and more