Paola Catizone IYA (Yoga), IICH (Counselling, Hypnotherapy and NLP), Yoga of the Heart, Community Art Cert, Bodymind centering

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Paola Catizone Quick Facts

Main Areas: Yoga, Movement, Somatics, Feldankris, Dance, Specialized and Disability Teaching, NLP, Art facilitation, Counselling, Teacher Training
Career Focus: Teacher, Facilitator
Affiliation: VEC, IMMA, Walkinstown Association

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 to
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 teacher
Training Course, and she tutored there for the following six years. She
also started running her own Yoga classes which included four years of
teaching in Portlaoise Prison, running courses for addiction clinics in
Dublin (Soilse), teaching in schools, (RMDS) and in a variety of other
settings.

During that time she trained in Counselling and NLP with IICH in
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 is
teaching a follow up course with those groups following participant’s
request. 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 (National
Treasury and ran own courses (Olive tree Centre) in Dublin between 2007
and 2009

Running courses in Rathmines College, Dublin.

Other Programs & Highlights

Somatic Yoga and Movement Mornings

Two sessions of Somatic Yoga and Movement will take place at the Olive Tree Centre in Grantham st on the 1st of March and and the 26th of April from 10.30 am to 1.30pm. These will offer healing, recuperative and strengthening practices to suit all levels . To book/enquire, contact the Olive tree or email me directly.

Click here to download the poster (PDF)

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Paola Catizone

The way through this world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it

-Wallace Stevens from Answer to Papini.

Yoga was born in India, its chronological origins lost in the mists of time, given the popularity that Yoga enjoys these days most of us know that much. What we don't know is that Yoga is not just an Indian practice. When at ease and at our best we are all practising Yoga.

Enlightenment, say the Yogis, is a psychophysical experience, one of union and not split of mind and body. The word yoga in fact translates as Union. The core of Yoga practice is slowing down and focusing our attention in a relaxed way, on a simple experiential object of concentration, like breath. In our stressed out, hyper stimulated, worried and distracted culture it can be hard to find space and time to relax. The whole culture seems to be designed to ensure we don't.

The popular culture provides a wealth of constant distractions which together with the general "business" of daily life makes that need to "go within" and look deeper practically impossible to attend to. Yet, like food and air, contemplation is necessary to human life.

The simple act of slowing down and attending could be so empowering that it may constitute a radically rebellious act, returning self healing powers to people thus making us less reliant on the Medical System, or giving us calm contentment, which would make us less vulnerable to the advertising industry and less willing to join the "rat race".