Mary K Yoga

Greetings to you on this grand soft day ☔️
And a little reminder to make sure to look after yourself this week! 😌
Especially if you've been enjoying a busy summer season filled with adventuring 💛 If your nourishment involves yoga, join me on the mat this weekend. There's a few spaces left - come and nurture yourself for a couple of hours 🙏

🌾Rest and Restore Workshop
✨️Mind and Body Abbeyleix
🌱When: Saturday 24/8 - 10am-12pm

Enjoy a couple of hours to press pause on the outside world, to slow down and really look after yourself 🍃
During this restorative yoga workshop, you will completely rest your body, unwind your mind, and de-stress your system 💛
We'll be practicing super slow and calming yoga postures, designed to help soothe you and ready you for the changing of the seasons 🍂
After moving slowly and mindfully at a happy snail's pace, you will settle into a comfortable rest 🐌
And you'll finish this workshop being guided through a full body relaxation 😌

Investment: €35. Booking essential. To book your space message me here 💛

Gift yourself a couple of hours on the yoga mat this August ✨️ To move your body, to mind your soul, and to celebrate these fleeting beautiful summer days 🌾🌞💛

🌾Energising Upper Body Workshop
✨️Upstairs in Portlaoise Parish Centre
🌱When: Wednesday 14/8 - 6pm-8pm

🌾Rest and Restore Workshop
✨️Upstairs in Portlaoise Parish Centre
🌱When: Friday 16/8 - 9.30am-11.30am

🌾Energising Lower Body Workshop
✨️Upstairs in Portlaoise Parish Centre
🌱When: Wednesday 21/8 - 6pm-8pm

🌾Rest and Restore Workshop
✨️Mind and Body Abbeyleix
🌱When: Saturday 24/8 - 10am-12pm

🌾ENERGISING WORKSHOPS: A longer, playful and curious practice, designed to warm up the body and take a deeper dive into different postures 💪

🌾REST WORKSHOPS: Enjoy a couple of hours to pause and look after yourself 😌 To completely rest your body and unwind your mind 🐛 With slow and calming yoga, finishing with a long guided relaxation 😌

🌱Investment: €35, or €30 each if booking two or more. Booking essential!
Message me here to book your space. With thanks to you - Mary 💛

Are you in need of a little me-time?
Would you like a couple of quiet hours to yourself?
Has the busy summer season left you feeling a little frazzled?
Join me on the mat later this month to embrace your inner sloth 🦥

🌾Rest and Restore Workshop
✨️Mind and Body Abbeyleix
🌱When: Saturday 24/8 - 10am-12pm

Enjoy a couple of hours to press pause on the outside world, to slow down and really look after yourself.
During this restorative yoga workshop, you will completely rest your body, unwind your mind, and de-stress your system.
We'll be practicing super slow and calming yoga postures, designed to help soothe you and ready you for the changing of the seasons.
After moving slowly and mindfully at a happy snail's pace, you will settle into a comfortable rest.
And you'll finish this workshop being guided through a full body relaxation.

Investment: €35. Booking essential. To book your place, visit The Mind and Body House Abbeyleix or contact me here ✨️

Hello happy weekend 🤗🍃 A little reminder from me to you...
That whatever this week ahead is bringing you 🌱
And whatever the month has brought you so far 🌾
Make sure to carve out some pockets of time to press pause for yourself 😌

To make space for resting your sweet self ✨️
To make space enough to soak in little moments of joy ✨️

Whether those moments are out in nature... On your yoga mat... In your garden... Receiving a hug... With a cup of tea... Laughing with a friend... Bathing in the fleeting sunshine 🌞

Open your eyes and your soul to soak in the magical mundane of your days 💛

✨️July Yoga✨️

Move that wonderful body of yours and mind your sweet soul this July 🌞
There's a couple of spaces available across my classes this summer 🙌
If you're feeling the call to hop on your yoga mat for the month, or for a week or two - let this be your sign! 👌🤗

✨️Mondays
July 8, 15, 22, 29
Slow Flow 5.45pm-6.45pm
Portlaoise Parish Centre

✨️Tuesdays
July 2, 9, 16, 23
Gentle Yoga 10am-11am
Mind and Body Abbeyleix

✨️Wednesdays
July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
Gentle Yoga 9.15am-10.15am

Energise Flow 6pm-7pm

Slow Flow 7.05pm-8.05pm
Portlaoise Parish Centre

✨️Thursdays
July 4, 11, 18, 25
Gentle Yoga 10am-11am
Mind and Body Abbeyleix

✨️Fridays
July 5, 12, 19, 26, Aug 2
Restorative 9.30am-10.30am
Portlaoise Parish Centre

✨️Booking is essential for all classes.
Investment is €14 drop in, or €12.50 per class if booking two or more.
To book your space contact me here 🙌
See you on the mat - Mary 🤗💛

Hello 🙌 I'm delighted to announce that I will be teaching morning yoga in the beautiful surroundings of The Mind and Body House Abbeyleix this July 🤗

Classes take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am-11am 🌞 Starting on July 2, these classes will run for four weeks 💛

Gift yourself an hour on the yoga mat to wake up your body, calm your mind and look after your whole system ✨️

These slower paced classes will help build strength, balance and mobility 💪
You'll be offered a challenge, but always encouraged to go at your own pace 🌾

Every class will finish with restful postures to soothe your system, and guided relaxation to help ready you for your day 😌

This class is for you...
✨️If you'd like to move more slowly and consciously in your yoga practice
✨️If you're recovering from an injury
✨️If you're a curious yoga beginner
✨️If you'd like a morning hour to mind yourself!

Booking is essential as spaces are limited.
Option to book the full four weeks or drop in. For more details, do give me a bell 🤗
Book your space through the studio itself or by contacting me here 🌟
See you on the mat - Mary 💛

Oh what a heavenly day ✨️🌞💕🍃🍹
I hope you've been able to soak that glorious weekend's weather into your bones 💛

🍃Happy Spring Equinox!🍃

At last the spring sunshine is making its way to us, after a long grey winter 🌞
And while the rain is never too far away - from here until summer, we'll be gifted with more light (and hopefully heat) in our days 😊
This feels much more like the new year than January 1st, back in the depths of winter 🌳

So what seeds do you want to plant for yourself moving into this new season? 🌱
Are you feeling the shift of seasons in your own body? 🍃
What tiny ways can you bring nourishment to yourself as you move into spring? ✨️

There are still a few spaces available for my Spring Equinox Workshop, taking place in beautiful Shanahoe this coming Saturday morning 💛
Join me on the mat to laugh and move and play 🌞 And to consciously plant a few spring seeds of intention for yourself 🍃
Message me for more details ✨️

🌱Spring Workshops🌱

There's finally a grand stretch in the evenings 🙌🌞 And here is a chance to come get a grand stretch for your mornings this March 😊
Take time to mind your whole ecosystem 👌 Make time to mark the changing of the seasons, and to celebrate spring 🌼

🍃Spring Equinox Workshop🍃
Teach an Chuinne Shanahoe
When: Saturday 23/3 - 10.30am-12.30pm
Investment: €30

Celebrate spring's arrival! 🌱 Gift yourself a couple of hours on the mat - to nourish your body, to centre your mind, and to plant your seeds of intention for the new season ✨️

🍃Deep Rest Workshop🍃
Portlaoise Parish Centre
When: Friday 29/3 - 9.30am-11.30am
Investment: €30

Enjoy a couple of hours to rest your body and unwind your mind 🐛 With slow and restful yoga, along with guided relaxation - designed to rest and renew your system 😌

Booking is essential! Message me here with questions, or to book your space. With thanks - Mary ✨️

🍃Spring Yoga🍃

Spring is finally in the air and nature is awakening from winter's slumber 😌❄️ It's a beautiful time of the year to renew or begin your yoga practice ✨️

If you're feeling the call to your yoga mat...
There's a few drop in spaces across classes this month 🍃

Come join me for an hour of your week ✨️
🔥To challenge your body
💪To build strength and mobility
🌱To chat with your whole eco-system
💤To learn tools for deep rest
✨️To make space for yourself

🍃MONDAYS
Evening Energise
5.45pm-6.45pm

🍃WEDNESDAYS
Beginners Yoga
9.15am-10.15am

Evening Energise
6pm-7pm

Beginners Yoga
7.05pm-8.05pm

🍃FRIDAYS
Morning Restore
9.30am-10.30am

All classes take place in Portlaoise Parish Centre.
Investment is €50 per four week course, payable through cash or revolut.

Booking is essential!
Drop in spaces available at €14 in some classes.
To book your space, or to find out more - message me here.

See you on the mat - Mary 🤗🍃💛

Happy international women's day 💪💛✨️

Give yourself a few moments today to give thanks for the amazing women in your life 💛
I feel very lucky to have many amazing women inhabiting my world 💪
From my wonderful mammy Phina ✨️
To the precious friends who I count as my sisters ✨️
To the incredible ladies I meet each week on the yoga mat ✨️

And I am constantly in awe of their resilience, their strength, their humour, their intelligence, their many talents.
Teaching me so many lessons, just through their way of being 💛

The ladies in your world are an absolute gift 💪
And in giving thanks for that gift - don't forget that you are a beautiful gift in someone else's world 💛

❄️January Yoga❄️
Greetings and new year salutations to you 💙 And although the new year is upon us - we are still in the depths of winter's hibernation 🐻
So over these next few wintering weeks ❄️
Make moments of rest for yourself...
Carve out time to nourish yourself...
To pause, listen, and honour your system's needs...
To mind yourself extra well 💙

If your nourishment involves yoga - here is my January schedule 💙

❄️MONDAYS❄️
Evening Energise
5.45pm-6.45pm

❄️WEDNESDAYS❄️
Beginners Yoga
9.15am-10.15am

Evening Energise
6pm-7pm

Beginners Yoga
7.05pm-8.05pm

❄️FRIDAYS❄️
Morning Restore
9.30am-10.30am

All classes take place in Portlaoise Parish Centre.
Investment is €50 per four week course, payable through cash or revolut.

Booking is essential!
Drop in spaces available at €14 in some classes.
To book your space, or to find out more - message me here.

With thanks - Mary ❄️💙

Greetings from me and Miss Roxy 🤗🦮
We hope you're staying snug and cozy, and minding yourself extra well ❄️ Listening to your system... Resting when you can... And making time for play 🎄✨️

If you're in need of a couple of hours to take care of yourself ❄️💫
Join me on the mat for these upcoming workshops - designed to really look after yourself - body, mind, heart and soul, as we move into the festive season 🎄😌

❄️Winter Warmer Restorative Yoga❄️
When: Wednesday 29/11
7.05pm-9.05pm
Investment: €30

Enjoy time to mind yourself and completely unwind 🦥 With slow restful yoga and a guided relaxation, designed to restore your system 😌

🌞Winter Solstice Celebration🌞
When: Wednesday 20/12
6pm-8pm
Investment: €30

Mark the shortest day of the year and the returning light! With a playful, warming practice, finishing with deep rest - leaving you ready for the festive season 🎄

Both workshops take place in Portlaoise Parish Centre ✨️
Booking essential! Message me here to book your space. With thanks to you - Mary ✨️

Happy Friday ✨️😌 This is your weekend reminder to R E S T yourself 💛
Whatever the weekend holds for you - make sure to carve out some time to mind your sweet self ✨️

What would bring you some joy? Who or what puts a pep in your step?
Doesn't have to be anything fancy - open your eyes to the tiny daily magical things, and the souls who nourish you and fill you up 💛

Slow yourself down enough this weekend to notice the magic in the mundane, and to notice the magic that lives in you ✨️💛✨️

🍂October Workshop News🍂

🍁RESET Workshop 🍁
Where: Teach an Chuinne, Shanahoe
When: Saturday 14/10 - 10.30am-12.30pm
Investment: €30

🍂A slow steady warming start, where we'll build heat in the body, and explore balancing postures 💪 Before settling in for a long, delicious relaxation 😌

🍁REST Workshop 🍁
Where: Portlaoise Parish Centre
When: Wednesday 25/10 - 7.05pm-9.05pm
Investment: €30

🍂A chance to press pause and completely unwind! With super slooow paced yoga, simple breathing techniques and finishing with a big long rest - helping to restore your system ✨️

Booking is essential as spaces are limited. To book your place or find out more - message me here.
See you soon on the mat - Mary 🍂🤗✨️

✨️🔮 October Yoga 🔮✨️

As we hurtle towards these shorter darker days of autumn ✨️❄️🍂
And into October 🎃 Already a new month, where has this past month gone?! 🍂

Life around us is busy and hectic and the weeks are melting into eachother ✨️
And all around us nature is slowing herself right down ❄️

In the busyness of these weeks - between the places to be, the never-ending lists and jobs and things 🤯

Where in your world can you find little moments to pause? ✨️
Where can you carve out pockets of time to mind yourself? 😌
What does minding yourself look like for you? 💛
If yoga is part of your mind yourself toolkit - join me on the mat 💛

✨️MONDAYS✨️
Beginners Yoga
9.15am-10.15am
Shanahoe Community Hall

Evening Energise
5.45pm-6.45pm
Portlaoise Parish Centre

✨️WEDNESDAYS✨️
Slow and Steady Beginners Yoga
9.15am-10.15am
Portlaoise Parish Centre

Evening Energise
6pm-7pm
Portlaoise Parish Centre

Beginners Yoga
7.05pm-8.05pm
Portlaoise Parish Centre

✨️FRIDAYS✨️
Morning Restore
9.30am-10.30am
Portlaoise Parish Centre

Investment is €50 per four week course, payable through cash or revolut.

Booking is essential as spaces are limited.
Drop in spaces available at €14 in some classes. To book your space, or to find out more - message me here.

With thanks and love to you - Mary ✨️💛🍂

🍁Slow & Steady Morning Yoga🍁

Two new classes begin this October!💪

Shanahoe Community Hall
Mondays 9.15am-10.15am

Portlaoise Parish Centre
Wednesdays 9.15am-10.15am

A weekly yoga practice where you will:

✨️Enjoy an hour to mind yourself
✨️Learn the foundations of yoga
✨️Move at your own pace
✨️Build strength and mobility
✨️Learn tools to relax & de-stress
✨️Meet like minded community

Four week courses begin on Monday October 2, and Wednesday October 4.
These courses are suitable for beginners and those who would like a slower paced practice.
Investment: €50 payable through cash or revolut.

Booking is essential. To book or find out more - message me here.
With thanks to you - Mary ✨️💛🍂

✨️Practice with me this week!✨️
We're flying into another week and autumn is well and truly here 🍁
So before the busyness of the week takes you over - carve out some time to look after your sweet self 😌
If you're looking for a sign to hop on your yoga mat - this is it! 🙌
There's still some spaces left for Tuesday's workshop, and in some classes. Come join me for movement, giggles, deep rest and relaxation 😌✨️

🍂Monday🍂
Evening Energise: 5.45pm-6.45pm @ Portlaoise Parish Centre

🍂Tuesday🍂
✨️✨️Restorative Yoga Workshop✨️✨️
Press pause. Slow down.
Catch up on yourself and enjoy a couple of hours of deep rest and relaxation.
7.15pm-9.15pm @ Portlaoise Parish Centre
Investment: €30

🍂Wednesday🍂
Evening Energise: 6pm-7pm @ Portlaoise Parish Centre

Beginners Yoga: 7.05pm-8.05pm @ Portlaoise Parish Centre

🍂Friday🍂
Morning Restore: 9.30am-10.30am @ Portlaoise Parish Centre

Investment is €50 per four week course, payable through cash or revolut. Some drop in spaces available at €14.

Booking is essential! To book your space, or to find out more - message me here ✨️

Sending you hugs - Mary 🍂💛✨️

New class beginning in Shanahoe soon! ✨️ A beautiful start to your week 🤗🍂 Contact me here to book your space 💛

✨️Yoga in Shanahoe with Mary Kavanagh Yoga✨️

Start your week well with Monday morning yoga. An hour for yourself to gently wake up the body, to calm the mind, and leave you ready for the week ahead!

Where: Shanahoe Community Hall
When: Mondays 9.15am-10.15am
Investment: €50 (payable through cash or revolut)

This four week course will run on Mondays October 2, 9, 16 and 23.

Beginners most welcome.
Booking is essential for this course!
To book your space - contact Mary at 0879647655 ✨️

Its the middle of the week and the middle of the month (already!) 🍂
Autumn is hurtling towards us and that chilly weather is sure reminding us of that ☔️
So amongst all the running around and the busyness of the week - where can you make a little time to slow down? 🐌

What tiny things can you do this week to look after yourself? ✨️
What are you making space for? 🤔
What can you say no to? 🙌

A little reminder from me to you - slow down awhile, even for a few minutes! And yes, you do have the time!! 💪

Amongst all the busyness - prioritise yourself! Look after yourself. Those around you deserve a well minded you 👏
And most importantly - you deserve to be well minded! 💛 Wishing you a snug evening ahead 🍂💛✨️

✨️Restorative Yoga Workshop✨️

We're sailing through into autumn - and for many of us - into one of the more hectic times of the year 🍂
Life around us is busy busy - the outside world makes it's demands - and the to-do lists are thriving 🖊
So S L O W yourself down for a couple of hours - gift yourself a great big rest! 💤

In this restorative workshop we will:
✨️get ourselves cozy and snug
✨️forget the outside world for a while
✨️support our bodies with super slooow paced yoga postures
✨️explore breathing techniques and tools to de-stress
✨️enjoy a long guided deep deep rest!
✨️leave ready for autumn, knowing we have tools to help support and ground ourselves

Where: Portlaoise Parish Centre
When: Tuesday September 19, 7.15pm-9.15pm
Investment: €30

No experience needed. Booking is essential as spaces are limited. To book or find out more, message me here 😌

With love and thanks to you - Mary 💛

Blissful autumn afternoons 💛✨️🤗🍃🌞
Sun basking and feeling full after a wonderful week of classes - thank you to all of you who joined me on the mat this week 👌 It is an absolute joy to share time on the mat with ye 😊✨️
Wherever the weekend takes you - I hope you're soaking those sunbeams into your bones ☺️

Autumn sunshine joy 🍂🌞
Wobbles and shakes and finding steadiness ✨️
The best furry assistants 💛
Play and practice outside 🍃
In actual heat! 🔥
Excitement building for September yoga 🍁
Still some spaces available, all info is in my previous post 😊

Greetings to you and happy September! 🍂What a glorious start to a new season 🌞✨️
Whether you're recovering post Picnic, or settling into your autumn routine - make sure this week to include plenty of time for minding yourself 🤗
For sunshine basking 🌞 For deep rest, good food and good sleep 😴 And for hopping onto your yoga mat! 👌
There's still some spaces left - come join me for movement, giggles, deep rest and relaxation 😌✨️

🍂Mondays🍂
Morning Energise: 9.15am-10.15am @ Shanahoe (STARTS Sept 18)

Evening Energise: 5.45pm-6.45pm @ Portlaoise Parish Centre (STARTS Sept 11)

🍂Wednesdays🍂
Evening Energise: 6pm-7pm @ Portlaoise Parish Centre (STARTS Sept 6)

Beginners Yoga: 7.05pm-8.05pm @ Portlaoise Parish Centre (STARTS Sept 6)

🍂Fridays🍂
Morning Restore: 9.30am-10.30am @ Portlaoise Parish Centre (STARTS Sept 8)

Investment is €50 per four week course, payable through cash or revolut.

🍂Monthly Restorative Workshop🍂
✨️✨️Tuesday Chill✨️✨️
A monthly restorative workshop.
A pause where you can catch up on yourself and enjoy a couple of hours of deep rest and relaxation.
Tuesday Sept 19: 7.15pm-9.15pm @ Portlaoise Parish Centre
Investment: €30

Booking is essential as spaces are limited. To book your space, or to find out more - message me here ✨️

Sending you hugs and sunshine - Mary 🍂💛✨️

🍂Autumn Yoga🍂

I'm delighted and excited to be taking bookings for September yoga, and to be meeting some of you again on the mat 🍁🤗💛

These classes are for you if:
✨️You'd like an hour to mind yourself every week
✨️You want to build strength and flexibility
✨️You want to learn tools for de-stressing, meditation and resting deeply
✨️You'd like to have a weekly chat with your body, and let it chat back to you!

🍂Mondays🍂
Morning Energise: 9.15am-10.15am @ Shanahoe (STARTS Sept 18)

Evening Energise: 5.45pm-6.45pm @ Portlaoise Parish Centre (STARTS Sept 11)

🍂Wednesdays🍂
Evening Energise: 6pm-7pm @ Portlaoise Parish Centre (STARTS Sept 6)

Beginners Yoga: 7.05pm-8.05pm @ Portlaoise Parish Centre (STARTS Sept 6)

🍂Fridays🍂
Morning Restore: 9.30am-10.30am @ Portlaoise Parish Centre (STARTS Sept 8)

Investment is €50 per four week course, payable through cash or revolut.

🍂Monthly Restorative Workshop🍂
✨️✨️Tuesday Chill✨️✨️
A monthly restorative workshop.
A pause where you can catch up on yourself and enjoy a couple of hours of deep rest and relaxation.
Tuesday Sept 19: 6.30pm-8.30pm @ Portlaoise Parish Centre
Investment: €30

Booking is essential as spaces are limited. To book your space, or to find out more - message me here.

With thanks and love to you - Mary 🤗✨️💛

Soaking in the sun and getting excited to see some of you at tomorrow's August Unwind workshop in Portlaoise Parish Centre 🤗🌞
This workshop is sold out ✨️✨️
But more are planned for autumn so if you'd like your name in the pot for one, or if you want to find out more - send me a wee message 😊
And keep an eye out for autumn's class schedule coming soon ✨️🍂
See you soon on the mat 💛

🍃Yoga Workshop🍃

✨️August Unwind✨️

🍃 Wednesday August 23 - 6.30pm-8.30pm
🍃 Portlaoise Parish Centre - upstairs
🍃 Investment - €30 (cash or revolut)

✨️ Summer is flying by - between a flurry of to-dos, adventures, activities, and soaking in the rare blue skies 🌞
✨️ Give yourself a chance to press pause for an evening - to nourish your body and calm your mind 😌
✨️ A two hour workshop to mind your sweet self as we head into the last days of summer
✨️ We'll start with a warming practice, to get you chatting to your body, and to get it moving! 💪
✨️Then we'll slow ourselves right down, enjoying restorative yoga, before finishing with a long guided relaxation 💤

Booking is essential - to book your space, message me here ✨️
With thanks to you - Mary 💛

🌿Tending to your garden🌿

✨️How are you moving through these summer months?

✨️Are you racing from one thing onto the next and to the next?

✨️Are you giving yourself time to pause?

✨️How are you tending to your inner landscape?

✨️How are you tending to the outer landscape of the body you live in?

🌞 Life this year just seems to be so so busy! So much to do, places to go, people to meet, life admin to organise..

⚡️Most everyone I meet these days says the same, including me. Life just seems hectic for most of us right now..

🌱So the need is ever greater to look after that sweet body that is your home. And to look after you who lives in there 💛

🌱So this is your weekend reminder to nourish and mind yourself - in whatever form that takes 💛

Today's office 🌞🌾🤗💛✨️
What an absolute pleasure bringing our practice outside under those gorgeous blue skies 🤩

This afternoon teaching a weekly private class to an immense group of legends 👌
Who show up for themselves every week 💪 With open minds, strong bodies and big big hearts 💛

And starting my morning, teaching my weekly restorative class to the most wonderful bunch, who know how to mind themselves right ✨️ And who listen to my ramblings 😄💛

Feeling very blessed today to be able to do what I love every day 🤗
And to meet all ye inspiring vibrant souls on the mat each week - I am so so grateful to all of you who meet me on the mat 😊

The unbridled joy of a practice outside in the sunshine 😊✨️☀️
And two happy hounds nibbling at your toes 😁🦮🤗
I hope whatever this weekend brings you - that you carve out plenty of time for pause and play and soaking in the sweetness of these fleeting warm summer days ✨️🌾🤩🌿🌞