Noeleen is the founder of Irelands award winning Eco Retreat and Yoga School - Ard Nahoo.

Through her many years of working (since 1992) as a therapist Noeleen brings an integrated knowledge and sensitivity to yoga classes that can feel as healing as a massage.  Noeleens classes are inclusive, therapeutic with a great element of fun.  Her teaching is very intuitive and each student is invited to bring their practice to a place where they can witness the life changing transformation that the practice of Anusara Yoga offers.

Noeleen is the Director of Ard Nahoo Yoga School and has been training wonderful yoga teachers for many years.

While Noeleen first experienced yoga as a teenager in her home town of Rush in Dublin, it was later in her twenties in San Francisco that she fell deeply in love with the life-affirming practice.  Life in San Francisco was pretty wild and yoga had a grounding effect that brought with it focus and clarity. Later she was to use yoga to heal back problems and to help her through two home births.

For 10 years, Iyengar Yoga was the main inspiration and practice. In 2000 she embarked on her first Hatha teacher training course with Marie Quail.  Since then she has completed further teacher trainings with the Irish Yoga Association (post grad), the foundational course in Perinatal Yoga and Birth Preparation with Francoise Freedman at the  Birthlight Foundation in London. 

By chance in 2010 she discovered the biggest yoga gift of all, Anusara Yoga, which was to transform her practice, her teaching and her life.  Since then she has undertaken extensive training with the Anusara School of Hatha Yoga and is one of two Certified Anusara Yoga Teachers in Ireland. 

Anusara yoga is a powerful method of hatha yoga which integrates biomechanical principles of alignment with the celebration of the heart and spirit. Anusara yoga offers a dynamic synthesis of asana technique, yoga philosophy and the celebration of life the Universe and everything!  Noeleen has a deep interest in philosophy and in particular the study of Tantric Yoga.

Her studies are ongoing,  she is committed to a lifelong learning path.  She is blessed and hugely grateful to have been on teacher trainings with some of the most skilled and loving teachers in the world including Noah Maze, Deb Neubuer, Betsey Downey, Sianna Sherman, Jayendra Hanley, Bill Mahony, Brigit Woods Kramer,  Bill Mahony, Carlos Pomeda and more.

In 2001 she founded the highly acclaimed Ard Nahoo Eco Retreat in County Leitrim. Voted as ‘one of the top ten retreats worldwide’ by the Guardian and featured in the National Geographic Staylist, Ard Nahoo is at the forefront of Yoga, Natural Health and Eco Tourism in Ireland.

Noeleen is a passionate environmentalist and runs her business on green principles. Ard Nahoo has been awarded the prestigious EU Flower; an award recognising a high environmental standard. She was on the founding committee for the Green Festival Northwest and the Wise Woman Festival and served as a Director for five year of The Greenbox, Irelands first designated eco tourism project.

Noeleen lives in Leitrim with her husband and her two sons.