Conference Overview
Save the date – The Yoga in Healthcare Conference will take place on Saturday 1 March 2025 in the Marino Institute of Education.
Confirmed Guest Speakers include:
Dr Pádraic Dunne, PhD, Immunologist and Psychotherapist, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)
Dr Rachel Mackey, GP and author of The Women’s Health Book, A Guide for Irish Women
Patrick McKeown, author of The Oxygen Advantage, The Breathing Cure and Breathing for Yoga
Carmel Gallagher, Social Prescribing Co-Ordinator
Ursula Courtney, former Director of Services at the Arc Cancer Support Centre
Dr Ronan Kearney, Consultant Sports & Exercise Medicine Physician, UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin and Sport Ireland Institute
Elma Toland, Yoga Therapy Ireland Co-Founder, Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist & Tutor
Conference Details
Date: 1 March 2025
Time: 9am – 5pm
Venue: Marino Institute of Education, Drumcondra, Dublin
Fees: 99 euro – early bird pricing available till 20 December 2024
Our Speakers
Elma Toland
Senior Yoga Tutor with YTI. C-IAYT. YACEP
Elma Toland trained as a yoga teacher with the Irish Yoga Association in 1993. In 1997-1999 Elma took further yoga training with the Biomedical Trust (London) and qualified as a yoga therapist. In 2000, Elma co-founded Yoga Therapy Ireland – a training organisation that trains yoga teachers with a therapeutic approach to yoga practice and to teaching yoga.
Elma lived on the outskirts of Dublin and taught yoga there for over 25 years. For the last 20 years she has worked as a senior tutor for Yoga Therapy Ireland on their many training courses, training yoga teachers and yoga therapists.
Professor Padraic Dunne
PhD, MIACP
Dr Pádraic Dunne is a research scientist (immunologist) and accredited psychotherapist and based at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Centre for Positive Psychology and Health (CPPH). He is co-director of an MSc in Positive Health Coaching and leads the Digital Health Research Gorp within the centre.
As an RCSI Lecturer, Dr Dunne is interested in the development of Health and Wellbeing programmes for postgraduate healthcare professionals, corporate work forces, as well as for patients suffering with chronic disease and the general public. He is also keenly interested in the interaction between mental stress and the immune system. Pádraic is also a co-developer of the RCSI MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the Science of Health and Happiness as well as the Science for Health and Happiness for Young People that were launched freely for the public in 2021.