ABOUT YOGA4HEALTH IRELAND

Meet the Founder

Martina Meegan

Martina is a Yoga Teacher based in Meath with a passion for Yoga in Healthcare. Martina teaches public classes in Kells and also directly with MS Society Ireland.  She has over 20 years’ experience in Ireland, England & Canada in Radiation Oncology, having originally studied and worked in St Luke’s Hospital in Dublin between 1983 to 1988. This background has provided her with a passion for helping people to live a full and healthy life, using interventions and practices that are well researched and scientifically sound.

Over the past 10 years, she has become an internationally accredited Yoga Teacher (500 hours with Yoga Therapy Ireland) with additional specialisation in Yoga for The Stages of Menopause, Yoga in Cancer Care, Adaptive Chair Yoga, Mam & Baby Yoga,  Yoga in Trauma Care, Yin Yoga ,Yoga for Sports and Yoga Therapy. 

In 2022, she become a certified Yoga4Health and Yoga4NHS Teacher with Yoga in Healthcare Alliance (YIHA) in the UK and has been teaching the programme in her local Family Resource Centre since. She has also taught a 6 week Yoga4Heathcare Staff programme in Trim Primary Care Centre to primary care healthcare practitioners at the end of 2023.

In May 2023, she was part of YTI’s organising team for Irelands’ first 2 day conference on ‘The Principles and Practices of Yoga in Healthcare’ hosting international experts in the fields of research and yoga.  In May 2024, Martina was selected to be one of 30 participants in this year’s Social Entrepreneurs Ireland’s Ideas Academy with Yoga4Health Ireland.

She is passionate about offering evidence-based yoga in the community. She is dedicated to building and supporting a team of Yoga4Health Teachers to share this wonderful programme in every part of Ireland.