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Who Are We?

Leo and Tanya Molloy, and Free-range Holidays is the result of combining all the best things we’ve seen and done while travelling or on holidays. The idea came from our travels around the world and a desire to create a holiday experience that encompasses all the most important aspects we looked for in a holiday: great food, healthy activities, comfortable, interesting accommodation, and friendly hospitality.

Tanya

In January of 1999, Dublin born Tanya Fitzpatrick attended her first yoga class while travelling in India. Inspired by how good it made her feel, and eager to learn more, Tanya travelled to Thailand to study yoga and Thai massage. She quickly established a strong personal practice, and, disillusioned with her career as a fashion stylist, made a conscious decision to spend her life making people feel good rather than look good. In 2002 she received her teacher’s diploma from YTI (Yoga Therapy Ireland). In 2004 she underwent Advanced Teacher Training with Donna Farhi, internationally renowned teacher and author who Tanya now assists. Since qualifying as a techer, Tanya has taught many classes and workshops, in the corporate, public and private capicity. She built up a loyal following of students in Dublin both in the Holistic Sourcing Centre and in the Elbow Room. Tanya’s teaching style is dynamic, motivational and inspiring, balanced with a sharp wit and sense of humour. The yoga she teaches is not “one size fits all” but rather, offering the yoga to suit the individual, and most importantly, how to integrate yoga into your daily life.

Leo

Leo Molloy creates the menus, cooks them and selects the wines to be served with each meal. Originally from central Illinois in the United States, the travel-bug bit him while working as a pizza chef in Seattle. Years of work and travelling took a long pause in Dublin, Ireland. Here he spent twelve years working in the city’s café-bar and restaurant scene. He left his position as General Manager of The Market Bar to form Free-range Holidays. Frequent culinary disappointments as a vegetarian traveller have fuelled Leo’s desire to combine holidays with quality vegetarian cuisine. His skill in the kitchen is mostly self-taught and stems purely from a passion for good food. Though influenced by visits to Asia, India, Morocco and all of Europe, he is most passionate about the Mediterranean; especially the role food plays in the daily life of this region. Leo holds the WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust) Intermediate Certificate in Wine.


Lisa Petersen - Yoga Teacher

A former film-maker, Lisa started her yoga studies in India, and continues to train and teach internationally. Her belief in the power of yoga as a tool for both balance and transformation shines through her teaching. She brings fluidity, sincerity, practicality and respect to the mat. Lisa holds a Bsc. (Hons) in Communications, a Diploma in Yoga for Pregnancy, a Diploma in Yoga Therapy, and has an advanced teaching qualification with Donna Farhi.
Lisa Petersen's website

Padma (Diana Jost) - Ayurvedic Nutrition Consultant

Padma studied physical education at ETH University in Zurich Switzerland before discovering the yogic way of living. In 2003 she became a qualified Yoga teacher at Shivananda Ashram in Austria, followed by the qualification of Ayurvedic Nutrition practitioner taught directly by International Kalmesh Ayurveda Acharya, Dr. Shanti Kumar Kalmesh. Padma currently lives in the Algarve where she works in different schools and retreats as a Yoga teacher, Ayruvedic nutrition consultant and giving Ayurvedic cooking workshops. She is also trained in Thai Yoga Massage and counseling. It is her passion to pass on her knowledge to others and bring them back to their own nature.

Joe Newland - Personal Trainer

Joe is the Fitness instructor in Jardim das Dunas Fitness Centre in Lagos. His life has been spent in sport from rugby, kick-boxing and Jujitsu. Personal Trainer for six years and massage therapist for nine years, Joe is a European level competitor in Jujitsu and currently trains the Lagos GNR (Police Force) and members of the Portuguese Air-Force.

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Friends of Free Range Holidays

For information on the Clare Island Retreat Centre and Yoga throughout Ireland: www.yoga-ireland.com

Most of the photography on this site was done by Darragh Muldowney. To check out his beautiful nature photography go to: www.dulraphotography.com

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