Who Are We?

 
 
Leo Molloy - Host, Organiser and Chef
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.

Leo Molloy
Frequent culinary disappointments as a vegetarian traveler 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.

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Diana Jost - Yoga Teacher, Ayurvedic Consultant, Massage Therapist
Diana 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. Diana currently lives in the Algarve where she works in different schools and retreats as a Yoga teacher, (Ayurvedic) nutrition consultant and Massage therapist. It is her passion to pass on her knowledge to others and bring them back to their own nature.


Diana Jost

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Sebastian Wolff – Surf Instructor
Sebastian is originally from South Africa and ..........

 

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Mario & Deborah Faria - Personal Trainers

Mario and Deborah are the husband and wife personal training team that oversee the fitness training on Free-range Holidays Boot Camps. Their motivational and upbeat teaching style brings a dynamic to the class that is tough and rigorous with enough fun and humour to keep you going. Deborah is Group Class Instructor for the Body Pump classes as well as Cardio and Muscle Training classes. Mario received his degree Educação Física e Desporto, from the INUAF, Loulé in 2006. He has been a personal Trainer since 2002; a Group Class Instructor, Cardio Fitness and Muscle Training Instructor. He is an International Competitor in Kick-boxing and Muay Thai. When not whipping our guests into shape in the Algarve, he spends his free months in the jungles of Thailand training with the countries top professional Thai boxers.
   
Deborah Faria
  
Mario Faria
 
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Saoirse Molloy

This little member of our team won the lotto one February day in 2007 when I found her scrounging for food at the beach cafe on Meia Praia in Lagos. Since then she's been an integral part of Free-range Holidays. Saoirse enjoys eating, sleeping, belly rubs and chasing lizards and grasshoppers. She's the most popular girl on Amado Beach during the Yoga & Surfing Holidays, helps guide the hikes on Boot Camp and is part of the entertainment committee for the Gourmet yoga Holidays.

Saoirse Molloy