LARAGH CUNNINGHAM

Pregnancy, Meditation, Sleep and Recovery Expert

Laragh is a highly respected and well-known yoga instructor and educator. With over twenty years of teaching experience and having trained and taught all over the world, Laragh brings a level of expertise, knowledge, and compassion to her classes. Passionate about her own yoga practice and the impact it has had on each stage of her life, she generously and honestly shares her knowledge with her students. Having worked with a broad spectrum of students from elite professional athletes to absolute beginners, Laragh's classes are both informative and practical, with a simple belief that everyone should experience the benefits of yoga and recovery through accessible movement and relaxation techniques. Laragh is also a highly sought-after pregnancy yoga expert, which makes her pregnancy classes very popular.

Laragh is the Co-Founder of The Yoga Shala, Yo!Fit, and SoulMoves. She is a Yoga Alliance Advanced Yoga Teacher Trainer, certified in Prenatal and Postnatal yoga, and also certified in Womb Yoga by BWY. Additionally, she is a certified Doula and Postnatal Doula, Yoga Nidra by BWY, Sleep Recovery Professional by BWY, and Yoga for Pelvic Health by BWY. She is also certified in Yoga for Bone Health by YA and Yoga for Menopause by BWY.

Laragh is a long-term student and forever grateful to her foundational teachers whom she returns to each day on her mat, including Emil Wendel, Uma Dinsmore Tuli, Max Strom, Bianca Mathlias, Simon Borg Olivier, and Donna Farhi. She is also inspired by her more recent years teacher trainers: Francois Freedman, Petra Coveney, Niamh Daly, and Lisa Sanfillipo. Above all, she expresses eternal gratitude for continuously learning from the magnificent students she meets in her classes each week. 

DAVID CUNNINGHAM

David was introduced to Yoga by Laragh and joined her in India in 2004 to study Ashtanga with Sharath Rangaswamy at the Mysore Yoga Shala and with his teacher Emil Wendel in Goa and Bali. Dave completed his teacher training with Yoga Arts in 2004 and went on to study"Yoga Synergy" with Simon Borg Olivier and Bianca Machliss in Sydney. David and Laragh brought Yoga Synergy to Europe in 2010 and then trained 25 teachers in this style.