Global Yoga Soul Holidays & Retreats is founded by Yogarani (Rani Sheilagh,) who has been running yoga holidays and retreats since 2003.

Rani is a highly experienced and respected senior yoga teacher within the dynamic teaching method, who inspires with an open and creative spirit!

Yogarani's Global Yoga Soul holiday and retreats aim to give you a truly enjoyable and memorable experience which give a feeling of what Rani calls "yoga feel good" and whose benefits are felt long beyond your time away with us.

You will go home feeling inspired, refreshed and relaxed, as well as stronger, full of vitality, focused, with more fitness, more tone and definitley with an overall sense of well being, empowerment and connection.

If you enjoy yoga, mediation, beautiful locations, healing therapies and massage, friendly faces and delicious food, join us! For those complete beginners who are thinking about trying a yoga holiday or retreat for the first time, you are welcome and encouraged to come along and will find yourself in a supportive environment.

All Holidays and Retreats aspire and are designed to give a deeper experiencial understanding of yoga within a fun, creative and nurturing environment.

Our 'Conscious Hedonism Yoga Holidays' have plenty of yoga & meditation (conscious) for all levels, along with the added inclusion of some of life's more decadent holiday treats (hedonism) including stunning accomodation, scrumptous french food, delicous cheeses and wine.

Our 'Boutique Yoga Retreats' & the Immersive Embodiment Yoga weeks include plenty of yoga & mediation for all levels, an intimate boutique setting (8/9 retreatants max), vegetarian gourmet delights and focus on giving an more in-depth retreat experience of Dynamic Rasa Flow Yoga.

Our 'Yoga & Outdoor Activies' Weekends in the West of Ireland (formerly known as 'YogaSurf') run from friday evening to Sunday including all your yoga sessions, shared B&B ensuite accomodation, delicious lunch and dinner on Saturday and a choice of outdoor activites. You choose yoga plus your activity from surfing, sea kayaking and go-kart sailing or if you wish you can choose the Yoga only option. Dylan our surf shaman joins us on most of weekends along with our partners in Donegal and you may find him on some of our holidays as well. Weekends are run seasonally from April/May through the summer/early autumn.

All Global Soul Holidays & Retreats offer plenty of time for things like rest & relaxation, walks, cycling, socialising, lounging on the sunterracing by the pool (France) and nipping off for a seawed bath (Ireland). It is a holiday for you! We make sure there is plenty of time within the daily programme for you to do whatever you want to do. It is a great way to meet new folks and friendships are easily forged!

Read more about the Rani and about Dylan below.

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ABOUT YOGARANI (Rani Sheilagh, M.A.) Yogini, Artist & Conscious Hedon

Rani Sheilagh, yogarani, is an enthusiastic & passionate yogini and artist (and conscious hedon) who embraces the ever-changing, creative flow of life.

Believing that life is for living, Rani calls herself a ‘conscious hedon’ and encourages discovering the creative Conscious Hedonism™ within yourself and to find your own personal balance between the good, the not so good and the downright bold & naughty – and to enjoy and spread the joy of life!

Rani has many years of formal, intensive yoga studies with highly, respected international teachers and has completed university arts degrees to post-graduate level with professors and professionals who are recognised experts in their fields.

She has delved deeply in the vocations of yoga, meditation, somatic and fine art studies, as well as maintaining her own ongoing personal studies, explorations, collaborations and passions. She is an enthusiastic student of life!

Rani brings together the classical traditions and foundations of Yoga with the dynamic, the modern, the spontaneous, energetic and the creative.

Facilitating self-empowerment for the modern-day probationer, she nurtures a deep exploration of our ever-changing experience of what it means to be human and cultivates delving more deeply into the juicy dynamic of life and of yoga’s full potential and fruitful benefits.

Her inspirational approach offers dynamic challenge and flow, joyful effort, and enthusiasm.

Yogarani’s Dynamic Rasa Flow Yoga approach encourages the awakening of rasa* and stimulates the invigorating ‘yoga feel good!’ sensations.

[*’rasa’ is the juicy aesthetic of life; the ecstacy and the rapture; the direct experience of the divine grace flowing in us and thru us.]

Rani Sheilagh is the yogarani founder and the creator of Dynamic Rasa Flow™ Yoga, YogaSurf, Global Yoga Soul™ (Retreats & Holidays), Rasa Rhythms™ (workshop/event), Whole Earth Mandala™ and offers a variety of yoga workshops, trainings and festival/special events & happenings!

YOGARANI is a member of IYN (Independent Yoga Network)

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More About Rani:
A global soul with a personal background and lifelong exposure to both traditions, cultures, and practices from South Asia & the West; Rani developed a serious interest and exploration of Yoga during late teenage years and has had an enduring passion for Art from a very young age.

She is a dual-national of Ireland & USA, and was born & educated in New York where her Irish mother and Indian father met as immigrants. She spent time as a child in India and Ireland, New York, London and Australia, with additional travel in Europe, the Americas and around the globe.

A bit about Rani Sheilagh, the Artist:
Long before Yoga emerged as a vocation and livelihood, Rani worked professionally as a designer & artist in commercial and cultural sectors.

She holds 2 university degrees; an undergraduate/bachelors degree (BFA) in Visual Arts, Graphic Design & Visual Communication and a postgraduate/masters degree (MA) in Interactive Technologies with focus on interactive art and design applications.

With this experience, Rani has a unique understanding of ‘real-life’ demands having worked in high-pressure, deadline driven environments.

She has worked professionally, as a creative, in interactive technology fields in New York, USA and in Dublin, Ireland. She has also lectured on interactive art & design in New York, Denmark, and Dublin.

Rani conitues to work as a fine artist, with current artworks and creations in progress.

For Rani, her passions for yoga & art and for whole-life creativity, nurture, support and inspire each other – and she hopes to inspire and uplift you.


"Lokah Namaha Sukino Bhavantu"

May all beings be free and happy, and may my thoughts, words and deeds contribute in some way to that freedom and happiness.

Dylan, is a joyful wave rider, earth lover, yogi and writer. He is a virtual fountain of interesting ideas, information, good chats, debates & is a truly expert conversationalist.

He guides us in our eco-lifestyle practices, in our surf locations and is on hand on many a yogasurf weekend and on some of our retreats as well. Dylan ensures that happiness, contentment & laughter abound and as an expereinced longboarder, he is always up for a surf with you!

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