Join us for our event ‘Keep Doing What Matters – Wellness’

Embark on a transformative journey to holistic well-being with Keep Doing What Matters – Wellness, in partnership with AIB. Join our host, Dominique McMullan, Editorial Director at IMAGE Media, as she guides you through a morning of enlightenment and self-care.

Our thoughtfully curated line-up features a rejuvenating yoga class with Erica Bracken, a seasoned yoga teacher; an immersive sound bath session guided by Emma West, a skilled sound therapist; and an insightful interview with Kate McDaid, a renowned performance nutritionist, exploring the profound impact of good nutrition.

This wellness event will take place on Saturday, February 10 at 9.30am, within the serene confines of The Dean Townhouse. Elevate your mind, body, and spirit at this enriching event designed to empower you on your personal journey to well-being.

AIB supports customers by offering financial advice at all life stages so you can keep doing what matters to you. To book a chat with an AIB advisor to get real guidance on how to use savings, pensions, and investments to build your financial future, simply visit www.aib.ie/make-a-plan.

Schedule

• 9.30am – Guests arrive and take a yoga mat
• 9.45am – Yoga class with Erica Bracken
• 10.30am – Sound bath with Emma West
• 11am – Light breakfast refreshments served
• 11.15am – Nutrition conversation with Kate McDaid
• 12pm – Event ends

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When & Where

When: Saturday, February 10 at 9.30am

Where: The Dean Townhouse, 36 Harcourt St, Saint Kevin’s, Dublin

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Tickets

Tickets are priced at €25 (incl VAT). The full ticket price will be donated to FoodCloud, a long-standing charity partner of AIB. Each ticket includes: 

• Light breakfast refreshments
• Yoga session hosted by Erica Bracken
• Sound bath with Emma West
• Nutritional conversation with Kate McDaid

Yoga mats will be provided on the day, but you are also welcome to bring your own.

Meet the Speakers

Erica Bracken, Yoga Teacher

Erica Bracken is a 500-hour RYT (registered yoga teacher) dedicated to empowering people to move, breathe and live better through yoga. Erica began her own yoga journey in 2013, at first attracted to yoga’s incredible physical and stress-relieving benefits. However, she soon discovered yoga’s potential to transform not only the body but the way we see and live in the world too.

Erica’s teaching approach is grounded in harnessing the power of attention, using conscious breathing and movement as tools to connect to and develop present-moment awareness. She enjoys creating breath-led, expressive sequences that leave lots of space for students to explore their unique mental states, bodies and practices intuitively.

You can expect dynamic practices and poses that will build heat and stir up energy, balanced with gentle movement and pockets of powerful stillness – always with a focus on staying connected to breath and presence throughout.

Emma West, Sound Therapist

Emma West is a sound therapist, ecstatic dance DJ and shamanic practitioner from Dublin whose aim is to hold a safe space for you to pause, tune into yourself and come back to your inner harmony.

From a young age, Emma has always been deeply connected to music and sound as a way of expressing herself, but it was only through her own personal healing journey she realised the true potential that sound and vibration can have in supporting us. She aims to help you slow down, relax and come back to the wisdom of your heart and body through sound and shamanic practices.

Kate McDaid, Founder of NutriKate, Health and Performance Nutritionist

Kate studied Food Science at UCD before moving to the UK to complete an MSc in Sports and Exercise Nutrition at Loughborough University. She then worked in nutrition consultancy and quickly progressed to Senior Health and Performance Nutritionist, where she built an extensive portfolio working with professional sports teams, elite sporting scholars, corporate clients, charity organisations, and weight-loss and health-seeking individuals. She took this experience back to Ireland with her in 2017 and founded NutriKate, a high-performance nutrition consultancy.

Kate’s love for nutrition stemmed from her competitive sporting background. She has captained the Irish basketball team and more recently played football for Dublin GAA. Nutrition has served as a massive factor in her own personal journey, something she is eager that others get the benefit of too. Kate is the performance nutritionist with Kildare GAA senior football and hurling teams, the Paddy Harrington Golf scholarship programme and also works alongside Trinity College Dublin and their sports scholarship students.

Kate also enjoys working with health-seeking individuals who want to lead healthier lives or who may have specific weight loss or muscle gain goals. She provides a better understanding of nutrition, how those principles can be applied and better yet, will show you how rewarding it is when you get the right mix between your dietary framework and the lifestyle you want to lead. Kate has lectured in applied nutrition in TUD and was featured on the ’30 under 30′ in the Sports for Business ‘Rising Stars’ in 2020. She has been featured on TV and is an RTÉ contributor.

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