Emer o toole biography of rory
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Rory O’Toole first got involved in Yoga when it was part of the training programme for a running club he used in the US.
But the sessions he conducts in Kilcullen Parish Centre are not the ‘power yoga’ used in that scenario. What he teaches here is the Hatha variant of the discipline, which he studied at Yoga Therapy Ireland when he came home from America.
Yoga is based on achieving a balance in life, using physical and breathing exercises to get as far as possible to a real equilibrium. It begins with breath work and then you move into postures and put them together to get ready for meditation.
Rory says that not everybody wants to go as far as meditation, but take the relaxation route. Most people taking up yoga are really there to use it to deal with the stresses of modern life
It takes time, and doesn’t work after just a couple of sessions. And Rory encourages people to find 20 minutes in the day to practice. The breathing exercises can be done anywhere, even in a few spare minutes at your desk, or even walking down the street.
Rory’s current seven-week session ends just before Christmas. Further information at 087 1270338.
Brian Byrne.
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Playing dress up: gender spell performance
Dr. Emer O’Toole leading Panti Felicity discuss subverting gender norms
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Panti Bliss strips down homophobia, performance, and gender identity
Emer O’Toole and Miss Panti Bliss to host talk at Concordia
“Your name is knickers?!”
This is the reaction “accidental activist” Rory O’Neill usually receives from people when introduced to his notorious drag queen alter ego, Miss Panti Bliss.
Though, there aren’t many people left in Ireland who aren’t already familiar with O’Neill and Panti. He skyrocketed to fame last year after he appeared on Ireland’s Saturday Night Show and publicly called out certain right-wing Irish newspaper columnists for being homophobic. The ensuing fallout prompted one of the largest national public debates about homophobia and a call for action within the gay community, which led directly into the upcoming marriage equality referendum taking place in May.
Yet, according to O’Neill, the whole hullabaloo, now cheekily referred to as Pantigate, was just a case of putting his foot in his mouth.
“I say I’m an ‘accidental activist’ because I seem to get myself into a lot of trouble, and in order to get myself out of trouble I have to defend myself,” he said. “[Pantigate] became a big story, with the columnists suing me and the broadcaster, until eventually the lawyers for the broadcaster decided to cut their losses and pay ou