This site uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide services and advertising.
By continuing to browse, you agree to the use of cookies described in our Cookies Policy.
You may change your settings at any time but this may impact on the functionality of the site.
To learn more see our Cookies Policy.
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT really lovely farmers with accents we can’t understand that just says ‘real Ireland’.
RTE
RTE
RTE news reporter Seán Mac An tSíthigh seems to be able to find the best of them. Remember this lad from last year?
The correspondent’s latest dispatch from South Kerry is just so wonderful on so many levels. As a result, social media has completely fallen in love with its protagonist, and its wholesome tackling of the issues of rural isolation and mental health.
He’s a farmer, and more recently, a lover of yoga.
Advertisement
RTE
RTE
He goes to a class on Wednesday nights, and explains that after a hard day on the farm, ‘you’d be a new man coming back from the yoga’.
The yoga instructor in the clip explains that most of the farmers have built a pretty sturdy back, but yoga means they can further increase their flexibility and comfort with the swift movements.
RTE
RTE
As for Mike, there’s also the added bonus of a social occasion.
I live on my own, the main reason is that I can get out of the house. I’m not a man for the bar. Rural isolation is a real problem. If you don’t get out you’ll be left behind.
Then there are the obvious physical benefits too
RTE
RTE
He really seemed like he loved it.
Yoga is great for the mind, it gets the stress out too.
The mental health benefits can be carried into the farm
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
Close
4 Comments
This is YOUR comments community. Stay civil, stay constructive, stay on topic.
Please familiarise yourself with our comments policy
here
before taking part.
Tuesday 24 December, 2024
Tuesday 24 December, 2024
Download our app
People fell in love with this yoga-loving Kerry farmer on the Six One
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT really lovely farmers with accents we can’t understand that just says ‘real Ireland’.
RTE news reporter Seán Mac An tSíthigh seems to be able to find the best of them. Remember this lad from last year?
The correspondent’s latest dispatch from South Kerry is just so wonderful on so many levels. As a result, social media has completely fallen in love with its protagonist, and its wholesome tackling of the issues of rural isolation and mental health.
Click here if you can’t see the video.
Meet farmer Mike O’Shea
He’s a farmer, and more recently, a lover of yoga.
He goes to a class on Wednesday nights, and explains that after a hard day on the farm, ‘you’d be a new man coming back from the yoga’.
The yoga instructor in the clip explains that most of the farmers have built a pretty sturdy back, but yoga means they can further increase their flexibility and comfort with the swift movements.
As for Mike, there’s also the added bonus of a social occasion.
Then there are the obvious physical benefits too
He really seemed like he loved it.
The mental health benefits can be carried into the farm
Wonderful.
DailyEdge is on Instagram!
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
farmer yoga Farmers peak farmer wholesome