About

What is Clann Health?

Clann Health derives its name from the Irish language and translates directly to mean “family” or “tribe”. Our purpose is to build a tribe to live life to its fullest through health, fitness and adventure!

Exercise and outdoor adventure are a great way of connecting people together, and physical activities are some of the best ways to generate life lasting memories.

A big part of our mission is in giving back and helping others. We regularly take part in team adventure races and fundraise for worthy causes where everyone comes and works together to be a part of something bigger!

What separates the Clann Health from others is its culture and the most important component of the system is its motivational approach and family environment. We know if you don’t have fun and enjoy the training, you won’t do it.

Clann Health is not designed as a sport or competition, but focuses on you competing against yourself and bettering your body, mind and spirit

The Team

Seamus Keane

In 2014 Seamus arrived in New York and was working in Finance. He soon realised he wanted to work in the health and fitness industry and leaned into the fear of the unknown and created Clann Health.

He encourage all his clients to lean into fear and push themselves out of their comfort zones.

Seamus classes are a combination of bodyweight movements and functional fitness to leave you finishing a workout a million times better than when you started.

Katie O’Connell

Katie works on our online platform as coach and content creator. She has been in the health and fitness industry for over 10 years. Her vast experience includes owning a boutique one to one studio in the south of Ireland.

She loves teaching her new clients how to build a consistent change in their routine and habit’s so they can sustain the new lifestyle changes learned.

Her philosophy is that educating clients is important above anything else. While working with Katie clients will gain the knowledge to make the best nutrition decisions in the future and to share these insights with their households.

Katie studied Nutritional Profiling in London and since has transformed peoples lives through nutrition and exercise.

John Collins

John was an avid sportsperson and athlete from a very young age competing at high levels in GAA, Basketball and Boxing to name a few.

John believes there is an athlete inside of everyone. John has a teaching background and brings this into his coaching style he always believe in educating client about everything else.

John aims to help people set and achieve a range of short and long term goals. John wants to help each of his Clients reach their highest potential.

Michaela McBride

Michaela has been passionate about exercise from a very young girl. In recent years her interest has grown and led to her becoming qualified fitness instructor and personal trainer.

Michaelas classes include a mixture of strength and conditioning exercises, to help participants push themselves out of their comfort zones to finish physically and mentally stronger then when they started.

Most importantly Michaela wants people to come away from each session with a smile on their face and know they can achieve great things.

Shelly Hackett

Nurse, Pilates Instructor, Personal Trainer and Course Lecturer at Manhattan Personal Training College Shelly Hackett has a wealth of experience and personality that she brings to the team.

Since emigrating to New York from Ireland she was operations manager of a successful Physical Therapy and Wellness Clinic in the heart of Manhattan. It was here that she developed her expertise on holistic health.

A keen sportswoman she suffered from a serious hip injury and although this put her out of action for quiet some time it was through her tedious rehab that she got her love for pilates.

Benny

Benny began his career in engineering but quickly realised his passion was in personal training and human movement. So he decided to become qualified with NASM.

Benny takes our fast paced lives into consideration when he’s creating his training style and allows people to slow down and get into their body and minds. His approach to training is built around these three fundamental steps- mobility, breath work and strengthening.

His classes are a mixture or yogi style movement and holistic connection.