She trained as a yoga teacher six years ago and then took a year out to study at a yoga therapy clinic in Chennai, India before returning to Dublin for two more year's TV work.

Tanya became a full-time yoga teacher last April and has now returned home to Portrush. She teaches six yoga classes a week in Portrush Town Hall. Her classes include those for beginners, one class for dynamic flow and two classes for backs.

Here's what she would pack inside her Treasure Chest...

1. A solar powered laptop with satellite internet access.

Not only does that look after music, films and photos of loved ones but it would enable me to research all the practicalities of survival on a desert island especially building my shelter and I could continue to study things that interest me.

2. Tool kit.

I would take a huge tool kit to enable me to build a shelter. One of my favourite programmes is Grand Designs, as presented by the lovely Kevin MacLeod. I have always dreamt about building a house to my own specifications and of course Kevin's approval.

3. Mattress.

I would also need a comfortable kingsize mattress...what's to explain ?

4. Duvet.

A duck down duvet for those cool evenings.

5. Knife.

I would need a knife for chopping all that delicious fruit and veg that's growing wild on the desert island.

6. Guitar.

I would take a guitar as I have always wanted to learn and never found the time.

7. Telescope.

A telescope to study the stars. The night skies minus light pollution are truly magnificent.

8. Acupuncture needles.

Acupuncture needles would be the main component of my first aid kit. I am a second year acupuncture student and treat myself regularly, it's an amazing system of medicine.

9. A translation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.

This is THE core text for all yoga students, over 2,000 years old and so relevant today. It takes on a deeper resonance every time I read it, so practical and yet truly inspirational. It's my favourite book.

10. My yoga mat.

Just stepping onto to it calms and focuses my mind immediately. I started practising yoga ten years ago as an antidote to stresses and strains of life and work.

Pushed by rush, most of the time we are compressed physically and mentally which is damaging to our health in the long term.

I found that practising yoga regularly helped me cope with every day living in a more intelligent way.

It created space in my body and my mind. Over time I started to transfer my interest and love of programme-making to a love of yoga and a life time commitment to its study.