CocoonED Yoga Facilitator and Trauma Informed Yoga Trainer

Yoga Teacher & Therapist, Children’s and Teen Yoga Teacher, Yoga Teacher Trainer, Zen Thai Shiatsu Massage.

Stacey is one of Australia's most experienced yoga teachers for kids, teens and adults. In her role as a Yoga Therapist, facilitating one on one sessions in hospital and mental health wards for the past 16 years, Stacey has offered thousands of young people hospitalised with disordered eating a gentle presence to be seen and heard during what is often a traumatising time within a challenging environment.  Stacey facilitates calming sessions both within hospital and private practice. She adores sharing yoga classes at the endED “House of Hope”. 

Stacey has developed and offered our very own in-house trauma-informed yoga teacher training across all of our CocoonED Facilitators, and will too be running sessions throughout the year. Come along to meet her!

CocoonED Sound Bath Facilitator and Allied Health

Founder of SOL: Self of Love

Experiencing over a decade in the music industry, Tahlia's calling for deeper self discovery grew, as there was a part of her heart that longed for more meaning in her art as well as her performing and music. Leaving behind her career, she traveled extensively around the world singing her way through Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, Cambodia, Europe, The UK, Canada and The USA.

After teaching herself Piano in recent years and now guitar, her original music has blossomed, recently completing 12 original songs ready to be shared with the world. After being based overseas for a number of years, Tahlia now resides in the beautiful Sunshine Coast Queensland where she has devoted her calling to Music as medicine for Community. Tahlia is now part of our CocoonED Space, offering Sound Bath Sessions.

Tahlia is also part of our Allied Health Space offering; one:one vocal sessions or programs, group music healing and Shiatsu sessions.

CocoonED Yoga Practitioner

Nicole Sanders is from Willow Yoga Brisbane, Australia. After living with anorexia for over a decade, she is now living Free from the illness for over two decades. Mindfulness, mediation and yoga played a vital role in her recovery.

Nicole holds a peaceful sacred space for students. She uses invitational language in the class to make it inclusive, empowering students to explore, be curious & embody their practice and make it their own. Her practices are taught from the heart, with lived experience of her own mental health issues in the past – yoga was a key support in her healing journey.

Yoga transformed her life to live now with inner peace, happiness, and Freedom. She loves to support others who may struggle with their own Mental Health issues, she believes everybody has the potential to feel more whole, more grounded, and to know themselves more fully.

Nicole’s classes weave intentional movement, breath, meditation, and mantra, sprinkled with some philosophy for you to move down and in – into this breath – this physical and emotional body – to find that inner peace, a calmness that is at the centre of your being.

CocoonED Studio Support Person

Tayla is a part of the endED team in a number of ways including endED's Community Connection Groups, alongside the Allied Health team as an Accredited Practicing Dietitian, where she enjoy being able to offer a unique & person-centred approach to aid in nurturing their relationship with food & their body. Both spaces allow Tayla to use her lived experience by being able support individuals throughout their own unique journey and hold hope for others who may find it hard to see it.

Tayla has recently explored the CocoonED Space warmly and is able to see the wonderful ways meditation, yoga and mindfulness can be supportive in an individuals journey, and has the seen the ways the has already been supportive for herself. When Tayla first started somatic practices, she always found getting into a grounded state challenging, however with time this has become easier and Tayla enjoys how supportive facilitators are in this space. Therefore Tayla encourages individuals who may not have attended somatic practices before, to practice enter this space with a sense of openness, because there might be a style that supports you and you are yet to discover this.

Tayla looks forward to welcoming you into the safe space of CocoonED. You will meet Tayla at the start of the session and she will join, alongside the facilitator throughout the session.

Also, there is no need to race off, because there will also be an opportunity at the end of each session to enjoy a warm drink and bliss balls with Tayla and other individuals, if this feels supportive.

CocoonED Yoga Facilitator

Alicia is a degree qualified clinical nutritionist and yoga teacher, and comes to this space with lived experience.

Alicia felt isolated and lacked support moving through Recovery and is passionate about being part of change so that others have more diverse access and opportunities for connection throughout their journey. She feels honoured to bring her knowledge and experience of mindful practice and natural medicine to this community.

Through clinical nutrition and yoga, Alicia is passionate about gently assisting those with disordered eating patterns, in addition to optimising mental wellbeing, cognitive power, sleep, mood, and behaviour; acknowledging that each body system is interconnected in beautiful harmony, therefore treating the whole person rather than just your symptoms.

Alicia feels incredibly grateful to share the gift of yoga, understanding how it can help individuals with disordered eating, by cultivating mindfulness and body awareness, promoting self-acceptance, reducing stress and anxiety, improving mood and overall well-being, and creating a sense of connection and community. Through gentle movements, breathing exercises, and meditation, yoga can provide a safe and supportive space for healing and growth.

CocoonED Studio Yoga Facilitator

Katheryn is an allied health professional, yoga teacher, children's yoga teacher and yoga therapist. Having had a yoga practice since 2004, she has personally experienced the benefits of yoga, and has a strong desire to support and empower others to manage their own health. Katheryn has dedicated the last two years to specialising in guiding yoga sessions for those in Eating Disorder Recovery.

Katheryn has a warm energy, with a gentle and nurturing teaching style. She facilitates sessions that encourage participants to explore the experiential and somatic practice of yoga, helping to cultivate a positive connection with the body through embodied curiosity, trust and acceptance.

Katheryn is also available for 1:1 Yoga Therapy or Family Yoga Therapy.

CocoonED Studio Yoga Facilitator

Founder of Invite Yoga

Amanda is a qualified Yoga Teacher and Kids Yoga Teacher, she also has qualifications in Yin and Accessible Yoga styles. Passionately offering yoga to the Sunshine Coast community, working with individuals of all ages and all abilities, Amanda’s offerings are trauma conscious, accessible and inclusive for all abilities and life experiences.

Practicing yoga since the age of 15 across many different lineages of yoga, Amanda found the practice to be a path back home to herself and her recovery that allowed her to find a new way of relating to her body and mind, separate from her eating disorder.

Later in life Amanda decided to learn to teach yoga and now has her own business ‘Invite Yoga.' She now teaches yoga at schools, and runs group and private classes for kids, teens, families and adults of all ages on the Sunshine Coast.

Amanda empowers individuals to explore movement, breath and stillness with visualisation and meditation, in a way that creates choice and autonomy and personal healing. Amanda’s offerings are a gentle and collaborative journey inviting deep listening to your own body to find your own expression of the practice.