All certified Mindfulness Works mindfulness teachers have received extensive professional mindfulness training. They are required to complete at least 20 hours of professional development every year to retain their certification.

Certified Mindfulness Works teachers are licensed to run the Mindfulness Works Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation course, as well as offer mindfulness coaching and retreats.

Certified Mindfulness Works teachers are licensed to run the Mindfulness Works Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation course, as well as offer mindfulness coaching and retreats.

Leanne is an organisational wellbeing specialist and coach. She is passionate about helping people to bring out the best in themselves and others.

Drawing on the foundations of positive psychology and wellbeing science, she educates workplaces and individuals with evidence-based tools and strategies to mindfully manage stress, improve mental fitness and build resilience.

As an agent for positive change in the Defence Industry, Leanne introduced mindfulness to the Shipbuilding Industry to help people navigate a time of high stress and uncertainty. She is passionate about promoting positive redundancy.

Leanne is the host of the Work Well, Live Well Podcast. Her passion is inspired by using meditation as a tool to manage her own adversities throughout life.

• Mindfulness and neuroscience
• Meditation teaching
• Positive psychology and mindset

Alison is a mental health occupational therapist, mother, counselor and founder of Grow Beyond; coaching and consultancy. Born and raised in regional Victoria, Alison is committed to providing best practice and engaging resources to her community. She has 15 years experience working in public mental health settings, and now balances this with her private practice. She loves the outdoors and finds calm in exploring nature. A mum of two, she understands the pressures on working families and navigating the challenges of finding work life balance. Practising mindfulness daily has supported Alison to cope when life is overwhelming or challenging.

Alison is passionate about supporting people to function at their best and brings a practical component to her work in enhancing personal wellbeing; specialising in supporting people to understand and regulate their emotions through the use of sensory-based interventions and mindfulness practice. She has a passion for supporting people to find their direction and life path, sense of identity, build confidence and work through challenging aspects of life, parenting and helping people create balance.

• Mindfulness and neuroscience
• Meditation teaching
• Positive psychology and mindset

Tracey graduated with a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) in 1994 and currently lives and works in Victoria, Australia as a Certified Practising Accountant in taxation and business advisory, along with running her own healing & fitness business.

Her healing journey began in 2007 after a series of traumatic events and a diagnosis of an autoimmune condition. This healing journey provided all the synchronicity she needed to begin practicing meditation and eventually lead her down the pathway of teaching -mindfulness, meditation, qi gong and yoga.

In 2016, the universe conspired a chance meeting to assist with the creation of her own business – Elements Health & Fitness. This business brings together physical movement and mindset classes such as yoga & meditation, along with where she practices and offers energy medicine, reiki and crystal light bed therapy sessions. She’s passionate about helping others with their own individual healing journeys and to inspire others to find their true paths.

• Mindfulness and neuroscience
• Meditation teaching
• Positive psychology and mindset

Mindfulness has been a journey of peaks and valleys for Jade. A Human Resources professional, Jade believed that stress, multitasking and being busy was the only way to succeed. She started regularly practicing yoga in 2012 to stretch and loosen her hips to support her dedication to long-distance running. Over the years she became increasingly interested in mindfulness and meditation and it’s positive effects on mental health.

After being a victim of bullying and dealing with the subsequent anxiety, in 2019 she qualified as a 300-hour Hatha yoga teacher. She has a certification in yoga for mental health, yin yoga, pilates and is formally qualified in breathwork and meditation. Jade offers hatha, vinyasa flow, vin yin and yin yoga classes. She combines strength, stretching, meditation, breath awareness and themes into her classes and participant leave feeling revitalised and inspired.

In addition to being a yoga and meditation teacher, Jade is an author who advises organisations on employee engagement. She is passionate about mindfulness, sustained mental health, self awareness and compassion in the workplace. Jade has a passion for traveling, she loves the great outdoors and met her husband when she was trekking to Everest Base Camp (he was her Sherpa!).

• Mindfulness and neuroscience
• Meditation teaching
• Positive psychology and mindset

Rachel is an Integrative Health Coach and accredited Meditation Teacher. She holds membership with the International Institute for Complimentary Therapists and Meditation Association of Australia.

She has practised meditation for almost 20 years, developing practices using various techniques. It has become an integral part of her daily life. Noticeably it has assisted her in cultivating a more compassionate and accepting way of being, lowering reactivity and managing anxiety.

After completing Meditation Teacher training in 2018 with Yoga & Integrated Medicine Institute, Rachel then went on to do an 8-week course as a participant in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. She knew this was the style of meditation she wanted to teach. She has completed intensive training in MBSR with the Mindfulness Training Institute of Australasia.

She enjoys completely immersing herself in ongoing personal and professional development with regular workshops, retreats and further training.

Rachel is extremely passionate about sharing her knowledge and holding space for others to learn and implement the life changing skills Mindfulness Meditation has to offer.

• Mindfulness and neuroscience
• Meditation teaching
• Positive psychology and mindset

Ramona is a qualified Mindfulness and Meditation teacher and owner of Tara Labyrinth & Meditation in Bundaberg. She holds a Diploma in Guiding and Teaching Meditation and Mindfulness from the Australian Centre for Mindfulness and Meditation and is currently studying a Masters of Meditation and Mindfulness. She has also done training in Mindfulness Meditation with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield through their Power of Awareness course and their two-year course “Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Programme”.

Ramona holds regular meditation classes from her traditional Mongolian yurt on her small acreage property near Bundaberg, in beautiful subtropical Queensland that she shares with her husband, their pooch, Bert and countless other wildlife. Ramona is also a Certified Veriditas Advanced Labyrinth Facilitator and has introduced many people to the benefits of walking meditation through her regular New Moon Labyrinth walks utilising the Labyrinth on her property. Before retiring almost two years ago, she was a midwife working within the public hospital system.

Ramona is passionate about living a mindful life and helping others to find their own sense of inner peace through the practice of meditation and mindfulness. She is also a member of the Meditation Association of Australia.

• Mindfulness and neuroscience
• Meditation teaching
• Positive psychology and mindset

Denise is an experienced mindfulness practitioner and regularly uses meditation and yoga to maintain and improve her mind and body health. She has used the training she received from a Buddhist teacher in Canberra to lead mindfulness classes for children and meditation sessions for small groups of adults. She has been using mindfulness and meditation in her daily life for more than a decade and accepts that it is a lifelong practice from which we can learn how to cope with the stresses and strains of modern life, but at the same time, grow spiritually. She is a qualified and experienced teacher with a background in science who has been tutoring and mentoring young people for many years. She has used this experience to bring a mutually respectful, supportive, and positive environment to her teaching so that each individual can feel comfortable and relaxed enough to focus on their own practice.

Denise has lived and worked in Australia, England and Germany. She has explored mindfulness through both religious and secular teachings and with many cultures and traditions through her travels to every continent. She strongly believes that mindfulness goes beyond all our differences of faith or custom and helps us to become more connected to our human family, and that of the living planet.

Denise is happy to work with individuals, small groups or classes, in private, and in workshop or class settings. She is particularly interested in working with children and young adults; to teach them how to use mindfulness as a tool to help cope with the challenges facing young people in this modern world.

Denise has a successful business based In Cairns, FNQ, where she offers mindfulness training, student coaching and mentoring across the Northern Beaches of Cairns.

• Mindfulness and neuroscience
• Meditation teaching
• Positive psychology and mindset

Michelle Eckles is a qualified and accredited Mindfulness Meditation teacher and owner of Meditation Sunshine Coast. She has been teaching mindfulness meditation programs and workshops to kids, teens and adults since 2018. She has completed qualifications in Guiding and Teaching Meditation (Australian Centre for Mindfulness and Meditation), Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training (Gawler Foundation) and Mindfulness for Peak Performance (Monash), as well as various courses for working with kids and teens. She is a member of the Australian Meditation Association and Mindful.org and author of Cultivating a Calm Mind.

Like most people, Michelle began meditating during a particularly challenging time in her life — completely overwhelmed and about to hit rock bottom. Meditation helped her bounce back to lead a far more peaceful and balanced life, as well as find clarity, focus and direction. As a single parent of two teens, carer to her grandmother, and an events manager pre COVID, she understands high pressure roles, work and family related stress and the impact it can have on our health and relationships.

She is now dedicated to educating others on the benefits of mindfulness and meditation to not only reduce and prevent stress and anxiety, but to also create empathy and compassion, so we can be kinder to ourselves and others. She enjoys bringing the practical applications of mindfulness to the workplace and home, to demonstrate the profound mental, emotional and physical benefits it can have in our day to day life.

• Mindfulness and neuroscience
• Meditation teaching
• Positive psychology and mindset

Neil is a very experienced and qualified mindfulness educator who loves making a difference and helping people thrive!

He is an internationally certified HeartMath™ resilience and stress management coach and mentor and helps build awareness, personal resilience and stress management skills using advanced resilience building and science-backed techniques with biofeedback.

Neil trained with Dr. Joe Dispenza and studied the neuroscience behind mindfulness and meditation, and trained with Dr. Russ Harris in mindfulness-based ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). He completed Google’s Search Inside Yourself Leadership program and is a Peaceful Kids and Peaceful Parents facilitator.

The various mindfulness practices learnt over the past 20 years are an integral part of Neil’s life. He loves learning and growing and helping people develop invaluable life skills especially in times where self-awareness, self-regulation, stress management and resilience are so important. He believes that life is to experience, not to struggle with!

• Mindfulness and neuroscience
• Meditation teaching
• Positive psychology and mindset

Kirti is a devoted Vipassana and MBSR practitioner. She was introduced to meditation at the age of 10 by her grandfather who was a dedicated yoga practitioner in India. Since then, she’s had a strong inclination towards working on self through various techniques of meditation. Her fondness for meditation took the form of regular committed practice. It became a way of living for her a few years ago when she used alternative therapy and meditation to avoid surgery and cure her chronic medical condition. She has firsthand experience of what can be achieved in personal health and in life with meditation and mindfulness.

• Mindfulness and neuroscience
• Meditation teaching
• Positive psychology and mindset

Catherine is a dedicated practitioner and teacher of mindfulness and meditation. She began practising in 2000 and meditation has inspired profound growth and positive change within her life. Catherine completed a meditation course early on in her practice and has expanded this practice through many silent retreats. Catherine began a study of mindfulness and specifically the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn. She has completed the 8-week MBSR course herself twice and went on to train as an MBSR teacher with the Mindfulness Training Institute Australia and New Zealand in 2017.

She is extremely passionate about teaching meditation and loves to create a safe and welcoming space for people to connect with themselves and others to learn the wonderful practice of meditation. She has taught the MBSR course for a couple of years now as well as an ongoing Meditation/Mindful Movement classes.

She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and continues to work in a corporate environment, understanding the day-to-day challenges of these roles. Supplementing her studies, she completed a Graduate Diploma of Applied Psychology and currently volunteers in this capacity. Catherine has a wealth of life experience to draw from, informing her empathetic approach to teaching and being with people.

When Catherine is not working, she likes to hang out with her family and friends, do yoga, meditation, sing and play music and exercise.

Catherine has a strong interest in research-based approaches that bring together the strength of modern science and ancient wisdom to help empower people and familiarise themselves with their own mind and body.

She is deeply grateful to developers and teachers of MBSR/MBCT, and her other precious teachers and friends from various walks of life. Catherine believes everyone has a story and there is an opportunity to learn from every interaction.

• Mindfulness teacher training and supervision
• Meditation teaching
• Radical self-acceptance

Karl is the founder of Mindfulenss Works. Over 40,000 people have completed the Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation course that Karl created. He has over 20 years in-depth mindfulness and meditation experience, having studied one on one with mindfulness teachers as well as attending silent meditation retreats. Karl leads a team of 60 mindfulness and meditation teachers across New Zealand and Australia.

• Mindfulness teacher training and supervision
• Meditation teaching
• Radical self-acceptance

Michelle has spent the last decade seeking ways to alleviate stress and now shares her findings with others. Through this journey, she has discovered the healing
modalities of mindfulness, meditation, laughter therapy and sound healing to achieve inner calm.

Michelle’s mission is to help others feel better about themselves and contribute to reducing stress in the world. She believes that we must return home to ourselves to find joy, inner peace, and retain our natural, authentic expression. From this place, we can positively influence the World around us.

With more 25 years of experience and relevant qualifications in business and finance, Michelle is also a certified Mindfulness & Meditation Teacher/Mentor, a
Diploma-qualified Sound Healer, and a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader.

Michelle’s business, Be Soothed, is a wellness consultancy.

• Mindfulness teaching and mentoring
• Mindfulness and stress reduction
• Embodied Mindfulness via Sound Healing and Laughter Yoga therapy

Natalie has been at the forefront of social change for over 20 years working in community and education inspiring sustainable change in individuals, families, communities and organisations.

Natalie has spent most of her life exploring the human condition and how we can create change with knowledge and education. She has formal qualifications in Adult Education, Community Welfare, Meditation Facilitation and Visual Arts and is an accredited NLP practitioner and coach.

Natalie is a self-confessed over-worker and achiever who discovered the benefits of mindfulness in overcoming her attachment to the constant lure of ‘busyness and overworking’, a pattern that affected her health manifesting in chronic back pain. Mindfulness has enabled her to be more present with each moment as it arises, accepting the pain and the joy of life without wanting to fix or improve it. Mindfulness has allowed her to heal her pain and return to her life’s work of supporting others to manage pain and life’s challenges and to experience greater peace, wellbeing and joy.

• Embodied mindfulness (including yoga)
• Non-dual meditation
• Trauma informed practices and healing

Catherine Sherlock is a certified Mindfulness Works teacher. She specialises in education and training focused on developing the psychological skills and resources needed to navigate the ups and downs of life.

Catherine draws on her qualifications as a yoga therapist, a non-dual meditation teacher, and a positive neuroplasticity trainer, as well as her many years of life experience and personal development work that have helped her navigate significant challenges and difficulties.

• Embodied mindfulness (including yoga)
• Non-dual meditation
• Trauma informed practices and healing

Wellbeing and leadership specialist, mindfulness and yoga teacher and founder of consultancy, Insight Governance, Helene teaches and coaches groups and individuals how to manage the demands of contemporary life for greater ease, resilience and life purpose.

Her teachings are informed by her own experiential practice in a variety of yoga and meditation styles as well as formal teacher training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness and Compassion and Yoga as well as academic studies – Master of Health and Social Wellbeing (Nan Tien Institute) and Bachelor of Applied Biology (UTS) and a career in senior leadership roles in the public and NFP sector.

With an interest in mind body science and wellbeing since her teenage years, Helene has been prompted to explore challenging situations throughout her life, usually after unpleasant emotional and physical symptoms, through the use of embodied yoga, mindfulness, compassion and boundless heart practices with profound impact. Her desire is to impart her knowledge and understanding to her students and clients and assist them in using their inner resources to achieve balance and perspective in their health and mental wellbeing for greater ease, connection and joy in their lives and communities.

• Embodied mindfulness (including yoga)
• Non-dual meditation
• Trauma informed practices and healing

Karen is a Mindfulness Educator and Clinical Hypnotherapist who specialises in stress management and chronic pain Management. Karen is also a Registered Nurse and has over 8 years’ experience as a corporate trainer creating, developing and delivering education and facilitating workshops to professionals.

Topics including mindfulness and stress management build strong relationships in team and health-related topics, for example, sleep, downtime, enhancing energy levels naturally. Also teaching coaching skills, advanced communication skills, behavioural change and assisting people to identify their inspiration, values, purpose and passion, change management, goal setting and working on making committed action and overcoming barriers.

Karen is qualified in self-compassion mindfulness through the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) and has studied extensively ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy, a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy). She is also a qualified mentor/coach with HeartMath Institute specialising in building resilience. She has a keen interest in neuroscience and has studied with Dr Sarah McKay from the Neuroscience Academy, Applied Neuroscience and Brain Health course. She also has a Certificate, Diploma and Master Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy.

Karen works with people individually or in groups using mindfulness education and therapy as well as clinical hypnotherapy. And she offers a free half–hour discovery session which is totally without obligation; it is an opportunity to discuss and explore people’s aspirations and needs are then how we might work together.

Karen is passionate about empowering people to acquire the skills needed to reduce stress and suffering, improve life experience and find joy in all that they do.

• Embodied mindfulness (including yoga)
• Non-dual meditation
• Trauma informed practices and healing

Katrin wholeheartedly believes that your wellbeing matters and that everyone is inherently worthy of a life of vibrant health and happiness. It is her mission to inspire, empower and educate to spread this message.

Her background in Customer Service, Workplace Training and Early Childhood Education has seen her working within her local community for over 30 years (most recently with young children and families). She has worked within the metropolitan water industry, local council and in various early childhood education settings around Australia.

Always seeking to deeply nurture her own wellbeing throughout the different stages of her life, Katrin has experienced anxiety, depression and overwhelm and for many years pushed through stress/exhaustion trying to do it ‘all’ and hoping to achieve life balance.

Katrin found mindfulness over 20 years ago as she began practising yoga and found it to be a life changing practice. She was able to deeply reconnect with herself. This had a profound impact on her quality of life on many levels and greatly improved her wellbeing. The benefits of greater calm, joy and ease had a flow-on effect to all aspects of her life. This has been reiterated in recent years as she has navigated a career-ending knee injury which took her on a further journey of deep healing that continues to this day.

She now enjoys a joyful, slow-living lifestyle and loves to share her experience with others.

Katrin is happily settled in the Riverina region of NSW, Australia where she lives with her family. She now works from home, running her own coaching service, where she supports others as they seek to improve their health and wellbeing.

• Embodied mindfulness (including yoga)
• Non-dual meditation
• Trauma informed practices and healing