Kate is the founder and creative behind Black Mat.​ With a background in building businesses, including several health and wellness spaces, she is passionate about creating environments that bring people together. 

 

Having spent over a decade as a Personal Trainer, her work explores the relationship between strength and stillness, and the balance between Yin and Yang.

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Kate guides Yin Yoga and Breathwork, creating practices that encourage people to slow down and feel. She believes we are all walking each other home.

Layla has completed over 500 hours of yoga teacher training and is a Trauma-Informed Integrative Somatic Practitioner. She also studies Non-Dual Śaiva Tantra.

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Her classes combine yoga, somatic movement and nervous system awareness, informed by her background in dance.

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Layla offers practices that encourage freedom, awareness and connection.

Nicole has spent the past decade studying and integrating yoga with a range of healing modalities, including dance, somatic practices, shamanic ceremony, Reiki and embodiment work.

 

Her classes encourage students to develop a deeper relationship with their body through movement, awareness and presence.

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Nicole sees yoga as a foundation for connection, integration and embodied practice.

Simon creates practices that encourage awareness, movement and self-inquiry.

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His classes respond to the people in the room, recognising that each practice is different.

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Through movement, breath and presence, Simon encourages students to build a deeper understanding of themselves and develop a practice that evolves over time.

Cei's teaching is grounded in yoga, movement and earth-based practices.

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Drawing on her experience across artistic expression, yogic studies and traditional wisdom, she creates practices that encourage presence, self-inquiry and connection to the body.

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Alongside her studio classes, Cei facilitates women's circles, retreats and rituals. Her work invites students to explore movement, awareness and the changing seasons of life with curiosity and intention.

Esther believes yoga is a practice that extends beyond the mat and into everyday life.

She combines traditional yoga, Sanskrit teachings and functional movement in her classes.

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As a qualified counsellor and mother of three, Esther has experience supporting emotional regulation, teen wellbeing, rehabilitation and oncology care.

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Her classes use movement, breath and presence to encourage greater awareness, balance and connection to self.

Petra has completed over 400 hours of teacher training across Hatha and Yin Yoga.

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Her classes draw on mindful movement, breath, fascia, Traditional Chinese Medicine and self-inquiry.

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She creates practices that encourage stillness, awareness and a deeper connection to self.

Kristie has practised yoga for more than 20 years and teaches from an alignment-focused approach.

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Her training includes Vinyasa with Power Living and Yin with Hugh Lee. She also brings experience working with injured athletes.

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Her classes offer strength, stability and options that allow students to practise in a way that suits their body.

Ben is a certified Breathwork Facilitator, Master NLP Practitioner and Mindset Coach.

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His work combines breath, nervous system awareness and mindset practices to support lasting change.

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Drawing from both professional training and personal experience, Ben creates structured sessions that help people move through patterns that no longer serve them.

A born kinaesthetic with a classical dance background, Gem deepened into the embodiment space when she realised her old performative ways of moving weren’t hitting the depths she desired - she simply wasn’t enjoying how she felt in her body because her nervous system was constantly in go mode.

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Now she inspires clients worldwide to connect to their embodied essence through movement, breath and somatic meditation techniques.

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Gem currently teaches yoga, somatic meditation and breathwork.

Lauren explores the connection between movement, the body and the natural world.

Her classes combine strength and softness through steady, flowing sequences that encourage awareness, presence and self-inquiry.

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Guided by the belief that a deeper connection to self supports greater clarity and balance, Lauren creates practices that invite students to slow down, move with intention and build a lasting relationship with their body.

Nadi has practised yoga for over 20 years and has been teaching for more than eight. She has taught throughout Australia and internationally.

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Her work draws on yoga, breathwork, trauma-informed practice, shamanic traditions and Eastern and Western philosophy.

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Nadi creates spaces that support self-awareness, nervous system regulation and connection to the body.he creates practices that encourage stillness, awareness and a deeper connection to self.

Arlia's teaching is shaped by a diverse movement background, including strength training, Muay Thai, Pilates, pole and dance.

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Her classes combine creative sequencing, strength, mobility and breath to develop confidence, body awareness and control.

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Arlia encourages students to explore movement with curiosity and build a practice that supports them both on and off the mat.

Tiff teaches steady, strength-focused classes with an emphasis on breath, control and mindful movement.

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She encourages students to work at their own edge while maintaining awareness throughout their practice.

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Her classes balance strength, curiosity and a practical approach to movement.practices to support lasting change.