Our Trainers

Cathy is an accredited personal trainer, group fitness instructor and coach. For the past 13 years Cathy owned and ran her own fitness business, Mums the Word Fitness.

In this role she helped many mums with post-natal depression by providing fun varied outdoor training sessions.

She was very proud of the Mums the word fitness community she created, bringing likeminded people together and brings this experience to Mood Active.

Cathy knows firsthand how being active lifts your mood. Exercise helped her after her she gave birth to her son.

Juliette is a certified fitness instructor and stretch therapy teacher and an accredited gymnastic coach. She’s been active since she was young and has trained in dance, aerial acrobatics circus and gymnastics.

Juliette is passionate about promoting holistic health and fitness and has seen the power of exercise to improve mental health, as well as creating balanced bodies that are strong, mobile and flexible. Juliette has lived experience with depression and anxiety and feels grateful for the support and help she received form the community, whilst on her healing journey. Volunteering as a personal Trainer with Mood Active is Juliette’s way of giving back.

Naomi has been active her whole life, participating in physical culture, gymnastics, athletics, yoga, altitude training and weight lifting. She recently qualified as a Personal Trainer from the Australian Institute of Fitness. Upon discovering Mood Active whilst doing research for an assignment, Naomi knew she had to get involved with Mood Active as it aligns with her values so well.

Naomi loves the sense of achievement physical activity can bring and has personally used exercise as treatment for anxiety. She wishes to share this coping strategy with others and motivate people to discover just how they good they can feel.

Tania has been with Mood Active since 2013 working as a volunteer Events and Marketing Manager and then Funding and Sponsorship Manager.

Tania is now the General Manager of Mood Active. Tania holds a Masters in Coaching Psychology, Masters in Strategy HRM, a BA in Tourism Management, and a Cert III in Fitness.

Tania is also a leadership facilitator and coach.

Jon has been involved with Mood Active since 2013, having regularly attended Cardio Tennis classes run by Cameron Wilson.
He found Mood Active ‘ticked all the boxes’ for his own management of depression.
Exercising in a small group, learning a skill or technique, from a coach with lived experience, really worked for him.
He found participating in his own recovery empowering and has continued to support and promote the Mood Active philosophy and community through fundraising events & sponsorship sourcing.
Jon has witnessed the growth of Mood Active class offerings and variety and now aims to run fun, physical cardio tennis classes of his own
He has completed a Community Coaching Course and is a current member of TA as a Trainee Coach

Jade initially turned to yoga as a way to switch off from her busy life and hasn’t looked back since. She loves that yoga is a low impact form of exercise which will still stretch and strengthen the body.

Jade has been teaching yoga at Mood Active since July 2019 and also assists with Mood Active’s marketing and writes exercise posts for the blog.

Siobhan has a Cert. III in fitness and has worked in gyms for many years, experiencing firsthand the important role exercise plays in managing mental health and building self-confidence. To her, volunteering with MoodActive is an opportunity to share her enthusiasm for active living, and to help build a connected, supportive community for those suffering with mental health.

Fitness, exercise and helping others are passions for Glenn - and assorted him in improving not only his physical health but his mental well-being. His focus is to impart his excitement and love for fitness on to others.

Glenn is a qualified Personal Trainer through the Australian Institute of Fitness and accredited Level 1 Boxing trainer through Punchfit. If Glenn isn’t training or throwing punches into a bag, he is out running or at the beach having a swim.

Following various long stays in India and other Himalayan countries, Simon has shifted his yoga’ skills from his semi-professional gymnast background to a stronger focus on traditional knowledge, working on the body, mind and spirit at the same time.
His teachings have an emphasis on a holistic approach of yoga, with classes combining asana with pranayama and concentration techniques. His quest to promote well-being through mind control is supported by his current psychology and energy healing studies.

Brooke teaches vinyasa and yin yoga weekly at Connect the Dots. She came to yoga as a form of exercise, but soon found asana offered a sense of safety and wholeness in her body. Brooke turned to yoga as a refuge for anxiety, depression and trauma as she faced an incredibly dark period in her life. She undertook a 200hr Yoga Teacher Training with Janine Leagh in September 2018, and found this experience to be radically transformative. Brooke views yoga as an embodied philosophy and a way of life, a path she hopes to share with students in both a raw and playful way.

Jan’s classes have only one goal: to deepen your understanding of yourself and feeling better about it. With over 15 years of experience as yoga teacher and holistic health coach Jan can say with certainty that a deeper understanding of your life, your health and your wellbeing makes a world of difference. Jan’s personal journey towards yoga was to help him mentally feel better and deal with worry and anxiety. Having been exposed with depression and mantas stress from a very young age he can relate to the effects of it and how to support this. His yoga classes are not only physical. They incorporate tools and methods from Buddhist, Daoist, somatics, yoga and life’s philosophies and practices. He loves singing and often sings for you at the end of the class.