Carly Dober
Yoga Teacher
Carly has always loved being physically active. She has surfed and swam from childhood, and progressed to weight lifting, muay thai, yoga, hiking and running in her late teens to the present day. The connection of a healthy body and healthy mind is something that Carly values, and seeks to support others with.
Yoga became a strong daily practice for Carly when she was struggling with significant sleep issues, and the physical, emotional and psychological benefits started to make themselves known to her.
Qualifications: 200 hour yoga trainer and registered with the Yoga Alliance, Psychologist registered with AHPRA.
Brian Yates
Cardio Tennis Coach
Physical exercise and helping the community has been a key element of Brian’s life from a kid. Brian is a great advocate of exercise for both physical and mental health.
Brian is a registered cardio tennis coach with TA and is an avid cyclist and trains either on the bike or in the gym daily. Brian also assists with Mood Active’s risk management processes.
Cameron Wilson
Founder/Cardio Tennis Coach
Cam Wilson is Co-Founder of Mood Active (2013) and a Tennis Australia certified coach. He has decades of personal experience using exercise as therapy for depression and anxiety. Cam‘s classes feature his own music mixes - plenty of disco, pop, soul, and good old Aussie rock’n’roll!
Caroline Friend
Yoga Teacher
Caroline spent 22 years running a business while raising her family. She attempted to manage the stresses of daily life with a regular fitness regime, but it wasn’t until she attended a yoga class that she experienced an emotional release unlike anything she had known before, and so her yoga journey began.
Having discovered deep transformation and positive change that yoga brought within her life, and becoming a dedicated practitioner of yoga and mindfulness (introduced through MBSR), Caroline was keen to expand her knowledge and completed over 500 hours of training including 350 hours of training at Sukha Mukha with Idit Hefer and Katie Menastis. She has also trained with Jasmine Tarkeshi, Donna Farhi, Ari Levaneal and Marianne Edwards and will forever be a dedicated student of yoga. Caroline also regularly attends silent retreats in the insight tradition to deepen her personal mindfulness practice.
Through breath and movement uniting the mind and body, Caroline is passionate about sharing the possibilities for self-discovery, connectedness and freedom that yoga offers.
Cathy Lloyd-Prowse
Group Fitness Instructor
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.
Khalil Saab
Boxercise trainer
Owner of Tszyu boxing club and Killa boxing equipment, I have about 20 years of boxing experience, competed at the highest level and trained some world champions such as Billy Dib, Tim Tszyu and Sakio Bika.
I run boxing programs and private sessions at the boxing club, I have studied and been involved in fitness for the last 10 years specializing in strength and conditioning.
Naomi Blair
Personal Trainer
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 Curley
Trainer
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 IV in Fitness.
Tania is also a leadership facilitator and coach.
Cathy Sparkes
Yoga Instructor
Cathy (aka Sparkles) had ‘done Yoga’ on and off for a number of years but became a dedicated practitioner at the end of 2016 resulting in completing her teacher training in 2019. She loves the practice of Yoga as a perfect blend of physical, mental and spiritual disciplines. Coming to the mat brings a deep sense of joy, calm and presence. Sparkles teaching style is interactive, offering both intense Vinyasa flows, that will challenge the participant to step into the fire and cleanse their body and mind; and a slow, mindful flow, that maintains a sense of challenge while focusing on postures to centre and ground. The philosophy of Yoga practice, meditation and mantra are areas of ongoing study and interest for Sparkles and she weaves these themes throughout her classes. She brings her love and dedication to ongoing practice to each class in the hope of igniting a love of Yoga for her students on their own Yoga pathway.
Jon Rohde
Facilitator/Trainer
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
Yoga Instructor
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.
Emily
Yoga Instructor
Emily loves being physically active and it’s a daily ritual for her, whether it’s walking her dog, hitting the gym or practising yoga.
Since her first yoga class in 2005 she fell passionately in love with it as a philosophy and a way of life. Emily is a fun, enthusiastic teacher who cares deeply about her students. She believes yoga is a pathway to better mental health and physical well-being and takes great joy in sharing the practice.
Qualifications: The Yoga Institute 500 hour, BodyMindLife 200 hour, Mother Nurture 50 hour Pre-Natal, Registered with Yoga Australia
Siobhan
Group Fitness Instructor
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.
Glenn
Group Fitness Instructor
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.
Ella
Group Fitness Trainer - Barre
Ella is a certified barre instructor (STOTT Total Barre), with a background in classical ballet. She enjoys barre as a form of mindful movement, stretching and strengthening both the mind and muscles! She motivates her clients to celebrate their bodies’ capabilities, through fun sequences and controlled movement, always ending the class with a relaxing stretch.
Ella’s interest in exercise spans wider than barre alone - she is no stranger to the tennis court, hockey pitch or doing laps of Centennial Park on foot or bike! She loves how each form of exercise benefits another.
Simon
Yoga Instructor
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
Yoga Instructor
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.
Jessica Manifold
Yoga Instructor
Origionally from Ireland, Jessica moved to Australia in 2012 to enjoy the great outdoors, without the rain! She’s practiced yoga for over 10 years and completed her teacher training in 2016. Jessica continued her yoga journey in 2019 by completing her Yin Yoga training with Mel McLaughin.
Jessica teaches Hatha slow flow yoga, a slow and mindful vinyasa style class, mixed with relaxing yin poses to really stretch out the body and relax the mind.
In addition to yoga, Jessica enjoys an active lifestyle, making time each day to walk, cycle or run - she’s working towards her first triathlon next year!
Lauren Fell
Fitness Instructor
Lauren loves to help people enjoy exercise. She has been in the fitness industry for a number of years, working with community groups and at Active Kingston - a council facility in Melbourne.
She enjoys including her children in exercise, but also loves some time by herself to run, lift weights, swim and practise martial arts. Over the years, she has found that exercise is a great boost for mental and physical health and loves to share her experience with other people.
Ryan McLennan
Fitness Instructor
Ryan believes that exercise is a crucial tool in helping people manage chronic conditions, physical or mental, as well as improving quality of life. Ryan’s particular area of interest is resistance based training, such as weight lifting.
Ryan is an accredited exercise scientist and is currently completing his Master’s of Exercise Physiology, with plans to graduate in June 2021.
Lorraine
Yoga Instructor
It all started when she attended her first yoga retreat in the middle of a major life change...a career in property law, 2 young children and a marriage breakdown.. a yoga retreat was all it took...
She has been practising yoga for 6 years but has always had a focus on fitness/health mind and body at a young age.
She attended retreats/workshops in Bali, Italy and Greece which deepened her practice. She teaches Hatha and Vinyasa – to create magic in my classes.
Her training - Swami’s at Kenthurst and YogaRenew Teacher Training.
She has run 2 City2Surfs. Loves the beach and nature.
Catherine Pampallis
Yoga Instructor
Catherine is a professional Yoga Teacher and Breath Coach, obtained her initial 200-hour yoga teaching certification in Rishikesh India and since then has done further training in Chair Yoga, Body Poetry Yoga and Breath Coaching. Influenced by her teachers, yogic philosophy, life experience and Mother Nature, her goal is to teach in a way that provokes thought and meaning, to help liberate her students both physically and mentally and have them leave feeling relaxed, refreshed and renewed.
Catherine’s past involved a lot of Chronic Stress and burn out. Yoga and other healing modalities have deeply transformed her life and she is now on a mission to help others connect back to their bodies and find what feels good for them too.
Accreditation
We’re not a registered NDIS provider ourselves, however we work with NDIS Providers.
Unfortunately we are not Medicare funded.