Kate B

Kate B has been a singer for as long as she can remember and first picked up the guitar when she was 14.  She has done everything musical short of playing in an orchestra… from folk to blues and cafes to weddings and community choirs.  Her journey has more recently carried her back to the world of chanting, mantra and kirtan, revisiting an old passion in the joy of creating uplifting sound with others.  Since this reconnection, the Ukelele and Celtic Harp have found their way into the musical landscape, supporting the original songs which seem to flow effortlessly now, fuelled by her true inspiration….  That is: sharing her love of voice and song to create a musical sanctuary, to connect us with others, provide refuge from the busi-ness of our everyday lives, quieten the mind and leave us with a deep sense of peace & joy.

Kate is also a Yoga Chi Gung teacher and Zenthai Shiatsu Therapist & Facilitator with a background in martial arts and dance. With two decades experience teaching, she loves sharing these healing arts with the community through treatments, classes and workshops, with the vision that through music and healing touch we can all experience greater wellbeing in our lives.

Allison Davies

Allison Davies creates online resources for parents, therapists and educators and works with schools to deliver professional development around the topics of childhood brain development, neurodivergence and the use of music as a regulatory tool. She is an independent liberatory scholar currently exploring the gatekeeping and classism of the social construct ‘musical vs non musical’.

Allison holds a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Teaching (University of New England, 2003), a Master of Music Therapy (University of Queensland, 2005) and Neurologic Music Therapy training (Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy, 2016).  A former Registered Music Therapist of 16 years, Alli left the Allied Health industry in 2021 in order to align her work more deeply with culturally responsive practices and to switch her focus from individual change to socio cultural change.

Alli is an autistic person with attention, sensory processing and executive functioning differences. She works within a neuro-affirming framework that favours acceptance and regulation over assimilation and intervention, and shares her lived experience of autism openly within her workshops and conferences as part of her ‘emotive storytelling mixed with science’ approach to education.

Alli was a recipient of the Telstra Best of Business Awards, Tasmanian winner, 2024 and is a regular contributor to online network ParentTV, and radio station ‘Vision Australia’.  She lives in the rainforest of Lutruwita and pays her deepest respect to the oldest continuing culture in the world, acknowledging that sovereignty of these lands, waterways and culture was never ceded.

Eileen Hartley

Born 1958, Albury, NSW, Australia, where I went to school, began working in a bank, met my husband and had three children. At 30 we moved to West Wyalong, NSW, for 6 years, where I worked as a Home Care Aide to the the elderly. A move to my current home of Morayfield Queensland, where I found and fell in love with yoga.
It began with yoga at home with yoga books and videos borrowed from the library (this was before internet and Google). I knew this was the answer for a way to heal my body and so joined a local gym and experienced my first yoga class. For 5 years I attended 4-5 classes a week.
My first teacher, Jo Moore of Yoga Rythyms, encouraged me to enter teacher training with her. So I quit my job, as a cleaner and began this incredible journey of self-discovery in January of 2007. As soon as I graduated, I began sharing the benefits I had experienced to others, by teaching at a couple of gyms and filling in for other teachers as often as I could.
Roll on to 2022, I teach 6 regular classes a week.
My classes are a mix of movement, mindfullness, breath awareness and stillness. I offer options because I remember at time when I couldn’t do some poses, and my wish is to make yoga available to others too.