Gemma-Lee ~ Principal Practitioner & Owner Brightwater Wellness Hub

Holistic Counsellor | Lifestyle Coach | Business Consultant | Mentor

Have you ever had the feeling that the life you're living isn't quite the one you were designed for?

Gemma-Lee has been sitting with that question — and helping people answer it — since 2017. As the founder of Phynix By Design and the heart behind Brightwater Wellness Hub, she has spent nearly a decade guiding people through the moments that feel too heavy to carry alone: the anxiety that won't quiet, the relationships that have lost their way, the grief that sits heavy in the chest, and the quiet knowing that there has to be more than this.

Her approach is genuinely holistic — combining counselling with meditation, mindfulness, and energy work to support the whole of you: mind, body, and spirit. And here's what makes her space different: she won't hand you a label and send you on your way. You'll work through what you're carrying together, gently and at your own pace, so you can move forward without it defining who you are.

Her formal training spans holistic counselling, life coaching, intuitive spiritual healing, and yoga — recognised through the IICT and HHAI — alongside almost two decades of real-world business experience and formal qualifications in consulting and management. She holds a current Blue Card, approved to work with children and young people in Queensland. That combination of the deeply human and the professionally grounded is exactly what her clients find so rare.

📅 Available Tuesday to Saturday

Aline ~ Senior Spa Massage Therapist & Energy Healer

Sometimes the body holds things words can't reach. That's where Aline comes in.

Aline (pronounced ah-LEE-nee) is a Senior Spa Massage Therapist and Energy Healer whose work goes well beyond relaxation — though you'll certainly leave feeling that too. Her day spa services include massage therapy, body treatments, facials, and energy healing, each session thoughtfully tailored to meet you exactly where you are.

What makes Aline's approach so distinctive is the way she weaves the physical, the energetic, and the restorative together. Over more than eight years working in luxury spa settings and wellness studios across New Zealand and Australia — including running her own wellness studio for six years — she has developed an intuitive understanding of what the body needs and how to create the conditions for genuine healing and renewal.

Her training spans the therapeutic and the sacred: over 800 hours of yoga teacher training across three internationally accredited programs, holistic therapist certification, and years of hands-on practice integrating sound healing, aromatherapy, and somatic techniques. While Aline doesn't teach yoga classes, that depth of study is very much alive in the way she holds space and moves with each client's needs.

Whether you're seeking relief from tension you've been carrying for months, a reset from the inside out, or simply a few sacred hours to come back to yourself — Aline's care creates the conditions for all of it.

📅 Available Monday to Friday, and select Saturdays each month

Amanda ~ Senior Spa Beauty Therapist

Life is full. Your to-do list is long. And you — yes, you — deserve to be looked after properly.

Amanda is a Senior Spa Beauty Therapist with over 22 years of experience as a qualified beauty therapist — experience that spans not just treatment rooms, but the ownership and management of her own day spas across her career. That breadth of background means she brings both exceptional hands-on skill and a genuine understanding of what a truly restorative client experience looks and feels like.

She offers a wide range of spa and beauty therapies including massage, body treatments, facials, lash and brow services, waxing, and nail care, all delivered with the kind of attention to detail that only comes from decades of dedicated practice. Amanda works exclusively with Eminence Organic Skin Care — the premium botanical range used throughout the Brightwater day spa — ensuring every facial and skin treatment delivers results as good as they feel.

Whether you're treating yourself or someone you love, Amanda's calm presence and practised hands make the experience as restorative as the treatment itself.

📅 Available select Saturdays each month

Christine ~ Slow Flow Yoga & Restorative Yoga Teacher

When did you last give yourself permission to slow down — not just physically, but fully?

Christine has been holding space for exactly that for more than 16 years. As a Slow Flow and Restorative Yoga teacher, her classes are an invitation to move with intention, breathe with awareness, and rest without guilt — in a space where there is no rush and no pressure to be anywhere other than exactly where you are.

Her Tuesday morning Slow Flow sessions offer a grounded, mindful start to the week, while her monthly Restorative Yoga class (last Sunday of each month) is the kind of deeply held stillness that many students find genuinely life-giving.

Whether you're new to yoga or returning to the mat, Christine's warm, accessible teaching style makes every class feel like coming home.

📅 Tuesdays 9am — Slow Flow Yoga

📅 Last Sunday of the month, 3:30pm — Restorative Yoga

Desiree (Dez) ~ Yin Yoga & Restorative Yoga Teacher

What if your yoga class could meet you not just in your body, but in your whole experience of being human?

Dez brings over 15 years as a trauma-informed Social Work professional to every class she teaches — alongside more than 300 hours of yoga teacher training. The result is a space that feels genuinely safe, deeply unhurried, and free of the pressure to perform or keep up.

Her classes weave together somatic awareness, nervous system support, and intentional movement to create something more than a workout. Tuesday Restorative Movement classes, Thursday Yin Yoga + Sound Healing sessions, and her monthly Sunday Restorative Yoga + Yoga Nidra practice each offer their own quality of restoration — and students consistently leave feeling not just stretched, but held.

All bodies, all experience levels, all of you — welcome.

📅 Tuesdays 6pm — Restorative Movement Yoga

📅 Thursdays 6pm — Yin Yoga + Sound Healing

📅 Second Sunday of the month, 3:30pm — Restorative Yoga + Yoga Nidra (90 min)

Wayne ~ Principal Practitioner

Reiki Master | Qigong Instructor

What if your body already knew how to heal itself — and just needed the right invitation?

Wayne is a certified Qigong instructor and Reiki Master on a mission to share one of the most underrated wellness practices around. Qigong is a gentle, restorative exercise therapy rooted in classical Oriental medicine — combining slow, deliberate movements with mindful breathing to activate the body's innate self-healing abilities. Think: more energy, better balance, calmer emotions, sharper focus, and improved circulation — all through movement that is genuinely accessible to every body, every fitness level, and every age.

Wayne's passion for Qigong is infectious, and his classes are designed to feel restorative rather than challenging — making this a wonderful entry point for anyone curious about energy-based movement and holistic wellbeing.

📅 Saturdays 7am

Kate ~ Principal Practitioner

Neurological Integration System (NIS)

Reiki | Breathwork

What if the symptoms you've been managing for years have a root cause your body already knows how to fix — it just needs someone to help it remember?

Kate Sawyer is the founder of Blue Sky Mind, and her work sits at a genuinely fascinating intersection of science and soul. Her specialty, Neurological Integration System (NIS), is a non-invasive, science-based approach that works with the body's own central nervous system to restore healthy function. Using gentle muscle testing, an NIS session identifies where the brain has lost clear communication with specific body systems — then facilitates the reconnection. No force, no guesswork, no one-size-fits-all protocols. Just your body, doing what it was designed to do.

Kate holds an Associate Degree in Health Science — completed specifically to qualify as an NIS practitioner — along with certifications in Reiki, Breathwork, and Emotion Code. Her clients include mums navigating the pace of family life, professionals feeling the weight of a high-pressure career, and people who've tried many things and haven't yet found lasting relief.

Twelve years ago, Kate was one of those people. Unexplained health issues, no clear answers, and a discovery of NIS that changed everything. That experience is what drives her work today.

📅 Available Fridays

Lisa ~ Principal Practitioner

Holistic Therapist | Clinical Nutritionist | Wellness Practitioner

Have you ever wished someone would look at the whole picture — not just the symptom in front of them?

Lisa brings more than 20 years of experience and a genuinely integrative approach to every consultation at Sage Healing Holistic Therapy. As a registered nutritionist and holistic practitioner with diplomas in Holistic Therapy, Remedial Massage, Reflexology, and Master Herbalism, her scope of practice is broad — but her lens is always whole-person.

Her signature Personal Wellness Plan considers sleep, nutrition, exercise, and the specific body systems that need the most support, pulling everything together into a roadmap that is tailored entirely to you. Her particular areas of focus include oncology support, autoimmune conditions, and pain management — complex health journeys that require both depth of knowledge and genuine care.

If you're ready to stop managing symptoms and start understanding the underlying story your body is telling, Lisa is a wonderful guide for that conversation.

📅 Availability varies — contact Lisa directly to find a time that works for you

Peggie ~ Principal Practitioner

Naturopath | Craniosacral Therapist | Herbalist

What if the most powerful thing a practitioner could do is simply help your body remember what it already knows?

Peggie is a Naturopath, Herbalist, and CranioSacral Therapist whose work is built on exactly that premise. Her CranioSacral Therapy practice is particularly distinctive — a gentle, hands-on approach that works with the body's own rhythms to support nervous system regulation, release deeply held tension, and create space for genuine rest and repair. It's non-invasive, profoundly calming, and often transformative for people who've tried many approaches without finding lasting relief.

As a Naturopath and Herbalist, Peggie brings a comprehensive whole-person lens to health — drawing on Functional Medicine, Western and Eastern herbal traditions, and holistic nutrition to support everything from hormonal health and chronic stress to perimenopause and cancer care. Her sessions are unhurried, deeply attentive, and genuinely safe — especially for those who have found other healthcare environments overwhelming.

If your nervous system has been running on empty, or you've been searching for someone who will truly see the full picture of your health, Peggie's care is a beautiful place to land.

📅 Availability varies — contact Peggie directly to find a time that works for you

Jess ~ Principal Practitioner

Post Natal Mama’s Yoga

Motherhood is extraordinary. It is also, if we're being honest, completely relentless.

Jess knows this intimately — not just as a yoga teacher, but as a mum herself. It was becoming a mother to her own energetic toddler that sparked everything: a yoga practice she'd had for years suddenly became something more. She saw, firsthand, how much movement, breath, and community could ease the overwhelm, restore a sense of self, and make the wild ride of motherhood feel a little lighter.

So she completed her yoga teacher training, and Earthed Mama was born.

What Jess brings to her postnatal classes goes deeper than the mat. She is also a Registered Nurse, holds a Masters in Nutrition, and is trained in Breathwork Coaching and Reiki — which means when she creates a space for mums to unwind, recharge, and feel seen, she's drawing on a genuinely rich understanding of what mothers actually need.

Expect gentle movement, breath work, and the kind of relaxation that actually fills you back up. And a community of women who get it.

📅 Saturdays 3pm

Nicole ~ Principal Practitioner

Bowen Therapist

Have you been carrying pain or tension your body just can't seem to release — no matter what you try?

Nicole understands that feeling more personally than most. After a car accident in 2017 left her managing persistent neck pain with regular medication, she worked her way through modality after modality without lasting relief. Then she came across Bowen Therapy — and it changed everything. The relief was so significant that five years later, she completed her accredited Bowtech training (the only nationally accredited Bowen course in Australia) and began offering this gentle, powerful approach to others.

Bowen Therapy is non-invasive and deeply relaxing. Using precise, gentle movements across the fascia — the connective tissue network running throughout the body — a session invites the nervous system to reset, release deeply held tension, and return to a more balanced state. The deliberate pauses woven through every session are part of the therapy: giving your body the time it needs to listen, integrate, and respond in its own intelligent way.

Sessions are tailored, unhurried, and suitable for a wide range of concerns — from musculoskeletal discomfort and chronic tension to stress and general wellbeing.

📅 Available Thursdays

Kurt ~ Principal Practitioner

Self-Defence Instructor | Trauma-Aware Coach

When did you last walk through the world feeling genuinely safe and confident in your own body?

Kurt Williams has spent over 30 years answering that question — for himself, and now for others. His journey has taken him through 30+ years of martial arts training across Judo, Boxing, Muay Thai, and Krav Maga; through coaching his first boxing champion in Perth at just 24; through running women's self-defence programs in some of Birmingham's toughest areas; and through working as a close protection bodyguard for media personalities. He holds qualifications in self-defence instruction, breakaway techniques, situational awareness, reasonable force, and close protection — maintained with annual refreshers — alongside a Diploma in Criminology that underpins everything he teaches.

But here's what matters most about Kurt's classes: they are not about aggression or fighting. They're about awareness. Confidence. Practical, real-world skills that genuinely work — for any age, any fitness level, any background.

Kurt's teaching style is trauma-aware, encouraging, and (ask anyone who's trained with him) genuinely fun. If you've ever wanted to feel more prepared and more at ease in everyday life, this is where that begins.

📆 Saturdays 5pm & Sundays 10am -

12-week Program (2 6-week blocks)

Taygan ~ Yin Yoga & Restorative Yoga Teacher

Currently on extended personal leave

Ellis ~ Mindful Yoga Teacher

currently on further education leave