Mollie Cox is a Yoga Practitioner and Senior Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher with over 1,000 hours of Yoga Teacher and iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation training. She is an E-RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher) with Yoga Alliance Australia and International, and a Senior Level 3 Teacher with Yoga Australia. Additionally, she is a qualified Counsellor, Massage Therapist with 16 years of experience, and a licensed Mental Health First Aid Facilitator with Mental Health First Aid Australia. She is currently studying for a Cert 4 in Training & Assessment and upskilling in Yoga Therapy for those living with acquired brain injuries.

Jala Yoga®, founded by Mollie, is registered as an internationally recognized yoga school with Yoga Alliance and offers trauma-informed yoga teacher trainings.

Mollie’s teaching methods draw from Ashtanga, Iyengar, Hatha, and Yin Yoga, as well as Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy. She also teaches iRest Yoga Nidra, Meditation, and Pranayama. Mollie’s approach is trauma-informed, making yoga accessible to a wide demographic of bodies, ages, and minds. She believes there is no one way of doing anything, reflecting this in her teachings through various methods to access all forms of practice. With a background in gymnastics, yoga, and various forms of movement spanning over 25 years, she has a thorough understanding of human anatomy and movement. Her passion for neuroscience and research allows her to teach from an evidence-based approach.

Mollie is based on the Southern Gold Coast for most of the year. When she is not there, she is either in India facilitating teacher trainings or hosting retreats, or practicing with her teachers Mark Robberds and Deepika Mehta in India or Bali.

Practicing yoga since the age of 15, Mollie intensified her learning in the Ashtanga method from the age of 20. The lineage of her practice and teaching approach includes Richard Miller, Sharath Jois and the Jois family, BKS Iyengar, BNS Iyengar, Swami Veda, and Swami Rama.

Mollie teaches in an open, light-hearted manner while honoring the source of yoga, making it accessible to all levels of practitioners. Her aim is to hold space for each individual and meet them wherever they are in their body and mind.

She specialises in teaching yoga for complex mental health, chronic pain, chronic health conditions, and disabilities in a one-to-one context. Mollie creates a warm, welcoming, kind, and playful space for her clients to explore what yoga means to them, supporting them in building a home practice that suits their health goals and values.

She has worked extensively with kids and young people in high schools and through Headspace, educating groups on how yoga and meditation can support mental health, physical health, and emotional intelligence.

Mollie also created and leads the Jala Yoga 350-hour Teacher Training alongside her team of Allied Health clinicians and educators. She is on a mission to elevate the standard of yoga education and contribute to the integration of trauma-informed care, yoga, science, and the clinical healthcare system.

She accepts referrals from rheumatologists, GPs, counsellors, social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, and other Allied Health practitioners who wish to incorporate trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness into their patient treatment plans.

Mollie offers trauma-informed yoga classes to self and plan-managed NDIS participants, as well as those seeking a trauma informed approach to private classes, tailored to their needs.

She also works in the education space, teaching how to use yoga to support mental health in high schools, healthcare conferences, and workplaces.

Mollie feels blessed to wake up and share the practice that brought her out of the darkest hours of her life. She is honoured to empower those she encounters to build their own practice and toolkit of shock absorbers for this wild ride we call life.