meet the team!

JOANNE HAFEY (she/her)

Jo is a fully qualified Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner, acupuncturist, shiatsu therapist and Japanese yoga instructor with more than three decades of experience in the health and wellbeing industry. Passionate about bodywork and oriental therapies, Jo aims to empower her clients so they can know more about themselves, equipping them with the tools to be able to recognise the changes they require to improve their health.

In TCM, meditation and yoga, her focus is on transformation - she likes to educate her clients, making them aware of the nuances in their world impacting them. Jo has an extensive history of treating people for a wide range of health issues at her TCM clinic, but she has a particular focus on children and teenagers, women in mid life, sports injury rehabilitation and musculoskeletal issues. She has a passion for helping people realise their potential and to achieve better control over their health and wellbeing, especially those who have been marginalised or overlooked by traditional western approaches, by empowering them through alternative methods and strategies.

Jo trained with some of Australia’s first Japanese yoga teachers and her yoga classes are seasonally based, with a focus on the traditional five elements. She is continuing to deepen her self-care practice with her current mentors Josephine Spilka and Dr Jerry Alan Johnson, both highly accomplished Martial artists, Spiritual masters and TCM teachers.

She closely supports and guides her students through their sessions, resulting in them feeling a sense of spaciousness and freedom in their bodies, minds and soul. They feel cared for through their journey. Jo loves seeing people step into their greater selves as they find their own spark and regain joy in their life, feeling as if they can walk away and create the next part of their journey, embracing their bigger selves. Jo has worked on shiatsu standards for national industry bodies and associations; and she regularly runs extensive mentoring courses on seasonal living, based on TCM principles.

STEFAN BAGG (he/him)

Stefan has over 35 years experience as a qualified Teacher, Trainer, Instructor and Coach in a wide range of physical and academic pursuits. Amongst his many awards and qualifications, he has a B.App.Sci. in Human Movement, a Masters in Education, and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessing. Stefan is also a registered and qualified Associate Instructor in Tai Chi under the world renowned Professor Jesse Tsao of San Diego.

SAMANTHA HAFEY (she/her)

Samantha is delighted to be welcomed into the Ezense team as the resident sound healer, yoga instructor and head of course and workshop marketing. She considers herself a holistic performer, an actress and multi-disciplinary artist by trade, but also a lover of all things yogic and a great believer in ‘process’ over ‘product’. Inspired by her mother’s Okido Yoga and TCM roots, combined with her training* as a performer and experience as an elite athlete, Samantha weaves a unique and integrative teaching approach on and off of the mat.

*BA (Theatre) BMUS (Voice) Cert II, III (Acting) Level I & II (Estill), Level 1 Purna Yoga (200hrs)