Lead Facilitators

Sandey Hoskin

Lead Facilitator - EYT-200 ERYT-500 YACEP, 300hr Trauma Informed Facilitator

Sandey Hoskin is the Curator and Lead Facilitator of Inspire Yoga Teacher Training NZ, overseeing the 200-hour Foundational and 300-hour Advanced Training Programmes since 2014. With over a decade of experience in yoga education and facilitation, Sandey is dedicated to inspiring and empowering aspiring teachers to deepen their practice, refine their teaching skills, and, most importantly, realize their innate potential. Sandey’s own journey into yoga and the healing arts was born from a desire to break free from her own patterns of past conditioning, fueling her dedication to healing and growth.

Her journey began with a 200-hour Hot Yoga Teacher Training in Wellington, New Zealand, with her beloved teachers Claire Szabo Costello and Lou Costello, specialising in The Barkan Method. This ignited her lifelong love for yoga teaching and education. She has completed over 2,000 hours of training with renowned teachers such as Rod Stryker, Christopher (Hareesh) Wallis (Tantra Illuminated), Indu Arora, Amy Ippoliti, Lesley Kaminoff, Anodea Judith, Rocky Heron, Jules Mitchell (Anatomy & Biomechanics), Trina Altman, Mark Stephens (300-hour Advanced Training, 2016). Sandey has also trained with Janet Stone specialised programs in Mantra and Mindfulness based Stillness Meditation training with The Gawler Centre in Melbourne.

In addition to her yoga training, Sandey has extensive experience as a bodyworker in both sports and recreational settings, which informs her holistic approach to movement, healing, and spirituality. In 2021, she obtained a Certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, broadening her understanding in the area of somatics and trauma. She further deepened her expertise in this area with a 300-hour Trauma-Informed Facilitation Training completed in September 2024 with SomaPsych.

Currently, Sandey works in the sensitive claims area, applying her trauma-informed skills to support the well-being of individuals dealing with trauma. Her diverse background in bodywork, yoga, and trauma therapy allows her to guide students and clients through meaningful transformational journeys with compassion, understanding, and care.

Kylie Rook

Lead Facilitator - ERYT-500, Yoga Medicine® Therapeutic Specialist, Functional Range® Conditioning Specialis, Hakomi Psychotherapy Graduate.

From a young age, Kylie’s first expression was through dance, sparking a lifelong fascination with movement and kinesiology. Her journey led her to a Bachelor of Nursing and further studies with Yoga Medicine, where she became a Registered Therapeutic Specialist. With over 20 years of teaching, she combines expertise in Chinese Medicine, Biomechanics, Myofascial Release, Functional Mobility, and Somatics to offer a holistic, therapeutic approach.

Kylie’s own experience with anxiety and depression since the age of 20 revealed to her the transformative power of yoga as a way of life, and this insight shapes her work, inspiring others to embrace a healthier lifestyle and realize their full potential. She recently graduated from Hakomi Somatic Psychotherapy studies and uses this mindfulness-based modality alongside her yoga therapy to offer clients a comprehensive path to healing. Kylie has presented at the New Zealand Women in Medicine Conference (2024) and has spoken at the Yoga Medicine Innovation Conference for two years. She is also a featured teacher on their online platform.

Through her YACEP mentoring programs, Kylie guides teachers to explore anatomy, physiology, philosophy, energetics, breathing, somatics, marketing and social media, to find their unique voice. Her online membership site, live-streamed classes, and courses bring her teachings worldwide, helping students step back Into Being and cultivate a life of balance and empowerment. Check it out at www.intobeing.co.nz

Fiona Liu

Lead Facilitator - Yin

Fiona is a long-time dedicated yoga and mindfulness practitioner and teacher.

Fiona’s strengths are teaching Yin Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Meditation, Pranayama, as well as integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine principles, Mindfulness and Psychological enquiry into her teaching.

Fiona has studied with world-class yoga teachers like Sarah Powers, Bernie Clark, Tiffany Cruikshank, Tara Judelle, Scott Lyons, Donna Farhi, Jules Mitchell, Noah Maze and Duncan Peak thus learnt yoga and understand it from diverse perspectives.

There is always an aspect of meditation in her classes no matter what style it is.
Her passion is to work with individuals to offer them the best practice for their body structures and mental states. Fiona encourages the discovery of inner calmness and strength and to help yogis bring more simplicity to life in this busy world.

For Fiona, “The on-going self-inquiry of yoga allows me to look deep inside and be clear of what I need on and off the mat. Yoga helps me open to life’s limitless opportunities, live with a more open mind and an open heart, soften and relax into whatever is arising in the moment.”

Fiona enjoys what students teach her as much she teaches them and is grateful for the shared process of self-discovery, strength and joy in each moment.

Mari-Halina Colbert

Co-facilitator, 300hr Philosophy and Psychosomatics

Weaving together over 15 years of experience with movement as medicine for mental, emotional, physical and spiritual harmony, Mari began yoga in the midst of dance school in London and immediately recognised the gold in the practice, which became a place of refuge in the demanding environment of professional dance. 

She has since immersed in the philosophy and study of yoga, taking part in many trainings and immersions, most impactfully the Embodied Flow™ training with Adele Kinghan in New Zealand, which was a soul-stirring recalibration and honey-warm homecoming. Her passion and curiosity have led her to many other immersions and study programs in Classical Non-Dual Tantra, embodiment, somatics, biomechanics, humanistic psychology, Hakomi Psychotherapy, Body Mind Centering®, and trauma-sensitive yoga, facilitating Mari’s desire to bring these enriching and illuminating teachings to others in an accessible and inspiring way.  She is immensely grateful to her teachers who have been beacons and transmitters of these paradigm-shifting practices and teachings, including Christopher (Hareesh) Wallis, Kavitha M. Chinnaiyan, Adele Kinghan, Sandey Hoskin, Sarah Hon, Kylie Rook, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, Tara Judelle and Scott Lyons. 

Mari’s offerings are grounded in the rich traditional teachings of Non-Dual Tantra (the roots of modern postural yoga) which, through a vast array of life-affirming, world-affirming, and body-affirming practices and teachings, emphasises direct experience of a reality that is inherently divine. She intertwines poetry, music, traditional asana, as well as ecstatic dance and free movement, to bring the ineffable and universal alive in the playground of individual practice and expression that is the student’s own Beauty and unfolding.

Mari has taught on teacher trainings in New Zealand and online for UK based trainings. She also holds space for one to one somatic therapy and mentoring and regularly offers retreats, trauma-sensitive yoga, workshops, and women's circles, held in the warm embrace of community. 

Lisa Eliott

Co-facilitator - Sequencing

Lisa has been practicing and sharing the wisdom of yoga in studios across Auckland for the past five years. She completed both her 200-hour and 300-hour YTT with Inspire and teaches a diverse range of styles, including vinyasa, yin, restorative yoga, yoga nidra, and somatic practices. Rooted in the rich traditions of yoga, her teaching blends an intuitive understanding of anatomy, biomechanics, and movement with the deeper philosophical and energetic aspects of the practice.

Lisa’s classes are thoughtfully sequenced to create a sacred space for exploration, offering both steadiness and ease. She invites students of all levels to move with intention, listen to their inner wisdom, and experience yoga as a path of self-inquiry and transformation. Beyond the physical postures, she weaves in breathwork, meditation, and yogic philosophy, encouraging students to cultivate awareness, deepen their connection to themselves, and embody the practice with devotion and self-compassion. Her teaching is an invitation to move beyond the physical and into a more holistic experience of yoga—one that nurtures the body, mind, and spirit.

For the past three years, Lisa has served as a mentor in Inspire’s Yoga Teacher Trainings, holding space for students as they step into their roles as teachers. She also co-facilitates yoga retreats in New Zealand and abroad, offering immersive experiences that integrate the physical, philosophical, and energetic dimensions of yoga. These retreats provide a space for deep self-exploration, inner stillness, and reconnection with one’s true self.

To Lisa, yoga is not just a practice—it is a way of being. She finds her greatest inspiration in her three children, embodying the yogic path in the way she nurtures, guides, and supports them. Through her teachings and her way of life, she hopes to inspire others to cultivate presence, build inner strength, and walk their own unique path with grace and authenticity.