The SOMM Faculty

Raquel is an experienced studio director with a full-time focus on promoting inclusivity and accessibility in all the spaces she facilitates.

She leads our Operations and Trauma-Informed Programmes.

She brings her decade-long corporate skillset of sales and workplace wellbeing into her role as SOMM's customer experience and operations manager to create a more seamless flow for SOMM's members and teachers.

Her heritage is Mexican and Vietnamese, born in USA, and now a citizen of Aotearoa New Zealand. She draws from her background in psychology (Bachelor's degree), yoga (500hr+ training, 1,000+ facilitation), plant medicine and indigenous frameworks, to offer a holistic approach to those she can support.

She's likely to be your first point-of-contact for any SOMM-related inquiries. Feel free to book time with her here to discuss how we can enhance your SOMM experience.

Meet Mark, a dynamic and modern meditation teacher who blends depth, authenticity, and contemporary insight to create truly transformative experiences.

Based in Australia, he leads our Sales & Marketing growth.

With a solid foundation in mindfulness and awareness practices, Mark is a graduate of the School of Modern Meditation, where he completed the intensive 800-hour Awareness Insight Meditation Facilitator Training. His dedication to his craft is further reflected in his 500-hour certification with The Meditation Alliance International, and his professional recognition as a certified teacher with Meditation Australia.

Mark’s teaching style is grounded yet forward-thinking—designed for real people navigating real life. Whether you're new to meditation or looking to deepen your practice, Mark offers a supportive, relatable space to explore presence, inner clarity, and conscious living. His passion lies in making meditation accessible, meaningful, and empowering in today’s fast-paced world.

Aviette’s interest in Buddhism was sparked as a teenager living in Thailand. Over the years she has felt a strong pull towards meditation and has explored a range of different meditative practices and styles. Meditation for her is ‘The Art of Allowing’.

She is our Financial Director based in France.

Allowing our thoughts, sensations and emotions to be present and all parts of ourselves to become integrated. Aviette has experienced the profound benefits of a consistent daily meditation practice. Aviette has spent the last year exploring, developing and deepening her meditation practice through Meditation Teacher Training with SOMM Founder Claire Robbie. She was a founding member of SOMM, loves being part of our precious community and looks forward to sitting with you regularly.

Jo is a Meditation Teacher (trained through SOMM) and Breathwork Facilitator (trained through AOB). She is passionate about helping Adults and Teens develop a different relationship and perspective of their minds, bodies and emotions, and also a better understanding of their nervous systems through practices of breathwork and meditation.

Born in Canada, and of Syrian & Iraqi heritage, Maryam is a yoga & meditation instructor, reiki master, cacao intake facilitator and retreat leader. She believes deeply in the importance of unity, love and collective energy a vehicles for healing. Her training background spans internationally through Latin America, Canada and New Zealand. Maryam’s ability to create a safe, nourishing space as she guides you on a journey to a deeper connection within the self is the foundation of all of her practices.

From a young age, Caroline has been fascinated about ways in which we as humans can connect back to the essence of who we are. Having felt disconnection from self and what felt like a constant unease, deep down she knew that there was more to life. It was as if from then on, it became her life path to find practices, teachers and community to support her in this return home to herself. With consistent practice and support Caroline's world began to shift. The anxiety that she thought was simply her forever no longer had such a strong grip, the negative self talk began to dissipate and she could feel a softening of her nervous system. Experiencing firsthand what has unravelled through these practices, Caroline feels deeply inspired to continue her own learnings and to share this knowledge with others. Her wish is to teach meditation in a way that feels accessible and to encourage people that it's never too early (or too late) to begin following your path. For the last 3 years Caroline has been assisting Claire with her Teacher Trainings and Retreats. She also currently teaches yoga in Mount Maunganui Studios, runs her own overseas retreats and facilitates mental well-being online courses and workshops.

Satori is an experienced international facilitator and educator who is passionate about the empowering nature of understanding how our nervous system functions, as this is central to our experience of emotional regulation, stress reactivity, and addressing trauma and childhood wounding. She brings years of facilitating, teaching and mentoring into the space

Through breathwork and bodywork, nervous system health education, and somatic attunement, Satori guides people deep into themselves to engage with their sub and unconscious parts and patterns. This includes completing old stress and trauma cycles in the body and ultimately alleviating tension and dis-ease in the body and mind, where we can stop fighting against ourselves but instead step into more freedom. Allowing us to be more present and resourced as we go through life.

Satori wrote her undergraduate thesis on the neuroscience behind facilitated breathwork, and is now a postgraduate in neuroscience and psychology, specializing in holistic mental health. She is deeply inspired by the innate wisdom and resilience of the nervous system and psyche, which can adapt and thrive despite challenges. 

Sierra Truong: an artist and meditation facilitator originally from Hanoi, Vietnam. Starting her journey of learning and teaching meditation in 2014, at the beginning of last year, Sierra started bringing the art of tea into her meditation workshops. She now weaves Vietnamese tea appreciation ceremonies and tea meditation into the sessions she facilitates. Sierra is a devotee of joy and love. Her passion is to support people’s wellness and to bring the community together through the way of tea.

Rebekah is a reiki master, qi gong enthusiast, martial artist and creative. She is about to embark on her second year of Elemental Alchemy Qi Gong Practitioner training - The Alchemist Year through The SOUL Centre. She is also the Alchemy intern, allowing her to deepen her connection and knowledge of these energy practices. Rebekah believes that everyone has the power within them to heal themselves, to come home to their bodies and the earth, and to create a strength that stretches across body, mind and spirit. Through this calling, Rebekah has followed many passions including theatre making, teaching karate, and more recently sharing her love for vibrational medicine through teaching Qi Gong and holding 1:1 reiki sessions.