Our Retreat Facilitators

At JAX, our facilitators and support team are not just staff—they’re deeply committed practitioners and space holders who understand the courage it takes to show up for real healing.

Many have been with us since day one, shaping JAX into what it is: a space that can hold intensity, tenderness, grief, joy, and everything in between. From our trauma-informed facilitators to our soulful chefs and dedicated retreat managers, each person plays a key role in creating the safety, structure, and care needed for deep emotional and nervous system healing to unfold.

We’re not here to offer surface-level wellness. We’re here to meet people where they are and walk beside them through the work—whether it’s trauma release, somatic unwinding, grief integration, or energy recalibration.

This is a team who gets it, because we’ve lived it.

The Souls Guiding Your Journey

Rebecca Jax

Founder of JAX Healing Retreats & Creator of the JAX Method

  • Rebecca Jax is the founder of JAX Healing Retreats and the creator of the JAX Method—a trauma-informed approach to somatic healing that weaves together Kundalini energy work, breathwork, bodywork, and nervous system repair. With nearly a decade of experience and having trained over 100 facilitators in her method, Rebecca is known for her grounded, intuitive facilitation and her ability to hold space for raw, real, and lasting transformation.

    Her work was born through personal loss, spiritual rupture, and the long, nonlinear path of healing. After losing her brother Jack to suicide, Rebecca devoted herself to understanding how trauma is held in the body and how energy—when safely accessed—can unlock deep emotional release, remembrance, and freedom. JAX, named in his honour, is more than a retreat centre. It’s a living body of work that invites people to come home to themselves and alchemise pain into power.

    Rebecca leads immersive retreats, online healing sessions, and advanced facilitator trainings rooted in lived experience, somatic wisdom, and an unwavering commitment to integrity. Her leadership is fierce, honest, and deeply human—built on the belief that true healing doesn’t happen through fixing, but through feeling safely enough to return to the truth of who we are.

    Currently based between Bali and Australia, Rebecca is guiding the JAX team remotely while on maternity leave, holding the same vision: less performance, more presence. Less pretending, more healing.

Lea Hauss

Holistic Wellness Guide & Energy Medicine Practitioner

  • Lea Hauss is a holistic wellness guide originally from Slovakia, with 16 years spent in Hong Kong where her spiritual journey began through yoga. After the loss of a loved one, she was called to explore deeper layers of healing and began working closely with Rebecca—an experience that profoundly shaped her path. Now a devoted mother to a little girl and a passionate student of Ayurveda, energy medicine, and shamanism, Lea blends intuition with integrative wisdom to support transformation. As a Jax Healing Retreat facilitator, she holds both in-person retreat and online sessions, creating gentle yet powerful space for healing across time and distance.

Emily Millward

Somatic Trauma & Nervous System Therapist | Kundalini & Bodywork Facilitator

  • Emily is a somatic trauma and nervous system therapist and trained counsellor with a background in psychotherapy. She was drawn to this work through her own lived experience of grief and trauma held in the body following the breakdown of her marriage, discovering that what couldn’t be talked through needed to be met, felt, and integrated through the body.

    As a kundalini and bodywork facilitator, Emily works gently and attuned, guiding people home to their bodies and back into relationship with themselves. Her work supports a remembrance of the body’s innate healing intelligence and opens space beneath the conditioned self into the depth, presence, and vastness of the human experience.

    At Jax Healing Retreat, Emily offers a grounded, trauma-aware space where safety leads, the nervous system is honoured, and healing unfolds through embodiment, presence, and integration.

Ruth Simmonds

Somatic Trauma Practitioner & Nervous System Facilitator

  • Ruth is a trauma-informed somatic practitioner who specialises in nervous system regulation, breathwork, Pilates, and Kundalini activation. Her journey into mental health began in her teenage years while navigating a chaotic and unpredictable home environment. After three career pivots, two major injuries, and over a decade exploring different healing approaches, Ruth’s path led her to JAX—where she found a method that combined everything she had been searching for.

    Ruth now facilitates regularly in our JAX Virtual Healing team, bringing a deeply embodied, grounded, and compassionate presence to each session. Her facilitation style is gentle yet powerful—rooted in lived experience and a deep understanding of what it means to come back into the body after long periods of disconnection. She holds space with clarity and care, helping others regulate their nervous systems, release stored emotion, and reconnect to their inner strength.

    With a strong belief in the importance of community and accessible healing, Ruth is committed to guiding others through their own transformations—wherever they are in the world.

Katharina Poetzl

Kundalini Facilitator & Holistic Human Design Coach

  • Kat is a Kundalini Facilitator and Holistic Human Design Coach devoted to guiding others through powerful inner transformation. She offers Kundalini Activations and Human Design mentorships that help individuals reconnect with their energy, purpose, and authentic self. Passionate about feminine embodiment, Kat also holds sacred women’s circles that support deeper self-connection and empowerment. As a Jax Healing Retreat facilitator, Kat leads our signature day retreats, creating safe, energizing spaces for guests to awaken their potential and come home to themselves

McKenna Roice

Trauma-Informed Breathwork, Somatic, Kundalini, & Reiki Healing Facilitator

  • McKenna Roice is a trauma-informed breathwork, somatic, Kundalini, and Reiki facilitator devoted to helping others reconnect with their body’s innate healing intelligence. Her path began through personal grief, which opened the door to deep spiritual awakening and nervous system healing. Through her own transformation, McKenna discovered the power of breath, energy work, and embodied presence. As a facilitator at Jax Healing Retreat, she holds sacred space for guests to release, remember, and return to their true essence—meeting each person with compassion, grounding, and heart.

Layla Khalaf

Holistic Embodiment Facilitator

  • Layla is a Holistic Embodiment Facilitator attuned in Kundalini Activation, Spinal Energetics, Somatic Breathwork & Yin Yoga. Rooted in trauma-informed nervous system care, she blends these modalities through presence and intuition, allowing their wisdom to shape the way she holds space. Her personal journey through profound loss became a spiritual initiation, strengthening her faith in the body’s innate resilience and capacity for renewal. She creates spaces with warmth and depth inviting healing to unfold naturally. At the heart of her work is a reverence for duality by supporting others to embrace both light and shadow with compassion and trust, remembering their inherent wholeness.

    Layla facilitates online JAX sessions and joins the team in Bali for retreats when she is there.