Queer Inbody is a collaboration between Stella Topaz and Tia Cloher, offering groups and workshops for queer people to come together for embodied learning, and practice.
Grounded in the Wheel of Consent®, sexological bodywork, and somatic approaches, Queer Inbody centres lived experience, choice, and the wisdom of the body. Our work invites a slowing down - creating space to notice sensation, explore desire and limits, and practise relating with more clarity, honesty, and care.
As facilitators, we are shaped by our queerness, our different lived experiences, and a shared commitment to consent, anti-oppressive practice, and cultures of care. We value the richness and diversity within LGBTIQA+ communities, and create spaces that welcome a wide range of bodies, identities, relationships, and ways of being.
Stella Topaz - Abundant Body
I'm a Certified Sexological Bodyworker, a Wheel of Consent® facilitator, and sex and body educator. Previously a registered nurse for 40 years, I worked in community-based sexual health, HIV, and LGBTIQA+ health. Through my own practice I now see people online and in-person (in Newtown and Wollongong), and offer workshops, groups, consultation and speaking requests.
I’m a queer, cis, older femme, (she/her), neurodivergent, of Irish German lineage, loving cultures of care, intergenerational queer kinships, and embodied consent practices. My queerness and feminism are trans-affirming. I'm a mother and a grandmother, an active learner in anti-oppressive practices, anti-racism, and socially-just communication.
Radically clear agreement-making is glorious; in touch, sex, kink, and relationships, in friendships, communities, work dynamics, and everyday relating.
Living on Dharawal Country, Wollongong, Australia. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Tia Cloher - tiacloher.com.au
I’m a somatic counsellor, intimacy coach, and facilitator offering spaces for people to reconnect with themselves and their bodies. I’m guided by the belief that meaningful change can happen through building a relationship with the body, learning to trust one’s own experience, and remembering you have a choice.
I’m a Certified Sexological Bodyworker and Somatic Sex Educator, a practitioner of the Wheel of Consent®, and am trained in embodied counselling, mind-body coaching and process-oriented approaches.
I live and work on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people (Melbourne, Australia) and my client work and certain group offerings are also available online worldwide. I’m white, queer, non-binary (they/them), and neurodivergent, and I bring an ongoing awareness of power, identity, and lived experience into the way I hold space. I’m particularly committed to working with LGBTIQA+ communities, and to offering spaces that are grounded, curious, and consent-led.