Kael Coster

23/05/2026

Ready to slow down, reset & reconnect?

Join Kael for a guided Biodynamic Breathwork session at Tribe MMA

No experience needed, no performance required, just show up as you are.

✨Release stress
✨Calm the nervous system
✨Reconnect with yourself

Limited spots available. Book now.

Group breathwork | Tribe MMA Warragul

20/05/2026

Most people think anxiety is a thinking problem.

It isn’t.

Anxiety lives in the body. In a nervous system that’s been running threat responses long after the threat has passed. You can think your way to understanding that. You can’t think your way out of it.

The breath is different.

It’s the only part of your autonomic nervous system you can consciously control.
Slow it down and you’re talking directly to the part of you that’s been running the show. Not your mind. Your body.

Six slow belly breaths. Heart rate drops. Blood pressure drops. Cortisol starts to clear. That’s not wellness talk. That’s physiology.

This is why breathwork moves things that years of therapy sometimes doesn’t. Not because therapy is wrong. Because some things need a different entry point.

I’ve been doing this work in various forms for over a decade. With trauma survivors, burnt out professionals, people who’ve tried everything else and still feel the same underneath.

I’ve seen this shift things in two hours that people had been carrying for years.

The breath doesn’t lie. And it doesn’t need you to understand it for it to work.

Monthly biodynamic breathwork.
Warragul. Small group. Proper container.
Capped at 25 people.

📅 Friday 29 May · 7:30pm
📍 Tribe MMA, Warragul
🎫 $49 — link in bio

02/05/2026

“Thus all the beauty and the horrors of this world arise from the same root: the presence or absence of love. Not feeling loved and then taking that to heart is the only wound there is. It cripples us, causing us to shrivel and contract.

Thus, apart from a few biochemical imbalances and neurological disorders, the diagnostic manual for psychological afflictions known as the DSM might as well begin: “Herein are described all the wretched ways people feel and behave when they do not know that they are loved.”

All hatred of ourselves and others; all our fear, egoism, communication problems, and sexual insecurities; all the pathology, neurosis, and destructiveness in the world; and the whole nightmare of history, with all its bloodshed and cruelty, boil down to one simple fact:
Not knowing we are loved and lovable makes the heart grow cold.

And all the tragedy of human life follows from there.

When people do not know they are loved, a cold black hole forms in the psyche, where they start to harbor beliefs that they’re insignificant, unimportant, or lacking in beauty and goodness.

This icy place of fear is what gives rise to terrorist attacks of all kinds-not just in the form of bombs
going off, but also in the emotional assaults that go on within ourselves and our relationships.

…

On the collective level, this deep wound in the human psyche leads to a world wracked by struggle, stress, and dissension. Communities and social institutions at every level - marriages, families, schools, churches, corporations, and nations all across the globe-are in disarray, divided against themselves. The greatest ills on the planet-war, poverty, economic injustice, ecological degradation-all stem from our inability to trust one another, honor differences, engage
in respectful dialogue, and reach mutual understanding.”

Perfect love, imperfect relationships. Wellwood J.

A beautiful excerpt from a reading from my Buddhist Psychology course this weekend I felt compelled to share 🙏 drop an emoji if you read this far 🥰

18/04/2026

I'm tired.

Not the kind of tired sleep fixes. The kind that settles in your chest when you scroll through the world and can't make sense of what we're doing to each other.

Wars that don't need to happen. Atrocities that scroll past like content. A r@pe website. 62 million visits. Sixty. Two. Million.

I sit with that number as a man who spends his weeks working with survivors of exactly this. Exactly what other men have done.

I'm also a father of two girls. AND, when I look at the men in my life, I see beautiful humans. Men I would trust to look after my daughters without a second thought. That's real too.

I also know what it looks like to stand next to a woman I loved many years ago, black eye from her then ex husband, and hear her entire circle pretend not to see it. Friends. Family. People who knew exactly where it came from. I was one of the only ones who said something. I shouldn't have been.

She told me once about a guy at a local cafe, let’s call him Chris, who just put a silent hand on her shoulder. No words. And how much it meant to feel seen when everyone else looked away.

I get why women don't feel safe around men. Around me. That's not an attack on who I am. It's just honest. When the numbers are what they are, when 62 million visits happen, when black eyes get looked past at dinner tables, the wariness isn't paranoia. It's survival.

The frustration I feel about that, about being what I consider a normal good human, and still being looked at sideways, I've learned that feeling is not the point. It's information. What I do with it is the point.

The men causing this aren't strangers in dark alleys. They're at our barbecues. In our group chats. They're the ones everyone quietly protects because calling it out is uncomfortable and Christmases get weird.

That silence is a decision. Every single time.

I'm not interested in men who say ‘not all men’ and then do nothing with that. I want to hear from men who pulled a mate aside. Who said that's not okay out loud at a table. Who sat with their son and had the conversation before the internet did it for them.

We are raising boys right now who are watching everything. Learning what men do and don't do. What they let slide and what they won't.

I think about the state of the world a lot. The scale of the cruelty. The wars. The sites with 62 million visits. The sheer grinding weight of how much suffering men are responsible for.

And then just now reflecting and writing this, I think about a guy in a cafe, putting his hand on a woman's shoulder, and saying nothing, and meaning everything.

The size of the problem and the size of the solution are not the same thing. They never were.

As a man, as a clinician, as a father, a lover. I’ll keep saying something. More of us need to, even when it costs us something.

Especially then.

10/04/2026

Something I’ve wanted to do again for a long time is finally happening.

From Wednesday April 22nd, I’ll be seeing clients from Warragul Natural Health.

And... in May i start at Inscape Psychology once a month in Balnarring, Mornington Peninsula.

I grew up the nerdy introverted kid reading fantasy books, doing yoga and tai chi, playing harmonica. Bullied, assaulted, raised by a single mum. I found martial arts at 16 and spent the next decade trying to fight my way out of the pain and unworthiness.

Over 100 amateur / tournament fights. 27 professional bouts. Multiple title belts across Muay Thai, Kickboxing, K1 and MMA. Multiple black belts.

“I’ll be happy and enough when...” 😵‍💫

The title belts and black belts didn’t fix it. Therapy did. Breathwork did. Yoga philosophy, Kashmir Shaivism and Buddhist psychology did. Years of sitting with teachers and my own darkness until something actually shifted.

Now I’m a registered counsellor, clinical hypnotherapist, somatic psychotherapist, and biodynamic breathwork practitioner. I work with people carrying the same weight I used to carry; anxiety, depression, burnout, overwhelm, that low-grade feeling something is off and you can’t name it.

We service our car every 10,000km so it doesn’t blow a head gasket. Most people drive 400,000km without once looking under the hood of their own mind.

Your mind runs everything. How happy you are in life and relationships. How you sleep, work, train, parent, and show up for the people you love.

I’ve worked with a therapist, teacher or supervisor weekly for 7 years and I’ll do it for life, because I know what it’s worth.

The work I do isn’t talk therapy. We don’t just retell the story. We work with the body, the subconscious, and the nervous system to actually shift what’s been stuck, sometimes for years.

Wednesdays from April 22nd at Warragul.

📍 Warragul Natural Health, Warragul

Saturdays once a month in Balnarring

📍 Inscape Psychology (Starting May), Balnarring

Link in bio to book.

📞 0485 938 847

Registered Counsellor (CPCA) · Clinical Hypnotherapist (AHA) · Somatic Psychotherapist • resource therapy · Biodynamic Breathwork (BBTRS) · Yoga Therapist · Buddhist Psychology

25/03/2026

I’ve been pretty quiet on here lately.

Life has been full — in the good and the hard ways.
But I’m coming back with something I genuinely care about.

I’m running a program called Embodied Strength — with Dianna Cox Mikkelson ( & founder Innscape Psychology Mornington), who has 30 years of experience as a counselling and somatic psychologist.

It’s for women who’ve been carrying trauma in their body and are ready to actually do something about it.

Not just talk.

Body-based.
Somatic experiencing.
Breathwork.
Nervous system regulation.
And reclaiming your fight energy through a little martial arts.

8 weeks. Small group. Maximum 8 spots.
Starting 23rd April.
If that’s you — or someone you know — link is in my bio.

20/03/2026

Your nervous system has been protecting you for a long time.

Freeze. Fawn. Flight.

The constant scanning.

The shrinking.

The way your body learned to survive by making itself smaller.

But underneath all of that — there’s something else.

Something that didn’t disappear.

It just went underground.

Swipe to find it. 👉

—

📍 Warragul · Mondays 9:30am - 11:30am + weekly zoom group check in

8 weeks · Max 8 women · $1,499

Link in bio to apply, or for more details.

01/01/2026

I’ve been pretty quiet on here for a while.

Not because I didn’t have anything to say, but because I needed to go inward.
Reflect. Reset. Recalibrate. Recharge. Re-engage.

Honestly, I was putting out content that wasn’t really me. Chasing what seemed to work for $ rather than what felt true. That needed to stop.

2024 cracked me open in ways I wasn’t ready for. Losing mum left grief that still sat so heavy into 2025 and into now. For years I would’ve kept the mask on & pushed through, stayed busy, avoided the feelings. Now I’m learning to actually open up and let it move through (In micro steps, like a sea anemone 😅)

Yoga has been my saving grace. Not the Instagram version, the real work. The philosophy, the daily practise, sitting with a teacher, breathwork, the stillness. I’m also currently deep in a two-year postgraduate Buddhist Psychology course and it’s reshaping how I see everything. These practices have given me a container to sit with the uncomfortable stuff instead of running from it. To let sadness be there without hiding from it or drowning in it. Years ago I wouldn’t have let myself feel any of it.

I did a 5-day silent Buddhist retreat toward the end of the year. No phone 😵‍💫 and up to 6 hours of meditation a day. It was both confronting and clarifying. I realised how much I was numbing out without knowing it. Like many of us, I was addicted to those dopamine hits of doom scrolling.

My three kids remain my biggest accomplishment and my greatest mirror. Parenting (and navigating co-parenting) is the deepest initiation I’ve been through (IYKYK 😅). It forces me to keep doing the work to be the most grounded present and loving father I can be.

On the wins side: I finally finished my ‘Advanced Diploma in Clinical Trauma Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy’, and my ‘Diploma in Biodynamic Breathwork for Trauma Release’. Both took over two years each. Quietly proud of those.

And my friendships and community this year got to the best place they’ve ever been. You all know who you are 🙏 filled with love, gratitude and contentment would be an understatements

So what now?

I'm still the martial arts guy. Head coach at Tribe MMA. Working with adults, schools, survivors, kids and teens through martial arts therapy. Running workshops on resilience, mental health, and mindfulness. AND… building my 1:1 work as a somatic psychotherapist — yoga, breathwork, clinical hypnotherapy, clinical resource therapy.

On the work front, school workshops are expanding. Councils are reaching out. Doors are opening that I've been working toward for a long time. Feels like things are finally aligning.

I'm also building toward running my own Yoga Teacher Training. Not the Instagram yoga version. This one won't teach you how to run a group class, it'll be grounded in nervous system regulation, yogic philosophy, and real therapeutic application. More on that when the time is right. Launching this year 🫣🥰

2025 was shedding skin. 2026 is moving forward.

If any of this resonates, reach out. I'd love to hear from you.
What are you leaving in 2025?
What would you like to call into 2026?

22/07/2025

Beyond excited to share that I’ve been accepted into the 2-year postgraduate program in Buddhist and Contemplative Psychotherapy at AABCAP! 🙏✨

Perfect timing as I’m just wrapping up two intensive courses I’ve been immersed in for almost 3 years each (hence being a bit quieter on here lately! 😅).

Buddhism has woven through my life in the most beautiful ways - from collecting Tibetan Buddhist texts as a teenager (from Zalis IYKYK), reading the Dalai Lama’s books and teachings my mum shared with me, to experiencing the Theravada traditions embedded in Muay Thai culture during my 10 years as a professional fighter, to studying in temples across Thailand and Australia.

Now I get to bring an academic therapeutic lens to what I consider one of humanity’s original psychologists - not Freud, but the 2,500-year-old wisdom of the Buddha (alongside Patanjali).

I can’t wait to weave these ancient contemplative practices even deeper into my work as a holistic psychotherapist, offering clients tools that honor both timeless wisdom and modern therapeutic understanding.

The integration continues… 🌱

10/06/2025

Are you someone who feels the charge quickly, or do you need a slower build to access release?