
Friday Educator Sessions - 2025
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First Aid use of Homeopathy with Shenel Engel
In this empowering session, we will explore how homeopathy and tissue salts can serve as valuable tools for mothers and women in managing common first aid situations. Homeopathy is a natural, holistic system of healing that offers safe and effective remedies for a wide range of minor health concerns. Tissue salts, also known as cell salts, are biochemic remedies that support the body's mineral balance, aiding in faster recovery and overall well-being.
Participants will learn how to confidently use key homeopathic remedies such as Arnica for bruises, Calendula for wound healing, and Aconite for shock and sudden fevers. We will also cover essential tissue salts like Ferrum Phos for inflammation and Mag Phos for muscle cramps. This session will provide practical tips on how to administer these remedies for common first aid needs, making it easier for mothers to care for their families naturally.
By the end of this session, mothers and women will feel empowered with the knowledge to manage minor injuries and illnesses at home, using safe, effective, and affordable homeopathic remedies. Attendees will also receive guidance on building their own homeopathy first aid kit, enhancing their ability to care for loved ones. -
The Magical Powers of Herbs with Tracie Lynn
Come long on a herbal journey where you will explore the enchanting qualities of some of her favourite herbs.
You’ll have the opportunity to taste each herb before discovering their mythical connections, magical properties and energetic signatures. You’ll learn about their healing benefits and various forms of preparation.
Through a unique person-picture perspective, you’ll gain insight into the personality of each herb and you’ll learn whether the herb is right for you.
A fun, interactive presentation beginning with a short meditation, a herbal tasting before each herb is presented and plenty of time for your questions at the end.
Perfect for herbal enthusiasts, folklore lovers and anyone intrigued by the magic of plants! -
Shamanic Herbalism with Heidi Wedd
Shamanic Herbalism is to develop a direct, embodied relationship and communion with a herb on all levels, not only the physical. It is to get to know the plant soul or spirit by communing and listening to its unique teachings and cocreating with it for healing and evolution both personally and collectively.
We all contain the wisdom of plants encoded within us. Connecting deeply and communing with plants is a pathway to remembering much of the ancient wisdom that we have forgotten.
In this workshop we’ll discuss plants as teachers, the teachings of specific herbs and then go on an experiential journey with the wise woman herb herself. -
Herbal Medicines for the Perimenopausal Transition with Kerri Alexander
The perimenopausal transition can be a time of radical change, physically, mentally and emotionally.
Herbal medicines can be supportive and loyal companions during this time of deep transformation, easing the transition, and laying the foundations for the post-menopausal years.
Learn about key herbal medicines that can be easily integrated into your daily living to support bone, brain, heart and hormonal health, now and for years to come.
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Women and Power: Healing the Witch Wound with Katherine Cailleach
We will access our individual and collective wisdom to explore what power means and how the ancestral witch wound effects our power as individual woman and as women collectively in a patriarchal world. After the exploration, we will create an initiation of reclamation of power and perhaps the discovery of your own particular witch name.
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Vulva Love with Rebecca Levy
A delicious hour of Vulva Love, an Erotic Embodiment class where you will be guided through somatic practices to connect with your vulva. In nurturing a loving connection with our vulva, it can increase self-love, build arousal and body acceptance whilst feeling wonderfully pleasurable. Being present with the body and its sensations can reduce shame and lead to greater levels self-acceptance. The more acceptance and love we have for ourselves, the more we have to share with the others.
This workshop is gentle and deep, you will be guided through practices using awareness, breath, movement and touch to cultivate a loving connection to your vulva.
Nudity is not required, please bring a sarong or shawl to lie on. -
Bush Wise with Pat Collins
I have always been interested in using the plants that grow around us. I use the weeds that grow in my garden and around our property. I have taught thousands of people about their uses and how to make products from them. I am also very interested in understanding about our native plants and finding if they can be used for edible, medicinal or other uses. I have studied countless books and also obtained information from indigenous people.
I have joined a group called Indigenous Plants for Health Association to help understand the uses of our native plants and we have created a set of cards of 71 indigenous plants. We ask everyone, to honor these and all the traditional plants of Indigenous Australia, not just for their medicinal and edible qualities, but as important spiritual connections to the culture, the land and the people of Australia.
I am running this workshop so that I can share the information I have learnt and to help you become a Bush Wise individual.
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Herbs for Hope with Sally Kingsford-Smith and Beth Attard
Humankind are currently at a crossroad; a point of bifurcation – a point where we have choices to make, choices that affect us all.
We can choose to follow the path of fear, or we can choose to follow the path of hope, and to raise our vibrations and those of all around us.
We believe that choosing to work with our herbal plant kin is choosing hope. Our daily interactions with them demonstrate our hope, from sowing seeds to brewing tea and crafting elixirs. They provide hope for relief, for respite and for rejuvenation, for connection, dreaming and remembering.
Come join us to connect and engage with some of these amazing plants. We’ll tap into our collective wisdom, enjoy some juicy discussions and explore what helpful plant kin you can call on. They might be in your pantry, or garden or growing through cracks in the pavement. Then, as women have done for ages past, we’ll sit in circle and create. Together we’ll intentionally blend a ‘herbs for hope’ tea to take home.
Our goal is for you to leave with hope in your hearts; and some herby friends you can call on to keep that light burning brightly even on dark days. -
Why am I so hot ?! Embracing Peri-Menopause with Tatiana Brockmeier
Did you know that most women experience their most intense menopausal signs and symptoms during the Peri-Menopause phase, which typically begins in your early 40s? This workshop offers the vital education we never got.
Join us for an empowering 90-minute session where you’ll learn to navigate this journey with self-grace and inner-strength. Embrace the cyclical nature of this Rite of Passage and reclaim your narrative as you travel through this transformative season.
Together, we’ll explore insights from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Shamanic Womancraft, empowering you to harness your well-being. Step into this sacred phase of life with renewed purpose and vitality, and connect with a community of wise women on this shared path. -
Tuning to Your Inner Wilderness with Akua Gutierrez
This workshop is an introduction to the Four Shields of Human Nature, a rites of passage framework and map for our modern lives. It is a medicine wheel and brings profound insights into the interconnected dimensions of our body, soul, mind, and spirit. It is an essential teaching for regaining our human wholeness within the wholeness of life. It is archetypal, crossing boundaries between cultures and time; it is both simple and profound.
Our lives move with the seasonal cycles and directions found in the natural world. It begins in the summer of physical awakening (child), turns into the fall of our inner depths (adolescence), moves into the south of our intellect (adult), and emerges in the mysteries of spring (spirit). The Four Shields also helps us understand the maladies and symptoms that occur when the natural cycles become hindered in our lives.
This earth-based medicine wheel invites us to sit with our inner wilderness always mirrored back in nature in its wholeness, beauty, and complexity. It reminds us that we are not separate from nature and are part of its never-ending spirals of birth, growth, death, and rebirth.
In this workshop we will be exploring the Four Shields of Human Nature medicine wheel and understand how it can be used as a tool for accessing deep insights, inner growth, and healing. I will introduce the basic elements of this ancient archetypal wisdom and through teaching, circle work, and a guided process we will explore how it speaks to our own life journey and aids us in restoring movement toward wholeness.
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V-Steam for V-Power. Why V-steam and how to do it at home! with Katrina Anderson
What is v-steaming? It is steaming your vagina :)
Many people do it for all sorts of reasons! Learn the herstory of V-steaming including where it came from and why different cultures do it.
Exploring also the current science and what imbalances women have found that it addresses for them.
In this session there will be time to teach you how to set up an at home steam session.
This information will be shared in a light hearted, informative way including questions from the audience (which usually makes for afun and funny talk with a healthy dose of tenderness).
This area of our bodies holds a lot...of pleasure and hurt and everything in between. Self care for every woman. -
Mindful being and moving in nature with Cindy Hurley-Leister
Welcome to a moment of pause during our beautiful festival. A pause to be with yourself, each other and nature. Through paying attention to your inner world with mindfulness meditation.
To experience the beauty of nature of the land we're gathering on with greater awareness.
Come and practice secular mindfulness to cultivate a sense of ease and wellbeing for yourself. Depending on the energy of the group, we can add some walking meditation and diving in with all senses into being with nature.
The simplicity of this practice is beautiful and makes it accessible to all: no matter what your experience level, your physical and mental needs. -
Women's Wellness Wisdom with Carly Walker-Smith
In our modern day ‘evolutionary mismatched’ lives it can be so easy to lose sight of where we need to focus our attention to support our health optimally. Bombarded with content and contradiction surrounding what we ‘should’ do, we are frequently overwhelmed which can lead to us being in a state of analysis paralysis or ‘freeze’ and taking no action at all to positively support our health, particularly when prioritising ourselves over others may also be a pattern.
Focussing on the foundations of optimal health; sleep, nutrition, stress management, movement, breathing and light/circadian rhythm we can begin to pay attention to simple habitual changes that can be woven into the threads of our day to day lives moving us towards a state of more energy and vitality. This effect can be layered to elevate our health as we develop realistic strategies to embed sustainable biologically aligned changes. Self-care requires self-discipline but with gentle renewed focus, change is possible. We have the power within ourselves to make free/low cost changes that can dramatically improve our health.
This session will explore some of these foundational aspects of our health with opportunity for reflection and discussion surrounding the development of actionable points that can work for you sustainably. -
Business Inspirations with Sharon Law
Understanding compliance is essential for building a sustainable and successful business. In this session, Sharon Law, an experienced bookkeeper and business consultant, will guide you through the key compliance areas every entrepreneur needs to know. From legal and financial obligations to ethical practices and data protection, this workshop will provide practical insights and tools to help you navigate the complexities of running a compliant business.
Whether you're just starting out or looking to strengthen your existing operations, you'll learn how to protect your business, avoid common pitfalls, and confidently meet regulatory requirements. This session is designed to empower women entrepreneurs with actionable strategies and resources to ensure their businesses thrive.
Join us to build your compliance toolkit and take the guesswork out of managing your business obligations. -
Dancing Freedom - Deepening into the Elements with Sara-Jane Cleland
Dancing Freedom is a conscious dance practice to support living in oneness with ourselves, each other, the earth and the cosmos. A free-form somatic practice that blends the medicine of dance with the medicine of ceremony and co-creation. Dancing freedom takes you on a guided dance journey through an elemental wave of Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Ether - deepening your connection to life.
There is only one rule in Dancing Freedom - you can't do it wrong!
In the dance, you are invited to explore an authentic way of moving - a creative expression of your unique being. In this process of free movement with the structure of a wave pattern, it is possible to become a free flow of energy, moving into oneness, beyond the mind, personality and ego, to drop deeply into presence.Conscious dance provides an opportunity to release physical tension and pain, to free energy in the body, to express emotions and sounds, to connect with others, to play and to remember that you LOVE to dance!
A Dancing Freedom practice is created around a theme to weave the magic of intention for a transformative experience. The theme for this event is Deepening into the Elements. The music will emphasize the 5 elements as we explore where they manifest in our bodies aiming for a direct physical experience of those elements of which we are made.