Chinese Medicine has been a way of life for me for 24 years. It guides my internal & external expression. As a devoted practitioner, I take deep joy in my success record, particularly with clients who have struggled to find lasting relief from other treatments.

My focus is on holding space for my clients as they comprehend the underlying causes of their health issues and navigate the nature of their conditions for an authentic and enduring healing experience. Born under the Dark Moon, I am comfortable in those dark complex places.

I hold several qualifications, including being a registered practitioner in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine with AHPRA and the Chinese Medicine Board. I've completed the Oriental Health Sciences program in Barefoot Acupuncture, where I apprenticed under an old-school Master – you know, the one that doesn’t graduate you until you’re wholly ready regardless of your academic records. Journeying the Four Seasons Journey at the School of Shamanic Womencraft in 2016-2017 has influenced my work immensely. Over the last 24 years, I've actively pursued continuous education, participating in numerous courses in Chinese Medicine, Holistic Health, and Healing. For me, ongoing learning is essential for delivering effective processes and results in clinic and life.

I was brought up on dairy farms in the Hunter Valley and there I developed my love of nature and the bush. When I married we bought an idyllic block of land on the edge of Wollemi National Park and there I grow my herbs for my Practice and collect wild plants growing on the property. After having two children I obtained my Herbal Diploma in the late 1980's and this allowed me to teach Herbal medicine for the layman, teaching them how to make products to care for their families and loved ones. I worked for TAFE, Outreach and I still teach privately. I also set up a business in a nearby town and called it THE Total Health and Education Centre. 24 years later it is a thriving business and I sell products that I make myself along with the books I wrote and other herbs and supplements for my clients.
I have attended numerous workshops and one of my favourites I attended 20 years ago was a workshop run by Gregg Furth who wrote a book called "The Secret World of Drawings". I have been following his guidelines ever since and use it especially for children that cannot express their feelings and people with emotional problems. It is an extremely useful tool to help you understand your client and more importantly for them to understand themselves.

As a woman who's entered her crone years now, sharing with others, the knowledge I’ve gained in life is incredibly important to me. And it’s with gratitude to WWG that I stepped out of my comfort zone to do this some 6 years ago when WWG first started and I was invited to speak.

I’ve grown immensely with WWG, I’ve stepped into this elder, teaching role and WWG has grown and evolved too. I love being here each year, sharing my love for and knowledge of herbs and tissue salts. My main teacher was Dorothy Hall, Australia’s matriarch of herbal medicine, and I am forever grateful to her for her wisdom.

As well as running my own herbal and Reiki practice from my home in suburban Sydney, where I work mostly with women, I teach an online herbal masterclass and introductory tissue salt classes.
And when I’m not there you’ll find me volunteering my time with Estuary Learning; trying to get into my garden to sit and talk with my holy basil, mugwort and other plant friends; being with our beloved rescue doggo and otherwise enjoying my blessed life.

Sam is the passionate human driving Garden Kitchen Witch*n. In her life and work, she weaves in many modalities and practices - permaculture, women's work, deep ecology, grief work, embodiment, indigenous wisdom, activism, art of hosting, radical homemaking, the work that reconnects, emergent strategy, holistic management, cyclical living and even more ...

The integrity to her ethics is always evident, in cooking, teaching, holding space, and living life. Sam draws upon nearly a decade spent deeply embedded in one place and now is on new adventures, spreading roots throughout the region, bringing her passion for change to many communties.

Tatiana Lustre Dawn is a Mother, Herbalist, Herbal Educator, Permaculturalist, Geneologist, Lomi Lomi, Reiki and Attunement Therapy Practitioner, Sahumadora, Sacred Song Carrier and Oneironaut.

She has been entranced by and working closely with plant medicine for 20 years now and honours the plants as teachers with deep reverence and respect. She runs a subtropical permaculture farm in Far North QLD, Australia where she is blessed to grow a diverse array of medicinal plants.

Twiggy is passionate about growing, harvesting and making medicines and also has a keen interest in wild/naturalised medicines. She is a herbal educator and runs regular workshops teaching plant connection, medicine making, growing and harvesting/foraging, self-care with herbs and women's herbs.

Ceremonial work is an important aspect of her life and she works closely with traditional medicine keepers of different lineages. She has a strong calling to learn, carry and teach sacred devotional medicine songs from different cultures. She has have been initiated as a sahumadora and work with fire, smoke and ash for healing, purification and protection.

Twiggy is also currently writing a book about how to grow, harvest/wild harvest and manufacture plant medicine to extract and retain the potency of the herbal constituents.

Stephanie Hazel is a herbalist & teacher passionate about the deep connection between plants and people - a connection that spans sustenance, breath, medicine, spirit and myth. As well as treating from her clinic in Uki, north New South Wales, Stephanie has been teaching online since 2018, and is the presenter of the Sacred Herbalism segment of the Elder Tree Podcast. Stephanie has a background in public health, systems thinking and anthropology.

Mignon Mukti is a transformational musician, sound healer, event producer and sacred activist. Her intercultural music and activism grew from her early life as an actor, musician and young lesbian feminist growing up in apartheid South Africa. Mukti’s community workshops and Divine Songs sacred song circles embody homecoming, unity, wisdom and kindness in a sometimes unkind and divided world. Mukt’s meditations take us deep into our own elements of water, earth, fire and air. Her music and sound healing can create a flowing backdrop to yoga or movement practices or stand alone journeys with sound, meditation and mantra. Magic is created with Crystal Alchemy Bowls, Aqua Gong, Lumnezia Monochord, ethereal voice, Rav Vast tongue pan and mantra. She has a 30 year herstory of producing diverse retreats, workshops, festivals around the world. Mukti leads group song circles and healings as well as private Biodynamic Craniosacral, Crystal Alchemy Bowl Therapy and sound healing sessions, meditation and Samvahan sessions.

Etty is an Israeli born Australia based Lightworker who is passionate about Shamanism and Kabbalah.
Etty is proficient in energy healing and Shamanic Path & Practice with a wide range of tools available and works intuitively as guided by Spirit. Ettinka shares her unique teaching in workshops, offers rite of passage ceremonies, is an artist and short story author.
Etty, began her awakening in the year 2000 and is focused on anchoring light into the planet to support its journey into the New Earth. As such she is happy to share the knowledge and wisdom she has accumulated over the past two decades.
Her approach to energy work is to empower you with tools to heal yourself and learn how to raise and maintain your energetic vibration. She is not the healer rather a facilitator that creates the space for you to connect with your innate wisdom and healing guides in support of your transformation.
Etty’s tool kit includes Reiki (Master), colour therapy, aromatherapy massage, vibrational essences, Theta healing, The Malchitzedeck Method, Shamanic Path & Practice, Hebrew Letters of Light, Tree of Life Healing, crystal bowl sound healings, drum journeys and more...

I'm Kath Kovac, Director of Kupala.
I love sharing knowledge and teaching through handson, experiential workshops. This includes drumming and wellbeing workshops for corporate, school and community groups. Tai chi, qigong, meditation and mindfulness form the basis of my wellbeing programs. I also help women connect, communicate and grow together in the workplace and community through women's circles and gatherings.

Throughout her career, Brenda has been committed to developing and empowering women to achieve their full potential. She firmly believes that investing in women is the key to societal change. As a result, Brenda has successfully implemented innovative education programs and strategies for both individual and groups to promote their journey to self-discovery and enhance their wellbeing and resilience.

One area that sets Brenda apart is her commitment to health and wellbeing. She understands the importance of creating a healthy life balance and prioritising self-care. Brenda passionately believes that when women are physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually well, they can perform at their best. She has implemented wellness programs for individuals and organisations that encourage female empowerment and becoming a catalyst for personal and collective freedom.

Sharon, an accountant and entrepreneur, transitioned from the confines of corporate life to the liberating realm of running her own business. Her professional metamorphosis reflects a profound journey of empowerment and independence. Through her own experience, Sharon has become not only a successful business owner but also a dedicated guide, sharing her insights to inspire and empower others to take control of their entrepreneurial destinies. With a passion for fostering financial autonomy, Sharon's story is one of liberation, resilience, and a commitment to helping individuals break free from corporate constraints and embrace the fulfilling path of entrepreneurship.

When I'm not in my studio creating ceramics, I'm a Peristeam Facilitator, Transpersonal Art Therapist, artist and teacher. My passion is empowering women and people to help themselves. I do this mostly through sharing what has worked for me as I continue to learn and grow in this amazing earthly realm!

I experienced 20 years of period pains which weirdly enough, I'm grateful for. Through exploring how to heal them, I learnt so much about different therapies and techniques as well as deep diving into my own psyche and that of the experience of being a woman. Eventually I found art making, art therapy and pelvic steaming. These three areas are my purpose for now!

At the moment, I practice Art Therapy as well as share with women and people how to Vaginal Steam in a safe and effective way, all in the privacy of their homes. People who have benefitted from steaming are those who experience long term period pain or other menstrual cycle and reproductive area imbalances (e.g. BV, pelvic pain, vaginal dryness, haemorrhoids etc.). I also create personalised steam plans and make organic herbal blends and pelvic saunas for v-steaming.

Hollie Wildëthorn is an off-grid living, luna-loving, outdoor obsessed, constantly in motion witch and priestess of the sacred wild, with a passion for unbound and unlimited life.

A psychotherapist and coach with a busy practice at the base of he Budawang Range (Walbunja Yuin Country) and a respectful disregard for the status quo, Hollie works with a herd of horses and an unruly hound, to provide therapy in 1:1 and group sessions.

With more than three decades experience in the Wellness education space, and 22 years in Women's Mysteries facilitation she is staunch in relation to trauma-informed spaces and has an interest in educating others in the health and wellness/mysteries fields in delivering programs with integrity and awareness. She is the Weaver of WWG, and holds smaller intimate Retreats and regular Moon Circles on her property in SE NSW multiple times throughout the year. In 2023 she trained in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies and is involved with AMAPP.

With her day job comprising mostly of therapy, Hollie mixes it up offering Professional Supervision to women in the health and women's mysteries field, as well as running a small Martial Arts & Natural Movement Academy, and keeping up an active farm including an extensive medicinal garden.

Erin Sauerwein has been creating sacred energy medicine in the form of gemstone jewellery for the past 8 years. Living in a van, travelling the east coast of Australia, she creates within the landscapes that inspire her. Her jewellery tells stories of the spiritual, physical and emotional journeys she experiences along her path in the hope that they will inspire, encourage and spark others along theirs.

What Erin is most passionate about is creating wearable pieces that are not only beautiful to look at, but that hold powerful energies that help us to remember and activate our highest potential. Through her creative expression she aims to empower others to come closer and closer to the most authentic and joyful expressions of themselves. Everybody has a light to share to help themselves, others and the earth to heal and reach their fullest potential and macrame jewellery is one way that Erin loves to offer hers.

Kerstin, is a physiotherapist from Germany, her birth country, since 1986.

She embarked on a transformative journey exploring the interplay of body, mind, and soul. Her extensive studies include dance therapy, shamanism, meditation, and mindfulness culminating in her opening and operating a health and wellness studio on the outskirts of Berlin.

She's a specialist in Biodynamic Craniosacral Balancing, neurological treatments, and light touch therapies like Orthobionomy. Raising her son with autism disorder and ADHD deepened her understanding of neurological diversity, including the realisation of being neurological diverse herself. Kerstin's background and personal experiences, combined with her holistic approach, make her an invaluable resource for those seeking healing and support.

The world needs more rebels and revolutionaries. As a certified coach for rebellious, heart-centered female leaders, Manal supports you to navigate the challenges and triumphs of leadership, ensuring that you not only make a difference in the world but also prioritise your own well-being and attain success on your own terms.

Manal has successfully embraced her feminine leadership in an angular and often hard-edged world. As a former lawyer, she has spent time in Government working on high-profile challenges to make an impact that truly serves the Australian people. After establishing an in-house consulting function on the leading edge of innovating for Government, she is now a consultant on cyber security matters. She is sought after for advice on quickly creating high-performing teams and empowering cultures.

She mix the practical world of business expertise with the deeper wisdom of energetic practices, intellectual curiosity and embodiment rituals. Her no-nonsense, concrete approach is delivered with gentleness and compassion to help you find your leadership code and create lasting change in the world (while maintaining your sanity).

Beth is a degree qualified naturopathic herbalist and creator of Ecotone Health, residing and practicing in Newcastle/Mooloobinba.
With a decade of experience in foraging, wildcrafting plants and permaculture she is constantly amazed and in awe at the interconnection of life. A deep understanding of how our Earth and our body are mirrors of each other in infinite ways provides a foundation for her clinical practice. Beth believe true health extends beyond individual health into our communities and inclusive of our environments.

Beth recognises the true brilliance of the human body and views imbalance or illness within the body as an intelligent response of the human body adapting to inferior inputs. She focuses on restoring vitality through providing healthy inputs that allow the body to intelligently restore itself and allow each person to thrive.

Yia Alias is a Ceremonialist specialising in healing through Ceremony. She is currently living and working upon Darug/Darkinjung country in the Blue Gum forests of the Colo. Yia has been holding sacred space, counselling and honouring rites of passage for women for almost 30 years. She has developed a variety of modalities during that time including GirlStory, Journey with the Seven Greek Goddesses and New Way Walking. She has assisted people with ceremonial choreography ranging from weddings, loss, healing of birth stories and the many situations where the navigation of transitions is needed on the personal or collective level.
Her present passion is to support women through the eldering transition with a process she has developed called Bone Woman~Conscious Eldering.
As Yia herself transitions deeper into her own Eldering years, she is focusing her energy on the development of the Bone Woman process to be shared with all women and to continue with her podcast Close to the Bones: Womens Stories of Transformation.
Her Vision is the activation of a New Global Community, where all Life is held Sacred and Reverence is Recognised and Restored.

Katherine Cailleach is a Maga woman (somewhere between Mother and Crone!), mother to 3 daughters, grandmother to 6 small people, and partner to her beloved.
She has lived in the bush of the Blue Mountains of NSW since 2009, and recently also resides at Lane Cove in Sydney part of the time. She has many passions, and is most passionate about the women's mysteries, relationships, shadow cycles, mental health, the power of the grandmothers and the sacred energy of the land. Cailleach has journeyed often with her partner and on solitary wanderings to sacred places. Ireland and Glastonbury are her spiritual homes.
She is an accredited mental health Occupational Therapist with 40 years of individual & relationship counselling and groupwork experience. She is also an accredited Psychodramatist and a Teacher with the School of Shamanic Womancraft. Cailleach has a busy counselling practice in Katoomba and Lane Cove and runs Women’s Circles, Personal Development groups in both those places, as well as on line.

Rebecca is a Somatic Sexologist, Sexological Bodyworker, educator and counsellor. She is dedicated to sharing knowledge and empowering women about their body’s, ways to experience more pleasure and enjoy a natural, healthy and satisfying sex life free from shame, disconnection and pain.

Based in Newcastle, she works with individuals, couples and delivers workshops to women and those who love them. Her approach uses counselling, coaching and bodywork to support clients overcome sexual difficulties and cultivate pleasure. As a former birth doula she understands how birth and motherhood can impact on a woman’s body and sex life.

Rebecca knows sexual pleasure and freedom are our birth rite and loves creating spaces for healing to occur from the disconnection society has created.

Rebecca is a witch of many hats, as a Naturopath and Folk Herbalist, Astrologer, Kinesiologist, and Tarot reader and teacher. Since finding her Oma's Tarot deck as a young teen she has been dedicated to studying many practices and philosophies within the Healing, Sacred and Esoteric Arts, and has journeyed under the mentorship of the likes of The School of Shamanic Womancraft, Astrologer Austin Coppock, and Polymath and Medicine Man Jimi Wollumbin.

Rebecca's way is compassionate, honest and insightful, and she approaches esoteric traditions with a rewilded frame of mind. Her offerings are truly holistic, weaving in the oft-neglected matters of heart, soul and psyche with the body and mind. She is known for her grounded capacity in holding and facilitating sacred spaces, enthusiastic teachings in her tarot and astrology circles, and treading gently to the heart of matters within 1:1 consultations with her clients. With her sweet 3yo daughter in tow, she can often be found tending her medicinal garden, flicking through celestial star maps, going on foraging adventures, or tending herself and her family from her witches kitchen on Bunurong country.

Laura-Doe is an award-winning somatic sex educator, comedienne and singer/songwriter. Using humour, song and science she helps people to reconnect with the wisdom and pleasure within their own bodies and to discover their unique erotic nature. In 2008 she founded The yOniversity and has presented the workshops in her yOniversity curriculum in Australia, Bali, USA and the UK. 
In order to educate about sexual anatomy in people with vulvas, effectively and without embarrassment, she created The Vulvalicious Cushions, beautiful anatomically accurate fabric sculptures. These cushions are used in yOniversity workshops, in various sexology practitioner trainings and by educators and ‘vulvalationaries’ all over the world. Her other projects include yOnilates®, a fun program of pelvic floor practices performed to specially composed, squeeze-along music, and a comic cabaret, ’Vaudeville of the Vulva’, which educates while it entertains. Laura-Doe is currently the vice-president of the professional association, SSEAA.

Anneriek embraces the belief that the world can become a better place when we wholeheartedly accept ourselves for who we are and genuinely show up for one another.

As a dedicated yoga and somatic movement teacher, she likes to guide students on a transformative journey toward self-discovery, self-acceptance, and mindful embodiment. Her teaching style is rooted in the belief that the body, mind, and spirit are interconnected. With a gentle yet empowering approach, she encourages you to explore your unique expressions, honouring your bodies' wisdom, and cultivating a sense of authenticity and acceptance. Through her teachings, she allows you to delve deep into your physical and emotional sensations, unearthing layers of self-awareness and self-love.

Kath lives in the small country town of Dalton, New South Wales. She has been interested in Taoist practices, such as tai chi, qigong and meditation, for almost 20 years. After attending a retreat back in 2011 on her 40th birthday, Kath experienced a life-changing meditation session that has seen her devote much of her spare time since to learning and practising many different forms of qigong and meditation under the guidance of expert teachers at Canberra's Tai Chi Academy. With the blessing of her teacher, Kath began teaching her own qigong classes in 2017 to share the wonderful, healthgiving experience of this practice with her local community. She also teaches meditation and mindfulness classes, and runs rural women’s circles.

Lara has been deep in the magic and aroma of herbal medicine since starting a clinic apprenticeship in 1992, which is when she first met the herbal medicines of the Herbal Extract Company and has thought of them as friends and allies ever since. In 1997 Lara completed her Advanced Diploma of Naturopathy followed by a Bachelor of Health Science in Complementary Medicine. She went on to graduate with a Masters in International Public Health. In private practice Lara works as a herbalist and naturopath providing support to patients recovering from complex, chronic illnesses and adrenal depletion. Lara feels deeply about our need to embody self-compassion in healing. Lara teaches herbal therapeutics and clinic studies to final year students at Nature Care College and is a sessional lecturer at the Nan Tien Institute. She writes regularly about her experiences with motherhood, chronic illness, grief, loss, hope and other matters of the heart that involve building resilience to find our way back to joy.

Cindy is an International Executive Coach (PCC) and Mindfulness Facilitator (UCLA) based in the Blue Mountains on Darug and Gundungarra country. She has been meditating for over two decades, completed a yoga teacher training with Paul Dallaghan and a mindfulness facilitation program with Diana Winston, UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center. Her personal practice has helped her when she needed it most: transitioning out of a long-term relationship and grounding her in parenting her three wonderful children.
Her curiosity is sparked around self-compassion and inner dialogue in coaching. Her purpose is to support people around the world to connect with the planet, others and most importantly themselves.
Her boutique coaching practice, Blue Mountains Coaching, is on a journey to become a BCorporation.

Hi, I’m Stephanie and I am a naturopath, meridian based yoga therapist and avid student of Jyotish. Growing up with chronic illness, I quickly learnt how much our external world comes to reflect our inner world. That health is not only influenced by external factors such as our diet, environment and lifestyle but also our internal, subtle world of thoughts, emotions, beliefs and energetic patterns. As above, so below, as within, so without.

Whilst I always had an innate calling for this path, my grandparents (who are still the most healthy and vibrant people I know) were a massive influence in my life. Growing up they would share with me their daily practice of energy based movement, as well as their knowledge of palmistry, face reading, herbal medicine and macrobiotics. All that I share and practise is with reverence to the wisdom of my ancestors and teachers.

Sara-Jane Cleland is a Dancing Freedom Facilitator, Naturopath, Herbalist, Nutritionist and Massage Therapist who lives on Gundungurra land in the Southern Highlands, NSW.

Her journey as a holistic practitioner began 30 years ago as a Yoga teacher and organically evolved into Bodywork, Naturopathy and Conscious Dance. In 2016, she discovered 5 rhythms dance on retreat with Gina Chick and became a passionate advocate for conscious dance. At the end of 2018, she journeyed to Byron Bay for intensive facilitator training in Dancing Freedom.

Since 2019, she has held monthly Dancing Freedom events, offering this powerful dance practice to her local community. In 2021, she designed a course - Women's Embodied Dance Journey through the 5 Elements - which combines meditation, a women's sharing circle and a dancing freedom journey.

She has collaborated with Anna Clarke to offer monthly Red Tent Women's circles and yearly Nurture & Nourish Women's retreats for the past 6 years.

Her passion is connection, connection to the innate healing power of the body, connection in community, co-creating and supporting each other, connection to oneself, your whole loving being, so worthy of self-love and creative expression.

My lifelong passion is Human Movement and Music. This has taken me on a journey of dance, acting, teaching, creating, presenting and awards for my Long-time Achievements by the Australian Fitness Network in 2006- 2008.
Presenting 2007-2019 in Australia and India and Europe in 2006 and 2017.
in 2019 and 2020 Fitness Australia awarded me Top 5 and Top 3 in Group Fitness and currently a 2021 Fitness Australia Awards Finalist.
Awarded as an Iconic Woman of the Century for my commitment to Wellbeing in 2017 at the Women’s Economic Forum. In August 2021 I was offered the inaugural Lifetime Fitness Australia Member by Barrie Elvish (CEO).
YogaPilates Fusion: A Mind Body and Balanced Practice was published in 2019 and my 2nd book Open the Gate which is part autobiographical and empowered living through a life of passion and balance, has been edited.
I am pro-age and believe living in a High Vibration. I share this awareness with women to be part of my High Vibe community and live their best life.
As Owner/Operator of Body and Balance Australia my goals include teaching, instructing and presenting my unique class styles, sharing my extensive knowledge, writing, presenting workshops and online programs globally.

Sam is the passionate human driving Garden Kitchen Witch*n. In her life and work, she weaves in many modalities and practices - permaculture, women's work, deep ecology, grief work, embodiment, indigenous wisdom, activism, art of hosting, radical homemaking, the work that reconnects, emergent strategy, holistic management, cyclical living and even more ...

The integrity to her ethics is always evident, in cooking, teaching, holding space, and living life. Sam draws upon nearly a decade spent deeply embedded in one place and now is on new adventures, spreading roots throughout the region, bringing her passion for change to many communities.