My Daughter’s Menarche
My daughter journeyed the rite-of-passage of her menarche, one year ago, with grace and aplomb! I was and am inspired and heartened by how she has been able to talk about it as and how she wants to. I am delighted and still surprised that the pattern or imprint around this whole ‘being female’ […]
Warrnambool Workshops: May 2018
I’m very excited to be bringing the work of Jane Hardwicke Collings to Warrnambool, VIC, in the form of two one-day workshops for women, hosted with my School of Shamanic Womancraft sister, Evonne Wylie. These days are a potent investment in you self-knowledge and empowerment, and we are delighted to be creating nourishing circle space once […]
Circles for Sexual Wholeness
Running into the whole porn thing again was an invitation to look more deeply at what’s arising. Porn feels like the tip of a big iceberg of sexuality that has been obscured and repudiated within the patriarchy. Nothing new there. What is new is the impetus to expand things bigger than my man and I, and […]
Crescent Moon in Taurus: Choose Love!
One of my highlights from Seven Sisters Festival this was listening to Jane Hardwicke Collings and Rhea Dempsey sharing the floor in their compelling workshop, Birth Today (aka Birthing in a Dystopia)! Rhea, who oriented me on my path one night, thirteen years ago, addressing the topic of pain in labour. Electric words she spoke […]
Shamanic Drum Workshop for Women
I am hosting another drum workshop with Sarah Miller of Embodiments Dance on Saturday 13th May, 2017 in Melbourne. It was a beautiful space last time, many amazing drums birthed, many lifelong journeys begun with this powerful shamanic tool. A drum is a simple and effective way of tuning in to our inner wisdom, at […]
Embodied Living
The sacred is not beyond us, but within us, and it is through our bodies, senses and intuition that we commune with divine Mystery. “…along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast […]
Birthkeepers Retreat
I’ll be supporting my teacher Jane Hardwicke Collings at the ‘Shamanic Womancraft for Birthkeepers’ Retreat on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, from July 30-August 1, 2017. We are all birthkeepers, if we care about women having choices in birth, if we value birth as sacred, if we hold our birth experiences as soulful rites of passage, […]
Sacred Sensuality retreat
Sacred Sensuality: Pathways to Presence & Pleasure This nourishing retreat on the Mornington Peninsula offers women a safe space to connect deeply to the wisdom of their living/loving bodies and to remember and reclaim the body as Temple as Sacred as Earth. This is a weekend of singing up bliss, diving deeply into the pleasure […]
Four Seasons Journey: Gift 5
{Inspired by Women’s Health Week I wanted to share some of the gifts I’ve received from participating in the Four Seasons Journey – one of the best things I’ve ever done in terms of my health and power as a woman!} We Quest, kneeling at the ‘Altar of Wild,’ as Nymh so gracefully puts it. Three days […]
Four Seasons Journey: Gift 4
{Inspired by Women’s Health Week I wanted to share some of the gifts I’ve received from participating in the Four Seasons Journey – one of the best things I’ve ever done in terms of my health and power as a woman!} In stillness we listen to the story, whispered and woven, of the first descent. The […]
Four Seasons Journey: Gift 3
{Inspired by Women’s Health Week I wanted to share some of the gifts I’ve received from participating in the Four Seasons Journey – one of the best things I’ve ever done in terms of my health and power as a woman!} The first thing we do in the Four Seasons Journey is make a drum, ancient […]
Four Seasons Journey: Gift 2
{Inspired by Women’s Health Week I wanted to share some of the gifts I’ve received from participating in the Four Seasons Journey – one of the best things I’ve ever done in terms of my health and power as a woman!} We sit in circle, lighting candles, holding hands, grounding ourselves, feeling the energy flowing around […]
Four Seasons Journey: Gift 1
{Inspired by Women’s Health Week I wanted to share some of the gifts I’ve received from participating in the Four Seasons Journey – one of the best things I’ve ever done in terms of my health and power as a woman!} From the first time I met Jane Hardwicke Collings, I knew her as Teacher. To […]
Medicine Drum workshop
It was a privilege for Sarah and I to facilitate this day with women birthing their own medicine drum! Creating sacred, transformative instruments in a context of loving sisterhood. Here’s a video of some of the lacing work – gentle, repetitive crafting like this changes our brainwaves from beta to alpha, and we are receptive to receiving […]
Victorian Womancraft
The School of Shamanic Womancraft is coming to Victoria 🌿🌙🌿 New Moon in Cancer blessings to you! An auspicious day to be part of the announcement that this watery tribe of sisters is expanding into Victoria – not so far for us to travel, those of us who have heard the call for this very […]
What Lies Beneath workshop 2
Part Two of the What Lies Beneath process! Powerful to witness people listening to their creative voice and discerning their own unique ways forward/around/toward the piece that was calling to be made. Exciting to witness beautiful art emerging out of raw materials and the gifts of the Earth! At the end, we reflected on what […]
What Lies Beneath workshop 1
Amazing weekend, embodying our creativity! A ritual walk – what are we bringing? A drum journey, receiving inner wisdom and direction. Experimenting, starting the conversation with our materials, watching the mystery unfold. Bundling ourselves up, going gently. Bringing our female stories and lineage to this circle, exploring our common threads. Blessed by this most generous of […]
Medicine Drum workshop
What Lies Beneath
So looking forward to facilitating this midwinter dive into experiential art with Jacqui Grace! Eco-printing is a modality that invites paying attention to the present moment and all that’s arising… however, the exhibited pieces are not limited to this modality, they could be video, photography, painting, metalwork, whatever! More information at: whatliesbeneathexhibition.com
Upcoming Events
Sending love during the busy lead-up to Easter and the Autumn Equinox. Soon, the days and nights of equal length, and then the descent towards winter… How is your garden, inner and outer? What are you harvesting? What is abundant? What is spent? What do you need, in order to bring more balance? And how […]
Forest Sisters
Forest Sisters – camp for women and girls – is well and truly shaping up! Sites are fully booked at this stage, although no doubt there’ll be a bit of shuffling and filling in of gaps. And lots of people have suggested activities they’d like to run, like: – story-telling for kinder-aged kids – yoga at 6am […]