WORKSHOPS
Workshops will offer a unique opportunity for people to come together as a community and explore ways of connecting with nature, as well as pathways to understand ourselves on a deeper level.
This year's program is curated to nurture our bodies through sound journeys, yoga, qigong, breathwork and ice baths; while our minds will be nourished with workshops on Indigenous Ways Of Being, Inspiring Behaviour Change, Meditation, Soulful Speed Dating and more!
In addition to this, the festival will also feature health-focused brands like Asoma, Wanderlust and Life Cykel which provide tools for supporting the body and mind.
FACILITATORS
ANDREW MORELLO
CONQUER YOUR MOUNTAIN
Andrew Morello has been a key member of building from foundation multiple multi million dollar companies such as Yellow Brick Road Wealth Management, The Entourage – Australia’s largest training institute for entrepreneurs and the social enterprise Project Gen Z.
The questions generally Morello gets asked is around his ability to always keep a positive mindset even through the trials and tribulations of life, business and relationships.
Morello will share with us the skills he has mastered around nourishment
BEX CAVANAGH
GOOD FOOD FOR A GOOD MOOD
Gut Health Coach, Dietitian and DJ Bex Cavanagh invites you to join her in a workshop where you will learn about the importance of the mind and gut connection, and the impact of what we eat on our mood and mental wellbeing. Good Food for a Good Mood discusses how food affects our brain and our body; what vitamins and mineral are best for a post doof recovery; and the practicality of the foods and meals they are found in. This workshop is evidenced based, as well as guided by intuition, spirituality and science.
DANIELLE ASHLEY
QUEEN OF HEARTS ASTROLOGY:
ASTROLOGY IN PRACTICE
As a professional astrologer, Danielle helps people find clarity and confidence to make decisions and move through life with ease. Danielle specializes in ancient astrological techniques which provide accurate timelines and detailed information to her clients.
Astrology in Practice: How the planets influence the stories of our everyday lives. Understanding and working with their unique energies to live more consciously.
ANGIE GRGAT
YIN YANG YOGA
Angie has left behind a world of high fashion to devote her life to health and wellness. During her life as a fashion model she realised the importance of inner beauty & outer beauty could only be maintained through the balance of physical, mental & emotional wellness.
Angie is now a senior teacher who integrates healing modalities with yoga to realign and create space in the body.
Balance out your Sunday morning with a 90 minute yoga class. Dedicated to combat late night partying & the heat, the first part of the class will energize you (Yang) & the second part will leave you zen (Yin). Beginner friendly and hands on adjustments offered.
CHRISTIAN DIMARCO
SOUND HEALING
Christian Dimarco is an internationally recognised musician, artist, producer and sound journey facilitator. Over the years he explored a myriad of musical instruments, flutes, didjeridu and overtone singing. Weaving together worldly sounds he then developed an experiential sound journey to help the listener enter deeper states of awareness, inner wisdom and empowerment to self healing. His philosophy is to inspire peace and love through his music, knowing that music traverses all languages and connects to anyone who listens with a gentle heart.
JARMBI
GROUNDED & CONNECTED EMPOWERMENT
Jarmbi Githabul from the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, of the Githabul and Ngarakwal tribes, in Australia will be hosting a very special workshop. He is a community activist and representative of Earth based custodianship, his focus being on environmental, sovereignty, indigenous and human rights activism with an understanding of the legal, political and spiritual aspects of what is happening in the world right now. Jarmbi will share what he has encountered on his path and speaks of a universal human capacity to re-establish connection to self through grounding and re-establishing connection to Mother Earth and the Creator.
“I am sharing my understanding of grounding and connecting that I have learnt through the course of my life. This understanding has helped myself & others to become more connected to their truth, their place here and as a way forward into the responsibility of their role at this time.” ~ Jarmbi
DAN & SARA
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
Dan & Sara will take us into an embodied exploration of our perceived separation.
The mind is designed to split and divide, to like and dislike, to have wants and needs.
It will try to do everything it can, to not be separate, to simply belong. However, from the level of the dualistic mind, this is never possible. In order to be in right relationship with ourselves, others and the world around us we have to realise our true identity. Which is beyond anything the mind can comprehend. To realise this, is to realise what we’ve always been, we’ve just forgotten.
This workshop facilitates a process of natural remembrance. Back into our true identity, where there is no separation, there is no self and no other, there is no good and there is no evil.
LUCINDA LIGHT
SOULFUL SPEED DATING
Lucinda Light is a hostess extraordinaire with fun and flair. Based in Byron, her MC and Celebrant service intends to capture your event of rapture with professionalism, reverence and creativity combined.
Soulful Speed Dating is an immersive experience for singles that invites you to DRESS SPESH and meet the myriad of like-minded babes in the best places and spaces around Australia. This is an all-inclusive space, which means we are pan, hetero and poly. The only requirements are that is you are looking for love, are not a ‘‘dickhead’’ and are 18 +.
LAUREN CUTHBERT
ART OF CONNECTION
Founder of Art of Connection and Karmic Journeys, International Yoga Teacher and Somatic Movement Meditation facilitator - infuses everything she does with an easeful joyous energy and a whole hearted devotion to inner and outer connection. She brings to her teaching a depth that traverses from strength to deep vulnerability, sincerity to playfulness and alignment to freedom.
Art of Connection Movement offers multilayered, deeply heart opening, embodied experiences that encourage people to move in the direction of unity. These experiences are potent in the way that they enliven, inspire, soften and activate the part of you internally, that feels connected to everything we perceive as external.
MEGAN AND JADE
EMOTIONAL ALCHEMY
Jaide Begg
Helping people to up-level in life while cultivating long-lasting inner change, Jaide uses the Mastery method, informed by science, psychology, strategy, spirituality, and values to create a safe space with deep presence, non-judgment and curiosity.
Meg Wright
Megs is an innovation activist who has been deep diving into spirituality, holistic health, systems design and social innovation since 2012. Megs is now devoted to supporting individuals to find and activate their purpose - mainly in the professional arena.
Uplevel the way you process your emotions to feel more peaceful, enhance your relationships and get more from life. The workshop is informed by science, psychology, spirituality and a whole lot of self work.
MELISSA WARNER
CREATING YOUR FUTURE SELF
Melissa Warner is on a mission to cultivate and communicate a holistic understanding of wellbeing. She is the Secretary of Psychedelic Research in Science and Medicine (PRISM), a meditation teacher at Signs of Life Psychology, a Director of The Cyberdelic Society, and a co-founder of The Australian Psychedelic Society.
Workshop
How do we step into feeling fully aligned to our most creative and connected self? This workshop seeks to anchor and nurture our inner resources by coming into relationship with our future self. This playful exploration will involve neuroscientific knowledge, guided reflections, poetry, a no-skills-required art activity, and an embodied movement practice. Come discover how we can more courageously attune to the possibilities before us, by developing a relationship with our future selves.
STEPHANIE HAZEL
CHANGING YOUR MOOD
WITH PLANTS
Stephanie Hazel is a practicing herbalist in Melbourne with a background in Anthropology who has been working with traditional healing systems for 15 years. Her approach is informed by holistic principles of traditional western herbalism and chinese herbalism, sacred plant medicine and the anthropology of healing.
Herbs have helped humans moderate our mood and mental state for aeons. Alongside good diet and healthy habits, herbal medicines can be a game-changer for stress, anxiety, depression and fatigue, but if you only read short blogs online, it is very difficult to use herbs properly or even know which herb will work well for you. In this workshop, you will learn the fundamental principles of using herbs for mood support, plus an overview of the key herbs, when to use them and who works best with each individual herb.
This is an embodied workshop with herb tasting, partner work and sensory meditation.
TULI & MARK
YOGA AND SOUND JOURNEY
I Am Alchemy, Tuli
Tuli, the founder and owner of I Am Alchemy and has been facilitating and creative directing unique yoga sessions for the past 6 years, bringing together the ancient yogic wisdom alongside a memorable community experience. Tuli's classes provide an opportunity for the participants to delve into deeper elements of healing through coming together to undergo an atypical social interaction with like minded people, escorted by new age down tempo music and collaborations with a range of talented artists that make the journey unique each time.
Inner Soul Sounds, Mark Cedro
Inner Soul Sounds grew up surrounded by the power of music. His intuitive self exploration and study into sacred sounds created an expression for his own personal healing journey, inspiring him to share these gifts with as many people as possible.
Tuli will guide you through a fusion of Vinayasa through Yin yoga flow, whilst Mark will curate a musical journey of down tempo electronic tribal sounds and transition to live instrumental healing sounds. Together, they aim to offer you a safe space to delve deeper and journey into your body, to open your heart, to cleanse, let go and retreat back into your pure sense of self.
TIMMUS
SOUND HEALING
Timmus has been a multi instrumentalists since he was a child & producing electronic music for 20 years next year. More recently in the last 8 or so years he has brought sound healing into his daily practice & mind body & soul alignment. He feels it is very much a key of his calling to facilitate, educate research, produce & connect with healing frequencies, found sounds, nature & soundscapes.
"Timmus presents Sacred Summit
A multisensory sound healing experience"
A significance of my life, this project I created to express my vision of ambiance, soundscape, sound healing, sacred frequency, meditation and binaural beats. Building worlds nourished by enlightened perspective, relating & caressing universal elemental archives.
Souls welcomed deeply thoroughly abundantly to each part of my musical spectrum that be expressive connective musical projects.
WILLIAM FROST
WIM HOF METHOD
William is a Functional Breathing Facilitator, certified Wim Hof Method instructor, certified Oxygen Advantage instructor and Breathwork Professional.
A Breath & Ice Experience
You are invited to play, explore and experience within the limitless playground of your breath. In this workshop you will learn the importance of conscious breathing and it's profoundly positive impact on our stress-full daily lives. This'll be followed by an immersive guided breathing experience and an ice bath to cool it off!
No prior experience necessary.
Guided breathing is not suitable for those prone to panic/anxiety attacks and/or with epilepsy or if you're pregnant.
Ice bath is not suitable for those with a history of cardiovascular disease and/or currently pregnant.
JESSIE WONG
THE HUMAN BIOFIELD
(aka THE HUMAN AURA)
With a background in Human Genetics and Molecular Pathology Biomedical Science, as well as 10 years of experience as a Public Health Professional, the truth-seeker within led me to keep pushing the boundaries of understanding by de-programming the constructs I stepped into.
Another name for your aura, is the human biofield, which is a torus-shaped electromagnetic field, emanated from our hearts, that extend about six feet beyond your body. This field stores crucial information about our life experiences and determines both how we experience the world and what experiences we pull into our lives.
Understanding your own biofield and how to intentionally change it will empower you to address any patterns you are stuck in, bringing us into greater harmony, allowing us to flow through life with more ease, greater joy, better health and overall wellbeing.
In this workshop you will:
• Learn about your biofield, what it is made of and how it influences our lives.
• Watch live demonstrations on finding the edge of your aura and and learn how to manipulate and control your own energy field.
• Learn how to become aware of two key energy centres outside of your body, with live demonstrations on how to adjust them.
• Experience an activation of these two key energy centres, to feel more grounded and centred.
YELENA GALSTYAN
THE POWER OF ENERGY EXCHANGE
Yelena is the founder of Tit4Tat, an energy exchange portal for a community that believes the secret to living is giving. Our members trade their products, skills, services & experiences directly with one another. No money exchanged.
Tit4Tat is here to change the game. In the power of energy exchange workshop, participants will learn how they can fuel their lives with their own energy and trade their gifts with one another, no money exchanged. By embodying the art of giving and receiving, we’ll showcase how through community and shared resource, we have all the abundance we need.
Everyone involved will leave feeling inspired, connected and vibing high. Participants will be encouraged to spread their positive vibrations throughout the gathering and will take their cosmic connections and interactions far beyond this container into the real world.