Sensual Body Wisdom : : 5 - 7 May 2017

Dancing Woman ~ Ancestral Earth Medicine

Beloved woman, you are invited to attend a beautiful weekend away camping in the luscious nature surrounds of “Touch The Earth” in St Albans, NSW., where you can enjoy being guided into awakening and reclaiming your Sensual Body Wisdom though incredible facilitated workshops with our sisters.

This is a gifting weekend, meaning every woman that attends gifts in some way.
Either through:
* workshop facilitation,
* preparation and cooking of communal meals in the outdoor kitchen,
* cleaning up,
* playing musical instruments,
* attending to the beautification of the “Temple space”

Every Woman brings food ingredients to share for communal meals.

Mamas with children are welcome. Even if you don’t get a chance to participate in all workshops, you will definitely feel nurtured and a part of the tribe by being here.

Contribution
$175 Weekend ticket
$65 Girls 16 - 19
Free Girls under 16, boys under 4
$75 Facilitator Ticket, by application

Ticket sales are on now, and end midnight Wednesday 3 May 2017, after which you can buy upon arrival for $10 extra.
A couple of weeks before the event you will receive your information kit with what to bring, how to get there, and so forth.
Our Vision
* To reignite the Divine Feminine here on Earth
* To move around the medicine wheel of life
* To nurture the Medicine Woman, Shamana, Dakini, High Priestess and Temple Dancer within all of us.
* To remember the innocence and joy of being sensual women
* To dance through the veils of mystery and explore the creation void
* To reclaim the creative, healing power of our erotique sexuality
* To remember our Divine nature, while in nature
* To unify, love, liberate and transform
* To heal ourselves thereby healing our community and Earth Mother
Our Schedule is being finalised. so far we have
* Shamanic Journey Meditation with Makeda Aset
* Dakini Yoga and Erotic Dance with Shantell Shakti
* Kundalini Dance ~ White Buffalo Woman with Noeleen Melissa Joyce
* Tantric Pubic Pulsing Posture ~ Ancestral Healing with Shantell Shakti
* Drumming and Summoning Circle ~ Everyone

Even though we are now full for facilitators, you can apply now for our next retreat 14 - 16 July. The theme is Winter Womb Magic

Meet the facilitators and their offerings

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Sweat Lodge Ceremony with Bastian McPhee
For over twenty five years Bastian has walked the Medicine Way with its initiations and Rites of Passage, discovering her place in the Great Web and her service to the wider community.  She is a lifetime student of indigenous shamanic medicine and spiritual practices that work in support of the Lokahi (Oneness) vibration. As a Medicine Woman she teaches the Medicine Rites, Sweat Lodge Initiation and Vision Quest to people seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and their role on the planet. Read more about Bastian's offerings

Let's sweat our prayers together for the amplification of our true hearts desires for ourselves, our loved ones and the planet.

Bastian will be holding the Sweat Lodge Ceremony with us on Friday night as part of our opening ceremony.

Testimonials
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Dakini Yoga and Erotic Dance
with Shantell Shakti
We call upon the wisdom of The Dakini (sky-dancer), an ancient deity of LOVE, Liberation, Transmutation & Spiritual Awakening. The Dakini embodies the untamed feminine read about Dakinis

Dakini Yoga: a profoundly feminine bliss practice that prepares you for facing challenging situations in daily life with more love, acceptance, presence, courage and self-empowerment. Your ability to stay present in your heart and body during stressful times is a key to fulfilling relationships with yourself, others and the planet.
Erotic Dakini Dance: your essential dance of seduction for life. This is a dance of devotion, healing priestess and temple dancer, exploring the organic, erotic nature of woman, unifying love and sexuality and asking the question, "Am I tapping into and using this power wisely?"

Dive into your inner Divine, Ancient Wisdom of the Dakini on Sunday morning
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Shamanic Kundalini Dance
with Noeleen Melissa Joyce & Shantell
Calling upon healing power of White Buffalo Woman we dance with our female lineage via our chakras. The time is now to reconnect to that female source and energy of White Buffalo Woman, to let her work through us and to trust this Divine guidance. This dance is deeply connected to our mothers, our mothers, mothers and ultimately the Divine Earth Mother and Divine Creatrix of all that is.
This is a "white ceremonial space" where we all wear white.

In a time of great global upheaval, which is called "Cleansing of Mother Earth" by the Hopi Indians, there will again show up the "Spirit" of Mother Earth herself to manifest help and support for all the people who see their duty in the preservation of nature and act in sympathy with all living beings.
This Spirit is the White Buffalo Woman.
We dance journey with our mothers & grandmothers on Saturday Night.
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Tantric Pulse Posture ~ Ancestral Healing
with Thais Santos
Thais is a Wholistic Health Practitioner specialising in Naturopathy, Herbal Medicine, Nutrition, Sacred Sexuality (Tantra for Woman and couples), Tantra yoga, Therapeutic massage and Reiki.

The persecutions, betrayals and condemnation of the feminine that has been passed down on the cellular level of our bones.
We are gifted this weekend to have Thais take us through a powerful Tantric healing process that gets down into our pubic bones. We can clear wounding and programming way back to witch hunts as well as the desecration of goddess temples where many women were enslaved, raped and murdered.

Friday night we liberate our bodies and the collective psyche from these painful memories and celebrate being powerful women alive at this time.
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Dancing Freedom with Debra Lansdowne
A conscious dance based on Somatic therapy, Ecstatic & Shamanic dance practices supporting the body to surrender, release & trust the process. It is a fun, easy, elegant and empowering experience. The dance is in a community group sharing space, where everyone one feels connected. As a fun way to release stored, negative energy through dancing movement, it bypasses the mind of judgement and its feels freeing to the body, mind and spirit to let go.

Debra takes you on a journey that has moments of deep inner spiritual connections to the self. The elements are used as the meditative focus to help you connect to your body and nature (Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Ether) using a wave of music. It is all free form dancing, that encourages you to tune into your body intelligence, to move and heal at a deeper lever. Read more about Debra's offerings

Let's celebrate our amazing dancing tribe with Debra on Sunday afternoon
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Labyrinth and Sacred Sound Journey with Chantal Clearwater
Chantal is a Metaphysical Counselor, Healer, Medium and Shaman. She has direct linage to the stolen generation and is supported in spirit by her Aboriginal Grandmother Grace. Chantal was afraid her family would never be able to trace beyond the mission that didn’t keep records of from whom they stole their children. Through an encounter with a demon, Chantal was severely tested and guided to seek help to cleanse and heal her family linage. In this process she was gifted a spiritual reunion with her Grandma!

Walking the labyrinth in meditative presence with our ancestors on the Weekend, Chantal chants the sacred light language to return us to the core of our Soul, Heart and Creatrix Womb of our mother earth who grieves the loss of her children stolen by the Patriarchy and false matrix.
From Kate, 25 yo
"With every step forward, I walk with my women behind me. I am never alone, I am always held. I move with their spirit, their stories, their wisdom. Women of courage, women of endurance, women of passion - they are present with me in every breath, every moment.
I call on my grandmothers' guidance, bask in my mothers love. My cousins and soul sisters, my singing women, my wild women, my fire women and my water women, my earth women.
My teachers, my mentors, and even my long lost women - together they chant my grounding chorus. They give me the strength to give strength to others. They encourage my mind to stay open and nurture my heart to stay full. I feel their sorrows, hear their grief, and share their vulnerabilities.
I absorb their excitement and laughter, dance with their joy, play with their freedom. I thank mother earth for the power, depth and complexity of my women. And as I wander along my path, I embrace all that I encounter. I hold gratitude for where I've been, and honour the paths that have been traveled before me.
On this journey, I am fearless. Because with every step forward, I walk with my women behind me.
Thank you wonderful women for the nourishment and love I experienced so fully this weekend. It reaffirmed my trust in the healing that arises so organically from women coming together to connect, share and explore. Powerful stuff!"
From Emily, 47 yo
"What I took away from this time with my sisters is water blessings inside and outside of me and that connecting with nature fosters the healing and growth.
I have not worn shoes and I stood in the rain with my daughter today. I know that above all else I learned the most valuable lesson is that we are here in this life to love one another and learn from each other though sharing true expressions of ourselves.
You ladies have restored my faith in trusting others. Thank you so much xx right now I feel gratitude and light xx so much love"
From Debra
"My take home was how beautiful it felt.. to be fully organic.. no shoes, no showers, ha ha no clothes to swim in, no schedule just offerings, awesome food, awesome sisters to be with in community, inspiring beautiful wildlife and mother earth to enjoy.. On reflection i felt like i was living in a time warp totally present. big hugs and love to you all so supportive..
From Katherine, 30's, mama with bub
"My take home was beautifully summarised in one of Debra's closing songs "Blessed we are" by Peia which sang "remember why you came here" I want to keep this in my consciousness as the foundation for all that i do in my relationship to self, to Mother Earth and to make a difference to the people with whom I cross paths. With theme being sensuality My work in progress is to continue to self love, release my inherited sexual shame and make way for the emerging goddess."
From Cheryl
"Thank you so much Goddess my take home was the energy over the weekend - discovery , connectedness , bliss , surreal , yummy , soft , free, gratitude, happiness, sensual, delicious, acceptance , laughter .
I just felt so good , I was so happy with you sisters , energy between us all was a beautiful gentle flow , a true circle of goddesses . Lol I also liked the kitten play on the grass - meowwww"
From Geeti
"Thank you Shantell and to all the sisters in the circle of 13 for a very nurturing and nourishing weekend. It was just the medicine my soul needed.. to be in a space where I felt totally supported in whatever I felt to do or not to do. The organic flow, the space for rest and integration, the beautiful array of workshops offered, shared meals, flowing river and Bodhi tree. The perfect environment to switch gears into pure woman being.
Was great to finally experience your work first hand Shantell ... I loved the full permission you allowed and embodies for us all to connect deeply with the fullness of our sensuality, pleasure and joy.
Bastian...the sweat was magical...you held us all with so much lightness and strength....really grateful for all the time and energy you put into creating this experience for us all...it really set a strong platform for the whole weekend.
Juliette ...I loved the scientist in you which so clearly laid out all the options of all the movements we can have access to for us. Loved your strength as well as vulnerability.
Noeleen you are a powerhouse with a fairy spirit...a delight to be in your presence...just couldn't quite meet you for the full dance as the sun was too much for me but enjoyed it from the river!
Debra ...loved you and your ability to tune in to what was needed at the end and offer it with so much grace and beauty. And to every other woman present...as I said I take home a little of each of you with me! Much love. Until next time... keep shining on"
Geeti
From Jude
"I LOVED being with you all .... I've never felt so at home in my own skin as being with you all this last weekend .... thank you to every one of you for showing up and playing with me I've never felt so safe and included .... and now I'm home I am aware of a new level of vulnerability I'm learning to feel safe with .... it's quite exquisite and it's always been here but was buried in shame ancestrally .... and now she's ready to shine"
From Bastian, mid 40's
"Thank you so much to our head visionary Shantell Shakti who lovingly brought us all together.
I feel very peaceful and so relaxed..... knee deep in the energies of sisterhood, Mother Nature, dance, fire, running rivers and the endless bugs of the bush.
Love and gratitude to all my wonder-full sisters, the team who shared their magick and the beautiful caretakers of The Grove for loving & respecting this land so much."