Jacqui has been dancing with the mythic imagination for much of her life, through her love of the wisdom held in fairy tales and her work as a spiritual herbalist listening for the voices and stories in the land. As a writer and speaker, she is passionate about encouraging others to explore their own mythology at the borderlands of psyche, body, culture and landscape. She has been facilitating women’s circles, ceremonies, retreats, workshops and courses in Australia and internationally for 30 years. As a senior lecturer, keynote and consultant, she has taught herbal medicine, essences and intuitive healing in colleges and community centers. Her work is always empowering and experiential, inviting you to come home to a deep sense of belonging and kinship with nature.

Jane Hardwicke Collings is a grandmother, former homebirth midwife for 30 years, a teacher, writer and menstrual educator. She gives workshops on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual practice of menstruation, and the sacred dimensions of pregnancy, birth and menopause.
Jane founded and runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international Women’s Mysteries School.

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.

Laura-Doe is an award-winning somatic sex educator, comedienne, singer/songwriter and founder of the yOniversity. She works internationally using humour, song and science to help people connect with the wisdom and pleasure within their amazing bodies.
Laura-Doe created the Vulvalicious Cushions, beautiful anatomically accurate art pieces to help educate about the elegant design of the vulva owner’s arousal anatomy. She also wrote and performs a one woman comic cabaret called ‘Vaudeville of the Vulva’. Her current projects include The Happy Pelvis Project, an online programme teaching her signature system of pelvic floor wellness practices, yOnilates.

Louise Kanjee has been in private practice as a professional Homeopath and Healer for ten years. In 2021 she completed over 4 years of study to become a Counsellor/Process Work Psychotherapist.
Louise has been on a healing journey for most of her life and she has dedicated her career to empowering others to access and embark on healing quests of their own. Her history of menstrual ill-health, fibroids and endometriosis; as well as childhood trauma and sexual assault have led her to holding a deep desire to hold space where our deepest stories can be explored and held sacred. She is passionate about spirituality that is grounded in the real world and that embraces all aspects of self. She is a psychotherapist and homeopath and has spent a lifetime studying all things from a Masters in Peace Studies to a Graduate Diploma in trauma-informed process work psychotherapy. In 2017 after completing her Eight Seasons Journey with the School of Shamanic Womancraft she had a hysterectomy and unilateral oophorectomy, experiencing this as a huge rite of passage and she is passionate about sharing this experience with others to empower and heal their own

Kath’s professional background is in research, science communication, editing, workshop facilitation and training. She also facilitates women's circles and menopause workshops in the community and online, and teaches the mindful arts of tai chi, qigong and meditation.
Through running women’s circles, Kath has developed a deep interest in women’s inter-relationships, inherent creativity and intuition, and lived wisdom.
Kath has set up a new business, Kupala, aiming to combine her professional training and communication skills with her community and teaching experience to help women at work connect, communicate and grow together. She would like to help women form a supportive sisterhood at work and create true female-friendly workplaces.

Christie is a Holistic Psychotherapist and Counsellor with additional certifications in Somatic Coaching, Embodied Flow Yoga, Positive Neuroplasticity Training, Biofeedback for Stress and Recovery, Wellness Coaching and Nature Therapy. With 15 years of experience working with groups and individuals to bring about transformation and healing in a holistic way, she now specialises in grief and loss support, self-care and acceptance, anxiety and depression, purpose and meaning. She is deeply passionate about grief and loss support since her husband suicided in 2018.

Kirsten is a Holistic Psychotherapist, Coach and Group Facilitator. With a background in education and training, Kirsten has now turned her focus to holding sacred space for holistic healing and transformation. She is passionate about midwifing women through the chaos of life and towards calm, holding space for grief, anxiety and stress that can present during times of change. Kirsten draws on her training and experience in Process-Oriented Psychology, Positive Psychology Coaching, Shamanic Womancraft, Nature Therapy and Red Tent Facilitation.

Together, Christie and Kirsten facilitate a range of workshops and provide holistic psychotherapy services in the Blue Mountains and online, as part of the House of Healing Collective.

Lucy and Cindy share a passion for people and a curiosity for living a conscious life in the beautiful Blue Mountains. Bush & Mind expresses their love for nature and people and they are excited to bring their diverse expertise in counseling, corporate coaching and mind & body work to this workshop. Lucy is a social worker with a background in counseling and systemic family therapy currently working in public health. Cindy is a certified leadership & life coach with her own coaching practice. Together they have over 20 years of yoga and mindfulness practice. It is a deep connection with nature that inspires them to work creatively with the people they support.

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.

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.

I’ve been involved with WWG since I was invited to be a keynote speaker at the inaugural event. This was a huge, very unexpected and somewhat terrifying honour and I loved it. It stretched me; pulled me and grew me. It gently nudged me to step into a new role as a ‘wise woman’, an elder and teacher. I’ve been here every year since and I wouldn’t miss it.

My childhood was spent making fairy gardens and plant medicines for my dolls. Then my own personal experiences with a natural, holistic approach to healing lead me to study herbal medicine back in the 1980’s. Motherhood at age 36 saw me defer studies until after the birth of my second child at age 40. I then happily threw myself back into herbal studies with the amazing Dorothy Hall.

In 2002 I opened my own herbal medicine clinic to help people enjoy their lives more fully with gentle, low dose herbs, tissue salts and flower essences.

In 2018 I stepped further into my wise woman role and began teaching: my online Herbal Masterclass series based on Dorothy’s amazing work, and an Introduction to Tissue Salts.

I’m very blessed, my life is good.

Kristyn (aka The Giftspotter) is the founder of 'Expand Now', a not-for-profit that exists to radically lift the confidence of people who want to make a positive difference in the world. She has extensive experience as an international leadership coach & educator, and communications & emotional intelligence educator. Kristyn helps her clients radically improve their confidence, connect with their deepest callings, and SHOW UP! Kristyn has a Master of Business, is an NLP Master Practitioner & Trainer, Edward deBono Creativity Facilitator, experienced Emotional Intelligence (EQi 2.0) practitioner & coach, and a Generative Change Therapist.

Megan Garner is an accredited Nutritionist, Naturopath and Herbalist with the Australian Natural Therapists Association (ANTA) and works as a blogger, author, presenter and workshop facilitator. Megan has a special interest in children’s health, and healing and preventing tooth decay through nourishing animal foods after raising her daughter on a vegan diet for 5 years which led to tooth decay.

I am keenly aware of the spatial configurations within our environment and the effect that has on how we feel / inhabit our environment. As a Feldenkrais practitioner and remedial massage therapist I create spaciousness within bodies and hold space for processing your life experiences. Wide open spaces like the desert / ocean / stage invigorate and excite me but it's the clever, creative use of small spaces that I delight in the most.

Brenda is a transformational naturopath and life coach who loves science as well as the more mysterious arts such as iridology and energy medicine. She’s a wisdom teacher; nutrition educator specialising in nutrient- dense, traditional foods; transformational coach; public speaker; wellness blogger; Art of Feminine Presence teacher; aspiring author; nature-lover, and on a serious mission to rewrite the narrative on women’s power and bring nutrient-dense traditional wholefoods back into the kitchen.

Star is a shamanic craftswoman, dr of Chinese medicine and reiki master teacher, specializing in womens health, fertility and rites of passage work for over 20yrs. Star is devoted to supporting women to reclaim their power by reclaiming their cyclical wisdom and moving with the moon. Star believes that by balancing hormones, emotions, finding the sacred in the mundane and healing the sister wound is what is going to change our world, and it all starts with our relationship with ourselves.

Kerri is a university qualified naturopath and herbalist living and working in the beautiful bushland suburb of Hornsby Heights on Sydney’s North Shore. She has a special interest in women’s health, menstruality and cyclic living, herbal medicine making and the women’s mysteries teachings. She guides women in reconnecting deeply with their bodies and the wisdom of the menstrual cycle to reclaim their health and wellbeing. She is passionate about helping women to live their fullest and most vibrant lives and offers in-person and online naturopathic consultations as well as community workshops.

Hollie is a Clinical Counsellor and Coach with a background in natural and ancestral health, wellness, sacred space, martial arts and functional movement, conscious living and Women's Mysteries.
She is passionate about empowering people to live well; unlimited and unbound.

Hollie has a (mostly) respectful disregard for the status quo and mainstream culture. She promotes Choice and believes in the capacity of human beings to do extraordinary things.

I am a Ceremony Woman Transpersonal Counsellor/Mentor &Women’s Mystery Teacher Specialising in Healing through Ritual.
With a strong focus on women's cyclic life, I bring a collage of modalities: life mapping, archetype work and earth centred knowledge.
At present my main focus is on supporting women through the peri menopausal phase of life and beyond in my work called Bone Woman. Bone Woman is a Life Review process to enable women to become Conscious Elders.
Over the years I have founded the long running Womens Shed at Round Corner: a Red Tent space supporting women through rites of passage and holding a wide variety of workshops including GirlStory a program developed to support young girls through puberty. Journey with the Seven Greek Goddesses, Modern Matriarchs, co facilatated crafting a Sacred Yoni workshops and holding workshops at many womens festivals and gatherings including Seven Sisters Wise Woman Gathering Goddess Conference and upon the Darug ceremony grounds at HearthGround where I now live and care for the land with my partner.
My deepest learnings have been gathered from many years of sitting in circle and bearing witness to the rich wisdom and stories of many women.

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.

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.

Jane Hardwicke Collings is a grandmother, former homebirth midwife for 30 years, a teacher, writer and menstrual educator. She gives workshops on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual practice of menstruation, and the sacred dimensions of pregnancy, birth and menopause.
Jane founded and runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international Women’s Mysteries School.

Jacqui has been dancing with the mythic imagination for much of her life, through her love of the wisdom held in fairy tales and her work as a spiritual herbalist listening for the voices and stories in the land. As a writer and speaker, she is passionate about encouraging others to explore their own mythology at the borderlands of psyche, body, culture and landscape. She has been facilitating women’s circles, ceremonies, retreats, workshops and courses in Australia and internationally for 30 years. As a senior lecturer, keynote and consultant, she has taught herbal medicine, essences and intuitive healing in colleges and community centers. Her work is always empowering and experiential, inviting you to come home to a deep sense of belonging and kinship with nature.

Kath 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.

Deanne is a Medical Herbalist, Iridologist, educator and speaker, with over 27 years clinical experience. Deanne studied a Diploma of Medical Herbalism with Nancy Evelyn (one of Dorothy Hall’s first graduates) at the Newcastle College of Herbal Medicine and recently completed a Graduate Certificate in Evidence-Based Complementary Medicine, and a Bachelor of Medicines Management with Professional Honours in Complementary Medicine through the University of Tasmania.
Deanne has written subject content, lectured and supervised clinical practice at the Academy of Complementary Health in Newcastle for five years. She is currently writing course content for Switch on Health.
Deanne has her own clinic space in Newcastle.
She is passionate about helping people realise their health goals and guiding them to be the best version of themselves possible, by supporting her patients to make small changes in their physical and emotional lifestyle traits.
Deanne is a Founding Member of Estuary Learning.
Deanne is passionate about passing on the traditional herbal knowledge and wisdom of her elders.