The Ritual of Balance

This 3 hour sacred journey guides the participants through a series of 5 gates beginning with the Giveaway of something that we’re each ready to let go of. The heartbeat of the drums is beating. The gates of the 4 elements cleanse and bless us as we move forward into and around the ritual circle, holding a ‘Flame of intention’. The dance begins, flowing from male to female and back again, highlighting our energies, transcending gender, blending, merging, finding our own natural balance.

ROBIN CLAYFIELD

Joining Elder and Master of Ceremonies

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Abundance and Spirit

This is a personal, experiential process working with self and others which connects you deeply with the source of all abundance, expanding inner awareness and examining your conscious and unconscious beliefs regarding abundance, wealth and the connection between the source of all that is and who you are at the inner core of your being.

JOHN CALLANAN
International, multi-millionaire philanthropist and inner work teacher

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Art4heart

Rituals of universal guidance, renewal and contract of completion. These ritual and contracts enable us to let go of our past, whether it be old relationships, an old habit or someone who has passed away. Includes removal of blockages and fire burning ceremony.

ARAVINDHA D’ANGIOLILLO

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Brazilian Samba

A beautiful dance for women who enjoy moving their bodies. A highly energised and fun experience you are sure to be wanting more! A wonderful experience of letting go and embracing all that is beautiful about being a woman.

NINA VAN DER PLAS
Dancer and Joining newsletter editor

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Compassionate Communication Cafe

Any lunch time join us for a cuppa and a chance to practice Non-Violent Communication (NVC) skills.

CARSTEN NIELSEN AND ALISON SMITH

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Conscious Relating and Conscious Sexuality (Men and Women)

Develop new tools and concepts that can enable you to have a greater depth of understanding of both yourself and your relationships. Gain awareness of the underlying factors that contribute to why you either react or respond. Understand masculine/feminine polarities and dynamics and how this can help you to connect in a deeper way sexually in relationships. Knowing this can make a vast difference with the way you communicate your truth to the people in your life and how you experience the flow of sexual energy during lovemaking.

ANDREW BARNES
Teacher of the depth of sacred sexuality

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Daily Cuddle Event (in the Cuddle Puddle)

Joiners can attend a 1 hour cuddle event in the Cuddle Tent. Of course this wouldn’t be the only time Joiners could use the tent to cuddle, but the 1 hour event would be the official time set aside to learn and practice safe, non-sexual physical touch with others.

TAMARA GERLIC

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Dragon’s Breath – The Alchemy of Personal Power

In this experience, through practical exercises, ritual & ceremony you will gain a taste of the unassailable personal power to experience love & life as you desire.  An experience for both women & men that will take you on a journey to the discovery of your magus name and provide practical keys to access your unassailable personal power.

PETER THOMAS
Film maker, shamanic apprentice and founder of Planet Radio

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Earth Connection

I support participants in creating their own ritual (healing tool) by connecting with the spirit of this land, to discover more about whom they are – to get into a self-healing space. I invite them to dare to dream, creating their own sacred ritual, which happens through the expression of their own story gained by connection with the Earth, Nature and their true self as one. I have heard many deeply profound stories as participants have shared from their hearts.

All beings are born from the Earth Mother. Both genders have been experiencing, in most cases a painful separation from our own selves, our souls, where the Earth Mother resides. We are now ‘Joining’ in Conscious Community to reclaim the knowing that has been lost for so long. In my workshop, I facilitate the dance floor so that participants can co-create their own celebratory choreography to step into life, by Authentically Connecting through this process of EARTH CONNECTION.

GARRY LAWLER
Joining elder

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Expand into JOY with juggling, hula hooping, poi and stick spinning!

This is a fun workshop that is based around building skills that can bring more joy to the everyday. We will focus on the basics of juggling, which is excellent for hand-eye co-ordination. It is a great skill to have to connect the two sides of your brain, connect with community and with kids. There will also be a section of the workshop devoted to spinning a stick. The art of spinning a wooden staff is wonderful for the body, and we can extend ourselves deeper by discovering to move with the lines of nature. There will be some other toys available at the workshop and if you feel to play I can share some ways to do so.

SHANNON BRANNOCK
Aikidoist and Jongleur

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Exploring Our Relating

This workshop explores how we relate to others, with a focus on integrating the masculine and feminine in us all. We will be utilizing the Systemic (Family) Constellation approach, which can bring about healing at a profound level.

MAX WITSENHUYSEN AND CHIRONE WITSEN

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Free Your Body

Yoga Chi Gung & Zen Thai Shiatsu to create flow of energy and freedom of movement in your whole being.

KATE BARZDO

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Holistic Sexuality for Empowering Women (Women Only)

Discover a new philosophy that re-integrates your sexual energy into your daily life. An empowering paradigm, using this life force energy as your power source for growth, healing, inspiration, motivation and ecstatic states. Learn how beliefs, old wounds and how we relate through feminine/masculine polarities can decrease your vibrational frequency. You can awaken your inherent aptitude to experience pleasure and let go of fear and live from a place of love and self-empowerment.

ANDREW BARNES
Teacher of the depth of sacred sexuality

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Infinite Freedom and Source Energy

Pravas and Jo create and hold a space where you can come to connect to Self, to Source and Others. This will be a time for contemplation, gentle conversation and expansion. You will experience music, movement, murmurings together and meditation. If you are interested in the concepts shared by Abraham Hicks, this space is for you!! Become a conscious creator. Come play with us!!

JO O’SHANESSY & PRAVAS

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Into the Mystery

Journeying through the stages of our own the Mystery we will find our place in the whole. Weaving together the fragmented picture, the jagged edges we are given in our society, we join the threads.  Rather than being lost where we are, we can see the road we have traveled and the road ahead. Through Movement and Ritual we dance our Sacred Dance.

AMRITA HOBBS
International facilitator of initiation rites and Joining elder

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Limbic Imprint Recoding

Born free is for anyone whose own birth was less than ecstatic. The way we are born affects us more than any other life influence. Our experiences from conception through to early years set patterns which determine who we are and how we relate in the world. In this workshop, we have the opportunity to heal our birth trauma through a real ‘in the body’ experience of being conceived, gestated and born in love and bliss. The process allows a heightened state of consciousness from where we can choose the way we want to be born in love and safety. It re-writes the Limbic Imprint of birth to create a joyful new beginning. The process engages three parts of the brain to achieve true lasting change: the cortex thinking brain, the limbic intuitive ‘connected to source’ brain and the reptilian brain. These are engaged using various movement, breathing and visualisation techniques.

SIVANI MIRA & KEVIN MACLEAN

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Living a Fearless Life (Die before you die)

An experiential workshop using movement, sound and stillness. We safely explore the creativity of this transition/ transformation moving through the fear of death into the freedom of a fearless life.

You will leave uplifted with an action plan together with renewed appreciation of every living moment engaging in your extraordinary life.

PRAVAS
Joining Elder & Common Ground Facilitator

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Living Freedom

Deepen your mastery of love, intimacy and sexual desire.

ERNST DAMS
Living Love facilitator (David Deida style)

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Living Love for singles and couples

Discover the secrets of passionate intimacy (David Deida style).

CYNTHIA CONNOP AND ERNST DAMS

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Living Love for Women

Live the wild beauty of your feminine heart

CYNTHIA CONNOP
Creator and facilitator of the Living Love Program (Deida style)

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Love and Heal Thyself (Food with Raw Love)

Join us for an exploration of what health means to you and what you can do to become your own healer with raw living foods and a nurturing, natural lifestyle. We will also be showing you how to prepare some yummy raw dishes to add variety to your diet. Come and invest some time in your future health and have fun with us in the raw

GEORGIA RAILTON-STEWART & MICHELLE PRESTON
Our high energy raw food lovers

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Physical Language Exploration

You will be encouraged to consider what your ‘primary touch language’ is (which is based on unconscious childhood teachings from your family/school/friends), and to then consider the outcomes of this language and the impact this may be having on your adult life. The workshop will also encourage you to act individually to address your own personal positive/negative touch associations, via actions and interactions with others in the safe workshop space.

TAMARA GERLIC

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Sacred Sweat Lodge

The Sweat Lodge ceremony is a guided meditation in a structure of timber and canvas (a metaphorical Earth womb) during which heated stones are brought in and sprinkled with water to produce a deep physical cleanse and detoxification coupled with a powerful Shamanic meditation. The event is followed by a sharing circle. This sweat lodge ceremony is based on the Lakota nation tradition with elements from other similar traditions incorporated.

ANDY COPEMAN AND LAUREL HEFFERON
Shamanic practitioners

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Salsa

2 hours of the blending of the natural rhythms of the masculine and feminine through Latin dance. Cuban Salsa is an earthy, fun, sexy dance that is enjoyed by everyone who has experienced it. Dancing is good for your body, mind and spirit. Men dance like men and women dance like women, it is a beautiful integration of the masculine and feminine coming together through movement.

ISRAEL ORTIZ (with Nina)
International dance teacher and founder of the Cuban Dance Company

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Singing (Body Vox)

Delany’s BodyVox (a taster)…breath, voice, rhythm, movement, theatre…living!!

Expand you, your voice, your life and beyond…

It’s not just about technique!  It’s about you extending, coming out of judgment of yourself & having greater access to your creative source, greater access to you.

Are you someone who would like to have a more powerful and dynamic presence? Have you always wanted to sing or speak with confidence?

Are you a performer who knows more is possible with your voice? Are you someone who is ready to be seen and heard?

Then this playshop is for you!

DELANY DELANEY
This amazingly talented chorister is our singing master for this year

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Sound Meditation Journey

This Journey takes participants on a guided deep meditation through the main body chakras and outwards into Mother Earth and the wider Universe. Andy and Laurel use a wide range of sounds including bird song, drumming, crystal and metal singing bowls, chimes, gongs, kora, ebowed-cittern, harmonic singing and didgeridoo coupled with exquisitely-scripted spoken word to facilitate a safe, deep and powerful journey that ends in a joyful return to this reality with a landing cushioned by a song based on the words of Rumi. Participants are given individual attention with focussed drumming and other sounds, in addition to the general group experience.

ANDY COPEMAN AND LAUREL HEFFERON
Shamanic practitioners

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Struggle without Agitation

There is only one way to do things (choice is where we get muddled up) and whatever that action may be unless the action is full of passion it cannot be transferred to create a transformation or even to be communicated. The only important and crucial purpose of this life in these accelerated times is to increase  the frequency at which we operate and understand that we are an inherent part of this vast field of cosmic energy.  My talks inspire people through my own enthusiasm, commitment and passion to open up our vital channels to effect the mass human consciousness and release the JOY and LOVE that we are.

FALU & MICHAEL EYRE
Retired international leadership presenters

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The masculine and feminine in the martial dance

Blending and harmonising our life force with others using physical principles that transpose to the mental, emotional and spiritual domains.

RUDRAN AND SHANNON BRANNOCK

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The Original You

The wounds we hold within our bodies can create barriers to us remembering who we came here to be. Some of the wounds we carry are directly related to our life experiences of the Feminine, the Masculine, and Other expressions of Being. A typically Shamanic approach to such wounds is to release them. Before doing so however, it is possible to meet and hold a dialogue with these wounds. A once adversarial wound can become a powerful ally when we meet, converse and make a holistic decision as to whether it is best released or integrated in a new form. Meeting the adversaries that hold us back from the full expression of our Masculine, Feminine and Other is potent work and so can lead to deep change and release. This workshop will provide an opportunity to dig deep, meet long held wounds as living entities and to negotiate your way into into a new relationship with potent inner forces. Re-experiencing the original blueprint we came to this life with, completes the work.

CHURAIG MAC NIALL
International Shamanic practitioner

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The Power of Play for Reclaiming Your Truth & Joy

Many adults suffer from “adult-itis”, having forsaken or forgotten their ORIGINAL impulses, passions, imaginings and playfulness in the name of care-giving, responsibility, maturity and ‘fitting in.’ In this gentle, fun, yet profoundly revealing “Playshop,” using word, movement and other exercises, participants will discover and reconnect with their True Nature; spring beyond habit, shyness or seriousness to easily connect with others; liberate and expand their imagination, sparkle, creativity and health; discover how the principles of play/comedy and living spiritually are similar; cultivate the art of saying YES! to vibrantly living their truth and joy, and; carry home tools for maintaining these qualities.

BARBARA BREWSTER
Author, presenter, poet, actress, teacher, clown & survivor

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The Power of Presence (Men Only)

Sexual Ki, warrior Ki, Healer Ki. Whoever occupies the centre occupies his life.

RUDRAN BRANNOCK
Teacher of Aikido, Yoga, Counsellor, rebirther, student of tantra and shamanism

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Usbeat

Listening to each other and being aware of each others rhythm enables us to synchronize in harmony. Polyrhythm is the basis of this connection and essential to all relationships between people, as in music. With the beat of the drums, we all begin to move as one entity, play one song, unite our voices.

Share in a rhythm workshop that will explore the bonding of community through drumming together and experience the weaving of the masculine and feminine energies playing rich polyrhythmic music.

NATALIE RICHIE
The Rhythmic and passionate drumming master for this year’s Joining

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What is Your Heart’s Desire?

We often lead our lives guided by values that are handed down to us by our parents, the education system, mass media, peers etc. Guided by values that are not truly our own, we may chase the wrong goals and end up feeling disappointed and empty no matter how ‘successful’ we may get. And even if at some level we know what we actually really want, we may have little (or big) demons in our head that tell us we should not even try to get it, because it is too hard, we’re not good enough, or we just feel too anxious even thinking about pursuing our dreams.

In this workshop we will facilitate a process that helps you to sense deep into your heart to find what it is you really want from your life and who you really want to be as a person. We will also look at some common demons that get into the way of us pursuing our dreams, and will have a play with how we can use mindfulness skills to deal with those demons.

TERRY BISHOP & ASTRID DE RUITER

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Your Essence – Head, Heart, Hand

Jo, the Pomona Crone, invites you to join with her in experiencing changes
to the way you relate to the other gender. This time together will challenge you to change your thinking, open your heart and act differently in your daily interactions with the others.
Conversation, movement and touch will be experienced in this space. Jo allows you to extend into infinite freedom through her light heartedness and compassion. Come if you dare !!

JO O’SHANESSY
Spiritual counsellor and Joining elder

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