Join Skyla Lauch of Living Culture in weaving a basket using both traditional grasses and modern materials. Skyla teaches traditional techniques as taught by her Great Aunt & Elder from her maternal bloodline, the Gunditjmara – Kirrae Wurrung tribe from the Western districts of Victoria.

Join us online for a joyful and interactive wisdom filled session that will leave you excited about the years ahead of you. It is no doubt that the pressure of an ageing body to fit a societal expectation of ‘eternal youthfulness' has taken away the fulfilment and purpose that should be experienced as we get older.

Join us for a guided walk through Bushrangers Bay in Cape Schanck with the wonderful team at Living Culture! Grab your family and friends for this very special Nourish Melbourne community event.

The Warm Water Meditation and Float with Rebecca Czapnik of Water Wisdom is deeply nourishing and restorative experience to mind, body and spirit. Held in a private and heated hydrotherapy pool, it's a unique and potent meditation experience.

Join us for an evening of healing and re-orientation as we journey in ceremony with Sacred Cacao hosted by Plant Ceremonialist Amanda Waaldyk of Angea and Natasha Mason of Nourish Melbourne.

The evening will consist of sitting in a sacred circle, setting intentions, meditation, drumming, journaling, sharing and creating a safe container for you to deepen your experience to self. The evening is held within a Medicine Wheel (sacred space) gifted to Amanda by the White Dragon linage.

We are own greatest healers.

In Chinese Medicine, the heart is the empress housing our shen (spirit). Cacao is an ancient plant medicine that helps to strengthen and cultivate a deeper relationship with our heart and self, healing mind, body and spirit.

This will be a truly immersive, healing, transcending, transformational, and sensory shamanic event to experience and share.

+ Deepen your connection to your higher self

+ Expand your consciousness

+ Heal your energetic, emotional and physical body, ground and integrate

+ Heart centred practice to connect you to mind, body and spirit

+ Meditation journey to self

+ Inquiry to receiving insights for your self, and the collective.

The Brew will be a powerful and magical blend of ceremonial cacao with some of Amanda’s Chinese Medicine herbs and some secret ingredients we will share on the night.

Please BYO:

Yoga mat,

Blanket,

Any other props you need to feel comfortable lying down for approx. 1 hour (cushion, bolster etc.)

A personal object such a crystal, feather or incense for the altar on the night,

An open heart.

This event is multi-layered and designed to work at different levels in your energy field and body.

The Cacao Ceremony is held within a Shamanic Energy Training® Sacred Space Weaver template, training that Amanda undertook in 2019.

Note: if you are pregnant please let us know upon booking your ticket.

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Spaces are limited so please be sure to book in soon to avoid missing out. If you can no longer attend your ticket can be transferred.

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Learn an effortless technique in 3 x 90min sessions.

Benefits of this course, and of introducing a meditation practice to your day:

Effortless technique

Anyone can learn it – no previous experience required

Causes deep rest, recovery from fatigue and stress

Increases present moment awareness

Increases self-confidence

Increases your capacity to meet challenges and demands with a creative perspective rather than being reactive

Makes you more adaptable to unmet expectations

You’re more easily able to recover from unmet expectations

Enables you to embrace the reality of what’s going on more easily.

You will learn the technique during the first session, we meditate together, followed by discussing our meditation experiences. Natasha will give a discourse about the five functions of the mind and our natural intelligence. You will then be given Natasha's meditation recommendations and be prescribed your home practice.

During the second session we come together again to share our experiences of meditating on our own, we meditate together, we share our eyes closed experiences and then discuss how we can go about making meditation a daily habit. Natasha will also talk about stress and redefining wellbeing.

During the third session, we once again discuss our home practice with the group, meditate together and Natasha will then offer a discourse on being. Natasha will give a discourse about the importance of ‘being' in our life and how meditation grows the experience of it. We’ll talk about how to establish being, recognise being and what being looks like in our daily life.

By the end of the course, you will have gained not only expert guidance on a simple yet profound technique, but the knowledge through your direct experience with the technique, as well as the course content. Once you've completed the course you will have ongoing contact with Natasha to guide you where and however you need, as well as regular group meditation sessions and a private Facebook group where Natasha shares content, knowledge and wisdom to keep you connected with your practice.

Course participants learn about the signs and symptoms of the common and disabling mental health problems, how to provide initial help, where and how to get professional help, what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective, and how to provide first aid in a crisis situation.

Developing mental health problems covered are:

+ Depression
+ Anxiety problems
+ Psychosis
+ Substance use problems.

Mental health crisis situations covered are:

+ Suicidal thoughts and behaviours
+ Non-suicidal self-injury (sometimes called deliberate self-harm)
+ Panic attacks
+ Traumatic events
+ Severe effects of drug or alcohol use
+ Severe psychotic states
+ Aggressive behaviours