Aboriginal Culture & Sacred Women's Healing May 2026

Name: Aboriginal Culture & Sacred Women's Healing May 2026
Start: 2026-05-15T17:00:00+1000
End: 2026-05-17T12:00:00+1000
Location: Cowra Information & Neighbourhood Centre Inc.

Fri, 15 May, 5pm - Sun, 17 May, 12pm AEST

Cowra Information & Neighbourhood Centre Inc.

Cowra NSW, Australia

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Sacred Aboriginal Women's Healing Weekend on Wiradjuri Country

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Description

You are invited to a unique and rare opportunity to experience Sacred Women's Healing.

Open to Sistas of all walks and origins to gather on Wiradjuri Country, NSW.

Australia’s First Nations people are the oldest living culture on Earth, dating back more than 65,000 years. Their connection to self, community, and Country holds deep wisdom and reverence that we can all learn from.

YAWARRA MIGAY means “woman’s healing” in Wiradjuri. Gathering with Women for Healing is sacred. Women hold the feminine spirit and the role of connecting to Country and ancestry.

When Women Gather, Magic Flows.

You are Welcome

We warmly invite you to a sacred weekend to experience the healing and grounding of Aboriginal Women's Healing on Wiradjuri Country, New South Wales.

You will learn the sacred practices of ceremony and healing, and receive teachings passed down by Aboriginal women through maternal lines across generations — shared only among women to honour ancestral wisdom and the feminine spirit.

Your teacher

Diyan Coe is a proud Wiradjuri, Kuku-Yalanji woman. Her birthright country is Gadigal Country, Eora Nation (Sydney), and she grew up on Erambie in Cowra, NSW.

Diyan is an intuitive healer and artist from a family of prominent activists who have worked for Aboriginal land rights, housing, and legal services since the 1970s.

She brings authenticity, insight, and ancestral connection to this gathering, guiding women to listen deeply — to Country, to Spirit, and to their own inner knowing.

What to Expect

Go with the flow as the group moves through the weekend, attuned to the elements of nature (including weather).

Be open to new experiences and new culture. Everything is a choice — feel free to participate in the planned activities, or sit out and connect with nature.

Let go and be held by Country, supported by like-minded women you will call sistas at the end.

Across 3 days you will Learn

Our First Nations sistas know how to slow down, listen, and reconnect with self, each other, and Country. Sacred Women's Program is about teachings, ceremony, and creative expression.

You will receive ancient teachings. You will walk on sacred Country, take part in a healing ceremony, and join an art and creative circle to express your own journey.

A nourishing weekend of learning, culture, and sistahood — First Nations way. You’ll leave grounded, centred, and connected to Country.

Cowra is about a 4 hour drive from Sydney.

Please note: Food and Accommodation are not included.

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PROGRAM

FRIDAY – Arrival and Opening

Arrive by 5pm (6pm start)

Welcome to Country
Ochre Healing Ceremony

Dinner — BYO, or group dinner in Cowra town (Optional).

SATURDAY – Ancient Teachings and Art

Sunrise (optional)

River Cleansing — completion of Ochre Healing, then free time (or back to bed).

10am

Ancient Teachings — learn through story.
Guided visit to sacred Country — bush learning, swim in natural waters (weather permitting).

Lunch — BYO, or dine in Cowra town.

Art and Creative Circle (details below)

Dinner — BYO, or group dinner in Cowra town (Optional)

SUNDAY – Integration and Close

Sunrise (optional)

Letting Go Ceremony — then free time (or back to bed).

10am

Ngiyaginya — refresh and reflection.
Closing Ceremony — our time together finishes.

Noon - Farewell and return to origin

Art Creative Circle

As part of the creative circle, you will be guided to create your own painting on canvas, which is included in the weekend. You will also make your own protection stick — a sacred creative piece to honour your story, ancestry, intuition and connection to Country.

Please bring any old jewellery, beads, charms, ribbons, shells, fabric, or special pieces from home. You may also like to bring something from your mother, grandmother, aunty, or feminine lineage to weave into your protection stick as a personal symbol of protection, guidance and ancestral connection.

You will also have the option to create your own coolamon as an additional creative piece. Coolamon making is an optional extra of $250 per person, which includes the coolamon and additional materials.

About Ochre Healing Ceremony

Ochre is a deeply sacred natural earth pigment used by First Nations peoples for over 60,000 years in ceremony, art, and healing. Sourced directly from Country, it carries the spirit of the land and is honoured as Earth’s medicine.

When applied to the body, ochre symbolises connection to the land, protection, respect, and identity. In healing, it grounds energy, cleanses the spirit, and calls in ancestral guidance — reminding us that the Earth itself holds everything we need for balance, renewal, and reconnection.

Why You Should Come

Unplug from the busy-ness of city life and return to simplicity, connection, and Country. Reconnect with the Indigenous parts within us all — open your heart to the wisdom of the land, the waters, and the stories that live within.

You’ll feel grounded and deeply connected to Country, taking home not just your memories, teachings, artwork, but a renewed sense of self and belonging.

What to Bring:

Open heart and mind (even Sunrise calls)
Willingness to flow with the weekend
Water bottle, hat, sunscreen, journalling materials
Swimmers and towel (weather permitting)
Casual, comfortable clothes for painting and walking on Country — leave the glam for the city!
Feminine artefacts: Old jewellery, beads, charms, ribbons, shells, fabric, or meaningful pieces from your mother, grandmother, aunty, or feminine lineage to add to your protection stick.

Included

Art supplies and creative materials
Tea and light refreshments

Not included

Food (Lunch, Dinner, snacks)
Accommodation (see Notes below)

NOTES

Please respect time and arrive by 5pm on Friday so we can begin with Welcome to Country at 6:00pm sharp, Late arrivals can disrupt the flow.
Many accommodation options are available in Cowra township, including motels ranging from $100–$250 per night (twin share or single).
Meals and snacks can be sourced from local cafés, restaurants, or the Cowra supermarket, or you may bring your own.
No previous experience required — come exactly as you are.
Spaces are limited to keep the experience intimate.

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Welcome

You have found a space for women to slow down, listen and be held on Country, the First Nations way.

Yawarra Migay means "woman's healing" in Wiradjuri. Our weekends are intimate gatherings on Wiradjuri Country, near Cowra NSW, for women who want to step away from the pace of city life and reconnect — with themselves, with one another and with Country. This is a unique healing and cultural experience for women who seek to feel grounded, centred, connected to Country and themselves.

The weekend is led by Wiradjuri teacher and storyteller, Diyan Coe, and shares teachings passed down by Aboriginal women through maternal lines over 65,000 years — through sacred ceremony, storytelling, time on sacred Country and creative expression.

We are not retreating. We are returning.

Open to women of all walks and origins. No experience is needed. Come exactly as you are.

See our upcoming dates below.

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New weekends are released throughout the year, with limited places to keep the experience intimate.

We would love to gather with you.

More experiences

Alongside Yawarra Migay we create other circles and intimate experiences for women to reconnect, express and move what has been held in the body.

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Women's Tarot Circle
An intimate circle for women to reflect, connect and see themselves more clearly through the archetypes of the Tarot. Offered as a mirror for introspection, not fortune-telling. It is open to all women, whether you are new to the cards or already have a deck of your own.
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Women’s Voice and Toning Circle
A nourishing circle of voice, breath, sound and connection. Together, women explore the healing and freeing power of their natural voice through gentle toning, intuitive expression and shared resonance.
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Alchemy Heart: Women-Only Tribal Ecstatic Dance Journey
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Yawarra Migay: Your Hosts

Diyan Coe

Diyan is community driven and for the people.

A proud Wiradjuri and Kuku-Yalanji woman, intuitive healer, teacher, storyteller, songwoman and artist. Her birthright country is Gadigal Country, Eora Nation (Sydney), and she grew up on the Erambie Mission in Cowra, NSW.

In 1984, at just 14 years old, Diyan won a statewide competition to create an image for the Land Rights network. Her drawing became the NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) logo — a yellow tree whose roots represent the Land Council and whose 13 branches symbolise its original regions, set against the black and red of the Aboriginal flag. She chose the yellow "to shine light on our people." Decades on, it still stands for Land Rights across NSW.

She comes from the Coe family, prominent activists who have worked for Aboriginal land rights, housing and legal services since the 1970s. Diyan carries that legacy forward through her own work across legal services, youth, early childhood care, Aboriginal Land Councils, education, social justice and women's organisations.

Today she leads her own organisation, Yadhaa Bidhi Yadhaa Walan Indigenous Corporation — meaning "Dream Big, Dream Strong" — offering workplace cultural awareness training to help close the gap, art therapy, and programs she designs and delivers across Sydney.

Her art is made for community. Diyan creates totems and artworks for communities, schools and early learning centres — each one carrying the stories, waterways and animal totems of its place, and sharing culture with the next generation.

On Country, she brings authenticity, insight and ancestral connection, guiding women to listen deeply — to Country, to Spirit and to their own inner knowing.

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Elisa Choy

For twenty years, Elisa read data, economics and AI for a living — advising leaders, building companies, predicting what came next. Then life handed her a shift no spreadsheet could model, and she had to learn to trust something slower and deeper than logic.

That unravelling became Quantum Energy Shift. Today Elisa is a certified Level II QHHT® practitioner who connects people with their subconscious and higher self to access past-life insights, answers and healing through quantum hypnosis. She brings the same rigour she once gave to strategy into the body — precision, presence and a refusal to overcomplicate what's actually simple.

Her spaces are grounded, warm and gently powerful — built for women who think a lot, to finally stop thinking so hard, and come home to their body and their own knowing.

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Together — From heckler to sista

Diyan and Elisa met in 2022 at the 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, where more than 100 Aboriginal Elders gathered to ask, "Where to from here, 50 years on?"

Elisa had been invited to present predictive AI sentiment research on a hard question: do Australians care about First Nations people? Her data said no. It was an uncomfortable truth — one the 2023 Voice Referendum would later echo.

During Q&A, Diyan heckled her — challenging Elisa to come and connect with First Nations people, and to learn about Aboriginal culture firsthand. Elisa accepted. Within weeks she was on Wiradjuri Country, beginning her initiation into the teachings, healing and wisdom of Aboriginal Women's Healing. In her first Ochre Healing Ceremony, her inner warrior emerged.

That initiation changed everything. In 2024, Elisa stepped away from data and corporate life, and the economist became an energy coach and healer.

Now they open that same doorway together — gathering women of all walks and origins on Country, to be grounded and return to their true selves, the way First Nations women have known for more than 65,000 years.