Tjukurpa Ngura Waltja: Learning more about your Cultural Business Spirituality, Family and Land

Come and Share in First Nations women's business with other women of our region for this relaxing and fun weekend retreat. Everyone is welcome especially First Nations women. Come and share your knowledge, dances, songs and ways of being to strengthen each other with culture and healing practices. FIRDA women will be sharing and teaching these during the weekend. Supported by our local Elders who have requested FIRDA do a retreat for women you are all invited.
Kanyini Tjungungku: As a process of sharing and caring and sustaining the environment, land and country that we all love
We aim to create a deep connection to ancient knowledge that women in particular can utilise in taking care of country, families, children and their own sacred business. We do this through sharing circles, exercises, creating meals and sharing together, dancing. singing and in ceremony.

This weekend retreat is one of many we have done since 1996 to support and help bring our Women’s business into our daily lives to strengthen hearts, minds, souls and bodies and to assist us understand the strengths and power in our First Nations women's cultural traditions.

Sharing our Law, Our Tjukurpa (Dreaming's and Stories) to help you connect and find your own inner strength and knowledge of Law, spirituality, culture and ways to nurture the environment. We will DANCE, SING, Share language, knowledge, cultural traditions, create headbands, weave dancing belts and co-create ceremony together.

For First Nations women we understand what colonisation over 240 years has done to our families and communities and to our shared history in Australia. We have each been on the journey of our own recovery of love for the self, understanding dependency, abuse, violence and addiction and also learning those powerful and positive methods that can help us be well emotionally, mentally, culturally, spiritually and physically. All cultures who are colonised are traumatised, but ours is strong and it has survived because we have held onto it, we have our Ancestors, teachers, loved ones who have gone before us who did that so that we could learn from it and hold onto it for our children.

Each of the women from FIRDA will be there to support and facilitate and we have had our own experiences of life and recovery. We have also had the benefit of elder women teachers who shared their life journeys so that they could choose wellness instead of sadness, loss, depression, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence and no cultural life.

This retreat is a journey to begin, to continue and to imbed contemplation, meditation, sharing, caring, yarning, talking and making food and cultural business together before we finish with ceremony. We will follow the traditions of old, when women come together and BE together to nurture each other, to share with our children and to learn some simple healing practices to help us All be well.

For All women learning traditional knowledge and the foundations of our Law and culture through sharing in women’s knowledge helps us be stable and healthy in mind, body and spirit and enables us to understand how to take care of our Country. Women are responsible for nurturing, we nurture the self and children, their land and spirituality and bringing up boys to men and girls to women. This empowers us as women to understand our place in the world and pass that knowledge onto our next generations.

Elder women have shared this knowledge to other women as a way of holding onto and sustaining our cultural knowledge and traditions for many years. We benefit from knowing more about this country’s rich] cultural knowledge and it can assist you as a mother, sister, daughter, parent, wife and grandmother.

We have attempted to keep the cost of this weekend low to support First Nations women and others on lower incomes to attend. You can choose the type of ticket you can afford from the list and children are welcome.