CELEBRATE YOUR SOUL WITH A WILD FAIRYTALE EXPERIENCE:

IMMERSE in a live traditional oral storytelling of the ancient fairytale: Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Wise (and Brave and Beautiful...)

DISCOVER the deep folk wisdom residing in your own soul

HEAL with story medicine

CONNECT AND SHARE what’s special with other women

CREATE your own ceremonial intuition SOUL DOLL to take home

FEAST on hearty soups & delicious bread (GF & Vegan options available)

WELCOMING women from all walks, ages, & abilities LUNCH & DOLL MAKING MATERIALS PROVIDED.

Stories are profound soul medicine. You are invited to celebrate with a unique and beautiful one-off occasion for deep diving into the story of Vasilisa the Wise and Baba Yaga the Wild Witch Goddess of Slavic forests... Anticipate being cast under the spell of a traditionally told oral story, in a circle of women. Throughout the day, we will explore this female initiation story's personal meaning for us and where and how its ancient folk wisdom plays out through our lives, through conversation, play and creating. Feast on nourishing soups and breads for lunch, and later enjoy specially grown and selected herbal teas while sewing and creating your own intuition soul doll to take home and keep in metaphoric and actual pockets...

PLEASE BRING: A journal and pen, any coloured pencils or pastels, warm shawl, wrap or scarf, cushion to sit on, drink bottle, beads, fabric scraps, ribbons, wool, knick knacks, old bits of jewellery crystals etc. that are meaningful to you to more powerfully personalise your doll beyond basic provided materials. Lunch will be provided but you will need to bring personal snacks for morning and afternoon tea.

PLEASE DRESS IN RED, BLACK OR WHITE or a combination of these.

THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD FROM 10AM-5PM WEDNESDAY THE 9TH OF OCTOBER FLOURISH GALLERY, AS PART OF THE LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE CELEBRATION OF STORYTELLING!

ABOUT YOUR YAGA GUIDES...

MELAINA FARANDA has facilitated sacred women's circles, ceremonies, rites of passage, as well as delivering numerous workshops, and sharing stories (biographical and imaginative) across Australia and the UK for decades. The author of over fifty books published nationally and internationally, Melaina is a lover of the mythopoetic and feels that to speak and listen to certain stories is to be breathed through silver and gold. She has attended England’s premier storytelling course, the Emerson College residential - Storytelling Beyond Words, along with additional in-person training with Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Dr Martin Shaw, Dr Sharon Blackie, Roi Gal-Or, Karmit Evenzur, Ashley Ramsden, Shonaleigh Cumbers, Hugh Lupton, Angharad Wynne, Colin Campbell, and many storytelling luminaries in the UK and USA.

MAYA KRASNA is a true daughter of Yaga country, raised and steeped in Slavic folk tales, and is an Eastern-European witch with a slightly wicked sense of humour. When she is not howling at the moon, she works with herbs and loves to talk about menstruation. She is trained in holding ceremonies by a Woptura lineage (Lakota people) and has a deep appreciation of old traditions and the wisdom of elders. Maya has formal arts, fashion design, natural therapies and ethics education. "I will be guiding you through the forest of your soul to help you make your special doll in a deeply meaningful way."