BALNARRING - AUTUMN EQUINOX RETREAT & WOMIN DJEKA NGARGEE (FESTIVAL)

A Consciously Curated Indigenous Immersion, Body Wellbeing Practice, Spiritual Evolution Meditation and Earth Kinship Experience with New Moon over the Water Ceremonies - Honouring and Acknowledging Ancient Wisdom

Join us live at Balnarring Beach Camp Ground for 3 days of powerful, meaningful and enjoyable immersion.

We will gather on the shores of Westernport Bay, where we will receive powerful earth and ocean healing medicines.

THIS RETREAT IS FOR ANYONE WANTING A DEEPER AND MORE MEANINGFUL AWARENESS AND APPRECIATION FOR FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE, EARTH KINSHIP, EARTH AND OCEAN MEDICINES, NATURE & SELF

Join Us:

- To Learn

- To Immerse

- To Give

- To Receive

- To Heal

- To Converse with Earth's Leylines

- TO UNPLUG FROM THE SYSTEM

- TO CONNECT TO MOTHER EARTH

- TO FEEL OUR ANCESTRY, ALL OF OUR DIVINITY, AND ALL OF OUR HUMANITY

You make this sacred journey of discovery, connection and elevation in honour of and for ALL Australians, and for All of Humanity.

SCHEDULE (Note OAC = Optional Additional Cost) All other items are included. The Festival is a separate event that we will participate in as it runs concurrently with this Retreat. We are not affiliated or associated in anyway with the Festival, except as community guests at their event. Please note this schedule will change and updates will be provided to you once you register. Sunrise approx 7:30am and Sunset approx 6:10pm each day. Moonrise times, vary each day.

FRIDAY 24 MARCH 

(Sunset 7:23pm, Moonset 8:50pm)

  2:00pm  Arrive, Set up Camp, Meet, Connect, Embrace, Support, Celebrate

  2:30pm  Paint and Pastries - Fun with Art to Nurture Your Soul using Scar Art Methodology

  3:30pm Swim/bask in the pure salt water - soak, soothe and heal your body with the ocean's best medicines

  5:30pm Ancient Wisdom, Earth Kinship Mindfulness Yarn

  6:30pm Indigenous Wellbeing Practice

  7:00pm Silent Sunset Meditation, Converse with Earth and the Ocean to become more Connected - Earth, Mind, Body, Spirit.

SATURDAY 25 MARCH 

(Sunrise 7:27am, Sunset 7:24pm, Moonrise 11:05am, Moonset 9:31pm)

  7:15am Sunrise Experience - Earth Kinship Wellness Practice

10:00am "Womin Djeka Balnarring Ngargee" Festival Opens - Location: Emu Plains Reserve, Coolart Road, Balnarring (OAC Entry by Donation) - ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD STALLS, CRAFT STALLS, CULTURAL WORKSHOPS, CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES, CELEBRATING AND HONOURING FIRST PEOPLES CULTURES

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS AT FESTIVAL:

11:00am Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony with N'arwee't Dr Carolyn Briggs

12:00-12:30pm 𝕊𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕋𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕁𝕒𝕖𝕕𝕖𝕟 

- Jaeden Williams is a proud Yalukit Willam man of Boonwurrung. As an experienced Indigenous cultural workshop facilitator and industry mentor, Jaeden has worked as an educator at kindergartens, primary schools, universities, organisations, and arts festivals across Victoria.As founder and director of Biik Bundjil (a Boonwurrung educational organisation) and managing director of Only Freshies Apparel (a Boonwurrung-led clothing brand), his passion for teaching Boonwurrung connection to Country through sharing Boonwurrung history, language, and culture with people from diverse backgrounds is a common theme that underpins all of his work.

1:00pm-1:30pm Emu Feather Adornments with Taylah Cole

4:00pm - 5:30pm Canvas Painting with Simone Thomson 

FULL FESTIVAL PROGRAM CAN BE FOUND HERE:  http://www.balnarringfestival....

 7:00pm  Festival ends

 7:00pm Mix up your very own Bush medicine brew (a lotion for chest infections or a insect spray repellant)

SUNDAY 26 MARCH

(Sunrise 7:27am, Sunset 7:23pm, Moonrise 12:13pm, Moonset 9:56pm )

  7:00am Sunrise Indigenous Wellbeing Practice  

  8:00am Farewell Breakfast - Reflection, Contemplation, Activation (OAC for meal)

10:00am Quiet check out of accommodation

10:30am  Mix up your very own Bush medicine brew (a lotion for chest infections or a insect spray repellant)

12:00pm Swim/bask in the pure salt water - soak, soothe and heal your body with the ocean's best medicines

 1:30pm  Optional continuing journey with Jen to Cranbourne Botanical Gardens "Bush Medicine" plant purchasing (OAC for plants)
   
  

PLEASE NOTE: ACCOMMODATION, FOOD, TRANSPORT, TOURS ALL AT YOUR OWN ADDITIONAL COST. Details will be provided to you on registration.

Details of how to book 'Optional Additional Cost' (OAC) Services and Events will be provided once your registration is complete.

ABOUT YOUR RETREAT LEADER:

Jen is an ACCREDITED Indigenous Wisdom and Wellness Practitioner as well as an Early-Learning Facilitator, teaching both adults and children all about creating a more meaningful relationship with earth, nature and self, in fun and engaging ways.

She is also a multiple best-selling AUTHOR (and Professional Presenter), with her most recent book written during Melbourne lockdowns titled "Sacred Whale Connections - Ancient Wisdom for Current Times". She presents this fascinating and spiritually enriching research during Retreats she holds all around Australia, during the Whale Migration Season.

Combining her own spirit and soul evolutionary experience from life experiences, Jen draws on her clumsy and funny journey as a Visual ARTIST to also include Intuitive Art Parties during these Retreats - that help you unlock more of your own true potential. It's a NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY process, and it's social and fun and will surprise, honour, reflect and respect more of your true self.

It is her aim to also incorporate ACTIVE PHILANTHROPY when possible in to the Retreat Schedule, giving back whilst gaining so much, and leaving a positive impact as well as a minimal footprint wherever we go. This was Jen's dedicated work, with indigenous communities all around the world, up until the Pandemic shut down in 2020. Now she's focussing on Australia and helping to strengthen the connection between our original people and the colonised.

Jen is currently teaching and sharing Ancient Wisdom / Earth and Ocean Connection and Medicine programs in Early Learning Centres for 3yo+ and available to teach in primary and secondary schools. She runs regular Workshops and Retreats for adults and is also available to conduct customised Seniors Sessions at Clubs, Villages and Hostels for up to 103yos.

COME SIT WITH ME FOR SOME DEEP LISTENING, ON BOON WURRUNG COUNTRY (Balnarring, Victoria)

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IF YOU FEEL THE CALLING TO ATTEND, PLEASE SECURE your Limited Ticket Now!  

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We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future.