Fridays 9:30 am–2:30 pm
17th October – 21st November 2025
Kalorama | Warrandyte | Wild Location
Limited to 15 participants

“All of us have ancestral memory of what it is like to live connected, interdependent lives.”

- Mia birdsong

There are moments in life when something ancient stirs—
A glimpse of our soul’s longing,
A whisper from the more-than-human world,
A taste of the life we were born for.

Slower. More connected.

Full of intention, depth, ritual and meaning.

But what happens after that glimpse?

Hearth Fire Fridays is an invitation to live into that remembering.

To not only re-member but to live what should have been our ancestral inheritance,

Passed down from generation to generation.

“Our entire psychic, physical, emotional, and spiritual makeup was shaped in the long evolutionary sweep of our species. Our inheritance includes an intimate and permeable exchange with the wild world. It is what our minds and bodies expect.”

— Francis Weller

Together, we gather to rekindle this ancestral memory of connection.

To remember with our hands, hearts and souls.

To tend and build skills of connection and community.

Story, song, crafting, and deep listening.

To belong ourselves to land, kin, and the more than human world.

To sit at the hearth of our own wildness—tending the threads that weave soul into everyday life.

"The goal is not transcendence of the material world, but a more fully embodied and engaged spirituality that grounds mystical experiences in everyday life."

— Bill Plotkin

Over six consecutive Fridays, we will gather to enter into a seasonal practice of deep listening and creative tending.

Each week's gathering will be shaped by ritual, song, mythic story, seasonal (spring) herbal medicine making, and tending to the wild thread of soul. Together, we form a living map of reconnection, working with hands, voice, heart, and soul.

We will sit in circle, share potluck meals, connect to our spring herbal allies, journal under the open sky, gather by the fire, and marinate in the medicine of being together in this way.

This journey is not in any way a peak experience that fades quickly.
It is the slow, simple yet profound work of living with soul daily.

Each day, a prayer for the re-membering of our ancestral inheritance,

our wild knowing, and our place in the great weaving of life.

DATES & THEMES

Fridays | 9:30 am – 2:30 pm
(Arrival from 9:15 am | Potluck lunch shared at 1 pm)

WEEK 1 — EARTH | 17 October | Kalorama
Deer hide rattles & Seasonal tincture

WEEK 2 — AIR | 24 October | Kalorama
Rattle finishing • Herbal salts & herbal vinegars

WEEK 3 — WATER (BELTANE) | 31 October | Kalorama
Flower bath & Flower essence crafting

WEEK 4 — ETHER | 7 November | Warrandyte
Basket weaving & Herbal Balm

WEEK 5 — WILD | 14 November | Secret Wild Location
Sit spot • Nature journaling • Fire-making

WEEK 6 — FIRE | 21 November | Warrandyte
Sweat lodge-style herbal steam, Decant Tincture & Closing circle

WHO THIS IS FOR

This is for those who feel the deep longing of our ancestral memory for something deeper, wilder and more connected.

For those who have felt the soul-call or even encountered soul, and wish to stay close to it.

For those who have danced with initiation and now seek integration.

For those ready to slow down, soften, and live with depth daily.

For those yearning for a rhythm that makes sense—one shaped by Earth, ritual, and kinship.

You don’t need to be “wild enough,” “skilled enough,” or “spiritual enough.”
You just need to feel the call to sit here with us.

INVESTMENT:

All materials, rituals, and lovingly prepared spaces are included.

Concession – $600 (for students, pensioners and other low income earners)
Regular – $720 (for those with a standard income)
Solidarity – $820 (Helps another woman attend at the concession rate)

Refunds:

An 80% refund is available until 14 days before the start of the event. No refunds are available beyond that time. If we need to cancel this workshop for any reason, 100% refunds will be given.

Payment Plans:

Please reach out if you require a payment plan. Fees must be paid in full 14 days prior to the start date.

Giving Back:

5% of the proceeds will go to the Melbourne Rainforest Action Group (MRAG) and their incredible efforts in supporting Indigenous Grassroots Activists in protecting their territories within mega biodiverse Old-Growth forest in the Ecuadorian Amazon, which is currently under threat from both Australian-owned and Multinational mining companies who are creating open-pit copper mines to supply the new electric car market.

DETAILS & BOOKINGS

We are keeping this intimate.
Only 15 places available.

Shortly after booking, you’ll receive a welcome letter with location details, what to bring, and how to prepare. You’ll also be invited to a private WhatsApp group to connect before we begin and for easy communication.

If you’re feeling the wild call of a more rooted way of living,

Called to reweave your soul with the seasons,

Called to awaken that ancestral image of life that keeps you awake at night,

Then this offering is for you.

FACILITATOR BIOS:

Claire Skye (Dunn)

Claire is a writer, speaker, mother, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator and founder of Nature’s Apprentice. Claire is passionate about human rewilding and believes that a reclaiming of our ecological selves and belonging is key to regenerating wildness on the planet.

For the last 15 years, Claire has been facilitating individuals to dive deeply into the mysteries of nature and psyche through the pathways of deep nature connection, ancestral earth skills, deep ecology, ecopsychology, soulcentric nature-based practice, village building, dance, ceremony and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage.

Claire is the author of memoirs My Year Without Matches, which tells the story of her year living wild, and Rewilding the Urban Soul which explores how we might embody wild consciousness within a modern city context. Claire lives beside the Birrarung on the outskirts of Melbourne where she lovingly tends her family, her garden and her own wild heart.

Siobhán Delaney

Siobhán is a masterful Space Holder with nearly a decade of experience walking alongside women—as a Birthkeeper, Women’s Circle facilitator, and guide to over 100 women who have birthed their own Shamanic Medicine Drums under her care.

An apprentice to birth, grief and song, she is continuously re-membering ancestral wisdom, honing traditional skills, and adding to her medicine belt: ceremony, ritual, herbal medicine making, song weaving, and ancestral crafts.

She is fiercely passionate about centring mothers and families—not only in her work, but in her own life. For over 13 years, Siobhán has been raising her children alongside her beloved husband, rooted in shared values and reverence for the sacredness of family life. Together, they live amongst the towering mountain ash and magical ferns on Mount Dandenong, tending a loving home, a converted chapel, thriving gardens, and a spectacular geodesic dome that serves as a sacred gathering space.

Skye Cielita Flor

Skye is al mother, a facilitator of Experiential Deep Ecology (WTR) workshops, a co-facilitator of a year-long ritual, storytelling and animist cosmovision course by Josh Schrei called ‘The Mythic Body’, a facilitator of various study groups on practical animism and grief work, a nature connection mentor, folk herbalist, traditionally trained plant medicine ritualist, a naturalist and someone who has spent a lot of time outdoors, in focused ritual practice with the land.

Skye is passionate about:

~ reclaiming interconnected animist / pan-psychist perception and Gaian deep-time awareness

~ ritually re-entering the conversation with other-than-human, ancestral and place-based relationships

~ bioregional grassroots folk herbalism and food foraging

~ Reclaiming mythopoetic imagination, mythtelling, song weaving and soulful dreaming capacities

~ Insects! And wild native orchids! And mushroom season!

~ Books! She is a hopeless bookworm

She is in service to the nonlinear, emergent movement toward cultural renewal and ecological healing and, ultimately, collective liberation from the painful delusion of a Self that sees itself as separate and superior to the rest of life on Earth.