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 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 Women's Weekends we create other circles and intimate experiences for women to reconnect, express and move what has been held in the body.
Full Moon Circle for Women
Intimate gatherings in Redfern for women who want a moment away from the busyness, roles and pace of everyday life — to reconnect with their body, inner knowing and other women. Every circle opens with a grounding tea ceremony, and is different each time — shaped by the season, the moon and what feels present in the room.
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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
A phone-free, women-only dance experience to shake off stagnation, move through what is stuck, and come alive in your body. No choreography. No performance. Just music, movement and freedom. Live DJ set in luxurious air-sprung dancefloor space in Newtown.
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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.
Elisa after her first Ochre Healing Ceremony, February 2022