Five years of remembering.
Five years of reclaiming.
Five years of walking barefoot through the thresholds of womanhood… together.

What began as a seed is now a thriving forest: an ecosystem of women journeying through Self, sisterhood, and sacred service. Matured by time and deepened by devotion, Roots returns, more than retreat, and more than a festival.

Roots is a rite of passage. This is women, rewriting the story, healing those places where women’s power and intuition have often been silenced, to shape our lives, leadership, and collective mission

Our 5th Annual Gathering Theme: Revere the Wise Wild Woman and honour the Elements as Ancestors...

We bow to those who came before and walk forward, rooted in reverence. We honour our grandmothers, elders, and earth-keepers as living wisdom holders. We carry the threads of culture, lineage, ritual, and remembrance.

The elements walk with us as our most ancient ancestors - fire, water, earth, air, and ether - guiding us home to our cyclical nature and intuitive knowing.

This year you’ll find…
New spaces.
New voices.
A stronger circle of sisterhood.
As we gather to honour the earth’s wisdom and carve a path forward with intention.

What is Roots?

Roots is a 3-night, retreat-style women’s festival and a space to reclaim your rhythm, expression, and embodied truth. Through a rich tapestry of workshops, movement, sound, ritual, and rest, you’re invited to explore the language of your feminine spirit in its raw, unfiltered form. This is a space for expression, embodied truth, and village-based sisterhood - where nothing needs to be fixed, performed, or hidden.

We explore ancestral and embodied practices that tender the matrescence and matricentric experiences, providing an abundant web of offerings across 7 immersive workshop temples, plus wellness, art, performance, and creative spaces...

We grow. And we have fun!
Expect ritual, sweat, silence, song, and wild celebration.
Expect to meet parts of yourself you’ve forgotten or longed to reclaim.

Who is Roots for?

Roots is for the woman who:

Is ready to reclaim her wild, sacred truth - unfiltered and embodied - alongside fierce sisters, in a space where rage, grief, joy, and tenderness are all welcome.
Longs to heal the fractures between women - comparison, competition, disconnection - and return to a celebrated, villaged-based sisterhood rooted in reciprocity, reverence, and real connection.
Feels the call to gather on sacred land… to remember her body as Earth, to honour the rites of passage she’s crossed (or never received), and to reconnect with the rhythms of life, menstruation, and the seasons as gateways to feminine wisdom.

Our gathering is space for the woman becoming - The mother unraveling, The maiden growing, The crone awakening… The community rooting.

Your Ticket Includes:

🌱 3 nights (Fri-Mon) camping under the stars on the spacious lands of Dharug Country, beside the Dyarubbin (Hawkesbury) River
🌱 80+ retreat-style embodiment workshops, rituals, talks, transmissions, and performances
🌱 Access to 7 Activated Spaces for growth and empowerment, including: Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Ether Realms + Womb Temple, Mamas Nest & The Village
🌱 Powerhouse line-up of all-female DJs + Jaw dropping live performances + International music artists
🌱 Fire Flow Arts Circle and Open Mic Stage for unfiltered, raw creative expression
🌱 Access to The Bodhi Healing Tree: Massage, Energy healing, Handpoked Tattuu, Tarot Reading, Womb Hara, Yoni Steaming + more! (Pay on site)
🌱 Nude photo shoots, river swimming, and nature walks, clothes swap, artisan marketplace, and surprises still to be revealed!
🌱 Camping is included. Glamping or Hut accommodation available as Add On.
🌱 Ample hot showers & bathrooms.

At Roots, you create-your-own-adventure.

No workshop is compulsory, you explore those which nurture your soul.

Solo attendees are welcomed into the sisterhood. There are plenty of connection based workshops for you to meet like-minded women and form long-lasting friends on your frequency.

⛺️BYO CAMPING ⛺️

🛖ADD ONS FOR GLAMPING & POWERED HUTS AVAILABLE 🛖
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Roots is what happens when women return to body and Earth.

Will you join the evolving sisterhood?

Roots respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land we gather on, the Dharug and Darkinjung land.

We deeply respect the knowledge, culture and identity of the First Nations and Indigenous People of this country, which has been bound up with the land and sea for generations.

꩜ Please note Roots is a PRIVATE COMMUNITY NON-PROFIT EVENT raising funds for our non-profit organisation Roots Collective.

www.roots-festival.org