Six years of remembering.
Six years of reclaiming.
Six 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 so, so much more than a festival:

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

🔥 Our 6th Annual Gathering Theme: Initiated In Power... 🔥
We bow to the thresholds that shape us, the ones we choose and the ones that choose us. We honour initiation as a lost part of our culture - a woman's birthright - not as a single moment but a lifelong unfolding.

We carry the fire of those who claimed their power before us, and we light the way for those still finding theirs.

We reclaim power from the places it has been distorted and placed in the wrong hands. We root ourselves in service beyond self, wield our power with responsibility, meet our blind spots and strengthen our trust in our own internal rightness. Together, we become the women through whom a different world can be born.

This year you'll find…
New workshops.
New voices.
A stronger circle of sisterhood.
As we gather and step through the fire of initiation, we place our stake in the ground of what we carry forward and what we leave behind.

What is Roots?

Roots is a 3-day, 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 days camping 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 + 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)
🌱 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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⏰ ARRIVE: Friday - Gates open at 3.30pm

⏰ DEPART: Sunday or optional add on to stay an extra night of integration & leave Monday by 11am

Roots is what happens when women return to body and Earth.

So sister... will you join our 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

Contact the host of Roots Women's Embodiment Festival 2027