Soul Alchemy Creative Wellness Retreat

Indulge in healthy creative blissful goodness as Brad and Tams take you on a journey weaving a web of artistic expression in luxury through painting, creating with nature, movement, sound, healthy food, soaking in natural mineral hot tubs, sharing soul-centered teachings and ceremony.

Presented by: 
Brad Marmion of Natural Alchemy & Tams Hesz of Soul Stories
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Imagine taking a weekend for a journey to redefine yourself and love every moment of it, then take the leap and we’ll see you there.

You will be held in luxurious safe spaces & surroundings to lean into your intuition ~  to remember you, to rebuild confidence and trust yourself more often than not. Our bodies hold most of the answers we seek & most of the time we need to simply slow down and take time to listen to the whispers & watch for the signs ~  and like anything, we only get better with practice. 

Let this meaningful ‘time out’ moment be the beginning of more self-practices of care & creativity to manifest into your life…   

Embracing complete health with: 

* stretching & exploration of body movement

* intuitive mixed-media painting & natural crafting

* making & eating healthy organic food goodness

* sound meditation & natural mineral water hot tubs

* nature connection walk, cacao & water ceremony

* time to connect, express, manifest & release stories

Investment Earlybird (prices to increase soon)
$1,230 Single room in a shared apartment 

$1,360 Fully independent apartment

$1,190 each Couple in a shared queen bedroom

About Brad
Brad offers his practice through the Natural Alchemy Society, he loves to immerse himself in
playing with sound, creating, reiki; making, and playing multiple instruments. With a background in design and the esoteric, he has a belief in creating with heart, exploring spirit-centered being, offering in-depth transformational practice, and passing
teachings of compassion back to community.
Brad has been immersed in the esoteric, sound, and meditation for over 25 years. He has a master’s degree in design and an advanced diploma from the Sacred Sciences Foundation amongst other learnings. But more importantly, a belief that the body is a temple and that to celebrate life in a wholesome, quirky, and fun way is so very important

For more on Brad and his offerings, check out:
Web: https://www.natural-alchemy.org
FB: Brad Marmion
IG: naturalalchemysociety 

About Tams

After hanging up her dance shoes and moving back to Australia, Tams finds herself fumbling day-to-day remembering and creating new Soul Stories. She travels between Melbourne and her sleepy hometown Heyfield, connecting with the local community and sharing her artwork along the way.

She’s a quiet soul at heart, with not a lot to say unless it really means something true. With her dance experience and the way she is able to project emotion, love, line, and beauty, Tams is able to continue such artistry through her parallel Soul Stories passion…

A yoga devotee, living a country and vegan lifestyle, she’s also a little obsessed with spoiling her mischievous kitties ‘Dantechicken & Etienne’. You can often find her riding a bike, following her big ol’ heart and eating at least 12 bananas a day. 

What you see, what you read and what you feel about Soul Stories is completely self-taught and simply natural to Tams. This is why she tends to brush off most praise and gratitude by saying that everyone is capable of heartfelt stories and creativity…

Wherever she wanders, she continues to be inspired by beautiful souls and their incredible stories…

For more on Tams and her offerings, check out:
Web: https://soul-stories.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/soulstoriesbytams

IG: @soul.stories

Schedule: (May be subject to change) 

The schedule may be subject to change, for all offerings no experience is needed, and those who are experienced will appreciate a refreshing and unique approach with plenty of opportunity to further skills.

Mansi services
Arriving earlier you’ll have the opportunity to settle into the gorgeous accommodation and take advantage of the incredible mansi services. Including massage, magnesium float tanks, infrared sauna, airpod hydroxy and mineral baths (minerals baths are part of the retreat programme later). These offerings will be at an additional cost with more information available at
https://www.mansi.com.au/element/

Stretching & exploration of body movement
From many years of practicing movement, Tams will combine her dance, yoga & pilates training into a playful session to awaken your body and soul. Cliche but true, there's no healthy mind without a healthy body & vice versa. She firmly believes in a gentle stretching practice every day, which will also accommodate the liberating dance piece she has planned for everyone. “If you can talk you can sing, if you can walk, you can dance.”

In a separate session after the sound meditation, Brad will lead into an auric field energy exploration. This often starts with easing out of the inner sound experience through breathing, and gentle stretching into a fully standing consciousness. From here an exploration of one's energy or auric field with a focus on awareness of self, then progressing to notice each other's energy and moving together in a silent dance of energy. This is a truly delightful and beautiful experience.

Intuitive Drawing/Painting & Natural Crafting
By creating a relaxed and safe space, Tams will story share on the importance of creativity and reveal some of her special art techniques of drawing from your insides to out. To lean into your intuition, to feel more, to think less and to let go of that judgemental monkey at the back of the bus. You will be experimenting with many different mediums, and by all means, if you have any favorite pencils, paints or brushes, please bring them along - but all that’s truly required is an open heart.

Brad will guide you in creating a natural totem such as a wand, staff, spear, jewellery, or a smaller carving will be created from a found stick / or object on the nature walk, including something of value such as a crystal, shell, seedpods, or feathers collected from home or from the supplied goodies.  Materials will be collected and from there, practical techniques of cutting, carving, shaping, binding, gluing and weaving will be used to create an object of meaning.

Making & eating healthy organic food goodness
A huge part of this retreat is about wellness and personal health, most of the food will be prepared by an incredible vegan chef. However, on the first night everyone will explore conscious food making and have the opportunity to contribute to creating a meal and dessert all together with practice of blessing our fresh food as an art.
Or if you want to just sit back and enjoy a casual chat whilst  Brad & Tams leads the way, then that’s perfect too.

Sound meditation & natural mineral water hot tubs
A sound journey of ‘natural alchemy’ led by Brad is an intuitive experience of beautiful harmonics aimed at enabling one with a connection to the divine spirit to trigger one’s own inner guidance, discover stillness within, a state of immersed bliss and healing vibrations.
Instruments are respectfully integrated from alternate cultures, many of which are made in ceremony through an alchemical process by Brad himself. The journey offered flows through channeled messages, vocal toning, harmonizing, breathwork, a complete earth frequency crystal bowl set, ceremonial rattles, Tibetan singing bowls, yidaki (didgeridoo), handpan, traditional ceremonial medicine drums, live recording and looping are also integrated into the journey.

The natural mineral water hot tubs are divine, the central Gippsland natural artesian water supply is renowned for it’s 100% natural mineral rich unique healing properties. The sulphur and magnesium in the water enter through pores in your skin and is often noted to aid with the body’s tissue restoration as well as boosting the immune system. The soothing warm waters and the ambience of bathing in “open-air” relaxes and recharges the soul.


Nature connection walk, cacao & water ceremony
A walk around the local wetlands is a must, drawing in the rich inspiration our natural world has to offer, leaning into our inner calm & reflecting thoughts. Tune in and explore with open senses, invoke our own synchronization with nature and see what emerges along the journey.
With a full cup and eyes open, there's an opportunity to collect found objects to create a natural crafting totem. Or perhaps, something natural already collected that can be brought along from home too.

The cacao ceremony is a beautiful way to share spirit, with a super unique cacao ceremony with 100% raw ceremonial grade and blessed Peruvian cacao unwatered down for full potency, followed by a maple syrup shot as a blessing to compliment the medicine with a burst of extra goodness. This is a taste and body sensation and a unique way of sharing cacao.

As everything starts wrapping on Sunday, a deep dive into a water ceremony with pure intent and clear manifestation will be a beautiful way to conclude your journey.

Time to connect, express, manifest & release stories
The location at Mansi is divine, luxurious and sets up a space for an in depth journey. Taking advantage of this, throughout the weekend we share in ceremony blended throughout all the offerings to commune with heart, connect, express, share stories and develop a new transformational manifestation of moving forward with enriched purpose. These ceremonies lean into teachings, sharings and empower our own stories and how you can share them in a healthy way.