WEEKEND WELCOME, with Julia Hasche

Join us for a brief introduction and welcome to the weekend.

MEDITATION and VISUALISATION, with Zoe Sheridan

Zoe Sheridan is known for her radio and TV Presenting. Zoe began her career with Triple M Australia, and has worked for Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth radio on local and national shows for 2DayFM, Nova, WSFM and now KISS.

Zoe's also hosted TV shows including kid's game show, Challenger, co-hosted Russell Gilbert Live and The Catch-Up. Zoe's talent for radio interviews got her noticed by the MTV crew and she was offered a job presenting Music News and co-hosted shows with David Campbell. Through radio and TV, Zoe has interviewed some big talents including Katy Perry, Maroon 5, Oasis, Janet Jackson, Mel Gibson, John Legend, Oliva Newton-John, Kylie Minogue, John Travolta, Russell Crowe and Robin Williams.

Zoe's passion is meditation. She teaches adults and children regularly and recently began teaching teachers 'how to teach meditation', which she is now turning into a book! Zoe's passion has taken her to Brazil, India and the USA where she has run adult and children's meditation for members at SOHO House. Zoe has also taught meditation to her radio peers at ARN, NIDA students and Di Jones Real Estate, who saw an increase in sales after just one session! Her meditations are on Qantas and JetStar international and domestic flights and have just launched on iTunes. Zoe is most excited about her latest venture, Zoe's Chakra Party, an 8-week course for teens, to adults! In this 8-week program, learn more about meditation, energy, self-love, self-healing, colour therapy, breath, and chakras. It begins on the 14th of September. DM @zoeschakraparty on Instagram to enrol or enquire.

"My passion and purpose are to teach self-love through meditation. I am 100% committed to helping as many children, teens and now adults learn how to meditate, and other skills, that will help them feel safe, worthy and empowered."

I'm honoured Julia has asked me to open your retreat with a meditation. Being a single mum for over 17 years now, I know how easy it can be to put everyone's needs above your own... your child(ren), partner, family, pets etc. I've made a lot of progress, although I am still learning to have healthy boundaries, say no, and 'put my oxygen mask on before my child' as they instruct on flights ... remember them!?

In this session, I would like to share with you tips that really help me 'fill my own cup' and take good care of myself with balance, perception and meditation.

Together we will create a magical, healing start to your weekend! I am so looking forward to meeting you.

Love Zoe X

JOURNALING, with Julia Hasche

Journaling has many benefits. It helps you to clarify your thoughts and feelings, solve problems, rediscover more about yourself, give you some direction, reduce stress, practice being mindful, help you reach goals, and allow you to track patterns, improvement and growth you experience over time.

Whether this is your first time journaling, or you are a regular, doesn't matter. In this session I will provide you with some journaling prompts as we sit together and get some thoughts, feelings and ideas on to paper.

ZENTANGLE, with Sandhya Manne

Sandhya Manne, is an artist, a painter and India's First Certified Zentangle Teacher. She has been practising and teaching Zentangle since 2010. Zentangle is a "Meditative Artform", which is a relaxing method of creating beautiful abstract art using repetitive structured patterns. It teaches and focuses on being mindful and present.

She has taught thousands of enthusiastic participants, from across the world and in India, through private sessions and group classes. She also regularly works with corporates like Wipro, Ford, Marico, Texas Instruments, Mahindra Kotak, Fidelity, First Source to name a few - introducing Zentangle and advocating the benefits of Zentangle.

Apart from practising Zentangle, Sandhya is an oil painter and a watercolourist. She likes to explore colour and design. Which is evident in all her artworks and her workshops. She has been part of many prestigious art shows both in the USA and India. Many of her artworks are now part of private collections in India, Canada, the USA and the UK.

She creates out of her studio in Chennai, where she also holds regular workshops. She also offers online workshops and loves building online communities.

When not at her studio, Sandhya enjoys spending time travelling and visiting old Indian temples with her husband and their two young children. She also enjoys music, walks, books, having friends over, having conversations about life and discovering life. She enjoys her quiet time reflecting on life during her high-altitude Himalayan treks to Valley of Flowers, HemKund Sahib, Mount Kailash etc.

In her session with us, Sandhya will be guiding us with a Zentangle project of mindful drawings for instant Zen. 

TAPPING, with Janice Steinbach

Janice Steinbach helps women heal their past, live in self-care mode, and claim vitality for their future. With 9 years of experience as a private-practice counsellor, she has expertise in loss and life transition, Thought Field Therapy, internal family systems, and energy work. She loves to help women gain the confidence and motivation to maximize their lives.

Thought Field Therapy is a psychological treatment developed by an American psychologist, Roger Callahan that can heal a variety of mental and physical ailments through specialized "tapping" with the fingers at meridian points on the upper body and hands. In this session, Janice will help us use this technique to release emotional energy through two great self-care tools for ourselves and our family! If you've tried tapping before, there's an advanced level bonus you won't want to miss!

These are simple ways to self-soothe when you are overwhelmed or having trouble focusing or sleeping. They can also be used with kiddos (pets included).

This workshop will give you the chance to try it on the spot. You won't have to wait to see results.

TOTAL SOMATIC MOVEMENT, with Heidi Hadley

Heidi is the founder of Total Somatics®, an online program designed to reduce pain, improve posture, increase mobility, develop mindfulness and allow you to resume or continue with the activities you love to do. She is a Certified Clinical Somatic Educator and Somatic Movement Teacher in the work of Thomas Hanna. Heidi is also a qualified Pilates instructor. This gives her clients greater awareness of their bodies, movement patterns and educating them with a skill set so they can perform specific exercises for 10-20 minutes each day in the comfort and privacy of their own home.

Heidi is very excited to bring Total Somatics to you!

Stress, multitasking, live events, injuries, surgery and other factors can influence the level of tension we hold in our body, posture and mobility. The accumulation of many life events can also create a reduction in resilience to challenges that we may face. Within this workshop, Heidi Hadley will delve into how your nervous system is tracking everything that you have encountered in your life, right up to today! She will teach you how these subconscious or unconscious habits and behaviours show up. Within this workshop, Heidi will hold a mini Total Somatic movement session to give you the experience of what it feels like to allow your brain to let go of stress that continues to hold your body tense and tight.

SELF-DISCOVERY REFLECTION, with Julia Hasche

The more we know about ourselves and understand ourselves, the more connected to ourselves we are, and the better we can be.

What kind of role model do you want to be for your children, loved ones or others? Sometimes we refer to this as being our "Best-Self'.

This notion of who we want to be – who our best self is – provides a valuable touchstone to remember at the many forks in the road we will encounter on the journey of divorce, separation, being a single mum, or just life in general.

In this session, we'll deep dive into finding out who we are as our best selves so that we can live in a way, and experience the relationships we have with our kids, ex-partners/co-parents, friends, colleagues, family members, and new partners, that we are proud of.

YOGA, with Kelly Marie Mills

Kelly Marie Mills teaches soulful wellness from the ancient wisdom of Yoga Ayurveda Living.

Together she hopes to help us Live our medicine, and see how it will change our world.

Our session together is for our own essential rest, recovery, connect and rejuvenation. It is a gentle un-doing, where we explore the meaning of "Less is More."

It can take a while for the body to come out of automatic. And even longer for the mind to rest in the luminous space of your whole being. This practice is for us to welcome all that is present. We'll begin as we did the day we arrived into this world...with our breath. Slowly we'll move into simple soft Yoga postures and gently find inquiry. Inquiry helps us see the structures that may bind us, and resource the freedom that waits to release us.

We are already enough, enough beyond our wildest dreams.

The moment is aimed more at the fluid nature of the body and not so much the demands of a specific posture. This is a practice to refresh, breathe better and discover the power of relaxation and Yoga Nidra.