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An introduction to healing with star energies - Emily Wilson
Category: Holistic Published Date
This is an experiential workshop where energies from different stars and star beings/groups will be channeled through by the facilitator, such as energies from Sirius B, the Pleiades, Arcturus and others. This workshop will inform us how to work more closely with these energies and beings of light at this time of great change when..
Ancient Vedic Fire Ceremony - Anahata Yoga Retreat
Category: Holistic Published Date
Step back 10,000 years and join a powerful ceremony of purification with equivalents across all ancient cultures. Using special mantras and sacred herbs, join us in taking this opportunity to offer that which no longer serves us to the fire, freeing ourselves from its weight.
Suitable for all ages, children welcome.
Blooming Sister Women’s sharing circle - Aralyn Doiron
Category: Holistic Published Date
Nurture the timeless feminine in the ancient tradition of the talking stick circle. This casual sharing in celebration of the commonality and individuality of our life experience as women while witnessing the sharing of others is profoundly connecting and uplifting.
Calling in the Roses―Alchemical and Shamanic Tools for transformation - Aralyn Doiron
Category: Holistic Published Date
This workshop offers simple but profound tools that are very useful to clear, strengthen and contain your personal power field. They will allow you to move through shifting times, upheaval, reactivity and energy without getting tossed around by the waves. You will learn the ability to call in and know your own energy without taking on..
Chakra Vibrations - Anahata Yoga Retreat
Category: Holistic Published Date
Explore the chakra system and learn how to influence the chakras using the power of your own voice.
Suitable for all ages, children welcome.
Chakras - Connecting to your inner Crystals by Ashley Szlachta
Category: Holistic Published Date
The word chakra means, “wheel”, and are thought of as spinning energy centres within the body. The seven major chakras are located along the spine and correspond with significant nerve plexuses and organs in their region.
Chill Out Yoga - Anahata Yoga Retreat
Category: Holistic Published Date
Pause the day for an hour and unwind with our Chill-Out afternoon Hatha Yoga session. Join us in a space of peace and tranquility for some gentle stretching and relaxing postures. Experience the benefits of harmonizing breath work and emerge refreshed and revived.
Ecstatic Shaking Meditation - Diane Sparks
Category: Holistic Published Date
Shaking is one of the world’s most ancient healing traditions. Inspired by Ratu Bagus, the Balinese Shaman. In this workshop, I offer the opportunity to practice this technique to beginners and experienced practitioners alike within group energy. Shaking helps to release the blockages we store in our bodies.
EFT - Emotional freedom techniques - Adelina Martin
Category: Holistic Published Date
EFT is a form of psychological acupressure, based on the energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture. It treat physical and emotional ailments without the invasiveness of needles. Instead, simple tapping with the fingertips is used to input kinetic energy onto specific meridians on the head and chest while thinking about
Heal Your Self - Anahata Yoga Retreat
Category: Holistic Published Date
Blocks in the flow of energy in our body (prana), can lead to illness as well as mental and physical imbalances. In this workshop, you will discover a technique to help you develop subtle awareness of this constant flow of energy. By awakening the perception of this energy, we can learn to control and redirect it for total health..
Laughter Yoga - Sarah Berger
Category: Holistic Published Date
Laughter “Yoga” is a deceptively simple yet it is a very powerful form of exercise. It combines laughter exercises with yogic breathing (quite different from traditional yoga postures). Laughter is initially stimulated as a physical exercise within the group but with eye contact and childlike playfulness it soon turns into real ...
Meditations from the Tantras - Anahata Yoga Retreat
Category: Holistic Published Date
Discover the real meaning of tantra and awaken to your inner depth and wisdom. Explore the healing and transformative effects of ancient powerful meditation practices. The path of evolution lies within, waiting to be discovered.
Suitable for all ages, children welcome
Nurturing Positivity - Anahata Yoga Retreat
Category: Holistic Published Date
A positive mind is the source of health, abundance and peace. This workshop will include yogic movements, breathing exercises, meditation and a session of the rib-tickling, belly-aching practice of laughing yoga. Take this wonderful opportunity to create a powerful positive healing energy, showing gratitude for all you have and..
One Mind Meditation - Anahata Yoga Retreat
Category: Holistic Published Date
Do you struggle to sit by yourself and meditate?
Access the power of the group using voice and movement to bring us into a state of 'One Mind'.
Suitable for all ages, children welcome
Opening to Bliss Within – Yoga and Tantra for All of Us - Viryam Robertson and Ellie Lawler
Category: Holistic Published Date
In this workshop, Tantra and Sacred Connection is introduced as a basis for all our loving relationships and especially in our relationship with ourselves. As women and men, we shall explore our birth right to create safe boundaries, and express our needs and desires in the most effective ways.
Sacred Heart Song Circle - Inna Alex & Justin Quan
Category: Holistic Published Date
“Join us for songs of love, joy and devotion. Experience the expansion and connection that develops when we raise our voices together. Come and sing your heart out!”
The Healing Art of the Didgeridoo - Grant Lewis
Category: Holistic Published Date
Discover why the didgeridoo has been such a powerful healing instrument for over 3000 years and learn the science behind the practice of the didgeridoo. Experience how the sounds of this instrument can soften our mind, clear emotional blockages and fill our hearts with joy.
The Yoga of Sound - Anahata Yoga Retreat
Category: Holistic Published Date
In the ancient texts, they say that we first manifested as sound. This primal sound resides in Anahata, the heart chakra. Discover the path back to the heart sound through the power of listening in this workshop led by sound specialist Chakradhyan.
Suitable for all ages, children welcome
Traversing the Cutting-Edge of Spiritual Sexual Shamanism - Baba Dez Nichols
Category: Holistic Published Date
Baba Dez shares foundational information with energetic transmissions and exercises for presencing, activation, and integration of Spiritual Sexual Energy. We will explore ingrained cultural guilt, shame, and fear and how beliefs, judgments, and telepathic agreements can limit and control our lives.
World of the Sacred – Celebrating our Divine Connection - Viryam Robertson and Ellie Lawler
Category: Holistic Published Date
This workshop is an interactive journey within our physical experience of the world through all our senses - smell, taste, hearing, seeing and touch, and our inner awareness. To give our senses a conscious opportunity to be receptive can allow us to receive more pleasure in our life and to deeply meet ...
Yogic Sleep - Anahata Yoga Retreat
Category: Holistic Published Date
Relax and recharge your entire system with 30 minutes of “Yoga Nidra” or Yogic Sleep, daily from 2-3pm. With a 30 minute Yoga Nidra equivalent to four hours of deep sleep, this proven relaxation technique will leave you feeling grounded, rested and rejuvenated.
Suitable for all ages, children welcome
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The Yoga of Sound - Anahata Yoga Retreat
Category: Holistic
In the ancient texts, they say that we first manifested as sound. This primal sound resides in Anahata, t...
The Healing Art of the Didgeridoo - Grant Lewis
Category: Holistic

Discover why the didgeridoo has been such a powerful healing instrument for over 3000 years and learn the...
Irish low whistle - Eoin Duignan
Category: Soundz

This workshop, will demonstrate the techniques of playing tunes on the irish tin whistle and the low whis...
Meditations from the Tantras - Anahata Yoga Retreat
Category: Holistic
Discover the real meaning of tantra and awaken to your inner depth and wisdom. Explore the healing and tr...
The Ladino songs of medieval Judeo Spain with Carolina Moon …
Category: Arts & Culture

Nigel and Carolina will talk about the history of this beautiful repertoire and how they work together, p...
Nikki Henson - Coordinator JPTZ
Category: Circus

Nikki has been involved with the JPTZ at Luminate Festival since it began:This is her fourth year co...
Stephen Benge
Category: Circus

Stephen has performed over the last five years at Canberra fringe festival, Dragon Dreaming, Regrowth, Ki...
Moving into the Stillness - Yoga - Julie Stephens
Category: Move

The style of yoga Julie will be teaching is Vinyasa Flow which can be as dynamic as you want it to ...
Blooming Sister Women’s sharing circle - Aralyn Doiron
Category: Holistic

Nurture the timeless feminine in the ancient tradition of the talking stick circle. This casua...
African Drumming - Jimi Dale
Category: Soundz

We all are made of Earth, Water, Fire and Air. This session is a taste of the ceremonial music of Zimbabw...
Managing an organic vege garden - Sol Morgan
Category: Organic

Come and learn how to create and maintain your own vegetable garden. This workshop will Include various m...
An introduction to improvisation - Tamara Smith
Category: Soundz

Improvisation is a fun, interactive, creative way of expressing yourself musically. In these workshops, y...
All star Jam
Category: Soundz

Come together with performers and workshop facilitators for a big jam. A chance to practice new s...
Twisty Twinz
Category: Circus

Can you guess who's who?? This identical twin duo will wow you with their TWINcredible Acrobati...
EMPOWERING LOCAL FOOD RESILIENCE - Robina McCurdy
Category: Organic

Robina will share a permaculture-based strategy for food security which she facilitates with local commun...
Stykball
The ball balancing game known as Stykball, involves skills ranging from basic balancing to advanced tricks and bodyrolling skills. With influences drawn from contact juggling, hackeysak and martial arts stykball is a fun…
Sacred Sounds - Kirtan - Anahata Yoga Retreat
Open your heart and clear your head with “kirtan”. Join Anahata Yoga Retreat and special guest Chakradhyan every evening 7-8pm for joyful singing and dancing in this uplifting Yoga practice…
An introduction to healing with star energies - Emily Wilson…
This is an experiential workshop where energies from different stars and star beings/groups will be channeled through by the facilitator, such as energies from Sirius B, the Pleiades, Arcturus and…
Herbal First Aid for Home and Travel - Emily van Oosterom
This workshop provides practical, relevant herbal first aid skills for home and travel. We will learn how to identify, harvest, process and use various herbs, both fresh and dried plants,…
Dazee Blazee - Story Fairy - Storytelling - Margaret Kwok
Come on a magical journey into the land of story with Dazee Blazee the Story Fairy. Specially designed interactive sessions for ages 3 to 300 using music, songs, movement, rhyme,…
Ylimayu Dance - Lisa Maia Ambrose accompanied by Carlos Rie…
This workshop is an introduction to American Tribal Style Belly Dance and its history and background. In the warm up and dance postures part of this workshop, participants, accompanied by…
Mat Kohey
Mat returns to Luminate for the third time in 2013. Mat has taught workshops and performed a range of other festivals in cluding Circulation (NZ), RNV (NZ), Kiwiburn (NZ). He…
Applied permaculture - Margaret Kwok
Permaculture design principles and techniques can be applied to many areas such as sustainable land systems, community and human systems, appropriate technology and the built environment. This workshop will allow…
Wilow & Kayden
Willow and Kaden are a teaching pair from the United States, arriving to spread the love and depth of poi. They have been teaching all ranges of poi and manipulation…












