Workshops
Advanced Silliness & Baby Bliss Bombs
NIVANNII ROSE
This is an experiential workshop with visualisations, writing, sharing and movement with the intention of meeting yourself – your True Love. You need no other (they are a bonus) to feel more Bliss Bombs in your day.
Aiki Fun
RUDRAN BRANNOCK & LISA EDGETON
Art4Heart
ARAVINDHA D’ANGIOLILLO
Rituals of universal guidance, renewal and contract of completion: these ritual and contracts enable us to let go of our past, whether it be old relationships, an old habit or someone who has passed away – includes removal of blockages and fire burning ceremony.
A Ruthless Relationship with Self
“Embrace Life and Death!”
PRAVAS
This is an experiential process using movement and stillness. We explore life, a gentle death and leave with a ruthless understanding of the purpose/meaning of our life. There is no dogma or doctrine here – simply full participation of every participant leading to our personally crafted life plan!!
Bringing the Sacred Back Home
“Awakening the Lovers Heart”
PETER KROLL
This is for couples or for any two individuals who are comfortable with deep intimacy between them, gender unimportant. It will involve intimate non-sexual touch. We will explore experiential techniques to enhance personal capacity to develop and maintain presence with self and other, and the creation of simple personal ritual in the moment to develop and maintain sacred space as a way of deepening being with self and other.
Deepening the Divine Balance of Relationship
ROBIN CLAYFIELD & MARK HEALY
Let our love grow, stronger each day.
Let our joy flow, lighting the way.
Let every day be a celebration,
Of our love.
Surrender, explore, share, play, heal, sing, dance, create, honour and dive deeply. Ignite and invoke a shared foundation as grounding for any significant relationship in your life; be it your intimate relationship, friendships, work or community connections. Give generously of yourself within the supportive context of the community that gathers for this feast of delight, deep sharing, inner awareness and heart opening honesty. Experience and share with a partner the essence of ‘The Love Feast’, a sacred process designed by Robin and Mark, to support you to share generously the love, truth and gratitude that ignites and keeps the flame burning in a relationship. Then celebrate your connection and take the process home with you if you choose.
Email Robin: [email protected]
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www.dynamicgroups.com.au
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Depth
TERRY BISHOP
To live from the heart is to live the qualities of that emanate from the heart, such as gratitude, compassion, joy, generosity and of course love. To live in that way requires a profound depth of being, born from presence and clarity woven at the soul level. Depth can be felt, most obviously in saints and mystics and some old folk who have kept growing. If we are lucky, we know people like that who somehow make us feel blessed just by being around them. The spiritual traditions call it transmission. I call it bathing in the shine of a radiant heart. The greater the presence and clarity of the practitioner: the greater the depth, the greater the shine. Depth is a quality that comes not from an individual, but from the spirit that shines through you from the source in your heart. Depth can only shine when we let go enough of our personality so as to not get in the way of the blessings that would otherwise come through us. In this workshop we explore the contours of depth and practice ways to settle the mind, balance emotions and open your heart to your fullest depth.
Drumming Between Worlds
“An introduction to Shamanic Consciousness”
ANDY COPEMAN & LAUREL HEFFERON
Unravel the myths, mysteries and misconceptions about Shamanism in the contemporary world. Go on an introductory Shamanic Journey where you will explore Otherworlds, meet Spirit Guides and Power Animals. This workshop was one of the hits of the Folk Medicine programme at the 2010-11 Woodford Folk Festival.
Drumming Generosity
CHINTA RIESS
Ecstasy and Alchemy
ANDREW BARNES & LEYOLAH ANTARA
Together we will cultivate our sexual energy as a creative evolutionary impulse that transforms and awakens higher consciousness. Our tantric shamanic practices will support you to walk between worlds of ordinary and non-ordinary reality; move beyond the identification with the mind and the emotional body, and expand into the self that is already awakened.
Emotional and Sexual Body De-armouring
ANDREW BARNES
Learn how beliefs, old wounds and how we relate through feminine/masculine polarities can decrease your vibration frequency. You can awaken your inherent aptitude to experience pleasure and let go of fear and live from a place of love and self-empowerment. This workshop is for those who want to begin to allow and encourage sexuality to be a powerful force of energy, growth and healing, as well as an ecstatic source of pleasure and joy in your life. You will learn some of the techniques used in emotional and sexual body de-armouring and there will be a live demonstration during the workshop.
Exploring the Connected Voice
SALLY GUILDFORD
A playful, fun and physical voice workshop: Sally creates a safe space for people with all levels of confidence to explore the sounds they can make with body, breath and soul. We will share plenty of exercises and techniques that can help YOU discover your voice, and how to make your sound in the world – sometimes the smallest whisper, sometimes the loudest roar, sometimes the creaks and groans and exquisite tones. All sound is welcome! All sound is an expression of your soul. Come and discover your own sound… This is a beautiful experiential journey into embodiment with breath, movement and voice. Take the opportunity to connect with yourself in order to invite transformation into your body and being. We will be travelling within, to lovingly connect with physical sensation and the breath. As we listen to our bodies we will move and discover the sounds within. Our intention is deep internal connection. This enables participants to explore connection with themselves and others through the medium of the voice and body. Exploring the connected voice is transformational experience, liberating the voice and being. *I will be blessed to share this vocal adventure with you*
Family Constellations
MARGARETE KOENNING AND LUTZ PAMBERGER
(Guest Presenters)
Why is it that we often feel out of balance in life without having done anything wrong? There may be an entanglement with one of your family members (within the current generation or a previous generation). The love in the family system can only flow if we resolve the entanglement.
From the Heart of the Cabbage
CARLA BLONDE and JAMES BAIRD
An experimental experiential workshop where we come together to face and share how the failing to Join – as in separation, family breakup and turning away affects and has, affected us. What do we hold back and what do we have to offer that would bring more JOINING in the world? We think – have your cake and eat it too.
Fun Shui
PIET CROES
Putting the JUICE into LOVE, LIFE – Fun Shui is for you if you want to dance through life, have joyous, authentic connections and build pro-active, conscious and fun loving community. I always thought that “if I wasn’t having fun why would I keep doing something?” It seems that a great number of people choose a life that doesn’t allow a lot of FUN. I have always had fun in all I have done and found it was infectious; in whatever I was doing, businesses, relationships and all of life. I love to share how this works for me and how you can “Fun-Shui your everyday” and feel it rub off on the world around you in a beautiful and gratifying way.
Global Dance Rhythms
ALISON CAMPBELL
Weaving the Masculine and Feminine through the power of dance
Heart ConnXionS for Singles
AMRITA HOBBS
Fast track intimacy, using ConnXionS Cards and fun get-to-know-you processes… Heart ConnXionS gives you the opportunity to * Deepen your relationship to yourself and with others. * Spend time with good people in a playful, relaxed and safe space. * Take risks Meet face-to-face – be embodied, connect through mind, heart and soul. Discover what it is to arrive in THIS moment!!! When fully present, allow your heart to be touched and touch the heart of others. Explore what is the song your heart wishes to sing? Then meet the other – find the place where hearts connect. In this workshop you open your heart to the flow of love through words, movement, stillness and silence….
Intuition
“A Guide to our Personal Psyche”
KAREN ANN LE PIERRES
We will start with a meditation to unite you in supportive, calming energy to obtain optimum results from session and connect to inner intuition. We will then connect to your psyche in a practical and factual demonstration. I will then explain how we can practice and strengthen our psyche to assist with daily and life decisions. I will assist in an explanation of your experiences during meditation & activity. You will get some instruction on how to continue to grow towards reaching our higher selves through intuition. Simply, let me help you to find you. Personal Ethos: I will help you find your truth by helping you to recognise the positive aspects of your life so that you can make informed choices – which are the first steps to making changes in your life.
Kundalini Dance
“The Dance of Divine Union”
LEYOLAH ANTARA
Engaging a devotional dance practice with the feminine and masculine aspects of divinity supports full–bodied tantric ecstatic alchemical transformation and bliss. The divine feminine Shakti is pure love, she is the great awakener. When we evoke the sacred feminine we invite the power of transformative grace that she is always offering. She is the force that dissolves the old structures in order to make room for the new. When we embody the divine masculine, we attune with the underlying qualities of deep stillness and clarity that creates the container for creative manifestation. Come join us in the exploration.
Living Love for Women
CYNTHIA CONNOP
Liberate your feminine essence. Through experiential exercises, movement, touch, sharing and the yoga of unbounded love, you will expand your range of feminine heart energy – from devotional angel to fierce Kali compassion. Barriers to creating love and empowerment in your life will dissolve in the Shakti force of Love-Light.
Living Love & Freedom for Men
ERNST DAMS
Deepen your mastery of love, intimacy and masculine spirituality. Physical exercises, combined with deep practices and authentic sharing will challenge you to sharpen your presence, expand your heart and ground you in your ability to cut through obstacles, direct women and live your life with integrity and purpose.
Living Love for Singles and Couples
CYNTHIA CONNOP & ERNST DAMS
Discover the secrets of passionate intimacy (David Deida style).Come and dive into the intimate and potent realm of the Masculine and Feminine. Experience the three stages of relationship. Give the full range of your authentic and unique gifts. Celebrate where you live on the light to dark sexual energy spectrum and learn how to move fluidly into less familiar energies in the presence of the beloved.
Mindful Morning Aikido Flow
SHANNON ICHIKAWA
Aikido stretches and Ki (energy) building to welcome the morning! Aikido is a beautiful and harmonious Japanese Martial Art. Aikido has many gifts to offer. This morning workshop will delve into some of these gently. Wake up and tune in to fill our beings with more Ki and move our bodies in new ways.
Morning Laugh-Along
SHANNON ICHIKAWA
Let us awaken our song for the day and year ahead through laughter! In this hour we will welcome the day with some light stretches, laugh a lot, get our imaginative juices flowing, breathe and get the blood moving. Laughter is a magical Medicine.
Morning Meditations
PRAVAS
Friday morning – Dynamic Saturday morning – Sufi dancing and whirling Sunday morning – Gentle sitting humming.
Ruthless Generosity
“Giving and Receiving”
JO O’SHANESY
The workshop provides an experience for participants to explore the bounds of their generosity. Through an evocative questioning sequence in pairs, group sharing, meditation and massage, participants will be able to * Identify their primary love language ( words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, physical touch) * Explore the difference between people pleasing and ruthless generosity * Expand their consciousness on how to move further into ruthless generosity * Give and receive a relaxing foot or shoulder massage.
Okido Yoga
LISA EDGETON with Greg Williams
Start your day with some fun practices that will help you feel grounded, connected to self and others and ready to receive the day ahead.
Greg Williams is a practitioner and teacher of acupuncture and QiGong who has studied extensively in Japan, China and Australia. Greg has also translated classical texts into English. He runs a successful practice on the North of Brisbane.
Sound Meditation Journey
“Opening the Chakras”
ANDY COPEMAN & LAUREL HEFFERON
A transformational Journey through the 7 main body Chakras, bringing about deep relaxation, and a sense of balance and completeness. Andy and Laurel weave their sonic magic on drums, voice, didgeridoo, Native American flute, ebowed cittern, guitar, chimes, gongs, crystal and metal singing bowls and more. Deep and beautifully-written guided meditations and affirmations, and a song based on the exquisite words of Rumi to complete.
Sweat Lodge
MUKTI
The Alchemy of Dharmic Relationships
DIANNE AND MAL RYAN
Do you choose to live your life with more beauty power and magick? In this workshop you will, thru experiential processes from shamanic teachings learn how to step out of personality into the spiritual determination of the soul; to live with the 5 Huquas of happiness, health, humour, hope and harmony. You will through ritual, song and movement learn of the “12 Sacred Imaginings” of the grandmothers to come into balance of the sacred feminine and masculine.
The Divine Joy of Sensuality
“Belly Dance”
KARA STEWART
Belly dance helps us connect to and activate the sacral chakra; the centre of creativity, sensuality, ‘being’, relating with others from a place of authentic feeling. Expressing from this centre is extremely joyful and empowering, giving us the experience of feeling rooted in our own inner soil which then allows our heart to flower and to offer our unique essence of love to ourselves and to the world. This workshop gives participants a holistic approach to learning ‘classical Egyptian’ belly dance techniques, not in traditional dance class drill style, but with love, emotional imagery, yoga, breath and chi kung exercises for opening up our bodies and energetic connections, and above all, an emphasis on having fun dancing! Belly dance feels good at any level of experience. In this workshop, we will be: 1. Connecting with our body in a tantric, appreciative, loving way. 2. Learning the technique, true to Egyptian form: including, interpreting Arabic music, and expressing the emotions with the body movements. 3. Experiencing ourselves in our divine joy! Enhancing the energy centre of the belly through the movements, we’ll experience infinite ecstatic connection with ourselves. 4. This is our gift to take with us and to share.
The Lion within You (For Men)
LUTZ PAMBERGER
(Guest Presenter)
This workshop can support you to contact and love the lion within you without needing to withdraw into your shell or overpower others.
The Work of Bryon Katie
SUZANNE WARWICK
A journey of inquiry into beliefs and thoughts that cause suffering – this workshop will provide an opportunity to move beyond the mind’s sense of how things should be and connect to your feelings and body at a deeper level. This process offers a way to become still and hear your hearts wisdom, loving what is without resistance and healing on a personal and relational level.
Tribal Jam
“Conscious Expression through Contemporary Tribal Jamming”
(tribal music and painting)
PAUL FRANCIS (DoodleJam) &
JUDE LANE (Musician – Bellbunya Community)
Jude will begin the session with a harmony ice-breaker; bring the masculine and feminine voice together forming one beautiful “tribal” sound. After the ice-breaker the “tribe” will perform a face-painting ritual; masculine painting feminine and vice versa, emphasising love and respect for each other. Paul will then begin the tribal painting on canvas with a theme of “song in the lover’s heart”. Jude (and others) will play contemporary tribal music throughout, encouraging rhythmic movement whilst the “tribe” doodles (images/symbols). To conclude the session, all of the canvases will be displayed together to form “one” creation.
Warrior Ki, Sexual Ki, Healer Ki (Men Only)
RUDRAN BRANNOCK
Developing the root power of presence through the use of life force at the levels of the Warrior, Lover, and Healer.
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