October 3-6 2024, Sunshine Coast, QLD
Online support container for pre cleanse and integration opens 16/9 and closes 22/9
Due to the depth of this work, Alchemy Retreat has an application process. When you enter your details below, you will be directed to a page to view our retreat investment options and submit an application.
After 8 years, this process ensures suitability and readiness as our attendees are an integral part of the experience.
APPLY FOR WOMEN'S ALCHEMY
You are 100% worthy and able. This step is simply to ensure serious applications only.
you will be redirected to our application page upon submission
"What has allowed me to experience true and lasting transformation as a human and facilitator is the immensity of Amber's love. She has this inextricable ability to cut through my distortion while honoring me deeply. And this always gave me the courage to come into greater alignment and deeper truth within myself. She embodies an integrity that mirrors back to you the responsibility and privilege that is ours to facilitate healing at great depths. But it's what She enlists in your heart through her own ability to be fierce and tender that sets her apart from the rest.
She teaches from a space that is wholeheartedly committed to greeting and harnessing the innate intelligence and wisdom within and invokes your love and integrity simply through the activation of her own"
- Ellen Travassarus, Teacher and Facilitator of the Human and Healing Arts
WHY ALCHEMY
For the last few hundred years, women have been forced to walk a linear line in a linear world. Built on the values of a patriarchy where ‘more is better’ with minimal room to move outside of guidelines made up by people who care more for the bottom line and power than the people they walked all over.
We were born into this.
Our mothers, mothers, mothers, mothers, mothers were born into this. Some of them fought back. most were pushed back. Many broke through and were then pushed out.
We grew up with it on television, magazines, the internet and in conversations: being a woman is…
At first we submitted, compromised and in ways, we adapted well.
We rose, gained strength and courage.
But…Many of us still deal with the internalisation of belief structures that go against our nature and suppress our innate knowing and creative gifts.
As a result, women too have learned to please, fix, push on, prove and push down the parts of themselves that make being a woman so incredibly powerful and unique.
I do this work to support in the healing for ourselves, our mothers and all of their mothers too so that our daughters, sisters and communities wonder, work and weave from a place of wholeness, power and reverence for nature, our nature and life itself.
Introducing Women’s Alchemy Retreat
Group process work, sacred ceremonies, rites of passage and healing for Women who care deeply and wish to live uninhibited, honest, purposeful lives.
Alchemy is a hybrid transformational experience.
One part online program, the other an in person retreat that prepares, integrates, and initiates you into a new way of living.
A new way of walking.
A new way of being in this world.
Alchemy is an initiation for women who want to heal from the roots up. Moving forward in life with more depth, honesty, power and graceful ferocity.
Alchemy is for those who wish to transform any paradigms of self doubt, insecurity, competitiveness, judgment, disconnection, over intellectualisation, helplessness and hardness into an expansive and magnetic power that ripples out into all areas of your life.
In real life this translates into healthy, intuitive, honest and purposeful ways of:
Speaking, thinking, creating, relating, breathing, nurturing, giving, healing, receiving, regenerating, creating, birthing and amplifying life each and every day.
Simply because…We believe in another way of walking as a Woman in this world.
A way of flow
A way without force
A way where growth is natural
A way of joy over exhaustion
A way of genuine connection
A way of creation and co creation
A way of honouring the natural ways of sustainability and universal cycles
THE PROCESS
Below are the 4 steps of the process, with our four day Initiation retreat in the middle.
PREPARATION
INITIATION
The Four Day Immersive Retreat, see below for the finer details…
INTEGRATION
We finish with two online group masterclasses, and two easily digestible online programs. These support the practical and sustainable application of what you learned, shifted and recalibrated on retreat into your life, family, community and work.
ONGOING COMMUNITY
You will be guided through a process over dinner on one of the retreat evenings translating into a framework for ongoing connection across with each other. This will feel more genuine when the felt experience of going from ‘strangers’ to friends (sometimes becoming closer than family), as you collectively move through some of the most powerful shifts of your life to date.
Apply for Women's Alchemy
We welcome all serious applications. THIS PROGRAM HAS SOLD OUT EACH YEAR.
"Amber is fucking awesome. You don’t need to know anything else. Just say yes. If you seek the godmother of mystic energy, look no further."
– Katrina Rope, Mother, Engineer, Artist, Woman
What we will do
Together we will heal:
Together we will learn how to:
Together we will activate:
Together we will practice:
Together we will dialogue on:
It is an initiation into a life lived from a place of depth, full feeling, honesty in expression, intuitive knowing, weaving and creating in alignment with the cyclical nature of all existence.
Tap into the power of self purification when we continuously let what is done fall away. Leaving us to embody a joyful way of walking through your life with a tender fierceness and capability to restore the sacred.
Alchemy Retreat and Program Inclusions
- Four days and three nights at Luxury Accommodation at our chosen venue on the Kabi Kabi Country, Sunshine Coast (We begin 9am day one and finish at 3pm on the fourth and final day)
- Access to a sauna and magnesium pool
- Four online (replay available) group masterclasses and coaching calls.
- All meals are cooked by our private in-house chefs. We have vegan and vegetarian options available.
- 14 day pre retreat cleanse protocol, with daily daily schedule of nutrition, gut health guidelines, evening routine, breathwork and emotional regulation practices.
- Six weeks of unlimited facilitator support in our private online community
- Lifetime access to a private membership platform with 2 x integration programs and a library of resources including:
- Post-retreat Integration video series x 4
- Relationships integration online program unconscious dialogue guide, communication and intimacy practice and written enquiry for relational healing (of the past or current relationship/s) to support a smoother transition.
- Over 15+ guided practices and techniques for routines and rituals including breathwork practices, meditation, emotional healing techniques and embodiment practices
- Transport via carpooling from an airport or drop off points within 90 minute radius of our venue
Our all inclusive price covers the six weeks of preparation and integration, private forum, a resource library with lifetime access, four live masterclasses (recording available) four days and three nights of twin share accommodation at our private venue, the retreat itself and all the experiences, primarily organic meals cooked by a private chef onsite, and lifetime access to your sisterhood is an all inclusive price of approx 4.8K with generous payment plan options.
No two Alchemy’s are the same.
We shape each retreat to the needs of the women in attendance.
We have three core facilitators as your guiding lights the entire time. With up to another five who move in and out for extra support.
We prioritize depth over distance, so sometimes we will drop, swap or sub in other experiences to best serve the flow of the group.
Workshops and Ceremonies
- Traditional Sweat Lodge
- Strong daily hatha yoga practice
- Daily breathwork sessions for regulation, energy boost, balance and deep rest, emotional release and grounding
- Traditional Brazillian Incantaria body, rhythm, dance, and embodiment workshop
- Therapeutic conscious connected breathwork journeys
- Deep listening partner process work
- Cold exposure, ice bath and plunges in nature
- Soul retrieval, inner child and regression process
- Intuitive shadow work
- Nature exploration, outdoor adventures
- Cathartic and dynamic meditation workshop
- Soundscapes, meditation and inward journey work
- Traditional sacred shamanic Rapé ceremony
- Noble silence and solo sections
- Integrated, Feminine and Masculine embodiment practices
- Integration, ritual and scheduling practices workshop
- Fire circles, drumming and community connection
- Seeing you at Source workshop
Our Facilitators
AMBER HAWKEN
I reverence our natural ability to emotionally and mentally self heal and spiritually actualise. In all I do, I aim to restore in each person this innate intelligence. For the last decade, I have facilitated thousands of people in live and online spaces through deep personal healing, spiritual reconnection and grounding their creative potential in life, career and relationships. After leaving the medical field ten years ago, I explored ancient cultures, different dimensions and bridged east and west. With a pragmatic mind and a country girl spirit, I have a unique blend of practical and down to earth approaches to the arena of therapy, embodied healing, integration, energy and consciousness. The more formal parts of my qualifications include:
A Bachelor of Medical Science, A Diploma of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, Deep State Re-Patterning Therapist, Functional Breathwork Practitioner, Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher, Hatha Yoga Teacher, Pranayama Teacher and a Practitioner of The Melchizedek Method.
KURT IWANINA
My name is Kurt Iwanina and I am a meditation teacher, intuitive energy and sound healer, musician, spiritual mentor, reiki practitioner and earth warrior. I work from a space of love, compassion and deep respect and honour for all life. In all my workshops, classes and ceremonies I pay my respects to our beautiful Mother Earth, to Great Spirit and source of all creation.
BEANIE TOMPKINS
I am a qualified Kinesiologist, Rehab Trainer, Sound Healer, Teacher and Mentor. It is my Dharma in this lifetime to assist as many beautiful humans as possible to not only see their truth, their worth, their greatness. But also to live in a no-bullshit, unapologetic, caring, compassionate and mostly wholesome, awakened life! I'm talking about a life where you live without anxiety, self-doubt or the words of others swimming around in your head. Through my personal healing of previously unprocessed abuse and 20 years of anxiety that I flipped and transformed, I have gone on to support over 2,000 people to live a balanced life in alignment with their truest potential.
RYAN POPE
Ryan Pope is a chiropractor, breathwork instructor and holistic health and lifestyle coach. He is the CEO of Powerhouse Mind Body Chiro, a multidisciplinary wellness centre on the Gold Coast in Australia and Becoming The Mountain, a mentoring and events business focused on preparing men physically, mentally and emotionally for their rite of passage into fatherhood.
Ryan facilitates mindfulness, and men’s work and co-facilitates at Alchemy, a multi-modality healing and transformational retreat for men and women. His focus is on creating balance and harmony in self, life and relationships through nervous system regulation, acceptance and commitment therapy, self-reflection and mastering daily practices.
REANNA MEULEMAN
Acupuncturist / Founder of Being Co, BHSc Acu
My strength as a practitioner has come from learning directly from many amazing practitioners as the transfer of skill and subtle details are best learnt directly from others rather than books.Although I’ve worked incredibly hard throughout my journey, it’s thanks to these people, I owe a great deal of my learning, appreciation and understanding of this profound traditional medicine. I will be at Alchemy as an unbiased and honest support, ear that listens, reflections that are designed to remind you of your wisdom and a bridge between facilitator and attendee.
APRIL CARETT
April is our honcho/chief/managing director. There is no chaos that she cannot turn into organised calm. With over 15 years experience in the project management and administration space, April is skilled in team organisation, and getting the job done. April excels in bringing the best out of a team in order to maximise efficiencies and planning, to bring a project back into the black and back on schedule.
JOSIANE SANTOS
I’m a Brazilian artist born in Minas Gerais. She I’m the founder, heart, and face behind Incantaria projects, my art is gracefully expressed through movement and her knowledge of Afro-Brazilian culture, History, Mythology, Esoteric Astrology, Capoeira (Brazilian martial arts), and Spirituality. I have a very authentic way to integrate my journey and understanding of life into the work I do. My presence is powerful yet gentle, majestic yet humble. My work, besides being a contribution to genuine human connection, is a beautiful and purposeful service to the world.
JEMA LEE
Jema Lee is an expert women’s menstrual cycle educator and coach, daytime mermaid and a plant mum devoted to helping women confidently connect and awaken their own intrinsic cyclical nature. Known for her integrity, warmth, no-gimmick analogy-filled approach to un-boxing your health honestly, Jema makes periods FUN! As she guides and supports women from over 30 countries around the world navigate their menstrual cycle through one-on-one coaching virtually, online courses, intimate events and retreats.
With over 16 years' experience in the health industry, Jema’s training in Women’s Health, Natural Fertility Methods and Awareness, Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Psychology, Nutrition, Wellness Coaching and countless short courses has equipped her with the tools that bring her unique approach to coaching on the menstrual cycle to life for menstruators of all ages.
Known for her Well Woman Podcast, a podcast show about poo, periods and sex where she brings to life taboo, awkward and vulnerable conversations. Passionate about rewriting the menstrual story for future menstruators Jema's also the creator of Cyclical, Menstrual Cycle Coaching Certification Course. Daily you'll find her on Instagram and either hanging out in her Volkswagon DIY built Van, Herbie or within her signature group coaching membership, the Well Woman Academy. Apply to work with her, here.
Women's Alchemy Testimonials
Final words, a deeper purpose
To serve you and the other women of this world so you may go out and activate the rest of us!
Alchemy will support you to remember there is no end goal to all of this. There is no moment or experience more precious or more valuable than any other. At the end of the day, in our heart of hearts, we know this but we have allowed external circumstances and a very busy inner dialogue to dictate our decisions.
Alchemy will restore the relationship with the power of choice, the healing balm of community and interdependence, the humility of our smallness and the reality of awareness we all get to experience in this very precious life.
As mentioned above, there is an application process for Alchemy. This is out of respect for the work itself and the Women attending. Each person has a role to play and that is why we ask a few personal questions, have a yarn about your intention and get absolutely clear on if this is aligned for you.
It is absolutely normal for you to feel a resounding ‘yes’ and also fear arise at the same time. I believe nervousness is a level of respect for something that is quite honestly pivotal in our lives. If you are feeling called, I invite you to apply.
There is not an interview, there is no test. It is simply a conversation to confirm Alchemy is the best container for you and you for the container.
When you submit you details, you’ll be lead to a page where you can follow a few simple steps and submit an application. I look forward to meeting you soon.
“Amber Hawken is one of the most inspiringly aligned facilitators I’ve ever come across. Over the years I’ve had the privilege to work alongside her and I've yet to come across another with the same devotion, ownership and radical honesty that she exuberates while holding space and facilitating lifelong authentic transformation. Amber’s ability to read between the lines and unfold ruthless self reflection without projection is a testament to her personal practice. I’m beyond excited for fellow facilitators to step into her vibrational teaching space to be held and guided into creating impact with integrity, this is an opportunity of a lifetime for you."
- Jema Lee, Founder of Cyclicle, Menstrual Cycle Certification, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Retreat Leader and Menstrual Cycle Coach
Hey, I'm Amber Hawken
I prefer genuine words from co-facilitators, clients and mentors to help you better understand who I am and what I do, please refer to the testimonials generously given by those who have worked with me and beside me.
I am grateful to live on Kombumerri Country of the Yugambeh speaking mob and was born on Gangulu land, both like all of the lands in Australia, unceded.
I have been facilitating deep healing as a holistic behavioural therapist bringing an integrated approach of somatic trauma therapy, deep state re-programming, conscious breath awareness, mindfulness and meditation through various styles of process work.
Alchemy is the deepest work I am honored to serve. It has changes me as a Woman and Facilitator and continues to do so.
We’ve had more than a thousand people move through this work and I remember the journey of every single one. This work impacts those who serve at it, as much as it does those who attend. I am grateful for your presence here and the commitment of all those who have attended in the past. It is an enormous piece of work that my entire year and my family's life is planned around.
Across 8 years it has become a process of purification for anyone and everyone involved. I created it with the intention to hold a space where there was honest, down to earth ritual and ceremony work that was accessible to everybody.
I believe every human on earth would benefit from this work, including myself and those who facilitate. This is work that aims to restore the innate healer and re-awaken the dormant aspects of our spirit in all of us. It is a renaissance with the most essential part of our being.
My qualifications include Deep-State Repatterning Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Transformational Breathwork, Pranayama within the Ancient traditions of Hatha Yoga, Functional and Performance Breathwork and Meditation.
Each offering I make is a culmination of my life as a woman, a mother, a partner, a holistic therapist, a facilitator of sacred spaces, a Retreat Leader and above all labels, a seeker of Truth
Our commitment to Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Whether you identify as members of the LGBTQ+, BIPOC, or other marginalized communities globally, and regardless of your opinions, preferences, or life situation, you are welcome here.
We have created space for a scholarship for Alchemy Retreat, specifically designed to support individuals who may not otherwise have access to it. We believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to explore these topics and have a positive ripple into humanity. If this is you, you are welcome to apply for our scholarship program.
If you’d like to apply for a scholarship, please reach out to [email protected] and we will send you an application form. Please know that while we do not get everything right, we are constantly seeking to learn about the impact and changes we can make in this space
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“We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land - whose cultures and customs have nurtured, and continue to nurture, this land - and I would like to pay my respects to Elders past, present and future.”
