AMBER HAWKEN

To the best of my ability, I facilitate deep remembering, guided by my great teachers, lived experiences, and Life's intelligence. I believe within our bodies lies a great wisdom that the ancients have spoken of since the beginning of time. Our work is to tend to the distortions within ourselves, allowing this wisdom to flow effortlessly. I am known for throwing out frameworks and sensing what is alive in the moment. My teachers include Elders in psychology, indigenous wisdom carriers from the Q’ero people of the Andes, and Western holism path practitioners. I have facilitated deep healing through over 45 retreats, immersions, ceremonies, and hundreds of events. My qualifications include Deep-State Repatterning Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Integrated Somatic Trauma Therapy, Attachment Therapy, Breathwork (functional, performance and Shamanic) and Meditation. I have been serving in ceremony and healing with the elements for 12+ years, aligned with my teachers and Celtic lineage. I revere our natural ability to self-heal and spiritually actualise. For over a decade, I have facilitated thousands through personal healing, spiritual reconnection, and grounding their creative potential. I co-create with my groups to sense, dissolve, and realign anything that needs to move, holding community with firm love. My work is a culmination of my life as a woman, mother, partner, facilitator of sacred spaces, Retreat Leader, and seeker of Truth. Ultimately, my evolutionary purpose is building community in service to modern Eldership.

KURT IWANINA

My name is Kurt Iwanina and I am a meditation teacher, intuitive healer, visionary, musician, dreamer and earth warrior. I have many people ask many questions about what it is I actually do, for many westerners the ancient practice of energy and sound healing is very unknown or misunderstood. For these amazing and powerful tools have not been taught as a way of life as in past times. Just as the ways of the ancient people all over the world, the ones who truly lived at one with this beautiful and precious earth. Their voices are being lost in the noise of the “modern material world”. We have lost our way, forgotten our past, forgotten the teachings of our ancestors. I am here to bring forth and awaken the ancient wisdom that lies within all beings. A wisdom that has been forgotten, it is a way of living in its simplest form. To live in peace, harmony and balance with all life. And to start we must bring balance back into our being, our body, mind and spirit. I am the founder of The Meditation Mechanic and Co Founder of ISOMA, with my Sister, Amber Hawken.

MICHELLE PALASIA

My name is Michelle Palasia and I live in Brisbane, in a little fishing village by the water, on Gubbi Gubbi country. While titles don’t define me, they may give somewhat of a closer idea about me…I’m a mother, stepmother, grandmother, and birth keeper.My first birth experience was an initiation into being silenced. Quite literally told I was being “too loud” and that I would “scare the other women”. I birthed again, in a cloud of silence. It wasn’t until I moved through menopause that my throat cleared and my voice was free. Full circle, through rites of passage, and the power of my blood, my voice returned. I’ve worked in the birth space for many years, as a birth photographer, doula and now as a birth keeper. I’ve supported hospital births, home-births and free births. I’ve witnessed the difference in each, not only in the energy but the outcomes. I’m not here to tell women how to give birth, I’m here to remind them that they already know. I don’t tell women what to do or where to go. I don’t impede and I don’t know better than them. I am a gatekeeper in the sacred space of birth. I trust women. Womb-to-womb, I hold you here in the density of earth. I trust birth. More and more, I’m observing women being activated, men being initiated and babies born completely, wholly into themselves, as nature intended, with their energy fields undisturbed. Birth is a sacred process, a gateway to expanding consciousness so humanity can evolve and I’m witnessing this with every single woman who freebirths. I’m seeing women reclaim their power, step into their sovereignty — surprised, elated, re-born, all, honouring their innate abilities, remembering who they are.These sacred moments, these sacred observations serve as a reminder of who we are. These reflections remind us of the conditioning and programming that exists and that which is being re-written. The era of activation and rebirth is now and I’m here to support it.

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.

VIRGINIE MARLEY *V*

My name is Virginie Marley, known to most as V. 

I call Australia home and live with my little family in Brisbane, on Turrbal country.

I typically describe myself as a Jack of all trades and Master of some. Not many, but some! My curiosity has led me to explore many paths and terrains to date and this is a defining attribute on how I do life. I have over 25 years experience working in senior management roles for large corporations with different hats and that informs a little bit of what I do, a little bit of what I know, but now very much of who I am! I have a lifelong devotion as to what it means to be a human and how to walk well, how to walk together. My path of service is to be alongside those who are dying and to contribute to the remembrance of this sacred rite of passage and all the gems, depth and beauty it holds.

MICHELLE FREEMAN

I invite you back home to yourself. My teachings span 25 years of commited yoga, meditation and breathwork practice and study of the physical, the energetic and the spiritual.  My deep wish is for you to feel at home in your body and I teach classes from this place of compassion, heart and courage to move through any challenge together.

I’m currently studying exercise physiology and bring this knowledge into my classes with an understanding of how to nurture and create positive change in the body.  This nuts and bolts approach is coupled with a wholistic approach of nurtuing the heart and focusing the mind.   It’s through these avenues, mind, body and heart that lasting change results.

I believe healing starts from inside. Happiness also has to come from inside of us rather than trying to extract it from outside circumstances, material things, or relationships. All of our ideal boxes being ticked in order for us to have a “good” day, does not equate to living a peaceful and joyful life.

What I share, is finding a personal practice that creates optimum health, a vibrant version of you that gives you the tools to release from stress, be stronger, more open hearted and free.

JEMA LEE 

I’m a Menstrual Cycle expert, qualified Natural Fertility Educator, Ayurvedic Coach and the creator of Wellsome. Over the past decade, I’ve helped guide women in over 30 countries to embrace their monthly cycles and deepen body awareness through personalised coaching, online courses, retreats & workshops. Passionate about rewriting the menstrual story for future menstruators Jema's also the creator of Cyclical, Menstrual Cycle Coaching Certification Course. My training in Women’s Health, Nutrition, Natural Contraception & Natural Fertility, Ayurveda, Ancestral Health, Wellness Coaching, Ayurvedic Psychology and Spirituality, allow me to draw on the tools you need to deepen your presence and level of self-awareness.