Your voice, when rooted in authenticity, holds unparalleled impact.
I'm going to be speaking directly to the part of you that's conscious enough to seek the next step on your journey—one of powerful and beautiful service to humanity.
You've come to understand that our purpose isn't about tallying numbers or measuring productivity; it's about genuinely touching and uplifting those we're called to serve, whether it's one person or a million.
You honour and inspire regardless of quantity.
The lone wolf in you is exhausted, and the blueprint of holding the vision alone is beginning to bore and tire you. Martyrdom and pride weigh heavily and suffocate creativity. A profound courage and strength sourced from deep within causing an irritation that drives you to look for the source, solution and evolution.
Your mission is guided by discernment, integrity, strength, and honesty, as you protect and hold what is worthy.
You've realised that true power lies not in dominating the world, but in moving gracefully within it, guided by inner spiritual connection and wisdom.
As we mature from knowledge to wisdom, we're drawn to a more humble path where quality surpasses quantity. We seek spaces to refine the quality of our practice, gifts, and service.
INGONYAMA is that space.
We welcome those who resonate within the following:
healing arts, therapist, holistic health practitioners, birth and death doulas, spiritually open entrepreneurs, allied health practitioners, yoga teachers and anyone who holds a deep heart space for others.
"Ingonyama was the place I knew I needed to be, without really knowing why until the very end. Amber walked us on a journey, each week building on top of the last in such a gentle way – which is saying a lot for the depth of the topic we covered. This process helped me reflect on my own actions towards others and myself in such a way, that was not always comfortable but never felt forced and my takeaways are invaluable. Really, you can’t put a value on the clarity, trust and acceptance I now feel towards life. The way I am already implementing this into my daily life working with patients (and surprisingly family + friends) has already brought such a level of ease, and it wasn’t from any huge ‘mic-drop’ moments but subtle shifts week by week that feel like they’ll be lifelong learnings. I can’t thank Amber enough for sharing this wisdom so authentically, it was like remembering a deeper truth we knew all along."
- Kat Zoetelief, Chiropractor
Through 54 days of embodied practice, study and devotion within a connected and alive community, you will acknowledge your own power, embrace integrity, purpose, and embody the archetype of a protector, no longer diminishing your essence by playing small.
INGONYAMA
will very intentionally guide you into reclamation of your own divine beauty and purpose, to unearth it, reveal it, and let it radiate into the world.
It is a place of deep remembrance through a courageous, loving, and purposeful approach of study, service, and practice.
You will learn how to establish a relationship with your higher mind, trust your intuitive wisdom, and begin to create freely in reverence and with humility.
You will learn to discern what brings you nurture and fulfillment, what resonates with your heart, body, and soul, also serves as your shield.
This process will cultivate trust, clarity, and pay respect to the wisdom you carry inside. Reclaiming this within yourself will enable you to reposition and inspire those you guide, serve and love as the ultimate authority and power in their own journey.
Together we will stoke the inner fire, allowing your authentic voice to resound without hesitation or fear.
"INGONYAMA is a dynamic space to come home to yourself, explore what you are here to transmit in this world and rewire your belief system. While dedicating to 54 days of simplistic practice I learnt how to have unshakable trust in myself by diffusing my narrative and reshaping my self-awareness. INGONYAMA taught me to take radical responsibility with the embodiment of grace, humility and integrity while I surrendered to my resistance, dramatically shifting the way I show up for myself and my children. INGONYAMA diversifies cross-cultural competencies through respect and honour of our Indigenous peoples guiding you in every moment to set things right by not overservicing people, giving back to nature and through rebirthing your own expression. INGONYAMA is a non-judgmental group that embraces vulnerability to improve your relationship with yourself and others you are supporting. I hold this experience in high regard."
- Suzanne Mullarvey, Mother and Support Worker
Devotion to Alignment + Accountability
+ Your evolving Mastery
= Greater Capacity to Serve + Restoration of Ancient Wisdom and Integrity
Thank you, your presence here is testimony to your courage.
I am grateful that we are gathering. This offering will allow us to move into a greater awareness. You are amongst the minority who not only seek but embrace refinement of their transmission by handing over their fear in exchange for rapid transformation.
WHY THIS EXISTS
The normal pathway of a facilitator of health or healing begins with a profound life experience or exposure to a greater level of well-being within themselves (be that physical, mental, emotional, vibrational or spiritual). This usually leads to you engaging in a pathway of training or menteeship (not to be bypassed) to help others experience the same.
Trouble is, much of the industry of healing, coaching, space holding, retreats, ceremony and spiritual growth is unregulated and without Elders, masters or Gurus to reflect back your blind spots, point out your bias, match your practices with your level of awareness, push your buttons to expose your triggers, highlight your shadows, tell you ‘no’ when you aren’t ready, and most of all encourage you when you are.
Amongst the regulated industries of health practitioners, doctors, teacher or even a parents (no fucking guidelines for this one, let me tell you), there is little, if any, focus on energetic hygiene, the foundations for space holding of self and others, and personal accountability.
There are plenty of people that are trained, certified and qualified, and still not capable of holding others through processes of healing, transcendence, birth and rebirth, transformation, empowerment and activation.
There are very few in the arena that practise the necessity of integrating reciprocity, cultural respect and the honouring of lineages and carriers of wisdom to maintain the quality that warrants terms like ‘sacred’, ‘healing’, ‘ceremony’, ‘embodiment’ and restores the wisdom to the keepers, respect to the ancestors and most of all, a resounding confidence required to back yourself because you feel in every fibre of your being you ARE in right relationship with yourself and that which is sacred. It really is the only way.
Nobody talks about this.
We are going to talk about this.
Imagine opening up, being seen, feeling deeply accepted in all of your human aspects, and witnessed in your shadows without judgement
There are very few communities where excellent facilitators get to experience real time feedback.
You are incredible at what you do.
I know this because you are here.
We, myself included, can always lift our game.
In fact, we must.
It’s an opportunistic time for us to sit with those who inspire purpose and integrity and lead the birth of mastery in teachers and facilitators of sacred spaces.
Together, we can transform doubt and uphold sacredness in facilitation through Right Relationship with Self and the greater Web of Life.
THE BREAKDOWN
SCHEDULE
One 2.5 Hour Call Per Week Starting March 11th, 2024
11th March 6 pm - 8:30 pm Brisbane Time / AEST
25th March 6 pm - 8:30 pm Brisbane Time / AEST
2nd April - 9 am - 11:30 am Brisbane Time AEST (Tuesday due to PH)
8th April - 6 pm - 8:30 pm Brisbane Time / AEST
15th April 9 am - 11:30 am Brisbane Time AEST
22nd April 6 pm - 8:30 pm Brisbane Time / AEST
29th April 9 am - 11:30 am Brisbane Time AEST
A Private Communication Channel
via WhatsApp for support, sharing and expression. We have guidelines on sharing to ensure we maintain a high standard of whatever is shared into this channel.
A 54 Day Personal Practice
That is designed for you, by you after the first call where we examine our personal practice to get incredible honest about where we are not in alignment (think by-passing, substance use/abuse, performance based practice etc) to step into a new, deep and devotional practice to alignment.
Weekly Reflections and Enquiry
To prompt deeper insights, awareness, shift in consciousness and ruthless self accountability.
A Library of Resources
shared along the way which are available to you for the length of the program.
"This exploration was the exact medicine I needed to see myself and my craft clearly. My greatest takeaway was the opportunity to step into complete ownership of my skillset, and to release myself from needing to be further ahead than I am. It was a profound and life-changing experience that instilled courage, integrity, and direction for me on my path. I'm truly grateful to Amber and the INGONYAMA family for such an amazing, strong, and safe container to do this important work."
- Ellen, Women's Mentor & Retreat Facilitator
Each call will consist of part masterclass, part live practice, and somatic experience. Additionally, there will be small breakout pods and time allocated for Q&A.
- Unpacking the week’s topic intermingled with riffs from my heart and soul’s lifetime of experience teaching facilitators, practitioners and working with people’s core essence. Relevant examples of my personal shadows will be on the table.
- Dialogue, conversations, open honesty and vulnerable truths from those who wish to speak about things they’ve been too afraid to share, admit or expose out of fear of not living up to the standard they perceive themselves or others hold them to.
- An opportunity to receive live coaching directly from me on the call, ask the questions you had no idea you could ask, or carefully being held through a new experience, you will receive what others receive without having to experience it. This is the potency of our group time together.
- Any relevant practices or BONUS trainings will be shared during or at the end of each call.
After 13+ years working with the deepest parts of people's psyche, raw emotional bodies and core essence, the greatest transformations I witness have been when we stand together, unprotected, defences down, humble and open to having our entire world tilted on its axis in a single moment.
Through this journey, you will acknowledge an ability to challenge and question your model of the world, allowing you to:
- See real-time transformation and undeniable results
- Constantly ask better questions of yourself to continue to live these questions
- Be left with a community of amazing facilitators to choose to continue a relationship with
- Experience the afterglow of our time, long into the future
This is the potency of INGONYAMA - transformation is inevitable
Participant Testimonials
7 Pillars + 1 Process
1. Deconstruction for Reconstruction, Accountability and Life as a Devotional Practice
2. The Principal of Space Holding for Self, Other and the Group
3. Authenticity, Quality of Transmission
4. Depth over Distance: Integrity at the pace of Trust
5. Alignment: Highlighting the Influence of Deeply Ingrained Conditions
6. Embodiment, Community, Mentorship and Deep Listening: Experience and practise the importance of community and the eternal student mindset
7. Live Process: A Live Transformational Conscious Connected Breath and Regression Session
8. The Final Integration, The most important fucking step!
“Amber has an extraordinary way of speaking that draws you in and hits you to the core. With impactful information she gets to the realness of life, which is both refreshing and life changing. In my time around Amber's retreats, I have seen her amazing ability to help others see themselves more clearly. This incredible wisdom and insight can target an individual or group. Amber delivers clear information thats easy to understand and absorb. Her natural gift at counselling and teaching others is clear to see. Amber was born to be a leader, teacher and guide.”
– Adam Kavanagh, Barefoot Bush Experiences in Doomadgee, and Naked and Afraid Contestant, Season 12
Limited Places Available
“I’m blown away"
- Caitlin Hosking, Shadow Work Coach and Trainer
What's Included
- 8 x LIVE and online 2.5 hour masterclasses.
- 6 Months access to the recordings for replay and integration.
- 20 hours+ of live group mentoring, dialogue, real life feedback and an opportunity to ask the questions that people pretend they don’t want to ask via zoom. The replay of the live calls will be hosted on ZOOM and will be available for 12 weeks after the program ends.
- A community of high-integrity people for you to tap into for reflection, experiences, feedback, questions, celebration, support and inspiration between calls.
- 6 Months access to tailor made trainings in an INGONYAMA library of resources including guided process, trainings, enquiry, reflections and practices
- A customised personal practice designed by you (with my real time support during the online session), based on where your next level is through a process in our first Pillar community call
A tight-knit community of brilliant hearts that remind you, you belong and we are walking this path together, for ourselves and each other. (The power of being in the presence of the right people is infinite) (Value: Unquantifiable. My clients stay connected and support one another’s lives, families and businesses in ways we could never quantify.)
4 Month Payment Plan
$440* AUD x 4
Total $1760 AUD
*An additional 1.75% stripe fee will be added at checkout
Pay in Full Option
$1400* AUD
Save $360
*An additional 1.75% stripe fee will be added at checkout
"Amber Hawken is an amazing human and such a beautiful soul.
Ambers grounded approach to yarning allows authentic, genuine connection to achieve the desired learning outcomes at every session.Yarning with Amber, allowed me to first identify limiting beliefs, concerns and issues. Amber then guided me to go deeper into the emotion and held space and lead the journey for me to identify my own answers and way forward towards healing. Amber then explains means, teaching and learning from her own journey to help find deeper meaning and ways moving forward. Explaining the methodologies that create sustainable ways of healing. Amber has helped connect me to pathways and methodologies to continue the healing process and enable growth in my journey."
- Uncle Maurice Woodley, Musician, Mentor, Founder of Picqui Arts and INGONYAMA Guest Speaker
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, so see below.
I acknowledge I am a woman of white colour and I'm only 13 years deep into this journey. 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 acknowledge my privileges, and that there are biases and prejudice I still can’t see. I have a heck of a lot to learn.
And here I am called to this work…
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.
My qualifications include Deep-State Repatterning Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Certificate in 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.
This is for you if:
You consider what you do as worthy of respect and reverence.
I use the word facilitator as it encompasses those who activate, lead, support. I am versed in the realm of multi modality healing, ceremony, behavioural therapy and medical science (I was once a Radiation Therapist). I think of those who consider themselves to be working in the healing arts, ceremony, leadership, parenting, teaching, allied health and or wellbeing, birth keeping etc. You could be a new yoga teacher, breathwork instructor or death doula and you’d feel at home. You could also be a doctor of integrative medicine, counsellor, chiropractor, work in Human Resources or simply want to deepen your alignment with self and source while understanding that what each of us do individually, impacts us all collectivity and you’d also find yourself in the right place.
It’s about your intention, more than it is your title.
You appreciate honest feedback, even if it feels uncomfortable.
I will only share when you are open to it, ask for it and permit it.
By joining this program I will assume all three of those and I commit to reflection. I cannot 100% say I will always be right and my style is to ask questions so you find your own answer as I believe this the only way to realisation. But if you ask anyone close to me (my love, Ryan will attest) I have been gifted 20/20 vision of sight into the deepest most hidden creases of people’s mind, emotions and energy and I will be bringing it to every call.
You are in a place where you are willing to give up the game.
Performance, bravado and ego will be obvious and your best teacher as it will be met with silence so that it echos, resounding outwardly for you to see yourself where before you couldn’t.
You wholeheartedly believe you are not the healer, the guru or the answer for anyone but yourself.
Your commitment is to the collective, not simply your gain.
You have an inkling in your knowing, that we are country and want to further explore the perspective that the new earth will be restored through collective effort to steward the birth of something brilliant and new that we can sense, but cannot comprehend.
You understand we actually know nothing and are willing to see the world through entirely new eyes.
You know that your words lead to vibration forming the results of your life and your actions impact every human on this planet.
Your intention is creation.
This is not for you if:
You simply want more power, more respect, more influence, or money.
You’re not willing to practise acknowledgement and permission when it comes to sacred cultures, ancient lines of wisdom and our earth.
You are already doing other online courses or programs. This requires a deep commitment to self and the others in the community.
You aren’t willing to listen more than talk.
"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
“To love and make peace with the masculine allows it to become dynamic and expressive of integrity, purpose, justice and protection… this potency within…defends the Sacred Feminine by putting in the energy, action and commitment required to bring her values to life.”
– Alana Fairchild speaking to the essence of ‘INGONYAMA’ within her Earth Warrior guidebook
The Story of INGONYAMA
If you were a 90’s baby I can almost guarantee that you have heard the word, ‘INGONYAMA’.
It’s repeated within the infamous opening song in the first scene from The Lion King
“Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba
Sithi uhm ingonyama”
If like me you mumbled and hummed along to the tune with an air of confidence only a five year old can pull off, you probably had no idea what you were saying.
Until it found me again.
I stumbled across it when reading Alana Fairchilds Earth Warriors guide book.
This passage launched off the page, summing up the scattered notes I had written about this offering as it unfurled itself as I mapped it out.
I decided to reach out to my community and ask if anyone knew someone native to the language and was connected with Dion who was happy to chat with me. He told me that the direct translation in the Zulu language is Lion.
After describing the offering, he assured me it was a perfect word to use for the name and encouraged me to imagine it with expression, like a battle cry used to activate courage because the Zulu language is spoken with passionate expression, even if you are talking about a cat sitting on a mat. Dion gave me permission to name him and share our conversations.
So, when you say it in your mind, don’t think ‘Lion’, think ‘INNNNGGGGGONNNNNYYYAAAAMMMMAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’
Three final acknowledgements
First and foremost: I 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.
My teachers who have influenced so much of my work. Kendra Cunov, Marilu Shinn, Moira Williams, Kurt Iwanina, Dr Robert Augustus Masters, Dr Peter Levine, and Dan Brule.
And finally, Daniel Byrn Larsen. The artists behind the lens of each of the photos and video of all the Lion footage you see on this page and any media related to this offering. I wanted to circulate money within small business that has conscious respect and awareness of the land of Botswana where these were captured. Much love and thanks, dear friend.
Our 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 INGONYAMA, 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
FAQ'S
Will I get one on one coaching?
Are the recordings accessible in a replay?
Is there a refund option if I am not satisfied?
I'm just starting out, will this be relevant?
I can’t make the live calls, can I still participate? Will it be worth it?
I can only make a few of the calls. Will this work?
What do you mean by eldership?
What time commitment is expected outside of the live calls?
I'm feeling nervous about joining
I don't feel experienced or good enough
To facilitate with confidence and in alignment with source.
If you decide to join us, I look forward to seeing you very soon.
If your question is not answered in the above FAQ, please feel free to email us at [email protected]
