Roxanna Minnona

Yoni Yoga – Tantric breath and Bliss Activating Session for Women

Roxanna draws on a variety of techniques, woven together in a unique style that blends the deep spiritual experiences from Tantra into a daily yoga practice that supports women to heal and nurture themselves on all level. “When we stop all the doing and controlling of the breath, the breath begins to breathe you, that in and of itself is orgasmic” Shantam Nityama The Yoni Yoga practice is part of the Dancing the Divine journey. It takes us deep into the womb, understanding and sensing ourselves from a feminine standpoint. Recognising and embodying ourselves, ‘she’ begins to open in unexpected & in seemingly miraculous ways.

Women's Healing Space and Discussion

Women carry an inherent, infinite capacity for orgasm, manifestation and healing. Sadly, their natural potential has been neglected due to repression of the feminine energy and a lack of sexual understanding in our world today. This has contributed to the confusion, and pain that most women experience. Incorporated in sacred rituals, the work takes women deep into her subconscious, unlocking the trance patterns that can govern our lives, thus altering our state of perception and realigning to the vast reservoir of our creative inspiration and true beauty. During this guided discussion/workshop we will take time to explore the specific interests of the group, giving space for sharing, questions and answer as well as experiential exercises - Bodywork-Movement–Meditation.

Byron Bay based Roxanna Minnona created Dancing the Divine in 2002 and has been weaving the Global sister web ever since - facilitating in the UK, USA, Europe, South Africa and Australia, mentored by Tantra Master Shantam Nityama. After 8 years of facilitating this work internationally, Roxy has returned home to Byron Bay and turned her focus to developing Starseed Gardens community (www.starseedgardens.com) in collaboration with a group of people who are deeply devoted to birthing the new paradigm on this planet. 

Bronte Brodie

Men's Healing Space and Discussion

A space for men to come together for mentoring, support, discussion, and self-development. Covering: The Nature of the Mature Masculine; Who we are determines who we are being; The Four Archetypes of the Sacred Masculine; Emotional transparency; Creating your future without your past; Living your mission

Bronte has been an educator, consultant and psychotherapist for over 35 years in the area of recovery and healing. He has pioneered research around post-traumatic stress as well as working extensively around anger, depression, grief and relationships. Bronte is a director of A.C.T (Authentic Community Training), which runs workshops, seminars and talks in the field of leadership and empowerment. Bronte is also author of the book titled "Simple ways to Heal Yourself."  

Darpan

Healing Sound Visionary Voice -- Activating the Third Ear

Darpan utilises live and recorded music, visualization, and guided imagery, pure tones, crystal singing bowls, gongs, bells and other generators of Harmonic Resonance. When we combine these elements with a specific intent we are initiating a Sacred Journey. By listening with awareness, we ride the carrier wave of sound into a deep interiority where personal boundaries dissolve and we emerge in the One Heart of Existence. The energy that we gather in this process can be used to heal, to delight the senses, to manifest our highest truth or to penetrate the silence. Over the years he has been experimenting extensively with these tools and has found them to be amongst the safest and most effective means of altering consciousness and for reconnecting us to the reality of our multi-dimensional identity. They also have the wonderful side effect of tuning the energy body and cleansing the auric field.

Darpan is a modern visionary and urban mystic. He travels extensively around the world delivering seminars, playing concerts and facilitating Shamanic Healing Retreats. He is a synthesis of his teachings and is an inspirational speaker and gifted musician. He has spent several years studying the art of meditation in India and later lived and worked with various shamans and healers in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. Further studies include Transpersonal Psychology and the teachings of Dr. Stanislav Grof. He is also deeply influenced by Taoist philosophy. In his presentations he weaves together 30 years of experience in consciousness research, vibrational healing and the shamanic arts, creating a unique transmission that enlivens and transforms. Darpan is a spontaneous and engaging speaker with a natural flair for embellishing keynote speeches with interesting stories, anecdotal references and rich personal experience. He delivers a wealth of information within a context, which inspires and motivates.  

Margaret Cross & Shane Huebner

Plant Medicine and the Path of Heart - How the Teacher Plants are Aiding in the Evolution of Consciousness

This workshop will include an over view of the global phenomena that is the Plant teachers and the powerful role they are playing in peoples roads to personal and community healing and expansion. We will be sharing stories from the road with the Traveling Medicine ceremonies and the powerful shifts in consciousness that they are facilitating in people from the age of 17-70.

Circlespacesandbeyond and the Traveling Medicine Ceremony are the visionary creation of Margaret Cross and Shane Huebner. They have been called to work with the Master Plant Teachers and have been running retreats all over Australia for the last 6 years. They are both Aussie bush kids who are now grandparents and elders of a large tribe of visionary wanderers, who travel around the country re-awakening the ancient Dreaming and song lines of the Australian continent. They both understood early in their work that consciousness is the field of creation and that to change the world people need to change their consciousness. Therefore their medicine work has focused not on healing per se but on equipping people to expand and liberate their consciousness. Their Retreats are not merely healing ceremonies but full weekends of ‘downloads’ of information and tools aimed at equipping people to regain their sovereignty and heal themselves.

Margaret Cross

Return of the Divine Feminine

This workshop has been envisaged as space for women to gather and discuss issues of importance to them within our community and to come up with some pragmatic methods to help encourage and support women in entering and participating as equal principals within the community. Some of the questions we will be exploring include: How do we bring this powerful force into all of our lives in Grace and balance for the good of All That Is? How do we bring healing to the people and create communities rich in balance and trust? How do we use the power of the Great Mother to heal and transform without once again creating an imbalance between the Masculine and the Feminine? These questions are of vital importance because as we begin this new journey in consciousness we can agree that balance between the Yin and the Yang of It is of primary Importance if we are to avoid future imbalances in the force.

Margaret Cross was born in QLD in 1963 and raised a god fearing Catholic girl in a small country town blessed with an abundance of nature and scarcity of imagination. She has a Bac of Sec Education, Grad Dip in Women's Studies and a Masters in Criminology. After a rather dramatic spiritual awakening she was guided by spirit to explore the world of Shamanic plant Medicine. She has been working and training as a Plant Medicine/Shamanic Practitioner, Epiphanic Guide and Studying Common Law for the last 6 years. Her work is aimed at the liberation of consciousness and a return to Heart centered Vision and Creation.

Robert Andrew Wilkie

Interactive I Ching Divination: A Shared Experience of the Book of Changes for Deepening of Celebration

The I Ching is a fascinating vehicle for understanding Self and World and everything in between. It is, however both ancient and Chinese, and we in the west are still young adolescents in understanding this recently translated Chinese classic. As a group we will discover latent forces and relationships and bring them into awareness for the rest of the celebration. If you have an interest in the I Ching or are even unknown to the I Ching, come and sit in this session as we will go wherever we need to in order to access the simplicity and power of the present moment. We will lose ‘mental’ control over things and uncover whatever Change and Transformation is occurring, in the Realtime. We will firstly work out what Change and Transformation we are currently in as a group in celebration – Rainbow Serpent 2012 – as a community, and then to seek beyond the intellect and beyond coarser emotions and call out our question into the fundamental and pregnant emptiness that everything springs from for an echo that we can decipher and strive to feel and embody, and live out, and maybe learn something about ourselves and life in the process.

Fascinated by the incredible and very different ideas that Taoist philosophy offers, Robert initially embarked on an intellectual journey into Taoism many years ago. He was fortunate to study under a Taoist academic for 2 years, but also unfortunate to be studying it all so academically. Robert gained invaluable inspiration and insight from the system of divination and the philosophy that the I Ching embodies.
 

Oliver Stacey

Accelerated Learning Techniques

From Educational Kinesiology to Aromatherapy, this workshop covers a wide range of techniques that can be utilised to accelerate learning, improve memory and enhance cognitive function.

An Osteopathically-trained therapist with a strong Energetic background, Oliver Recently founded next level healing, a Modality that encompasses Aromatherapy, Chinese Cupping, Inversion Therapy and a C# Didgeridoo, all in concert, to bring you to the next Level.
 

DR JOSEPH GELFER

The Masculinity Conspiracy

It sometimes seems as if the debate over feminism is stuck in a rut. Feminists have spent decades offering a compelling argument about how power operates via patriarchy, and advocating for gender equality. At the same time, men’s rights activists believe men’s issues have been ignored at the expense of women’s, advocating for what they perceive as gender equality, which often results in a backlash against feminism. The Masculinity Conspiracy offers some new answers to old problems by viewing patriarchy (partially tongue-in-cheek) via the lens of conspiracy logic, which political scientist Michael Barkun claims is characterised by three assumptions: nothing happens by accident; nothing is as it seems; everything is connected. Rather than simply viewing patriarchy as something men do to women, The Masculinity Conspiracy suggests patriarchy is a power conspiracy which mobilises men to oppress women, but which paradoxically has little interest in men as individuals. By revealing the nature of the conspiracy it is hoped that men will realize that it is in theirs as well as women’s interest to overturn patriarchy, recasting the feminist agenda of liberation from a “women’s movement” to a “people’s movement”.

Dr Joseph Gelfer is a masculinities researcher in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, Australia. He is author of "Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy" and editor of "Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality" and "2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse" will be published later this year.

John Seed

Council of All Beings - Deep Ecology workshop

The Council of All Beings is a series of re-Earthing rituals created by John Seed and Joanna Macy to help end the sense of alienation from the living Earth that many of us feel. This workshop will renew the spirit and vision of those who serve the Earth and connect participants with deep sources of joy, and inspiration. Many people intellectually realise that we are inseparable from nature and that the sense of separation that we feel is illusory. These rituals enable us to deeply experience our connection with nature, in our hearts and our bodies.

Rediscovering our "deep ecology" - our interconnectedness with all beings, we find empowerment as agents of healing change. Through interactive exercises, we practice letting go of the socially constructed, isolated self and come home to our interexistence with all forms of life. We retrace our steps through our evolutionary journey and allow other life forms to speak through us. We shed our solely human identification and feel deep empathy for the myriad species and landscapes of the Earth.

John Seed is founder and president of the Rainforest Information Centre. Since 1979 he has been involved in the direct actions which have resulted in the protection of the Australian rainforests. He has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has been conducting Councils of All Beings and other re-Earthing workshops around the world for 25 years. With Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Professor Arne Naess, he wrote "Thinking Like a Mountain - Towards a Council of All Beings" (New Society Publishers) which has now been translated into 10 languages. In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Australian Government for services to conservation and the environment.
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Corrine Lutz

Australian Bush Flower Essences - Pick Your Own Essence

Learn about the history of flower essences, how the essences are made, how they work, and how Ian White selects the flowers and makes the mother tinctures. I will speak about the doctrine of signatures, how the physical characteristics of flowers give an indication of what healing properties they have. I will group the flowers into chakras as a way of generally explaining what actions they have and go into more depth with some selected flowers. Then I will teach people how to choose an essence to take with them. I will provide the essences and prepared bottles.

I first discovered flower essences as a student of Western Herbal Medicine, and I was so excited and surprised to learn about energetic medicine in a health science degree. The Australian Bush Flower essences really resonate with me, I picked up their meanings and uses very easily and quickly and can intuitively feel what essences would be beneficial for someone. Being Wiccan I use a number of tools provided by nature (including herbs, crystals, astrology and tarot) to discover underlying issues and promote healing. 

Clare Sentience

Crystal Healing Workshop and Guided Heart Healing Meditation

This is a divine crystal workshop for beginners and crystal veterans alike, focusing deeply on dynamic heart healing minerals, followed by a beautiful guided transformative heart healing meditation. Rainbow Serpent Festival is the perfect place to open your heart and receive the healing you need and deserve. What better way to start the festival than a deep healing and crystal workshop to put you in the right headspace and heart space, and spread the LOVE for the rest of the festival. All are welcome.

Invested in her own spiritual growth from a very young age, Clare's work follows her calling to share with and nurture individuals in their own journey working with their personal potential, healing and spiritual growth. Her work maintains the flexible, flowing and intuitive foundation that reflects her journey into teaching and healing. Exploring ways of healing through her ongoing practice and research in intuitive healing, guided transformative meditation, vibrational healing, chakra clearing, shamanic healing, massage, feng shui, sound and vibrational healing, crystal healing as well as a number of other complimentary modalities. Clare offers a holistic and balanced approach to ones individual healing journey. Her crystal workshops will teach those that know a little or nothing at all about crystals how to "tune in" to the mineral kingdom for deep healing, meditation, spiritual growth, healing physical ailments, creating sacred space in the home and at work for wealth, abundance, love and more. Currently based in Melbourne, Clare returned from many years of overseas travel and esoteric study in 2010, bringing her knowledge and wisdom to The Pixie Collective in the form of Crystal Healing Workshops, Guided Healing Meditation, Sound Healing Circles and Intuitive Crystal, Sound and Vibrational Healing.  

Amanda Scott

Art Therapy Creation Circle - Express Authenticity

Come and explore your own authenticity, embrace spontaneity and see what you can discover about yourself. Be ready to let go, be challenged, be supported, be seen, and really connect with others. This unique group is limited to 10 places. The possibilities for learning, expression, and movement in your life are endless. If you have never tried art therapy, give it a go. No artistic talent required. Art therapy can allow you to let go of your mind and connect with your intuition. It can help you find clarity in your life, answers, and direction. It can give you space to reflect, or help you release what holds you back in your life.

Amanda is a qualified creative arts therapist, and is passionate about connection. Connection is where healing happens, where growth happens and where LIFE happens. Take a chance, and see what the universe has to offer. "The core element of therapy and healing is connection. With connection, to self, to the world, to others and to spirit, this creates a starting point for positive change and growth." Amanda is passionate about living fully, self-discovery and connection. In 2011 Amanda has been running the Creation Circle, and art therapy group, once a month in Melbourne, exploring various universal themes. Amanda has worked as a facilitator, running various self-empowerment programs, workshops, camps and seminars since 2003. During this time she studied a Bachelor of Art, Visual Art and Photography, Diploma of Youth Work and a Diploma of Transpersonal Art Therapy. 

Enlightened Perception - Bree Cooper

Baby Sleep, Settling and Parenting with Awareness

Tips on settling strategies, sleeping, teaching your baby to self settle, the value of routine and consistency, and how your child learns through cause and effect experiences. Bree also explains Dunstan Baby Language, an amazing tool every parent and carer should know.

With over 10 years experience working with children, babies and families, Bree has combined her skills with her knowledge and experiences to be able to offer practical, logical, loving settling techniques and strategies for modern and holistic parenting. Bree is in the process of writing a book for parents, focusing on baby sleep and cause and effect learning, giving parents tools to empower their children, and themselves. Her discoveries through working with children and families over the past 10 years, combined with study and life experience has enabled Bree to delve deeper into one of the most important and often overlooked aspects of life, and that is the foundations we present to our children to create their world. Bree's upcoming book, gives parents and carers tools to expand their awareness, understand their children and create a happier world, one small smile at a time!

Darpan

Reclaiming Vision to Manifest a New Paradigm

According to Darpan, there are no linear solutions to the moral, fiscal and environmental crisis we face today. All attempts to handle these issues with the old mindset seem doomed to an awful and protracted failure, giving rise to even greater disempowerment and confusion. As stultifying as this may seem, it is actually very good news. It provides the right conditions for the one element, which promises a dynamic solution to the insurmountable problems plaguing the planet. Human consciousness is notoriously asleep when things are comfortable, predictable and certain. In facing this challenge, the hero or initiate transcends ordinary awareness to be “reborn” into a new identity. Today, we face the very real possibility of global annihilation whether it be through the agency of war, nuclear fallout or natural catastrophe. It seems to me that these are necessary ingredients required to make the quantum leap of consciousness beyond what is already known into something entirely new, utterly discontinuous from the past. It is the firing of consciousness in the alchemical crucible. Once the polarity gap has been bridged and unity consciousness dissolves the illusory veils of separation, the world is made anew. Perception is everything. With fresh eyes, Existence will bend over backwards to deliver a new vision.

Darpan is a modern visionary and urban mystic. He travels extensively around the world delivering seminars, playing concerts and facilitating Shamanic Healing Retreats. He is a synthesis of his teachings and is an inspirational speaker and gifted musician. He has spent several years studying the art of meditation in India and later lived and worked with various shamans and healers in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. Further studies include Transpersonal Psychology and the teachings of Dr. Stanislav Grof. He is also deeply influenced by Taoist philosophy. In his presentations he weaves together 30 years of experience in consciousness research, vibrational healing and the shamanic arts, creating a unique transmission that enlivens and transforms. Darpan is a spontaneous and engaging speaker with a natural flair for embellishing keynote speeches with interesting stories, anecdotal references and rich personal experience. He delivers a wealth of information within a context, which inspires and motivates.   

Dan Schreiber

Plan Plant Planet - Growing People, Cultivating Minds and Nurturing Spirit

What now? Cultivating systems of perpetual renewal, observing the nature of love blossoms into the love of nature. Nature is love manifest.

New Technologies in Growing Super Plants

As growing our food, medicine, and shelter becomes increasingly vital, ways of growing high frequency nutrient dense plants becomes more important. Dan will be introducing communication with nature and explaining new ideas in growing super plants for this time. This workshop will include imparting the techniques for preparing Ormus for soil and a whole lot more.

Dan Schreiber has been the Creative Director of Starseed Gardens since 2005, and is an inspirational Storyteller, speaker and lecturer. Starseed Gardens is a multi dimensional project that is exploring and showcasing living systems of perpetual renewal and human plant culture. Dan is also a professional photographer, videographer and multimedia producer, a self-taught herbal healer, ecologist and landscape gardener with a forte for creative direction and vision. He loves tea, bamboo, lotus, nature, people, water, architecture, the sun and open minds.

Dan Gooden

Terence McKenna and Reverse Engineering Consciousness

At the beginning of history, as our ancestors began transitioning from an archaic culture to one of agriculture and settlement, the development of ego-centric consciousness was paralleled by the arrival of concepts that are taken for granted in the modern world; individualism and separation, property rights and commerce. Several thousands years later, the development of technology and worldwide communication nets is surfacing the core assumption of separation embedded in our culture. This talk will explore how behaviours of sharing and communal ownership can, along with Terence McKenna's ideas on language and technology, help us reverse engineer our consciousness and reprogram it towards higher functioning collective consciousness and awareness.

Dan Gooden is a Sydney local exploring the power of technology and language to evolve culture and consciousness. He currently works with information technology and lives in Erskineville, Sydney. His current project is building a social network called sharedearth.net. At its most basic level it’s a web based social network to support humans in building trust, and sharing resources. At its heart is an intention to support us in rewriting our cultural stories to reflect our emerging experience of universal interconnection. 

Tim Parish - Undergrowth

Another World is Happening - Visionary Sustainable Futures

We are in the midst of a global transition to a sustainable civilisation that balances ecology with economy, sources renewable energy from the biosphere using appropriate technology The future will be a mixture of de-centralised power structures, community energy and super-grids that are already being installed as we speak. Despite blockages from industry and apathy from politicians, a generation of visionary engineers, green business leaders, social entrepreneurs and maverick inventors across the world are creating a wave of change that will make the transition of our world in the next two decades inevitable. Learn about the design science revolutionaries, permaculture principles and ecological economics that will shape the world, then learn how you can get involved. Another World is Happening, so come join the evolution.

Timothy Parish is an artist, writer and filmmaker, founder of Verb Studios, Transitions Film Festival and co-founder of Undergrowth.org. Through his independent video production company Verb Studios he is currently in pre-production of a documentary on visionary clean energy futures called 'Another World is Happening' which is the foundation of this lecture. Parish is the Director of the upcoming Transitions Film Festival which will be taking in Melbourne from the 11th-19th of the February in Melbourne as part of the Sustainable Living Festival He is the co-founder of Undergrowth.org - an online portal of art, writing, video and independent publisher through which he has published numerous books as Editor and Co-Editor including Nomadology, The Journeybook. His first book 'Portals' which available through Undergrowth.or

Robin Mutoid

Our Year 2012 - 'The End'… A New Beginning… or Both?

December 21st, 2012 is a date that many diverse schools are pinpointing as powerfully unique. Some factions are promoting it as the End of the World as we know it, others as the End of 'The Calendar'. This workshop addresses in mechanistic terms, exactly WHY this date is such a momentous one and in Spiritual terms, what may be required of us to successfully Ascend through it. It asks How the Mayan Indians, three thousand years ago, appear to have known things that we today, are only just beginning to rediscover. It questions whether this date is actually the ‘End’ of anything, and if so what. And whether perhaps it is also potentially the beginning of something entirely new to us!

Robin is a visual Artist, co-founder of the 'Mutoid Waste Co' and a Mechanist. He has also researched and observed the subject of 'Exopolitics' develop over a number of years, with a view to further understanding and shedding light upon the probability that we may not be 'alone' in this Universe! He feels that it is time to now 'workshop' and share more widely and creatively of his views, in order that they may in their turn perhaps, assist a little in broadening both our horizons and also our potentials, as a Unified and fully conscious Universal Species.  

Julian Waksberg

Permaculture and How Thought Processes Can Change the World

A discussion about harmony, how inner harmony creates outer harmony and how perception, thought processes and decision-making can help to achieve a sustainable self (inner) and thus a sustainable world (outer both locally and globally).

Recent Permaculture College Australia Graduate, Julian Waksberg, has been passionately investigating permaculture, sustainability, harmony, music festivals and the mind for the past 8 years.

Dr Joseph Gelfer

The Masculinity Conspiracy

It sometimes seems as if the debate over feminism is stuck in a rut. Feminists have spent decades offering a compelling argument about how power operates via patriarchy, and advocating for gender equality. At the same time, men’s rights activists believe men’s issues have been ignored at the expense of women’s, advocating for what they perceive as gender equality, which often results in a backlash against feminism. The Masculinity Conspiracy offers some new answers to old problems by viewing patriarchy (partially tongue-in-cheek) via the lens of conspiracy logic, which political scientist Michael Barkun claims is characterised by three assumptions: nothing happens by accident; nothing is as it seems; everything is connected. Rather than simply viewing patriarchy as something men do to women, The Masculinity Conspiracy suggests patriarchy is a power conspiracy which mobilises men to oppress women, but which paradoxically has little interest in men as individuals. By revealing the nature of the conspiracy it is hoped that men will realize that it is in theirs as well as women’s interest to overturn patriarchy, recasting the feminist agenda of liberation from a “women’s movement” to a “people’s movement”.

Dr Joseph Gelfer is a masculinities researcher in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, Australia. He is author of "Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy" and editor of "Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality" and "2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse" will be published later this year.

Tom Cosm

Ableton Live and How to Push it to the Max

This workshop begins with a short and basic overview of the audio production and performance Software Ableton Live, covering the general concept and core functions to show how it can be used to create music with computers and perform tunes live. This is a brief run down for the people who have no idea, to give them a bit of knowledge before the fun experimental stuff starts. The second half covers more advanced techniques and unique tricks to maximise production and performance efficiency, as well as explore some of Tom's own personal tips using Synthesizers, Racks, Advanced audio routing and self generative sound.

Tom Cosm is an electronic producer, performer and Ableton Certified Trainer from New Zealand. As he moves around the globe performing he also teaches and trains others how to write and perform music. 

Occupy Australia

Understanding the ‘Occupy’ Movement inspired by Occupy Wall St

This workshop will assist individuals in understanding the global ‘Occupy’ movement inspired by ‘Occupy Wall St’ in the USA, and will inform on how to get involved in peaceful movements to assist in bringing about social change.
Occupy Australia stands in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Libya, Greece, Israel, America and around the globe. With people in over 2,000 locations worldwide, we occupy together for 'human need not corporate greed.
 

Even Dawn

It's Time... Shift Happens!

This is it, the Time of prophecy is upon us - we are here and 2012 is NOW. What's all the hype about? What more do you want to know about the cycles of our Sun, Moon, the Planets, Stars and Galaxy? Who on Earth knew this time was coming and what clues did they leave us to decode the current age?

Even Dawn provides thought provoking topics in an easy to understand presentation, which is fun, informative and interactive. Based upon Jose Arguelles' Dreamspell calendar, Even has developed a hands-on system of teaching important aspects of Galactic Mayan time-science through a physically active sequence of warm-ups and postures she calls 'Mayan Movement'; which she will facilitate following the hour-long lecture presentation.

Even Dawn has studied the significance of galactic culture for almost 10 years and channeled this fascination through digital media art; producing a perpetual 13 Moon wall almanac, artwork for calendars and journals and editing the Second Creation zine. As well as organising the Day Out of Time festivals in Northern NSW she has presented lectures and spoken on panels on the subject of 2012 at EGA, '2012 - Time for Change' screenings in Melbourne and Brisbane and at outdoor festivals Australia wide. She is currently involved in the Kinship Records community label and producing heart-felt, original music.

Mayra Vivo Torres – e.gaia.net

Internet Activism - Changing the world is suddenly possible

Since the advent of the Internet social movements have been able to organise themselves internationally, engineering protests and actions at a scale with no precedent. The availability of information about global issues also makes it possible for a large part of the population to be aware of the challenges facing Gaia and our brothers and sisters in distant lands, leaving no option but to act.

After a short introduction about the history of Internet Activism Mayra will introduce the concept of e-gaia.net. Then she will hopefully move from a mere lecture into a workshop/discussion, this time centred mainly about the environment, where ideas about current issues, organisations active in the ground, and campaigns where we can all make a difference will hopefully flow both ways.

Some of the topics covered will be: the current state of play at the international climate negotiations, food and sustainability, a renewable energy outlook, and hopefully something on Australian biodiversity.

Managing Director of Energy Solutions Consultancy and Founder of e-gaia, Mayra was the Keynote Speaker for Environment in Rainbow Serpent in 2008 ('Alternatives to a Carbon Dictatorship'). She has delivered workshops and lectures in festivals across Europe, including the Liminal Village at Boom festival, where she have been collaborating on most editions since 2000.

Zeitgeist Melbourne

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward and Resource Based Economy - Film & Discussion

The crew from Zeitgeist Melbourne are proud to present the third installation in the Zeitgeist movie series, entitled Zeitgeist: Moving Forward by Peter Joseph, which details the horrendous and debilitating consequences of the current world economic system, the Fractional Reserve banking system and how it contributes to the endless debt spiral, and the concept of a Resource-Based Economy: a global system in which the planet's resources are declared the common heritage of all the world's people; a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude. Following the movie, there will be a discussion on the concepts covered, including Jacque Fresco's idea of a Resource-Based Economy: The Venus Project.

Zeitgeist Melbourne is the Melbourne and Victoria Sub-Chapter of the Zeitgeist Movement. Founded in 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement is a movement free from religious and other dogmatic paradigms. It has no leaders, only coordinators and contributors. It advocates the pursuit of global sustainability and balance through science and technology, for the benefit of all creatures on the planet, and believes the best way to achieve this is through the implementation of a Resource-Based Economy.
 

"THE ELECTRIK ORIENT": A TRIBAL FUSION BELLYDANCE WORKSHOP WITH KAMI LIDDLE (USA) & GISELLE SIBYL

Tribal d'Orient presents The Electric Orient: A Tribal Fusion Bellydance workshop with Kami Liddle & Giselle Sibyl. International Guest Workshop presenter Kami Liddle (USA) is one of the main innovative contributors to the Tribal Bellydance dance genre. A previous Director and choreographer for the Tribal Bellydance SuperStars, currently Kami Liddle is a primary dancer regularly touring with Beats Antique. Giselle Sibyl is a tribal fusion dancer based between Melbourne and San Francisco. As the Director of Tribal d'Orient dance, she has been training in traditional and tribal fusion bellydance with Australian dancers since 2009. The Tribal Bellydance genre developed in San Francisco as early as 1949, and is now flowering worldwide as an eclectic performance and embodiment artform fusing ancient traditional dances of the Orient fused with both traditional world music & the electro-dubstep music genre.

Minna Seppal

Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga is an ancient technique to balance and strengthen the body and mind, allowing you to access your inner wisdom, your intuition. Minna Seppala is a teacher of Kundalini and Hatha Yoga and as a teacher she is inspired to uplift her students to go deep into themselves and shake up there inner world a little. Allowing this time to relax deeply and free up the ‘self’ using repetitive movement, sound and breath to bring you into a heightened state of awareness. Putting you under pressure in class to allow you to shine and be strong like diamonds. Physically, Kundalini Yoga nourishes and strengthens your nervous system and hormonal system, allowing you to have greater strength and balance in your day and to meet everything that life brings. The kriyas in Kundalini yoga is a complete set of actions that has a specific purpose. The meditations also have a specific outcome. These can vary from a peaceful mind, cleansing the lymph system to prosperity. There is a kriya or meditation for pretty much anything in Kundalini Yoga. The only way to really understand Kundalini Yoga is to experience it. Bring a yoga mat.

Minna Seppala is a teacher of Kundalini and Hatha yoga and has been practicing yoga herself for over a decade. Her passion in life lies with healthy, balanced living practices and has been researching health, nutrition, plant medicines and healing modalities for over 15 years. She also practices reflexology, massage, ear acupuncture, reiki, and chakra healing. She has a natural understanding of the body from having been a body worker for years and practiced dance, yoga, chi kung, gymnastics, capoeira and many other types of body movement practices since a very young age. Kundalini Yoga is her main spiritual practice and she loves sharing these ancient teaching and seeing the transformation within people and the light in their eyes after a class.
 

Miss Friby

Cabaret Mayhem

A quirky movement workshop that explores Cabaret technique and the regalia of Vaudeville quirk. So come along and stretch your musical muscles!

Miss Friby is a travelling vaudeville entertainer whose quirky vignettes have graced the stages of The Spiegeltent, National Gallery, RSF, Universo Paralello, Modena Busker's Festival and the National Theatre Week. With a background in a variety of dance techniques, Miss Friby's workshop is guaranteed to inspire anyone who dares to venture into the world of cabaret.

Tap Dance

If you've ever wanted to learn, now is the time with this introductory tap dance workshop. Guaranteed to knock your socks off! Prizes for the best tap shoes!!

Ryan Williams

Poi - Beyond the Basics

This 90-minute workshop in the art of poi is designed for those who have played before, and are comfortable with the basic weaves and butterflies. We will learn about timing and direction and terminology because to communicate our learning we must have a language to use, and then discover all the different ways your poi can move both alone and with its twin. Intermediate tricks that use these different kinds of movement will be taught as a fun way of demonstrating that new knowledge.

After picking up poi for the first time in autumn of 2009, Ryan discovered a passion for performance art and a natural affinity for object manipulation that changed everything for him. His unique style, which bounces between precise and elegant to vibrant and ecstatic, has earned him a role as a leader and pillar of his community. Now the founder and director of Sola Fire Arts, a troupe based in Santa Barbara, California, he is deeply engaged in the flow arts as a true calling. As a performer, leader, teacher, and student, he trains obsessively to find grace, technique, and flow in his art and life.
 

Paul Dumais

5 Element Qi Gong

The 5 Element Qi Gong Workshop is a simple set of exercises to relax the body and focus the mind. Each element Metal, Water, Wood Fire and Earth relates to an organ: Lungs, Kidneys, Liver, Heart and Spleen. Each move harmonises with the breath to open the channels of each organ to release tension and be replenished by each of nature’s elemental energies. So simple yet so powerful.

Paul Dumais has been studying martial arts and meditation for over 20 years. For the last 10 he has been a student of Master Liu De Ming, the 5th generation Lineage holder of the Zi Ran Men (Nature Style) linage). He teaches regularly in Byron Bay at Starseed Gardens and at festivals around the world.
 

Lucine Eusani

The Yoga of Connection

This is a yoga workshop on the healing aspects of connection to oneself, to the earth and to community. We will explore connection through the mediums of physical postures, the breath, music and more.

Lucine's work focuses healing through restoring connection on the mental, physical and spiritual levels. She spent over ten years of working with indigenous shaman in Columbia and the Peruvian Amazon with ayahuasca and energy work, working as a facilitator of Ayahuasca and yoga retreats. She combines this work with her background in massage, and her training and work as a yoga teacher and a life coach. She is currently in Australia managing an Eco Retreat Centre in Red Hill. For more information about Lucine, visit http:///www.lucineeusani.com
 

Richard Clement, Azzy Monks, Tim O'Conner, David McPhail

Juggle Jam

Juggling and fun! Getting as many people exposed to all forms juggling as possible – juggling is great for co-ordination, brain function, exercise and (extreme) fun! We include skip rope, balls, clubs, poi, diabolo, devil sticks and more. Also, we will bring material and hold juggling ball making. This was a real hit last Rainbow - punters got to take their own juggling balls home.

Azzy and Richard have run ‘Juggle Jam’ (one of Melbourne's juggling clubs) for approx 5 years. Richard has run diabolo juggling workshops at the last two Rainbows and have been teaching diabolo and juggling professionally for the last 8 years.
 

Gypsy Jess

Sexy Raw Chocolate

What is sexier than chocolate? RAW CHOCOLATE. And what’s sexier than raw chocolate? Creating and eating it with someone you love. Join the Cacao gods and goddesses for an explosive experimentation of the ecstatic power of chocolate and symbiotic super foods. Mix it, taste it, spread it on someone you love!

Jess is a health and food writer focusing on raw and superfoods. She has served as Food Editor for Living Raw Magazine and is the creator of Raw Gastronomy and Messy Bessie blogs. She is also a jeweller who is creatively fuelled by living and raw foods and lots of cacao.
 

Jasmina Haukka

Nutrition, mindfulness & culture

Part 1 = Food Mindfulness – a guided mindfulness activity - it’s great to be really aware of all parts of eating, it helps you to enjoy eating, really taste and feel the food, be aware of feeling too full or hungry, and to really listen to your body. Part 2 = Food and Culture – a scenario to build awareness, where we play roles with culturally different meal habits and how it makes us feel and think about different cultures. Discussion: A short talk on healthy and balanced eating, then a choice of group discussion topics including: traditional diets, busy-ness, water, cancer, vegan, future of food, gluten, glycemic index, sustainability, fruit and veg, etc.

Jasmina is a registered nutritionist. She has helped people with nutrition, performance, and health in various countries and cities. Her main focus was in sports nutrition and now is in health promotion. She currently works as a nutritionist in North Queensland. Come and ask your health, doof, recovery, nutrition, and exercise questions.
 

Josie Jupiter

The Hoop and the Tree - A hoop dance meditation

In this workshop we will explore the metaphor of the Hoop and the Tree as described by Chris Hoffman as The Hoop of Relationship and the Tree of Aspiration. What do these symbols represent to us and how can we use the metaphor as a method of healing, artistic expression, self-development and meditation? We will visualize the hoop as our relationships, community and family and the tree as our sense of self, our determination, individuality, strength and aspiration. We will meditate on how to keep our roots firm and our core solid when there are spiraling forces outside our control. Moving with our hoops we will learn how we can flow in rhythm with these external forces and use the spiraling energy to create art and beauty. Using a combination of blindfolded hoop dance meditation and improvised movement-play we will connect physically to the concepts discussed.

Josie Jupiter is a hoop dancer, a fire performer and a teacher and runs Melbourne's Puzzle Dust Circus.
 

Gavin Shri Amneon

Tantric Yoga and Yang Style Tai Chi

Tantric Yoga includes stretching, breathing, chanting, and energy invoking gestures.

Tai Chi includes learning part of the Yang Style Tai Chi chuan 24 form.

Come and release all your tension and energise your body and mind to be fully capable to immerse yourself into the Rainbow Serpent experience with Tantric Yoga and Tai Chi. Gavin Shri Amneon is a long term body and mind development teacher, both in Melbourne and at Rainbow Serpent Festival.

Fipe Keanu

Fipe Keanu's Hawaiian Hula Group

Aloha! Ever wanted to learn the graceful dancing of the Polynesian Islands? Ever wanted to shake your hips like the girls of the pacific? Join Fipe Keanu as she combines all Polynesian dances to bring you a beautiful hula class. Fipe takes you through the moves of the pacific, beginning with the basic tamau (side to side movements) the 'Ami (round motion of the hips), the Koholo (3 rolling steps) and much more. She combines these dance techniques with the exotic drums of the pacific. Bring your sarong and join Fipe through her solo venture as she brings a hip- shaking workshop to the Lifestyle Village.

Fipe has performed in Polynesian dance groups since she was 5 years old. She owned her first grass skirt as soon as she could walk, and her earliest memory is of her mother singing her traditional Polynesian songs while swaying her to the sounds of the waves of the pacific. Performing at WOMAD, Polyfest, Pacifika and representing the Cook Islands in "Island Celebrations" in Western Samoa also performing in Samoa's largest resorts and laua nights. If she can't get your hips moving...no one can.
 

Simon Slieker

Dance JOURNEYS - strive, delve, surrender

Dance JOURNEYS - To strive, delve and surrender. The principle of the dance journey is simple: The wisdom that can most impact you is your own. It resides within; you only need access it. Dance and movement are a gateway. How you choose to traverse that gate and travel the path is the essence of the journey. Dance JOURNEYS is a combination of workshop presentation, guided dance, meditation and spoken word, propelled by a continuous mix of music. A multi genre ride of tribal drums, textures and tones blended live, in connection with the people present. Dance JOURNEYS opens you to the powerful interplay of inner vision, emotional contact and physical expression. Each of these energetic pivot points inspires growth, healing, insight and release. Each flows from, and into, the other, further deepening the experience. Dance JOURNEYS is to strive, delve and surrender and is deeply therapeutic. It is for those who are reaching for the unexplored parts of themselves; it is for those who have no such longing and those who would explore the flow of aural, emotional, physical sensation. If you know how to dance; forgetting what you know is a good starting point. Bring a blanket to lie on as a start and end point.

Dance JOURNEYS is the vehicle through which participants are reaping the reward of one of Australia's premiere electronic DJ pioneers sharing the wisdom, philosophy and therapeutic benefit inherent in the sacred journey of dance. Simon Slieker's 16 year pursuit as a DJ and audio artist has been one of immersion into the dynamics of the dancefloor. His love of electronic music and dance culture is a lifelong exploration of the dance journey, that most particular undertaking, evocative of inner worlds and old wisdom accessed by the body in motion. To this end Simon has for the last year been developing and running Dance JOURNEYS, as a "coming of age" of his art; a therapeutic blend of workshop based, meditative dance and movement sessions.
 

Damon Ellis

Rainbow Serpent Judo Club

The ‘Rainbow Serpent Judo Club’ provides an introductory demonstration, lesson and lecture emphasing Judo as a fun and healthy form of creative physical expression. Founded in 1882 by Jigoro Kano, Judo, or the "Way of Yielding" can be categorised as a martial art or as a modern competitive sport. However Judo in its true form has been described as not a physical fight, rather an expression of participants' spiritual energy generating physical power. Judo practice mainly revolves around throwing techniques (nage-waza), so how to fall from a throw is fundamental - basic breakfalls (ukemi) and their importance will be a key part of the lesson. Judo jackets and belts can be provided as needed but participants are welcome to bring their own uniforms if they have them. Mats for a warm up and practice area will also be provided. Participants should bring their own water and ensure they are hydrated. Those with prior Judo experience would of course be very welcome on the mat.

A Judo exponent with over 12 years experience, Damon Ellis attended Rainbow Serpent in 2010 and, swept up in the spirit of communal exchange and enthusiasitc participation, I provided an impromptu Judo lesson. This year I came prepared with mats, uniforms and another Judo friend so that I could better demonstrate the graceful throws and breakfalls of Judo. At Rainbow 2012, I look forward to making this ‘Rainbow Serpent Judo Club’ official.
 

Darwin Dance Collective: Alex Jordan with Lulu MadiLl

The Love Shack

This fun but moving workshop will explore the feeling of love through movement, music, poetry and prose. We will begin with a movement exploration of the primary chakras or body centres where love gets caught up: the base chakra, the heart and the busy and interfering head. Where is your current focus? What do you find there? We’ll also explore some of the rhythms and sounds of love through body percussion, sound and voice. There will be spontaneous love poetry, letters and stories, fawning, fainting and falling into each other’s arms. The session will culminate in the development of a ‘love-scape’ built from the sounds and movements discovered throughout the session.

Alexandra Jordan is a dance movement therapist and improviser with over eight years experience in assisting people of diverse ages and cultural backgrounds to find new adventures in moving. She is a founding member and key facilitator of the Darwin Dance Collective, a wonderfully hot and sticky force of playfulness. She currently dances in the day primarily with women and children from refugee backgrounds. Alex's dance background stretches back to free-form creative dance classes in the Adelaide Hills in the early 80s, and has traversed a wide range of movement adventures in the interim. She is trained in improvised and authentic movement, dance movement therapy, body mind centering, and physical storytelling. She is now a dance movement therapist and improvisational dance artist based in Darwin. She is passionate about using movement as a portal to understanding and transformation for all people no matter how much you ‘think you can dance’.
 

LULU MADILL

Unlocking the Inner Voice

Connecting to your divine voice, the inner voice workshop is not about singing in time or in pitch or having the perfect singing voice. This workshop is about unlocking your true vibrational sound from deep within. Inside every person who can talk can sing or hum, there is a way of unlocking that inner voice inside all of us and singing together in the field of sound.

Lulu Madill is a multi-skilled artist creating workshops in vocal expansion, music production, video, dance and acrobatics. Lulu has done touring workshops with ‘Art Back’ around the NT and worked with children's choirs for Music NT in remote communities in the NT. Lulu has also conducted workshops in ‘Evolutionary Movement’ in Melbourne, Darwin, San Francisco, and Burning Man, Nevada, USA.

Nikelle Khan

Oriental Fusion Belly Dance

Lose your self to remember the deep rhythm within. Re-program conditioned behaviors and tap into the freedom of movement that lies within your innate muscle memory. Nikelle is a facilitator of an internal and physical journey through the art of dance fusion. Learn to fuse various dance techniques and styles. Throughout the class you will practice hand mudras, Balinese Agems, Odissi steps and tribal belly dance. You will learn to match movement to the structure of music and how dance choreography tells a story that you will unfold in yourself and others.

Nikelle Khan started her journey with dance through the art of fire dancing. After travelling the world and performing with fire she wanted to create a style of dance fusion incorporating the elements of fire and ethnic dances. In 2004 she became inspired by Tribal Fusion Belly Dance, enjoying its freedom with movement. This brought an understanding of her own blockages within her body and the potential of dance as a tool for healing.
 

Mickey Space - Shakti Groove

Yoga Movement Dance Journey

An intense joyful Yoga practice supported by a live DJ set. Letting your own inner dance come out, being completely absorbed by music and movement ~ a trip into the deepest meditation!! Taking your Yoga practice to the next level, this workshop is open to all levels, whether beginner or advanced, there will be joys and challenges for all. Expect moments of intensity and challenge, bliss and joy and opportunities to release and let go of your 'stuff'! The practice is Vinyasa based, flowing Yoga movements with times of meditation, chanting, relaxation and then dancing!

Mickey's life has been a journey of transformation and exploration split during his earth stay on various countries, mainly Australia, Thailand and Italy. Always having had a creative flair, Mickey graduated as a Visual Artist from RMIT and worked in the field of Graphic Design and Animation for some time. During his 8 years in Thailand Mickey developed Venusian Productions, a series of bars and parties on the tropical island of Koh Tao. The culmination of this period was Venus Park, a sculpture park, where the alternative to the Full Moon parties was run. It gained the reputation as one of the most creative party venues on the backpack trail.