BLOOM
FESTIVAL
7 - 10 July 2022
BLOOM
FESTIVAL
7 - 10 July 2022
Facilitators & Workshops
Damien Bohler
Evolutionary Relating Facilitator
Damien is an intimacy geek, evolutionary pioneer and investigator. He inquiries deeply, facilitates and teaches in the worlds of authentic relating, attachment, nervous system regulation, boundaries, polarity, integral theory and much more. His gift resides in the ability to synthesis complex knowledge and present it in digestible and impactful form. The containers he facilitates are transformative experiences and his greatest passion is in supporting the evolution of consciousness on planet earth.
Community Culture Creation
Simon Thakur
Ecological Embodiment
Simon is a movement teacher and lifelong explorer of mind-body traditions from around the world. He has decades of experience in movement disciplines including Yoga, Qigong and internal martial arts, Capoeira Angola, Butoh and Brazilian Jiujitsu; a long career as a bodyworker and therapist; an academic background in medical science, anthropology, evolutionary biology and ecology; and extensive practice and research into Buddhist, Yogic and Daoist meditation. Ancestral Movement is the synthesis of this experience, an ongoing exploration of human embodiment within the context of biological evolution, ecology, and the shared ancestry of all living beings through deep time.
Daoist Qigong
An introduction to the foundational practices of the Hunyuan Daoist Qigong method and the "Dragon Body" body-changing exercises of the Chinese Internal Martial Arts. Soft but intensely physical practices for developing profound mind-body connection; a strong, relaxed, fully conscious and fully integrated structure able to stretch and contract with power through every part from toes to fingertips; deep, smooth and blissful whole-body breathing; peaceful, clear consciousness able to expand and contract to take in the whole world with awe and reverence and joy, from the tiniest point inside the body out into infinite space.
Animal Body & Wrestling Games
Interactive movement class exploring the animal body: movements for opening up the hidden areas of the body to uncover the soft, powerful, sensitive and expressive non-linear movement abilities inherent in our bodies, buried beneath layers of cultural inhibition and taboo and fully adapted to the beautiful, complex forms and environments of the living earth. And wrestling games, because nothing satisfies the animal body like a good wrestle.
This workshop will focus mostly on partner games. Feeling more at home in our bodies, and more at home here on earth with the rest of our family, Feeling generally more beastly, Feeling more like a mysterious ancient organism made of conscious slime, The satisfaction of a good wrestle with some of your fellow animals
Arion Light
Founder of The Warriors Of Love
Embodiment is my absolute passion. I have spent 20 years obsessed with the connection between our soul and our body. I have created hundreds of programs, retreats and practitioner trainings from my system of dynamic embodiment, Warriors of Love.
How to ignite a new level of energy, vitality and passion in every area of your life.
We will use, mythic journey work, breathwork, movement and ceremony to find and unleash the primal dragon of love that lives inside you.
Jade Lesha
Leader Feminine Empowerment
Jade Lesha is the Founder of Feminine Wilde ~ Fierce Love Movement, & a Feminine Empowerment Leader. Her work specifies in Archetypal Embodiment & Shadow work, Sacred Sexuality, Mystic Leadership, Trauma Therapy, & Coaching.
Jade has been passionately devoted to her journey as a therapist, teacher, leader for over 14 years, & has held space for 1000's of womxn & men worldwide throughout those years.
She wholeheartedly embodies a fiercely loving vision of liberation for all her students & clients through deeper initiations into self authorship, compassionate power, & awakening the fiercely loving, wilde & erotic current within.
Awakening Erotic Innocence
You were born of your erotic nature. Pure & unassuming. Connected to your feelings, your body, your sex. And then life happened, conditioning you for excess pressure, performance, shut down, shame or judgement, especially around who you are as an erotic being.
In this workshop you will be guided through embodiment & self connection to uncover your true erotic nature, & the purity inherent at the core of your being. There will be space for self reflection, sharing, & a powerful ritual for you to reclaim your virginal essence & open curiously with yourself as you access the freshness of each moment as the Erotic & Innocent Being that you are.
Open to all bodies
Voice Activation Guide
“Free Your Voice & Live With Choice”
Part ecstatic dance DJ set, Part Free-your-voice singing lesson, Part Somatic Embodiment therapy; Voice Dance Elevates us to the next level & anchors us into deep alignment. There’s a reason why we moan when we make love or shriek when we stub our toe. Come deepen into the Science Of Sound & let your Voice Resound.
Tashka weaves Spirit into Sound using her body as the vessel.
With a gift for initiating people to their Creative Calling, her experience spans 20yrs over many Cultures & contexts fuzing Science, Somatics, Meridians, Breath-work, Sound-therapy, Quantum-Visualisation & Tantra.
Born & bred in Central Australia Tashka Self-Produces her Medicine Music on the East Coast & liberates purpose-driver Creators through her transformative online platforms.
Stacia Karina Beazley
Embodied Feelings Guide & Anger Coach
I am an avid researcher of radical human relating who is fed by challenging social norms and anchoring in new ways/cultures of 'being' together. I want to live to my full capacity as a human and believe there's much more possible than what we've been taught. BLOOM provides a space/playground where we can explore, embody and integrate more of what makes us human and I want to contribute to that.
The Warrior and the Sorceress: Anger & Fear as Allies in the Unknown
Seán Ó'Faoláin
Transformational Therapist
Sean is passionate about supporting people to live to their greatest potential - to feel fully alive, completely free, openly authentic and expressive in each and every moment whilst also feeling a deep sense of embodied safety. A lover of life, of embodied loving, of freedom of full self expression
Coregulation for Connection
Some say the opposite of Love is Fear. Love connects us all, whereas fear creates separation.
But fear doesn't have to separate us, it can bring us together if we can learn to feel it, to be curious about it, to courageously drop into our vulnerability and to gain mastery over our unconscious nervous system response; the fight, flight, freeze, fawn response.
This workshop will be a guided embodied journey to slowly and gently drop into deeper awareness of our patterns of connection and disconnection and create a deeper sense of safety so that we can let go and surrender. We will let go of the unconscious walls of protection that keep us safe but yet separated, and instead learn how to consciously develop boundaries that keep us safe and connected. We will feel deeper levels of sensitivity and feeling in our bodies. Together we will melt away all that separates us and become united as one current of Love.
Jackson James Kubian
Transformational Dance Teacher
I am an authentic leader who fills his days with passionate service, conscious evolution and joyous connection. I was raised on a 9m crayfishing boat in the Torres Strait Islands and Papua New Guinea. As a young wild child living on the ocean my imagination stretched far and wide. I have lived enough to know how precious this life is and to accept all with inclusive curiosity.
Transformational Dance
This workshop will be exploring techniques, processes and principles that will transform the way you experience dance. It is designed to use dance as a tool to transform your emotions, energy and wellbeing. The workshop is for all ages and experience levels.
Chloe Adriana
The Pussy Queen:
Self love & Sexuality Coach
Chloe Adriana (she / her) - The Pussy Queen
Chloe is a Self Love and Sexuality Coach and badassed Facilitator. Former fairy, turned Primary school teacher, turned coach and founder of the Pussy Queen Academy. Chloe’s passion is to guide vulva-bodied people to embody their full, unapologetic, radiant potential. Interweaving her love of education, somatic expression, emotional sovereignty and the power of pleasure, Chloe embodies and exudes the safety, love, turn on and wildness your soul has been waiting for.
Pleasure and the Dark Emotions
What do anger, disgust, rage, grief or fear have to do with pleasure?
Everything. For pleasure is available within every emotion - emotions are simply energy in motion - add a drop of pleasure and...well you'll have to see for yourself!
The focus of this workshop is to allow ourselves the spaciousness to feel and welcome the shadow emotions that are so often cast into the shadow, and to bring them into the light with no greater integration that with the power of pleasure.
Yollana Shore
Leadership Coach & Constellations Facilitator
Yollana is a coach and facilitator, with over 20 years experience in the field of personal development and transformation. A practitioner of The Journey Method, Essence Coaching and Systemic Constellations, she is passionate about the space where personal and collective transformation meet. She holds a vision for world peace, environmental sustainability, social equity and the awakening of humanity. A mother, lover, dancer, songwriter and poet.
Prosperity Constellations
Systemic Constellations enable us to use embodied intelligence to track the hidden dynamics in our relationships with family, friends, career, money, just about anything really! In Prosperity Constellations, we specifically focus on mapping the patterns that show up in our inner and outer world in relation to work, business and money. The Constellation can both illuminate what is truly blocking, and create an opening for a more healing and empowered movement to emerge.
Sophie Sämrow
Breathwork Facilitator & Holistic Coach
Join me for a nourishing journey to open your heart and come into alignment with your truest self. Breathing is the foundation of life. It influences every system and function within your body. Breathwork, mediation, and visualisation are some of the most powerful practices you can do to transform your life. Let me take you on journey to tap into your creative life force, create feelings of openness, love, peace, gratitude, clarity, and connection. Shift your energy to a higher vibration and emotional quality, an elevation of your vibrational and emotional energy. Connect to the wisdom of your heart. Release and cleanse negative emotions from the body, to MANIFEST YOUR WILDEST DREAMS.
Bela Crowder
Open Heart Authenticity facilitator
Bela Crowder is an embodiment facilitator and astrologer. Bela's passion for authentic feeling and expression allows her to support people to access their authentic truth. Through facilitating spaces that welcome deep vulnerability, self compassion and an embodied self love, Bela allows people to form a new relationship with their hearts, one that is rooted beneath the layers of protection and facades.
The Embodied Heart
Learn to relate to yourself honestly and without an agenda.
Establish internal safety, expanding your capacity to be with and express your authentic feelings.
Remember your wholeness through meeting and loving your vulnerability.
Become intimate with the unknown, break your habits of the past and move into a more expansive present and future.
Clare Elizabeth Dea
Inspirational Comedian, Singer and Creative Mentor
A dynamic influencer, known internationally as a transformational performance artist, writer and creative mentor. Launching her book 'The One Breast Goddess - Transforming Shame into Beauty' moved Clare to tour Australia with her inspirational musical comedy memoir 'The Spiritual Love Guru.' Over the past 20 years, Clare has taught over 1000 creative's acting techniques, dance, voice work, structured improvisation and embodiment practises to authentically connect to themselves, their partners and their audience. Clare looks forward to helping you 'Rock The Stage' to 'Rock Your Love Life.'
'Rock The Stage' to 'Rock Your Love Life.'
In this immersion of performance art and embodiment practises, 'Rock The Stage' to 'Rock Your Love Life' will light a fire within you to connect even more authentically with yourself, your lover and if you are in a creative line of work, your audience. The workshop is based around the teachings of the famous New York acting teacher 'Sanford Meisner.' His structured improvisational exercises are famous for helping you delve into a range of characters within the self and to connect truthfully in the moment from your authentic expression. One of the only Meisner teachers in Australia, Clare also blends her love of comedy, music and dance to make this an entertaining, educational and inspirational experience. This work is extremely popular with performers, writers, speakers and coaches, but also with people who want to expand the creative potential within their relationships and their sex life.
Melanie Gunn
Healing Arts Facilitator
I am a warm, passionate, authentic, grounded woman that sees the creative power and potential in all beings. Educated, immersed and offering Healing Arts rituals and retreats in Australia and overseas for almost 20 years I am qualified to safely support and guide people through transformational healing processes in an empathic and trauma informed way. My innate affinity for the natural world and dedicated spiritual practice with art, music, dance and ceremony are the foundations from which I guide others to their own deep inner reclamation and celebration of the creative healing spirit in all things.
Earth Altar Creation
Together we will create an altar upon the earth. Honouring the circle of life and all that is held within this sacred symbol to unify our visions and prayers for ourselves, our community and the planet. Providing you with experiential understanding of the cosmology that governs the sacred circle we will become one with all of existence as we co-create a portal of creative power and return to the center of love.
Patrick Sterlin
Zenthai Shiatsu Therapist and Teacher
Zenthai Shiatsu combines the healing arts of Shiatsu (Traditional Chinese Medicine), Thai Massage and Osteopathic techniques. On a physical level, it works on releasing tight muscles and fascia, encouraging proper alignment. On an energetic level, it uses pressure points to restore an optimal flow of Qi in the meridians.
Patrick found in Zenthai Shiatsu a language to express his deep Care and Love for humanity. He believes that a harmonious internal environment and a relaxed nervous system are essential foundations for a radiant life and thrives on supporting others in being their greatest gifts to the world. He gently assesses the limitations in our Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual bodies and patiently invites us to connect and fully feel them. His passionate interest and practices in trauma recovery, Non Violent Communication, plant medicine and Taoism teach him to hold a safe and loving space where true healing magic unfolds.
Zenthai Shiatsu: the Water element
Winter offers us the opportunity for deep healing of the Water Element within ourselves. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, our Kidneys are the repository of our Essence or Jing. This store can get depleted by stress, fear, lack of rest or even cold weather. Cultivating this Essence is paramount to our vitality and longevity.
During this 2 hours workshop, we will learn to tune into the manifestations of the Water Element in our physical, emotional and spiritual bodies. We'll discover and embody powerful Self Care practices to nurture our nervous system and build up our store of Essence. We will also explore what lifestyle practices support the Water Element. Finally, we will learn a Zenthai Shiatsu sequence that promotes harmony in our loved ones.
Jordhana Clark
Women's Health & Pleasure Coach
Jordhana is a Somatic Sexologist and Health Behaviour Change Coach, specialising in Women's Health & Pleasure Coaching.
She is passionate about empowering people, particularly Women, in Self-Pleasure as an embodied practice of Self-Love and through that, extending into Self-Care; loving and caring for ourselves as we would our Beloved.
Jordhana’s background in Naturopathy, Yoga and Dance inform her coaching practice and allow for an informed and embodied understanding of our Health & Pleasure journeys. She is deeply inspired by the work of Adrienne Marree Brown’s 'Pleasure Activism', seeing Pleasure as an essential force for change in the world and seeking for ways to “make the revolution irresistible”.
Pleasure Movement
Pablo Chavez
Movement Teacher
Pablo is a movement enthusiast at heart. He loves geeking out on all the details and intricacies related to human movement. He has taught Yoga and Pilates since 2018 as well as being a Personal Trainer and Massage Therapist. Throughout his journey, he has learned from a variety of different disciplines ranging from the more mellow ones like Taichi and Yin Yoga to more dynamic and firey ones like Gymnastics. He thrives on sharing his love for movement and play. Currently, he coaches kids and adults in Flying Trapeze, Trampoline, and Ninja/Parkour at Circus Arts in Byron Bay.
Exploration and Play. A Movement Journey
In this workshop, we will get the chance to explore a variety of different movements from all different kinds of backgrounds. From side lunges and spinal waves to shoulder rolls and cartwheels and beyond. We will find new ways to connect with the ground and its gravitational energy. The idea is to create a diverse foundational base of movement vocabulary that we can then combine in dance-like movement flows. There will be a clear and simple breakdown of each component and potential combination with other ones. There is a strong encouragement to play and discover your own creative ways of moving from one piece to the other. This will not be a competition of who can do the best handstand or middle split. The goal rather is to uncover new patterns and integrate them into your own practice. Self-expression and finding freedom through movement are highly welcomed too.
This will be a 2/3 workshop and a 1/3 dance/movement Jam. Meaning that the last 20 - 30 minutes will be dedicated to freestyling and blending whatever pieces are interesting to you.
There will be a proper warm-up and safety considerations for every skill performed. All levels are welcomed. It is encouraged that participants wear comfortable clothing to dance in. Socks and long pants if possible.
Luna Darling
Sexuality Educator
Luna Darling is a passionate champion of erotic liberation. She is a Certified Somatic Sexologist & Sexuality Coach, Yoni Mapping practitioner, Urban Tantra Practitioner, Spiral Practitioner, ex-nurse and ex-social worker. Luna creates spaces of potent transformation for individuals, couples, & groups through radical permission giving. She supports people to find more pleasure in their bodies, more love in their hearts, and to connect more deeply with themselves and those around them. Luna teaches with a refreshing mix of light-heartedness and reverence to the divine spark within each of us. She believes that when we put our own erotic needs at the forefront, magical things happen.
Two Circles
A series of easy to follow solo, partnered and group activities, support you to open into ever deepening layers of intimacy and connection - with yourself and others, in a way that feels playful, honest, vulnerable and most of all SUPER FUN! Activity pairings will be random. There are no “gender specific” exercises, or gendered language. Think if this as a sensual fusion of conscious relating, dance, embodiment, and consent work.
You may experience: sensual dance, playful request making, deep vulnerability, eyegazing, bellyaching laughter, embodied practices, and Intimate communication, connection with self and other wonderful humans
You will have the opportunity to give and receive touch - though you may choose not to.
You will have full agency to choose your own level of participation, and we expect you will be able to do so.
Whilst you may feel sensual as a result of some of the practices, there will be no sexual activity at this workshop.
Trevor Wills
Body-Mind Healing Facilitator
With a background in Body-Mind Trauma Release and Psychotherapy, Trevor is a deeply sensitive facilitator in BioEnergetic Awareness, Meditation, Presence and Healing / Ecstatic states.
He is deeply committed to the exploration and cultivation of cosmovisions that bring us back to an ecological sense of self. Subjects that inform him foundationally are Animism, Deep Time, Indigeneity, Phenomenology, Somatic History and Techno-capitalism. Trevor operates both one on one and in groups, with the premise that one cannot change the politics of the world, without changing the very same politics strictured into our own body-minds.
Touching the Shapeshifter
Trevor perceives the self as a living breathing fossil record of evolutionary intelligence and traumata.
There are many constrictive assumptions most of us bring to the table of modernist "reality".
This workshop is a living experiential intervention with these assumptions through sensuality, immediacy and surrender.
A reorientation beyond the norms of work, performance, force and expectation.
Into an ecological sense of self (as world), the deep past inside our presence.
We explore subtle yet potent ways we can re-contact the world, eachother and therefore ourselves
Daniela Ella
Somatic Intimacy Coach
Daniela Ella is a somatic sex coach who is immensely passionate about empowering individuals to love, understand and respect their bodies as a gateway to enriching their intimate relationships. Inspired by the myriad of cultures she grew up across, her passion for teaching embodiment and dance started very young. An insatiable learner, she has certifications in somatic sex education, psychology (BA Hons) and NLP, and currently studying Hakomi somatic psychotherapy. She lovingly shares her knowledge by blending her skills with her love for dance, tantra, personal development and transpersonal journeys.
I Want More of This
What blocks you from being truly embodied during intimacy and feeling more? Is performance anxiety creeping in? Are you feeling self conscious? Are you fixated on the goal/ orgasm? Are you preoccupied with the other person's experience? Do you get distracted by thoughts?
In this experiential workshop, we will explore your own unique recipe for profound embodiment, as a gateway to enriching your capacity for pleasure during intimacy with yourself or another. Through the journey we will be befriending the barriers that inadvertently disconnect us from the embodied experience we so desire, opening ourselves up to new possibilities of pleasure and feeling more confident in asserting our boundaries.
Ella Ruby
Musician and Artist
Ella Ruby is a musician, artist and dreamer. She uses melody and colour as a bridge to a world where magic is real. Her art and music is inspired by the movements of the human spirit, and nature through the cycles. Ella has a Bachelor of Music Composition and is currently studying a Master of Music Therapy. She loves to provide warm, welcoming spaces for people to explore their creativity and play. Her workshops invite the inner child artist to enjoy intuitive and spontaneous expressions of the heart.
Rap, Rhyme, Riff Workshop
Together we'll rhyme words from the heart, with spontaneous playfulness. Be gently guided through a series of fun and expressive exercises that inspire rhythm, rhyme and word play. Let’s drop into a space of curiosity and free flow, encouraging and supporting one another to weave words with wonder. We will learn tools that help us to keep rhyming, even when we aren’t quite sure what to say next. All open-hearted individuals are welcome to come along. This workshop is perfect for someone who has never rapped before, but has the desire to explore! Here’s your invitation to take part, and riff from the heart. If you want more, this is the place to start.
Grace Rodaughan
Somatic Coach & Facilitator
Grace is a nurturing & fiercely loving woman who is passionate about eros, intimacy, embodiment & relating. Grace is devoted to awakening the raw, wild and authentic human experience. Grace has journeyed deeply through embodiment & tantric trainings, as well as her own sexual healing, and now brings her gifts into the world throughout her life and teachings. She knows the healing potential of the body so listens to and deeply loves her physical being, and is a transmission of living an embodied life. Grace works 1:1 with clients through somatic therapy, teaching, coaching, tantric massage, and also facilities group journeys and workshops.
Embodying Eros
Eros is the magnetic life force that is connected to creation and moves through all living things. If your life force is blocked, suppressed or stagnant you may feel anxiety, depression, boredom, and disconnect.
When your body is open and flowing, eros can move through you naturally so you will be more magnetic and attract the things in your life you desire such as relationships, pleasure, love, money, creativity etc.
Awakening Eros is an embodied workshop which guides you to opening your body, releasing stuck energy and activating your life force so that you can feel the liberation of life flowing through you.
We will be exploring different ways to arouse your body through breath, sound, movement, touch, connecting with your animal and dancing. This is a practice which you can do every morning to start your day in your body, in your juice and feeling radiant.
Caitlin Wood
Dancing Freedom & Open Floor Facilitator
Dancing Freedom - Embodied Alchemy
In this Dancing Freedom journey you will be invited to explore the unique, dynamic, and interdependent qualities of each of the 5 elements as we allow the alchemy of our individual and collective dance to move and shape us.
Dancing Freedom is a movement meditation that engages and activates the innate intelligence of our bodies to access non-ordinary states for healing, self expression and a return to wholeness.
We will gather together in ceremony to co-create a safe and supportive container to go within to retrieve and restore our inner connectivity so that we may become more fully expressed and functional agents of change in the world.
Embodied Creativity Facilitator
Daniel Pinkerton is an embodied creativity and business coach who loves helping people harness their unique creative genius to realise their dreams. Working in the fields of embodied musicianship, creative writing, and authentic marketing, Daniel’s work draws on 10+ years as a creative professional and his interests in embodied emergent coherence.
He currently offers creative strategy and business coaching, and runs workshops on embodied vocal play and creative writing.
Chelsea Storm
Voice Initiation Coach
Chelsea is Somatic Psychotherapist, Songwriter and Embodied Vocal Initiation Coach with a passion for helping others to discover their expressive voice. Over the last 6 years she has run countless courses, workshops and day immersions in the field of embodied voice initiation, vocal play and ecstatic group singing. She draws on her background in Somatic Psychotherapy and as a singer-songwriter to help clients move through blocks and discover their unique voice.
Emergent Voices: Intro to Group Vocal Play
Simba Mambotopia
Embodiment and Holistic Health Practitioner
Simba is an embodied thought leader. He moves through life as a professional dancer, performer and holistic health and mindfulness practitioner. He considers himself to be a perpetual student that is deeply connected to sharing the arts of transformation and becoming more vital. Simba hosts embodiment workshops, transformational retreats and novel experiences for wild expression. He views life as artistry and loves merging the worlds of the sacred and the profane together.
Moving Architecture
We will engage in a mixed movement practice which warms and deepens our connection with the body.
Bringing a greater awareness to areas of our practice that are missing and needed for maximum vitality and expression.
