The hearth has always been a symbol of warmth, nourishment, and connection—a place where stories are told, medicine is made, and traditions are passed down.
Join Helen from Earthstar Magic and Yonke from Temples Of The Forest for this 3-day workshop as we camp together on the land and explore nature-based activities such as dyeing, weaving, eco printing, storytelling & song. Ignite your inner wilderness, connect with the landscape and your own creative expression as we tend our inner and outer worlds.
Learn about selecting and foraging plants to weave from your local environment. From harvesting to drying and preparing them for projects. Experiment with raffia, natural dyes and mordants to create beautiful materials for weaving in a rainbow of natural hues which can be used throughout the weekend.
You will be guided through making cordage and three different styles of weaving, using a selection of foraged and naturally dyed materials. Make a woven pair of earrings or pendant, a small coiled vessel, and a twined basket during our time together.
Includes forest outing and nature connection at Mount Beckworth on Saturday, plus eco printing process. Create a naturally dyed piece of art to take home with you which holds the imprint of the land and our time together.
Activities include:
𖦹 Foraging, stripping & preparing fiber for weaving
𖦹 Naturally dyeing raffia on the campfire
𖦹 Learn three weaving techniques for baskets and adornment using natural fibers
𖦹 Mount Beckworth forest outing, exploring nature connection practices
𖦹 Eco printing process
𖦹 Communal evening meals including wood fired pizza on Friday
𖦹 Evenings around the fire weaving threads of connection, story and song
𖦹 Camping together under the stars
Everything we do together over this weekend will be woven with intention, story and song. The threads of connection, our ancestors, and the land as we tend the hearth. Weaving ourselves whole. Every stitch a prayer.
What to bring:
𖦹 Tent and all camping gear
𖦹 Breakfast, lunch & snacks for Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday we will take our lunch out into the forest.
𖦹 An additional item to eco print, if you wish We will provide everyone with a large woolen rectangle to use, but you may like to bring along a piece of clothing or something else to add to the dye pot! This must be made of natural fibers such as wool, silk or cotton and of a light colour.
𖦹 Appropriate all-weather clothing
We will provide delicious and nourishing vegetarian food for both Friday & Saturday evening. Please let us know any dietary requirements when booking.
Let your hands and heart remember...
Facilitators:
Yonke from Temples of the Forest
Yonke is a farmer, permaculturalist, and passionate nature connection facilitator and vision quest guide based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Central Victoria. As a single mother of three, she stewards a 20-acre permaculture property where she weaves together regenerative land practices, storytelling, and community ritual. Her work invites others into deeper relationship with the land and their own wild selves.
Yonke’s facilitation style is grounded, playful, and deeply intuitive. She completed Nature’s Apprentice Nature-Based Leadership Training in 2021 and brings a wealth of lived experience in bushcraft, fibre arts, and earth-based ceremony. She is especially passionate about guiding others to reconnect with ancestral skills and the rhythms of the natural world, inviting people to slow down, listen, and remember their place in the great web of life.
Helen from Earthstar Magic
Helen is a Shamanic Midwife, Ritualist, Women’s Circle Facilitator & Medicine Drum Weaver. A cyclical being walking gently on this earth, in right relationship with her human and more-than-human kin.
Helen hosts a range of sacred crafting workshops incorporating earth-based crafting, using natural or found materials and the concept that we weave together A Spell In Time each and every time we create. Her work is centered around creativity, connection and ritual. Honouring her own ancestry and weaving in herbal & animal medicine as she walks her living prayer. Dedicated to reawakening the Old Ways, connecting community & cultivating joy in all seasons. Graduate of the School of Shamanic Womancraft Four Seasons Journey, Teacher in The Temple of Inanna & Animal Dreaming Apprentice with Scott Alexander King.
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