Are you in need of some connecting and rejuvenating woman time? Would you like to be nurtured, encouraged and supported within a circle of women to SHINE you LIGHT?
Join us for a morning of connection and nourishment to support you to SHINE you LIGHT, help you release tension and stress, and rejuvenate your heart and spirit before the December school holidays and the summer holiday season gets into full swing.
Our SHINE YOUR LIGHT Women's Uplift & Nourishment Circle includes;
*Women's talking and listening circle. To connect you in. To help you feel seen and heard and felt. And to hear the heart felt shares of the other women who come and share in the space.
*Guided dance. To release stress and tension, reset your body and SHINE to your LIGHT by rediscovering and reclaiming playful, joyful movement and dance that makes you feel good and FEEL more of yourself again.
*Laughter. A guided 'laughter giggle shop' (aka laughter yoga) to get you connected to your body based playful laughter. Learning how laughter can help you get connected, reset your nervous system and your mood, release stress and give you an endorphin and immune system boost and SHINE your LIGHT.
*Relaxation to give space to rest and absorb the nourishment of our morning together in a space of gentle nurturing restfulness and restoration.
As women, we need time to slow down, feel into ourselves, express ourselves and be nourished and replenished for mental, emotional and physical wellbeing.
If we don't take this time we can easily become depleted and empty. Which serves no one. By taking regular self nourishment time this aids not only our own wellbeing but also means we have more capacity to better serve our families, our partners, our communities, our work, our passions, our causes, our world.
The focus of this end of year session is giving space for healthy, wholesome expression, authenticity, feeling into self and using embodied tools that can aid us in healing and nourishing ourselves (and then thus also others).
This session includes sacred women's talking and listening circle, dance, laughter yoga and relaxation.
It will be a time to be nourished. To express yourself. To release. To be connected, restored and to reset.
Come by yourself, with friends, female family members or with your female biz team, colleagues or co-workers for an end of year uplift, connect, release and refresh!
Open to women of all ages and stages of life, 18 years and over.
When
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Monday 1st December.2025.
10.30am-1.15pm.
*Doors open 10.15am.
Where
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Machans Beach Community Hall.
82 Tucker Street, Machans Beach.
Cairns, QLD, Australia.
Bring
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Cushion or Bolster, bottle of water, towel and mat to sit/lay on. Any other props to make yourself comfortable during relaxation.
Dress
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Please wear light loose clothing you can comfortably dance, sit and lay on the floor in. Layers recommended.
Investment
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This SPECIAL EVENT is attendance by sliding scale donation.
Sliding scale cash donation of $25 to $80 (recommended donation is $50 per woman).
**I DON'T HAVE MONEY/ Or FULL CASH Donation, CAN I DONATE SOMETHING ELSE? **
YES! Absolutely!
Home grown garden produce, fresh eggs, baked goods, indoor and outdoor plants, flower plants or fruit trees in pots, body or energy work, hair cuts, home cleaning or garden work, clean the venue floor before and after the event.
A donation table and donation box will be set up at the event.
Please be mindful that I am full time, sole care, single mum, with no family around, so there are lots of things I could use help with and also still need. Please act with personal integrity and respectfully feel into what feels a fair exchange/ investment into this event for you.
Remembering you will receive back, also what you invest and sow into this sacred space event.
Contact
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For any inquiries please contact Kathy 0457 154 457 or email Kathy via
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Testimonials
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"Attending a ceremony with Kathy Is like being at one with nature. She doesn’t call herself a healer but she is !
The sacredness of her magic is something to be experienced and unforgettable .The fact that she has lived deeply in reverence and harmony within nature for so many years is evident with how she intertwines the elements within ceremony. She is humble, and a true goddess of this earth. I highly recommend experiencing her offerings to connect with self and Mother Earth . You may even be transported to a place you can only dream of." Niomi Reardon
"Thank you soooooo much for today, I felt so safe and was so inspired and can’t wait to start to reach out and reconnect with other goddesses . Today was spectacular! You held the most nurturing and creative space and I definitely felt like I was coming home- in style! What a beautiful bunch of women I got to meet today". Diana Rain
"I have been to many of Kathy’s Women’s Circles and recently joined her Ancestral Women Circle and Dance Journey. As usual, it hit a beautiful target in me. I was feeling quite separate and unsociable when I arrived after a hard week, but listening to the other women share in circle drew so much compassion from me. Like always, I felt that as different as our details might be, we are all sharing the same one path. The same aches, pains and breakthroughs of waking up to who we are and healing our wounds and those of our ancestors. The barriers of judgment and criticism, my own ancestral wounds, melted and gave way to a feeling of unconditional love and softness. During the dance journey, Kathy guided us confidently from a space of nurturing our own individual ancestral hurts to an elaborate and beautiful artwork filled with the all the colours, qualities and strengths of our lineage. Then she drew us magically into a shared space where even the shyest and private among us were joined together in a feeling of courage, joyous sisterhood and mutual support. So freeing and fortifying at the same time. Thank you Kathy. I will continue to show up wherever you are holding Women’s Circles." Caitlin White
Read more testimonials and see photos of circles with Kathy here.
https://www.kathypopplewell.com/gratitude
About Kathy Popplewell
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Kathy Popplewell is an experienced mind-body & fitness professional with over 15 years experience in the mind-body and fitness industries and in facilitating sacred women's spaces, circles and dance journeys. She is a qualified and experienced Fitness Instructor, Yoga Teacher, Laughter Yoga Teacher. She has also lived on country in the furthest remote reaches of the Daintree Rainforest.
Throughout her career as well as teaching her popular yoga classes at multiple Fitness First health and fitness clubs in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs and CBD and Elixr mindbody health centre in Bondi Junction, she has regularly presented to fellow industry professionals at Filex, Australia's cutting edge International Fitness Convention, been a popular presenter at Being Woman Festival, Evolve Yoga and Wellbeing Festival and Peats Ridge Festival; toured the east coast of Australia with her Vibrance Laughter Tours and run her 2 day Certified Laughter Yoga Leadership Trainings in Melbourne, Sydney, Central Coast, Port Macquarie, the Gold Coast and Brisbane.
In 2010 & 2011 Kathy ran her Celebrating Womanhood Conference in the Gold Coast, Australia and in 2011 she also ran her Laughter, Health & Loving Life Conference.
Kathy has also been hired as a professional speaker by corporations including ADSSI, The Benevolent Society, Carers NSW, Crunch Female Fitness, Families NSW, Homecare, Housing NSW, Mission Australia and New Horizons to present on Laughter, Relaxation and Workplace Wellbeing for staff members.
Her articles on health and fitness have also been published in Fitness First Magazine and in the Australian Fitness Network's industry publication, Network Magazine.
Originally from the Central Coast NSW, Kathy made her way up to far north in 2012 on her 'loving life' tour around Australia however she never made it past the Daintree Rainforest where she fell in love with the land and rainforest. Going against all her logical instincts and following her soul guidance she came to live on a remote and isolated off grid property on the never never furthest reaches of the Daintree Rainforest which is only accessible by 4wd where she has had an extended vision n soul quest which has lasted a decade (in between visits back to her original hometown on the Central Coast of NSW visiting friends and rounds of caring for her parents), living back remote and off grid on country on the edge of the Daintree Rainforest.
Kathy relocated to Cairns in 2023 with her young daughter and is now based here.
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