Body and Ballance’s founder Jill Healy-Quintard’s focus for these interviews is to connect with empowered woman
and share their knowledge, experience and power with people who are in quest of developing or discovering their inner power.
These are monthly FREE Events and posted on Facebook via Eventbrite.
If you are an Inspirational Woman, helping others, who would like to be part of this series, please let me know.
Hollie is the creator of Self-Crafted life and hosts several events and retreats as well as the Wise Women’s Gathering that I have been privileged to be invited to as an educator for 2 years running. This event is enormously fulfilling and gathers women, of all ages abilities, tribes and lifestyles together, who wish to share space and knowledge for a better world.
Hollie states: “Self-Crafted Life brings people together who are dedicated to natural wisdom, holistic living and the innate knowledge that’s found in exploring our own inner worlds, to preserve traditional knowledge and expand Self awareness so that we can live ethically and sustainably while honouring that which has come before, and celebrate the wisdom keepers who share their knowledge for a better world.”
“I acknowledge that I live and work on the unceded Country of the Dhurga speaking people of the Walbunja Yuin Nation, and pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. I recognise and celebrate the ongoing connection between land, sky, water and community and the beauty and strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, with deep respect for the ongoing traditions of health knowledge and treatment which have been practiced for generations. Ohoi nateya”
Ecotherapy
Work with Hollie 1:1 in nature, with animals and the forest. Take time out in the beautiful Budawangs and grow your Self Crafted life. Through the Nature lens, we will work within a Psychodynamic Psychotherapeutic framework, incorporating Process Oriented, Relational and Somatic models of therapy.
https://www.instituteforselfcrafting.com/ecotherapy
Lunation Annual Planner
Your guide to an unlimited, Self Crafted Year. The Lunation Annual Planner is the diary for visionary people who desire to create a life that sets you free. A Planner made for real women who care about all the things. It’s for you if you’re tired of empty, useless pages in other journals. If your life is full of loose to-do lists, reminders ad goal sheets – this is the solution!
https://www.instituteforselfcrafting.com/planner
Seasonal Retreats
Acknowledge and celebrate the seasons, on Country, in a safely held, trauma-informed space. Exploring the Seasons, Celebrating the changing Rhythms of the year, Learning Traditional Crafts, Creating Ceremony, Sharing Wisdom. We also explore Land-based living, making with regenerative resources, and health practices in relationship with the natural world. We uncover the herstory of Women’s Mysteries in relationship to Land, Water and Sky, and learn creative practices to reignite those traditions in modern life. Retreats are designed to be replenishing and nourishing.
https://www.instituteforselfcrafting.com/seasonal
Horsewomyn Day
Join our herd for a day, and learn the principles of Relationship. Come into close contact with an equine friend, learn how to change your personal state to affect relationship, develop a respectful bond between you and your horse, sense what it’s like to be trusted by a gentle giant, connect with a group of supportive, nurturing women who accept you just as you are – a women’s circle with so much more.
https://www.instituteforselfcrafting.com/horsewomyn
Moon Circles
For making your Big Wild Dreams a reality. Monthly face-to-face Circles held at the New and Full Moon on private property in Canberra AND near Braidwood. In celebration of You, the Rhythm of Life and the Feminine Divine.
https://www.instituteforselfcrafting.com/circles
Warrior Women’s Movement Retreat
Learn to move well, with the body you have right now. Connect with supportive women who accept you exactly as you are – women’s circle with so much more. Play with the principles of warriorship, and embody the Strong is Beautiful philosophy.
https://www.instituteforselfcrafting.com/warrior
Wise Women Gathering
An educational conference for sharing herbal wisdom, exploring the Women’s Mysteries and cultivating community connections. For women of all ages who honour Mother Earth and Wise Women Traditions.
https://www.wisewomengathering.com/
Motion Ninja Academy
Modern Martial Arts Classes for families who value movement. Hollie is a double black belt, natural-movement coach and registered counsellor with a focus on Compassionate Training to develop Functional, Optimal, Resilient, Courageous, Epic Humans (C-FORCE).
Mignon Mukti
Founder at Still Tides Healing,
Singer of Divine Songs Global,
Art Director, Freelance Performer and Festival Producer
Mignon is an inspirational Sound Healer, Transformational Musician and Sacred Activist. Founder at Still Tides Healing, Singer of Divine Songs Global, Art Director, Freelance Performer and Festival Producer. Her music, sound work and community workshops embody homecoming, unity, wisdom and kindness in an unkind and divided world. Mukti’s meditations take us deep into our own elements of water, earth, fire, air. Her music and sound healing can create a flowing backdrop to yoga or movement practices or stand alone journeys with sound, meditation and mantra. Divine Songs is a growing interfaith community bringing unity through music and dance from many faiths and cultures. Magic is created with Crystal Alchemy Bowls,Aqua Gong,Lumnezia Monochord, ethereal voice, Rav Vast tongue pan and mantra. Mignon offers retreats, workshops, group healings as well as private Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and One on One Sessions. She also runs festivals for women and refugees, plus has run retreats and workshops for 30 years. I met Mignon at the Wise Women’s Gathering in 2022 and again at the recent WWG in May this year. I have also been fortunate to have had a Craniosacral Therapy Session with Mignon that was pure bliss.
“As I personally approached my next stage of life, I wanted to look into natural alternatives for the relief of Menopause symptoms.
I didn’t know too much about Menopause, so my mission started, to research, create and bring to life certified organic natural teas for women world wide.
So please let me introduce our Menopause Tea – Hot Flush Tea and Meno Belly Weight Loss Tea.”
Since 2016, we have been the leading Menopause Tea company offering the best natural alternative to help relieve Menopause symptoms. Our primary mission is to research, create, and bring to life a certified organic caffeine free natural tea for women in Australia and all over the world. To help you understand Menopause better, we have explored its symptoms, causes, and ways in which you can manage it.
What is Menopause?
Menopause marks the beginning of a new phase in a woman’s life. During this period, one stops having their periods, and are therefore unable to get pregnant. The onset of Menopause varies from one person to another. Some women start experiencing symptoms in their 40’s while others can go as late as 60. Perimenopause refers to the period leading up to Menopause. It is characterized by irregular periods and low levels of Estrogen and Progesterone hormones. Sometimes it can be difficult for you to tell whether you are at the Perimenopause stage or not, therefore it’s important to visit your Gynecologist for diagnosis.
Menopause versus Perimenopause:
When one is at the Perimenopause stage, their periods begin to assume irregular patterns. They might come earlier or later than usual, or go missing for one or two months. Menstrual flow can also be lighter or heavier. Menopause is marked by a full year without menstruating, and the years following after the onset of Menopause are called Postmenopause.
Karen has been a long time Body and Balance participant and is a Counsellor with Family Services. She recently completed her certification as Trainer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, NLP Coaching and Time Line Therapy.
I welcome Karen to discuss NLP and how it can help us resolve life challenges and ongoing issues.
“I am a passionate social worker with over 20 years experience, working with families to achieve great outcomes for children and young people.
I have worked for non government organizations, for the NSW government and in private practice, and my personal mission is to demonstrate courage and commitment in supporting families”
Suzanne Foy has been working with various healing modalities for the last 25 years, she has raised her family using energetic medicine, herbal medicine and other natural therapies when needed.
Suzanne is a trained early childhood teacher and has also created a successful florist business in the Hunter Valley which has now been sold.
Suzanne is also my long time friend and I am very excited and privileged to introduce this wonderfully empowered woman to you to help and guide you through her readings.
“…I have a deep passion for flowers, their healing qualities and their beauty.
Recently I have returned to my healing and psychic readings where I am intuitively reading with both Tarot and Australian Bush Flower Cards, during my readings we create a story of what issues are arising for each client This is an empowering and uplifting experience, sacred safe and loving with true and accurate insight unfolding throughout each reading. I make a flower remedy from the cards selected by the client for them to take home…”
The essence is then taken for 2 weeks after the reading. This helps to integrate the whole experience with the tarot cards and the flower cards. The Flower Essences bring about a gentle supportive healing; they balance the outer bodies to bring you back to wholeness. When a flower blooms it reaches its highest potential, in turn when you take the flower essence you have the potential to reach your best version of yourself.
Tiana is an Argentinian Physiotherapist we met at an outback roadhouse in Croydan Queensland on our #VanLife tour of Australia.
We began talking to her partner who was the barman, chef, cleaner, repair man of the roadhouse and we ordered some food. The food arrived and was presented beautifully by Tiana, who was chef assistant, waitress, cleaner and also in charge of the daily change over of rooms including bed linen, towels etc plus as we found out a physiotherapist and her partner a personal trainer. I interviewed Tiana the following morning as she was doing her day part of the job cleaning the rooms and she told they had only been there for a few weeks and were working for 88 days, as is the Australian requirement, at this type of job in order to get an Australian working visa and
Mel Wood is a Reiki Practitioner and the founder of Time to Exhale. In this interview Mel talks about who she works with and why people come to her for a Reiki session. Tells us about Reiki and how a session runs and how her business strategy has changed since Covid and becoming a new Mum.
Paulien Gort, is an experienced Sound Healer, as well as a shamanic healer, she facilitates powerful shifts on a physical, emotional and spiritual level using the sounds of the different instruments that help your body to heal and rejuvenate itself
“It brings you into a deep state of relaxation while the sounds of the different instruments help your body to heal and rejuvenate itself. You are taken on a wonderful journey while being immersed by high vibrational sounds of the powerful Sedna & Neptune Gongs, Tibetan and Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls, Shaman Drum, Chimes, Monochord and Channelled Chants that support and help you to fully let go”
Latitia is travelling VanLifestyle around Australia like 1000’s of other Australians right now.
She and her partner Jessy have been travelling and working remotely for 2 years. Wherever there is internet access Latitia can work from anywhere. Listen to her wonderful story of living and working a life of freedom.
My motto is, “Progress not Perfection”.
I don’t expect you to do every step perfectly. You take on a few principles at a time, and this helps you move towards the fulfilment of your goals.
I LOVE what I do! And for long as I can remember I have had a passion for holistic natural health. My parents had a lot to do with this passion; growing up my dad followed a daily meditation practice, and my mum tried each and every natural health fad.
Also high up on my passion list was socialising with friends. Unfortunately with this came drinking, and my early 20’s were spent partying the nights away in London, UK. During this time, despite my obvious vices, I was still exploring health and spirituality. I was a fitness instructor, vegetarian, I took supplements. After meeting the Dalai Lama at 25 I studied and practiced yoga.
I worked in communications for a number of fast-paced companies before deciding to turn my lifelong passion for health into a career. I spent 11 years working for Australia’s leading natural healthcare company, and finally I was living and breathing my passion. I really should have been at my healthiest. Yet what I found was that I was great at giving health advice to others, just not at nurturing myself!
I worked hard and ran around a million miles an hour. I was highly stressed and fatigued – my body was screaming at me to STOP!
With two children under five, I was working full-time, managing the house hold, studying, running community groups, and socialising way too much. As far as over-committing myself goes, I was having my cake, eating it, and then baking another and eating that one too! Can we really have it all? I honestly thought I was Superwoman and that my body was that too.
But I was wrong… It was only a matter of time before my exhausted adrenals packed up, my stomach went haywire, and my poor busted immune system shut down. From then on my life was filled with endless days of fatigue and pain. I tried everything. I gave up gluten and sugar. I explored countless healing therapies. I took treatments for my adrenals, thyroid, to detox metals and mould, you name it, I did it!
I saw doctor, after doctor, after doctor. Having tests, after tests, after tests. After four years of searching, I was finally diagnosed with a tick borne illness. I was exhausted and frustrated with the whole experience! My intuition that it was Lyme’s Disease (despite the doctors saying it didn’t exist in Australia!) had been right all along.
