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training with a difference

Yollana offers a powerful range of workshops and events to help you discover the difference between surviving and thriving - in finance, creativity, the environment, culture and motherhood. Many of these workshops are offered in either an evening course or a weekend retreat format and can be tailored for individual groups.

Currently, Freedom Evenings are offered as an ongoing open session. All welcome.

Please scroll down for a list of current and future workshops...

current events:

Freedom Evenings

Freedom Evenings are designed to create a safe and welcoming space
where we can take time out of our busy lives to reconnect
with our own deeper self, with our own centre.

At these evenings, I will be sharing simple meditations,
insights and teachings which are designed to bring you
to a greater awareness of your own freedom.

Location: Zen Central, 71 Russell St, West End
(underneath The Shire Tea House,
near the corner of Browning St)

other events:

True Wealth

A workshop for people who feel held back in their ability to create true wealth in their life – if either the finances or the happiness hasn’t come together for you yet, then this workshop might be for you.

The search for happiness and the search for wealth really go hand in hand, wouldn’t you agree? Yet somehow, one or the other seems to elude us. The secret is this: in order to attract True Wealth into your life, your intentions need to be clear at the deepest level.

Often we say we want something, but deeper down there is a feeling that we don’t deserve it, or that we can’t have it, or that if we did, there would be negative consequences in other areas of our life.

Do you know what I mean by that? It’s like when you are looking for a relationship, a perfect job, a new home or investment, and no matter how much you say you want it, you just can’t seem to get it happening?

Often, it is the hidden beliefs that are operating in our lives that our holding us back from realising our potential. Sometimes, we don’t even know we have them, but they work away at a subconscious level, calling the shots.

True Wealth is a workshop for people who are ready to really understand the workings of the universe, so that you can work with them, not against them.

discover the difference with True Wealth. Contact Yollana to find out more about this workshop.

I really did enjoy the workshop. It made me feel good and believe in myself.”
Katey, workshop participant, Byron Bay.

Dancing Freedom: discover your creative potential

“If you can walk you can dance.” African proverb.

A workshop for anyone who wants to discover their own creative potential through movement. This workshop is especially good for people who ‘can’t dance’ and for people who don’t feel completely comfortable about their body.

Creativity, whether it’s movement, art, music or business, is an essential part of human nature… Just think about that for a moment: You already have a natural creativity inside you. Everyone does!

Maybe you just don’t express it because you think you’re ‘not talented enough’, or you ‘don’t have the skills’, or you’re '’not that kind of person’ or… (insert your limiting belief here...). Isn’t it time to stop playing small and start realising - and enjoying - your creative potential?

At Dancing Freedom, you will be supported to discover how to open into the presence of grace and freedom within you and to move from that place. You will learn simple and powerful ways to let go of limiting beliefs, and spontaneously express your own creative potential.

As you discover your innate ability to move freely, easily and joyfully in a supportive environment, you will feel more at home in your body, more comfortable in your skin and more free to let your creativity be expressed in all areas of your life.

Discover the difference: give yourself the gift of Dancing Freedom today! click here

“This is an amazing combination of physical, emotional and spiritual awakening.”
Kerry, workshop participant, Noosa.

“The workshop was really amazing. It was beautiful, intimate, connecting, challenging, a sharing time, full of gifts and Grace, was very real and very freeing!! Dancing Freedom took me to places in my creativity and expression I'd never been...thankyou!” Jenny, workshop participant, Sydney.

Contact Yollana to find out more about this workshop.

Touch the Earth: grounded, connected and free!

This is a workshop for people who want to foster a deeper relationship with the natural world, for their own health and wellbeing, and for that of the planet.

More information about this workshop coming soon…

Contact Yollana to find out more about this workshop.

Remembering our Ancestors: The real work of reconciliation

A workshop for white and other non-Indigenous Australians who are ready to investigate their history, drop their baggage and start relating from a place of wholeness and freedom.

Many nonIndigenous Australians, including myself, have felt a deep longing to connect with Indigenous people, to learn from them and to heal the rifts that have divided our cultures. Unfortunately, best intentions can be poorly directed and we can, sometimes unconsciously, fall into patronising and guilty behaviour that doesn’t serve ourselves or our relationships.

Before we can make authentic connections and build productive partnerships, it is essential for us to take our attention away from the ‘other’ and turn it inwards. Many times our efforts to relate are fraught with our own projections fostered by a legacy of denial and misunderstandings, passed on to us through our environment and our ancestors. It is therefore essential that we learn to ask ourselves important, sometimes painful, questions about our own history, and clear out our own baggage so that we can finally meet on equal ground.

Remembering Our Ancestors is an invaluable chance for nonIndigenous Australians to put the whole thing in perspective. At this workshop, you will have the opportunity to:
• understand the wider context
• get perspective on the real issues at hand
• clear out old consciousness and beliefs that no longer serve
• heal the hidden wounds of ‘nonIndigenality’ and reconnect with your own heritage
• learn the basics of respectful relationships in cross-cultural contexts.

Then we can say “do you want to walk together?”

Read Yollana’s paper on healing the wounds of colonisation.

Contact Yollana to find out more about this workshop.

The Mother’s Journey: healing through pregnancy, labour and birth.

An honouring and nurturing workshop for women who are pregnant, or in the process of becoming pregnant and for women who want to heal pregnancy-related or fertility issues.

For many women, the journey of conception, pregnancy and birth is a truly precious time. Yet, it is also a challenging time. As physical and hormonal changes take place, identity changes and old emotional issues resurface, it is essential to do the “inner work” of being a woman, so that what we can create a life that is truly joyful.

In this powerful workshop, we explore universal and specific issues and learn how to deal with:
• emotional issues
• hormonal fluctuations and changes in the body
• changes in intimate and family relationships
• uncertainty about our changing identity
• fear of pain and trauma during the actual birthing process
• understanding loss through abortion and miscarriage
• healing fertility

A Mother’s Journey is a deeply healing and nurturing weekend for women who understand that the real work of mothering is based in the heart.

Contact Yollana to find out more about this workshop.

 
 
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