EMBODIED ALCHEMY Retreat: A 7-day immersion in movement, ceremony & elemental wisdom

Take a deep dive into your embodied evolution.

Dancing Freedom is a practice of liberation through the body—awakening whole-body expression, loving boundaries, emotional coherence, and spiritual remembrance. It’s a path of reconnection: with self, community, Earth, and the sacred.

Each day invites you deeper into presence. Through dance, breath, ritual, and rest, you’ll cultivate aliveness, resilience, intimacy, and true belonging.

Held in nature, woven with ceremony, rooted in the elements.

Know yourself as a force of nature.

Earth . Water . Fire . Air . Ether

This fully catered, 7 day residential immersion is located 2 hours inland from the Gold Coast in the Northern Rivers region of Australia, less than 2 hours from Byron Bay.

8-15 September 2025

(NB. last session ends 9pm Sept 14, but one more night of accomodation, and breakfast the next morning is included)

This is an opportunity for you to become your own “elemental alchemist; “ to dive deeper into the power of dance and how it can be your greatest tool for transformation, personal and global healing, and your full-bodied expression in the world.

Inclusive of shared accommodation (single and double rooms available at an extra cost), 3 fully catered organic and locally sourced meals per day and all materials and supplies.

This immersion is for you if:

✧ You are ready to DIVE IN to your own BODY WISDOM.

✧ You are ready to KNOW YOURSELF as a FORCE OF NATURE

✧ You are ready to CLAIM your TRUTH, MEDICINE AND POWER

✧ You are ready to BE your own AUTHORITY

✧ You are ready to STOP PLAYING SMALL

✧ You are ready to LET yourself SEE AND BE SEEN

✧ You are WILLING to FEEL YOUR FEELINGS

✧ You are ready to work ALONGSIDE other VULNERABLE, POWERFUL AND PASSIONATE PEOPLE

JOIN US AS WE COME TOGETHER AND JOURNEY THROUGH THE ALCHEMICAL CRUCIBLE OF ELEMENTAL TRANSFORMATION.

This fully catered, 7 day residential immersion is located 2 hours inland from the Gold Coast in the Northern Rivers region of Australia, less than 2 hours from Byron Bay.

8-15 September 2025

(NB. last session ends 9pm Sept 14, but one more night of accomodation, and breakfast the next morning is included)

Super early bird $2500 until May 18
Early bird $2800 until August 18
Full price $3200 unless sold out prior

We will:
*Work with the 5 elements to increase your awareness and connection to your inner landscape, your relationships and the world around you

*Learn powerful somatic practices to connect to your inner power and reset your nervous system

*Get real by diving into what is authentic and present for you in the moment and working directly with it, through the body.

*Create time and space to re-connect with and remember the inherent wisdom that resides in your body, prioritising what REALLY energises you.

*Experience authentic connection with yourself and others who are ready to create change through conscious movement.

*The opportunity to face your personal blockages and break through them in a safe, supportive, and encouraging environment

*Be seen and heard in the full expression of your Truth

Are you ready to step through the alchemical gate and embrace the fullness of YOU?

GENEROUS PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE

To submit your application go to this link: https://www.dancingfreedom.com/facilitator-training…/

(Please note, this retreat is the first module of our facilitator training. You will be dancing alongside some of our teachers-in-training)

YOUR FACILITATORS:

PHOENIX ONESONG MAROLDA

Phoenix firmly believes that each and every one of us has a unique role to play in our evolving culture and in the shifting of the current paradigm. She has committed her life to co-creating spaces and opportunities for people to unite to put their pieces of the puzzle together. She combines her passion for teaching, speaking her truth, organising intentional events and communing with nature, to play her part in weaving our collective visions into the web that we are each a part of.

Her purpose is to inspire and empower others to share their gifts. She reminds others to stop playing small, encouraging them to remember that we are all here to work together towards the “more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.” She is a student of life and a teacher who shares her vision for global synergy and collaboration.

Phoenix has a Masters degree in Education and Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley University. Before taking the helm of Dancing she was a school teacher for 15 years, working with children from the age of 3 to high school age. She founded Root to Rise: Rites of Passage journeys for young women to help them transition to adulthood in a conscious, supported, and embodied way. She is also the founder of Synergy: Intentional Dance Experience which brings all night drug and alcohol free events to those who wish to “get high naturally.” She has taught classes and workshops to thousands of people around the world, spanning the USA, Japan Australia, Central America and Bali.

CAITLIN WOOD

Caitlin Wood is an artist, creative therapist, conscious movement teacher (Dancing Freedom & Open Floor), DJ & ceremony leader with a profound love for life. She offers spaces of integrity, deep connection and welcome – an invitation into greater wholeness and understanding – an invitation to celebrate all that we are and create a more beautiful, life-honouring world – together.

Caitlin has been offering the medicine of dance with the conscious dance practices of Dancing Freedom for 12 years and Open Floor for 6 years, offering movement classes, DJ sets, workshops and one-on-one sessions in Australia, online and around the world.

Caitlin has been the co-director of Dancing Freedom International since 2021.

Caitlin and Phoenix have been co-creating Dancing Freedom Soul Quests on Bundjalung Country since 2018.

To submit your application go to this link: https://www.dancingfreedom.com/facilitator-training…/

(Please note, this retreat is also the first module of our facilitator training. You will be dancing alongside some of our teachers-in-training)

VENUE***:

Arcoora Arts and Ecology Training Ground is located 2 hours inland from the Gold Coast in the Norther Rivers region of Australia. High in the misty mountains of the southern hemisphere’s largest volcanic structure (the Wollumbin volcano), this place has long been identified as a wisdom school and sanctuary for cultural initiations. The spirit work that has taken place here offers a ground for deeply profound connection and learning.

Arcoora is a not for profit community organisation for training, support and action in village-mindedness, bioregional resilience and ecological regeneration. It is a beautiful place where we have the space to listen to nature and show respect for the ancestors of this place – past, present and emerging, and deeply relate with the surrounding wilderness according to ecological principles and values.

***We acknowledge that this event takes place on the unceded lands of the Gulibal people of the Bundjalung nation. We honour their ancestors, past, present and yet to come and give deep thanks for the privilege it is to live, work, dance and pray on these lands.

We look forward to meeting you and opening the gateway to Dancing our Freedom, together, SOON!