Join us for our Annual OPEN DAY at the Wellspring Warburton where we are inviting you to come try out taster sessions of yoga, dance, bodywork, sound healing, therapy, counselling, reiki, numerology and more! We will have warm chai, healthy snacks and a team of Wellspringers, ready to meet, greet and chat with you!
PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY (All sessions are FREE of Charge)
Studio Taster Sessions (45min session)
8am - 8.45am - Breathwork with Mitch Anderson
9am - 9.45am - Qigong with Sara Clarke
10am - 10.45am - Restorative Yoga with Katherine Spargo
11am - 11.45am - Breathwork workshop with Jodie Smart
12pm - 12.45pm - Mother Earth Sound Medicine (Sound bath with plant music) with Catherine Marty
1pm - 1.45pm - Chakradance with Sandra Rosa
2pm - 2.45pm - Creative Reflection (Creative arts therapy taster) with Miranda Rose
3pm - 3.45pm - Yoga for menopause with Anthea
4pm - 4.45pm - Intuitive Flow Yoga with Crystal Tan
One-on-One Sessions (25mins session):
8:05am to 9:30am (3 slots) - Choice of Massage, Acupressure, Dry Needling or Energy Healing with Andre
9:50am to 11am (2 slots) - Pellowah Energy Healing with Shiva
10:05am to 11am (2 slots) - Intro Counselling/Relationship sessions with Craig
10:10am to 1:35 pm (6 slots) - Focusing Therapy with Sara
11:15am to 12:55 (3 slots) - Chi Massage with Eszter
11:10am to 12:50pm (3 slots) - Numerology with William
1:25 pm to 3pm (3 slots) - Choice of Reiki or Life Alignment with Malini
1:10pm to 4pm (4 slots) - Energetic Healing and Blue Lotus Foot Baths with Simone
3pm - 4pm (2 slots) - Guided Imagery and Music Session with Lucy
Bookings necessary here:
https://www.trybooking.com/CIJOY
As this is a FREE event, please show up when you have booked, and if you can't make it for any reason, please cancel your booking to allow someone else benefit from these sessions.
Practitioner Bios & Offerings
Mitch Anderson, Breathwork, 8am - 8:45am
Mitch has been practicing Breathwork for over 8 years, which alongside meditation and cold exposure have formed the bedrock of his personal self-care and spiritual practices.
As a father of two, Mitch is a huge advocate for breathwork as a tool for self-regulation and expanding our emotional capacity within the household and our community.
Mitch has recently become accredited as a Trauma Informed Breathwork Facilitator through Owaken Breathwork, which has provided him with the skills to hold space for deep inner journeywork through conscious, connected breathing.
When we change the depth and rate of breathing for an extended period of time, we can enter a 'non-ordinary state of consciousness' which has the potential to reveal and release suppressed, stuck or stagnant energy from the subconscious.
We are feeling, expressive beings, and breathwork helps us to tap into these feelings and self-expressions that want to be felt, released and transmuted, for a more harmonised and fulfilling human experience.
Andre Melnychenko - a choice of Massage, Acupressure, Dry Needling or Energy Healing, 8:05am to 9.30am
Andre uses significant clinical experience to unblock Qi (energy) stagnation and to restore natural Qi flow . This is simply helping the body to heal itself . Once a person feels better in their body, they will often naturally take positive action in other areas of their lives, restoring natural flow and movement there also. Andre uses the following modalities to achieve very nurturing and positive treatment outcomes: Massage, Acupressure, Myofascial Dry Needling, Moxibustion, Cupping and of course Medical Qi Gong Energy Healing, Andre is a registered member of the International Institute of Complimentary Therapists . IICT.He is offering a choice of Massage, Acupressure, Dry Needling or Energy Healing.
Shiva Shamim (Pashiay Mahanai) - Pellowah Healing, 9:50am to 11am
Most people know me as Shiva Shamim. In field of energy healing, I prefer to use my Spirit name, Pashiay Mahanai which is my purpose and who I truly am. I learnt Pellowah healing technique in 2020 and since then I started to learn more about our capacity to heal and connecting to spirits. I feel grateful to know Kachina Ma’an who is founder of Pellowah healing. In 2021 I got my certificate in teaching Pellowah energy. Since then, I couldn’t stop learning more courses with Kachina. In 2022 I received my teaching certificate in “Codes for life” and “Codes for change and acceleration advanced”. All courses were channelled to Kachina Ma’an, Spiritual teacher, Founder and Guardian of Pellowah. Codes for life and Codes Advance were amazing courses for my spiritual growth. I am delighted to teach these amazing workshops too. The Codes for life are designed for any age group as long as the person can read and count. So, it is a great a course for children too. My life has been deeply and profoundly changed since 2020. Since then, I am committed to helping individuals to improve their wellbeing and achieve greater happiness. Pellowah energy is not only a healing module but also is a way to expand the consciousness. Let’s begin to heal ourselves and contributing to the healing of the world.
Sara Clarke - Qi Gong at 9am & Focus Therapy Healing
Sara has been practicing Qigong for more than a decade, and facilitating OpenSky Qigong classes and workshops since 2017. Qigong is a simple health promoting and life affirming practice that is always available to us. Inviting us to slow down, settle into our bodies and practice becoming more aware of our energy, our thoughts & emotions through moving meditations, visualisation, breath and intention.
She has recently completed training as a Soul Centered Psychotherapist and work with people to develop a more conscious, manageable and creative relationship with their own internal processes. By continually bringing awareness back to the body we gain much information and together, can gently lean into the lived experience of life.
Moving only as fast as the slowest part of you Qigong and Psychotherapy create space for compassion and great change.
Katherine Spargo - Restorative Yoga, 10am to 10.45am
Restorative Yoga is different from other active yoga styles that focus on movement and stretching. Restorative Yoga is a gentler practice which utilises bolsters, blocks and blankets to create mental stillness and deep relaxation for the body. A welcome practice for our busy lives, Restorative Yoga is about taking restful postures that allow you to put your to do list aside, find quietude in the mind and heal the effects of stress. Suitable for the beginner student or for anyone wanting to learn ways to reduce stress or tension in the body. This taster class will give you an opportunity to slow down, do less and tap into the calm side of the nervous system. Your relaxation response.
Craig Poulton - Intro Counselling/Relationship sessions, 10:05am to 11am
Craig's counselling style has its foundations in traditional counselling practice, but sits within a deeper context of personal and spiritual growth. Life’s trials become an opportunity for clients to grow, become more fully themselves, and live more meaningful and rewarding lives. The work weaves a dialogue between conscious and unconscious, mind and body, helping people to experience and integrate dissociated or shadow aspects of themselves and move toward their full potential as human beings. Relationship counselling is also available, supporting couples with a blend of depth work and practical tools and frames for working through conflict. Craig is offering 25 minute taster sessions, an opportunity to meet him, get a clearer sense of the work he offers and whether it might be a good fit for you.
William Carter - Numerology, 11:10am to 12:50pm
My name is William Carter. I am a number whisperer. Everything is energy and numbers are specific energy. Let’s explore the code you elected to be born into. Unpack and reveal why you chose this set of numbers to work through. The gem stones, stars and worlds are waiting for their discovery through your numbers. I also use a unique Number’s Tarot to answer your life questions. An inspirational, visual elegance, to help guide your next steps along the way. It will whisper its cards into conscious awareness, that you are the Eternal Soul, not the limited little self. Expanding, enriching and growing the Soul through experiences of this world.
Eszter Fecso - Chi Massage, 11:15am to 12:55pm
Eszter is an overseas trained Medical Doctor, practicing as a Natural Therapist. Following her inspiration to facilitate healing with natural therapies has led her to study Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture. The consultation involves exploring the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspect of the whole person. Advice is given on nutrition, lifestyle and prevention. Chi Massage is a deep tissue therapy, removing blockages from the flow of Chi. Releasing muscle tension can enable us to release emotional issues – in a form of tears of laughter. This method cleanses, revitalises and detoxifies the organ systems of the body. Relaxation Massage uses a flowing form of body sweep to reduce the built up of stress related symptoms of muscle tension, aches and pains.
Catherine Marty - Mother Earth Sound Medicine (Sound bath with plant music), 12pm - 12.45pm
Catherine Marty, founder of Dare to Change Therapies, is a Counsellor, Trauma Therapist, Ecotherapist, Sound Healer, and a Parks Vic licenced tour operator; with a professional background in mental health, family violence, and training and facilitation. She is passionate about sharing her love of nature, hiking, plant music, and sound healing with adults and children to help connect them with the natural world and access its incredible wellbeing benefits.
Sandra Rosa, Chakradance®, 1pm - 1:45pm
Meet Sandra Rosa. She is a Yoga teacher here at The Wellspring, as well as a Chakradance® facilitator. She brings her beautiful energy and extended training and experience of the healing and movement practices to her classes. You can definitely feel the depth of knowledge and her intuitive wisdom of the body-mind in her class.
Originally from Brazil, Sandra did her first yoga teacher training in 2005, followed by Yogatherapy and Ayurveda course. Since then she has taught yoga for different ages from children to seniors. Her style incorporates asanas (poses and postures), vinyasa (dynamic movement), pranayama (breath control) and meditation. Currently she studies with Simon Borg-Oliver and Bianca Machliss, the founders of Yoga Synergy.
Following her passion for dancing and free expression, Sandra became an accredited CHAKRADANCE® Facilitator. But you might ask what is CHAKRADANCE? CHAKRADANCE is a free movement and dance practice for body and soul. It’s a powerful experience that will free and energize you. It combines spontaneous dance, guided imagery and music to promote that wonderful state of calm vitality known as “wellbeing”. The music is the key, as it resonates deeply with each in turn of the seven major chakras – the energy centers that integrate and regulate our physical, mental and emotional energies. Many who have experienced it claim it has transformed their lives for the better; others, simply that they enjoyed it hugely.
Simone Toussaint - Energetic Healing and Blue Lotus Foot Baths, 1:10pm to 4pm
Simone, Shining Light Medicine Woman is an Energetic Healer/Bodywork that uses Hands on Healing and Reiki, Cherokee Bodywork that includes talking to the body to discover the cause of imbalance, pain, trauma. Using her strong connection to her Ancestors and the lineage of her clients, she is able to heal the emotional , spiritual and physical body.
Malini Chidzey - Reiki / Life Alignment, 1.25pm - 3pm
Malini (To The Core) will be offering free introductory Reiki and Life Alignment taster sessions at the Wellspring Warburton open Day. Malini is well experienced, having helped people resolve big emotional/spiritual and physical issues and traumas. she has also brought her client's much peace, insight and balance. Reiki is a gentle hands-on relaxing energy healing modality to support physical and emotional wellbeing. Life alignment is also an energy healing modality, it helps clear and balance emotional and physical blockages, brings insight, clarity, relaxation, vitality, self-empowerment, and much more. Life alignment transforms and aligns one physically, mentally, emotionally & spiritually. It works on resolving the root cause and integrating holistic well-being and restoration.
Anthea - Yoga for Menopause, 3pm to 3.45pm
Anthea has been practicing yoga for 27 years. In that time she has practiced Vinyasa, Yin, Satyananda, Kundalini and Restorative Yoga. She has formally studied Hatha, Yin, Kids yoga and recently Yoga for Menopause. Anthea is passionate about yoga as a lifestyle of finding devotion and reverence in the everyday mess of life. She is particularly excited to be using beautiful practices such as mantra, mudra, pranayama and asana to support the Menopause transition. Anthea firmly believes Menopause can be an exciting time of discovering and resetting our lives to embrace this Second Spring by becoming the Queens and Juicy Crones this world desperately needs.
Lucy Richards, Guided Imagery and Music Session, 3pm - 4pm
Lucy Richards is a Registered Music Therapist and community mental health worker with 20 years’ experience (minus some years off to have children) working across the life span in aged care, mental health, disability and early childhood settings. As part of her advanced training in GIM (Guided Imagery and Music) she is seeking participants to be practice clients. All GIM sessions offered by Lucy will be free for 2023.
Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) is an evidence based, person-centred creative therapy which involves an initial conversation with the therapist, intentional listening to classical music in a relaxed state, and an opportunity to process the experience visually in mandala form. The therapist acts as a guide while the client travels on a personal journey elicited and supported by the music. Through imagery evoked by specially designed and chosen music programs, GIM can stimulate emotions and memories offering clients opportunities for inner reflection, greater personal insight, self-compassion and potentially improved mental health and resilience.
For further information about GIM (and Music Therapy) please contact Lucy on lucessence@gmail.com.
Crystal Tan - Intuitive Flow Yoga, 4pm - 4.45pm
Crystal has been teaching yoga for more than 12 years, and about 4 years here in Warburton, along side raising her two boys. Today she’s culminated her experience to teaching a style she calls Intuitive Flow. A blend of movement that is a combination of flowy vinyasa, but with a much softer, invitational, intuitive, inquiry-based embodied movement practice that is meant to guide one back ‘home’. The yoga she teaches is really just helping students learn simple methods to listen more closely to our own needs, embrace our imperfections, in order to heal, nurture and even empower ourselves so we can find a bit of peace in this crazy times we live in.
Watch this space as we share more info about the rest of our Practitioners featured in our OPEN DAY!