Upcoming East Coast Shamanic Training Level 1&2 – March 2027
Upcoming Dates
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13MarEast Coast Shamanic Training Level 1&2 - 2027
Saturday 13th March to Tuesday 23rd March 2027 (leave next morning)
Hunter Valley region1:00 pm-5:30 pm
Can’t make March 2027? Join the list for future East Coast dates and get our free 8-hour course.
Make 2027 Your Year
Now is the time to dive into Self and be the fullest version of yourself you can be. To transform your life from every angle and purify your being, returning to its truest essence.
Held in a stunning 4.5-star bush retreat in the Hunter Valley, this is a fully immersive experience – organic meals, serene surroundings, and deeply supportive energy – all designed to hold you as you journey inward.
Inherently, we are all scintillating potential and this shamanic training is about systematically learning what blocks that and clearing it along the way. You will also learn how to support people to make those same transformations too.
A Deep Dive into Self
This is not surface work, it is a deep initiation into knowing and claiming your own Self. You can do it. You are ready to do it. And you are not alone – you have your spiritual team all around you to support you.
Sometimes we just need the expertise and holding to step into our full potential. To be encouraged and supported by likeminded people all with a similar intent to grow, flourish, heal and expand.
Here, you will truly step into your gifts and become a clear channel for spiritual light to flow through and around you. To learn to harness and flow with the forces of nature for the benefit and upliftment of all.
Come to be held AND learn to stand on your own two feet
Come and be held, and learn to hold.
Come and cry, and rediscover the joy of deep laughter.
Come to transform and be the best version of yourself you can be.
It does not matter if you have been doing this work for years, or just starting. You will stretch, you will grow and go beyond anything you may have done in the past. We have been holding people in this deep work for over 20 years and are even more passionate and committed as the day we started. We feel, in fact we know, you are in good hands with us and importantly, the spiritual container that is the One Tribe shamanic training. Come and join us.
Students share their journey of walking through the fire of transformation
The Journey of Shamanic Training Levels 1 & 2
At a Glance:
- Dates: Saturday 13 March to Tuesday 23 March 2027 (leave next morning).
- Location: Hunter Valley area, NSW (Banjos Bushland Retreat). A beautiful mountain setting approximately 2 hours from Sydney.
- What’s Included: The full training, accommodation in 4.5-star twin-share deluxe rooms with en-suites, and all organic vegetarian meals.
- Travel & Logistics: Easy transport options for interstate and international participants via Sydney or Newcastle airports. Joey, our admin manager, will coordinate logistics and guide you on the best arrival times and shuttles.
- Investment & Payment Plans: See the full details and secure your place here.
Shamanic Training Levels 1 & 2 is a complete initiation on its own, while also forming the foundation of the full One Tribe Shamanic Training pathway for those called to journey deeper.
Everything else in the One Tribe program – integration sessions, online healings, Deep Ancestral Healing Retreat (Perth), Shamanic Training Levels 3 & 4, mentoring and final review – is optional. You can step into them later, at your own pace.
Upon completion of the entire One Tribe Shamanic Training (Levels 1–4, the mentoring program, and final review), you’ll be eligible for professional indemnity insurance to work as a Shamanic Practitioner.
A Closer Look at Levels 1 & 2
Shamanic Training Levels 1 & 2 will be intense. It will stretch you to grow in ways you may never have imagined before. Healing deep parts of yourself and expanding into hidden capabilities waiting to be discovered. This process is held with love and pure respect. We ourselves have had to go through the initiations and deep healings you will go through. We have also supported hundreds of people to make the same journey you will go on, and that shamanic family will be behind you willing you on.
This process is a very practical one and the arena will be your own life, your own relationships, your own mind and patterns. This module is a washing machine of growth where you learn the core shamanic healing tools by first experiencing their transformative power in your own life, then being guided on how to facilitate those tools with your fellow students. You learn a new shamanic healing tool every day through a mixture of head (information), heart (divine alignment), and experiential work (receiving and giving healings).
While this work is deep, powerful, and at times challenging, it is also infused with joy. There is plenty of laughter, playfulness, and community connection woven into the days. Many students share that the humour and lightness make the intensity not only bearable but deeply healing – a living reminder that transformation can be both sacred and fun.
One Tribe run a shamanic training school based in Perth with opportunities to do the entire training on the East Coast of Australia. Levels 1 and 2 form the core tools of the Full One Tribe Shamanic Training Pathway. For many, this journey is first and foremost about their own healing and transformation – the work goes deeper with each level. At the same time, for those called to support others, the pathway gradually builds the skills and experience needed to step into shamanic practice. Level 3 is where you put the tools already learned into action (while learning additional key techniques), and Level 4 is a small apprentice-style training in groups of just five. Together with the Mentoring Program and Final Review, these complete the core training and open the doorway – whether that’s into becoming a Shamanic Practitioner and getting your Professional Indemnity Insurance, or into living with greater freedom, empowerment, and connection to Spirit.
Core themes and tools included in Levels 1 & 2:
- Shamanic Initiation Ceremony – Step into the medicine wheel, meet your Spirit Guides, and be initiated into the elements of earth, air, fire, and water.
- Past Life Healing – Release core beliefs and traumas carried from other lifetimes that are limiting your/your client’s health, power, and well-being in this one.
- Soul Retrieval – Trauma can cause parts of our spirit to fragment. Learn how to safely call them back for yourself and others, restoring wholeness and vitality.
- Animal Medicine – Meet your powerful Animal Guides and learn how to work with their wisdom and healing energy.
- Sacred Ceremony & Rites of Passage – Clear old cycles and step fully into the power of your current age and stage of life.
- Working with the Shadow & Inner Child – Learn how to stand in your embodied adult, parenting and supporting the child who did not receive the love and support they needed.
- Working with Your Healing Guides – Build strong, ongoing relationships with your personal Spirit team, who hold unique skills to support your healing work.
- Entity, ET & Black Magic Clearing – Recognise and release energies that do not serve, freeing yourself and your future clients from old influences.
- Shamanic Sight – Develop your inner sight, feeling, knowing, and clear connection with Spirit to diagnose the root causes of imbalance.
- Staying in the Light – Integration practices to help you stay anchored, clear, and empowered once you return home.
Integration Support After the Training
After Shamanic Training Levels 1 & 2, you can choose to deepen with optional extras:
- An individual online healing (April & June 2027)
- 10-week inexpensive online integration program (group practice sessions)
- Access to free recorded integration resources
These are entirely optional – the core training stands complete.
Your Investment
Eleven days of training, eleven nights in a 4.5-star bush retreat, every meal cooked fresh and organic, and a spiritual container that has been held with care for over 20 years.
- Full training: $3,950 AUD, all inclusive.
- Deposit: $950 secures your place.
- Included: the training, your twin-share deluxe room with en-suite, and all organic vegetarian meals.
- Not included: flights and transfers, and the optional Friday night stay ($100).
That works out at roughly $359 a day for everything except getting there.
If the timing feels right but the money feels tight, talk to us before you rule it out. We have quietly worked out flexible payment plans with students for years, and we would much rather have the conversation than watch you walk away from something you are ready for.
The Full One Tribe Shamanic Training Pathway
The Full One Tribe Shamanic Training is a step-by-step pathway that supports both deep personal transformation and, for those called, the training to become a qualified Shamanic Practitioner.
Some people join purely for their own growth and healing, others feel drawn to the practitioner path – and many discover both along the way. All pathways are honoured.
Completion of the full program (Levels 1–4, Mentoring, and Final Review) makes you eligible for professional indemnity insurance. While you can access insurance before the Deep Ancestral Healing Retreat, we request it be completed within two years, as it is a core element of the training.
2027-2028 Training Journey at a Glance
Levels 1&2
– Saturday 13 March to Tuesday 23 March 2027 (leave next morning)
– Optional: One individual online healing (10th/11th April 2027)
– Optional: 10 week online integration program (April-June 2027)Deep Ancestral Healing Retreat (Optional in Perth)
– Live-in Retreat: Perth Hills. (20th – 23rd August 2027).
– Optional: One individual online healing (September 2027).
– Optional: 6-month follow-up program (2027 – 2028)Levels 3 & 4
– Saturday 11 September to Tuesday 21 September 2027 (leave next morning) (Hunter Valley NSW)
– Optional: One individual online healing: (October 2027)
– Online Mentoring SOAR Program: (2027 – 2028)Final review
– From 2028 onwards.
Can’t Make March 2027?
Add your name and we’ll let you know as soon as new East Coast dates open. In the meantime, we’ll send you Diving into Shamanism, our free four-part video series with Mark, so you can sit with the work in your own time and see how it lands for you.
Watch an overview video of the Full One Tribe Shamanic Training Pathway
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this training for me?
People from all walks of life are called to the One Tribe Shamanic Training – doctors, mums, psychologists, tradies, healers, business professionals, spiritual teachers, students of different modalities, and more. The common thread is a yearning to grow, a love of the earth, and an openness to the spiritual connectedness of life – and, often unrecognised at first, tremendous courage.
It takes courage because while you will learn many powerful tools and techniques, the main subject is you and your life. These tools are not taught in theory alone – you will be initiated into them by using them to transform your own patterns, beliefs, and wounds, and by re-awakening the wisdom that we are all one.
Whether you are a seasoned traveller of healing and self-development, or completely new to this path, the training will stretch you to grow and awaken the shamanic healer within.
This training begins and ends with you. You are front and centre, because the shamanic path is about becoming a clear conduit — a hollow bone — for Spirit and your guides to flow through. To do that, you’ll need to cleanse what blocks the way: doubts, fears, limiting beliefs. The tools you learn first support your own healing, and then are you guided to hold them for others. Some come to serve their communities as healers; many come simply to become the best version of themselves.
And through it all, expect moments of joy, play, and laughter. This training is serious about transformation, but not heavy. Spirit loves lightness – and we do too.
Due to the depth of this work, it is important that you are mentally stable and ready to engage fully. If in doubt, contact us, your doctor, or therapist to check if this is the right timing for you.
Is this training the real deal?
You will learn to calmly deal with the deepest of traumas and situations within yourself and for others. Nothing has ever presented itself to the school that has been too big for it to manage.
Watch students share their own experiences in the video below.
Will I meet like-minded people?
The overwhelming response from students is YES. Many people arrive feeling they’ve never truly been seen, heard, or understood – and then they discover their tribe.
In this container, there is no pretense, no big egos. You are encouraged to simply be yourself. It is a safe environment to be totally authentic and real.
Because you share such deep and intimate healings together, the bonds formed are strong. Many make lasting, lifelong friendships – not just with their own group, but across the wider One Tribe community. When you join, you’re stepping into a shamanic family that spans past and present students, all walking the path of growth, healing, and Spirit.
Hear directly from students about the community they found in this training
Is the shamanic training a safe environment?
Safety is the foundation of all the work we do. The container is held with deep respect, clear boundaries, and over 20 years of experience guiding people through this journey.
Watch the video below to hear directly from students about how safe they felt in this training.
Meet the core team – click on photos below

Mark Steinward
Mark runs the school and is responsible for the content and course delivery.

Mandy Lisbon
Mandy supports all the shamanic training programs

Amanda Steinward
Amanda supports all the shamanic training programs
A Remarkable Healing Journey – Shared by Shamanic Co-Teacher Mandy
Mandy first entered this training as a student, carrying her own physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds. Through the work, she experienced profound and lasting healing – even with challenges that felt immovable before.
Now, as a core teacher, she brings that same compassion, insight, and lived wisdom to guide others on their path.
In this video, Mandy shares her story – and why she believes this training can be life-changing for those willing to step into it.
Accommodation and Food
The training is held on an amazing property in the Hunter Valley (on top of a small mountain) – about 2 hours’ drive if coming from Sydney. It is totally plush accommodation, 4 and a half stars. It is shared rooms, just two per room, with most lodges having their own ensuite in each room. It has a sauna, games room, tennis court and beautiful nature walks abound. We absolutely love it! We also have an in-house cook making beautiful organic meals.
Detailed Course Outline – Shamanic Training Levels 1 & 2
Below is a sample outline of what your journey may look like. Each training is a living, breathing container, and the content adapts to the needs of the group. Over the years, we have deepened the work so that some sessions (like Shamanic Dance, Moon Medicine, or Shamanic Voice) may be replaced with full-day immersions into core practices such as Soul Retrieval, Past Life Healing, Inner Child work, or Clearing Entities.
The essence is never lost – in fact, it only goes deeper. Rather than just receiving healings, you’ll now spend more time practising them with each other. For example, if you are learning and healing past lives in the morning, in the afternoon you’ll then be guiding your fellow students through those same practices. This shift allows you to embody the tools more fully, gaining confidence and skill while also receiving profound healing.
What follows gives you a sense of the themes, depth, and flow of the training – but please know it will evolve in response to the unique group who gathers.
Shamanic Training Level 1
Day 1 (Saturday 13th March 2027)
1:00pm-8:00pm – Shamanic Initiation. The shamanic path is ancient. In its purest form, shamanism creates a bridge between the physical world and the spiritual dimension for healing, divination and transformation. During this powerful day, you will step into the medicine wheel where you will be physically initiated into the elements of earth, air, fire and water. You will also meet your spirit guides who love you unconditionally, and can powerfully support your spiritual growth and healing ability. By forming a relationship with them, you can deepen your connection to your authentic self and the sacredness of life. This is a profound and deeply sacred day one we treat with the utmost respect and love.
Day 2
9:00am-1:30pm – Sacred Ceremony. Ceremonial work is at the heart of shamanic healing and personal transformation. It is a powerful invitation to your unconditionally wise and loving spirit guides to support you to make significant changes in your personal life. Once you learn how to do ceremony for yourself and your community, you are empowered to truly take control of your life and make it sacred. We always say if you want to change your life, do a ceremony! It can help support you to make any transition in your life that is necessary. During this session we will do a powerful rite of passage ceremony releasing unresolved energy in 7 year blocks up to our current age. We will also step into the next phase of the medicine wheel of our life to embody the energy of the age we are stepping into. This is a very powerful session.
1:30-4:30pm – Lunch and break. We always leave a break after lunch to allow time for food to digest. Doing healing work and shamanic initiations on a full stomach is much harder than on a light one.
4:30pm-7:30pm – What it means to be a hollow bone. The foundational healing philosophy of the school is to be a hollow bone. This means to be a clear flute or channel for your healing guides and the power of nature to flow through you to help heal and transform yourself and others. We will practically explore what this means as well as begin to clear the obstacles that are in the way of you being a clear hollow bone in service to your community. Please note whilst the content of the morning sessions remains fixed, the evening content can vary depending on the needs of the group.
Day 3
9:00am-1:30pm – Soul Retrieval. Shamans have long specialised in soul retrieval work. In order to survive and get through a traumatic experience, part of our soul or spirit can leave our body. This is one of the reasons many abuse victims do not remember their traumas until a point in their lives when they are actually ready to deal with it. Whilst this helps us to get through a trauma, it means we are not operating at our full capacity or power if that soul fragment does not return. We can be left feeling ungrounded, disengaged, have a poor immune system, feel flat, depressed, fearful, have gaps in our memory, become prey to addictions and so on. If someone says after a particular incident they have just never quite been the same since, this can be a case of soul loss. The shaman’s job and expertise is to find and bring back these lost soul parts. This can give us an enormous boost of energy, power, clarity and confidence. Soul loss can be caused by any number of incidents knowing that what one person considers traumatic can be very different to someone else. Equally, trauma at one age can be totally different to another. Common examples that may cause soul loss are car accidents, abuse, shock, illness, combat, addiction, loss of a loved one, divorce or break ups etc. During this session you will be guided to find and retrieve lost parts of your own spirit. This is a very powerful healing session.
1:30pm-4:30pm – Lunch and break.
4:30pm-7:30pm – Map of the shamanic healing landscape. This session will give you an overview of the energetic landscape you may encounter whilst doing shamanic healing work. We will also practise the core shamanic principles taught in the school to diagnose and treat conditions from their root causes.
Day 4
9:00am-1:30pm – Past Life Healing. During this session we will release past life aspects within us that are negatively impacting upon us in this life. Shamanic healing goes back to the root cause of a problem. This often means travelling back in time to heal and release shocks, traumas and losses from past lives. It is possible to isolate these past life aspects within us and clear the traumas associated with them. As a simple example we may have been persecuted in a past life for doing healing work. In that life, under extreme distress, we may have made powerful vows to ourselves to never do that work again to protect ourselves from future trauma and pain. This trauma can remain in our energetic system thereby blocking us from powerfully stepping into doing healing work in this life. It can affect our spiritual sight and healing gifts, our ability to promote ourselves as healers and our feelings of safety and confidence doing the work. By safely clearing that past life aspect and the trauma associated with it, we can overcome what were once deep seated and previously unexplained obstacles in our lives.
1:30pm-4:30pm – Lunch and break.
4:30pm-7:30pm –How to diagnose using all your senses: Throughout the training you will learn how to feel, sense, see, know, hear and intuit messages from your Spirit Guides and other students, along with how to access what is called the Akashic Records – which is the information stored across the lifetimes for that individual.
Day 5
9am-1:30pm – Animal Medicine. During this session you will meet and develop deep relationships with your Animal Medicine Guides. For eons shamans have connected with and harnessed the healing and transformative power of their animal guides. These guides can open new faculties within us, expand our consciousness and improve our healing ability. You will journey to meet your animal guides as well as learn to retrieve animal medicine for other people. This is always a wonderful, magical and enriching session.
1:30pm-4:30pm – Lunch and break.
4:30pm-7:30pm – Communing with Nature. Shamans and indigenous tribes have long been able to commune with all elements of nature. During this session we will spend time on the land connecting to and communicating with the spiritual energy that moves through and maintains it. We will also learn to communicate with the rocks and trees. We will learn to hear and interpret the clear messages from nature. Approached in the right way, we can all do this. This is always a sacred and mesmerising session of exploration and discovery.Shamanic Training Level 1 finishes
Day 6 (Thursday 18th March 2027)
Rest Day. During this day there will be no class activities. There are gorgeous bush walks from your lodges, a lovely waterhole nearby to swim in, sauna, spa and games room all on the property.
Shamanic Training Level 2 is all about stepping into more and more unconditional love and our own true light. As we do that it is only natural that what is not our true nature, ie pure scintillating light, will come to the surface for release. During this process we will also naturally be encouraged to let go of old systems of defence and protection that may have worked really well when we were younger, but restrict us from effectively loving and being loved by our community now. This is a delicate, beautiful journey where step by step we open up to life again with more trust.
What makes this journey possible and safe is that we keep coming back to our true nature, our true light every single session. Our true essence needs no healing, is deathless, vibrant, and full of light and power. By constantly embodying that truth we can much more easily let go of old, subconscious ways of being that are unhealthy for us, our loved ones and community. On an experiential level, we realise that we no longer need them.
Shamanic Training Level 2
Day 7
9:00am-1:30pm – Working with the Shadow. Everything is just energy. When we have core wounds from our childhood, past relationships, and even past lives, those imprints stay within our energetic field. We are then subconsciously attracted to, and attract, similar situations and people which then trigger those initial wounds giving us an opportunity to address them. For example, if we took on from our childhood that we are unlovable, it is likely that we will unconsciously attract situations and people to us to validate that thought – I am unlovable. Unfortunately, instead of looking within and asking – what do I have to learn from this situation and person; we tend to look outwards to the person and ask, why are you doing that to me! We focus on them and the situation, going into defence and attack, thereby creating more confusion and stress. Instead it is much more powerful to ask, what do I have to learn here? As soon as you ask that question everything shifts to a position of empowerment, growth and healthy choices. During this session we will look at the challenging situations and people in our lives to identify our lessons and heal our source wounds.
In this session we will also explore our shadow. Our shadow is a characteristic/trait/pattern we have but cannot see or own in ourselves. We often attract people into our lives that also have that characteristic mirroring it back to us – like attracts like. It can really upset us when we see that trait in another person as we don’t want to acknowledge that we have it in ourselves, we genuinely struggle to see it within us.
1:30pm-4:30pm – Lunch and break.
4:30pm-7:30pm – Working with the Inner Child: Throughout Shamanic Training Level 2 and beyond, you will become finely attuned in how to work with the Wounded Child, or what we call the Shadow Child. These are the frozen, stuck, fragments within our subconscious that tend to control much of our lives in hidden and unhealthy ways. When a child’s core needs are not met by the mature adults in their life, they learn to meet them anyway they can, often from the perspective of a disempowered child. Even though we mature and grow, these shadow children do not age and tend to continue working on our behalf through our subconscious. This means we can have a 4 year old, or teenager managing our your intimate relationships, financial security and health for example? During the shamanic training you will learn how to find and embody your empowered inner adult and meet the core needs of these frozen, stuck children so they do not need to continue meeting them through your subconscious. This is a fundamental tool to master to help live a balanced life and essential for a healer to learn to be that mature, healthy adult.
Day 8
9:00am-1:30pm – Clearing entities. Entities are simply energy that is not unconditionally loving, is not our true nature and is somehow connected or attached to us. In this class we are mostly exploring energy that may have kept us safe and made us feel strong when we are young, but we have now outgrown. Even though we have grown up and no longer need these defensive, fear-based energies, our subconscious mind can keep accessing and without us being aware may be using them. It can cause problems in our relationships, affect our health and the lives of those around us.
Examples of entities can include things like protective gate keepers assigned to protect your vulnerability (which as adults can keep love out and our love in), energies which have given you a sense of power and may have been with you for centuries but are fear based, energies you have picked up from clients, or those collected going out and about in the world. There are entities that are dead people and have found you as a source of light to live through. There are also entities of addiction, those created from our repetitive dark thoughts etc.
During this session we will identify those beings that have served, protected and kept us safe or lived through us. We will acknowledge their service and set both you and them free. What makes this possible is the law of freewill, on some level we have given them permission to be there so we can reverse this permission and send them into the light. Whilst they may appear as big scary types of entities to those trying to remove them from the outside, for you they will be very familiar on some level and it may be emotional or even hard to let them go as they may have been a source of protection and support. We simply come to a point in our journey where we outgrow the need for their assistance. In letting them go we step more into trust and the unconditional love and protection of the guides who have mastered unconditional love and have our best interests at heart.
1:30pm-4:30pm – Lunch and break.
4:30pm-7:30pm – Shamanic Dance. This is not your usual dance; this is shamanic dance where we really go deep within and let our bodies express itself and move as required in a sacred way. It is incredibly powerful to access – it truly is medicine. Indigenous tribes have always used dance as a means to heal and call in power. For example, in the Australian aboriginal culture the dreamtime stories and medicine were always connected with dance, songs and art.
Day 9
9:00am-1:30pm – Extracting Extraterrestrials. Just like people, ET’s have varying ranges of consciousness; you can find enlightened and not so enlightened ones. Doing healing work, we are often working with energies that are out of balance and distorted. As such, it is likely doing shamanic work that you are going to be working with ET’s of the not so enlightened category that are disturbing people’s energetic fields. Just like humans who test, monitor, and track animals; ET’s have been doing similar experiments to humans for a long time. They can be technologically advanced, yet disconnected from unconditional love, emotions and moral intelligence. Their influence on people can cause a lot of physical, psychic and emotional damage. It is important to note that on some level permission must be given for this interference as the law of freewill applies to all. This law of freewill is important as it means we can also undo any permission given and free ourselves of their influence. During this class we will identify those energies in our ourselves and others and be given the choice to remove that association and influence from our lives.
1:30pm-4:30pm – Lunch and break.
4:30pm-7:30pm – Moon Medicine. We will take in the cleansing energetic rays of the moon to rebalance and lighten us, helping to further clear the heavier energies we have released throughout the day.
Day 10
9:00am-1:30pm – Clearing Black Magic. To truly know the light, it is only natural that through the journey of our souls’ incarnations we need to experience the opposite of that and just about everything in between! Black magic sounds dark and scary but the essence comes from the simple belief that what we want and need is outside of ourselves so in order to get that, or to protect ourselves, we may misuse our spiritual energy to do so. In past lives this was very common and often used in warfare by competing tribes. Of course, in our modern day this is usually done totally unconsciously – even by simply talking about another person in a negative way we can be unconsciously accessing this energy and sending it to them. Whilst we never come across people doing the training who are consciously sending people negative energy (those types of people are not drawn to our work), most have old connections still in place that our subconscious accesses and uses. By clearing this out, we can grow exponentially anchoring more trust into our lives.
This is a fascinating area of study and healing as it draws upon many shamanic tools to uproot it from within a client. It includes ending past life vows and agreements with these energies, sects, teachers, entities etc, the removal of the tools and spells of black magic must be addressed, people who have been affected by those energies must be freed across all time and space, past lives need to be cleared, our shadow child comforted so they can give up these energies, we need to set free beings under our control and those that control us.
We are not aware of anyone else who dives into this area in so much depth. It is one thing to neutralise black magic energy sent to you that is quite common to be taught, it is another thing entirely to uproot that from within yourself. When you do you will be that much safer to be around and you make a lot more room for your unconditionally loving guides to step forward. This energy really holds people back and often poisons and harms their family, friends, colleagues and loved ones. So much damage can be done unconsciously through the use of this energy; our thoughts alone can set it into motion… It is our great honour to work with you in this area and give you the choice to free yourself from these old associations.
1:30pm-4:30pm – Lunch and break.
4:30pm-7:30pm – Shamanic Voice. Our guides can access many ways to heal through us. One powerful way is through our shamanic voice and through sound. This is not about singing and requires no talent at all in this regard. It is about experiencing what it feels like to allow our guides to step in and sound medicine through us. This is always a wonderful journey of exploration and surprise.
Day 11 (Tuesday 23rd March 2027)
9:00am-1:30pm – Shamanic Sight. There are many ways we get messages and direction from spirit in a shamanic healing – through our inner knowing, hearing, feeling, smell, taste and of course through our shamanic sight. There is often a heavy focus on spiritual sight in the west as a pre-requisite to doing healing work and even as a measure of spiritual progress. This is of course total nonsense. As a result, people can feel inadequate in a healing setting and may ignore or not appreciate the huge clear messages and direction they are receiving from all the other senses. From the outset, let’s be clear, shamanic sight is not required for an effective healing; spirit will always get the messages and directions across if we are open. Nonetheless, our shamanic sight can be a powerful and helpful diagnostic tool. We may have shut down our shamanic sight due to past traumas where we have been persecuted for using it, through fear of the spiritual world, because of religious beliefs, our low self-worth and so on. During this session we will address these fears as well as open and empower the use of your shamanic sight. We will also practise using our shamanic sight as a diagnostic tool.
1:30pm-4:30pm – Lunch and break.
4:30pm-7:30pm – Staying in the light. We will have done so much work to cleanse and clear ourselves through the 11 days, really stepping more powerfully into unconditional love, light and the potential for sacred service. The question then begs, how can we stay that way going forward? This session will explore this question giving helpful insights and tips to take with you back into your life beyond the retreat.
7:30pm-late – Dinner and celebration.RETREAT ENDS….. (until we meet for the next level 3 & 4 should you choose to continue and experience more).
What is provided?
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- All organic vegetarian meals
- Linen, towels (extras supplied for spa and sauna), pillows & doona etc.
- All bedrooms have en-suites. Two beds per room.
- All bedrooms have reverse cycle air conditioning and fans.
- Hair dryers, complimentary soap, shampoo and conditioner.
- Each cottage has its own cooking facilities, full size fridge and laundry/dryer/iron/soap etc. Also provided is insect repellents and a coffee percolator and plunger (bring your filter coffee as this is not supplied).
- Wireless internet. We discourage internet use – we recommend you disconnect from the plugged-in world and be in nature. Give this time to yourself letting your loved ones know that contact may be limited.
Getting there
We recommend arriving a day early on Friday 12th March 2027 to ensure you’re well-rested for the retreat’s start on Saturday 13th March 2027 at 1 pm. The retreat concludes late on Tuesday 23rd March 2027, with accommodation available until Wednesday morning, 24th March 2027.
We recommend flying into Newcastle Airport. If coming from Sydney, we can try to organise a fellow student to share the drive with if possible. If not, or you prefer, you can get the train up and we can organise a shared taxi/shuttle also from the train station.
You can stay at the retreat venue on the Friday night (the day before the retreat begins) for $100 extra. If you take up this option it is a lovely one and is definitely recommended so you are fresh to start the next day. Another alternative if you fly in a bit later on the Friday is to stay in Newcastle overnight and get the shuttle out on Saturday morning.
By Air:
The closest airport is Newcastle Airport (NTL). We can arrange transportation from Newcastle Airport to the retreat venue (approx. 1-hour drive) at two set times:
– Friday 12th March@ ~2:30 pm
– Saturday 13th March @ ~8:45 am
Transport costs will be determined based on the number of travellers and are not included in the retreat fees. Staying at the venue on Friday night (12th March) is recommended at an additional $100 cost.
Recommended Flights to Newcastle:
From Brisbane:
Friday 12th March (for ~2:30 pm pickup)
– Jetstar JQ483: Departs 6:00 am, Arrives 8:15 am
– Qantas QF1963: Departs 7:45 am, Arrives 10:05 am
– Virgin VA1102: Departs 9:10 am, Arrives 11:25 am
Saturday 13th March (for ~8:45 am pickup)
– Jetstar JQ483: Departs 6:00 am, Arrives 8:15 am
From Melbourne:
Friday 12th March (for ~2:30 pm pickup)
– Virgin VA1589: Departs 6:15 am, Arrives 7:55 am
– Jetstar JQ472: Departs 6:30 am, Arrives 8:00 am
– Qantas QF1997: Departs 8:45 am, Arrives 10:20 am
Saturday 13th March (for ~8:45 am pickup)
– Jetstar JQ472: Departs 6:30 am, Arrives 8:00 am
*Flight details are from July 2026 and may change.
From Perth:
– Qantas QF1668: Departs 7:30 am, Arrives 2:45 pm
*Flight details are from July 2026 and may change. We can wait a little longer if someone wants to get this later flight.
By Train:
You can take a train to Morisset Station, then we’ll arrange transportation to the venue. We can arrange transportation from Morisset Station to the retreat venue (approx. 1-hour drive) at two set times:
– Friday 12th March@ ~2:15 pm
– Saturday 13th March @ ~11:00 am
To Morisset Station for Friday 12th March (~2:15 pm pickup):
– From Sydney Domestic Airport: Depart 11:18 am, Arrive Central 11:30 am
– From Central Station: Depart 11:41 am, Arrive Morisset Station 2:04 pm
To Morisset Station for Saturday 13th March (11:00 am pickup):
– From Sydney Domestic Airport: Depart 7:52 am, Arrive Central 8:04 am
– From Central Station: Depart 8:15 am, Arrive Morisset Station 10:42 am
*Train times are from July 2026 and may change. Check https://transportnsw.info/plan/places-to-visit/hunter-valley for updates.
Where can I find the Terms and Conditions?
We have tried to make the Terms and Conditions as clear as possible. You can find them here.

Venue: Banjos Bushland Retreat (Hunter Valley, NSW)
Address:
Description:
Banjos Bushland Retreat is 4 ½ Star AAA Tourism rated. A slice of Hunter paradise offering luxury, romance, seclusion and stunning native wildlife – your perfect nature retreat!
DIRECTIONS FROM SYDNEY TO BANJOS BUSHLAND RETREAT, Summerhill Road, Vacy NSW Via Paterson
Take the Sydney – Newcastle (M1) Pacific Motorway – previously named F3 expressway (north towards Newcastle). If using a GPS system please ensure you also follow these instructions as the GPS can often lead you in the wrong direction. At the end of the M1 (lots of ridges in the road indicate the end of expressway), travel straight across roundabout and turn left onto New England Highway, travel through East Maitland 7.4 kms from end of Freeway, turn right into Melbourne Street @ traffic lights; 0.3 kms along Melbourne Street, Left into Pitnacree Road – changes name to Flat Road; 4.7 kms to roundabout – turn right and follow signs to Paterson 14.0 kms If you need to use your mobile phone DO IT NOW as phones can be patchy coverage until you reach the top of the mountain. Then 8.0 kms to Vacy – Turn left immediately after Vacy Bridge (single lane bridge) – Summerhill Rd. Travel 5.2 kms along Summerhill Road – then turn left at large Eaglereach sign. Travel to top of mountain, (4.0 kms) sharp left turn at Eaglereach Sign, then 2.0 kms to Banjos through Eaglereach Resort. Especially when driving at dusk or evening- PLEASE KEEP A LOOK OUT FOR KANGAROOS AND OTHER WILDLIFE. The road through the Eaglereach Resort is gravel – PLEASE travel along at the RECOMMENDED SLOW SPEED.
Follow the road past many lodges on both sides of the road (approx 1 km) then around to the right into Goanna Grove (away from the large maintenance shed). Down the hill almost to the end on the right (just past Caddishack Lodge which is to the left) you will find a sign BANJOS BUSHLAND RETREAT. You have arrived!!!



