At the Avaivilla Group our Events stream is changing and expanding, as we collaborate more with like minded educators and creatives to bring to our spaces events that are culturally safe, engaging and meaningful with purpose. We will continue to add and make changes to our events stream as we grow. Currently we have two streams in our event space. The Working in Two Worlds Forum which is held in November, and our wellness event Ngarra-Djarra Gurri Bunmarra, held in March.
Current and Upcoming Events
Ngarra-Djarra Gurri Bunmarra
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A gathering of sistahood, holding space with healing and wellness, through yarning, weaving and ceremony.
Join us Tiddas.
Ngarra-Djarra Gurri Bunmarra meaning 'Heal, Well Health' in the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri Nation, is a First Nations Healing and Wellness practices focused on sistahood, connection and ceremony.
In our wellness space, we unlearn habits that keep us in spaces of exhaustion and disconnection to what is good and what is true. Engage in practices of a living tradition, of being STILL and one with your mana.
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The 'Holding Space' wellness gatherings for women focus on feminine energy work through movement, ceremony, weaving and yarning. These practices return us to traditional medicine, which guide and transform our perception of the world we know, connecting our ancestral blood memory to our knowing and gifting our journey to releasing and renewing our energy.
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'None of us are born to journey alone, as a First Nation I learnt early that my community, family and culture are my basic protection from being disconnected from what is good and true to me, my wellness and my healing. Keeping ceremonial practices remind me the importance of caring for self, through sharing medicine, which then connects to the overall wellness of my community'. Terori HA
Sistas joining us will share in ceremony to cleanse, renew, reflect and reconnect to what is true to their own journey, their healing and holding wellness and abundance.​ Our gatherings are a celebration of all that holds joy and is filled with empowering sistahood, reconnecting to what is natural and holding space to heal.
Women are given a small wellness gift pack with their registration.
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NEXT HOLDING SPACE GATHERING:
March 2025, date and location to be confirmed.
FLOAT25
​FLOAT25 Women's Exclusive Wellness Retreats
Float Women's Wellness Retreat is an exclusive destination event, catering to entrepreneurial, professional and retired women, 35yo and over. Our retreats cater to small groups, focusing on overall wellness experience as well as cultural experiences. In 2025 we return to Efate Island, Port Vila, Vanuatu. Full details of the retreat will be post here and on our facebook page in late March 2025. Places for this retreat is strictly limited. Women who journeyed with is in 2024 and returning in 2025 will be given priority to rebook their places.
Check out our highlights page to see Float24 images. click here
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FLOAT25 details coming March 2025.
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'Float24 has changed my life. I came to the retreat with a broken heart and soul full of confusion and resentment. Seven days later, I left the retreat with peace, a calmed spirit and an enlightened soul. I could not have done this season of life (and healing) without the support of likeminded women. These women, not only champion ‘change’, but they create a safe sacred space for women to embrace our individual transformative process, without guilt or shame. I will always be grateful to Avaivilla Group for recognising the importance of women empowerment and healing. This will be the annual reset and recharge event for myself and I cannot wait for Float25. Au eswau (big thank you).' Tareka
'As I reflect back on my experience at Float 2024, I am smiling! The thing I cherish the most is the group of women I got the privilege to meet and journey with over the ten days I was in Vanuatu. I genuinely miss them all - there is a comradery that develops through the participation in the shared cultural experiences that was offered as part of the program – the visits to beautiful places (Pele is a standout), the cultural meals, the performances, the local women’s weaving activity, our adventures on the transport system and visits to Port Vila’s artists markets. And then a deeper closeness that was nurtured through the wellness program – great facilitators, daily wellness practices, lots of sharing and learning from each other, and working through our own healing. To be connected to all of these women was indeed a great privilege. I wish them well as they go back to their own lives with a hope that they too are smiling! Thanks Terori for bringing us all together'. Helen
'When I heard about FLOAT24 for the First time at another Avaivilla Group wellness event for women, I was inspired to sign up. The idea of a women’s only wellness retreat on an island in the pasific with a unique landscape and culture resonated deeply with me. And the experience was MAGICAL. Some highlights for me was learning about and holding Kava ceremony with locals, a koko (cacao) ceremony with Terori; coming home to our bodies with stella, a somatic connecting of mind and body, understanding our female energy, and Yolanda, creating a beautiful empowered space for us to remember our power as women. And the cultural day, making fans and preparing island food with local women, the food shared that night in celebration with an island string band. So many memories, this retreat has also enriched me with new friendships, I am forever grateful. Looking forward to FLOAT25'. Veronika
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Women's Wellness Gathering
+ Ngarra-Djarra Gurri Bunmarra Women's Wellness Gathering Torquay 2024 Highlights
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The Ngarra-djarra Gurri Bunmarra Women's Gathering was bliss, thanks to amazing women who gathering to hold space. Women who came together to hold space with healing and wellness practices from First Nations in Australia and the Pasifika Nations together in sharing healing and wellness through storytelling, ceremony and connecting. Ngarra- djarra Gurri Bunmarra, meaning 'Heal, Well Health' in the Woi-wurrung language of the Wurundjeri Nation, is a gathering for women, both First Nations and Allies alike from all walks of life to come together in a space of cultural sharing and healing.
It was an emotional day, filled with truth raw and honest, healing, redirecting, connecting and wellness. Women holding space for each other, wishing nothing but goodness and wellness for each other. Many of us are still in that space of healing and reconnection to what grounds us, what allows us to move forward. Ngarra-djarra Gurri Bunmarra, gave us a space to come together, for healing, for wellness and to journey together. Big esso (thanks) to our sponsors, partners and supports for making this event so amazing and wonderful to share with women in the sista circle. We look forward and invite women to our next sista circle.
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Go to our highlights page to see images from the gathering and images from other events.