Rest • Remembrance • Return
Sanctuaries of Embodied Restoration
Wild Moon Lodge is a sanctuary for embodied restoration.
A threshold space where people are invited to step away from the pace of everyday life and enter a slower rhythm of rest, remembrance and return.
Inspired by the wisdom of nature’s cycles and informed by contemporary understandings of nervous system health, Wild Moon Lodge brings together restorative practice, Indigenous Knowledge systems, connection with Country and relational ways of knowing to create experiences that support wellbeing, belonging and renewal.
At the heart of the Lodge is a simple understanding:
Wellbeing emerges through relationship.
- Relationship with ourselves.
- Relationship with our bodies.
- Relationship with community.
- Relationship with Country.
- Relationship with the stories, values and rhythms that sustain life.
Like a hearth fire, Wild Moon Lodge offers a place to gather, rest, reconnect and be nourished by what sustains us.
In a world that often rewards busyness, productivity and constant engagement, Wild Moon Lodge offers an invitation to pause.
To soften. To exhale. To listen.
This is a space of remembering. Remembering the wisdom held within the body. Remembering our connection with self, community, Country and the living world. Remembering that rest is not something to be earned, but a vital and sacred part of being human. Because when we rest deeply enough, remembering becomes possible.
Come and rest by the hearth awhile.
RESTORATIVE CIRCLES
These intimate gatherings invite you into a sanctuary of embodied restoration – a space where the body can soften, the nervous system can settle and the deeper rhythms of rest and renewal can be remembered.
Held within our decadent environment of candlelight, sheepskins, bolsters, blankets, crystal bowls, ritual tea and stillness, each circle is designed to support deep comfort, safety and ease.
Together we explore themes of rest, belonging, relationship and the wisdom carried within life’s cycles.
Through restorative yoga, meditation, sound healing, reflection and gentle connection, participants are invited to pause, reconnect and be held in community.
What you can expect during the 90 minute session:
- Deeply supported restorative yoga
- Guided meditation and relaxation
- Crystal bowl sound healing
- Nervous system restoration
- Reflection and/or journalling
- Tea and connection
No previous yoga experience is required.
- A light shawl
- Eye mask
- Journal
Mats and props are provided.
Clear Mountain Brisbane Northside (address provided after booking confirmation)
6:30-8.00pm
- 23 July 26 ($49)
- 20 August 26 ($49)
- 10 September 26 ($49)
- 24 September 26 ($49)
- 8 October 26 ($49)
- 22 October 26 ($49)
THE WISE HEARTH
A pathway for women navigating the threshold of perimenopause and menopause.
The Wise Hearth offers a sanctuary to pause, listen and explore what is emerging through this profound life transition.
Drawing together embodied restoration, nervous system wellbeing, reflection, Sacred Ama Songlines and community, this pathway creates space to honour the crossroads between who we have been and who we are becoming.
Offerings may include restorative circles, retreat experiences, guided practices and future online resources.
Coming soon.
MOON TEMPLE
Moon Temple offers a space where the ordinary gives way to the sacred and participants are invited to explore the deeper stories, symbols and mysteries woven through life’s cycles and transitions.
Drawing on ritual, meditation, storytelling, symbolism, reflection and embodied practice, these gatherings create opportunities to reconnect with imagination, intuition, mystery and meaning.
A space where magick is welcomed.
Where wisdom is honoured.
Where transformation is approached with reverence.
Includes a share plate while we sit around the fire afterwards
- A light shawl
- Eye mask
- Journal
Mats and props are provided.
Clear Mountain Brisbane Northside (address provided after booking confirmation)
3:30-6:30 pm
- 29 August 26 ( $79)
- 26 September 26 ( $79)
SANCTUARY
Sanctuary offers guided meditations, Yoga Nidra, restorative practices and seasonal reflections that can be accessed from wherever you are.
Created for those moments when you need to pause, reconnect and remember what sustains you, Sanctuary extends the spirit of Wild Moon Lodge beyond the physical hearth and into everyday life.
A place to return between gatherings.
A place to exhale.
A place to rest deeply enough to remember.
Coming soon.
LINEAGE
Lineage offers deeper ceremonial immersions for those called to explore ancestry, memory, belonging, story and the inheritances carried within us.
Emerging from the spirit of Moon Temple, Lineage invites participants into experiences of remembrance, reflection, ritual and reconnection with the threads that shape who we are and how we move through the world.
Drawing on story, ceremony, symbolism, journey work, Sacred Ama Songlines and relational ways of knowing, these retreats create space to explore the visible and invisible inheritances we carry.
Lineage is not about becoming someone new.
It is about remembering what has always been present.
A return to the inheritances within.
Coming early 2027.
THE FIRST HEARTH
A pathway honouring pregnancy, matrescence and the journey into motherhood.
The First Hearth recognises that pregnancy is not only the preparation for the birth of a baby, but also the birth of a mother.
Through restorative circles, retreat experiences, guided practices and future online offerings, women are invited to explore the profound physical, emotional, relational and identity transitions of matrescence.
Through embodied restoration, meditation, sound, reflection and ceremony, participants are invited to rest deeply, connect with baby and honour the journey of becoming Mother.
Coming soon.
HEARTHLINES
Immersive half-day and full-day sanctuary experiences.
Hearthlines weave together restorative practice, storytelling, connection with Country, seasonal wisdom, sound, meditation, reflection and community.
These retreats invite participants to step fully away from the pace of everyday life and enter deeper rhythms of restoration, renewal and remembrance.
An opportunity to gather around the hearth, listen deeply and reconnect with what sustains us.
Coming soon.
WHAT IS WILD MOON LODGE?
Wild Moon Lodge emerged from a simple understanding:
Rest is not separate from life. It is part of a healthy cycle.
Many of us live rich, meaningful and full lives. We care deeply. We contribute to our families, communities and workplaces. We navigate periods of growth, responsibility, change and transition.
Modern life often rewards our capacity to keep going, respond to what is needed and carry many threads at once. Yet there are times when we find ourselves yearning for something more spacious, more connected and more sustaining.
A place to pause.
A place to reflect.
A place to reconnect with ourselves, each other and the relationships that sustain wellbeing and belonging.
Wild Moon Lodge was created as that place. A sanctuary for embodied restoration. A hearth where people can gather, rest and remember.
Grounded in Dr Danielle Arabena’s work as a GP, women’s health practitioner, educator, restorative yoga and meditation teacher, storyteller and advocate for relational approaches to health and wellbeing, Wild Moon Lodge brings together contemporary understandings of nervous system health, Indigenous Knowledge systems and Sacred Ama Songlines — an emerging relational framework exploring connection, cycles, belonging and the wisdom carried within body, story and Country.
At its heart, Wild Moon Lodge offers spaces where people can rest deeply enough to remember the relationships that sustain them.
THE PHILOSOPHY
Wild Moon Lodge is guided by three interconnected principles: Rest, Remembrance and Return. Together they describe a pathway of restoration.
Rest creates the conditions for stillness and renewal.
Remembrance invites us to reconnect with the wisdom, relationships and values that sustain us.
Return is the experience of coming home to ourselves carrying a little more clarity, connection and belonging.
These principles are woven through every Wild Moon Lodge gathering, practice and retreat.
The doorway.
Rest creates the conditions for healing, restoration and renewal.
Like winter in the natural world, periods of stillness allow what has been depleted to be replenished.
Rest is not indulgent.
Rest is not earned.
Rest is a sacred act and a birthright.
The medicine.
Remembering the wisdom held within the body.
Remembering belonging.
Remembering our connection with Country, community, ancestors and the living world.
Remembering what sustains us beneath the noise of modern life.
The outcome.
Returning to centre.
Returning to what matters.
Returning home carrying a little more of ourselves.
Not transformed into someone different.
But more deeply connected to who we already are.
Rest is woven throughout the natural world.
We see it in the changing seasons, the ebb and flow of tides, periods of activity and recovery, and the rhythms that shape all living things.
Human beings are no different.
We are designed for cycles of engagement and restoration, action and reflection, connection and rest.
Yet many of the conditions of modern life can interrupt these rhythms.
Work, caregiving, technology, artificial light, constant connectivity and the pace of contemporary living can leave little space for the deeper forms of rest that nourish body, mind and spirit.
Over time, we may spend more time thinking, planning, responding and doing than simply being.
Research from fields such as psychoneuroimmunology highlights the interconnected nature of our nervous, endocrine, immune and emotional systems.
The quality of our relationships, environments and experiences matters.
Safety matters.
Connection matters.
Belonging matters.
Rest matters.
When we feel safe enough to slow down, the body softens, breathing deepens and the parasympathetic nervous system becomes more available.
In these moments we often find greater access to creativity, reflection, intuition, connection and a sense of belonging.
Rest is not the opposite of productivity.
It is part of a healthy cycle.
Not a withdrawal from life.
But a way of participating in it more fully.
At Wild Moon Lodge, rest is understood as a practice of returning.
Returning to ourselves.
Returning to relationship.
Returning to what sustains us.
Because when we rest deeply enough, we begin to remember.
JOIN THE LODGE
Receive seasonal reflections, upcoming event invitations, guided practices and news from Wild Moon Lodge.
A gentle invitation to stay connected to the rhythms of rest, remembrance and return.
Because restoration is not a destination. It is a practice of returning, again and again, to the relationships that sustain us.
The hearth is always here.
