Rest • Remembrance • Return
Sanctuaries of Embodied Restoration
Wild Moon Lodge is a sanctuary for embodied restoration.
It is a threshold space where you are invited to step away from the pace of everyday life and enter a slower rhythm of rest, remembrance and return.
Held within the wider body of work of Dr Danielle Arabena, Wild Moon Lodge brings together restorative practice, nervous system care, connection with Country, seasonal wisdom, story, ritual beauty and relational ways of knowing.
It is the hearth space within Danielle’s broader ecosystem, sitting alongside Sacred Ama Songlines®, Medicine Reconnected and 13 Moons Medical.
At the heart of the Lodge is a simple understanding:
Wellbeing emerges through relationship.
- With ourselves.
- With our bodies.
- With one another.
- With Country.
- With story.
- With stillness.
- With the rhythms that sustain life.
When these relationships are nourished, the body can soften. The nervous system has space to settle. A different kind of listening becomes possible.
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.
Come and rest by the hearth awhile.
RESTORATIVE CIRCLES
Restorative Circles are the heart of Wild Moon Lodge.
These intimate gatherings invite you into 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 a carefully tended environment of candlelight, sheepskins, bolsters, blankets, crystal bowls, ritual tea and stillness, each circle is designed to support 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-led relaxation, reflection and gentle connection, participants are invited to pause, reconnect and be held in community.
- You do not need previous yoga experience.
- You do not need to be flexible.
- You do not need to know how to meditate.
- You are invited to arrive as you are.
Each 90-minute Restorative Circle may include:
- Deeply supported restorative yoga
- Guided meditation and relaxation
- Crystal bowl sound practice
- Nervous system care
- Reflection and/or journalling
- Tea and gentle connection
- 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
- 20 August 26
- 10 September 26
- 24 September 26
- 8 October 26
- 22 October 26
THE WISE HEARTH
The Wise Hearth is a pathway for women navigating the threshold of perimenopause and menopause.
This offering creates space to pause, listen and explore what is emerging through this profound life transition.
Perimenopause and menopause are not simply hormonal events. They can be physical, emotional, relational, cultural, spiritual and identity-shaping thresholds.
The Wise Hearth draws together embodied restoration, nervous system wellbeing, reflection, Sacred Ama Songlines® and community 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.
These seasonal gatherings invite participants 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, Moon Temple creates 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.
Moon Temple may include guided practice, reflection, story, ritual elements, sound, silence and time for connection.
A share plate may be included as we gather 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
- 26 September 26
SANCTUARY
The Online Hearth
Sanctuary is the online hearth of Wild Moon Lodge.
It is a place to return between gatherings, where the rhythms of rest, remembrance and return can continue within everyday life.
Each 45-minute Sanctuary session offers a gentle opportunity to pause and reconnect from home. Sessions may include guided meditation, Yoga Nidra, restorative practice, seasonal reflection, breathwork or quiet contemplation, shaped by the rhythms of the season and the needs of the community.
Whether you join from your living room, your garden or a quiet corner at the end of a busy day, Sanctuary offers a place to soften, settle and reconnect with what sustains you.
More than an online meditation, Sanctuary is a way to stay connected with Wild Moon Lodge between circles.
It is a place to carry the hearth home.
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
The First Hearth honours pregnancy, matrescence and the journey into motherhood.
Pregnancy is not only preparation for the birth of a baby. It is 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-informed practice, participants are invited to rest deeply, connect with baby and honour the journey of becoming Mother.
Coming soon.
HEARTHLINES
Hearthlines are immersive half-day and full-day sanctuary experiences.
These retreat days weave together restorative practice, storytelling, connection with Country, seasonal wisdom, sound, meditation, reflection and community.
They invite participants to step 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 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 longing 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, storyteller, restorative yoga and meditation teacher, and advocate for relational approaches to health, Wild Moon Lodge brings together contemporary understandings of nervous system care, Danielle’s Torres Strait Islander identity, connection with Country, seasonal wisdom, restorative practice and Sacred Ama Songlines®.
Wild Moon Lodge is more than a place
Wild Moon Lodge is a way of gathering, resting, remembering and tending the relationships that sustain us.
Whether we gather around a fire, beneath the trees, through a screen or from different places, the spirit of the Lodge travels with us.
Wherever we gather, the Lodge gathers with us.
Its invitation is simple:
- To create spaces of rest, remembrance and return wherever life unfolds.
- To carry the hearth home.
- To rest deeply enough to remember what sustains us.
THE PHILOSOPHY
Wild Moon Lodge exists because modern life has become noisy.
Not only around us, but within us.
Many of us have forgotten what it feels like to soften. To belong to our own bodies. To sit around a fire without needing to become more productive. To move with the seasons rather than against them.
Wild Moon Lodge was created as a hearth.
- A place where people gather.
- A place where the nervous system can soften.
- A place where story is shared.
- A place where another rhythm becomes possible.
The Hearth
At the heart of Wild Moon Lodge are three simple words.
Rest • Remembrance • Return
Together they describe a way of being in relationship with ourselves, one another, Country and the living world.
They are not steps to complete.
They are rhythms we return to throughout life.
The Threshold
Every journey begins by crossing a threshold.
Rest is that first step.
It is the moment we soften our grip on doing, leave the noise of the outside world for a while, and allow the body to settle into safety.
Like winter in the living world, periods of stillness create the conditions for renewal.
Rest is not indulgent.
Rest is not something to be earned.
It is a sacred act of returning to the body.
The Hearth
When the body feels safe enough to rest, it often begins to remember.
Not simply memories.
But relationship.
Relationship with ourselves.
Relationship with one another.
Relationship with Country.
Relationship with the stories, values and rhythms that sustain life.
This remembering is both ancient and deeply human.
It is less about learning something new than recognising what has always been there.
The Journey Home
Return is not about becoming someone different.
It is about carrying what has been remembered back into everyday life.
Returning with a steadier nervous system.
Returning with greater clarity.
Returning to what matters.
Returning to the people, places and practices that nourish us.
Returning home to ourselves.
Again and again.
These three rhythms are woven through every Wild Moon Lodge experience.
Every Restorative Circle.
Every Sanctuary.
Every Hearth.
Every Hearthlines retreat.
Every Moon Temple.
Every Lineage gathering.
Each offering is an invitation to pause, remember and return to the relationships that sustain health, belonging and wellbeing.
Contemporary understandings of nervous system health continue to affirm what many wisdom traditions have long understood:
- Safety matters.
- Connection matters.
- Belonging matters.
- Rest matters.
Our nervous systems are shaped by our relationships with ourselves, one another, the places that hold us and the environments we inhabit.
When we feel safe enough to slow down, breathing may deepen, muscles may soften and the body may have more space to regulate and restore.
Rest can support reflection, creativity, compassion, intuition and connection.
At Wild Moon Lodge, rest is not understood as an escape from life.
It is a practice of relationship.
- Returning to ourselves.
- Returning to one another.
- Returning to Country.
- Returning to the stories, values and rhythms that sustain us.
When the body feels safe enough to rest, it often begins to remember.
Wild Moon Lodge offers restorative, educational and ceremony-informed spaces for rest, reflection and reconnection.
These offerings are not a substitute for medical care, mental health care, crisis support or individual clinical advice.
Please seek support from your own health practitioner for personal medical or mental health concerns.
Keeper of the Hearth
Wild Moon Lodge is held by Dr Danielle Arabena, a Torres Strait Islander GP, educator, storyteller, cultural safety leader, restorative yoga and meditation teacher, and creator and conduit of Sacred Ama Songlines®.
For more than twenty years, Danielle’s work has explored what helps people heal through medicine, story, culture and relationship.
As a doctor, she has witnessed the impact that chronic stress, trauma, grief and disconnection can have on the nervous system, the body and health.
As a Torres Strait Islander woman descended from the Meriam Mer people of Zenadth Kes, the Torres Strait, she is also shaped by knowledge systems that understand wellbeing as relational, arising through connection with body, story, community, Country, ancestors and the living world.
Wild Moon Lodge is where these worlds gently meet.
It is not about leaving science behind.
It is about recognising that evidence, relationship, embodiment and ancient wisdom can sit together around the same hearth.
Every gathering is an invitation to slow down, soften and remember what has always lived within you.
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.
