Out of Isolation - Urban Day Retreat
When: Sunday 7 December 2025, 10:00am - 5pm
Where: Augustine Hall, 2 Minona Street, Hawthorn,
Cost: $80 + dana (donation) for Jess and Ruth’s teaching
Teachers: Ruth Langford & Jess Huon
Do you want to embody what you care about?
Do you want to connect with beauty, aliveness, and joy, as you face what’s hard?
Do you want to forge a more robust community here to handle collective challenges?
Do you feel we need more of us standing together, in times of trouble?
It can be easy to withdraw or collapse, when faced with difficulty.
Come and explore waking up eros and inspiration - to resource your connection to yourself, each other, Country, our environment. To resist further cycles of harm that separate us.
Join Ruth and Jess for another powerful collaboration – Jess from her Dharma lens, Ruth from her First Nations lens, both from their lived experience. To shake us open into connected and fresher ways of being and doing. Out of isolation - into an alive and responsive flow.
To shake us open into connected and fresher ways of being and doing. Out of isolation.
Perhaps we have more capacity than we think.
Every-one welcome. However you are.
How might we come together in respectful ways? Be nourished by a deeper dreaming that practice points us towards.
Not to exit. But to enter and act from a deeper place.
About co-teacher Ruth Langford
With a diverse background in cultural arts, environmental & social justice, youth work and Indigenous Medicines Therapy, Ruth Langford divides her time into various projects. They all reflect her passion for uniting ancient traditions and contemporary innovations for optimistic action and healing for her People.
As a Song woman and StoryTeller, Ruth draws upon the cultural knowledge of her Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung mother and holds cultural responsibilities within Lutruwita’s Palawa community where she was born.
Ruth Langford holds a Masters of Indigenous Health & Wellbeing, is a certified Holotropic Breathwork practitioner and has spent decades travelling the world sitting with Indigenous Elders, Senior Knowledge Keepers and World Wisdom teachers. Ruth’s vision is to connect people to the ancient wisdom of Indigenous teachings in a contemporary and relevant context through the expression of cultural arts, ceremony and ritual.
As the founder of Nayri Niara – a Centre for the Arts of Healing – and creative director of Nayri Niara Good Spirit Festival, Ruth Langford has gained a reputation as a capable facilitator and coordinator of effective capacity-building programs which have, as their guiding principles, connection to Country, Culture and to the Sacred.