SPACE HOLDING

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 Astara offers empowering healing & visioning sessions that interweave:

+ Transpersonal Art Therapy with an experienced, qualified practitioner.

+ Tarot, Numerology & Oracle Readings.

+ Energy Healing Treatments (REIKI, Crystal & Shamanic).

+ Past Life Transfiguration. 

+ Hatha Yoga Guidance (Yoga Peeth, Rishikesh, India). 

+ Body Art Therapy & Adornment Rituals. 

+ Dream Analysis / Exploration. 

+ Creative Consultancy / Dream Building. 

+ Life Balance Mapping & Strategy. 

+ Archetypal Wisdom & Integration. 

* In-Person & Online via Phone & Zoom.

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YOGA GUIDANCE

Astara offers nourishing Yoga experiences for individuals, couples & groups.

Astara's Yoga Guidance is available locally in Bellingen, NSW as well as

& as a visiting teacher to festivals, conferences & retreats throughout Australia & overseas.

+ Guides varied classes including Genlte, Slow Flow, Classical Hatha, Hatha Relase & Vinyassa,

at Yoga Bellingen, Urunga, Brierfield, Coffs Harbour & interstate.

Founder of Ferry Street Yoga Studio, Urunga, NSW.

+ Founder of Self Love Temple, VIC.

+ Astara's approach to safe, gentle connection & strengthening of heart, body & mind has been applied to a variety of needs & participants,

including tailored embodiment in sensitve spaces for those who have survived trafficking in Nepal, to pyschiatric wards in the US.

Astara has incorporated the physical, emotional & pyshocological benefits of yoga into workshops

with tweens & teens in school programs, to adults working within the corporate ladder.

You can access Astara's Yoga experiences with one on one guidance, regular local classes or book her for your next group wellness event

for a tailored, considered approach to embodiment, restoration & creative release.

Astara uses her life experiences of journeying through both health & injury to provide classes

with awareness of a wide range of bodies & human experiences.

Tearaining - Rishikesh Yoga Peeth, 2012

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RITES OF PASSAGE

Astara specializes in Initiation & Transformational Ritual & Rites of Passage, with over 10 years experience guiding & supporting Youth & Adults at important life turning points.

+ Founder of the RELEASE Teenage Creative Rite of Passage Program delivering over 20 Programs in Schools & Youth Organizations over 7 years.

+ Cofounder of THE INTEGRATED MOTHER - Motherhood Initiation Retreats.

+ Trained with TED Talker Dr Arne Rubenstein - The Rite of Passage Framework.

+ Trained with Tanishka THE MOON WOMAN - Inner Goddess Initiation Bali.

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BODY ART THERAPY

Astara offers a unique form of Colour Shamanism combining her experience as a Professional Body Painter

& skillful Art Therapist to co-create inner transformation through the powerful Art of Adornment. 

Body Art Therapy combines Ritual, Talk Therapy & Energy work to address body image & other needs via honouring.

+ Co-founder of THE I AM HUMAN Body Painting projects exhibited in the AUS & the US in collaboration with New Zealand Filmmaker & Photographer Valetta Sówka & The Michigan Eating Disorders Alliance.

+ Exhibition & Partnership with Footscray Community Arts Centre.

+ Corporate Clients include Preface Films, Ansell, Melbourne Zoo & Virgin.

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BODY IMAGE

Astara has been a positive body image activist for over 15 years after self-healing from an Eating Disorder & working internationally with ED foundations to bring awareness & healing.

+ Founder of Body Holiday, Adult & Adolescent Body Image Programs.

+ Workshops & Exhibitions with Michigan Eating Disorders Alliance, US.

+ Exhibition & Partnerships with The Butterfly Foundation, AUS.

+ Eating Disorder Mentor & Workshop Facilitator with Eating Disorders Victoria, AUS.

+ Co-creator of the I AM HUMAN Documentary with Valetta Sówka.

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VISIONARY ART

Astara creates Sacred Art Portals as tools & talismans for wellbeing that serve to draw inner resources out of the Psyche. The mission behind Astara's creations is that of using therapeutic colours & artistic objects to spark a sense of vitality, harmony & connection with something wondrous inside of us of all.

Release, catharsis & inspiration are all possible through channeled symbols & organic forms.

+ Finalist The Waterhouse Art prize.

+ Winner of Royal South Australian Institute of Art Youth Art Prize.

+ Bachelor of Visual Communication, University of South Australia.

+ Live Painting for Sporstgirl, Lulu Lemon, Footscray Community Arts Centre & Rainbow Serpent Festival.

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PERFORMANCE ART

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Astara combines Ritual, Tertiary Theatre training & Art Therapy techniques to create powerful, engaging Performance Art incorporating Spoken Word, Wearable Art, Body Painting, Live Painting, Dance & Freestyle Oracle Rituals.

+ Performances in AUS & the US.

+ VAMFF (Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival).

+ Cofounder of Performance Art Collective AWKWARD/AMAZING.

+ Performer at All Hallows Eve, Opulence, Neurotica, Bojangles Music Festival, Trash Parlour, Rainbow Serpent Festival.

+ Feature Spoken Word Artist at Mother Tongue & Venus Rising Melbourne.

+ Ritual Performer at Tribe One Heart Beat & Second Story Studios Events.

+ ART BATTLE Melbourne.

+ Spoken Word / Rap - Groovetrain, Love Fest, FaeParade Ball,

+ Dance / Performance Artist - Storyland, Initiation Festival, Urunga Fiesta, Earth Frequency, Tanglewood, Tijuana Cartel, Wide Open Spaces 

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