Online weaving circle with Indigenous weaving elders from Arnhem Land

René Bahloo is a qualified installation artist, facilitator and project coordinator, with a special interest in thepractice and philosophy of basket weaving, using natural plant fibres. She shares her knowledgethrough weaving circles and facilitates grassroots journeys to remote Indigenous Australian andAfrican communities, for deep connection to land, culture, healing and traditional weaving. Renéalso collaborates with Indigenous weaving elders to create large scale pieces and experiences of intercultural connection through weaving. She has presentedat a number of conferences and been involved as a lead artist in Floating Land Environmental Artevent in Noosa, Australia, and has made sculptural works for festivals and competitions. Rene’spassions stem from her experience of Australian Indigenous culture, leading to doctoral studiesbased on Indigenous culture, women’s business, creativity and weaving journeys to wisdom. Hergoal is for us all to weave our world into a better place, to weave ourselves in healing andwellbeing, to weave our environment with passion and purpose.

René Bahloo

Yarrawonga

This weaving circle is an opportunity to join the fun of our main event, from the comfort of your home: The main event:Weaving camp with Arnhem Land Indigenous elders 2021at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/weaving-camp-with-arnhem-land-indigenous-elders-2021-tickets-147392776763This opportunity:It is online, streamed on zoom, directly from our physical location in the Northern Territory. It's a weaving circle rather than class tuition, where you can ask questions and engage in the weaving practice as well as an opportunity to share with us onsite, from your home wherever in the world that might be. Previous weaving experience is required although a tuition video will be sent out beforehand if you need to learn before sitting with us. You will have the opportunity to interact with others in the online cohort in small breakout rooms, at selected times. This is the blurb for the weeklong camp immersion onsite:Spend a week camping in a beautiful location, abundantly planted with weaving and medicinal plants. Learn from the Indigenous elders how to use these plants for dye as well as to prepare materials for basket weaving, before you relax together and weave a basket under their watchful eyes. In joyful conversation, learn about the medicines that thrive in nature around you, and in the nurturing container of sacred space, sit in deep contemplation of life, self and existence. Engage in a process of deep enquiry through fun daily forays into the energetics of healing and wholing, through nature-based practices and sitting together in council.This is an opportunity to deepen in relationship with your soul, together with other like-minded humans. To sit with traditional Australian weaving elders, and commune as equals, while being embraced by the natural world that so profoundly supports your being. Rough outline of main activities:- Day trips to gather pandanus fibre and dyes.- Learning to prepare dyes and fibre- Learning to weave with pandanus fibre-Morning/evening sharing circles-Nature/ soul practices-A day trip to a Litchfield national Park waterhole/waterfall-Camping and cooking in communal village style with basic amenities and camp kitchen.- Possibility for 2 workshop day visitors on the weekend.- Online three hour weaving circle and Q &amp; A on Sunday, by zoom.This week-long deep-dive will be facilitated by Rene Bahloo, who brings with her a wealth of life experience walking alongside Indigenous Australian as well as African elders and healers. She is a weaver of life, a 'medicine weaver', a fun-filled and quirky human of lightheartedness yet much depth of being and knowledge just waiting to be shared. She will interlace the weave of this transformative and healing journey with nature connection practices, deep sharing circles and energetic alignment practices that enhance and expand your sense of meaning and aliveness. This immersion/ camp is the result of a way of being that favours an attitude of flow and creative manifestation, in surrender to the current circumstances involving Covid and in consideration of the needs and safety of remote communities. This has ignited the emergence of this new format and location away from the communities but close to everything else that makes these trips so transformative. It is also an opportunity to introduce ancient practices of soul awakening and nurturing from a shamanic and eco-psychology perspective, Rene's passion and present focus of study.Rene's previous journeys allowed participants to enter and experience aspects of remote community life, first hand, under the wings of local traditional weaving elders. These journeys have been placed on hold for 2021, and are anticipated to recommence in 2022. For photos and stories of these previous trips, Check out #arnhemweavingjourney on facebook or instagram (copy and paste that into the search box in either of these two platforms, and press the magnifying glass).BYO tent and mattress.

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