Petra Lane - Global Pilgrim

Grounded. What a beautiful word to describe being at home in our body, anchored in the present, connected to ourselves and the earth.

It’s one of the many words that describes how I’m feeling today after an incredible couple days returning to self after being thoroughly ravished by covid, and in honour of the turning cycle of Autumn Equinox and the New Moon today.

Extra replenishment has been required so I got a strong massage, hit the bathhouse for sauna and cold plunge, did movement, journaling and sitting with awareness… ate all the delicious and decadent foods… rolled around on the earth for a bit, then watched Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds and had a good cry, lol.

Sigh. It’s been so good. Sometimes we just need extra attention, and we need it all at once.

Rolling into this new cycle with a grounded sense of pleasure, and a light and lovely feeling of clarity.

Sunday nights Autumn Equinox Ceremony will continue these themes of balance, replenishment and care.

It will be a release of all that has been, a somatic exploration of the delicious now, and the inspired new, held in deep nature. Join us to dance your dance x

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Calling all humans who enjoy celebrating life - and who want to close this (huge!) year out with gratitude and honour. TOMORROW NIGHT THIS BABY IS DROPPING ♥️

Integrate the themes and learnings of 2022 in a sacred, devotional space and clear the way for a nourishing 2023. We have 8 tickets left! 🦋

Link in bio 💦

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Feeling even closer to you today Markham my darling, and for that I’m so grateful. Feeling close with you these days brings me the sweetest joy.

I miss you so damn much, brother. I wish with my whole heart that things could’ve been different Markham. I wish I had known, and seen, and understood. I wish you had banged down my door until I had known, and seen, and understood. I wish together we could have made it through.

I love you, darling. Am yearning for your presence back on earth with us, with me. And yet… I love feeling you so close in spirit. I love how you just laughed with Innica and I on the phone just now. I love how you roll your eyes with me at some random thing, cosying on the couch feeling your presence as I watch Handmaids or The Crown (especially The Crown, you big queen), feeling your jaunty walk next to me on the way to the shops. I miss you, and yet somehow I get you even more now. It’s such a strange polarity, this - jewel, of constant connection, within the pain of such profound loss.

I’m glad for your life, my love. Happy 52nd Birthday, our special man. I’m honouring your life, your death, and everything in between Markham. All the choices. All the craziness. All the love… especially your quest to know and embody true love Markham. Am feeling you so deep in that.

I’ve got my little hand around your neck always, my darling … as I know you have yours around mine.

Loving you today and all days.

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Have you ever caught up with a good friend and upon hugging them realise it’s been days or weeks even since you were lovingly touched?

And in that moment of connection you feel your body start to melt as your breath deepens and everything within and around you starts to slow down.

In the hyper busy and individualised world we live in, our basic human needs like loving touch, deep listening, meaningful connection and self-soothing can get missed amidst the hustle.

We simply don’t live in a culture that supports us in staying connected to ourselves and those in our community.

Wild Heart Retreat is a balm for the soul in these disembodied times. It is an invitation to slow your internal pace, and receive deeply amidst the beauty of connected living.

Meet others in your absolute authenticity and relish in the nourishment of being held completely in unconditional love.

Hold and be HELD in total presence.

Experience profound intimacy through the vulnerability of being real and open with yourself and others.

Wild Heart begins in just a few weeks and the Early Bird finishes in a few days.

All details here:

https://events.eventzilla.net/e/wild-heart-retreat-october-2022-2138581213

Stunning photo of our November Wild Heart group last year ✨
📷 Lara Pape

Even in the most challenging of times we must keep moving.

We must be brave.

Brave enough to feel.

To be with the heartbreak and exquisite tenderness of our humanness.

Tomorrow night will be a celebration of endings and new beginnings. Join us to dance your dance x

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The Spring Equinox occurring on Sept 21st is an ancient celebration when the sun burns equally with the dark of the night.

It's a time for giving thanks & releasing what has been & celebrating new life coming ahead.

Let's continue this tradition of our ancestors, connecting deeply with ourselves & tribe as we welcome in the rebirth energy of Spring!

✨ ITS TIME TO BLOOM ✨

Join us for an epic 5.5-hour event held on sacred land in the heart of Brisbane as we sit in deep ceremony working with transformational shamanic & somatic processes to dissolve limitations and mark our arrow for the pathway ahead...

Expanding into the truth of our most authentic, powerful & loving selves.

This special journey will focus on releasing & integrating 2022 & creating / visioning our new pathway ahead for the rest of the year.

With everything unfolding currently on a global level, it is a hugely important time to cleanse our emotional, energetic and metaphysical fields, and connect deeply with self & each other.

Miracles occur when we ground our prayers into living form through dance - time and again I have seen magic unfold when we commit to the life of our dreams.

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SPRING EQUINOX SACRED CACAO CEREMONY - BRISBANE.

Date: Saturday 24th (THIS WEEKEND)
Time: 3:30PM- 9PM
Location: St Mary's Anglican Church, Kangaroo Point

Limited tickets remaining!

Secure your place via the link in the comments x

"I have been to two Cacao Ceremonies now and I love it! I haven’t felt this much joy and love and excitement for something in a very long time, if not ever! The process of movement through dance is truly magical and I feel so enlivened and inspired afterward. This is an experience that I want to integrate into my life from this one to the next." - Rose

There's an incredible magic that happens when men & women come together and start dancing ...

When the walls and busyness of life come tumbling down and we meet in the realm of rawness, realness and a deep pulsating truth …

When we lovingly move beyond our ‘inner island’ to touch with the vast mystery - the crystalline essence - that sits at the wild heart of our conditioning, our sweet limitations, our stagnancy.

This is the essence of the Wild Heart Retreat.

4 safe and nourishing days of pristine nature, self-connection, epic embodiment, and deep sharing of the heart.

Each immersion reliably ends in a natural overflowing inner alignment and blissfulness.

A sense of profound unity, within.

You are invited to join the beautiful group forming for October’s retreat - the Super Early Bird finishes on Sept 8th.

No dance or other experience is required.

** An 8-month Graduate Program is offered thereafter to thread the technologies in daily life: Embodiment, zen koan dyad, nervous system optimisation, self-inquiry and more.

All bookings and info in bio

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Any skill takes practice.

If you would like to cultivate the SKILL of how to stay present, aware and relaxed in your heart...

While enjoying/increasing the current of sensual life-force that naturally occurs between the masculine/feminine expressions of life...

This workshop is your place 🙂

Artful. Nourishing. Expanding.

We are 3 weeks away from gathering in a cauldron of a deep intimacy with LIFE 🌹

Link to the event in bio 💟

EMBODIED | TRANSFORMATIVE | INTENTIONAL
Ceremony bridges all these worlds and I love it. Saturday night we gather for the deep stuff on sacred land and you are invited to sit with us.

Ecstatic dance, bonfire, water cleanse, cacao medicine, dinner. And so many beautiful processes to deepen and expand into all we are 🦋

Happy Almost Autumn Equinox everyone 🍁

* If you’re experiencing financial awareness at this time, reach out. Everyone is welcome.

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OMG people are so beautiful. To all of you that have come in contact with me especially in the past year, and played with me in various different ways; I am just so grateful for your beautiful essences, the opportunity to feel you & receive you is freaking delightful to me. All the different little ways we share and connect, through email, likes and comments, in Ceremony, deep connects, hanging, laughing, workshops, whatever. I just love being me and I love being with all of you, in all the different little miraculous myriad ways in which we bubble up together. Feeling so freaking grateful for the work I do, which I love so much, for the time we get to touch each other in deep & profound ways, for the mutual honour & respect we share, for the challenges, growths and truth bombs. Loving it ALL. Feeling so much love & joy to be walking this path, sharing it with other awesome crazies. Love us crazies. Thank god for us 🙏🏼💞

This morning I dropped Aleara off at school, came home, ate food…

And went back to bed for 2.5 hours

That sleep was nectar of the gods 🍯

I nap often (even without the strange bout of insomnia lately), and always feel sooo much pleasure, calm and a quiet joy that radiates to everyone afterward

This is a permission slip/reminder to follow your body and nap whenever you need

It’s an elixir for our nervous system

Lots of women are aching to nap or even just lay with a book during the day -

Do it babes.

Your slowness, pleasure and joy with benefit not only you, but all of humanity ♥️

In your light, I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you,
but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
- Rumi

Morning fam from the Sunshine Coast!☀️ This year I’ve mainly been a hermit working on my new website & 1:1’s - which I’m super excited to share more about soon 🙌🏻 I’ve also come up here to the Sunshine Coast for a lush country getaway (soo happy) to write the facilitator guide for Wild Heart 2, my 5-night retreat which starts next week (18 of us!) … and is sparking biggg fire in my heart 💃🏻 It’s a progression retreat so only for those that have experienced Wild Heart 1 - I’ve got tingles of anticipation about it! 🤩 More updates to come on new retreats, Equinox workshop and Wild Heart’s beautiful pathway soon. In the meantime, I’m off to talk to the cows. Happy Friday everyone ♥️

Oh! Sth East QLD peeps - Intimacy & Attraction is on tomorrow night if you’d like to come play in the ravishing realm of erotic friction 🌹Link is in the bio.

After a night of crazy insomnia where I was wide awake at 3am I have resigned to the fact that I’m going to feel a little groggy today. I just did some early morning yoga in my pj’s to try remedy this in some way

After 2 sold-out retreats I'm superrr delighted to launch the next Wild Heart immersion! If you’re feeling the pull for a somatic, relational and shamanic healing retreat in nature, we're baaaack and more powerful than ever 🙌🏼

This retreat will shake you up in all the best ways, you didn’t come here to live a mediocre life, and the current funky-ass landscape isn’t helping by muffling all the parts than are longing for more.

More passion, more self-expression, more juiciness, more freedom!

Wild Heart will meet all those parts and set them ablaze, resetting the internal landscape back to a wildly loving F**K YES, with your inner badass singing loudly in joyful abandon…

Not giving a toss who can hear, in fact, recognising that your true nature is LOVE and that LOVE always seeks to know itself, and so - sing it even louder, baby.

“I’ve been in many, many groups all over the world, facilitated by internationally renowned leaders in transformational work. The standard of Wild Heart was the highest with the best I have experienced. Our immersion has cracked me open to my fullness and life. It was an amazingly heartfelt, real, natural weekend of family being seen, in their fullness. It was divine. Thank you. Your ability to create and maintain a container strong, and safe enough, for all of us to lean into, blows me away. I am grateful. So very grateful.” DANIEL

If you’re feeling the pull for a whole-being reset and wanting to experience deeper embodiment, fuller aliveness and ever more refined joy, it’s happening April 8th on Bundjalung country in the Byron Hinterland.

Check out the link in my bio or DM me for all detail 💃🏻🌿🔥

Oooo, so excited to share Wild Heart Retreat, in the Byron hinterland is confirmed! Borders open, huzzah! 🙌🏻

This venue itself is uniquely special, located in the rolling hills with its own pristine flowing creek, tawny owls, cockatoos and turtles. I’ve chosen to offer it in April, with great respect to nature, before the creek becomes literally too freezing to enjoy.

The food is nourishment for the soul, much of it picked from the organic gardens onsite and cooked with love.

The Turkish steam room, incredible saltwater pool and hot showers invigorate the whole system with a bang.

I’ve rented the entire property and will be taking a smaller group this time. Camping is available for the financially aware.

If you’re feeling the pull for a somatic, relational and shamanic healing retreat in nature and would like more info, see the link in my bio or send me a PM
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This. 🦋

Helllooo New Lunar Year of the Tiger!

Literal feels as Venus and the Moon shift through the cosmos and the year actually begins 🌙

A reminder that the next few days are powerful for aligning our course with heartfelt intention for the year ahead.

And Tiger is king! Confidence, leadership and power are amplified this year, bringing strength to our commitments and aligned actions.

At the centre of everything is our commitment to our lived experience of (self) love. How can we bring our power and leadership to strengthen our experience of inner love? If I’ve learnt anything, it’s that the power of my committed presence within, anchors *everything*, and radiates a fragrance that is true, pure and wholesome: I’m going for more of that this year.

Being a year of the water (tiger), creativity, reflection and emotionality are also heightened. What a great opportunity to master our inner world! UP FOR IT.

What are your commitments / aligned actions for the year ahead? Have you had time to carve out ritual space to get aligned and set the course?

🐅 Mine are:

- Deepening the quality of my personal practice: more ritual time working with zen koan, self intimacy, movement practice - TOP. The endless fountain of love: is supreme.

- Dedicated time for writing le book (whoop!)

- Body in peak condition alongside to suppleness and flexibility (I want to be able to backflip again by years end : excited!)

- And a few others that are lighting my heart up.

I have a heap of courses and events happening this year if you’d like formal space to align and connect. We start with New Moon Circle tomorrow in West End - all other details of retreats, workshops etc are in the bio link.

Off now to the hills to immerse in water in celebration of this new year, it’s alllll about the fresh, baby. Time to run wild 💦🐅💦

Cosmic feels. The experience of Venus shifting through space and the year finally beginning. Hello 2022! 💫

No words 🙏🏼♥️

✨ SATURDAY! WILD HUMAN EMBODIMENT ✨

A few tickets still available for this event QLD family.

Come dance, connect, move, share and release with us! Shift stifled energy in your body, your mind and your perceptions through connection, release and movement. It’s definately the time for it!

PM if funds are an issue ♥️

When you’re on a beautiful afternoon hike with your 15 yr old teen, emerald trees swaying in the wind, waterfall around the corner, feeling all the joys of family time in wild nature, and the teen (who’s walking behind you) says:

“Do you know what your walk reminds me of, Mum?”

“Tell me darling.”

“It reminds me of a fat little goblin.”

“Oomph.”

“No really, you actually waddle like a fat little goblin.” And she proceeds to illustrate the exact look.

And it’s not flattering.

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Thanks honey.

After getting over the initial brutality, I’ve now rather taken to it and am thinking of changing my Instagram handle. You can find me henceforth 🤟🏼

Nothing more precious than being held in her arms and feeling her breath rise and fall 🙏🏼🥰 ❤️

Shared for my fellow love-pilgrims ♥️

“They couldn’t go to the pool, so the people met and swam in the ocean and lakes, and built saunas together.

They couldn’t go to restaurants so the people had dinner parties and potlucks.

They couldn’t go to clubs so the people had epic dance parties.

They couldn’t go to the gym so the people ran up mountains, lifted rocks, chopped firewood, trained in each others’ garages.

They couldn’t go to grocery stores so they gathered wild herbs and farmed.

They couldn’t go to sports events so they created their own.

They were told they couldn’t travel but found ways.

They lost their jobs so they created and found new ones that were more aligned with their values.

They lost friends and family but found newer, greater true connections - and built community.

Everything that happened was - a lot.

But they never felt oppressed.

In fact, freer than ever.

What we build now is the future.

I wouldn’t miss this era for anything.”

- Author Unknown

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2022 summed 🙌🏻

Today’s adventure 🦋

Hi Friends! 🦋

Here is my favourite ritual to close off the year, I wanted to share it with you as I’ve been doing it for years now, and it always creates a very satisfying feeling of completion & gratitude 😊

It also sparks my desires for the following year, which I flesh out especially on the first New Moon in January (this year - January 3rd).

Here it is:

- Light a candle / make a fire
- Go through the whole year and recap all major events
- List on a piece of paper, your TOP 10 GRATITUDES for the year
- Bless it, thank it, say goodbye, and BURN IT
- Have a lil boogie/shake/yoga to move the year out of your body

Then…

- Write out your TOP 10 GRATITUDES for the following year, as though it’s the end of the year and you’re retrospectively looking back on what’s occurred
- Move THAT through your body!
- Then let it go

These simple rituals create a beautiful feeling of ALIGNMENT. What it’s all about 👊🏼

One of my top gratitudes of 2021 was being with Sequoia my pooch while she died. It was a powerful awakening for me on what’s important, and I share this photo of us with the tenderest joy in my heart, for all of her beauty, and that incredible passage of time she created, that offered me so much.

2021 has been a powerful interplay of growth, joy and alignment, and I am so grateful for the time/love we have shared, be it through social media, workshops or retreats.

I so look forward to loving, dancing & growing with you even more through 2022.

Heading out to the bush now for ritual time!

Happy New Beginnings family.
♥️ Petra

Good morning from Buddina Beach 💦

Merry Loving beautiful fam, from bed!! Hope you’re feeling all the delicious & lazy Boxing Day feels, and that this awesome little season is filled with deep pleasure, laughter & allll the love. Loverama to the max from our lil family to yours ♥️🎄

Awww I found a nest outside my new home! 🥰 Treasures of the natural world 🙏🏼💕🙏🏼

Calling all people who enjoy celebrating life and love - and who want to close this epic year out with a bang!! TOMORROW NIGHT THIS BABY IS DROPPING 🙌🏻♥️🙌🏻 Join us!! Clear the space for an enriching 2022. We have 8 tickets left! 🦋

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We all yearn for ever-deepening intimacy in our lives, but most of us rely on the spontaneous, magic moments of “it” occurring naturally.

Intimacy is an ability that can be learned, trained, refined and deepened. Brought alive through a deep connection to self & (sometimes - although not necessarily) through the vehicle of sexuality, intimacy can be an eternal dance of awakening, ecstasy, and love. It starts with an embodied relationship with ones-self and can be then shared as a gift, an art form that gives new life to our relationships & the people around us.

Tomorrow night is our mixed-gender practice evening that focuses on the cultivation of intimacy & sexual polarity, through an integration of knowledge & practice we can apply in life right away.

This evening's practice ground is the ultimate date night for couples - exploring the interplay of heart/erotic tension in an uber-clean, gentle yet dynamic container.

And it’s the penultimate date night for the independents!! Superrrr delicious & fulfilling. Very clean energetically - I take pride in the 'clean' container this work upholds. No leakiness. Please read testimonials to get a sense.

We generally have between 20 - 30 people attend with a good mix of open-hearted men and women.

Any questions - reach out!! 🦋

Link in bio.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
"Petra's Intimacy & Attraction Workshop reached far beyond my expectations. Petra was skilful in providing a save and nurturing container among the participants, which allowed me to experience parts of myself in ways that offered a fresh perspective on the role intimacy and attraction plays out in my life. The format was gently challenging and accessible by everyone who attended. Now I feel like I have a fresh lens to view my day-to-day relationships and a new understanding of how my expression of love can be a potent source of creative energy for others."
JC - Male

“Absolutely beautiful! Gentle, safe process. I felt nervous coming into the space but soon felt held, loved & respected. Definitely recommend if you want to become comfortable with the uncomfortable & to empower your sensual full self!”
RP – Female

Super happy to share this news!!! 🙌🏻♥️🙌🏻

Lunch with the trees in Montville 💕

Super looking forward to this event tomorrow. Inquiry work has been one of the most direct portals into truth for me, big ups to my dear friend Jess TOM] for making this available to families through play, connection and fun! Superrr important. Who’s coming!?

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This is an opportunity for children to be in close proximity while parents “do the work”, and for parents to fully see how their children experience this world.⁣⁣
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Take a journey with Bindi in her unique style of Yoga incorporating personal insights and body awareness with the intention of transformation and connection.⁣⁣
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Based on “The Work of Byron Katie”, Tammy facilitates you through a process of Self-Inquiry. The process of questioning is kind as it honours you have the answers you are seeking.⁣⁣
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Date and time⁣⁣
Sun, 28 November 2021⁣⁣
10:00 am – 3:00 pm AEST⁣⁣
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Grab your tickets here by heading over to the link in our bio 👆🏽