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One day retreat to 

Activate Your Alchemy

This is a unique 1-day immersion into a boutique retreat experience, to love yourself deeply with kindness. Carefully curated to allow you to reconnect into your heart space at your pace, and call forward your positive and empowered parts like self worth, deservability, and self-confidence. 

The Alchemy Retreat Day has something to offer every woman seeking to learn how to create and implement more peace, ease & grace, balance, and calm into her life. 

This Retreat provides the participant with an opportunity to connect inwards within your heart.

You will experience a variety of holistic and alternative practices to soothe your nervous system, reconnect with that part called Self-Love, clear out limiting beliefs and create an abundance seed of the life you dream of.

Pay in Full – $395 (early bird $350 opens 1 June 2025)

Payment Plans available, NDIS friendly

Location – The Creative Wellness Studio, Contingent Street, Trafalgar

The next Alchemy Retreat is scheduled for Saturday 25th October 2025.

Are you ready to carve out some time for yourself to learn ways to sit in the discomfort of unwanted big feelings, and receive the felt experience of true freedom and calm in your body?

This is your opportunity to do more than simply disconnect from your daily distractions. I have carved out a space to allow you to relish some quality me-time, and to deeply nurture your heart space.

I have named this unique transformation experience ‘Alchemy’. It’s offered as a small Group experience. There are only 10 seats in the circle.

The next Alchemy Retreat is scheduled for Saturday 25th October 2025.

***Please note ticket sales will close Friday 26th September 2025 to allow for finalisation of participant handbooks, catering + ordering of items for goodie bags.***

I often get asked “what does Alchemy mean?”

Alchemy is defined by the Oxford dictionary as “the medieval forerunner of chemistry, concerned with the transmutation of matter, in particular with attempts to convert base metals into gold or find a universal elixir.“

Oxford Dictionary recognises the reference used today as a “seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination.”

So let’s apply that to you beautiful, your busy life, and how well you apply self care (your alchemy) to yourself!

In the busyness of your daily lives, how much energy and effort do you dedicate to your own process of transformation? 

How well do you invest in yourself to find your internal gold?

Just the word, alchemy itself is beautiful and rolls off the tongue. I find myself transfixed with the use of it everywhere as I embrace a new depth of transition in my life – the embracing of all of my life.

We will work collectively as a group, to connect and embrace your own unique alchemy through Heart Connection Practice.

I utilise a number of relaxation and healing modalities including Mental Health Counseling, Intuitive Heart Meditation, Wellness Coaching, Resource Therapy, NLP, and CBT to provide participants with a gentle and peaceful practice. 

Why combine modalities?

I created a unique blend of modality tools to enhance your capacity to experience and learn what works best for you. There are a myriad of techniques, tools and strategies that are shared within the retreat AND the retreat resource portal. 

In my personal and professional experience, the reality of healing is that no single modality or tool is the single answer for your self-love journey. The key to change is to know what tool to use in what situation.

As your Change Facilitator for Alchemy Activation, I recognise everyone will arrive with their own unique collection of experiences, tools and resources. No previous training or experience is required, all you will need is an open mind and open heart.

Working together, I will endeavour to provide you with a variety of opportunities to embrace the felt experience of peace and calm. Connecting with the feeling of peace enables you to consciously break down resistance to change. In turn, this enables you to learn how to restore calm in your life for the future, not just this day’s experience.

The combination of tools empowers participants to accept the invitation to take a quantum leap in their own personal spiritual growth. When you activate the power of your natural-born alchemy, you enable light-charged transformation.

People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out.
But when the darkness sets in
their beauty is revealed only
if there is a light from within. 

– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Are you ready to light up from the inside?

Learning the practice of Heart Connection is a gorgeous way to gently release and cleanse negative emotions from your spiritual heart.

Participants will receive and experience:

    • Printed reflective journal and complimentary e-book
    • Self-inquiry and mindfulness practice with guided intuitive meditations and breathwork to explore topics like self acceptance, limiting beliefs and self worth
    • Experience the art of self love through meditation + resource therapy (to map your power resources and bring them out on deck to steer you forward)
    • Gentle targeted breath + body exercises and movements to shift stagnant energy and restore your flow
    • VIP goodie bag containing boutique Alchemy Essence (designed by Karen), crystal, selection of affirmation cards
    • catering included (morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea)

all rolled into a single day so you can prioritise yourself.

Gift yourself this day to retreat with Change Facilitator – Mental Health Counselor, Resource Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Kinesiologist, Intuitive Meditation Facilitator, and Wellness Coach –  Kaz Humphries, so that you too can immerse into the light of your heart, embrace some deep rest, be nurtured and come back to yourself.

This will be a gentle rewilding to restore your natural and uncultivated state. This retreat has been designed for you to return to your heart’s natural state of expression – love and joy.

We shall work as a women’s circle, harnessing the energies of the collective, and shedding the domestication of the external world. Together we shall sift through your stories, thoughts and feelings and support you to align to your authentic space of heart-felt joy that resonates a vibration deeply through your body.

This retreat is designed to support you to step away from the busyness of daily life, turn off your phone and simply untangle the thoughts and feelings that reside deep within. Through mindful breathwork, we shall relearn the breath of calm. When you can deeply exhale, you will have finally arrived at a space to allow your light to shine, to renew the miraculous and unique creature you are. We shall invoke the frequency of your rewilding.

Wait no more!

Registration for the Alchemy Retreat is now open. If this resonates for you, pre-register your details and receive your invitation to purchase your seat at this exclusive event. 

Payment plans available.

Your investment in this event is $395.

Ticket sales close Friday 26th September to allow for event planning, catering and ordering of items for goodie bags.

Meet Your Retreat Facilitator

Introducing Karen Humphries

Karen Humphries (call me Kaz) has lived in Gippsland for the past 30 years. Karen has studied a broad range of therapeutic modalities, where she learned the importance of women joining together as community and sharing resources with each other.

Karen is a compassionate and dedicated mental health therapist specializing in meditation, hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and wellbeing. As a multi-modality practitioner, Karen integrates these powerful techniques together within her practice to support women to navigate their life’s transitions and challenges.

Karen calls herself a Change Facilitator, and supports you to access your old stories and wounds, and undertake a unique transformation. Her approach is both playful and profound, fostering a safe and nurturing environment for clients to explore their inner worlds, establish a strong sense of self, and cultivate greater confidence and self-compassion.

With a deep love for people and a genuine curiosity about their unique stories, Karen is committed to guiding her clients on a journey of self-discovery and healing. She brings warmth, empathy, spirituality, and a touch of humor to each session, believing that therapy can be both a transformative and enjoyable experience.

Outside of her practice, Karen enjoys spending time with her family, as well as being the human servant to her chocolate labradors. A prolific reader, she often immerses herself in books that expand her understanding of the human experience. She also loves to hike and immerse into nature!

Her passion for personal growth and connection extends beyond her professional life, making her a dynamic and inspiring presence both in and out of the therapy room. Karen embraces the belief that when you can understand your body’s stress signals you can proactively create long lasting change in your life.

Kaz is a clinical practitioner, retreat facilitator, key note speaker, podcaster and author.

Testimonials

 

I specifically found the clearing meditations most benefical and transformative. This retreat has enhanced my approach to choose to bloom. I most appreciated the group energy dynamics. I’m so happy with my felt experience from each module, and the food was amazing. I especially appreciated and enjoyed Karen’s explaination of processes before commencing each activity, followed by group debriefing afterwards. Highly recommend!

Katrina

I specifically celebrated feeling ‘joy’ which has been a challenge for so long. This retreat leaves me looking forward to the next stage of my life. This community was new for me and I enjoyed sitting amongst practitioners sharing concepts, ideas and aha moments. So much wisdom in the group.

I loved the opportunity to be with my true self and experience this as deep love.

Karen’s knowledge and expertise on presented topics is magical. She is very professional and powerful.

The training materials are perfect and I’m glad I have lifetime access to continue returning and re-immersing into the experience.

This retreat is something you must put on your bucket list. Karen’s delivery and approach can be summarised with a word – QUALITY. It was perfect!

– Teresa

Karen is fabulous at enabling her knowledge and expertise accessible to all in the group. She is great at gently and respectfully engaging and walking with participants. She reads the room with ease and grace.

The resources and materials are very supporrtive and enhance the content covered during the retreat. Karen responses to questions and concerns gently and openly, and creates a very safe space for individuals to explore deeply.

As a presenter and retreat facilitator, Karen is very relaxed, professional, honest and concise.

– Christine

Karen is so knowledgeable and delivers brilliantly. She is very effective in engaging participants and maintains everyone’s interest throughout the sessions. Her preparation. materials and retreat resources are exceptional.

Karen is extremely responsive and receptive. I took advantage of the retreat voucher to followup what retreat released.

Karen really considers and prepares for everything. I was very well supported.

– Rachael

Karen has a profound understanding of what she is delivering. The entire group was thoroughly engaged for the entire day.

Karen’s materials and resources were very helpful and she created a safe space that permitted conversations that were real, raw and very honest.

Karen’s delivery style is very real, relaxed and down to earth. The entire retreat day flowed beautifully.

This retreat has influenced my outlook to continue working on ME and take each day as it comes.

I loved the community Karen created and everyone was very friendly and caring.

– Helen

I loved the beautiful safe space created by Karen which allowed me to let go of blocks and outdated beliefs. I feel like this retreat left me with the new outlook that I no longer feel the need to rush, and everything is unfolding as it’s meant to.

Karen created a treasured community and everyone was super supportive. I learnt so much from the open and informative consversations – people sharing values and beliefs enabled me to make strong internal connections.

I would absolutely recommend this retreat to others.

We need to commit to understanding our journey so we can live, love and enjoy our life! And Karen has the knowledge and know how to get you there.

I totally enjoyed the retreat experince and continued the work using the voucher so generously offered by Karen.

– Skye