WHEN WOMEN WERE WOLVES

10 DAY SHAMANIC DIMENSIONS & RE-WILDING CONTAINER

UBUD 16th - 26th, 2025

Set amidst the green rolling hills and cascading rice-fields of Ubud, BALI - Eclectica Hub invites you to join us on our 10-day When Women Were Wolves Retreat – a transformational experience to guide you back home to rest in your intrinsic nature. This Retreat is an activation of your female intelligence through the exploration of somatic arts, ritual, visionary dance, and embodied practices that will connect you to your intrinsic way of thriving beyond the domesticated aspects of the human psyche.

When Women Were Wolves Bali Retreat is a gentle yet profound coming home to your true, authentic nature — reclaiming the sacred aspects of female intelligence that have been stigmatised, suppressed, and forgotten in modern society.

This work seeks to awaken and ripen the heart of the inner medicine woman by deepening our connection to the subtle, unseen realms of existence. Through this process, participants are invited to explore their relationship with primordial forces, such as the elements, honouring them as respected elders and ancient ancestors. Deepening this relationship with these forces innately connects and tethers participants to the web of life and the cycles and spirals of existence. Together we will explore the landscapes of death, decay, renewal, and rebirth, honouring these phases as intrinsic seasons in our evolution.

Participants will also be guided to connect with various animal archetypes, tapping into primal wisdom and the unique teachings of the animal kingdom. These animal allies will serve as guardians and guides, connecting participants to expanded perspectives through the lens of eldership and primordial knowledge.

The journey will be enriched by sacred feminine practices woven into intentional choreography, merging movement with meaning, exploring the ancient art of storytelling. Over the course of 10 days, we’ll move between ceremonial practices, rites of passage work, and embodied expression, culminating in a powerful “prayerformance” that honours womb-centric living, feminine reclamation, and ancestral reverence. This performance transmission will be shared at a special event in Ubud on the final day, celebrating the transformation we’ve cultivated together.

Join us in this powerful movement that honours the sacred feminine and the deep connections that bind us all.

Held in the heart of Ubud

Tucked away beside Ubud’s lush monkey forest, Swasti Eco Resort offers a tranquil retreat from the hustle of daily life. Upon arrival, you’ll feel as though you’ve entered a serene oasis, surrounded by flourishing gardens and the natural beauty of Bali. The resort’s sprawling grounds feature traditional Balinese architecture, flower-filled pathways, a refreshing saltwater pool, and an organic garden lovingly cultivated on-site. It’s a place where you can unwind, reconnect with nature, and experience the gentle rhythm of Bali’s sacred landscape.

Activate Your Inner Medicine Woman and Explore the Unseen Realms of Existence…..

REDISCOVER YOU

Discover and unlock new-found depths of liberation and self-intimacy as we dive deep into the transformative realms of:

  • Ancestral and Family Tree Work

  • Ripening the Heart of the Inner Medicine Woman

  • Deepening in Relationship to the Plant Kingdom

  • Working with Animal Archetypes

  • Shamanic Deepening into the Web of Life

  • Deepening in Relationship with the Subtle Realms

  • Elemental Wisdom / The Elements as Ancestors

  • Re-Villaging / Tending to the Cracks in Our Community Mindset

  • Multidimensional Sisterhood and Healing Sisterhood Wounds

  • Shadow Work

  • Ritual Theatre

  • Vocal Activation

  • Body Reconciliation

  • Activating the Primitive Body

  • Somatic Arts

  • Embodied Expression

  • Visionary Dance

For those that are ready to…

Liberate their fullest expression • Discover who they are beyond social conditioning • Reconnect with their body as a vessel of communication • Descend into their instinct • Reclaim parts of themselves that have been buried through suppression or dogmatic belief systems • Find safety within sisterhood • Discover their radiance • Connect with their womb • Move their body in a way that feels connected to their emotional landscape  • Make connections that will last a lifetime •

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Ignite a Relationship with your Inner Medicine Woman

As we peel back the amour around our heart space and attune to the subtle realms of existence. we open our capacity to be in loving, abundant co -creation with life. The medicine woman is in deep trust of the seasons and cycles of existence, she knows her body as a conduit for life to flow through her in harmony with her values, desires, and principles. She lives intimately with the innate cycles of birth, decay, death and renewal, she sees herself mirrored clearly in the natural world, her body and heart an extension of nature. In harnessing her medicine we place ourselves at the centre of our reality and dissolve victim tendencies so we can thrive at the Centrepoint of evolution.

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Envision yourself trekking to the lip of an ancient volcano and singing to the sunrise, held in the safe custodianship of activated sisterhood. Envision the profound sense of rememberance you will feel as you cleanse your spirit in the waters of the heart chakra that is Bali.

  • Cleanse Your Spirit in the sacred waters of Bali

  • Trek a Volcano and sing to the sunrise with your beloved sisters

  • Connect to the land and rewild with the spirit of Bali

  • Deepen in relationship with Elemental forces

  • Experience the power of visionary dance

  • Heal and reconcile with sisterhood wounding

  • In the Heart of Ubud

Over time, we have seen the feminine instinctive nature looted, driven back and overbuilt. To re-wild is to a restore a habitat to its former wild state, so that it can take care of itself again, restoring its own natural processes.

When we choose to re-wild, we remember the primordial ways of existing in the deepest state of somatic symbiosis. We allow nature to be woven back into the web of our being, offering us a rich engagement with life that is ancient, and deeply connected to the natural world.

When Women Were Wolves is a primal declaration of the feminine spirit presented by Eclectica school of Womb-Craft and Visionary Dance.

A transformative 10-day retreat that offers you the tools and resources to undomesticate your psyche and restore your body’s natural state of homeostasis and inherent wildness.

The Soul Investment

INCLUDED:

  • Accomodation

  • 3 meals a day with organic ingredients grown on the land.

  • 10 nights / days of transformative course content and rites-of-passage initiations.

  • Sunrise Volcano Trek

  • Morning Yoga

  • Water Excursion

  • Performance Concert with Ecstatic Dance

  • Video Project

  • Transport to and from all retreat excursions

  • 2 x Cacao Ceremonies

NOT INCLUDED:

  • Flights

  • Any extra treatments booked at the Swasti Spa

  • Transport to and from the airport (however this can be organised with the retreat drivers for extra cost)

Recalibrate in Eco Cottages

From spacious group dorms to twin-share cabins, the retreat centre offers a variety of comfortable rooms available for different budgets. Each cabin celebrates the earth and the elements with its quaint cottage-style living, wooden floors, and traditional architecture.

Throughout the resort, the rooms are connected by cobbled pathways, coconut trees, Balinese vegetation, and flower mandalas.

With lots of cushioned corners tucked by the pool for you to journal, integrate, or have some alone time - the retreat centre is truly a haven from the outside world.

All meals are included in your retreat package - and Swasti Eco Cottages provide a mouth-watering selection of delicious local and western cuisines. All of the dishes are prepared with love and intention.

Each meal is colourful, organic, and fresh. Most ingredients are straight from land to plate (picked daily from Swasti’s vegetable garden) or otherwise sourced from local organic farmers, so you’ll never have to worry about chemicals or pesticides in your food.

Organic Food Grown from the Land

Be Held in the Safe Custodianship of Activated Sisterhood

PERFORM IN AN UBUD-BASED CONCERT AND BE WITNESSED IN YOUR EXPRESSION….

The Retreat will conclude with an intimate concert ceremony held in Ubud, where participants will perform a live dance transmission that reflects the deep and transformative course content.

This will be an opportunity for you to feel fully received in your full-bodied expression and uninhibited aliveness. The event will conclude with a wild ecstatic dance party where we will have the opportunity to celebrate everything we cultivated in the 10-day container and ride the oxytocin post-performance afterglow.

Meet your Facilitators

  • ECLECTICA HUB CO-FOUNDER, GRIEF & DEATH DOULA, PLANT MEDICINE DEVOTEE, INTEGRATIVE CEREMONIALIST

    Demi Lee is a weaver of the wild. She is a facilitator in embodiment, dance, somatics, emotional landscape exploration, and grief work, and is the co-founder of Eclectica School of Womb-Craft and Visionary Dance.

    Her passion is fostering a deep connection to earth, self, spirit, life, death, grief, and community - through re-wilding both our inner and outer landscapes.

    Leading from instinct, intuition, and shamanic protocol, alongside 10+ years of plant devotion and training in various healing modalities including Parts Work and Death Doulaship, her power lies in supporting people to explore their emotional landscape. 

    Demi Lee is passionate about de-armouring the parts that are holding ourselves back from liberating our most uninhibited, authentic expression. 


    Through compassionate witnessing and mirroring, and the exploration of limiting blocks and patterns, Demi Lee’s intuitive lens will support you in understanding your body and emotional landscape. 

    Through her ten years of devotion to the Eclectica movement, she has gained and cultivated many tools and resources that have empowered her to become an empowered leader and successful entrepreneur,  sharing her medicine on a global scale. 

  • Creatrix, Feminine Empowerment Facilitator, Deathwalker, Cyclical living coach & Rites of Passage Ritualist

    Alana Woodward is an imaginative soul who is here to re-enchant you with your own creative magick.

    A self professed nerd, Alana has spent the past decade training in various modalities to continue unlocking deeper levels of radical self expression in herself and others. Along the way she has become a Somatic Education Facilitator, Menstrual Cycle Coach, Archetypal Embodiment facilitator and is currently deepening her craft in Death Doulaship and Herbalism.

    A lover of imagination, transformation, and the taboo - her facilitation often weaves themes of archetypal medicine with mythology, death work, eroticism, women's mysteries and ritual healing. Her workshop and retreat offerings this year have expanded into facilitating journeys in deep ecology and elemental alchemy, woven together with an animistic perspective.

    Coming from a traditional conservative Sri Lankan family, Alana holds particular medicine in breaking ancestral chains tied to the suppression of asian and coloured feminine expression. She is no stranger to the underworld and shadow work, having journeyed deep to find her own keys in liberating women's erotic expression, body reconciliation, healing sexual trauma, and navigating the mother wound.

    Alana has been co-creating and performing closely with the Eclectica core troupe for the past 8 years, spreading their magick across stages in Australia and around the world. She has been facilitating across the Eclectica school and prior courses for the last 5 years. This is her second time co-facilitating Eclectica's When Women Were Wolves retreat in Bali and she is so grateful and excited to return once again.

    A long term burner and devotee of the transformational arts festival scene, you can find her in her happy place twirling in the dust to some filthy bass.

  • Eclectica Facilitator

    Nicole Maree also goes by the name Wilqa Nina, which means Sacred Fire. Nicole has a passion for bringing people together in shamanic ritual for the purpose of reawakening divinity within the body. 

    Dance was the very first thing Nicole loved about life and she studied dance from age 3 until about 16, when she was told to focus more on school.  It was about 15 years later when she was invited to dance on stage with Eclectica for the first time - and in her own words, her original passion for performing was reignited and liberated. 

    During her time away from the stage, Nicole dove deep into spirituality, studying psychic mediumship, yoga therapy, somatic integration, quantum magic and shamanic ceremonies. Nicole has been facilitating women’s work for about 5 years now and is now weaves her love of dance with Eclectica Hub.

  • ADVANCED CHOREOGRAPHER

    Lahni has been deeply woven into the Eclectica Tapestry across the past 8 years, sharing her compelling choreography codes and seeds of wisdom with hundreds of women on their journey of self reconciliation.

    Lahni studied Contemporary Dance in one of Queensland North's Premier Performing Arts School and is one of our lead facilitators and choreographers.

    Her visionary eye within the realms of dance and strong guidance will support you in expanding as a dancer and opening up new neural pathways of movement, moving you beyond the ordinary to express your true potential as a contemporary artist.

Book now: We have an array of various room options available for your different needs and budgets. All rooms are available with both pay-in-full options and payment plans.

SHARED DORMITARY: Share with 6 others (3 spaces left)
Prices start at $4200 AUD

  • Our Dorm Room (share with up to 6 others) is intentionally designed to give everyone their own space as well as shared areas to foster connections. A long bench is provided on the terrace for anyone looking to read or enjoy the view of Swasti's organic garden. Each guest will have their own bed with mosquito net. The room is air-conditioned with a shared bathroom.

  • PAY IN FULL: $4200

    PAYMENT PLAN: $4,200 paid off via 4 x monthly installments of $1,050

    Super extended payment plan: $4200 paid off via 14 fortnightly payments of $300

TRADITIONAL ROOM:
Twin share (2 occupants-4 spaces left) Prices start at $4500 AUD

  • Our Traditional (share with 1 other) is a twin cabin shared with one other person (2 seperate beds). The Traditional Room has a balcony overlooking the beautiful Swasti Gardens. Each guest will have their own bed with mosquito net. The room is air-conditioned with a shared bathroom.

  • PAY IN FULL: $4,500aud

    PAYMENT PLAN: $4,500 paid off via 4 x monthly instalment $1,125 AUD

    Super extended payment plan: $4500 paid off via 14 fortnightly payments of $321.43

DELUXE ROOM:
Twin share (2 occupants)
Prices start at $4700 AUD

  • Effortlessly elegant yet simplistic Twin Share accommodation. Experience traditional Balinese and Javanese architecture elevated for your comfort and luxury. Each cottage has a private terrace overlooking its own, 2 seperate beds, and an enclosed garden - making it an idyllic place to relax with a book while sipping a cup of coffee. Swasti cottages feature their own themed colour schemes and patterns based on Gustave Clint's Tree of Life.

  • PAY IN FULL: $4,700

    PAYMENT PLAN: $4,700 paid off via 4 x monthly installments of $1,175

    Super extended payment plan: $4700 paid off via 14 fortnightly payments of $335.72

DELUXE ECO COTTAGE:
Tripple Share (3 occupants)
prices start at $4500 AUD

  • Effortlessly elegant yet simplistic Triple Share accommodation. Experience traditional Balinese and Javanese architecture elevated for your comfort and luxury. Each cottage has a private terrace overlooking its own, 3 seperate beds, and an enclosed garden - making it an idyllic place to relax with a book while sipping a cup of coffee. Swasti cottages feature their own themed colour schemes and patterns based on Gustave Clint's Tree of Life.

  • PAY IN FULL: $4,500

    PAYMENT PLAN: $4500 paid off via 4 x monthly instalments of $1125.00

    Super extended payment plan: $4500 paid off via 14 fortnightly payments of $321.43

 WHAT IS VISIONARY DANCE?   

Visionary dance is the integration of prayer and intention through movement. It is a bridging of realities and consciousness, portraying a wider vision of awareness, hope, healing and transformation. 

It is medicinal movement rooted in the ancient art of storytelling, an experience that is equally compelling for both those participating and witnessing. 

It is this foundation that sets Eclectica's dance offerings apart from traditional 'performances' - We don't offer performances, we offer transmissions, rituals of the soul that bridge the spirit and mind. 

Through weaving psychedelic visual displays, a diverse fusion of dance genres, and raw embodiment- each transmission is a ceremony from start to finish.

One that is always deeply unforgettable, and deeply received - opening our audience's hearts and minds to experience greater possibility and freedom.

 

Location & Dates

The Retreat will be held at Swasti Eco Cottages in Ubud from July 16th - July 26th, 2025.

Address: No.3 Jalan Nyuh Bojog, Ubud, Bali, 80571

We recommend all participants allow a few days on either side of the retreat to both ground and prepare beforehand, and integrate afterwards.

While airport transport is not included in the total reteat cost - it can be arranged with the Swasti Retreat Driver as an additional extra.

This course is strictly non refundable. In the event of extreme crisis or illness participants may apply to transfer their course fees to a future course or training with Eclectica. When securing your space via Square Space you agree to these terms and conditions and understand the following:

  • Transfered fees must be used within an 18 month period.

  • Application to transfer fees due to crisis or extreme illness must be applied for by providing Eclectica with a Doctors Certificate or other appropriate documentation, and requested 30 days before course commencement.

Refund Policy