The Spa
The Spa is a sanctuary of therapeutic care, offering a curated selection of treatments designed to restore balance, release tension and support whole-body wellbeing. Festival-goers can access exceptional practitioners specialising in bodywork, alignment, movement, strength and somatic healing. From massage and myotherapy to acupuncture and integrated wellness therapies, each session invites you to slow down, reconnect and replenish body, mind and spirit.
Ahikāroa Māori Healing
Ahikāroa Māori Healing is a Māori-owned wellbeing collective offering traditional Māori healing practices.
Ahikāroa Māori Healing is a Māori-owned wellbeing collective offering traditional Māori healing practices. Our work includes Mirimiri and Romiromi bodywork, Rongoā Māori, traditional plant-based healing and intuitive guidance. Rooted in Māori knowledge and values, our approach supports physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, helping people release tension, restore balance and reconnect with themselves.
Ahikāroa Māori Wellbeing Collective
(left to right below) Rytasha Sampson, Arama Mataora Toatoa and Ilayah Togia
Amanda Cuyler
BCST is for you if you have a body and value how you feel in your body – it’s as simple as that! It addresses specific acute conditions as well as also allowing you to work towards long term ease in your body.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a somatic therapy rooted in osteopathy. It offers deep support for the nervous system and can be beneficial for people experiencing acute or chronic pain, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, and joint challenges (including TMJ pain/dental work recovery, frozen shoulder, and neck/shoulder tightness). BCST also supports somatic trauma resolution and whole-body integration.
Deep rest is commonly experienced when the bones are listened to. This is a profoundly therapeutic state to inhabit and one that is increasingly challenging for us to find in the too-much and too-fast world we live in.
BCST is a profound modality for remapping the brain’s ability to inhabit the body as a safe place. It facilitates coming back to feeling and allowing awareness of sensations to guide an increasing occupation of our own skin. It meets our systems at our very earliest beginnings of embryological growth, so we often access very potent pre-verbal states. This can be helpful if our conscious thinking mind has difficulty turning off.
The Shiatsu Space
Incorporating deep listening of the body, practitioners work with energy pathways (meridians) primarily using finger or hand pressure, stretches and the breath.
Treatments are received fully clothed on a futon mat on the ground. They are deeply relaxing and nourishing.
All the practitioners in the Shiatsu Space are Castlemaine locals. We bring a deep love of the practice and particularly love working to support the nervous system.
(left to right below)
Kerry www.castlemaineshiatsu.au
Fi www.nagiwellness.com.au
Jacq www.wovenmedicine.com.au
Jen www.renshiatsu.au
Shiatsu is a traditional Japanese form of therapeutic body work, rooted in East Asian medicine.
Castlemaine Acupuncture Collective
Castlemaine Acupuncture Collective is a community-based acupuncture clinic offering accessible, affordable healthcare in a supportive group setting on a fortnightly basis.
Our model brings people together in a shared space, making acupuncture more affordable while creating an opportunity for connection, community and collective healing. Group acupuncture recognises that healing doesn’t always need to happen in isolation, that there can be something powerful in being cared for alongside others. We aim to make Chinese medicine accessible to more people, providing a welcoming space where you can slow down, receive treatment and be part of a community that values health, connection and collective wellbeing.
Come and put your name on the blackboard at the festival to claim your session.
fire + stone sauna
We’re excited to be participating in the festival, sharing our love of sauna with people. The benefits of sauna are well recognised, offering an opportunity to connect, relax and unwind.
Sessions include change-room (swimmers on please!) sauna and cold plunge access. This is a traditional public sauna experience where you may be sharing the sauna with up to 3 other people.
Bookings through our website fireandstonesauna.com.au
Max 4 people per booking.
fire + stone sauna is a traditional Scandinavian style wood fired sauna located on Djarra Country.
Healing Aurora Alchemist
Healing Aurora Alchemist is a holistic wellbeing practice created by Fan, a Remedial Massage Therapist, Sound Healing Practitioner and Holistic Alchemist with years of experience exploring the connection between the body, sound, energy and emotional wellbeing.
At the heart of Healing Aurora Alchemist is the belief that wellbeing begins with harmony between body, mind and spirit. By creating space to slow down, listen inward and reconnect with ourselves as a whole, we can gently return to a greater sense of balance, grounding and inner alignment. Blending therapeutic bodywork with singing bowls, sound vibration, energy healing, and intuitive practices, each session is shaped around the individual’s need.
Fan will be offering a festival edition of her signature Harmonious Healing Session in our Spa, a gentle experience combining therapeutic touch, singing bowl vibration, and intuitive guidance. The intention is simple: to create a nurturing space where you can step away from the movement of the festival, settle into your body, soften what you have been carrying, and return to your day feeling more grounded, spacious and connected.
Healing Well Chiropractic
Your path to wellness starts here. At Healing Well Chiropractic Castlemaine, our main focus is you and understanding your specific health journey.
Healing Well Chiropractic was founded in Castlemaine to provide a warm and caring space where your health and wellbeing are our absolute priority. We believe in providing high-quality, evidence-based chiropractic care that is tailored to your unique needs. By offering longer appointment times, we ensure there is always enough space to truly listen to your concerns and perform a thorough assessment.
Our dedicated focus is on helping you move better and feel better every day. We are committed to supporting your recovery so you can get back to doing what you love as quickly and safely as possible, within a professional environment built on trust and personalised attention.
Chiro Clinic Victoria | Healing Well Chiropractic Castlemaine
(pictured below) Dr. Brittany Talbot
Reiki Bean
Hi, I'm Sarah. A Reiki Master based in Mount Macedon and the founder of Reiki Bean, where I offer Reiki sessions for people and animals, both in person and remotely.
Come and visit me at the Spa section for a short, seated Reiki session. Fifteen minutes to settle your nervous system, release some of what you're carrying, and take a quiet moment for yourself in the middle of a busy day.
I'll also have printed gift vouchers for Christmas (Reiki sessions and Soul Letters, which are my written intuitive readings) and on-the-spot sign-ups for Soul Letters, with a festival special for the day.
Draw a free message card while you're there or enter the draw to win a free Soul Letter.
Organic Mechanic Osteo
Whole Family Osteos: Gentle Care for Every Generation. Safe hands-on treatment and supportive advice from our friendly team of experienced osteopaths in Kyneton and Castlemaine
At Organic Mechanic Osteo, we view the human body as an extraordinary, self-healing mechanism where structure and function are intimately interrelated. We don’t just treat symptoms; we act as facilitators of health and detectives of dysfunction. By understanding the unique mechanics of your joints, organs, and nervous system, we work to break the cycles of pain and move you toward lasting health and wellbeing.
Our team brings together a diverse and rich tapestry of expertise—from professional dance and yoga to pelvic health and paediatric care. This shared background in movement and anatomy gives us a broad and unique range of expertise. Whether we are using gentle cranial techniques or structural rehabilitation, our goal is to empower you with a deeper understanding of your own body, ensuring that you and every member of your family can thrive at every stage of life.
Organic Mechanic Osteo | Kyneton & Castlemaine's Family Osteos
(pictured in team photo left to right) Dr Mechthild Goelling (Maddy), Dr Clare Greig, Dr Thomas Llewellyn, Dr Taylor Ellis, Dr Isabel Mettler.
Zenthai Shiatsu Massage
Rich Moffat of Not-Doing Practice will bring a group of massage specialists together under one tent.
Zenthai Shiatsu is a holistic, floor-based bodywork therapy that combines Zen Shiatsu and Traditional Thai massage to restore physical, energetic and emotional balance. Your massage therapists on the day will be Rich Moffat from 'Not-doing Practice’ based in Castlemaine and Laura ‘Harry’ Harris from Nurturing Ground, based in Campbell’s Creek.
Rich is passionate about the ideas of Chinese Medicine and has studied both Traditional Thai Massage (in Thailand) and Zenthai Shiatsu. He offers bodywork and one-on-one practice sessions focused on helping people take charge of their health and wellbeing. Harry grew up in the southwest of England and now lives on unceded Djaara Country, where she continues to learn how to rest, regenerate, and reconnect with the ground beneath her. Her lineage, motherhood, and years working alongside communities have shaped the way she moves - slowly, intentionally, and with a deep respect for the body’s intelligence.
(left to right below) Rich of Not-Doing Practice, Harry of Nurturing Ground
