The Spa
The Grounds & Surrounds hold everything that lives beyond Golden’s major venues, the pathways, pockets, clearings and children’s activity spaces that give the festival its texture, movement and sense of discovery. This is where you’ll find The Visioning Hearth, the Keeps of the Beasts & Relics in The Creation Tent, The Wellspring, the Keepers of The Feast in the festival kitchen and dining area, the Offline Lounge, and the Healing Grounds with hands‑on bodywork practitioners. These spaces form the connective tissue of the festival: places to pause, wander, create, recalibrate and encounter experiences that unfold gently between destinations.
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
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.
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
Maple Phisiotherapy
Maple is a physiotherapy clinic based in Kyneton that assists the entire Central Victoria community with expert rehabilitation care to get you back to full strength.
Maple offers a range of services including hands on strength and conditioning coaching with a personalised program in a fun and supportive group environment. Sports Physiotherapy that takes an active, educated and thorough approach to resolving your injury. Specialising in spinal pain, we utilise modern and classical clinical pilates for improvement in pain and function, drawing on movement science to create positive change.
Maple Physiotherapy and Performance - Kyneton, Bacchus Marsh
(left to right below) James, Lilly, Zac and Keely
Zenthai Shiatsu Massage
Rich Moffat of Not-Doing Practice will bring a group of massage specialists together under one tent.
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. Rich often hosts massage clients at his treatment space at the Paddock, an eco-village community space in Castlemaine. He also regularly visits clients in their own homes travelling to Melbourne for appointments.
(pictured below) Rich Moffat
