Connection to Country Pilgrimage

Name: Connection to Country Pilgrimage
Start: 2025-09-06T08:00:00+09:30
End: 2025-09-12T11:00:00+09:30
Location: Watarrka National Park Kings Canyon

Schedule

Sat, 06 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 am to Fri, 12 Sep, 2025 at 11:00 am

UTC+09:30

Location

Watarrka National Park Kings Canyon | Alice Springs, NT

Connection to Country Pilgrimage
Alice Springs -Lilla community- Uluru
6th - 12th of September
To all women,
This is an invitation back to country…
Back to the Ancient lands of Australia where a memory lives deep in the land, where the wide-open skies and desert fires hold you
Here we reconnect to the heart of ourselves, each other and the land we call home. Where the songs, the stories and the dance of thousands of years are still alive
This is a calling to women who want to connect deeply to culture.
Who are wanting to listen to our traditional owners and to be escorted through their precious precious country and their sacred sights together.
This is a rare opportunity as women to come together to drop into the spaciousness of the desert where we craft, sing, swim and walk country. This is an opening to bring change into your life, to bring something to country and allow the whispers of your inner voice to reveal it self. This is a timeless space where we feel the depth of country and have the privilege to receive the Tjukurpa (dreaming) stories of the Matutjara ladies of Lilla community and the Mutitjulu ladies of Uluru.
This is a 7 day / 6 night journey
When and where we begin?
Our journey begins in Alice Springs on the morning of 6th of September. We then head to the majestic Lilla community which is the traditional lands of the Matutjara people- Lilla is an Aboriginal out-station in the Watarrka National Park. Lilla has been turned into an Aboriginal run eco-tourism education centre, which will be our home base for 4 days. We will be guided by the senior women of Lilla community into the sacred land and sights. It is such special country. No words needed. We will then journey to Uluru for our final two days together.
This is for women who are wanting to reactivate the inspiration within, to feel the presence of space and deep listening through daily practice, song and sound where appropriate. We will come together as women to sit by the fire and remember.
We will be sleeping in swags under the stars…..also safari tents are optional for sleeping. Each woman will have there own tent to house there belongings.
Exchange for this pilgrimage is $3000 Early Bird till end of March
From April is $3300

Numbers are limited to a small group of women, so please be prompt in booking. I am really looking forward to bringing a beautiful group of women together. If you would like to be part of the journey please reach out and also complete an expression of interest form and then we organise a call....https://6cmil3n673q.typeform.com/to/Pe8mEclcand
This land has been an integral part of my journey and it is an honour to walk and be with the traditional Matutjara people on their land. I will be facilitating this Pilgrimage along side the remote tours team.
The only prerequisite is an open heart.

**I would be really appreciative if you could share with women who may be interested in this experience allowing the organic nature for the word to spread and for it to find the women who are needing and feeling the calling to this experience.
A bit about me:
Lucia Swift is dedicated to honoring the wisdom and transformative power of sacred traditions, guiding others on a journey of deep connection, healing, and self-expression.
For over 14 years, she has immersed herself in the profound healing potential of sound and song, learning from wisdom keepers across Central and South America and Central Australia. Her work integrates these ancestral teachings to create dynamic, therapeutic experiences that invite both personal transformation and active participation.
Lucia is deeply committed to creating experiences for women that enables them to have access to culture in Central Australia dissolving the gap between indigenous and non indigenous women. Lucia believes in the importance of experiencing culture in Central Australia from the traditional owners as part of the broader process of decolonization. She has been guided and mentored by her cherished adopted mother, Alison Hunt—a respected Senior Traditional Law Woman—who treated her as her own. She was a bridge between cultures which Lucia now feels a responsibility for since her passing.
Lucia collaborates with a wide range of community health and wellbeing services, incorporating mindfulness, meditation, movement, sound, and music therapy to foster healing and connection. Now, her passion greatly lies in creating women’s cultural and healing camps on Country in Central Australia—spaces for deep restoration, cultural immersion, reconnection to the land and sisterhood.
Through her expertise in sound and music facilitation, Lucia creates immersive spaces where individuals can reconnect with themselves, the Earth, and ancient traditions. Whether through her programs, 1:1 sessions, or cultural gatherings, she inspires, educates, and guides others to embrace sound and voice as a profound means of expression and a way of life.
https://www.luciasounds.com/
IG: Lucia Sounds
Films: https://vimeo.com/user86104035