Here to enact our sacred duty as ambassadors of Earth and agents of cultural change

The Vision

At the heart of this work is a simple return- to our relationship with the land, with our bodies, and with life itself.

It's a remembering that what we're looking for isn't somewhere else. It's already here. In the breath. In the soil beneath our feet. In the quiet intelligence of the living world, and in our own capacity to listen.

We come together to slow down enough to actually feel.

To listen with the whole body.
To move with the rhythms of the seasons, the land, and our own instincts.
To remember ways of living that don't separate us from nature, but remind us that she is we.

This isn't about perfectionism or performance.
It's about presence...
Reconnecting through direct experience- time on the land, hands in the dirt, around the fire, sharing food, moving our bodies, and learning in community.

The practices we explore- ancestral skills, land stewardship, bushcraft, harvesting wild food, and body awareness- aren't ideas to collect. They are life ways. Embodied prayers. Practical ways of remembering what it feels like to belong- to a place, to ourselves, and to each other.

Reverent. Embodied. Relational. Alive.

Who am I?

As the name suggests, this project is the love child of Joy, and I am the one writing these words that are now finding their way to you through a screen. Hi, thankyou for being here.

When I decided upon the name, "Rewilding with Joy", a couple of years ago, I intended it to be a play on words. My name, combined with my intention for us, as a community, to walk the rewilding path together with a sense of joy. As this work and these practices have taken me deeper into relationship with the land, my ancestors and my self - I no longer have a desire to rewild with joy alone. May this journey encompass the full spectrum of the human experience, may nothing be shunned or excluded. Let us meet in the rawness and fullness of the mystery of life, and whatever it contains from moment to moment- be it joy or sadness, pleasure or pain, the light or the dark or any shade in between. All is welcome here, as we remember what it means to truly feel and truly live as animals on planet Earth.

My passion for rewilding and returning to the richness and simplicity of a land based lifestyle was ignited a couple of years ago, after spending over a decade as a Truth-seeking, self-employed, nomadic artist. After countless silent retreats and years of living in ashrams and monasteries, prioritising the transcendent dimension… I felt the call to return to the intimacy of immanence- encountering the sacred though participation, rather than escape.

Caring for country and place based literacy has become solidified as something of the highest priority in my life. It's hard to describe... It's not even a "priority" as such... it IS life, it is true relationship and reciprocity. It's what inherently emanates health, true wealth and wisdom... It's through this understanding that our deepest essential oneness nature becomes effortlessly apparent in an embodied way. I know that relearning the ancient ways is a life's work and truly understanding what it means to live in right relationship will endlessly reveal itself in greater potency and nuance. Never before have I felt so passionate about the importance of being an agent of cultural change, and I seek to serve the land, the waters and the wider community of human and other-than-human kin through my devotion to living and sharing this path of remembering.

In 2025, I completed a 4 month residential ancestral skills immersion in the USA with Way of the Earth School, which was deeply transformative. I have a Certificate 3 in Conservation and Ecosystem Management from NSW TAFE and I'm currently studying a Certificate 3 in Permaculture at Byron Community College.

Acknowledgement of Country

I acknowledge the Yugambeh people as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which this work is based (Natural Bridge, South East Queensland, Australia), and I pay my respects to Elders past and present. I recognise the enduring relationship Aboriginal people have with Country, and I honour the unfathomably deep knowledge, care, and connection that has existed here for tens of thousands of years.