Keynote Presenters and Artists
The theme for this GIC is ‘Conscious Breath and the Field of Unknowing’. This conference theme invites participants to explore and experience the concept of “unknowing” through the exploration of breath as a devotional, method-based practice, focusing on living and experiencing life and breath in the moment.
Instead of promoting rigid truths of understanding, the conference encourages participants to experience the breath as a dynamic, living experience that resists being fully known or defined. It challenges the tendency of the ego mind to solidify and market knowledge in ways that limit diversity, love, compassion, and authentic relationships. Drawing inspiration from Rumi and the anonymous Christian mystic’s concept of “unknowing,” the conference offers a space where participants can move beyond the Ego, embracing a shared experience of breath and life, fostering deeper connections.
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OUR KEYNOTE PRESENTERS AND ARTISTS
Jem Stone
About Jem Stone
Jem Stone is a First Nations Woman with mixed heritage, Cultural Consultant, Wellness Practitioner and Trainer who is passionately integrating original knowledge systems into wellness spaces through connection and decolonised learning methods.
Jem dedicates much of her time learning from Elders and cultural teachers and uses a Culturally Informed Trauma Integrated Healing Approach in all aspects of her work.
Jem is a Rebirthing Breathwork Therapist and Educator, Psychedelic Assisted Therapist, Wayapa Wuurrk Practitioner and Trainer, We Al-li Facilitator, Meditation, Sound Healing and Movement practitioner.
Day: 2 September 2025
Theme: Re-imagining Our Humanness – The Breath, Unknowing & Indigenous Knowledge: Reconnecting with the Earth
Information: In this keynote, we will explore the transformative practice of conscious connected breathing through the lens of unknowing. Drawing upon Indigenous knowledge systems and a culturally informed trauma integrated healing approach, we will examine how breath, as both a universal and elemental force, can serve as a bridge between human consciousness, our place in the natural world and our own creative potential.
Suntara and Rosarmy
About Suntara & Rosarmy
Suntara – Sound Healer & Co-Founder of Yin Breathwork
Rosarmy – Co-Founder of Yin Breathwork
Suntara is one of the world’s leading Sound Healers, known for his unique and powerful voice combined with instruments including Handpan, Didgeridoo, and Flutes. His sound vibrations penetrate deeply, moving and shifting energy to leave listeners feeling light, clear, and deeply relaxed.
With over 20 years of experience in Breathwork, Suntara, alongside his wife Rosarmy, is the founder of Yin Breathwork—a gentle, transformative practice that honors nature’s pace.
Suntara has played at major festivals worldwide, including Bali Spirit Festival, Pranafest (Australia), and Mind Body Spirit Festival (Australia and the UK). He is also a resident Sound Healer at the iconic Pyramids of Chi and Yoga Barn in Ubud, Bali.
Through his Sound Healing and Breathwork, Suntara is devoted to “Bringing Light to the Earth.”
Day: 2 September 2025
Theme: Sound Healing Journey with Suntara
Information: Get ready to be moved by Sound. Suntara delivers a magical musical experience that with transport you to another dimension”. Weaving together “other-worldly” vocals and a myriad of healing instruments such as shamanic drums, crystal bowls and djembe.
Suntara will take you on a musical healing journey into the depths of your soul. You will return from the journey deeply relaxed, reconnected, with a smile on your face and clarity about life.
Gina Chick
About Gina
Gina is a rewilding facilitator, adventurer, writer and speaker. Gina was one of ten participants of the first series of Alone Australia, and was the last person standing, Her determination, passion, and love of the natural world endeared her to more than 5.5 million people around Australia.
Day: 3 September 2025
Theme: Breath and 5Rhythyms
Information: Gina Chick presents an evening of breath and 5Rhythyms, and will also showcase her new book ‘We are the Stars’, a bestselling memoir of love, connection and the glorious power of letting go.
Ayya Jitindriyā
About Ayya Jitindriyā
Ayya Jitindriyā is an Australian Buddhist nun. She first trained in the Theravada Forest Tradition for over 16 years, from 1988-2004, after which she pursued a Master’s degree in Buddhist Psychotherapy Practice with the Karuna Institute in the UK. She has worked in the
mental health sector for over a decade, and taught meditation, Buddhism and psychotherapy in various capacities, including as Director of Training for AABCAP (Australian Association of Buddhist Counsellors and Psychotherapists) for several years.
In early 2018, Jitindriyā re-entered the monastic life at Santi Forest Monastery in the Southern Highlands of NSW, holding the role of guiding teacher and Spiritual Director there for a time. In 2021 she helped set up Viveka Hermitage in Southern NSW, where she now
resides, teaching meditation and offering resources both online and locally.
Day: 4 September 2025
Theme: Portals to Unknowing
“Knowing not-knowing, that’s the path for the heart.” This spontaneous insight of a Thai Forest meditation master – penned in his enlightenment poem early last century – echoes he insights of saints and sages of various spiritual traditions, pointing to this ‘field of unknowing’ as a rich and potent territory for Awakening, for realization of the Divine – the
sum of which cannot be adequately conveyed by language, by means of the ‘known’.
Ayya Jitindriyā will explore with us some of the key ‘access points’ to this ‘field of unknowing’, as found within various spiritual approaches, drawing on stories of legendary spiritual figures, profound pointings of enlightened sages, and beautiful poems of the
mystics. She’ll also guide us in a meditation on the natural breath, a classic approach to establishing presence as a gateway, a portal, to that which lies beyond the known.
Hollie Wilderthorn
About Hollie
Hollie Wildethorn is a psychotherapist, clinical counsellor, and coach working at the dynamic intersections of trauma healing, ecology, and personal empowerment.
Hollie’s work weaves together trauma-informed practices, ecological awareness, and self-crafting, inviting individuals to create lives that are deeply authentic and connected. Her unique approach blends sacred ritual, somatic practices, and community wisdom to guide people in reclaiming their innate power and aligning with their personal truth.
Day: 5 September 2025
Theme: Embody the unknown: Crafting self through belonging.
Information: Explore the transformative potential of unknowing as a path to self-awareness, resilience, and connection. This experiential session integrates somatic reflection, sacred posture, and ecological awareness to guide participants in cultivating boundaries, belonging, and emplacement—a grounded sense of connection to the world around them.
Blending introspection with play and connection, this session offers a safe, empowering space to explore the unknown with joy and openness.
Shaykh Ibrahim
About Shaykh Ibrahim Al Ansari
Shaykh Ibrahim Al Ansari has spent a lifetime in pursuit of truth – a journey that has been led through music, devotion, and ultimately, the path of Sufism. For over 50 years, Ibrahim has practiced as a musician and composer, an art form that has instilled in him the self-discipline and sensitivity needed to walk a true spiritual path.
After two decades of searching, he met his teacher, Shaykh Taner Ansari – a guide whose teachings spoke directly to the heart and offered practical wisdom for living. In 1995, Ibrahim was appointed a Shaykh in the Ansari Qatari Rifai Sufi Order. Since then, he has guided students with humility and dedication, offering the Sufi way as a remedy of clarity and compassion in a world increasingly burdened by spiritual hunger.
In 2006, Ibrahim moved from California to Australia. He lives in the Blue Mountains and travels the country sharing Sufism with Australians through teaching, travel and service.
Day: 5 September 2025
Theme: Care and Feeding of the Spiritual Heart.
Information: Skaykh Ibrahim will speak to the care and feeding of the spiritual heart.
As an ordained Shaykh and Khalifa of the Cadiri-Rifa’i Tariqa, now known as the Ansari Sufi Order, Ibrahim will bring Rumi poetry as well as teach and demonstrate the sacred method of Zikr with the breath.
If it feels right on the evening, Ibrahim may also explain how to do Sema (whirling dance/turning).
International Breathwork Foundation
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