Step into the Readers & Healers Lounge at the Byron Wellness Festival — a space to explore, experience and connect.

Throughout the festival, our gifted readers, healers and practitioners will be offering personal sessions alongside a program of mini workshops and experiences, giving you a taste of the unique work they each bring.

Explore psychic and mediumship, energy and intuitive healing, sound, spiritual development and other holistic practices in relaxed, welcoming sessions designed to let you experience the work for yourself.

Come for a reading. Receive a healing. Join a mini workshop. Meet our practitioners. Try something you’ve never experienced before.

You may arrive curious and leave having discovered the practitioner, modality or experience that speaks directly to you.

Meet our Readers & Healers below and discover what’s waiting for you in the Lounge

PATRICIA

Gold Coast

PSYCHIC  MEDIUM • EVIDENTIAL MEDIUM • TAROT READER

Patricia Strong is an experienced Psychic Medium, Evidential Medium and Tarot Reader who has worked with Spirit throughout her life. Coming from a naturally intuitive family, her mediumship has been strengthened through extensive formal training in Australia and internationally.

Patricia connects with loved ones in Spirit to bring through meaningful evidence, messages and validation, while her psychic and tarot work offers insight into the circumstances, choices and possibilities surrounding you.

Warm, grounded and compassionate, Patricia creates a safe space for connection, helping you find clarity, reassurance and direction while honouring the uniqueness of every reading.

“Spirit connects us, love guides us, and insight empowers us to move forward.”

AVRIL 

Gold Coast

EVIDENTIAL PSYCHIC MEDIUM

Avril is Scottish and an Evidential Psychic and Evidential Medium.

She is trained and accredited by the Spiritualists’ National Union (The Arthur Findlay College UK).

Avril does public demonstrations, private readings and also teaches evidential psychic and mediumship, both in person and online.

She has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and extensive experience in the mystical and esoteric.

Avril uses clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and claircognisance to connect with your soul and the souls of those in the Spirit World, providing evidence, guidance on life issues, future possibilities and insight into your spiritual gifts — empowering you to live your most authentic self.

“Spirit brings love, guidance and proof that you are never alone.”

LYDIA

Byron Bay

JYOTISHI • VEDIC ASTROLOGER • YOGA TECHER •  MEDITATION GUIDE • HEALER • MENTOR

Lydia Burth-Weir is a Jyotishi, Vedic Astrologer, Sattva Master Yoga Teacher, meditation guide and healer with over 25 years of experience on the yogic and healing path.

Through the wisdom of Jyotish and the birth chart, Lydia offers insight into the deeper journey of the soul, illuminating karmic patterns, relationships, life transitions, challenges, gifts, timing and Dharma.

Her readings support you to understand the patterns unfolding within your life, reconnect with your inner knowing and gain greater clarity around the path ahead.

Lydia also offers readings for children and relationships, exploring individual gifts and needs, compatibility, karmic dynamics and the deeper purpose within our connections.

Each reading offers meaningful insight alongside practical guidance and traditional remedies to support greater alignment, healing and conscious evolution.

Requires a double booking time slot of 50min total

“Your birth chart doesn’t define you — it illuminates the path your soul came here to walk.”

JACKIE

Adelaide

PSYCHIC MEDIUM

Jackie Dene is a Psychic Medium who has dedicated over 30 years to serving Spirit and connecting with the spiritual energies that surround us.

From a young age, Jackie has been attuned to these energies, and her calling to serve became undeniable.

With her intuitive abilities, she delves into your unique energy and brings forward the messages, guidance and validation that are most relevant for you in this moment.

Jackie’s approach is compassionate and supportive, creating a safe space for connection, clarity and reassurance, and helping you to recognise the guidance that is already surrounding you.

Jackie will be offering private Psychic Medium readings at the Byron Wellness Festival Healing Tent.

“The guidance you seek is always around you.”

JUNE

Melbourne

PSYCHIC MEDIUM

June is a Psychic Medium who connects with Spirit to bring through messages of love, healing and validation.

Her gift is to help you find clarity, peace and direction on your life’s journey, offering evidence from loved ones, guidance from Spirit and support when you need it most.

Through her warm and compassionate approach, June creates a safe and nurturing space for healing, insight and reconnection — reminding you that you are never alone.

“Bridging worlds. Healing hearts. Guiding souls home.”

DOMINIQUE

Melbourne

INTUITIVE READER • REIKI & ENERGY HEALER

Dominique Rada is an intuitive reader and energy healer who supports people through healing, empowerment and self-discovery.

She works on the premise that you create your own reality — whether it’s your health, money, relationships or the direction of your life.

In her readings, Dominique helps you gain clarity, validation and practical solutions to the problems or challenges you’re facing, so you walk away with insight and tools you can actually use.

Through intuitive guidance and energy healing, she helps you release limiting beliefs, shift what is no longer serving you and reconnect with your inner power.

“You create your own reality.”

EZEL

Byron Bay

TAROT READER

Ezel Doruk follows the lineage of the wandering mystic and dervish Shams of Tabriz.

Inspired by his transformational relationship with the great Sufi poet Rumi, Ezel sits with you and channels messages from your highest self in service to your greatest good, awakening you to hidden gifts and empowering visions for your future.

“Insight. Guidance. Connection.”

CLARE

Byron Bay

INTUITIVE ENERGY HEALER

Like a kink in a hose, energy can become held, restricted or activated within the body.

Clare has an intuitive ability to sense where energy is being held and works directly with these areas, using energetic and somatic techniques to meet what’s present and support its release.

These 25-minute sessions are an opportunity to clear what feels stuck, soften areas of holding and restore a greater sense of flow through the body.

 “Release. Restore. Reconnect.”

MARY

Melbourne

INTUITIVE ENERGY HEALER • QHHT PRACTITIONER • INTUTIVE MESSAGES

Mary is an intuitive energy healer and QHHT practitioner who works with a range of powerful healing modalities to help you restore balance, release energetic blocks, and support emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing.

In her sessions, Mary holds a safe and nurturing space, helping you reconnect with your own inner wisdom and natural healing ability. Through Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT), she supports you to access deeper layers of your subconscious, gain insight, and connect with the wisdom of your higher self.

Mary also receives intuitive messages, offering guidance and clarity to support you on your journey, whether you’re seeking healing, understanding or a deeper connection with yourself.

Her compassionate and grounded approach empowers you to take back your energy and step forward with greater ease, confidence and self-trust.

“A healer is not one who heals you but empowers you to heal yourself.”

Abbey 

Sydney

WOMB HARA MASSAGE

Guided by a deep reverence for the sacred wisdom of the feminine body, Abbey offers Womb Hara Massage, inviting you into presence and softening with your creative portal and feminine sanctuary — the womb.

Through intentional abdominal touch, Abbey weaves together Chi Nei Tsang and Zen Hara teachings with womb massage and acupressure points, creating space to meet what is present with openness, release what is not yours, and reclaim what has always been.

Womb Hara is a beautiful way to work with both the subtle and physical layers of a woman’s being, supporting deep healing and reconnection with the feminine.

You’re invited to stir the cauldron, clear stagnant energies and gently open to the vastness of sensuality, bliss and creativity that is you.

MYRIAM

Melbourne

PSYCHIC MEDIUM • ENERGY HEALER

Myriam, also known as Madame Reiki, is a French-Australian Psychic Medium and Energy Healer who offers intuitive guidance, Spirit connection and energetic healing.

Through her readings, Myriam brings clarity and insight to relationships, life direction and personal challenges, while also connecting with loved ones in Spirit to offer meaningful messages, comfort and validation.

Her healing work incorporates Reiki, energy healing and chakra balancing, supporting you to release energetic blocks, restore balance and reconnect with yourself.

Warm, intuitive and compassionate, Myriam creates a supportive space where you can receive the guidance, healing and connection you need to move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

“Heal your energy, remember your light, you are never alone.”

SASKIA

Byron

 HOLISTIC THERAPIST & ENERGY HEALER

Saskia Kalwinek is a holistic therapist, sexologist and wellness counsellor, and the founder of Love Empowerment Clinic, her private practice in Sydney.

She specialises in romantic love healing, intimacy, sexuality, relationships and emotional wellbeing, supporting individuals and couples in navigating relationship challenges, healing emotional wounds, and developing deeper connections with themselves and others.

As part of the Byron Wellness Festival healing team, Saskia offers Reiki, energy healing, aura readings and tuning fork therapy to support energetic balance, chakra alignment and a deeper sense of harmony between body, mind and spirit.

Her approach combines therapeutic practices with holistic modalities to support emotional healing, self-awareness and personal transformation.

NIAH

Melbourne

TAROT • MEDIUMSHIP • SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE

Niah is an intuitive reader, tarot reader and medium who offers gentle, insightful guidance to help you find clarity, reassurance and a deeper connection with your own inner knowing.

Working with the Tarot and her connection to Spirit, Niah creates a safe and supportive space where you can explore the questions, relationships and life transitions that are important to you.

Her readings are guided by the energy of the individual, allowing each session to unfold naturally. Whether you are seeking direction around a particular situation, confirmation of what you are already sensing, or simply wanting to understand what may be unfolding in your life, Niah offers guidance with warmth, compassion and respect.

Through mediumship, Niah may also receive messages and impressions from Spirit, bringing through connection, comfort and validation where it arises naturally within the reading.

Niah looks forward to supporting you at the Byron Wellness Festival.

“Sometimes the guidance we seek is already within us — we simply need a little help hearing it.”