Firewoman
An invitation from Katie & Ella to ignite your 2027 journey with this special women’s gathering…
Fire doesn't care who you've been told to be.
Three days of women’s only fire workshop learning knife skills, primitive hand drill, bow drill and sacred fire.
12th February - 14th February, 2027
Early bird AUD $880
Registration closes 7 December, 2026
From mother to daughter, and now to you…
This is the first time we've ever taught together.
I'm Katie. I've been making fire for more than twenty years: in real survival situations, in ceremony, and at home with my family. Ella is my daughter. She grew up beside the fire, and over the last few years I've watched her find her own way with it.
Fire has become one of the threads that holds us together as mother and daughter. It has taught us both about our own power, and about using that power to tend the world we live in.
Firewoman is us opening that circle to you. It's the most meaningful thing we know how to share, and we offer it with a lot of love and a lot of humility.
The power to begin
You're surrounded by noise about what feminine power should look like. Louder voices. Faster moves. More rizz. Always something to chase or prove.
Fire tells a different story.
It starts as a single ember, so small you have to shield it with your hands and feed it with your breath. It can't be forced or rushed. It only rises when you're strong and gentle at the same time.
As women, we carry this energy in our bodies. Every cycle, our blood reminds us that we are initiators, creators of life itself. Making fire with your own hands is one of the most direct ways we know to feel that power.
In a world full of screens, AI and endless stories of conflict, fire is a way home. Back to your body. Back to the land. Back to a power that was never outside you.
Women make fire differently
This is special earth knowledge best handed from woman to woman.
Search "how to make fire" and you'll mostly find men muscling it out, forcing it with brute strength.
That isn't how it works for most of us. Our bodies move differently. We need different techniques, a different awareness of how we hold and move, and a different relationship with our own strength.
Katie has spent over 20 years learning what actually works for a woman's body. And there are very few women in Australia who can make, let alone teach natural cordage bow drill. We want to change that.
Fire is also honest.. It will show you the voice that says “I can't do this.” The moment your arms ache and there's still no smoke.
But just like creation, fire doesn't respond to wishing. Instead with the strength of your deep commitment, patience and breath you’ll learn to move through the voices that say you can’t and discover the woman who can.
We can promise there will be tears and laughter!
And a moment when the smoke turns to a glowing ember in your hands that will transform your life forever.
Embrace fire and hold the secrets of power and creation in your hands.
Fire is the heart of the village…
Firewoman will teach you more than how to become a lone survivalist in the bush.
It is an invitation to remember your place in the village as a woman who holds power.
Your relationship to fire is deeply personal, but you don't have to meet it alone. Alongside other women, the pressure to perform falls away. You'll be witnessed in your struggle and cheered in your breakthroughs, the way our female ancestors have always gathered to master fire.
And then you get to take it home. The invitation is to carry this wisdom (and your working fire kits) back to the women in your community.
To start a sacred fire together, sit around it, and feel what it is to connect at the hearth again with a new level of personal power.
Because when a woman becomes a wisdom keeper of fire, she carries something special that can be shared, taught and passed on.
What you'll learn and experience
The oldest way. Just a single stalk and board from local materials, your palms, your breath and your rhythm, using techniques that work with a woman's body, not against it.
Hand drill
Build your own bow drill kit, then go further: twist cordage from plant fibres and make fire with nothing from the shops. It's a rare skill, and one we are called to place back in women's hands.
Bow drill and natural cordage
Learn how to build, empower and ignite a sacred fire. Honour the four directions and step into the role of ceremony holder for your own community.
Sacred fire
Check-in circles, shared dinners and time around the fire, with group calls before and after so you're held the whole way through.
Circle and community
Firewoman is for you if…
Firewoman is for you if:
You are ready to reclaim your birthright earth-based feminine power and know it's waiting for you within
The wild keeps calling you, and so do the old skills of your female ancestors
You've watched others make fire and wondered if you could too
You're a mother and daughter pair ready to deepen your connection together, or friends ready to call in more female community who believe in rewilding feminine power.
You’ve been taught by others but the skill hasn’t really landed yet and you need expert help to break through to your next level
Never made fire before? Perfect! You need no experience, just a willingness to show up and give it a go.
Already making fire? You're so welcome too. Katie is a survival expert with 25 years of lived experience with primitive fire and can take you deeply into advanced techniques.
Women of all ages are welcome, and mothers and daughters especially. We suggest 15 and over for the hands-on work.
Your Firewoman experience
DATES: 12th February - 14th February, 2027
with option to arrive afternoon of 11th Feb
VENUE: YAGAARI
356 Browns Crossing Rd, Eungai Creek, NSW
NGAMBAA COUNTRY
Early Bird
AUD $880
Early bird closes 7th December, 2026
Full price AUD $1,100
Limited spots!! So if you’re feeling the call I suggest jumping in today.
This gathering will ignite your 2027 journey!
Three days of hands-on fire-making instruction and practice. Includes: knife carving skills, primitive hand drill, bow drill and natural cordage bow drill with your instructors Katie Rydge and her daughter Ella Robertson
The Mastery of Natural Tinder. The art form of collecting, storing and using natural tinder to light your ember
Beginner to advanced fire making techniques - all levels of experience welcome!
Sacred Fire: Building and holding space for a sacred fire
All materials provided, including a take home kit to master
Camping accommodation with shared dinners (BYO brekkie and lunch)
Check-in circles at the program and group calls before and after the gathering
Ongoing connection with the Firewoman community chat in Nature Philosophy Circle App
Need a hand with the cost?
We've priced Firewoman to cover our expenses and our time. If money is what's standing between you
and the fire, please reach out. We have a set number of concessions available.
Come gather around the fire
There's something wild and tender about a woman who knows how to make fire. with her bare hands
She doesn't wait to be handed her power.
She kneels, breathes, and calls it up out of the earth with her own two hands. Then she carries that warmth home to the people she loves.
If something in you is stirring as you read this, trust it. That's the ember.
We'd love to welcome you to our fire.