Dr Danielle Arabena

Medicine. Story. Country. Relationship.

Welcome. Come and sit for a while.

I am Dr Danielle Arabena, a Torres Strait Islander woman descendedfrom the Meriam Mer people of the Torres Strait.

I am a GP, educator, speaker and storyteller. My work sits at the crossroads of medicine, women’s health, cultural safety, story, Country, nervous system care, restorative yoga, meditation and relational ways of knowing.

My life and work have always been shaped by service, compassion and healing.

Although I trained as a medical doctor, my path has never been only clinical. It has also been shaped by story, Country, ceremony, ancestral wisdom, embodiment, grief, renewal and the sacred thresholds of women’s lives.

Health is not held by the body alone. It is shaped through relationship with self, body, story, culture, community, Country, ancestors, future generations, systems and the living world around us.

Through clinical care, education, speaking, writing, restorative practice and ceremony-informed spaces, I support people and organisations to reconnect with the relationships that sustain health, healing and belonging.

Country as a living field

Across my three living pathways, Country is not background.

Country is part of the living field that holds body, story, memory, relationship and healing.

My work is grounded in the understanding that we are shaped by the places, peoples, histories, ecologies and relationships that hold us.
When those relationships are disrupted, the effects may be cultural, physiological, spiritual, relational and collective.

When relationship is restored, the body may begin to remember belonging.

Country is medicine.

There are many ways to enter this work.

You may arrive through women’s health, menopause, birth, breastfeeding, menstrual wellbeing or pelvic pain.

You may arrive through cultural safety, education, speaking, health systems, leadership or organisational change.

You may arrive through grief, burnout, transition, body wisdom, creative longing, spiritual remembering or the need for deep rest.

You may arrive because something in you knows there is more to healing than managing symptoms and carrying on.

However you arrive, you are welcome here.

Sacred Ama Songlines®

A relational framework for body, story, Country and women’s health

Sacred Ama Songlines® is the deeper framework that holds much of my work. It is a living, decolonising relational approach to women’s health, healing, story, body, Country, cycles, nervous system care, memory and meaning.

It honours the body as more than biology.
The body carries story.
The nervous system carries memory.
Cycles carry wisdom.
Country holds us.
Healing happens in relationship.

Within Sacred Ama Songlines®, menstruation, pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, menopause, grief, healing and transformation are understood as meaningful thresholds, not simply clinical events or problems to be managed.

This framework invites us to remember that we are not separate from the living systems around us.

Wild Moon Lodge

A sanctuary for rest, restoration and embodied belonging

Wild Moon Lodge is the hearth space.

It is a restorative sanctuary for nervous system care, seasonal rest, ritual beauty, deep listening, story, Country and belonging.

Through restorative circles, moon temples, seasonal retreats and guided rest practices, Wild Moon Lodge invites you to soften, breathe, remember and return to yourself.

This is where the body is held.
Where the nervous system exhales.
Where beauty becomes medicine.
Where Country becomes the first holding field.

Wild Moon Lodge is for those who are tired of pushing through and are ready to be held differently.

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Medicine Reconnected

Reimagining health as relational

Medicine Reconnected is the public education, speaking, writing and systems-change space for this work.

It brings together medicine, cultural safety, women’s health, Indigenous Knowledge, story, systems change, planetary health, community care and relational ways of understanding health.

Medicine Reconnected asks what becomes possible when health is understood not as an individual project, but as a web of relationships.

It is where I share writing, speaking, education, frameworks, conversations and systems-change work for people and organisations seeking deeper, more humane and more relational ways of practising care.

Acknowledgement of Country

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands, skies, waters and seas on which we each live, work, gather and learn.

I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and honour the Ancestors, knowledge holders, storytellers, healers, midwives, medicine people and cultural custodians who have carried ways of knowing, being, doing and relating across generations.

I acknowledge that Country holds story, memory, medicine and relationship.

I honour the Country you are reading from, the Ancestors of that place, and the continuing cultural responsibilities, relationships and living knowledge systems that sustain Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples across this continent and the islands.

May this work be approached with respect, humility, reciprocity and care.

Your Sacred Health

Gatherings and Workshops

community + learning

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Shamanic Healing

Uplifting your Whole Being

physical + mental + emotional + spiritual

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Pelvic Floor Care

Uplifting your Whole Being

physical + mental + emotional + spiritual

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Kind Words

Dr Danielle Arabena’s devotion to her craft is palpable. Her commitment to leading women down a path of deep healing, re-connection and transformation is instantly evident in all that she does and her charisma, expertise and wonderful sense of humour combine to create her unique brand of magic. A woman on the rise, this Goddess is one to watch!
Rebecca van Leeuwen - Soul Sister Circle
Danielle is a profound and gifted healer. After our session, I felt aligned and grounded yet light as a feather. The creative blocks I'd been struggling with melted away effortlessly and undeniable synchronicity began happening all the time. Calling on all her beautiful gifts, including massage, crystal healing, meditation, sound healing and drum work, Danielle wove a space that was truly magic. Her work is alchemy and you must get her on your healing team immediately.
Tahlee, Sonesence
Thank you Dr Arabena for opening my heart and mind to my feminine power. After having the holistic pelvic treatment for the first time I connected with my womb space and understood the importance of this. I have nurtured and respected my feminine energy and power source ever since and also bought this knowledge to others in my Reiki practice. Combining the insight I received from the treatment and the Sacred Birth CD that I bought I have been able to heal and come to peace with past trauma and have connected back with myself and the lessons I’ve learned from my experiences. I listen to my Sacred Birth CD several times a week and use it during Reiki Treatments and meditation classes that I run, I am so grateful for the healing this music brings not only to myself but to those with whom I share. Thank you for the gifts meeting you has given me, I’m eternally grateful.
Tracey
It was 10 weeks after the birth of my first baby when I saw Dr Danielle for a holistic pelvic care session. From the moment I sat down and began to share my story a powerful and deeply sacred process began to unfold. Dr Danielle guided me through a transformative journey of self discovery through her healing hands and powerful shamanic techniques. These sessions had a profound impact on my connection with baby and his birthing story. I developed a greater appreciation of my pelvic bowl and reconnected with my body post birth, allowing me to value and heal the creative powerhouse that it is! I also had an opportunity to explore ancestral ties that have helped me heal and connect to my roots. I cannot speak more highly of this type of holistic pelvic care for women. Thank you Dr Danielle for bringing this sacred women’s business back to medicine.
Belinda G
Dr Arabena is unlike any other healer I have come across, situating culture and Country at the heart of her work immediately made me feel at ease. Words cannot describe how tranquil and peaceful her healing place is, and while I was nervous and feeling vulnerable beforehand, this quickly changed, as I felt a familiar warmth and peace wash over me as the healing progressed. Having space held for me in this way, and the energetic shifts I felt throughout the healing, were felt to my core. At the end of the session I felt lighter and had a peaceful sense of ease flowing through me. Thank you for the work you do and your practice, I am grateful for such a healer during these times.
Healing Client2022

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