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What is NENA?

NENA is a community-led project based in Armidale, NSW.Each spring, it takes form as a one-day symposium - bringing together practitioners, creatives, and locals for a day of workshops, healing, ritual, and insight.This is our first public gathering.
But NENA has been taking shape quietly for some time; in treatment rooms, small circles, creative studios, and shared intentions.NENA is about returning to what matters, together.
It’s about being present to what’s here, and what’s ready to grow.

Lyle Rainger-Scott

For over 15 years, Lyle Rainger-Scott has offered a space for healing, clarity, and reconnection. As a Herbalist, Naturopath, and Energy Healer, his work blends the wisdom of plants, the subtle power of energy medicine, and intuitive guidance to support each person’s unique journey. Lyle helps clients release old patterns, restore balance, and reconnect with their natural vitality and joy.At Aletheia Apothecary, his healing space in Armidale, Lyle creates an environment of care and renewal, where individuals feel supported to listen deeply, trust their inner wisdom, and experience meaningful transformation. His approach invites a quiet unfolding — a gentle return to wholeness, ease, and inner alignment.

Jessie Paterson

Jessie Paterson is a gifted consciousness guide who weaves together soul energy healing, quantum awareness, and grounded therapeutic insight to support profound transformation. With a background in traditional therapy and a deep sensitivity to the unseen, Jessie holds sacred space for others to journey into the quantum field, where remembrance and self-activation unfold.Known for her intuitive clarity and heartful presence, Jessie helps individuals reconnect with their inner wisdom and meet the future version of themselves already living in peace, clarity, and embodiment. Her work is not about fixing—it’s about remembering who you already are.

Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson is a warm and caring holistic counsellor, sex educator, and womancrafter based in Armidale, NSW.Lisa draws on science, body-based wisdom, and trauma-informed practice to walk alongside you in your unique unfolding process. She offers practical tools and resources that support deeper self-understanding and strengthen your connection to your body as a source of wisdom, pleasure, and safety.With compassion and care, Lisa helps create space for you to explore, heal, and grow — so you can meet life’s challenges and transitions with greater presence, joy, and courage.

Eliza Smith

Eliza offers an intuitive space for those ready to release what’s heavy and return to what’s true.As a somatic medium, she tunes into energy through her own body; feeling it move, shape, and clear through her system. She becomes a vessel for what’s ready to shift, holding space with presence, precision, and a touch of the otherworldly.Her work weaves intuitive energy healing, tarot, and spiritual coaching to support lasting transformation, truth-telling, and the return to self. The cards reflect what’s in motion and offer a path toward deeper alignment.Eliza works from The Ol’ Factorie, her studio and retail space on Anaiwan Country in Armidale. It’s a place where insight arrives through sensation, where curiosity is welcome, and where magic is always in motion.

Neil Durrant

Neil Durrant is a philosopher who walks between ancient wisdom and modern life. With deep roots in theology and a PhD in applied ethics, his path has traversed many spiritual and philosophical landscapes. Today, he is devoted to the powerful, poetic teachings of Kashmir Shaivism—a tantric tradition from northern India that speaks to the divine within the everyday.Neil’s work translates this lineage into contemporary practice, offering insights that are both spiritually authentic and highly accessible. Whether through embodied discussion, subtle energetic frameworks, or practical philosophy, he helps bring the sacred closer to home.Now based in the New England region with his wife Carolyn, Neil works at the University of New England and explores how education and technology can uplift and connect communities.

Carolyn Durrant

Carolyn brings over two decades of experience in mental health into a more spacious, soul-aligned conversation about wellbeing. Long interested in alternative approaches that centre personal agency, growth, and connection, she now weaves ancient wisdom with intuitive practices to support others on their journey.After many years as a devoted Christian, Carolyn has opened her heart to broader spiritual paths. Her regular meditation practice keeps her grounded—and occasionally surprises her.Since moving to the New England with her husband Neil, she has delved deep into Human Design and now offers readings and workshops to help others explore their unique blueprint.

April Simone

April Simone is an ever-changing colour bursting with love for our Earth and its many occupants.
She is devoted to supporting people of all ages, during times of change, challenge and triumph — allying with the modalities Sandplay Therapy, Intentional Creative Expression & Dancing Freedom.

Alicia Pringle

Alicia — Intuitive Healer & Holistic Practitioner
Nestled among gums trees just 10 kilometres from Armidale, Alicia’s healing sanctuary offers more than treatments - it offers a return to self. With training in Usui Reiki (traditional Japanese method), Naturopathy, ThetaHealing, and Bowen Therapy, Alicia brings a grounded, intuitive approach to healing.Drawn to natural therapies through her own healing journey, Alicia believes that when we listen deeply to the body, we unlock profound wisdom. She gently supports this process, helping clients reconnect with their own inner calm and clarity. Her treatments - whether physical, energetic, or both - create space for release, renewal, and quiet transformation.Clients often describe her presence as nurturing, peaceful, and quietly empowering. Her purpose-built clinic, embraced by nature, reflects the stillness she helps others find within. For Alicia, healing is not about fixing—it’s about remembering wholeness.

Kaz Lawlor

Kaz is the founder of Sunwell Wellbeing and a grounded, heart-led facilitator of breathwork and sound baths. Her work supports people to pause and reconnect. Kaz holds training in Breathwork Facilitation, Sound Therapy, and Trauma-Informed Coaching. Blended with a science-meets-soul approach, Kaz welcomes both the curious mind and intuitive heart—honouring those who seek understanding and those who simply wish to feel and receive. This dual approach reflects Kaz’s own path: an ongoing exploration of the measurable power of sound and breath, alongside the sacred, spirit-led journey of remembrance, resonance, and personal transformation. It is this path—of skill and soul—that underpins all that she brings to her work. Kaz is also deeply curious with lucid dreaming and the dream space as a portal for self-inquiry, intuitive insight and transformation. She envisions expanding Sunwell’s offerings to include work in this realm, acknowledging this as a gateway to helping us understands ourselves more deeply.

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NENA is a project of community collaboration, supported by aligned local businesses in Armidale’s growing wellness district.© 2025 New England New Age

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