Every “Initiate” experience is as individual as it is a defining adventure of self-discovery

Initiate Tours will take you to places you think as yet exist only in the imagination. We all walk and talk but most of the time we are somnambulists

Change catalysm

Corporate lawyer turned Change Catalyst , Helen offers personalized excursions to outback Australia with a twist. Helen invites you to join her on a magical journey of self-discovery on sacred Indigenous land. Helen uses her 15 years of corporate experience coupled with her knowledge of the 5000 year old Indian Ayurvedic ‘science of health and wellbeing’ on her voyages imparting her knowledge and teachings to empower you to initiate the changes needed for the life you deserve.

The experience

There’s something on every grain of red, magnetic, majestic outback earth for everyone. In the vast, scorched, ochre stained landscape of central Australia, a morphology of feeling permeated Helen’s soul “Waking at 4am to cheat the blistering sun, the smell of the previous evenings burnt embers sends the pulse of life coursing through my veins. Rising from my swag, I dust off the red-stained earth from my boots. Body synapses fire waves of exhilarating nervousness and excitement in anticipation of the days climb. The stillness is thick as fog in the air....... Unfamiliar effervescent sounds and smells impress themselves upon me imparting the centuries aged wisdom generated by the indigenous caretakers of the land. As I gaze across the vast pastel stained expanse before me, I catch my breath being drawn in and slowly out of my chest and sense the dry dustiness stroking the tip of my nose. Standing on tip-toes, hand to brow staring up at the mountainous rock that is the days mission, a consciousness of feeling intoxicates me with its sticky hue. The damp morning air particles gently stroke my skin in this arid place of abundance… I feel as a euphoric child, sense the tender embrace of mother, I am daughter..sister. It would be no longer possible to ever return to the nothingness again”

Finding my way

Raised in a family of carers, Helen always held a strong desire and commitment to help others. Feeling deep un-fulfillment in her corporate role, Helen began in search of real meaning to her life. She soon found out that to help others she needed to first help herself. After embarking on a meditation course to cope with the stress of her corporate job Helen stumbled upon a whole other layer to life that had thus far evaded her “Your understanding of something and your experience of it are entirely different. Simply by having an expanse of physical space and time around me out in the territory enabled me to put things into perspective. It struck me that I hadn’t even realised how unhappy I had become. I was so caught up in my ‘busy-ness’ that I neglected my own happiness. I had gotten so tangled in the web of it all that I could see no way out. I realized out there that I didn’t need to find an instant solution but simply needed to give my mind some ‘time-out’ to consider the things that make me happy”

The wisdom

The wisdom that we can learn from ancient cultures is as infinitely magnetic and spiritual as it is stimulating, symphonic and rewarding “I wanted to do something with my life that gave me pleasure and absolute fulfillment as well as giving something back. Initiate Tours is my labour of love”. Close to Helen’s heart is her involvement and exchanges with indigenous Aboriginal people which she combines with Initiate Tours expeditions in an innovative way. An exchange of wisdom has a power that can only be experienced not talked about (see our philosophy for more details)

Are you ready to make the change?

Be the change and it will be so