About

To Touch the World (origins)

In 2011, I wrote and directed my last play for students. It was the end of 21 years of teaching in regional schools. The children, my assistant, Jarrah, and myself spent a long time brain-storming ideas for a script.

As it was the last one, we all decided it was time to tell everyone what our drama sessions were really about; not acting, not being the best dramatists, but about understanding ourselves.

Our play ended up being called To Touch the World.

Names and phrases can be very meaningful when they encapsulate something of our own deep mystery and fill us with inspiration. Somewhere within that play were seeds of magic and the magic kept growing.

To Touch the World became a name that found its own direction. I knew for certain that whatever I write, the stories I love to weave and whatever I teach, is for one reason only—to touch the world—with love, with kindness, to offer inspiration, hope and comfort; to create a space for others to discover their creative potential and inherent goodness.

To Touch the World (present day)

To be powerful and joyful in this world requires we take steps to recover our ‘self’. First and foremost, in the journey to the realisation of self is healing—it is the gateway to love, fulfilment and freedom; healing the nature of ‘unwellness’ in body, mind and spirit. Healing is releasing the past and embracing the journey.

To Touch The World offers yoga, relaxation, meditation and prayer, energetic healing and creative expression as a basis for healing and developing self-awareness and opening our hearts to a love that is bigger than anything we can imagine.

Once we discover how to heal and be present to life, we can then create a space for others to do the same.

We can, each and every one of us, touch the world.

Gerry welcomes Gail Hendersen-Goodall as her assistant.

Gail is the owner and operator of JAG Fitness and Pilates and JAG Temple.
Her approach embraces the harmony of body movement, intuitive shamanic and energy practices and a holistic way of living.
Gail will facilitate a Sacred Medicine Drum making workshop as part of the Sacred Living Course.

“Through ceremony, sound and connection with nature we weave spirit and heart into a powerful tool for healing”.

About Gerry Hillier, Founder of To Touch the World

Meeting His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in India

Gerry Hillier has worked as a yoga teacher, drama and creative expression facilitator, script writer and director for four decades. Gerry is also a writer and author.

From her temple – The Gift Sanctuary, Gerry sees these years as her time of giving back the many blessings life has bestowed upon her.
Life offers her inspiration and guidance—the many voices of the earth and its family are woven throughout her teachings.
Gerry combines her understanding of creative expression, the philosophy of yogic tradition, and life itself, to offer this series of retreats.

‘Dramatic art, intuitive, creative expression, movement, meditation—all are pathways to inner stillness, understanding and wisdom.’
‘It is always a privilege to witness others discover and trust their creative flow, let go of their struggles and embrace life as the precious, courageous, beautiful dance that it is, and find the courage to sing the song in their heart that has longed to be sung’.