Learn. Sydney's leading women's health voices, live and unfiltered:
- MENOPAUSE - 'Menopause Out Loud' with leading expert and author Dr Ginni Mansberg. Lifting the lid on hot flushes, brain fog, rage, HRT and everything in between.
- NUTRITION - 'Midlife Metabolism - Why What Worked at 35 Stops Working at 50' with leading dietitian and nutritionist Arlene Normand. Plus muscle, metabolism, bone density, protein and the truth about GLP-1s.
- STRESS - 'Making Stress Your Superpower (and other brain hacks)' with senior lecturer and author Dr Sue Morris.
- SOUL WORK - 'Who's Holding You Up?' with Chanie Wolff. Join us for a real conversation about the load we carry as women and how to not get lost in it.
- SLEEP - 'Why You're Awake at 3am.' Insomnia, midlife and the science of actually sleeping again with Dr Amelia Scott, clinical psychologist and insomnia researcher.
- RELATIONSHIPS - 'Still Talking: Marriage, Family and Friendship in Midlife' with Renee Mill, clinical psychologist with 40 years in couples and family therapy.
- NERVOUS SYSTEM - 'The Breath Toolkit'. Regulate, Energise, Reset your nervous system with Lauren Wainer.

Move. Strengthen. Restore your body. Calm your mind:
Functional strength and therapeutic yoga with Dr Daniella Golberg, Restorative yoga with Nikki Obeid. Pilates with Balance Moves Bondi. Guided meditation with Gabi Stern. Sound meditation with Bess Wittingslow. And a Kabbalah Tea Ceremony with Belinda Gold.

Gather:
Between sessions: a seasonal brunch, artisan coffee and chai, and our silent auction (here) with over $30,000 in products, services and experiences generously donated by our community. This is our major fundraiser of the year, and auction details arrive with your ticket.

Connect:
A room full of women worth knowing. Come with friends, come alone and leave with new ones, or simply take a quiet moment for yourself. However you spend the morning, you're among women who get it.

You hold everyone else up. For one morning, let this day hold you. Book now! 

 TIME

Sunday 2 August 2026 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM (UTC+10)

 The Wellness Menu

About the Expert Practioners and Wellness Facilitators:

• Dr Daniella Goldberg
  Daniella Goldberg, PhD (Medicine), is the Founder of Second Spring Therapeutic Yoga Clinic in Bondi Junction, supporting women through midlife and beyond with evidence-informed programs focused on strength, mobility, pelvic health, nervous system regulation and healthy ageing. Daniella combines science with ancient wisdom to help women build strength, restore balance and thrive through every stage of menopause and healthy ageing. Learn more here.

• Gabi Stern 
  Gabi is an Effortless Meditation and Inner Growth teacher, and an Orah sister alum, trained to help people access inner clarity and build emotional resilience.

• Nikki Obeid - Guided Meditation and Yin Yoga Facilitator, and Reiki Practitioner
  Nikki is a holistic wellness practitioner known for creating calm, restorative spaces. She blends Reiki, meditation, and yin yoga to help women reconnect with breath, body, and emotional balance — especially during times of stress or burnout.

• Arlene Normand - Accredited Practising Dietitian Accredited Nutritionist
  With over 30 years' experience and author of The 10 Commandments of Losing Weight, Arlene has spent her career helping people navigate the real, often emotional relationship between eating and health — from weight and metabolism to diabetes, cholesterol and gut health. Connect with Arlene here

• Belinda Gold - Registered Psychotherapist and The Tea Ceremony Bondi
  Belinda blends traditional psychotherapy with the ancient practice of the tea ceremony at The Ceremony Bondi.Through the tea ceremony, a meditative space emerges with a combination of silence, stillness and a gentle stimulation of the senses that is central to creating a therapeutic and cathartic experience. Learn more here.

• Dr Ginni Mansberg
  Dr Ginni is a healthcare communicator, entrepreneur and clinician. She is a GP in Sydney and one of Australia's foremost experts in midlife women's health and menopause. She is a well known celebrity doctor in Australia appearing as the in-house GP on Channel 7’s most loved breakfast TV show, Sunrise. She is also cohost of Embarrassing Bodies Down Under (Channel 9) and Medicine or Myth (SBS). She's an author, a podcaster and an entrepreneur with her own skincare range. Learn more here.

• Yvette Loyson - Balance Moves Bondi
  Yvette is co-owner of Balance Moves Pilates & Barre Studio in Bondi Beach, bringing Reformer and Mat Pilates to the day with a focus on strength, confidence and community. A former corporate lawyer turned wellness entrepreneur, she's built Balance Moves into a genuine community, not just a studio.

• Rebbetzin Chanie Wolff - The Central Synagogue
  Chanie Wolff has spent over two decades at the heart of Central Synagogue’s community, alongside Rabbi Levi Wolff, shaping the Jewish education and pastoral care that thousands of Sydney women and families have grown up with. She knows better than most what it means to hold others up - as a rebbetzin, an educator, and a woman carrying her own load. She is the perfect voice to inspire a discussion on this topic, helping women in midlife cope with the demands and juggles of family and life. 

• Dr Sue Morris - Senior University Lecturer in Psychology and Author
  Dr. Sue Morris has a passion for enhancing students’ success and wellbeing, with an emphasis on positive psychology, and resilience. Over 25 years of undergraduate teaching, she has focused on developing innovative and engaging learning experiences for students, emphasising collaboration and connectedness.

• Elizabeth Wittingslow (Bess) – Vocal Sound & Breath Alchemist
  Bess is an intuitive healer who weaves sound, Reiki, and conscious breathwork into deeply nourishing sessions. Her gentle presence invites women to slow down, release stress, and reconnect with their inner stillness. Instagram: @the_bess_life 

• Dr Amelia Scott  – Clinical Psychologist, Sleep Researcher and Lecturer
  Dr Amelia Scott has a special interest in insomnia and the sleep difficulties that so often show up alongside anxiety, burnout, and the big life changes women are navigating in midlife. She brings together clinical psychology and sleep science with a warm, reflective approach — helping you understand what's actually disrupting your sleep, and what to do about it. Learn more here.

• Isabella Rosenthal - Clinical Psychologist 
  Isabella is a Clinical Psychologist working across private practice and the public mental health system, with a deep commitment to helping people heal from trauma and build genuinely meaningful lives. She closes our day with a communal intention-setting moment - a chance to shape the thoughts, beliefs and actions that create the life you actually want. 

• Renee Mill - Clinical Psychologist
  Renee is a clinical psychologist, author and speaker with over 30 years' experience helping individuals, couples and families navigate anxiety, emotional regulation and relationship wellbeing. Best known for books including Anxiety Free, Drug Free and Parenting Without Anger, she brings three decades of practical, evidence-based insight to the conversation on relationships in midlife.

• Lauren Wainer - Breathwork Facilitator
  Lauren is a Sydney breathwork facilitator and clinical hypnotherapist, and the founder of And Breathe. With a Psychological Science degree from UNSW, she helps people clear stored trauma, regulate their nervous system, and find genuine calm and balance. Lauren runs weekly sessions across Sydney in leading studios and gyms, and loves helping people rebalance and clear what's holding them back.

About ORAH

We are volunteer-run and not-for-profit on a mission to help Jewish women to thrive, inspire their families and strengthen our community and our people. When you book in to our Welllness Day, you're not just gifting yourself a day to yourself. You're helping another woman ignite her soul so she can shine a brighter light into this world - which is the key to our Jewish continuity.

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