Annaliese Hordern

Annaliese Hordern is a facilitator, ceremonialist and plant lover dedicated to cultivating relationships with plants through propagation, conservation and everyday meaningful connection. Inspired by practical visionaries such as Vandana Shiva, the Seed Savers Network and Dan Schreiber at Star Seed Gardens, who she presented ‘Sacred Plant Propagation’ with at Somara, Annaliese weaves practical ecological skills with ethnobotanical traditions that honour the deep bond between plants and people.

Annaliese has spent 4 years working with Green Harvest, propagating rare, culturally significant, edible and medicinal plants and collaborating for over a decade with the Happy Herb Company - witnessing ripples that have shaped the plant-people connection culture across Australia. As curator of the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy’s Symbiosis Symposium, she presented the opening keynote with Dennis McKenna, bringing sacred plant connection into into plants we use in daily life.

With over 20 years’ experience in women’s work, rites of passage and ceremonial practices - including the Sundance, Sweat lodge and Vision Quest, Annaliese bonded deeply with her nature connection and has found her life guided by the teachings she has received in wild places She loves the reciprocity that comes when making offerings to plants when wild harvesting for sweat lodge poles, equally as foraging cactus in the desert. 

As founder of Change Makers Permaculture, weaving teachings from pioneer luminaries of the regenerative movement, she integrates plant connection, Earth stewardship and embodied practice into her permaculture and other workshops, inviting communities to engage with plants as living allies, sow seeds for regeneration, and contribute actively to the wellbeing of Earth, culture and community.