Our Story
Circle Back is a vision born from the hearts of Heléna Turner and Cat Bednarski, both trained Vision Quest Protectors in the Stalking Wolf Lineage.
This shared dream holds the beauty and inspiration that has arisen from our mutual devotion and connection to country, self and the great mystery, and our ever-ongoing experience with both sitting and facilitating Vision Quest.
Circle Back is a living prayer for connection and remembering. A community built on integrity, honesty, real and right relationship with Nature and our place within the living web that shapes all things.
We recognise a deep need for the stillness and safety offered through practices like Vision Quest, and the way they can teach us how to live well in an increasingly complex world.
Our Quest home is tucked into a valley of stillness and wild beauty near Mount Field, Lutruwita/Tasmania. We walk gently in deep respect and reverence with the ancestral spirit of this place and the wisdom that is held here.
Circle Back
Co-Founders and your Vision Quest Guides
Hi, We’re Cat and Helena. We met in 2023 on Jinibara Garumngar Country and saw in each other a deep kinship and mutual love for the truth found in transformational personal processes like Vision Quest.
We’ve since walked together in loving reciprocity of friendship and co-creation, bringing to life the seeds of our personal visions in rightness and devotion.
We are honoured to tend to the living wisdom contained in the lineage passed down to us from Stalking Wolf and witness you in your own journey through Quest.
We hold Vision Quest programs annually in Tasmania.
Cat
Circle Back Co-Founder & Vision Quest Protector
Cat Bednarski is an Earth-Connection Facilitator, Ceremonialist and Vision Quest Protector in the Stalking Wolf Lineage.
Over the past 4 years, Cat has supported over a hundred vision quest participants through their pathway of transformation and remembering.
Cat has been and continues to be generously mentored by Steve McKenzie (Soul Paths) for many years and has undertaken trainings and is in connection with Katie Rydge and Sam Robertson (Nature Philosophy) all within the Stalking Wolf Lineage.
Cat’s passion is in tending lands within her community as a lived embodiment of what it is to be alive in the reciprocity of life and in deep connection to country.
“Supporting the process of Vision Quest is a great honour to be walking with on my path of life. It has touched me deeply as both a quester and protector with its depth, simplicity and purity. The weaving of ancient ceremony with the spirit of the land, and the wisdom of this lineage creates a profound medicine that permeates into the depths of truth of any individual willing to be opened by such an experience.”
Helena
Circle Back Co-Founder & Vision Quest Protector
Helena Turner is a Poet, Craniosacral Therapist, Wilderness Guide, and Vision Quest Protector in the Stalking Wolf Lineage.
Since 2021 she has guided hundreds of people through the wild landscapes of Tasmania, supporting humans on journeys back to self and back to nature through multi-day hikes, wilderness camping and Vision Quest.
Helena guides from a life lived in simple dedication to the Great Mystery, a decade leading and facilitating group experiences in the arts, wellness and outdoor industries, and an instinctual love for creating transformative ritual spaces.
Helena gravitates toward the integrity and potency of Vision Quest and its potential as a powerful ally for self-knowing. She has trained with Katie Rydge and Sam Robertson (Nature Philosophy) and Steve McKenzie (Soul Paths) in survival skills, nature connection practices and awareness training and as a Vision Quest Protector and Guide.
“Through my experiences with Quest, an unbroken thread has been woven back through the years of my life, bringing unending gifts through the lenses of both fear and love, revealing truth and hidden story, illuminating my capacity, power, and the immensity of love available for us here on Earth. In Quest I make contact with a depth of peace and stillness that is impossible to express, I experience my true sense of self in intrinsic connection to all that is alive. For me, Vision Quest offers a space to contact the living intelligence present in us all, and a pathway for unearthing and accessing this power."
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Testimonials
“Cat and Helena are deeply soul-led, heart-centered beings who hold space with grounded strength and unwavering grace.
With them as your Vision Quest Guides, you’ll receive an abundance of warmth, humility, and wisdom that only women who carry a deep connection to the natural world and her mysteries can provide.
Their presence invites profound transformation, and I wholeheartedly recommend them as your Vision Quest Guides and Protectors.”
- Katie Rydge, Vision Quest Protector & Trainer in Stalking Wolf Lineage
“Cat is more than a guide; she is a poet of the heart, a visionary, and a beacon of wisdom. She has a way of seeing beyond the surface, bringing to life the essence of a vision quest in a way that is both sacred and profound.
She creates a space so safe, so deeply held, that one cannot help but surrender to the journey of self-discovery. Through her guidance, I was able to explore the true calling of my soul, and that experience has stayed with me every day since.
If you are fortunate enough to cross paths with Cat, know that you are in the hands of someone who truly sees, truly listens, and truly cares.”
- Ben Mullins, QLD
“During my vision quest I was fighting off whopping cough and felt very ill. When we were scouting our spots, Helena appeared as my guide to survey my spot, making sure it was safe and ticked all the boxes.
Helena’s beautiful and soft energy was like a port in the storm for me, she was deeply intuitive and nurturing to my needs. Her soft and strong energy felt so calming & supportive for me in those moments and I felt super grateful that she was my guide in those moments.
Thank you Helena.’’
- Joelle, NSW