About Us
Where Women Come Home to Themselves
Wild Within Co Ltd is an Australian not-for-profit organisation creating festivals, retreats and initiatives for women centred around creativity, wellbeing and human connection.
Founded in 2020 by Noriza Rohan Hult, Wild Within has grown from intimate grassroots beginnings into a nationally recognised organisation bringing together thousands of women and children across Australia and internationally.
Its work spans music festivals, retreats, educational offerings, artistic programming, motherhood initiatives and scholarship pathways, with a strong focus on storytelling, self-expression and meaningful shared experiences.
From large-scale events to intimate retreats, Wild Within is designed to offer women places to gather, exhale, create, learn and reconnect with themselves and the community around them.
Noriza Rohan Hult
Founder & Creative Director
Growing up in a small portside town in lutruwita/Tasmania, Noriza was raised between cultures by a Malaysian immigrant father and an Australian Palawa & Irish mother. Her upbringing, shaped by very humble beginnings, gave her an early awareness of hardship and humanity, and an ability to connect with people from many different backgrounds and life experiences.
Becoming a single mother as a teenager profoundly changed the course of her life. Raising her daughter opened her heart in a way she had never experienced before and introduced her to a depth of unconditional love that would shape everything that followed. At the same time, she was navigating motherhood without the support network, guidance or sense of belonging she longed for.
During this chapter of her life, Noriza experienced acute mental health struggles whilst outwardly appearing highly capable and functional. Beneath the surface, she often felt deeply disconnected – from others, from any real sense of purpose and from who she truly was.
After a decade of struggling, meeting her husband and later welcoming their three youngest children into the world, life began to shift. By slowing down, becoming more present with her family, pursuing creative ventures and choosing a different way of living, she slowly began rebuilding her inner world from a far more grounded and intentional place. Breathwork and meaningful friendships also became important threads throughout that chapter of her life.
She often reflected on how different those earlier years may have felt had there been people to lean on, conversations to have and environments where she felt safe to fully be herself. Those reflections became part of the foundation beneath the work she now leads.
In 2020, following a transformative personal turning point that seeded a strong vision, Noriza founded Wild Within. She built Wild Within entirely from the ground up with little more than heart, vision and determination – often investing every spare dollar her family had, and at times far more than that, into bringing to life the kinds of environments she once longed for herself.
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In 2022, she founded Wild Village Festival – a sober women’s music, arts and wellness festival in regional Western Australia. Since its inception, the festival has become recognised for its unique blend of acclaimed music, artistic programming, creativity and collective care, drawing women together from across the country for a shared and deeply immersive experience.
As Wild Within continued to expand, the organisation was formally restructured into a NFP in 2025, with a long-term vision centred around accessibility, scholarship pathways and initiatives benefiting women and families.
Now based in Indonesia whilst remaining deeply connected to Australia, where she still spends much of her time, Noriza continues to curate immersive events centred around music, storytelling, creativity, education and shared experience. Alongside her husband, she is raising and worldschooling their three younger children with a strong emphasis on cultural immersion, curiosity and alternative ways of living and learning, whilst her eldest daughter – her first love and one of her greatest teachers – now studies at university in Perth.
Our Philosophy
We believe women don’t need fixing.
They need space.
Space to slow down.
Space to reconnect.
Space to remember who they are.
Wild Within exists to honour life’s transitions—motherhood, growth, change, and awakening—through experiences rooted in nature, ritual, and community.
