Join our upcoming Melbourne workshop:
Manifest: The Art of Expansion
A New Year Creative, Embodiment and Mindfulness Workshop
Sunday 11 January 2026, 10am - 1pm
You’ll be redirected to Humanitix to complete your secure booking. Limited spots available.
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3 Hour Live Workshop
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Artmaking, reflection & community connection
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Mindful tea ceremony
Do you want to...
Start 2026 feeling grounded, clear, and creatively alive?
Reconnect to your body, your intentions, and your sense of purpose?
Use creativity and embodiment to access deeper self-insight?
Step into your power and into alignment with what truly matters?
Begin the year with a nourishing community ritual?
If yes, then this workshop is for you.
A Ritual to Start the Year with Intention and Creativity
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Creativity
Explore your inner world through therapeutic artmaking. Gain insights, set meaningful intentions, and express more than words can capture.
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Embodiment
Reconnect to your body’s wisdom with grounding practices that regulate the nervous system and support clarity and emotional awareness.
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Mindfulness
Nourish your senses and anchor into the present moment. A tea ceremony and meditation will offer a slow ritual of connection and calm.
What you’ll experience:
Creative manifestation:
Use therapeutic art to express your inner vision, desires, and direction. No creative skill required.A mindful tea ceremony: Slow down and connect to yourself with tea.
Somatic tools:
Gentle embodiment practices to ground, regulate, and help you feel into what’s ready to emerge.Intention setting:
Create meaningful, embodied intentions for the year ahead from a place of alignment.Community connection:
Share insights (if you wish) within a warm, supportive group space.A soulful beginning to 2026:
Leave with a renewed sense of purpose, creative energy, and calm.
A space to feel held
Trauma-aware facilitation, gentle guidance, and a welcoming environment for emotional exploration.
No experience needed
These sessions are open to all. No creative skills are required, just curiosity and a willingness to show up.
Creative & somatic tools
You'll explore artmaking, movement, and mindfulness practices to reconnect with your body and express what words often can’t.
What our clients say
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“Thank you for the relaxing and really useful evening tonight. Oh, if the wider world knew that making art is so, so useful, grounding and meditative.”
Sue, Healing Through Creativity Workshop
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"I came away from the session with new insights, knowing how I want to move forward into the new year and feeling very creatively satisfied and relaxed."
Judy, Workshop Participant
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“I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop. It was thought-provoking (...) All of it - the activities, the music, the timing, the prompts, Julia’s calming tone."
Jouleigh, Healing Through Creativity Workshop
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"How relaxed I felt. First time I’ve ever been able to meditate. I enjoyed every minute. Loved participating, thank you Julia."
Helen, Healing Through Creativity Workshop
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“Your workshop truly shifted something profound in me. While I’ve had years of traditional cognitive therapy, it was this one class that brought clarity in a way I hadn’t experienced before.”
Julie, Workshop Participant
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"Julia creates an intentional calming space to reconnect with self, thoughts, emotions & my body's 'messages'. "
Diane, Healing Through Creativity Workshop
About your facilitators
Julia Neubauer
Julia is an Art and Somatic Therapist and the founder of Reconnect Space — a sanctuary for healing, creativity, and reconnection. She combines body-based practices, mindfulness, and therapeutic art to support those feeling anxious, stuck, or out of alignment and ready to reconnect with themselves. Julia creates warm, inclusive spaces where people can explore their inner world with curiosity, express themselves authentically, and gently return to a sense of presence and aliveness. Her approach is grounded in lived experience, informed by training in Creative Arts Therapy and Hakomi Somatic Therapy.
Deepa Ramakrishnan
As a humble student of tea and tea-medicine, Deepa understands tea as a living path — a doorway to ritual, stillness, embodiment, and prayer. For Deepa, tea is “medicine of the plants, medicine of connection” — a way to sit, breathe, return to our roots, and remember our relationship with the Earth.
In each bowl she pours, she honours ancestral lineages of nourishment, healing, devotion and invites all present to share in that alignment. Deepa also does ayurvedic catering for retreats and co-tends Quiet Earth, whose mission is to bring back the sacred into modern kitchens through ancestral cookware.
Connect with Deepa on Instagram.
Join us at the beautiful Prana House in Thornbury
Tickets & Booking Details
Early Bird: $89 AUD (available until midnight 20 December)
General Admission: $120 AUD
Bring-a-Friend Bundle: 2 tickets for $199 AUD
Start your year in a way that feels intentional, embodied, and creatively alive.
You can expect:
✔ Creative manifestation: Express your inner vision through artmaking.
✔ Somatic tools: Gentle practices to ground, regulate, and feel what’s ready to emerge.
✔ A mindful tea ceremony: Slow down and connect to yourself with tea.
✔ Intentional goal-setting: Set meaningful intentions from a place of alignment and self-trust.
✔ Community space: Share insights (if you wish) in a warm, supportive circle.
✔ A soulful start to 2026: Leave with clarity, calm, and creative energy.
All materials provided. No artistic skill needed.
You’ll be redirected to Humanitix to complete your secure booking. Limited spots available.
FAQs
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You do not need to have any prior experience in making art or be an artist to benefit from our workshops. In fact, art therapy is specifically designed to be accessible to individuals of all skill levels, regardless of their artistic abilities.
It focuses on the process of creation rather than the final product, placing emphasis on the therapeutic benefits that arise from engaging in the art-making process. Therefore the workshops are inclusive and suitable for creatives and those who have never picked up a paintbrush before.
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All materials will be provided.
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This workshop is not intended to be a replacement for professional medical advice. This workshop is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition. It is designed to be a complementary tool to support your mental and emotional well-being.
If you are experiencing severe or ongoing mental health issues, please seek the advice of a licensed mental health professional. Participants assume all risks and responsibilities for their own health and wellbeing during the workshop.