Start 2026 with clarity, creativity & calm.
A soulful New Year workshop in Melbourne to reconnect with yourself through art, embodiment & ritual.
Manifest: The Art of Expansion
Sunday 11 January 2026 · 10am–1pm · Prana House, Thornbury
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From exhausted to aligned. This is your reset.
Feeling like you’re starting the year already exhausted?
Lost in the noise of goals, plans, and pressure to have it all figured out?
Craving space to actually feel what you need, instead of forcing another resolution?
If you're craving something deeper, calmer, and more soulful to start the year, you're in the right place.
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3 Hour Live Workshop
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Artmaking, reflection & community connection
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Mindful tea ceremony
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Creativity
Express your inner world through therapeutic art. No words or experience needed.
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Embodiment
Ground your body and emotions with gentle somatic practices.
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Mindfulness
Connect to your senses through a calming tea ritual and guided mindfulness.
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.
Tickets & Booking Details
Ticket Options
Early Bird: $89 (Save $31) — until Dec 20 or sold out
General Admission: $120
Bring-a-Friend Bundle: 2 for $199
✔ All materials provided
✔ No creative skills needed
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What our clients say
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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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“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
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
Here’s everything you get in this soulful reset:
✔ 3-Hour Live Workshop at Prana House, Thornbury
✔ Creative Artmaking to express your inner vision
✔ Mindful Tea Ceremony for deep stillness and ritual
✔ Somatic Embodiment Practices to ground and reconnect
✔ Guided Intention Setting to align with what matters
✔ Supportive Sharing Circle (optional)
✔ Trauma-Aware, Gentle Facilitation by Julia & Deepa
✔ All Materials Provided
✔ Light Refreshments Included
✔ Small Group Intimacy (only 20 spots)
Early Bird: $89 (Save $31) — until Dec 20
Bring-a-Friend Bundle: 2 for $199
No creative skills needed.
Ready to begin 2026 with intention?
Join us for a soulful, creative ritual. Spaces are filling fast.
This event has passed.
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.