A three month live immersion for creative change-makers, liberatory softies and big-hearted visionaries to become intimate with their desires, trust their honest expression and devote to their creative praxis.

If you’re tired of feeling like your desires have been squashed by the demands of what you should be doing, it’s time to romance your creative practice again.

Combining somatics, herbalism, yoga and astrology to resource your connection to your embodied self and your creative medium of choice, cross the threshold into relating with your creative life-force with clarity.

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“In touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept the powerlessness.” - Audre Lorde

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Our desires contain the seed for what our bodies long to express. Many of us have a distorted relationship with our desires, often relegated to the side and compartmentalised as frivolous or unimportant.

Your creative contributions are the wellspring of communal wellbeing. They are the bedrock for what nourishes our internal ecosystems and what sustains our communities.

Your creativity sets the tone for new life to flourish amidst difficult conditions.

In October, Venus repeats her 19 month cycle with the Sun and Earth and descends into her underworld journey. Venus - planet of desire, beauty, relationships, art, romance - will retrograde for 40 days and move into a brief period of invisibility to meet the heart of the Sun.

This year, Venus will be retrograding through Libra and Scorpio. In Libra and Scorpio, Venus will be navigating landscapes of beauty amidst harshness, intensity within intimacy, and harmony amongst chaos.

When Venus is moving retrograde, our desires, creativity, longing, and love is felt at a visceral, relational level where our personal and collective lives are coloured by moments of rupture, separation and challenge.

As Venus undergoes a period of stripping down pretences, she is inviting us into the intimate terrain of what is decaying to create what is honest to you.

Venus is asking: what do you really want?

Join us for an experiential live immersion on romancing our devotion to our creative praxis.

The journey

Our three month immersion will include

6 x 2 hour workshops
3 x 60 min co-creation circles (co-regulation calls) for company and/or accountability
3 x integration weeks
online community space on WhatsApp (live cohort only)

All sessions will be held on Zoom.

Replays will be available.

Dates:

Opening Circle | 8 September

Live workshops | 21 September / 5 October / 19 October / 2 November

Closing Circle | 23 November

Co-Creation Circle | 14 September / 12 October / 9 November

All calls will be held on Mondays at 7pm AEST (except for opening circle which is on Tuesday)

Cost:

$300 for Early Bird (until 27 August)

$333 for Buddy

$444 for Companion (includes 1x 1:1 mentoring calls)

Free for First Nations

$222 for Self-Paced (First Nations Discount Code: FIRSTNATIONS100)

Participants joining asynchronously will receive all recordings of live workshops minus the group mentoring Q&A at the end of calls

Payment plans available.

Concession pricing is available for live participation - please email nawa@littlebangka.com for details.

Further scholarship pricing is available for asynchronous participation - please email nawa@littlebangka.com for details.

For more info: https://www.bangkahealingarts.com/devoted-to-desire

Once registered, you will receive a welcome email with workshop details and a reminder email the day before the workshop.

We look forward to welcoming you,

Little Bangka & co. 🌴

All sales are final and non-refundable.

About the Facilitators

aminata diallo (they/she) is a creative spirit based in Paris, weaving together culinary art, herbalism and yoga. As a gemini rising, aminata embodies pluralities and curiosity, which shines through in playful and unexpected creations, from whimsical cakes, to creative embodiment and carefully crafted potions. Each piece of aminata’s work is a celebration of textures, colors and nature, inviting you into a world where nourishment can take any form. aminata is also a trauma-informed yoga facilitator, fostering a community-based practice where we all work towards embodying nature’s teachings. their work is rooted in intuition, seasonal flavors and a deep connection to their environment, always aiming to stir connection in every creation.

rachel lee (she/her) is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and astrologer based in Wurundjeri country (naarm/Melbourne). A mentee of the wandering stars, rachel guides sensitive, creative visionaries to embody their true essence and relate to themselves and their words with presence and loving curiosity. A Scorpio Sun at core, she glows up when she gets to be a doula for your inner rebirth.

Ginhawa Circle: Devoted to Desire

Choose your tickets

Buddy ticket

Companion ticket

Busy Bee (Self-Paced) ticket

First Nations ticket