Manifest: The Art of Expansion

A New Year Creative, Embodiment and Mindfulness Workshop

Facilitated by Julia Neubauer and Deepa Ramakrishnan

Start your year in a way that feels intentional, embodied, and creatively alive.
Manifest: The Art of Expansion is a 3-hour in-person workshop blending therapeutic artmaking, somatic practices, and intention-setting rituals.

Through mindfulness, somatic practices, and creative expression, we’ll create space to connect with your body’s wisdom. You're invited to begin 2026 from a place of clarity, self-trust, and expansion.

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.

Event Details

Date: Sunday, 11 January 2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM AEDT
Location: Prana House, Level 1, 885 High Street, Thornbury (Melbourne)

Tickets

Early Bird: $89 AUD (available until midnight 20 December 2025)
General Admission: $120 AUD
Bring-a-Friend Bundle: 2 tickets for $199 AUD

All materials provided. No artistic skill required, just curiosity and a willingness to show up.

Take this time to expand into the year with creativity, embodiment, and intention. Limited spots available.

Feedback from previous workshop participants:

“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

"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

"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

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.

Connect with Julia on Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn.

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.

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