Evolve Festival 2026 - workshops

Introduction to Rebirthing Breathwork and how it can be used as a tool to regulate the central nervous system

Tree Holding Qi Gong really captures that harmony between grounding and flow. The phrase “Stillness in Movement” is especially powerful—it reflects the deep presence and calm awareness cultivated in

Building connection through Harmonising, resonating and chanting to Shruti box to build connection then into a small breath work with omm chants at the end leaving people filled with love 🥰

I offer spiritual practices with simple explanations as to how they affect physiology. Using breathing/meditation/affirmations - I offer simple dally practices to help guide people home: to the self

Deep Ecology and Ecosophia documentaries

Drop in, rest, receive. You'll be guided in a simple meditation while receiving VortexHealing - Divine Energy Healing. Think Reiki on steroids, with specific focuses that the group needs.

We’ll use Futures Studies to reflect on scenarios we (un)consciously hold & define our best paths into whatever happens. Bring your thinking caps, joy in sharing, & lets explore our futures!

A sound activation and music accompaniment using the sacred AUM offers deep meditation, supporting stress reduction, mental clarity, emotional release, nervous system balance and self-connection.

Inspired by Pleasure Activism, this is an embodiment practice for Women & Femmes to resource their nervous system through the healing benefits of Pleasure. "Make the revolution irresistible!"

An invitation to slow down, sense inward, and trust the emergent wisdom of the body — a somatic enquiry into what you’re carrying and what’s quietly asking for your care.

Start the day with some self love.. Energise your body, clear your mind and feel the joy. Variations offered/ All levels.. especially those “terrible” at "yoga" (which no-one is, ever..)

This workshop provides an intro to non-duality spiritual teachings. We will explore how reality is a single undivided whole - there is no distinct and separate 'me' that stands apart from the world.

Moving meditation, facilitated by heartful music, to move your body however it wants to move ❤️

Join this workshop to explore our shared understanding of Food systems and community, the effects of climate change and your place in it- community is how we adapt.

This workshop is an open, inquiry-based space to explore how shamanic practices have intersected with power, authority, and social order—both in traditional societies and in modern political contexts.

Discover the sacred union within and the forces that shape your life. Unite your inner masculine and feminine through this embodied journey to awaken clarity, power, connection, and inner harmony.

A space to lean in to a shared process of sensing, feeling, and exploration our relationship with "elderhood". From a position of "not knowing" we use curious enquiry to let things emerge and move.

A playful exploration of humour’s role within human ecosystems and how comic versus tragic thinking influences behaviour, culture and environment.

Let's come together and start co-creating communal safety in Evolve. What does communal safety mean? What does it provide? What does it prevent? What do we need? How do we get there?

Where Ecstatic dance has a wave, Contact Improv has principles. Where Ecstatic dance focuses on self-inquiry and self-expression, Contact focuses on the body's mechanics and the mechanics of bodies.

How often do we let ourselves sink in and really be held by nature? And tune in, first thing in the morning, and connect with our nature? Join us for a meditative meander off the beaten track.

We’ll explore how Anger and Fear, as collective intelligence, offer signals that shape conflict, participation and decision-making, helping build capacity to navigate change together.

Hands-on regulation lab: test 5 trauma-informed tools you can use when stress hits. Includes sensory nature walk + gentle seated/lying movements. No touch or deep sharing. Leave with your toolkit.

Devotional chanting of mantra in song with live music through singing together in a call and response format. We meet the resonance of our collective hearts to feel a true sense of belonging.

For connection, healing, and dancefloor consciousness, there’s no better DJ than Jimmy Strat, a.k.a. James Stratford — Melbourne’s fastest rising techno artist.

All original music weaving live guitar with electronic textures and melodies into rhythm-driven soundscapes — a unique experience to groove to.

Using vocal techniques to warm up, and collaborative vocal improv to support you in connecting to your deep prayer for your life, we create groovy tunes together, inspired by whales, we sing you up!

Oki-do is a Japanese approach to yoga. It is a playful embodied practice that encourages laughter, partner work, with both energetic & finishing with relaxed postures.

“We can’t solve our problems with the same thinking that created them.” - Through games, music and embodied exercises, we’ll explore principles of creativity - Listen like a thief, Fail joyfully…

Embodied epistemology is both a "multi-cognitive" and "meta-cognitive" physical practice that involves exploring a range of "information channels" within your experience.

This workshop facilitates 1) a deep personal insight experienced through Mental Time Travel and 2) how this insight could be practically expressed in your life path and Earth Walk 🌞

I will guide women to build the subtle energy of sacred rage and cultivate the frequency and energy from within. Cultivating the ancient medicine woman within who knows the wisdom of sacred rage.