Yoga & Meditative Art
4 Week Series
Starts Friday May 30th | 6:30pm
At My Yoga Space, Thirlmere
With Maria Whiteacre, from Handwork Connections
Have you been feeling strung out, scattered, stretched too thin or disconnected from your body?
Does your mind feel like a web of open tabs, your body weary from trying to keep up?
Are you a highly sensitive person who absorbs everything deeply?
Or perhaps you're craving stillness, softness and a space to create without pressure.
This four-week series invites you into the gentle rhythm of being again.
Yoga and Meditative Art offers you a space for restoration, nervous system regulation, creative flow, or simply a break from the noise of modern life.
Yoga and Meditative Art is for everyone
No prior artistic or yoga experience is necessary!
—just your presence and your willingness to receive.
It's a space free from judgment, where the focus is on the journey, not the outcome.
These classes offer a nourishing experience for you to:
✨ Connect with your breath through Pranayama (breath work)
✨ Feel into your body through gentle Yoga asana (movement)
✨ Create a sense of clarity, calmness and space in your mind through meditation.
✨ Open creative flow, intuition and a connection to spirit through various meditative and therapeutic artistic processes (handwork)
✨ Experience rest, recovery, and relaxation through all aspects, including Yoga Nidra (a restorative rest practice) to support your nervous system by helping it shift from a heightened, tense "fight or flight" state (sympathetic mode), to a calm, regulated state associated with the parasympathetic nervous system.
When:
⏰ Fridays | 6:30pm – 7:45pm
📅 Start Date: 30th May 2025
📅 Last Class: 20th June 2025
What you can expect:
✔ Start each session with some grounding breath awareness
✔ Gently move through a series of supportive Yin Yoga movement
✔ Shift into spending some time experiencing a Meditative Art process
✔ Integrate, rest and rejuvenate with a Yoga Nidra practice
✔ A supportive space free from performance or competition
The Yoga and Meditative Art series is a beginner friendly, gender-affirming, inclusive of all gender identities and expressions, inclusive to all body shapes and abilities, neuro-affirming and welcoming to all.
Each Yogic and Artistic process allows for a therapeutic and healing benefit for your body, nervous system, mind and heart.
Investment:
A Sliding Payment Scale is available for this course
• Standard rate ($160) – the standard price for the series
• Accessible rate ($140) – for those with financial constraints
• Flourish rate ($180) – for those who can offer more
Please be aware that the Yoga and Meditative Art Series is not Yoga Therapy, Art Therapy or an art class,
but a space for you to use the tools of Yoga and artistic practices or processes to support your own healing journey,
your mental and physical health and your overall wellbeing.
Come as you are, with an open heart, mind and willing hands.
The story behind yoga & meditative art...Meet Maria
I didn’t know growing up that I was Neurodivergent, (I was eventually diagnosed at 43) so I used artistic expression and physical connections in nature as ways to understand and to process the world and people around me.
Creativity, movement and nature have been my tools, my hyperfocus’ or special interests, that I have turned to again and again, that have supported me to cope or get through the ups and downs of my life...and I have had a few.
I believed so strongly in the power of creativity I became an Art teacher as a way to support young people through their stages of development.
As my life, my needs, work demands and my health changed, creativity and movement in nature alone were not enough to hold me.
My mind and body crumbled as I went through burnout.
I came back to a committed Yoga practice as a way to support my recovery from complete burnout as well as major surgery. I finally remembered how to breath (I know that sounds strange, but it’s true), I began to feel connected to my entire body, I began to feel like I wasn’t just this body that was driven by a head full of chaos and emotions. I began to feel connected again to the greater cosmos and to mother nature. My mind, which was used to being inundated with stimulus and things to process, became clearer, more even.
My entire being began to soften as my nervous system learnt that it didn’t always need to respond in ‘fight or flight’ mode and was able to shift out of that state with less distress and exhaustion.
This is when I felt the deep urge, the drive or my Dharma emerge: to share with other people the therapeutic and healing benefits of all aspects of Yoga and Art.
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1 hr 15 min
From 140 Australian dollars
* Please Note, Cancellation Policy: Due to the nature of the course we are unable to provide refunds, transfers or rain-checks - all purchases are final. Alternatively your ticket can be passed on to a friend/family member for them to take your place.