Evolve Festival 2026 - workshops
Rebirthing Breathwork Mastery
Jessica Ball
Introduction to Rebirthing Breathwork and how it can be used as a tool to regulate the central nervous system
Tree Holding Qi Gong
Jamie Josephs
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
Harmony & Resonance
Ben Mooney
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...
Coming Home (to self)
Helen La Fontaine
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
Energy Healing & Meditation
Chris Stewart
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.
Exploring Your Future Options
Chris Stewart
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...
Women's Pleasure Movement
Jordhana Clark
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!"
Somatic Enquiry
Jordhana Clark
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.
Morning Yoga
Lisa Farinosi
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..)
Non-Duality - Sharing and Meditation
Shanti
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...
Dance journey
Bronzewing (aka Aeron)
Moving meditation, facilitated by heartful music, to move your body however it wants to move ❤️
Community, Climate & Food Security
Chelsea McNab
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.
Shamanism, Power, and Politics: A Conversational Exploration
Sabah
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.
The Alchemy of Inner Union
Klaudia Ozga
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.
Feeling in to Elderhood
Aisha Jakszewicz
What does "elder" mean to you and "us"? A shared exploration of our felt-sense and needs around this. A space to reimagine and to let new meanings and relationships emerge.
The Ecology of Humour
Thomas Langley
A playful exploration of humour’s role within human ecosystems and how comic versus tragic thinking influences behaviour, culture and environment.
Co-creating Communal Safety at Evolve
Tien Sieh
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...
Contact Improv for Ecstatic dancers
Johanna
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.
Morning Meditative Meander
Johanna
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...
Feeling Our Way Through : Anger & Fear as Collective Intelligence
Stacia Karina Beazley
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.
Resilience: 5 Tools for a Regulated Nervous System
Chu Wung
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.
DJ Set
Jimmy Strat
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.
Live electronic music set
Jayendra Birchall
All original music weaving live guitar with electronic textures and melodies into rhythm-driven soundscapes — a unique experience to groove to.
Singing up your life
Victoria Whelan
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...
Oki-do Yoga
Stev Fioretti
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.
Sacred Play
Simon Oats
“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 -...
Take action on the highest purpose of your Earth Walk
Ashwattha
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 🌞
Reclaiming the Sacredness of Rage - For Women
Meg Weaves
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...
Grief Ritual
Kate Laurie, Pete Coles, Ari Amala, Chloe Ann Francis
Together we will create a gentle ritual container for our individual and collective grief to be held, loved, expressed, witnessed, and revealed in their gifts to each other.
In the Circle of Life documentary
Sabah
Across the continent now called Australia, ancient songlines carry ancestral memory as First Nations Elders, healers and artists navigate colonisation through enduring culture.
From Women to Women :: Video screening & discussion on International Women's Day
Stacia Karina Beazley
Australian premiere video screening followed by a held group discussion about redefining sisterhood, radical responsibility and reclaiming our true feminine power. Women only.
Why are we here? What can we do?
Chloe Ann Francis and Craig Poulton
A shared exploration of the foundational questions that lie at the heart of the Evolve visioning process, and foster mutual inspiration.
What the **** is going on? Causes of the metacrisis and potential solutions
River Satya and Jan Libich
Are today’s crises separate problems or symptoms of something deeper? Explore systemic causes behind climate change, AI, inequality and polarisation, then move from analysis to hope and practical commitments.
Workshop applications are now closed for 2026. If you want to offer a workshop, there will be empty slots in the timetable and you can sign up on-site.
































