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A Sacred Evening of Sound Healing, Art Therapy & Inner RenewalBest
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On the longest night of the year, join us for an immersive evening of sound healing, sensory art therapy, and nervous system restoration.
Through deep sound immersion, mandala creation, herbal tea, and gentle reflection, we gather to slow down, reconnect, and welcome the return of light.
🗓 Saturday, 20 June 2026
⏰ 5–8pm
📍 Infinite Studio, St Kilda
Limited spaces available for an intimate experience.
Bring a friend and share the evening together 💫
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• Regulate and restore the nervous system
• Release emotional heaviness and mental overwhelm
• Mark the Solstice with intention and presence
• Reconnect with creativity and inner stillness
• Experience healing through sound, rhythm, and sensory expression
• Enter the second half of the year with greater clarity, balance, and alignment
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$166 per person
$222 for two people (bring a friend)All materials provided.
No artistic experience is needed.
Only a willingness to arrive exactly as you are. -
The experience begins with a deeply restorative sound immersion, allowing the body and mind to transition from overstimulation into slower internal rhythms. Through the healing vibrations of gong, resonance, and layered sacred sound, participants are guided into expanded receptivity — a state where the nervous system softens, perception quietens, and the body remembers how to rest.
As the sound journey unfolds, the experience gently transitions into a rhythmic mandala-making ritual inspired by ancient traditions of dot painting, sacred geometry, and meditative art-making practices. Working with acrylic paints, repetition, colour, and pattern, participants are invited into a state of flow where creativity becomes grounding, prayer, and reflection all at once.
Dot by dot, breath by breath, the mandala becomes a mirror of the inner world — a symbolic expression of release, intention, balance, and renewal for the next six months ahead.
Meet Your Facilitators
Valerie Ogorodnyk
Valerie is an Art Therapy Facilitator, transpersonal creative practitioner, and founder of Active Kreative — an integrative creative healing approach that blends art therapy, somatic awareness, sacred geometry, mindfulness, and emotional expression. Her work creates gentle, emotionally safe spaces where creativity becomes a pathway for healing, self-discovery, and nervous system restoration. Through ritual, symbolism, and intuitive art-making, Valerie guides people back into connection with themselves through experiences that move beyond words.
Kishani Navaratne
Kishani is a Sound Healing Practitioner devoted to creating restorative experiences through vibration, resonance, and sacred sound. Using instruments such as gong, sound frequencies, and immersive tonal layers, her sessions support deep relaxation, nervous system regulation, and emotional grounding. Her calming and intuitive approach invites participants into states of stillness, reflection, and inner balance.
What is the Winter Solstice?
The Winter Solstice marks the longest night and shortest day of the year - a powerful turning point in nature where darkness reaches its peak before the gradual return of light. Across many ancient cultures, the Solstice has been honoured as a sacred threshold: a time for reflection, release, rest, and quiet renewal.
Energetically, it invites us inward.
Just as the earth slows down during winter, the Solstice asks us to pause, listen, and reconnect with what has been neglected beneath the noise of everyday life. It is a moment to honour endings, soften the nervous system, and create space for new intentions to emerge naturally rather than through force.
Within the Active Kreative experience, the Winter Solstice becomes an opportunity to consciously transition from one internal season into the next — through sound, creativity, ritual, and presence.
The three medicines of the evening
This experience does not ask you to think your way into healing. It invites your body to soften through sound, your emotions to move through colour, and your awareness to reorganise through the rhythm of dot-by-dot mandala creation.
Medicine one — Sound. Vibration moving through the body.
Sound is vibration. With a gong, the nervous system receives layered tones, low frequencies, overtones, and resonance moving through you as physical pressure waves. This shifts attention away from repetitive thought and into sensation, helping the body soften into a parasympathetic "rest and restore" state.
Research on vibroacoustic stimulation and sound-based practices points to possible reductions in stress markers and improvements in relaxation. The science is still developing. The felt sense is not. Most people leave a gong bath quieter inside than when they arrived.
Medicine two — Colour. Light frequency speaking to the emotional brain.
Colour is not just seen. It is processed through the nervous system, memory, emotion, culture, and association. Research in colour psychology shows colour influences psychological functioning, though always in context.
So tonight, colour is not decoration. It is a personal signal. Your body may reach for blue for calm. Gold for warmth. Red for life force. Green for balance. You are not picking a pretty palette - you are letting your body tell you what it needs, by choosing it.
Medicine three — Rhythm. The mandala as the mind's container.
Mandala dot painting adds the third medicine: rhythm. Repeating dots create a steady sensory-motor pattern. Your hand, breath, eyes, and attention begin to move together. The mind is no longer trying to solve everything - it follows a simple, structured, circular rhythm.
Studies on mandala practice and mindfulness-based mandala activity point to potential benefits for anxiety, mindfulness, and wellbeing. The circular form of the mandala gives the psyche a container. The dots give the mind a safe pattern to follow. The round canvas is, quite literally, a mirror for wholeness.
Multi-sensory Coherence
what happens when you combine
Together, they help the nervous system move from scattered, defended and overstimulated - into slower, more integrated presence. That state is not philosophical. It is biological. And you will feel it in your shoulders, your jaw, and the breath that finally goes all the way down to the belly.
The gong vibrates through the body.
The colour speaks to the emotional brain.
The dot rhythm gives the mind a safe pattern to follow.
You do not need to be artistic
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Something I have learned from a decade of holding these circles: the integration goes deeper when someone in your life has walked the same threshold beside you. You come home and do not have to translate the evening — they were there. You catch each other's eyes weeks later and remember.
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Sound, colour, and rhythmic mandala-making can support nervous system regulation, emotional processing, attention, and embodied calm. They do not cure in the medical sense — but they can create the conditions where the body and mind move toward balance. This experience is not a substitute for medical or mental health care. It is a complement to it. If you are in active mental health treatment, please bring this offering to your practitioner before booking.
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You feel the weight of the year in your body, not just your calendar
You are craving stillness, beauty, and a soulful container — not another hustle workshop
You sense a shift coming and you want to meet it with clarity instead of reactivity
You want to experience how sound and intuitive art together open doors that words alone cannot
You are curious about how colour can be used as medicine to balance your inner world
You have been quietly watching Active Kreative from a distance, waiting for the right moment to step in
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Winter Solstice Art & Sound Experience is a deeply immersive creative healing event in Melbourne that combines gong-led sound healing, guided mandala dot painting, nervous system restoration, and somatic art therapy within a candlelit studio setting in St Kilda.
Held on the longest night of the year, this experience is designed to help participants slow down, release emotional heaviness, reconnect with themselves, and set intentions for the second half of the year through sound, colour, rhythm, and mindful creative expression.
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The evening unfolds in four stages:
Deep Sound Immersion — a gong-led sound bath to calm the nervous system and quiet mental noise
Rhythmic Mandala Creation — guided dot painting on round canvas using acrylic paints and ancient rhythmic pattern practices
Reintegrate & Ground — herbal tea, light refreshments, and gentle reflection
Return to Your Light — leaving with your completed mandala and renewed inner clarity
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No artistic experience is needed at all.
This is not a traditional art class. The focus is on process, presence, nervous system regulation, and intuitive creative expression rather than artistic skill or performance. Participants are gently guided throughout the experience.
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Gong sound healing uses vibration and resonance to help the body move into deeper states of relaxation and regulation. Many participants experience:
Reduced stress and anxiety
Nervous system calming
Emotional release
Improved mindfulness and presence
Deep relaxation and inner stillness
Greater mental clarity and emotional balance
The gong supports the transition from overstimulation into slower internal rhythms, especially powerful during the Winter Solstice.
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Mandala dot painting combines repetitive rhythm, colour therapy, sacred geometry, and mindful focus.
The dot-by-dot process naturally slows the mind, supports meditation-like states, and encourages emotional processing through creativity and sensory engagement. The circular mandala form symbolises wholeness, balance, cycles, and renewal.
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We recommend bringing:
Comfortable clothing
A blanket or shawl for the sound immersion
Water bottle
An optional small sacred object for the shared altar
All mandala materials, paints, tea, and refreshments are included.
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