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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.
How the Gong Supports the Experience
The gong works through vibration and resonance, helping the body move from states of overstimulation into deeper relaxation and receptivity. The layered frequencies can support the nervous system in slowing down, softening mental noise, and creating a meditative state where emotions, sensations, and inner awareness can gently surface.
Rather than “thinking through” emotions, sound allows the body to feel and process through sensation. Many people experience the gong as deeply grounding, calming, and regulating — particularly during periods of stress, emotional heaviness, transition, or burnout.
During the Solstice, the gong becomes a bridge into stillness — helping participants transition from the external world into a more reflective inner space where restoration and insight can naturally unfold.
What is Mandala Making?
he mandala is an ancient symbolic form found across many spiritual and healing traditions, often representing wholeness, balance, cycles, and inner harmony. Through repetitive pattern, rhythm, colour, and circular form, mandala-making naturally encourages mindfulness and flow states.
Creating a mandala can help quiet overthinking and bring the nervous system into a more regulated, present state. Dot by dot and breath by breath, the process becomes meditative — allowing emotions, intentions, and inner experiences to move into visual expression without needing to be explained verbally.
During this Winter Solstice experience, the mandala acts as a symbolic reflection of your inner world and the season you are moving through. It becomes both a creative ritual of release and an anchor for intention — carrying forward what you wish to cultivate in the months ahead.
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