Workshops
Workshops are an essential component of Strawberry Fields, allowing people to interact, step out of their comfort zones and learn new skills.
With a program including dance, yoga, craft, talks and circus play, there's something for everyone to flex their mind and body.
Hover/tap on the workshops below to discover more. Timings of each workshop will be provided in the festival program made available in the week leading into the event.
Acro Yoga
with Jack and Carly
Run away with the circus - even if only for a moment. Think spinning plates, juggling, poi, levi wands, hula hoops and dancing ribbons. Come for a play among the ghost gums and discover your hidden talents!
Circus Playspace
with Donna Sparx
Through different meditation and breathwork exercises connect deeply to the land, the people, the universe and finally ourselves. Explore all directions of the human 3D experience and find your balance and centre to start into another great day. Yoga mats provided.
Exploring Dimensions Guided Meditation & Energising Breathwork with Justus Schumacher
Join Dja Dja Waurrung/ Yorta Yorta Artist Stephanie Taylor for a mindful aboriginal weaving workshop that explores the themes of reconnection and healing through art. Through her art practices Stephanie aims to inspire other to use creativity as a means of personal growth and healing.
Mindfulness Aboriginal Weaving
with Stephanie Taylor
Want to find love in the murray magic or just a cute kiss under the disco ball at midnight? Let's bring a little cheekiness into your festival experience! Join drag boi MITCH for an afternoon session of Dear Pluto’s speed dating, the environment will be ripe for (strawberry) picking!
Strawberry Speed Dating
with Dear Pluto & Mitch
The time-tested techniques of yoga enhance our experience by using the body to influence the breath and ultimately our mental state. This breath-centered Hatha flow session, focuses on guiding the state of our minds through posture and breath, as an act of recentering that expands into the day and the weekend from a grounded centre. Yoga mats provided.
Yoga For Recentering
with Whitney Cummins
Pop into this wonderland of giant bubble creation. Learn to create ginormous bubbles along with a few fun bubble tricks too.
Bubble-icious Playground
with Hoop Sparx
Collaborate and create a large scale piece of art from the heart with Yorta Yorta Wiradjuri boonwurrung Artist Dylan J Charles in a workshop where you can learn about aboriginal storytelling whilst creating a canvas to share with the Strawberry Fields community.
Collaborative Art From The Heart
with Dylan J Charles
Journey through time with the Didgeridoo, Native Flute and drum. Experience a collaboration of sounds with nature in this grounding session which offers a blend of first nations healing.
First Nations Sound Journey
with Uncle Shane Charles & Takoda Madrid
A crash course on female pleasure and arousal principles where you’ll learn about three little known secrets to pleasure so that you can level up your experiences in the bedroom and start closing the orgasm gap!
With sex educator, coach, and host of the Labia Lounge podcast, Freya Graf.
Pleasure Principles
with The Labia Lounge
Join us for a fun-filled, joyful workshop designed to help you connect with your unique sense of play and gain practical tools to bring more play into your everyday life. Discover how to follow your curiosity, act spontaneously, and co-create playful experiences with others.
The State of Play: Connecting You To Your Play
with PLAYyourtune
Come and experience the power of breath work and an ice bath. Providing clarity of mind and becoming totally invigorated throughout the body.
Step out of your comfort zone and get HIGH on your own supply!
Breath Work & Ice Bath
with Mark-Tiger-Kluwer
Explore the fundamental principles of contact improvisation, such as weight-sharing, trust-building, and non-verbal communication. Through playful exercises and partnered interactions, we will discover how to initiate and respond to people in the context of contact improv.
Contact Improvisation
with Drew & Nicole
Awaken your senses and deepen your connection to body, breath, and surroundings mindful movement, somatic practice, accessible yoga postures, set to live ambient music from IKSRE. Yoga mats provided.
Fluid Yin & Sound
with IKSRE & Lori Curran
Join Mike Toner, Thick as Thieves founder, where Macca and him talk about galvanising the Melbourne Ravers to raise over $2.5 million for the Fred Hollows Foundation, inspired a movement of Runners within that community, which has lead to restoring the eyesight of over 100,000 previously blinded people.
Rave, Run, Restore
with Mike Toner
Paint the wild landscape of Strawberry Fields, including the stage, people, and the natural environment. Learn how to paint landscapes using basic watercolour painting techniques such as glazing, underpainting, wet on wet, and dry on dry and take home your own artist creation of Strawberry.
Wildland Watercolours
with Monique Liu Pei Ying Gawne
Immerse yourself in music, movement and mindfulness for a breathwork or yoga session facilitated by Michelle Li to live sound by cellist and composer Conrad Hamill. This 90 minute session will be an opportunity to reconnect with self and community through a gentle flow, surrounded in layered sounds using a range of effects and live cello looping. Yoga mats provided.
Cello Yoga & Breathwork with Conrad Hamill & Michelle Li
An immersive workshop of creative chaos for beings of all artistic skill levels to create, express and make a mess. From unique life-drawing, negative space explorations to ludicrous line drawing meditations with your over-the-top artistic hosts.
Creative Juices
with Scratch Arts
An inclusive and welcoming space for people of any level to explore and learn hula hoop tricks. Surprise yourself and your friends with what you're capable of! Hoops provided, just bring yourself
Hula Hoop Tricks
with Emma Fulganzi
Come and learn about the Realms of psychedelic preparation and integration: The SWIM model
Somatics, Wisdom, Interdependence and Metacognition- tools for oceanic boundlessness and embodiment. Inspired by wisdom traditions and modern clinical theory; integrating science and the sacred.
Realms of Psychedelic Preparation & Integratgion
with The Signs of Life Psychology: Dr Lani Roy and Melissa Warner
Engage in an interactive talk and workshops where together we can learn how to best help communities facing climate change and other disasters through a D.I.Y ethic rooted solidarity in the form of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief.
We Can Make An Impact
with Friends Of The Earth