And They Are Seeing You Workshops

Tuesday evenings, 7pm – 8:30pm 
Tue 11 Feb 2025 – Tue 15 Apr 2025 
Arts Centre Warburton 
$100 full ten-week workshop series 
$15 drop-in 
Maximum 20 places available 

In this ten-week workshop series, attendees will access creativity, pleasure, reverence and joy through body practices that open our receptivity and increase sensory capacity. Explore a wide range of practices including movement, partner work, voice, flow writing and meditation. 

The soma is the body as experienced from within, and somatic practices help us attune internally.  A flow state comes when we are completely absorbed, energised and focused. Bringing these together enhances our capacity to appreciate and enjoy the complex and beautiful aliveness of our bodies. 

Flow State Somatics is informed by many modalities including yoga, chi gung, body mind centring, Zen meditation, contact improvisation dance, ancestral movement, Dadirri (deep listening), Focusing and somatics, plus neuroscientific research, this work will cultivate states of profound peace, delicious presence, deep listening, and connection with creativity as a force of nature. 

Presented by doctor Maya Ward who has a 30+ years of practice exploring the intersections between these various modalities. 

Please wear comfortable clothes, bring a yoga mat and notebook 


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 Fri 14 Mar, 7pm - 9pm, Sat 15 Mar, 12pm – 9pm and Sun 16 Mar, 12 – 4pm 
Arts Centre Warburton 
Price – tickets 3 days inclusive 
Full $260 
Concession $180 
Maximum 30 places available 

This multi-day workshop invites you to awaken your connection to the living rhythms of the earth and the voices of the earth. Through TaKeTiNa and flow writing, participants will journey into embodied presence, tuning into the cycles and energies that weave through the natural and spiritual world. This retreat is for those seeking creative inspiration, deeper connection, and a sense of belonging within the web of life.  

This retreat is open to all levels of experience. Come with an open heart and a willingness to listen deeply. 

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Permaculture is a contraction of both Permanent Agriculture and Permanent Culture. 

In this writing workshop we will springboard off Maya’s exhibition And they are Seeing You: the Gaze of an Alive World that explores, among other themes, planting seeds for a sustainable culture that could evolve here in the Yarra Valley. We will work with special writing techniques designed to free your voice and imagination, and collectively dream into other ways of knowing and being. Food growing, architecture, art practices and rituals of work and seasonality will be re-imagined for their capacity to bring about a more beautiful and ecologically attuned human culture.  

This workshop will be inspirational for artists, home makers, parents, policy makers, gardeners, farmers and visionaries of all stripes. 

Maya has been a student and teacher of Permaculture for the last 30 years, and is an author and writing teacher. For more information about her work, go to www.mayaward.com.au