creative expansion
a somatic workshop for courting your courageCREATIVE EXPANSION
In the wake of the Leo solar eclipse, Creative Expansion is a somatic workshop on alchemising survival-based patterns around your creative self-expression.
As Jupiter in Leo expands our belief in our own creative possibilities, this is a potent transit to orient towards our vision through playing our own creative game in life. Offer yourself permission to express more of who you are in fresh ways.
Guided by Somatic Experiencing® principles, this 75-minute workshop will explore gentle somatic practices to greet our creative hearts and experiment with the playfulness and radiance of Leo energy.
This is an introductory workshop exploring somatic practices on connecting with our innate strength to welcome in more vitality, courage and joy into our lives.
date
Sunday 16 August 2026time
1pm - 2:15pmPRANA HOUSE
LEVEL 1/885 HIGH ST THORNBURYvenue
$35cost
$30 (early bird before 6 august)
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Whether you’re new to somatic work and want to experience an accessible, playful entry point, or curious about exploring astrology through the lens of embodied awareness, you are warmly welcomed as you are. No previous experience with somatics or prior knowledge of astrology is needed.
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Aim to arrive 5-10 minutes before the workshop commences at 1pm, so you have time to settle into the space.
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Your willingness to be curious.
If it feels fun, wear something that feels most like you, or a colour you loved as a child!
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Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) is a body-oriented approach for healing trauma and other stress disorders from a nervous system lens. Trauma, from an SE lens, is focused on how it shows up in the nervous system and how stuck patterns of fight, flight or freeze impacts life.
SE facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body and nervous system, by gently increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions, building capacity for containment and resilience.
The purpose is to diffuse the power of the trauma narrative and remap the body memory to regain aliveness and flow.
Find out more on the Somatic Experiencing® website here.
“Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun”
HAFIZ
meet your facilitator
Rachel Lee is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, astrologer and writer. Previously a social worker for over ten years working in frontline crisis roles spanning family violence, housing and mental health, she left after experiencing burnout to pursue a life that feels alive, vibrant and free.
Rachel’s approach is grounded in her personal experience of healing trauma and chronic stress through somatics, astrology, energy work and unlocking her creative spirit. Her practice is relational, body-oriented, nervous system informed, and emerges from an un-shaming perspective. Rachel’s work centers empowerment, creativity, beauty and love as pathways into greater aliveness, possibility and honest expression.