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.
Aboriginal Weaving Workshop
with Stephanie’s Weaving
Ditch the dating apps and dive into a whirlwind of snappy dates. 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.
Strawberry Speed Dating
with Dear Pluto & Mitch
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 and Lori Curran
Learn how to forage and safely make your own medicine. Guided by a qualified naturopath & herbalist, this immersive, earthy workshop will teach you the art and alchemy of creating herbal remedies that honour the seasons, your body, and the land.
Make Your Own Medicine & Safe Foraging
with Kismet Health
An immersive breathwork journey that takes you into the depth of your Self. Through deep nasal breathing you experience a profound trip into the power of the breath and the magic your nervous system carries.
Somatic Breathwork - a journey to yourself
with Justus Schumacher
Join Yorta Yorta elder Uncle Shane Charles for a yarning circle where you can learn about connection to country, Yorta Yorta culture and community whilst asking questions.
Yarning Circle
with Uncle Shane Charles
Beginner friendly, no experience required. Everyone is welcome to join us for an introduction into the fun and playful world of partnered yoga, incorporating some basic partner acrobatic principals and skills.
Acro Yoga
with Jack & Carly
Through different meditation and breathwork exercises we will connect ourselves deeply to the land, the people, the universe and finally ourselves. Deep grounding and activating breaths will help us to explore all direction of our human 3D experience.
Exploring Dimensions - Guided Meditation & Breathwork
with Justus Schumacher
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!
Ice Bath & Breathwork
with Mark Kwleur
Draw and be drawn: exchange portraits with new and familiar faces. Whether you haven’t drawn in years or you can’t stop drawing, Portrait Exchange is a space for anyone creatively-inclined. Make and receive art, unwind, yarn and connect.
Portrait Exchange
with Jasyln Brown
A live panel discussion with artists and industry leaders exploring how community radio stations create authentic connections, champion diverse voices, and serve as vital cultural hubs in an increasingly digital world.
Hear from Mixmag, Elle Friday (PBS), ANU (NTS), Hannah Galvin (FBi Radio), Simon TK (Skylab)
Voices of the Community: The Power and Future of Community Radio
with Mixmag + Industry Panel
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 Hoop Sparx
Create unique leather accessories for your festival look – key rings, earrings, collars and more. All tools, materials, and inspiration provided. No experience needed!
Festival Leatherwork
with Letherwork
Move with Kamilaroi artist Phil Walford (Walgett, NSW) in a 60-minute Indigenous contemporary dance class blending brief Aboriginal history, grounding meditation, and powerful cultural movement with a modern edge. Open to all levels; connect to Country, rhythm, and self.
Indigenous Contemporary Dance
with Philip Walford
A playful, embodied queer speed-dating session. Move, breathe, and connect in guided rounds with consent check-ins, empowering prompts, and gender-affirming celebration - closing with a joyful mini dance party. Meet your people, feel seen, spark euphoria.
Queer Speed Dating
with Jaime Lee Willoughby
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. First in best dressed for mats or BYO.
Yoga for Grounding
with Whitney Cummins
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 Mika & Colin
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
Step into a supported space where intuition leads the way. In this immersive 90 minute workshop, Maya guides you from breath and gentle movement into embodied mark-making, translating feeling into bold strokes with paint, charcoal and pastels.
Make Your Mark Art Exploration
with Maaya Irving x Soma Practice
Increase Radiance, Immunity, Vitality, and deep rejuvenation with Paige Harris. Expect to move into elation, connection, even telepathy, as you discover a greater way of responding to stress in both body and mind.
Rise & Revitalise - An Immersive Well-being Experience
with Paige Harris
Drop into a nurturing yoga session guided by breath and intuition. Flow through gentle movement to unlock tension, deepen presence, and reconnect with your body’s wisdom. Open to all levels; come as you are.
Yoga for Inner Presence & Outward Radiance
with Whitney Cummins