Energy Image Flow: Introductory Qigong Series
Reconnect with your breath and body through gentle, flowing movements inspired by nature and ancient Chinese wisdom. This introductory series explores Qigong, a practice of energy cultivation that combines movement, breath, and imagery to promote calm, clarity, and vitality.
Each session begins with a warm-up, followed by Five Element flows—grounding the body, relaxing the muscles, and quieting the mind. No experience needed. All are welcome.
Thursdays, 6–7:30pm at Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios.
Book now and experience mindfulness in motion.
About the Instructor – Lian Loke
Lian Loke is a multidisciplinary movement artist based in Warrane/Sydney, with a deep passion for exploring how movement transforms the body and mind. Her practice blends traditional energy cultivation with creative imagery and embodied exploration, offering a unique and immersive approach to Qigong.
From 1998 to 2006, Lian trained under American choreographer Annetta Luce in somatic and shamanic dance practices, drawing on Body-Mind Centering and Qigong principles. She continues her studies in Qigong with renowned teacher Lee Holden and has trained in the Japanese Bodyweather dance methodology with de Quincey Co since 2007.
Lian’s teaching invites participants to connect with breath, flow, and nature-based imagery, creating space for calm, vitality, and personal transformation. Her classes are accessible to all levels and designed to support wellbeing through gentle, mindful movement.
Brett Smout stamp workshop
Making and using clay stamps.
Suits beginners to experienced clay players
Pressing stamps into clay is so much fun! Choosing the right stamp for the piece, feeling the stamp sink into the clay, and lifting it off to reveal the fresh imprint. Perhaps again and again.
In this workshop you will learn different ways of making and using clay stamps. You will learn how to make stamps from buttons, 3D prints, drawings, found objects, and from natural and fabricated patterns.
There will be an extensive display of stamps so you can begin or add to your own stamp collection. Even if you have never used clay before, you will be able to make several stamps and two stamped dishes to take home raw or put through the bisque firing service. Clay for this is included, as is the bisque firing.
Date: Saturday 25 October 2025
Time: 2 -4.30pm
Understanding Colour with Deborah Marks
Come and enjoy a weekend workshop exploring colour relationships and our visual
reactions to them. Through a systematic study of colour relationships, we will see the
reactions different colours have when placed next to each other, as well as feeling colour
relatedness. We will explore the dimensions of colour - hue, value, intensity and
temperature.
This is a structured workshop where students are guided through in depth colour mixing
exercises including primary, secondary and tertiary colours, painted within a grid pattern.
Students then create their own design based on principles of design and explore
harmonies and contrasts of their chosen colour scheme.
This workshop gives you the opportunity to focus, structure and make sense of this broad
subject. It is suitable for beginners and those who would like to understand colour and its
relationships more fully.
Monoprinting Workshop with Andrew Totman
cost includes some materials
Sunday 23 November 10am-4pm
Join master printmaker, Andrew Totman for A Day of Monoprinting workshop. Totman will introduce the participants to a variety of colour printmaking techniques for producing sensitive layered and bold multiple plate prints through step-by-step demonstrations and explanations.
You will learn a range of mark-making methods, from customary to more experimental techniques using paper stencils, found objects such as leaves or feathers. By the end of the session, you will have a small portfolio of unique prints to take home.
This workshop is open for both novice and more advanced students with Totman providing individualised attention to help each student.
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