NEW DATE
Inspiration - What Keeps You Standing?
When: Sunday 12th April 2026, 10:00am - 5pm
Where: Augustine Hall, 2 Minona Street, Hawthorn,
Cost: $80 + dana (donation) for Jess and Ruth’s teaching
Teachers: Ruth Langford & Jess Huon
Do you want to embody what you care about?
Do you want to connect with beauty, aliveness, and joy, as you face what’s hard?
Do you feel we need more of us standing together?
It can be easy to withdraw or collapse, when faced with difficulty.
Within these divisive times, let’s come together to awaken our inspiration.
So that we can keep sparking and protecting life.
Let’s resist cycles of inner and outer harm, and light up what helps us stay resourced and connected.
Eros, beauty, art, spirit strengthening, and humour help you stand up, light up your inner fire, and warm the edges between us.
Join Ruth and Jess for another powerful collaboration – Jess from her Dharma lens, Ruth from her First Nations lens, both from their lived experience.
How might we come together in respectful ways and be nourished by a deeper dreaming that practice points us towards?
Everybody welcome.
About co-teacher Ruth Langford
With a diverse background in cultural arts, environmental & social justice, youth work and Indigenous Medicines Therapy, Ruth Langford divides her time into various projects. They all reflect her passion for uniting ancient traditions and contemporary innovations for optimistic action and healing for her People.
As a Song woman and StoryTeller, Ruth draws upon the cultural knowledge of her Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung mother and holds cultural responsibilities within Lutruwita’s Palawa community where she was born.
Ruth Langford holds a Masters of Indigenous Health & Wellbeing, is a certified Holotropic Breathwork practitioner and has spent decades travelling the world sitting with Indigenous Elders, Senior Knowledge Keepers and World Wisdom teachers. Ruth’s vision is to connect people to the ancient wisdom of Indigenous teachings in a contemporary and relevant context through the expression of cultural arts, ceremony and ritual.
As the founder of Nayri Niara – a Centre for the Arts of Healing – and creative director of Nayri Niara Good Spirit Festival, Ruth Langford has gained a reputation as a capable facilitator and coordinator of effective capacity-building programs which have, as their guiding principles, connection to Country, Culture and to the Sacred.