Slow down · Express · Explore · Connect

What if you could put your thoughts and emotions on paper — without needing to find the right words?

Neurographic Art is an intuitive drawing practice that combines flowing lines, shapes and colour to create space for reflection, self-expression and exploration. It's a gentle invitation to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and see what emerges.

In this session, you'll:

• Quiet the mind and settle into the present
• Explore your thoughts through line, shape and colour
• Connect with your intuition
• Create something uniquely yours — no drawing experience required

There's no need to know how to draw. You simply begin with a line — and allow the process to unfold.

Your facilitators

Golnaz Jalilvand — Neurographic Art

Golnaz is an Auckland-based visual artist and art educator whose creative journey has taken her across Iran, India, China and New Zealand. She has taught art across a range of educational and community settings, working with people of all ages, backgrounds and levels of artistic experience.

Her work centres largely on the human figure, particularly women, exploring emotion, inner experience and the stories we carry beneath the surface. Working across watercolour, acrylic and mixed media, Golnaz is drawn to art not only as a way of creating an image, but as a way of observing, discovering and expressing what can sometimes be difficult to put into words.

Through her workshops, she creates a relaxed and welcoming space where people can experience that process for themselves.

Elena Skiteikina — Yoga & Cacao

Elena is an Auckland-based Iyengar yoga teacher and the founder of The Purple Peony, a small-batch chocolate business built on real, bean-to-bar chocolate. Her chocolate journey began four years ago, drawn to the idea of working with the whole cacao bean and preserving everything good about it, rather than the shortcuts most commercial chocolate takes.

She continues to actively teach yoga and make chocolate side by side — one practice never paused for the other. At the centre of both is the same question: what do we actually feel, in the body and beyond, when we slow down enough to notice, whether that's holding a pose or tasting a single piece of chocolate.

• Format: Begins with gentle yoga and cacao to help you settle and arrive, followed by guided Neurographic Art
• Date: 13.09.2026
• Time: 11 am -2 pm.
• Location: The Button factory
• Price: $55 EARLY BIRD PRICE (close on the 6 of September), after $60 per person — includes yoga & cacao opening, all art materials, and guided facilitation. Maximum amount of participants: 15 people. 
• Experience needed: None — open to all levels