Weaving is Healing Sunshine Coast May 2025

René Bahloo is a qualified installation artist, facilitator and project coordinator, with a special interest in thepractice and philosophy of basket weaving, using natural plant fibres. She shares her knowledgethrough weaving circles and facilitates grassroots journeys to remote Indigenous Australian andAfrican communities, for deep connection to land, culture, healing and traditional weaving. Renéalso collaborates with Indigenous weaving elders to create large scale pieces and experiences of intercultural connection through weaving. She has presentedat a number of conferences and been involved as a lead artist in Floating Land Environmental Artevent in Noosa, Australia, and has made sculptural works for festivals and competitions. Rene’spassions stem from her experience of Australian Indigenous culture, leading to doctoral studiesbased on Indigenous culture, women’s business, creativity and weaving journeys to wisdom. Hergoal is for us all to weave our world into a better place, to weave ourselves in healing andwellbeing, to weave our environment with passion and purpose.

René Bahloo

Weave with palm inflorescence -  in a ceremony-style immersive sharing and healing circle.

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Workshops

"Weaving is healing" workshops are much more than skill-building fibre art classes. They are nurturing, trauma-informed, spaces where we heal together through the power of the weave, facilitated by weaver, healer and circle holder René Bahloo.

This will be a space to learn to weave a basket from fibres in your garden - palm inflorescence fronds. It is a space to share and celebrate our humanness and fibre together, as we weave ourselves in loving connection.10.30am till 3.30 pm. $120 ppThe workshop will be facilitated through means of a ceremonial space where you will be nurtured and held safely in a circle of like-minded beings, sharing and breathing and creating together.This is an opportunity to experience the ancient art of basket weaving as a deeply mindful and contemplative practice. It is a space of sharing, creating, being and breathing, conducted through ceremony and celebration of life. Using natural materials from the land, you will learn to weave individual strands of fibre together to form a whole creation, while recognising and acknowledging the mirrors and metaphors that bind us together with nature and each other.Like a weave within a weave, this has the power of revealing a way of being that is nurturing, growthful, enlightening and honouring of the energy of creation. Together we will weave baskets that hold in their fibres all of the stories we share, flowing in symphony with the songs of nature as they unfold around and within us.Extra pandanus fibre will be available to buy on the day, if needed for future weaving projects or expansion of your current one.Bio:René Bahloo is a creator and facilitator of ceremonial spaces that are rooted in the healing power and wisdom held within the ancient art of fibre weaving. Through her lifelong interest and pursuit of knowledge that draws us in closer relationship to our soul and subsequent experience of aliveness, René walks with a philosophical and practical understanding that speaks to the magic (and music) of the weave of life, available in each present moment. This is a magic that is often hidden by our perceptual filters, yet it exists regardless, and is a deep source of freedom, joy and healing waiting to be recognised and consciously engaged with, like a beloved friend. René facilitates workshops and spaces where she weaves with the fibre of these strands of knowledge and wisdom in a way that is multidimensional, in honour of the fractal patterning of the creative universe. Her work is also very practical and down-to-earth, using plant materials and basket weaving techniques to illustrate and enhance understandings of spiritual concepts which in turn promote connection and open-heartedness amongst participants, in a fun and lighthearted, yet profound manner. René’s background as a qualified visual artist and psychotherapist, as well as her extensive life experience with (and deep ongoing connection to) Indigenous shamanic/earth-honouring families and cultures, enhances her intellectual, creative and spiritual capacity to speak eloquently to this interconnected weave of life. René brings you a gift: a direct demonstration and embodiment of the experience of her own aliveness, and beautiful fallible humanness, through radical honesty as well as authenticity to the moment, and inspires us to remember, to love and to honour all parts of our soul expression in the world, no matter how they show up, in the spirit of ‘already being whole’. Please something savoury to share for lunch. Tickets are transferable but not refundable, within a one-year period. Workshops are subject to numbers. Tickets can be booked online or by emailing to organise a direct deposit /cash. (direct deposit bypasses the eventbrite fee).René Bahlooweaverywork@gmail.com(0438)162552

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