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Welcome to Smaka

An experimental lab with
100% Neuro-Science backed,
fun workshops.

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Imaginarium
Diorama Workshop

Overview

Participants explore inner worlds, memories, and emotions by building small-scale environments (dioramas) using mixed materials, transforming personal experiences into tangible visual stories.

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What Participants Do

  • Design and construct a miniature scene or environment

  • Select materials that represent feelings, memories, or states of mind

  • Arrange objects, textures, and space intuitively

  • Optional reflection on the meaning of their created world

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Benefits

  • Encourages narrative expression without relying on words

  • Supports emotional processing and imaginative thinking

  • Enhances focus, grounding, and creative confidence

  • Accessible for all ages and artistic backgrounds

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Format

  • $65 per persona.

  • 60–90 minutes

  • Group friendly (8–20 participants)

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Best For

Emotional expression, stress reduction, imagination, self-reflection, grounding

Sand Imaginarium
Diorama Workshop

Overview

Participants explore emotions, memories, and symbolic meaning by creating scenes in sand using miniature objects, offering a grounding and intuitive form of self-expression.​​​

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What Participants Do

  • Interact with sand and select miniature objects intuitively

  • Create symbolic scenes or landscapes

  • Adjust, rearrange, and explore spatial relationships

  • Optional reflection on themes and emotional responses

Benefits

  • Provides grounding through sensory engagement

  • Encourages symbolic, non-verbal expression

  • Supports emotional regulation and stress relief

  • Accessible for all ages and abilities

Format

  • $65 per persona.

  • 60–90 minutes

  • Small to medium groups (6–15 participants)

Best For

Stress reduction, grounding, emotional regulation, self-reflection

Self-Portrait
Clay Workshop

Overview

Participants explore identity, self-perception, and body awareness by sculpting a self-portrait or symbolic form using clay, emphasizing tactile engagement and personal meaning.

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What Participants Do

  • Hand-build a sculptural form using soft clay

  • Focus on touch, texture, and form rather than realism

  • Shape features or symbols that reflect inner experiences

  • Optional reflection on self-image and emotions

Benefits

  • Enhances grounding and body awareness

  • Supports emotional expression through tactile exploration

  • Builds self-reflection and creative confidence

  • Accessible for all ages and abilities

Format

  • 60–90 minutes

  • Small to medium groups (6–15 participants)

Best For

Self-awareness, grounding, emotional expression, stress reduction

Subconscious
Painting Workshop

Overview

An opportunity to tell your story. Participants explore emotions, sensations, and subconscious material through abstract painting, focusing on color, movement, and process rather than representational outcomes.​​​

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What Participants Do

  • Engage in guided, open-ended painting prompts

  • Use color, gesture, and layering to express internal states

  • Let go of expectations around “finished” artwork

  • Optional reflection on emotions and patterns revealed

Benefits

  • Supports emotional release and self-awareness

  • Encourages intuition and non-verbal expression

  • Reduces stress through flow-based creative engagement

  • Accessible for all ages and experience levels

Format

  • $65 per persona.

  • 60–90 minutes

  • Individual or group setting (8–20 participants)

Best For

Emotional processing, anxiety relief, creativity, stress management

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Story Telling
Collage Workshop

Overview

Participants explore personal stories, memories, and identity through collage-making, using images, textures, and words to assemble visual narratives that reflect inner experiences.​​​

What Participants Do

  • Select images, colors, and materials that resonate emotionally

  • Cut, layer, and assemble a collage intuitively

  • Create a visual story or symbolic self-portrait

  • Optional reflection on themes and meanings that emerge

Benefits

  • Encourages narrative expression without verbal pressure

  • Supports memory integration and emotional insight

  • Builds creative confidence and personal meaning-making

  • Accessible for all ages and artistic backgrounds

Format

  • $65 per persona.

  • 60–90 minutes

  • Group friendly (8–20 participants)

Best For

Self-reflection, emotional expression, identity exploration, stress reduction

Neuro-Graphic Art
Drawing Workshop

Overview

Participants explore emotions and internal states through neurographic drawing, using flowing lines and shapes to support self-regulation, focus, and creative reflection.

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​​What Participants Do

  • Draw continuous, flowing lines across the page

  • Transform intersections into soft, rounded shapes

  • Add color intuitively to reflect emotional shifts

  • Optional reflection on patterns and internal experience

Benefits

  • Supports emotional regulation and focus

  • Reduces stress through rhythmic, repetitive movement

  • Encourages self-awareness and creative flow

  • Accessible for all ages and artistic backgrounds

Format

  • $65 per persona.

  • 60–90 minutes

  • Group friendly (8–20 participants)

Best For

Stress management, emotional regulation, focus, self-reflection

Experimental
Music Workshop

Overview

Participants explore emotions and internal states through experimental music and sound exploration. The experience begins with curated warmups designed to open listening awareness, regulate the nervous system, and gently transition participants into creative flow. Through rhythm, texture, and improvisation, the session supports self-regulation, focus, and reflective engagement with sound.

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What Participants Do

  • Participate in curated sound and listening warmups to ground attention and open sensory awareness

  • Engage in guided listening and sound exploration exercises

  • Create simple rhythms, tones, or textures using instruments, voice, or found objects

  • Experiment with repetition, layering, and silence to observe emotional and energetic shifts

  • Optional reflection on how sound influenced mood, focus, and internal state

Benefits

  • Supports emotional regulation through sound, rhythm, and resonance

  • Reduces stress via immersive listening and repetitive sonic patterns

  • Enhances focus, presence, and sensory awareness

  • Encourages creative flow without musical training

  • Accessible for all ages and experience levels

Format

  • $65 per person

  • 60–90 minutes

  • Group-friendly (8–20 participants)

Best For

Stress management · Emotional regulation · Focus · Self-reflection · Creative release · Sensory grounding through sound

Exquisite Corpse
Drawing Activity

Overview

Participants explore emotions and internal states through neurographic drawing, using flowing lines and shapes to support self-regulation, focus, and creative reflection.

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​​What Participants Do

  • Draw continuous, flowing lines across the page

  • Transform intersections into soft, rounded shapes

  • Add color intuitively to reflect emotional shifts

  • Optional reflection on patterns and internal experience

Benefits

  • Supports emotional regulation and focus

  • Reduces stress through rhythmic, repetitive movement

  • Encourages self-awareness and creative flow

  • Accessible for all ages and artistic backgrounds

Format

  • $65 per persona.

  • 60–90 minutes

  • Group friendly (8–20 participants)

Best For

Stress management, emotional regulation, focus, self-reflection

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