The InnerShift Way
Come home to your true Self
Workshop Series
Your foundation for lasting transformation — weaving Dru Yoga, Internal Family Systems Therapy, and Somatic Integration into one powerful framework for lasting transformation.
✨ From this foundation, we create series designed to support you through life’s turning points.
Announcing our first series:
The Pause.
Designed to support you as a midlife woman to connect more deeply with yourself as you navigate the shifting sands of peri & menopausal change.
I know how difficult it can be navigating hormonal shifts and the ripple effects these often bring - to our bodies, our mental and emotional health, our relationships and our sense of purpose.
Everything is on the table during this fundamental change we are beginning to traverse.
Traditionally called ‘The Change’ for no small reason.
We are here to support you through this.
I see this time of change as an opportunity to pause, embrace ourselves, take the time and care to look inward, reassess, and hold the parts of ourselves needing attention with tender care.
To do this we need to put ourselves first, set aside ‘me time’ as a priority, so we can honour this significant journey.
Let’s navigate this together, in community - as we move from stuckness, overwhelm and confusion into calm, clear and empowered living.
A Conscious Passage into Your Next Chapter
The Pause.
sunday workshop series
Honouring the shift within
A conscious journey for women ready to pause, breathe, and reconnect with themselves.
Through embodied practice, inner reflection, and shared community, The Pause guides you through four soulful chapters — each designed to bring you home to yourSelf.
Join at the beginning, or begin with one of our Visioning Workshops to get a taste of each journey ahead.
🌿 Chapter One: Reclaiming Your Vision
The first chapter in your journey — a conscious pause to find clarity, direction, and flow.
Rediscover what matters most. Move from overwhelm and uncertainty into inner balance, momentum, and renewed purpose.
Workshops (fortnightly):
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11.1.26 - Visioning the Next Chapter – Clarify what you truly want and envision your next season of life.
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25.1.26 - From Stuck to Flow – Shift out of paralysis and open to possibility, creativity, and direction.
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8.2.26 - Overwhelm to Ease – Learn to slow down, regulate your system, and find space to breathe again.
✨ 22.2.26 - Visioning the Next Chapter Workshop
A gentle re-entry point for new participants and a reset for returning women, to realign intention and presence before the next chapter begins.
💛 Chapter Two: From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust
A journey inward to meet your inner critic with compassion and confidence.
Transform patterns of self-judgment and people-pleasing into grounded confidence and self-support.
Workshops (fortnightly):
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22.3.26 - Meeting the Inner Critic – Transform self-judgment into kindness and understanding.
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5.4.26 - Letting Go of People-Pleasing – Reclaim your boundaries, your truth, your voice.
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19.4.26 - Cultivating Self-Worth – Build self-trust and confidence from within.
✨ 3.5.26 - Visioning the Next Chapter Workshop
A gentle re-entry point for new participants and a reset for returning women, to realign intention and presence before the next chapter begins.
🌸 Chapter Three: Healing the Heart
A time for release, renewal, and deeper connection.
Heal old stories, soften relationship patterns, and return to balance through presence, movement, and compassion.
Workshops (fortnightly):
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17.5.26 - Relationship Patterns – Navigating change in partnerships, family, and friendships.
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31.5.26 - Healing Old Stories – Release the past and rediscover your wholeness.
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14.6.26 - Life in Balance – Restore harmony between giving and receiving.
✨ 28.6.26 - Visioning the Next Chapter Workshop
A gentle re-entry point for new participants and a reset for returning women, to realign intention and presence before the next chapter begins.
✨ Chapter Four: Becoming Whole
Stepping fully into your empowered, authentic self.
Embrace your body’s wisdom, integrate your growth, and nurture yourself through sacred self-care and conscious embodiment.
Workshops (fortnightly):
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12.7.26 - Changing Body, Changing Self – Embracing physical and emotional shifts with kindness.
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26.7.26 - Awakening to Self – Step into authenticity, clarity, and calm.
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9.8.26 - Sacred Self-Care Retreat – A nourishing close to the journey — rest, replenish, and celebrate in community. All previous participants are invited to join us in this celebration! *Only for previous PAUSE participants.
💫 Structure & Flow
Each chapter unfolds over three fortnightly workshops, allowing time for integration between sessions.
Visioning workshops are offered in between chapters as beautiful, low-cost entry points for new women and opportunities for returning participants to realign intentions.
💙 The Inner Shift Begins Here
📍 Venue: Held in the very nurturing space at AKA Studio
130 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East.
🕤 Sundays 9am – 12pm fortnightly from 11th January 2026.
🎟 Come to the Intro Visioning Workshops for just $30 each when you bring a friend (valued at $120!). There will be discounts on offer to continue the following chapter - designed to support deep, lasting transformation. This is your time, to come home to You.
Join us,
on this journey Home...
Practical Details
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Format: 4 x opt-in chapters of 3 workshops each, fortnightly on a Sunday morning.
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When: Beginning 11th January 2026.
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Where: AKA Studio - 130 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East.
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Intimate group size
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You Do Not need any yoga experience or levels of fitness/flexibility for this course.
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Investment: Discounted introductory price of just $30 when you bring a friend for the Visioning the Next Chapter Workshops (including Chapter 1), and discounts on the day to continue with the Chapter. Commitment to your self creates the change you crave.
Why Join the "Pause"?
From transition to transformation
Midlife Change can be a difficult and differing time for women. I believe it is a time where all the things under the rug begin to emerge - because it needs healing.
All the many years of pleasing others; as family members, mothers, partners, employees - it is now time for you to focus on you. You cant avoid this - you are being forced to align with your true selves. And this can be uncomfortable at best and excruciating at worst.
I am here to support you - to slow down, listen inwardly, regulate your nervous system, and begin the healing journey of You.
The changes of perimenopause and beyond can feel overwhelming: one moment you’re tired, foggy, or stretched too thin, and the next you’re questioning who you are and what comes next.
This space is a very welcoming, safe and held community of women just like you.
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Find calm and clarity when exhaustion, brain fog, or restless nights leave you drained.
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Feel understood and supported in navigating the physical, emotional, and identity shifts of this life stage.
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Reconnect with your truest self beyond roles, responsibilities, and people-pleasing.
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Build confidence and self-worth instead of listening to the critic that says you’re “not enough.”
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Create balance and boundaries so you can give without burning out.
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Discover a new vision for your next chapter — not just surviving change, but stepping into your power with clarity and calm.
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Learn supportive practices to calm your nervous system and restore energy.
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Be in community and connect with other women going through similar experiences.
Through a unique blend of Internal Family Systems therapy practices, Dru Yoga movement, and embodied reflection, you’ll learn to gently meet the parts of you that feel tired, stuck, or uncertain — and liberate, heal and transform into the woman you want to be for the next chapter of your life.
✨ Join us for the Pause — you deserve to pause, listen inward, honour your needs and move forward together in community. Re-discover who you really are, and create the future you've been waiting for!
* Contact Jo below with questions or inquiries.
*Go ahead and grab your spot for the Intro Visioning Workshop only $30 each with a friend. (Valued at $120 each!) This is your entry door into The PAUSE.
Meet your host
Jo Howard
Jo is a Level 3 IFS Practitioner who has enjoyed working online and in person in Adelaide over the last 4 years, and is now relocated to Melbourne.
She has loved teaching regular classes as a Dru Yoga Teacher over the last 13 years, and is in awe of the highly transformational nature and gentleness of the specially designed heart-opening sequences. Movement, dance and restorative practices also feature in her working career and life, which are also interwoven into the InnerShift Way.
Jo has held space for groups over many years, including her own transformational retreats in Bali and Australia.
