Holistic & Wellbeing Zone at Wanstead Festival
This year the holistic and wellbeing zone at Wanstead Festival has expanded with over five facilitators offering various sessions to help improve your wellbeing. From meditation, to laughter yoga and Art of Living – pioneers in breathwork and meditation. For more information, please see the individual listings below:
| For this practice we will focus on silence. Learning or strengthening our ability to find the silence amidst the chaos of the mind and heart. |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 12.15 – 12.45 | Silence Meditation |
| Using a sequence of acupuncture points on the body, we will use the Thought Field Therapy technique to release and let go of stressful emotions and feelings that can create burdens on our system. |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 13.00 – 13.30 | Tapping |
| Using several meditation techniques, we will practice releasing and letting go so that we can exist with a deeper sense of peace. |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 13.45 – 14.15 | Deep Release Mediation |
| We will use meditation to support aligning the chakras and balancing them to find deeper peace and bliss within mind, body and soul, and receiving the Reiki energy to support this beautiful practice. |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Reika Healing |
| Break | |
|---|---|
| 15.00-16.00 |
| In this session we will use several techniques of breathwork to relax the system, energise it and connect at a deeper level within ourselves. |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Pranayama |
PSSM
| Happiness in the Highs and Lows: Experience happiness through Meditation Join this 30-minute guided meditation session with PMF- UK to experience how meditation helps you stay calm and find lasting happiness through life’s ups and downs. Learn simple techniques to stay grounded and joyful no matter what comes your way. |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 16.45 – 17.15 | Guided Meditation |
| Stephanie is a hatha and kundalini yoga teacher, meditation teacher and body, mind therapist and reiki healer. She runs classes and women circles, forest bath walks, reiki training and more. |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Kundalini Yoga |
| Adrian learned Tai Chi when he was young, from the old master back in Malaysia. Adrian runs Tai Chi sessions at various community spaces across East London. This session includes 5 animals qigong exercise followed by a simplified Yang style Tai chi 24 forms for mental wellbeing and physical health. |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 12.15 – 12.45 | Tai Chi |
| Varsha is a yoga and mindfulness teach and a wellness trainer. She teaches in workplaces, community spaces and on retreats. Have some fun with laughter yoga and boost your mood and energy. |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 1.00 – 1.30 | Laughter Yoga |
| Gish is the developer of the Galactic Reiki Energy Healing, Sound & Gong Bath Experience Extraordinaire & The Tree Gong Challenge and is the Founder of Academy of Temple Art. Experience the resonant healing vibrations of a Beautiful Balinese Healing Temple Gong |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 1.45 – 2.15 | Healing Gong Bath Experience |
| Brahma Kumaris is a worldwide spiritual movement dedicated to personal transformation and world renewal. |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 2.30 – 3.00 | Raja Yoga Meditation |
| Jessica has been a Fitness presenter since 2012. Community Fitness is her favourite kind of fitness to do, including Holiday Fitness. This session will be a mixture of different types of dance movements and combinations, giving you a full body workout and feel good feeling. |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 3.15– 3.45 | Body Shape Dance Fit |
| The Art of Living is committed to uplifting individuals and communities, through it’s stress reduction, wellbeing and happiness programs. A journey of mantra, music and meditation. Come and sing and celebrate with sacred chants and soulful sounds. |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 4.00– 5.00 | Kirtan |
The Pyramid Spiritual Societies Movement (PSSM) has been founded by Brahmarshi Patriji in the year 1990 with the objective of spreading the basics of spiritual realities and spiritual science to one and all. “PSSM” began as “The Kurnool Spiritual Society” in the year 1990.
Today, “PSSM” comprises of more than a couple of thousands of independent and autonomous pyramid spiritual societies involving millions of active members and volunteers across all states in India. Also in twenty other countries, e.g., USA, UK, UAE, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Egypt, South Africa, and others.
“PSSM” is a non-religious, non-cult, non-for-profit spirituo scientific organization/movement with an ever-growing expanse of genuine seekers.
The CORE MESSAGE to everyone is that “We are not just physical entities experiencing random existence. Instead, we are `Eternal Energy-Consciousness—Wisdom(ECW) Entities’ .. constantly choosing and creating our own respective on-going existential realities.”
We realize god-hood in us through four simple things :
- Using Breath for Practicing Meditation
- Utilizing Pyramid Energy for Meditation
- Trying to understand all the Essential Teachings of the world’s Spiritual Masters
- Being a vegetarian and being compassionate to all our younger brothers i.e., members of the Animal Kingdom
The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (UK), a registered charity since 1975, opens its doors every day of the year to students from all walks of life, cultures and backgrounds to study Raja Yoga meditation.
Students find that meditating in this way daily brings a lot of peace and positivity to their lives. We also join together with many national and local organization’s and diverse communities, helping to enhance the wellbeing of people in different spheres of society. We work across the UK in more than 40 locations and are part of a network of organizations offering activities in over 110 countries.
Our spiritual headquarters is in Mount Abu, in the Aravalli mountain range, Rajasthan, India.