Awakening Festival

Join us in a weekend filled with different workshops and inspiring energy, all aimed to help awaken your soul. The festival is hosted by two Dundee based psychotherapists, offering workshops from various other individuals, all offering holistic, alternative or therapy-based workshops.

There will also be 1-day Access Bars® training available, as well as food and drink to enjoy together.

See the agenda below, followed with details of all the events. Booking is essential for each workshop as spaces are limited, all prices include Eventbrite fees. Please arrive 10 minutes before each session to arrive and settle. All are held at Dudhope Castle, Dundee.

AGENDA:

Friday 28th June:

• 6:30pm to 9pm: Blue Lotus innerdance by Caroline Georgiou and Danielle du Plooy, £41 per person, 15 people max. Book via Eventbrite.

Saturday 29th June:

• 10am to 12:30pm: Body Processes workshop by Brenda an Montin, details to be confirmed.
• 2pm to 4:30pm: Innerbloom by Caroline Georgiou and Danielle du Plooy, £36 per person, 10 people max. Book via Eventbrite.
• 5pm to 6:15pm: Connect and refuel. A chance to grab some food, connect with others, ground, and take part in mindful activities. Charge for food only, no need to book.
• 6:30pm to 8:15pm: Sound Bath by Ali Taylor, £26 per person, 20 people max. Book via Eventbrite.

Sunday 30th June:

• 10am to 5pm: Access Bars® 1 day practitioner training by Brenda an Montin. 20 people max, £340 per person. Book directly with Brenda via [email protected]
• 5:15pm to 6:15pm: Connect and refuel. A chance to grab some food, connect with others, ground, and take part in mindful activities. Charge for food only, no need to book.
• 6pm to 8:30pm: Drumming Circle by Martin Watson. 30 people max, £16 per person. Book via Eventbrite.

On Saturday and Sunday, there will be a pop up coffee bar, soup, vegetable chilli, nachos, and cakes for attendees to buy.

Full description of each event can be found below:

Friday 28th June: Blue Lotus innerdance

innerdance isn't dancing as you know it. It is an eyes closed, lying down journey where the dance is internal with cosmic possibilities. With a carefully curated homemade playlist designed to harmonise the electricity and magnetism within the body, purposefully organised to stimulate brain waves with intention to cloud the linear, reductive view, the brain can experience it's fuller potential as each lobe is awoken, enabling a generalised spread of electricity which repatterns the autonomic nervous system and can bring us back to unity, similar to that of the new born baby where there is no separation. Intuitive touch is offered as a stimulus to deepen and support your journey. The process mimics an 8 hour REM sleep cycle with experiences similar to lucid dreaming. You may experience imagery, emotion, sensation, release, time changes, impulse to move or sound.
To start, we gather in circle to welcome each other and have a chat about what innerdance is, share our journeys so far and sip our tea, inviting in the divine wisdom of the blue lotus flower. Blue Lotus is a flower with divine properties. It is known to gently open the 3rd eye/pineal gland and is a sacred companion as we journey inward to who we really are. We shall then go on our innerdance for 80-90 minutes, each lying on our mats and cushions. After the internal journey, we shall support collective and individual integration through sharing, snacking, drawing and resting.

Price includes blue lotus tea, tincture, perfume and snacks. Please bring a yoga mat, water, blankets and a pillow. The workshop is held by two trained and highly experienced therapists, in a safe container.

Saturday 29th June: Body Processes workshop

TBC

Saturday 29th June: Innerbloom

An intimate therapeutic art and somatic workshop exploring your inner world, and innate connection to plants and growth. We shall begin in confidential circle, enjoying locally sourced Mugwort tea to open our hearts & stimulate the healing function of our imaginations, followed by a guided meditation. We will then make art using clay and take part in a somatic movement exercise. Our time together shall end with a sharing circle & nourishing home-baked snacks. The workshop is held by two trained and highly experienced therapists, in a safe container.

Saturday 29th June: Sound Bath

Feeling stressed? Anxious? Worried? In pain? Sound and vibration can help and these techniques have been used for 1000's of years to help people improve their health & wellbeing. Join in 90 minutes of bliss and relaxation and allow yourself some precious YOU time to release & let go and float away with magical sounds. Ali Taylor is a professional and experienced Sound Healer, Shamanic Healer and Energy Healer, running Rainbow Warrior Wellbeing. It is a transformative experience for our bodies, minds and souls. Ali creates beautiful and magical soundscapes of bowls, drums, chimes and voice, playing live. When instruments are played live, you receive vibration as well as sound. Receiving the vibration is key to receiving the healing effects.

Sunday 30th June: Access Bars® 1 day practitioner training

Access Bars® is an energy technique that consists of 32 points on the head (the Bars®) that − when gently touched − easily & effortlessly let go of the electromagnetic charge of all the emotions, ideas, beliefs, considerations and thoughts that prevent you from being present, having ease in your life and creating what you truly desire. The Bars are energy bars that contain our thoughts, feelings, emotions, beliefs, etc. about all areas of our lives such as: money, creativity, body, control, healing, sexuality, and more!
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Some of the benefits that people have experienced through Access Bars:
- a more peaceful mind
- increased relaxation
- improved outlook on life
- stress relief
- a space to replenish their body
- increased energy and creativity
- more presence
- more ease in their relationships
- and sooooo much more!
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What'is included?
- 1-full day of training
- A manual and 2-head charts with the Access Bars points
- Energy clearings
- additional tools that you can play with in your daily life to have more ease, joy and glory, and deepen your presence and connection with the Universe & "Ask and you shall Receive"
- audio recordings of the class
- Official certificate as an Access Bars Practitioner
- Snacks

The training is provided by Brenda an Montin, travelling all the way from Italy. Brenda is a trained Access Bars facilitator and CFMW, BPF, BF, Access Facelift Practitioner.

Sunday 30th June: Drumming Circle

A unique drumming experience held by Martin Watson from Hart of the Forest. Drum circles are so much more. Research continues to demonstrate that drumming circles are an effective tool marking statistically significant changes in physical, emotional, mental health and wellness! When we drum together, it feels like a breath of fresh air in this fragmented-stressed-out-world! Join in a unique drumming circle, based in a 13th century castle. Alongside the energy of the circle, we'll have added energies of the castle. The circle offers a flowing of expression and creativity.

Some extra drums will be available, but please do bring a drum if you can.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Circle, Barrack Road, Dundee, United Kingdom