HEALTH FESTIVAL PROGRAMME FOR 2026
- 31 January 2026 — MATLOCK MIND BODY SPIRIT EVENT
- 1 February 2026 — ALSAGER MIND BODY SPIRIT EVENT
- 21 & 22 February 2026 — PUDSEY LEEDS HEALTH & HEALING FESTIVAL
- 28 March 2026 — KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD MIND BODY SPIRIT EVENT
- 29 March 2026 — TROWELL MIND BODY SPIRIT EVENT
- 11 & 12 April 2026 — ILKLEY HEALING ALTERNATIVES FESTIVAL
- 25 & 26 April 2026 — BOLTON MIND BODY SPIRIT EVENT
- 16 May 2026 — CHESHIRE (RUNCORN) MIND BODY SPIRIT EVENT [TBC]
- 17 May 2026 — HEYWOOD MIND BODY SPIRIT EVENT [TBC]
- 4 & 5 July 2026 – LIVERPOOL MIND BODY SPIRIT EVENT
- 12 & 13 September 2026 — HARROGATE HEALTH & HEALING FESTIVAL [TBC]
- 19 & 20 September 2026 — ILKLEY HEALING ALTERNATIVES FESTIVAL
HEALTH FESTIVAL PROGRAMME FOR 2025
- 12 & 13 April 2025 — ILKLEY HEALING ALTERNATIVES FESTIVAL
- 26 & 27 April 2025 — YORK HEALTH & HEALING FESTIVAL
- 24 May 2025 — HEALTH & WELLBEING FESTIVAL, CLARKE FOLEY COMMUNITY HUB, ILKLEY
- 6 & 7 September 2025 — ILKLEY HEALING ALTERNATIVES FESTIVAL
Windows of Opportunity
Health festivals give you a window of opportunity to enhance your quality of life.
Different words are used to describe them, including mind, body, spirit, health, healing, and well-being. But what exactly do each of these words mean — how are they all connected — where does each word fit in to the whole jigsaw puzzle of feeling good?
As best as you can think of these words as ‘separate’ ideas or concepts, given that they are fundamentally different aspects of a whole system of energy or spirit, here’s my take so far (as at February 2026) —
MIND — The non-physical mind is a vehicle of spirit. Mind is ‘networked’ across time, as one whole system. Mind is always in flux, ever-changing. It is an idea-constructor.
BODY — The physical body is a vehicle of spirit. Body is ‘networked’ across space, as one whole system. Body reflects the condition of the mind. Relative to mind, body is the ‘tip of the iceberg’. Body is always in flux, ever-changing. It is a constructed idea.
SPIRIT — Spirit is always in flux, ever-changing. Spirit is energy that is aware of itself, including you being human in mind and body. You are also spirit ‘outside’ of mind and body, existing ‘outside’ of time and space, just as you can know yourself as a driver of vehicle who can step outside of a vehicle at times of your choosing. In terms of spirit, however, it is more correct to say that this stepping ‘outside’ is more a ‘going within’. This door or gate which you ‘go through’ to go within can also be known as a space-time portal, or time portal — a kind of rendezvous point which exists in the fabric or medium of space-time. There are many such time portals, which ‘appear’ and ‘disappear’ in a rhythmic cyclical pattern, corresponding to different points in time, past-present-and-future. They present ‘windows of opportunity’ to ‘change gear’ in your space-time vehicle, including to slow down and get out and rest. On a ‘small and frequent scale’ this happens when you go to sleep at night.
HEALING — The ‘correction’ of misunderstood ideas or concepts, enabling a realignment back to their original natural trajectories. This realignment process brings the abovementioned rendezvous points back into view — so what was once thought to be lost, is now found. At certain ‘critical’ points in time it is imperative that this healing be carried out at a ‘core level’, to enable each ‘self’ to properly move back into what may be called ‘natural time’. This initially requires an intellectual realisation of the true nature of time, in many ways no different to realising that you need to add an extra day to the calendar year every four years so to get ‘back in time’ with nature’s time, or natural time. Without this realisation, you will remain in ‘artificial’ time, effectively caught in a recycling eddy current of time and space, similar in a way to how artificial intelligence processes life — and reflected for example in the Lotus Casino scene in the Percy Jackson film and book, which is a modern day version of the Land of the Lotus Eaters in Homer’s Odyssey (written around 750 BC), involving the consumption of intoxicating honey-sweet lotus fruit which makes you forget about ‘reaching home’. Similar ‘critical’ stages are found in all cultural frameworks, eg makyo in zen practice.
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