Winter Wellness and Play Weekend
Winter focuses on taking care of ourselves with kindness and being inventive with ways to thrive during the cold months. Resting and re-charging our energy, ready to burst through a-new in Spring.
Our online weekend, Saturday 16th - Sunday 17th January, offers workshops to Beat the Blues, welcoming winter with warm arms, at a time of year that can be a struggle even in the most normal of years. Be part of our community for a few days, from the comfort of your home!
Tickets are for the whole household through a zoom login, which will be sent via email. Connect with our incredible workshop facilitators and the We Are Not A Festival community.
Saturday Play-day - For family entertainment, start the day with Family Fitness, enjoy the power of play in a unique drama workshop and relax into an afternoon of creative model making (You will receive a model kit in the post).
Sunday Wellness - Create your own home retreat with this cosy and comforting day. If your focus is wellbeing, feel held and supported and treat yourself to a day of yoga, meditation and journalling and close the evening with a sound bath.
Put a date in the diary you can look forward to!
Saturday Play Day!
Fun Fitness.
Saturday 11am - 11:45am.
‘Fun Fitness’ is a family-friendly workout brought to you by The Mummy PT, giving you ideas for how to include your children in your exercise, so it can work for you where or whenever!
Getting the kids involved also sets them on the right path for their future fitness. Sarah is the face behind The Mummy PT, working with women through all stages of their fitness journeys and specialising in pregnancy and postnatal fitness.
A great way to start the weekend for the whole household! All you need is a mat or space to move. The photo shows the fun had at WANAF 2020.
Let’s Play! Drama Games for all
Saturday 12:30 - 1:30pm.
Mary Jane Stevens brings us a play session for children and adults alike, with a series of fun drama games helping us escape with some lightness and joy.
Just with her session by the lake this summer, Mary Jane creates a very special energy, even as we gather virtually, which will carry you through January with a little playfulness.
More details coming soon.
Make your own Gnomes!
Saturday 4pm - 5pm.
For those who joined us for our summer events. Art For Everyone’s Steve brought colour and playfulness to the Woodland Garden with his model making. He now offers a make-at-home kit for the whole house - to create a family of Gnomes! The kit comes with enough to make four gnomes, and the chance to add extra too. Steve will guide you in making your creations in this session.
Using colourful plasticine clay, children (and adults!) will be guided through this session to create their very own models. Bringing the same fun atmosphere as Artforeveryone’s Children’s parties these sessions are all about imagination, laughter and creativity. At the end, every one will have their very own unique mini masterpieces and a sense of achievement!
Sunday Wellness - Your Home Retreat
Hatha Yoga.
Sunday 9:30am - 10:45am
Cassie has completed a Yoga Alliance certified 200 hour Barkan (Heated Hatha) Training and 100 hour Yin Yoga Training. She has experience in teaching privately, online, at workplaces and job sites as well as recorded video lessons to people of various backgrounds, ages, body types and scepticisms. Cassie aims to make every class authentic, fun and comfortable for all believing that yoga and its benefits should be accessible to everyone, in any life circumstance. No matter your knowledge and experience with yoga, her classes are inclusive and will provide a beneficial experience.
Please join us for a stimulating and relaxing session of 1h 15min with variations and options for all levels/ages. The session consists of 45 min of gentle Hatha movement, covering the fundamentals and some signature postures to achieve a full body warm up and stretch, complimented by 20 mins of Yin postures for deep stretching, focusing inwards and setting intentions the finishing with a guided metta meditation and Savasana.
Journaling + Meditation For Inner Guidance and Truth.
Sunday 11:30am - 1pm
Join Joey Hulin, an author, meditation teacher and retreat host from Cornwall, to uncover the power of putting pen to paper and listening. Journaling is a way of clearing through the weeds of the mind and meditation is a way to listen. Both practices are simple and always accessible - we just need to show up for them.
This session will explore how we can use conscious writing and simple meditation practices to reconnect to our own inner intuition, guidance, truth and wisdom.
You'll need some paper and a pen, along with an open heart and a beginners mind, for this session.
Sun Gong Sound Bath.
Sunday evening 8pm - 9pm.
Be taken on a healing sound journey with sonic and visual artist Cherelle Sappleton. You will be led into a deeply relaxed meditative state and bathed in the restorative and transcendental tones produced by Himalayan singing bowls and the beautiful Sun Gong. You don't have to do anything, just lay down, listen and allow yourself to be transported.
Cherelle hosted several Sun Gong Sound Bath’s this summer for us, beside the lake - what a magical experience that was! The power of sound bath’s wonderfully translates to a virtual world, to ensure the best experience please make sure you have fairly good headphones (ideally ones that cover your ears). Please bring: a blanket/ mat to lie on and additional blanket or layers to stay warm and comfortable.