11 Feb Life Arts Wellbeing Festival Comes to Chelmsford City Racecourse
Yoga, live music, NHS health checks, pain relief workshops, mindfulness, meditation and more will be on offer at the Life Arts Wellbeing Festival at Chelmsford City Racecourse on 15-16 June 2019.
Tickets for this prestigious event, billed as ‘the largest wellbeing festival in East Anglia’ will be going on sale Friday 15th February at 9am. Once inside the festival visitors will be treated to a wide-range of free-of-charge activities to help boost their wellbeing. The Life Arts Wellbeing Festival will also be raising much-needed funds for the Helen Rollason Cancer Charity.
Organising the event is the festival’s founder, Chris Cozens, he’s excited about what’s in store for 2019. He says: “This year we’ve developed our annual Life Arts event and made it bigger and better than ever before. We’re excited about the festival’s new emphasis on wellbeing, we’re launching a new yoga studio, have some of the most engaging speakers joining our event, plus we have over 120 stands for visitors to enjoy.”
He continued: “We’ve tried to think of everyone and this year we’ve created a series of family fun events including, face painting, story time yoga, and animal encounters with ‘Creature Features’*. We’re also delighted to welcome a 150-strong Essex Rock Choir, plus there’s a wide-range of nutritious food and drinks on offer from vegan ice creams to healthy snacks and a barbecue.”
Experts from a wide range of spheres will run a series of workshops including TV presenter, author and superfood chef, Juliette Bryant, who will demonstrate how to cook healthy food on a budget. Top chiropractor, Alex Cover, will talk about how to let go of pain by releasing blocked energies and will also be offering free spinal checks. There’s also workshops from mystic, Flavia Kate Peters, and shaman, Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, to discover how you can face your fears and rid your life of phobias and anxiety.
New wellness zones have been created for the Life Arts Wellbeing festival including a yoga studio where festival-goers will be able to enjoy yoga for pain and stress management, restorative yoga, pilates, hatha yoga, chair yoga, gong bath, drum circle, yoga flow and a family rave! There will also be a ‘Buddha Cave’ for meditation guidance classes, plus a relaxing ‘chill-out’ space to give visitors the chance to reflect and relax to gentle background music and healing from Buddhist monks.
The festival will also feature over 120 stands, allowing visitors to find out more about a wide range of holistic therapies offering taster treatments, life coaching, feng shui and cutting-edge health products including whole plant CBD. The charity Kids Inspire will also be on-hand to discuss their therapeutic group workshops for young people.
Tickets for the event are £5 for adults, £4 concessions and under 16s are free – a fast track ticket is also available to ensure you jump the entrance queues for £6. All paying visitors to the event will receive a free copy of a booklet by Feng Shui Master, Kuo Hsia. To snap up your tickets and to discover more about the Life Arts Wellbeing Festival, visit www.lifearts.co.uk.
