Come into the woods and escape from the world for the weekend. Come away from the rat race and create joy! Our aim is to create an environment where you feel the connection with the earth, with like minded souls and mostly, yourself. At our bijou festival, through a variety of mediums we create joy.

Creating joy through crafting workshops
Creating joy through connecting with the higher self
Creating joy through expression
Creating joy through healing and relaxing
Creating joy through community
Creating joy through music

All the workshops include materials in the price. 

3 NIGHTS FREE CAMPING

WORKSHOPS

The lovely Janet will be joining us with her workshop - Ascen-Dance
Come and join us in a celebration of Life ..A Dance…
Stamp your worries at the door as we intend to ascend to a higher vibration in a healing, celebratory, meditative, energising, powerful, conscious Dance..!! using crystals, sacred geometry music, relaxation, meditation & more..

​Brusho Galaxies with the lovely Ruby! Ruby is an artist at Dotty Delightful and also manages 'The Space' a fantastic community space in Blackpool - doing following the joy stuff!

There are 2 adult Kundalini Yoga sessions, a powerfully transformative and deeply healing ancient technology. It is known as “The Yoga of Awareness”, as alongside physical benefits, it brings self-enlightenment. It awakens the Higher Self allowing people to have their own spiritual experiences.
If the many types of yoga are facets of a diamond then Kundalini Yoga is the diamond itself. It incorporates physical postures and movement, pranayama (breathing techniques), relaxation, meditation, mantra and sound. Kundalini Yoga can be graded to suit all abilities and people work at their own pace.

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Laughing is high vibrational, healing and just the best fun! We will have a 20 min daily laughter yoga session. Always a favourite!

Tamzin will be sharing 2 sessions of children's yoga . The deeper purpose of children's yoga is to help them maintain their natural wisdom and radiance, and carry it into adulthood--all for Peace on Earth! How awesome! We soooo need this!!!

FAMILY YOGA We have a beautiful duo of ladies coming to share their gifts with us. Catherine Sat Mohinder and Tamsin Nav Ananda have joined to create joy with kundalini family yoga. How wonderful to be able share this energy as a family! I can't wait for it!

Patrick will be joining us to teach and lead meditation. He has an interesting story to tell about his journey which you can read about in his book. 'From Pills to Peace'. It's a story of a modern day awakening that many people could relate to. "Hi all. I am feeling very blessed and honored to be invited to take part in this wonderful weekend. Over the course of the festival I will cover several types of preliminary meditation and giving instruction on each, along with a talk at the start of each session. Please feel free to join in a much or as little as works for you. Many kindred souls meditating together in nature, it doesn't get much better than this.I can't wait.
​"When you think from a beautiful garden, you will see flowers everywhere. Peace, love and light. Midnight xx"

I have spent time over the last few years developing my shamanic heritage. I work with my power animal, dragon, in my healing practice (awesome!) and I also enjoy the comfort and security that dragon brings me just being around (as if angels weren't enough!). This year at creating joy I will be leading a shamanic journey to connect with your power animal, bring it back with you to this dimension and then reinforce/ bring alive your bond with some art work. This is an epic journey. If you have journeyed with myself to the angelic realm you will find this very different. Very earthy and exhilarating. I love shamanic journeying!
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The gorgeous Sharon, is coming to share the beauty and joy that the Munay Ki rites can bring into people's lives. She will give a talk about the rites, pass on one of the rites. Then you build a group despacho together (prayer offering) and release this during a fire ceremony. Sounds awesome!! 
Sharon runs 'Lumen Ortu' at Waterwheel Holistic Centre in Ambleside. ​

What are those you may ask? This is Tim and his handpans. Beautiful things they are. Tim will be delivering 2 workshops over the weekend and treating us to a woodland handpan musical experience. Can you imagine these melodious instruments wafting through the wood!

This is our gorgeous Gemma. She is our dance teacher and no she's not just sucked a lemon, this is her doing(?) her Haka face last year. This year we will be doing Bollywood style dancing over 2 workshops and then performing the dance on the open mic. Bring your Bollywood shimmying outfit! I can't wait for this. I love Bollywood dancing! Who hoo

Of course we are making dream catchers again! We know how much you love them! x 

music

The lovely Joe Lomax is going to be our music organiser this year! Joe is usually fronting his band, Peur, up and down the country and has performed at T in the park! So for us to get him alone last year, with his solo acoustic performance, was such a rare treat. Such a beautiful voice needs to be heard with a guitar, round a campfire, in a woodland- it's a whole new level!
Joe came to creating joy last year and loved it so much that he arrived at my camper van door and with great gusto announced - I want in! What can I do!

Last year, our very lovely dance instructor, Gemma, performed on the open mic. It was the first time that she had performed in public. She was so awesome that this year we invited her to do a set for us! One of the reasons that she sang for the first time, she said, was that she felt so comfortable and so supported by such lovely people. Come and strut your stuff on the open mike. It's so liberating!

The Brilliant Jon Brindley will be back performing for us on the Saturday night! Jon blew us away last year with his enormous talent. He is well renowned in folk circles and he can sing just about anything and play just about anything - you shout it out and I'll bet he can play it! None of his videos do justice to his live performance.

Healing

Our fantastic healing team are: Corinne on massage. Caz on angel reiki. Janet on reflexology. Bridget on Indian Head and reflexology. £5 for 30 minutes -booking form at reception. First come first served, limited slots as our gorgeous team have to follow their joy as well. We have lots of reiki back up so if these slots fill up please ask. We have a huge proportion of reiki healers coming to Creating Joy.
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We have an awesome healing area by the moon pond which will also serve as a quiet, reflective area or place for you to meditate. Behind the healing area we will be setting up an alter and you are invited to bring something for the the alter if this calls you. We do ask for quiet to be observed in this area with the only exception being chanting and the wind chimes.