Name: Conscious Festivals A shift in AWARENESS new
Uploaded: 2023-02-21T11:00:30+00:00
Duration: 12 min 43 s
Description: #spirituality #consciousawakening #festival In my initial spiritual awakening processes of the early 1990's I was living at the top of the South Island, Te Wai Ponamu surrounded by mentors and guides

2 years ago

#spirituality #consciousawakening #festival

In my initial spiritual awakening processes of the early 1990's I was living at the top of the South Island, Te Wai Ponamu surrounded by mentors and guides who bewildered me with their resonance. In their presence I was brought into the conscious festival circuit that was germinating in the Tasman bay region of the country.

Much of the most accelerated energies that were anchoring themselves on the planet at this time were bombarding the collective gatherings around the Motueka Valley, Nelson region and the Golden Bay in the mid-1990's. I was a sponge for these energies, and as a consequence magnetised experiences into my life that changed my perspective deeply.

I would leave this region in mid 1997 and embark on a very different festival experience around the world, spending a lot of my energy and time delving into the more hedonistic aspects of festivals. Twenty years or so after going deeply into this paradigm I walked away from it, grateful for the insane and truly remarkable experiences that excess can bring.

With the advent of 2020 and the opportunities that presented themselves to take greater responsibility for my life experience in a more conscious manner, I began to move around the circle of my festival life and come back to where I first started, wiser, experienced and grateful for the lessons and utter madness that I had endured. My body made it clear that partaking in substances which had dominated my festival life were detrimental to my long term health, and my heart yearned for connection. REAL connection in sobriety.

It would be Franko Heke's Resolution Festival over NYE 2022/2023 that would bring me to the realisation that I had come HOME. The levels of connection, the energies shared in workshops, classes, facilitations and the ritual experience over 5 days at this festival changed me like no festival had in living memory.

I cannot go back to what I left behind, nor do I want to. There is nothing there for me to experience, nor is there any joy in rinse and repeat. The kind of hedonism that often plays itself out at such festivals now repels me, it feels like a distortion on my soul, a form or escapism thinly veiled as 'fun'. That of course is my perception of what I experienced.

Knowing that I can have more, be more and share more being consciously sober at a festival lights me up like the brightest star amongst a galaxy of other stars all shining in a movement where authenticity is key above all else.