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Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive Cheltenham. GL52 3JE.
Sat 23rd & Sun 24th October 2010.
10am – 5pm
Admission £6 per day. Concessions £4 Accompanied under 16’s free Free Parking on site.

A long history of enlightenment in Gloucestershire.

There is no firm evidence on when the first Mind Body Spirit event was held in Gloucestershire. The earliest reference we can find is an advertisement in Prediction magazine for the Gloucestershire New Age Fair on Saturday 11th June 1994! We believe that event transformed into the Natural Living Show during the nineties, after which it passed into our custody in 2003.

In the early days this subject was brand new. Reflexology, Tai Chi and personal development were utterly outside the mainstream fifteen or twenty years ago. And nowadays while some regular folk would still baulk at having a psychic or divinatory reading, it is not the taboo it once was. There is indeed an explosion of consciousness.

But where now for Mind Body Spirit events in a time where everyone seems to know a psychic reader, where hairdressers and nail bars offer holistic treatments, and where Waterstone’s holistic section is as big as its politics section?

The future lies in personal empowerment – providing you with tools and strategies that enable you to discern and to judge what is best for you.

The future lies in embracing alternatives. If you can access so much within mainstream culture then events such as this must go that bit further and provide you with cutting edge thought and left-field ideas.

The future lies in professionalism and high standards. Where anyone can attend a couple of courses and anoint themselves a ‘master’, it is incumbent on us to try to sift the genuine and knowledgeable from the well meaning but unqualified.

2010 begins a new direction, and a new life for this annual event. My trips to San Francisco showed me how much is yet to be done in this field, and this is where we start.

We hope you will enjoy the new content on show this year and go away empowered, informed, uplifted and enlightened.

Kind regards

Richard, Hannah and the team.

Useful Information

Catering – Refreshments are available in the cafe area. We have worked hard with the contracted caterers to improve this aspect of the event. We want your feedback!

Toilets – Disabled and female toilets are available on the Ground Floor to the right as you arrive through the main entrance. Gents toilets are located halfway up the stairs on the way to the First Floor.

Talks & Workshops – Once inside the event the full timetable is free. Please arrive shortly before the start time and take a seat. Certain sessions are popular and seats are strictly on a first come first served basis. There are three rooms; The Oval Room on the First Floor and Rooms One and Two at the very top of the building. There is a lift from the main hall on the Ground Floor or stairs from the front of the building.

First Aid – Please report to the event reception who will summon the qualified first aider.

Lost Property – There is no cloakroom facility on site. Any items handed in will be kept at the event reception.

Children – Parents are requested to keep their children with them at all times. Fire safety – In the unlikely event of a fire, please exit the building through thenearest available fire exit.

Exhibitors – The attendance of any particular therapist, reader or retailer does not signify their endorsement by the organisers. Although we try hard to select only the right exhibitors, in the final analysis you should satisfy yourself of the competence and suitability of an exhibitor before engaging them.

Don’t let this formalities get in the way of you having a great weekend!