The Inspiration behind The Festival of Light Weston-super-Mare
I woke up on July 9th 2007 after attempting without success
to book a stand to sell my healing jewellery at a local healing weekend. I'd
asked several times over the course of 3 months but with no joy. I now
realise that this was a part of the Universal plan for me and this spurred me
to start ringing round to try and book in at other suitable events. I had
no real success until I decided to phone the Winter Gardens in
Weston-super-Mare to find out dates of the healing events there. I spoke
to Jim McQuarrie the events manager and he explained that one event did not
happen anymore and another booked for October had just been cancelled. I
found myself saying "well I had better do it myself then as I have all the
skills", Jim immediately took me up on this and gave me the rate for one
of the suites. I decided that a Saturday in September just over 11 weeks
away would be good.
What had happened? Before that
moment I had absolutely no plan to ever put on an event again and here I was
back in the thick of it. I had put on motorcycle and lifestyle events for
over twenty five years. This had started when I joined Motorcycle Action Group
(MAG) and I was quickly appointed as a local representative, then almost
immediately voted onto the National Committee as Rep's Liaison Officer. All
this because of the work I had been doing for the group and yes I had ridden
motorcycles since I was 15 years old. I travelled to various venues to
help with stands, including the National Exhibition centre, Birmingham and
Earl's Court in London . Then in the early 80's a small group of us put
on a 10th Anniversary MAG event a Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park
with Hawkwind topping the bill. I decided that I could put on an
International Motorcycle event of my own with everything that I had already
learnt.
The 1st was the Custom
& Classic Bike Show at the Royal Bath & West Showground, this event is
still running more than 25 years on. Then I started the Welsh Motorcycle
Extravaganza at Builth Wells Showground, again this event still runs more than
20 years later. I was also running an event in Cardiff and a 2nd Classic
event at the Royal Bath & West Showground when my daughter suddenly died of
meningitis aged 17. I decided it was time to re-evaluate my life and end
my work with MAG. It was 1994 and I threw myself into studying starting with
Nutritional Medicine and Iridology in London and also home study. Then to
college for O levels (I'd to leave school at 15) and enrolled with the Open
University, 6 years later I had my honours degree in psychology. I am now
a Doctor Of Metaphysical Sciences and have been ordained as a Reverend.
In 1999 a friend persuaded me to do
an American Lifestyle event at the Three Counties Showground. We did this
for three years but the Royal Bath & West was calling me back to do a
similar event there, my business partner had a heart attack so I continued on
my own. This was The American Show and lasted just two years. Great
show but not enough paying visitors. As a single parent since 1998 I
could not risk losing our home. I went into a decline as I missed working
on my beloved events. I threw myself into work and study until I found my
mouth saying yes to The New Healing Event. The Universe wanted me to do this
work.
My life and my whole physiology
changed immediately and I was back organising an event, bliss. It was just over
11 weeks from start to finish, on the big events I took 18 months to lead
in! The first thing I did was put out an email to my business associates
and other acquaintances. I had an immediate response, then I printed up
some info and took it to the healing weekend I tried to get a stand at and just
gave the details to those who I felt right for this event. By this time I
had increased from one suite to three and on viewing them my breath was taken
away by the central, circular suite. The circular ceiling dome had a roof
light and lots of little lights which looked like stars. I had an
immediate vision of circular rows of chairs, this had to be designated a
healing room. As I progressed my plans included quite a few tables in
this suite but I seemed to be selling the spaces in the suites either side
first. I knew that this event must have free admission to the
public. I had priced the spaces so that costs would be covered if they
all sold, but a flat kind of a feeling was creeping up on me, a sure sign that
all was not well. I sat down to meditate and immediately realised that I was
compromising my original vision which focused on mass healings in that central
suite. I made a decision not to sell any of that space but I would base myself
there. I sent out an email to let potential space bookers know and within a day
all the spaces for the whole event were sold.
However I was still getting a mass of
enquiries for space and I was busy seeing how I could possibly fit them in, but
I was encroaching on the Healing suite once more. The Universe needed to
make itself clear to me again and none of the dozen potential space bookers
actually followed up. Then it hit me again I was not to book others into this
suite, I was slipping back into the wrong way for this event! I finalised
my plan and had to do a bit of juggling to get everyone in the best positions
possible but there was one lapse for which I hope I have been forgiven.
Everything I have ever done in the past seemed to be just practice for where I
now found myself. I decided to position Bristol and District Healers and the
National Federation of Spiritual Healers facing into the Healing Suite from
their places in the other two suites as this would combine some great healing
energies, it certainly seemed to work on the day.
I asked Jim to arrange the seats in
the Healing suite in circles with n-s and e-w aisles which echoes the sign for
the Earth. Bless him he went out and bought a compass. Everyone
turned up and the atmosphere was brilliant, I led the three mass healing
sessions and the energies were very powerful. I had been working with
these energies from the moment I booked the three suites and on the morning of
the event I lay in the bath and worked some more and for the first time ever I
experienced the sight, sound and feel of the heart of the Earth beating,
wonderful. I am going to continue twice a year. I did not sell much of my
healing jewellery or amulets as I was so busy running the event and working
towards the three mass healing sessions. I had such a laid back feeling whilst
pulling this fabulous event together because I KNEW the right people would be
there. The Universe is in charge of this!
After three Healing Events I decided
it was time for a name change so at 5pm on Saturday September 27th Festival
of Light was born and the dates for 2009 were selected, 30th May
and 26th September, both Saturdays as my events always work best on
the day governed by Saturn. The sixth event has just taken place with around
500 visitors and the next Festival of Light is on Saturday 25th
September 2010.
And so it
is. Love &
Light Liz
Have a glance at my websites for
further details about me and what I do on:-
http://www.adayofenlightenment.com
http://www.healingstonesamulets.com
Checkout the venue on www.thewintergardens.com