Healing Alternatives Festival

25/10/2025

We’re back for 2026 11th-12th April & 19th -20th Sept.

09/09/2025

🩷🤩Thank you to all the wonderful exhibitors and visitors to Ilkley Healing Alternatives Festival this weekend 😊. Such a wonderful event to be the current custodian of! 🩷
Thank you too to the Ilkley Upstagers for Saturday as well as special thanks to all the staff at The King’s Hall & Winter Garden and to all the helpers who’ve made it possible - you know who you are! 🤩
Highlights from this time :
⚡️Amazing procession down from Ilkley Moor.
⚡️Beautiful spotlight workshop from Edwin Courtenay
⚡️ fab free workshops
⚡️ a glimpse of the programme from the first ever Ilkley Complementary Medicine festival almost 40 years ago!
⚡️many beautiful conversations
⚡️gentle live music from Stiofán Ó Treabhair
⚡️and a surprise visit from Odin the rescue 🐿️! 😂

Back for 2026 11th /12th April and 19th/20th Sept. Be part of something amazing get it in your diary now! 😁

07/09/2025

Come on down to Ilkley Healing Alternatives Festival - Autumn 2025. Today at The King’s Hall and Winter Garden. £6.50 for adult on the door kids free. 🩷 FREE WORKSHOPS included with your ticket including with Edwin Courtenay Orangeblossom Old Ways and Shan Holistic Massage Therapy and Smink Makeup UK.
Fabulous day, lots of holistic therapy tasters, retail and psychic mediums and readers. We’re open until 5pm. 🤩🤩🤩🤩

07/09/2025

Join us for a great day today 🩷

07/09/2025

Amazing… we plan to do this again ! 😊

Friday night at our Lantern Lit Procession~ Honouring the Magic, Myth and Wild Medicine of Ilkley at the Cow and Calf Rocks. We listened together to the voice of the Moors, the ancient Stones, the Giant Rombald & his (unnamed) wife...

We sang and drummed, we rattled and laughed!

We gathered blessings to carry down to the which began on Saturday morning and from the day that unfolded, the blessings were very powerful. Saturday was a wonderful day~ Filled with joyful connections and many charming gardeners of inspiration!

I was delighted to be visited by my dear friend
Rita Greer who was for many years my Shamanic Healer. She supported my through some of the toughest experiences in my life, always with great warmth and humbleness. AND! She recommend the amazing work of to me. I thought this work- Shamanic Work with children and young people sounded amazing. I bought Imelda's book, Natural Born Shamans, and my life changed forever. A few months later I travelled to London with my 6 month old daughter wrapped in a rainbow sling for The Shaman's Map, an introductory class to the Shamanic Way.

06/09/2025

06/09/2025

🎉🎉🎉TODAY AND TOMORROW! Ilkley Healing Alternatives Festival is ON! Join us for a fabulous weekend of FREE WORKSHOPS, retail: books, jewellery, natural skincare. Gifts, clothing and crystals and holistic therapies including reflexology, acupuncture, massage, meditation, yoga, reiki, aromatherapy, myofascial release, hypnotherapy, craniosacral therapy and homeopathy to name but a few. You can meet highly experienced practitioners and find out which is right for you all in one place! Or come along and consult with a spiritual coach or a psychic medium. Perrhaps you’re interested in past life regression or herbal medicine… all manner of things are here. BE PART OF SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL.
🤩we’ve got some big names including Edwin Courtenay and Katharine from Orangeblossom Old Ways
🤩We’ve got a lovely pop up coffee shop come and relax in this beautiful historic venue and have a coffee and enjoy our gentle live music,
This is such a restorative weekend. Come and soak up the vibes. We’re located directly opposite the train and bus station in the centre of picturesque ILKLEY.
Adults £6.50 (cash or card) on the door and under 16s FREE when accompanied. £11 for whole weekend. 😊
See you there!

05/09/2025

Meet this evening at 6,30 for procession down from rocks with Orangeblossom Old Ways to begin Ilkley Healing Alternatives Festival - Autumn 2025.
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Discounted tickets for weekend still available via eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ilkley-healing-alternatives-festival-autumn-tickets-1347237526709?

04/09/2025

04/09/2025

🤩SHARE SHARE SHARE! 2 DAYS TO GO! 🤩

We return to the King’s Hall and Winter Gardem for The Ilkley Healing Alternatives Festival - Autumn 2025. With a wonderful programme of activities:
FRIDAY 5th September - 6.30pm PROCESSION Down from Cow & Calf rocks Ilkley Moor with Katharine from old and ways. Meet at rocks car park at 6.30pm. FREE - ALL WELCOME (all ages)
SATURDAY SPOTLIGHT WORKSHOP Edwin Courtenay “Healing with The Hallows of Angels” £12 in advance includes entry to the event for the rest of Saturday.
SATURDAY 6th & SUNDAY 7th Sept. MAIN EVENT
Amazing holistic therapies for you to try or to consult with very experienced practitioners… including reiki, energy healing, massage,shiatsu, Thai, Indian head, and holistic massage, reflexology, craniosacral therapy, acupuncture, myofascial release, aromatherapy, homeopathy, herbal medicine, past life regression, hypnotherapy and much, much more…. It’s a very exciting weekend. We’ve got some incredible psychics and readers, spiritual coaches….And then there’s the retail: artists and makers, gifts, books, accessories, jewellery, crystals, health remedies, natural skincare, natural cleaning for your home, candles. FREE WORKSHOPS included with your ticket (see website)
A Fascinating weekend of wellbeing not to be missed. It’s such a beautiful weekend and an immersive experience with lovely souls. Lovely coffee shop by Arlo where you can chill and relax under the stunning glass roof of the Winter Garden.
Gentle live music. It’s just a delight in these early autumn days. Beautiful historic venue opposite the train and bus station.
Adults £6.50 on the door or £11 for weekend. Kids under 16 free when accompanied. Tickets in advance are at a discount and there’s still time

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ilkley-healing-alternatives-festival-autumn-tickets-1347237526709?

02/09/2025

Some ancient Ilkley stones bothered Orangeblossom Old Ways 🤩

On Saturday Luna and I visited the wonderful Ilkley Manor House where the original Verbeia stone is. During the Roman occupation of Ilkley an altar was erected to Verbeia~ Goddess of the River Wharf.

The story of the Verbeia stone has been lost to history but is the only evidence we have for the Roman name for the Wharf, the Roman unit based here and its commander. It is speculated that maybe he was saved from drowning and set up the altar in gratitude...

The Altar Stone would have been used for Libations ~ liquid offerings to the Goddess Verbeia.