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Conscious Life Festival

Conscious Life Events is bringing their best-loved and most successful event, The Conscious Life, Holistic Wellness Festival to Byron Bay in November.

Organisers say that this amazing new event in Byron Bay will offer a fantastic, fun-filled, and educational weekend, in some cases – life changing!

Joining in will be both national and international keynote speakers, all sharing their knowledge, wisdom, and skills with you, helping us to create change and raise consciousness.

Prepare your mind, body, and spirit for some sweet health hacks and mind-expanding ideas. The Conscious Life, Holistic Wellness Festival is an earth-friendly and empowering event that will rock your world, and by rock the organisers mean rejuvenate your juju, raise your consciousness, and help you tap into your own inner power.

It’s just what the world needs right now. Health, truth, and the freedom to choose. Reconnect with a like-minded community. Transform worried and unwell into happy, healthy, and whole.

Stress less and find your truth with two whole days of clean nourishing food, workshops and seminars, live music, exhibitors including meditations and massage, intuitive readings, alternative therapies, and loads of new natural health modalities.

Inspiring change makers and thought leaders, practitioners, and healers will be on hand to open your mind and get your body and soul back in balance.

There will be exhibitor stands – everything on offer is good for you!

The Conscious Life, Holistic Wellness Festival is one of Queensland’s largest, most successful and effective health and wellbeing events. 

With over 70 exhibitors, plus a FREE comprehensive schedule of events including seminars, workshops, meditations, and kids’ workshops.

This event is on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November.

Tickets $15/$12.50 earlybird + $25 weekend / $20 earlybird (expires 14 October).

https://www.trybooking.com/CBZJK

More info: https://consciouslifeevents.com/clhwf/



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