The Tree of Life Festival is back!
Saturday 9 May
DOORS OPEN FROM 11AM!
11.30am to 9.30pm
At our new beautiful venue of
Cambridge Road Methodist Church
Cambridge Road, Moseley, Birmingham B13 9UE
8 Inspirational Talks/Classes - from expert speakers, authors and teachers
Opening Ceremony with Izabela & Dionne, 11.30am - 12noon
Closing Ceremony with Madeleine, 5pm - 5.30pm
An evening of celebration:
Awakening Medicine Dance with Markéta & Cacao Ceremony with Hana
7pm - 9.30pm
100+ coming!
Early Bird tickets for £47 - ends midnight tonight!
Delicious plant-based food and drinks will be on sale from Change Kitchen: ChangeKitchen CIC – Cooking up change!
ChangeKitchen CIC is proud to support the Tree of Life Festival. As an award-winning social enterprise caterer creating climate-friendly dishes, the values of wellbeing, health, connection and self-care really resonate with us.
MENU - all vegan
Vegan Vegetable Lasagna - £9 - served with salads - £11
Thai Curry & Basmati Rice - £7 - served with salads - £9
Tapas Platter - 2 vegetable samosas, salads and choice of mezze - £8
Chocolate Cake - £4
Prebiotic Soda - £1
Also serving hot drinks!
Here are the speakers and their talk details:
MAGGY WHITEHOUSE
THE DARK MOTHER
Reflections on Darkness and Light
We humans live in more light than ever before and we are devoted to it—with screens everywhere. We are out of balance and it shows.
Night and darkness have long been associated with the feminine so to demonise one is to demonise the other. We need healthy darkness: the depth of the womb which brings forth all life. Honouring the sacred darkness is spiritual maturity.
Remember the legendary fallen angel, Lucifer? His name means ‘light bearer.’ How could evil possibly tempt us without being attractive? It must deceive us with light, and with glamour and with ease and with half-truths.
Today we rediscover The Dark Mother. She is the essential wisdom and depth of the night; the forgotten, overlooked foundation of our souls. By honouring the darkness of the Cailleach, we acknowledge and mend our ‘shadow,’ healing addiction, pain, dis-ease and prejudice in our lives.
Rev. Maggy Whitehouse, is an independent sacramental priest, a stand-up comedian, teacher of Judaic mysticism and author of 22 books including Kabbalah and Healing and A Woman’s Worth—The Divine Feminine in the Hebrew Testament.
‘Maggy Whitehouse is brilliant, funny as hell, and wise. Let her entertain you, embolden you and awaken you to the power of your own essential natur’e — Prof. Peter Bolland, Philosophy Chair, Southwestern College, San Diego
For more information visit www.maggywhitehouse.com
STELLA BROOKES
THE SACRED HEART: LIVING FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Something is shifting. Quickly. And chances are, you can feel it. Along with that shift, the way we've approached purpose, service, and creating our lives is starting to feel… off. Like we've outgrown something but aren't quite sure what comes next. Many of us sense we're here to be part of the change the world so deeply needs. But what once felt like a calling can quietly become a source of pressure, even obligation. And underneath that, there's often something else. A deeper pull. Toward something more aligned, more natural, more you. That pull? That's your soul, ready to be expressed through you. And the key to accessing it lies closer than you might think.
Part of that journey is discovering the remarkable energetic architecture already within your own body, including advanced energy centres that open the door directly to living from the inside out.
In this experiential session, Stella will introduce you to the Sacred Heart, an energetic portal that bridges your physical experience with a deeper, multidimensional intelligence. This is where a new level of awareness and creative energy begins to open up, and in this session you'll get your first real felt sense of what that space is like. From here, everything shifts. If you're ready to explore what that feels like, come along.
Stella Brooks
Stella is a Workshop Facilitator, Speaker, Kinesiologist ,Quantum Soul Practitioner & Soul Alignment Coach. She is an award-winning specialist Kinesiologist, Coach and Workshop facilitator. Have been trained by Dr Clare Zammit as a woman focused coach and facilitator, Chris Duncan as a Magnetic mind coach, Eben Pagan in the skills of virtual coaching and I am also a fully accredited Mind Valley Life coach. She specialises in working with conscious, heart-based women to achieve the transformation and soul led growth that they deeply yearn for. Her superpower is helping clients identify & move past their unconscious blocks to increase their vibration and frequency in order to embody and live life as WHO they truly are.
For more information visit www.stellabrooks.com
MARKÉTA BOLA
AWAKENING FOOD AS MEDICINE
“Exploring food as a multi-sensory delight as well as life-giving medicine is a transformative journey towards self-empowerment and vitality. Nourishing your body with whole, raw, nutrient & enzyme-rich food heals, energises and rejuvenates, aligning your innate physical health with nature’s own intelligence. The art of raw living food inspires a deep connection between body and earth and life within life. This lifestyle empowers you to thrive in delicious harmony and in effervescent health."
This mini raw living food masterclass with raw food nutritionist and chef Markéta Bola (aka The Raw Food Goddess), will explore simple, yet effective changes and principles you can begin to benefit from immediately.
Learn how just a few plant-based raw food tips and recipes can radically enhance your life.
We all have busy lives and in this age of convenience, whether you’re a natural foodie, a working parent with a family to feed, or simply someone in search of more vitality and nourishment from their daily plate, eating healthily and well, with a focus on pleasure too, can present quite a challenge.
It really isn’t about just fruit and vegetables, the sky’s the limit with raw ingredients and a clever combination of preparing, activating, combining and dehydrating, with ingredients like seeds, nuts and pulses too, can create everything from raw plant-based ‘lasagne’ to an utterly divine 'chocolate cake'. Dishes that embody that holy grail harmony between taste and wellness.
We need fresh water, fresh air, fresh food and fresh ideas… because these are the foundations of life!
Markéta Bola is a natural nutritionist, raw living food chef & certified Hippocrates Health Educator who has written extensively about raw food, including regular columns for ‘What Doctors Don’t Tell You’ Magazine and leads enzyme-rich raw food courses, juice detox program and dining experiences in the Midlands.
“Having healed myself from significant childhood illness, my path is inspired by a deeply compassionate awareness of the power of food as medicine. I am very grateful to have experienced a pure raw living food lifestyle for five and a half years while making a complete recovery from the chronic illnesses I had suffered throughout my life. Despite being a working mum of two young boys, I incorporate a significant amount of mostly organically grown or foraged, living foods onto our plates. Food truly is both a medicine and delight for me and its living gifts are especially close to my heart.”
'Markéta is the Jamie Oliver of raw food.’ - Lynne McTaggart, international bestselling author of ‘The Field’ and editorial director of ‘What Doctors Don’t Tell You’ – one of the world’s most highly praised health newsletters.
‘Dr. Anna Maria and I were delighted with Markéta’s delicious enzyme-rich living food. Tree of Life’s conference in Birmingham and it’s adjoining up scale supper satisfied and livened all of the participants including ourselves. Keep up your good work in Britain.’ - Dr Brian Clement, Director of the Hippocrates Heath Institute, Florida
For more information visit www.treeoflife-events.co.uk
CARA WHEATLEY-McGRAIN
FROM BACTERIA TO BLISS:
Exploring the Sacred Intelligence of the Gut
Your gut is talking to you… the question is - are you listening?
Because this isn’t just about digestion.
This is about intuition. Energy. Emotion. The quiet, powerful wisdom living in your belly.
In this captivating and gently disruptive talk, Cara Wheatley-McGrain invites you to rethink everything you thought you knew about your gut. Part science, part soul.
Through the lens of the inner gut garden, you’ll discover your body as a living, breathing ecosystem. One that holds memory, responds to your environment, and is constantly guiding you (if you know how to tune in). We’ll explore:
- Why your microbiome might be influencing your mood more than your mindset
- The truth about “gut feelings”
- Simple, nourishing ways to support your gut, calm your system, and reconnect with yourself
Expect science, storytelling, and a deeply grounding belly metta meditation to close. Come curious. Leave connected… and perhaps seeing your body in a whole new way.
Cara Wheatley-McGrain
Cara is the Founder of The Mindful Gut, a Hay House author, TEDx speaker, and pioneering voice at the intersection of gut health, mental wellbeing, and spiritual awareness. Blending cutting-edge microbiome science with ancient wisdom, Cara is known for her deeply soulful, science-backed approach that invites people to reconnect with their body as a source of clarity, healing, and inner guidance.Her work goes beyond digestion, guiding audiences to understand the gut as a powerful bridge between body, mind, and intuition, where emotional health, energy, and self-trust are rooted. Through storytelling, immersive practices, and her signature mindful gut garden philosophy, Cara creates transformative experiences that help people calm their nervous system, nourish their inner ecosystem, and awaken a deeper connection to themselves and the world around them.
For more information visit www.themindfulgut.co.uk
KRISHNA RUPARELIA
A SOMA BREATH JOURNEY
Breathe, Align, Manifest.
Where breath becomes intention and intention becomes reality.
Step into a powerful space of transformation through the art of SOMA Breath.
In this immersive journey, you’ll be guided to use your breath as a gateway, shifting your state, quieting the mind, and reconnecting with your inner alignment. As your body and energy come into harmony, you open the door to conscious manifestation creating not from force, but from clarity, intention, and flow.
Through rhythmic breathing, music, and guided visualisation, you’ll release what no longer serves you and activate a deeper connection to your vision, your energy, and your highest self.
This is more than a breathwork session - it’s an experience of awakening, alignment, and expansion.
Breathe deeply
Align
Manifest with intention
Come as you are. Leave feeling lighter, clearer, and powerfully connected to your next chapter. Health | Wealth| Abundance|
Krishna Ruparelia, is the founder of Unshakable Resilience, and works with high functioning individuals to reduce stress, quiet the noise of modern life, to return to a state of calm, clarity, and connection through her Pause, Power, Presence methodology. Through yoga, Soma breathwork, immersive workshops, retreats, and coaching, she is dedicated to unlocking human potential and is on a mission in transforming lives one breath at a time. For more information visit www.unshakableresilience.co.uk
SATPAL SINGH
INNER TRANSFORMATION: KUNDALINI YOGA & AWARENESS
In this session, Satpal will introduce the principles of Kundalini Yoga often known as the yoga of awareness through a blend of gentle movement, breathwork, and meditation. This session offers an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of Kundalini Yoga, along with a guided experience of some of its key practices. There will also be time for reflection and questions, allowing space to explore the practice in a relaxed and accessible way. No prior experience is needed. Simply come with an open mind and a willingness to explore.
Satpal Singh is an internationally certified yoga teacher with over 20 years of experience in health, wellbeing and personal development, offering a holistic approach that integrates mind, body, and spirit. Alongside yoga, Satpal also teaches Tai Chi, fitness, and offers life coaching, as well as guidance in lifestyle and wellbeing. His work is centred around supporting transformation helping individuals build strength, balance, and a deeper connection to themselves and the world around them. With a strong personal commitment to daily yoga and meditation, Satpal brings authenticity and depth to his sessions, creating a welcoming space where people of all levels can explore movement, breath, energy and awareness. For more information visit: www.innertransformation.co.uk
PAULA & CRAIG
EXPERIENCE A SIMPLE 3 PHASE NERVOUS SYSTEM RESET
Give yourself a no-demand 'place to land' and build your Nervous System Capacity to lubricate your daily mental-emotional state changes.
Without adding more to your plate.
No extra routines
No extra effort needed
Enjoy this felt experience.
For people carrying too much load who want to feel calmer, present and more connected.
PAULA & CRAIG TRAFFORD are both Nervous System Wellbeing Practitioners with over 70 years of combined experience running wellbeing, therapy, and education businesses — while parenting three children and creating a sustainable, loving and fun relationship.
They understand what it’s like to hold a full professional life alongside a full family life, and guide overloaded women (& others of course) to ease and flow through life's state changes calmer, steadier, and fully present. For more information visit: www.calmandthrive.com
JOGINDER SINGH BOLA
THE WORK OF BYRON KATIE
The Work is a meditation. It is a method to inquiry. Every time you do The Work you are becoming enlightened to who and what you are, the true nature of being. To question what you believe is an amazing gift to give yourself, and you can have it all the days of your life. The answers are always inside you, just waiting to be heard.
A simple yet powerful practice. As we do The Work of Byron Katie, not only do we remain alert to our stressful thoughts—the ones that cause all the anger, sadness, and frustration in our world—but we question them, and through that questioning the thoughts lose their power over us. Great spiritual texts describe the what—what it means to be free. The Work is the how. It shows you exactly how to identify and question any thought that would keep you from that freedom.
JOGINDER BOLA trained with Byron Katie at The School for The Work in 2007 and has assisted on subsequent trainings with her. He has been using and teaching The Work for 19 years. I use it a daily basis myself to look at any stressful thoughts and help find inner peace. He has been a co-director of the Tree of Life for the last 18 years, organising Festivals, workshops and talks that have touched the lives of thousands of people. I have a life long love of spirituality beginning 30 years ago with attending many personal growth workshops and training as an Alexander Technique Teacher. I completed the Vipassana meditation course, the Louise Hay ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ teacher training course and completed the Soulmate Couples training with the School of Awakening. For more information visit www.treeoflife-events.co.uk
Opening Ceremony with
IZABELA TURNOWSKA-LAWSKA
IZABELA TUROWSKA-LAWSKA
Izabela is an intuitive practitioner and ceremonial guide with a long‑standing devotion to somatic presence, embodied healing and heart‑centred ritual. She creates spaces where people are invited to soften, listen to their bodies, and honour their inherent wisdom. With a compassionate and grounded presence, Izabela supports others to reconnect with themselves beyond performance and to meet deep rest with intention and gentleness. For more information visit www.revitaliseyourlife.co.uk
and DIONNE ROBERTS
DIONNE ROBERTS
Dionne brings a soulful, calm and deeply nurturing presence to every space she holds. Known in her community as The Sleep Whisperer, she lovingly guides people into states of relaxation, nervous system regulation and restorative rest. Through offerings such as Yoga Nidra and sound‑based experiences, Dionne helps participants access deep rest and integration through embodied awareness and receptive listening. Her work is about creating gentle, embodied containers where presence replaces performance, allowing the body and heart to breathe, soften and unfold. For more information visit www.revitaliseyourlife.co.uk
Closing Ceremony at 5pm with
MADELEINE SERAPHINE
TREE OF LIFE CLOSING CEREMONY
We will end this beautiful day of talks and wisdom sharing with a sacred ceremony of gratitude, healing and prayer led by Madeleine Seraphina. In this ceremony, we will reflect on all that has been received over the course of the day, and then gather together the force of our gratitude and love to send out a wave of healing energy and prayer to all those people and places we are called to support across the Earth. Closing with drumming and song, to anchor this energy in ourselves to carry forward into our lives as we go out into the world.
MADELEINE SERAPHINA
Madeleine is a ceremonialist, oracle and healer, dedicated to the pathway of Sacred Feminine reclamation and remembrance. She works with the Magdalene Rose energies, Primal Mother consciousness and radical Earth and elemental connection, to support people to activate their full expression and reconnect with their organic truth. She has cultivated her skills through fifteen years on the spiritual path including working as a Kundalini Yoga teacher, four years of Sacred Feminine Mystery School, circle facilitation training, and above all walking her own initiatory journey guided by Nature, the Primal Mother and the Magdalene. She lives on the Malvern Hills, where she offers 1-1 sessions as well as women's circles and ceremonies. For more information visit: www.sacredrosehealing.net
Open Jam with Drumming and Instruments 5.30pm
JAHZERAH SHARMAN
AWAKENING MEDICINE DANCE &
CACAO CEREMONY
Evening Celebration at 7pm -9.30pm
Awakening Medicine Dance with
MARKÉTA BOLA
AWAKENING MEDICINE DANCE
We are all ‘dancers & movers of life’! And we bring our unique presence that is our own medicine. The medicine that move us, allow us to surrender, evolve and awaken us to BE ourself to be free and align within our centre and our essence. Creating powerful experiences with joy and fun can bring portals for our deeper healing and connecting us together as a kind loving aliveness of who we truly are here, for ourselves and each others.
MARKÉTA BOLA
Markéta is a passionate dancer and facilitator of transformative experiences, guiding others on journeys of self-discovery and healing. Through her Awakening Medicine Dance, she inspires individuals to deepen their understanding of the interconnectedness of body, mind, heart, and spirit. With a gift for creating a gentle grounding container and sacred spaces, Markéta empowers others to explore their inner world, awaken to their true potential, and embody their wholeness. Using movement, breath, sound and meditation, she ignites inner wisdom, authenticity, and purpose, helping others unfold their unique path.
For more information visit: www.treeoflife-events.co.uk
Cacao Ceremony with
HANA BORROWMAN
CACAO CEREMONY
Bringing all the magic of Mama Cacao to the Awakening Medicine Dance ceremony, along with the offering of my body and my drum, is my absolute honour and joy!
Some of my deepest pleasures and wisest teachers on this planet are the plants, medicines and mystical adventures that this earth has to offer us - alongside the extra-ordinary experience of the magical journey itself.
Dance, cacao and the deep and heart-opening presence received through both, are amongst my most celebrated guides and allies. So I’m thrilled to offer them to all of us, in service of and in reverence for, this ever-unfolding adventure of life.
HANA BORROWMAN
Hana is a mother, lover, adventurer and healer. In her commitment to life’s fullest experiences and her work as an Embodied Constellations therapist and Sensuality & Empowerment Advocate, she guides herself and others towards the path of ultimate freedom: Love. For more information visit: hanaborrowman.com
An evening celebration after the Festival
A divine date with the ever moving self
Awakening Medicine Dance offers heart-opening space for embodied movement and exploration of all that we are.
Cambridge Road Methodist Church, Kings Heat/Moseley B13 9UE
We'll start with a ceremonial flow:
6.55pm doors open
7pm prompt start
11-minute Silent Meditation
11-minute Drumming Ceremony
Cacao Ceremony
Awakening Medicine Dance
9.30pm Closing Circle
Feel free to bring a drum if you have and an offering for the Altar
You are truly welcome as you are, you don’t need to compromise your needs or comfort, e.g. chairs available in the space, and you can also enjoy the underfloor heated space to keep you warm and grounded in your own space and pace.
This space is open for everyone who wants to invite, allow and follow whatever their body, mind & soul need. From soft, loving, grounded presence to more embodied energy of your own self expression and exploration, just as you like it. We start very slow and come back gently as well… and the middle is your own dance practice, being, breathing, softening, feeling, jiggling, moving, rolling, unfolding within your space and pace.
Your presence is the medicine!
Come and play, be illuminated by kindness and touched by love.
Book in advance so the Cacao will be waiting for you!
Can't make it financially? We want YOU there! Offer a helping hand if you can, and let's make it work!
Come and join us on the dance floor. All of you is warmly welcome.
With dancing hearts, Markéta & Hana
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