Looking back on KwazuluSpirit 2026 with gratitude!

The 4th annual KwazuluSpirit Festival wrapped up on a high note after welcoming hundreds of attendees to Salt Rock Beach Resort on 30 and 31 May 2026 for a transformative weekend of consciousness, healing, connection, and personal growth. Already building on the success, event organisers have announced 29 and 30 May 2027 for the next […]

The Other Side: A Panel Discussion

hosted by Sarah Bullen About This Session What lies beyond the edge of ordinary perception? For most people, that question is one that they are looking to answer.  For our panellists, it is the very world they inhabit. The Other Side is a panel conversation for those who know there is more to reality than meets […]

Mettā (Loving Kindness) Meditation

Each Year we close the KwazuluSpirit Festival with a ‘Loving Kindness Meditation’ gifted by a member of The Buddhist Retreat Centre in Ixopo – This year Brendon Small offers this beautiful gifting.The BRC is perched on a ridge at the head of a valley in the Umkomaas river system in KwaZulu-Natal. The Buddhist retreat Centre […]

Untamed Men

Gents, are you ready for an immersive and transformative experience? With two well-known thought leaders and coaches Brett Shuttleworth and Joe van Niekerk Brett For over 20 years, Brett Shuttleworth has been teaching transformational principles, whether in the boardroom to corporates or to individuals on his internationally renowned Smiling Soul Retreats. Across all his platforms, […]

Traditional, Natural Healing

Meet Godfrey Madlalate who shares his journey and his experience of how the role of Traditional Health Practitioner has become a sought after natural health option for all South Africans. “I was privileged in that, as I started my journey as a healer in 2000, there was a conscious effort by South African healers to […]

Immerse Yourself in Sacred Sound Healing with Anne de Chazal

Anne de Chazal is an intuitive Sound therapist with 11 years of experience. Anne has worked in complementary health since her mid-twenties and has studied various healing modalities. She attended The International Association of Sound Therapy in Alcalali, Spain, in the summer of 2015 and has subsequently brought this powerful healing modality to hundreds of […]

Energencia Healing Bliss Booths

Gifted energy healing at KwazuluSpirit Festival. Energy healing is a broad term used to describe practices that work with the body’s subtle energy systems to support physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Found in traditions across cultures—from Eastern practices like Reiki to more contemporary modalities—these approaches are based on the idea that when energy flows freely, […]

The Intimacy Evolution

 How holistic intimacy & neuroscience are teaching us how to live more connected lives.  When I started writing for Odyssey Magazine in Spring 2022, the focus with the Blissexology column was intimacy coaching as part of a healthy and conscious sex life. The focus was mainly on pleasure and bliss. That hasn’t changed, but it […]

Embrace the tiger, return to the mountain.

With Leo Ming. Meet Tai Chi Master, Sifu Leo Low Ming at the KwazuluSpirit Festival. Leo Low Ming is a dedicated, professional martial artist. He has trained with the world’s top masters and practised his art for over 48 years. Leo teaches the young and the not so young. This is learning through doing. How […]

What does it mean to age well?

With Sharon Castle. The world has a ready answer: gracefully. Quietly. With good skincare and a positive attitude and a willingness to accept, with dignity, the slow dimming of the light. I want to offer a different answer entirely. At 67, I am not dimming. I am not declining. I am not managing the distance […]