Spirit Fest Yoga & Dance Festival 2020

Spirit Fest Yoga & Dance Festival 2020

It feels like just yesterday that my body slipped into the cool, tea-stained water below the gushing waterfall. I can still feel the goosebumps as I think back to that first dive below the surface. I can hear the shrieks of my friends as their warm bodies hit the water, and I’m getting all warm and fuzzy as these memories come flooding back. Memories of a blissful four days spent celebrating love, spirit, nature, womanhood, connection and deep conversations.

I’m reminiscing about SpiritFest, which happened less than 8 weeks ago down in the Cape. This is a yoga and music festival that happens every couple of years on Somerset Gift Farm, a pristine paradise nestled in the mountains near Swellendam.

This was my third Spiritfest and it was just as magical as the first. We danced, we did yoga, we ate so much delicious vegetarian food, we meditated, we swam and we listened. Spirit Fest is truly one of the best way to totally reset and connect with your soul. The program offers non stop yoga classes of every style from Kundalini to Yin to Acro and then there are other activities like meditation, sound journeys, talks, women’s circles, concerts, sweat lodges, and NIA classes along with a multitude of other delights. If none of those interest you, perhaps a spot of shopping at the market would tickle your fancy or a foofy slide into the dam. Camping is not for everyone but glamping is a wonderful option at Spiritfest, one which I gladly shelled out for!

If I close my eyes and think back to that time I feel a smile enveloping my heart

My how things have changed in just 8 weeks! Corona fear has now enveloped the whole world and these are such special memories to treasure with hope.

Thank you to my wonderful soul sisters for making our time together so very precious

Thanks to Ilana, Anton, all the teachers and the whole team for creating such an incredibly beautiful experience for all who attended.

P.S I really missed you Lisa and Dylan!

P.P.S I shot these all on my Fuji XT2 which I won back in 2016 – absolutely love this camera for traveling!

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Best of Netherwood Weddings

Best of Netherwood Weddings

You will find Netherwood wedding venue in the Natal midlands on the way to Nottingham road, which is just a couple of hours away from Durban in South Africa. It’s an changing farm which is painted by the seasons every few months, vermillion green in the summer, and brown, amber and crispy in the winter. Netherwood is a working farm with a herd of Nguni cattle and a few other interesting animals like Zebras and Alpaca’s, but it also homes one of the loveliest places to say I do in KZN! Every time I go there I find something that I haven’t seen before, a new angle or an orchard of spring blossoms and a field of maize. Beautiful, open places inspire me and so I find Netherwood to be a very inspiring place!

So far as wedding venues go, the reception venue is a very clever design with the bar right in the middle of the dance floor and this makes for cracker parties! It’s a neutral space, which means it‘s  a blank canvas for you to decorate. It also has cottages and a huge big farmhouse with loads of bedrooms in it, so it’s a great venue for a weekend wedding. The chapel looks over the valley and on a clear day you can see the mountains way off in the distance.

I’ve shot so many weddings at Netherwood and every single one of them has been special. From the rainy, muddy and misty, to the bone chilling icy cold, to the mild and temperate they have all been an experience to remember. I’ve seen some crazy moves on that dance floor and so many tears and happy smiles at the chapel. My main reason for loving my Netherwood wedding memories however, is because I have just loved all the couples I have photographed there!

Oh and the blueberry café on the property definitely worth a visit!

Here’s some of my Best of Netherwood wedding pics!

 

Click here for Netherwoods contact details https://www.netherwoodfarm.com/contact/

 

If you are looking for top notch wedding planing and decor suppliers from the midlands try

Adore wedding and Events

Natural Nostalgia

The Wedding Co

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