The Feel Good Festival

Cannot wait for next year. It is the perfect retreat into a land of smiles and sighs. I felt like I'd had 2 weeks off. Thank you hundreds for organising it, being there, joining in, opening your hearts and minds.
Jul 8th, 2022

What a fantastic breath of fresh air this wonderful little festival is! This year was even better than last year, with a greater choice of food, entertainment and therapies. We cant wait to see what is in store for next year.......many thanks to Jessie and Mike for all of their hard work.
Jun 24th, 2022

Jessie and the team work so hard to achieve the feel good festival each year. It has a small family run feel with amazing people. Open your inner peace and enjoy being in the now.
Jun 11th, 2022

Amazing festival with lots of options of different meditations, yoga and workshops the option to have a relaxing treatment in nature is wonderful as well. Excellent venue with a lot of freedom and space but a nice indoor area with a log burner if you do get chilly! Will be returning next year thank you to the organisers for a wonderful weekend
Jun 8th, 2022

This is NOT a festival and the photographs on this platform and the website at the time of writing are misleading. Whether it says venue subject to change or not, photographs need to be updated and it needs to be very clear that there are NO INDOOR areas. The organisers ask for feedback but when you give constructive feedback and suggestions of what might work better to make this an actual Feel Good Festival you are ignored. It took three attempts to get a response and almost instantly afterwards a post was put on Facebook stating people moan. Even in the email from the organiser at no point was any of my suggestions taken on board as a thanks for that we will consider it. There are no tents. There are no covered areas at all. This is basically a field with a few basic outbuildings and compost loos. There is nowhere to chill out or keep warm if you book to attend without taking your own tent (which they charge you for). Do not be fooled by the advertising of this event. It is planned on a budget and according to the organisers they do not make a penny out of it. It is basically a field with activities. It should not be named a festival. The yoga and meditations sessions are carried out under tarpaulins (not in tents) with no ground sheets. You cannot hear the teachers properly and when asked to stand up it is very difficult to see the teacher from certain points because of the slant to the top of the tarpaulins. On the day we visited it was windy. Totally appreciate 100% no-one can control the weather BUT we know what the British weather is like. We know what the weather is like in Cumbria. You therefore accommodate for this and take it into account. To not even have ground sheets was ridiculous. We were actively encouraged to spend money with the vendors, but the pizza man shut up shop at 1pm and put a sign up saying back at 5pm. This was the icing on the cake for us because there was only one other vendor serving hot food but when we saw there was going to pizza, we really wanted to take advantage of that for our lunch. We were told that the organisers cannot control food vendors and that we should take our concerns up with him (no idea who he is). Perhaps the organisers need to address their relationship with the vendors to ensure this runs smoother so that paying participants are fed. We were three experienced yoga teachers looking to Feel Good for a day in the countryside with fellow yogis and mindful beings. This festival did not make us Feel Good at all. We took the decision to leave by 130pm and find a local caf for some hot food, a warm coffee and headed home back to the North East soon after. I was offered a free ticket for 2023 but I declined this offer. I had suggested that a refund of 40 be given (ticket price 85) but was ignored. AND then when you do give feedback the organisers block you from their Facebook page and don't even bother to take the time out to comment. How very childish and not very "Feel Good" at all. This world is full of choice and opinion and when you have paying customers as oppose to friends and family joining an event you really do need to listen to what they are saying. Namaste
Jun 7th, 2022