Healing Garden festival 2026

Key wellness, self-care, and productivity strategies mentioned

• Use ritual + body-based practices to move beyond “just thinking”

  • Healing Garden is described as a place for ceremonies, breathwork, meditation, yoga, singing circles, drumming journeys, and other rituals that help people go deeper than the head and into embodied experience.
  • Change is said to become easier when you address the nervous system (not only ideas).

• Emphasize integration after intense healing experiences

  • In discussions about ayahuasca/plant medicine, the emphasis is that healing isn’t only the ceremony/night itself—there’s an integration phase afterward.

• Approach plant medicine with responsibility and learning

  • Plant connection is framed as requiring:
    • Respect for the culture
    • Longer preparation / “study” (dietas in Peru described as multi-week/month journeys)
    • Careful navigation rather than “quick fixes”
  • The speaker stresses that what you experience can’t be predicted: expectation often turns into disappointment, while you tend to receive what you actually need in that moment.

• Trust your senses and your own perception

  • A recurring teaching: “Trust your senses” and treat your own feelings/emotions as legitimate data for your inner reality.

• Use emotionally intelligent processing to break harmful patterns

  • Mental health/system critique centers on the drama triangle (perpetrator–victim–rescuer/judge) and how it creates an endless blame loop where problems can’t be solved.
  • Strategies for stepping out of the triangle:
    • Radical honesty
    • Radical responsibility
    • Confront guilt without bypassing it (go through/through rather than avoid)
    • When triggered: release pent-up emotions so your nervous system shifts from reactive → responsive → responsible
    • Notice when you revert to a younger self (“3-year-old or 8-year-old part”), and resolve the core emotion rather than just manage behavior.

• Regulate the nervous system to enable calmer boundaries and communication

  • Embodiment is presented as essential: you need calmness in the body/nervous system to communicate with others (judge, youth system, boss, partner) without escalating into fight.

• Singing/collective sound as energetic self-care

  • Singing circles are described as a way to:
    • Build a shared “field” (collective resonance)
    • “Charge” your energetic state even if you start tired
  • Collective vibration is framed as supporting emotional release and emotional carrying power.

• Use music/sound frequency as a wellness/heart practice (432 Hz)

  • A musician advocates for 432 Hz resonance, claiming it:
    • Makes singing feel easier/open
    • Helps songs resonate with the heart chakra / nature
    • Contrasts it with commonly used radio tuning (440 Hz), which is said to subtly affect well-being.

• Make space for simplicity, boredom, and present-moment settling

  • A visitor emphasizes:
    • Contentment and simplicity
    • Being truly present (here and now)
    • Letting things be without constantly “doing”
    • Allowing boredom/pauses (staring/wandering) for silent learning
  • Practical “what fits right now” options: breathwork, cacao, shamanic drumming, naps, conversations.

• Festival “boundaries” to protect safety and appropriateness

  • Production guidance stresses balancing depth and fun:
    • Keep some workshops less profound to maintain a festival environment
    • Use separate spaces/tents for more intimate topics
    • Avoid scheduling overly deep work when it can’t be held safely (especially if something goes wrong)

• Adaptive planning for real-world constraints

  • Behind-the-scenes organizing is described as practical resilience:
    • Fill gaps when sessions cancel
    • Adjust plans for weather/rain
    • Ensure people can still arrive for workshops (e.g., drum workshop outside is affected by rain)

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Presenters / sources (mentioned people)

• Niels Luning (host/presenter)
• Stefano (cameraman)
• Zeldaai (ayahuasca/plant-medicine practitioner; guest with a stand)
• Jenny (spiritual musician; plays at 432 Hz; name appears as “Jenny Vedic / Velich” in subtitles)
• Nina Inana (moderator/host; interviewer role mentioned)
• Inana Blessing (credited for following the mental-health guest; also the Instagram handle “Inana Blessing”)
• Deepin Work / deepinerwork.nl (website source for the mental-health guest)
• Tim Segers (artist; production role; performs a session)
• Marieke (production team member mentioned)
• Sar (production team member mentioned)
• Marco (production team member mentioned)
• Ralf Hekenberg (musician friend mentioned)
• Geline / Gerline (festival visitor/neighbor across the street)
• Dennis van Miltenburg (mentioned as someone to interview soon)
• Healing Garden Festival / Healing Garden (festival organizer/source, referenced throughout)
• Studio Nieuwe Tijd (podcast partner/sponsor mentioned at the start)
• Monflow (partner mentioned at the start)
• Touch of Matrix (mentioned at the start)