Into The Glen: Music, Wellness and Community event

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Isle of Man today reporter Sadie Gilbert attended 'Into the Glen' this weekend. The event was designed in collaboration with multiple different people within the Manx community. DJ Duo Anima, Edward Bunce, Leanne Cain and Mikey Howland are amongst some of the organisers. An all day festival which focused on wellness and combining different communities.

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00:00Hello, I'm Strawberry Shortcake and I'm reporting live from the Laxy Glen,

00:04where I'll be taking you along to meet some of the hosts of this event

00:06and talk a little bit about what's happening here today.

00:09So, here we are with the founders of Anime, Ben and Amin.

00:13So, Ben, do you want to tell me a little bit about what's gone into this event

00:16and why you've got involved with it?

00:19A lot of prep.

00:19Well, we had our good friend Ed Bunce over here

00:22kind of get us introduced to this event

00:24and gave us the opportunity to collaborate with him on this event.

00:27And, yeah, and pretty much from the off, we've just been hard at it,

00:32putting in the hours about nine, nine, ten weeks of prep.

00:36And, yeah, every night pretty much doing something little by little

00:40to get this to what it is now.

00:41And it's all paid off, hasn't it? Fabulous event.

00:44We'll soon see.

00:46So, why do you think it's important then that, you know,

00:49we're doing events like this on the Isle of Man

00:51and that, you know, creating a little bit of a community for people?

00:54Well, I think it's important for everybody to have some sense of community

00:59and, you know, what better than to get a bunch of people to, you know,

01:02have a dance and meet people that they might not meet before

01:05and, you know, just experience different types of music

01:08and different, like, the wellness side of things

01:11and maybe things that they might be outside of their comfort zone.

01:14So, yeah, it's very important.

01:16And, you know, we should be seeing a lot more of it on the island.

01:19Well, hopefully there's more to come, eh?

01:20Let's go!

01:20Oh, and here we are with the lovely Ed,

01:24the owner of the business at Laxey Glen.

01:26So, why, you know, have you decided to do an event like this

01:30or be involved in this event?

01:32Well, from the moment that I took on the lease here seven years ago,

01:38the first thing I saw was a festival site.

01:41So, really, it's always been a dream to start a festival here

01:44and this is the first sort of go at doing that.

01:50So, it's a sort of pilot to see how it's going to work and build a team

01:53so that hopefully we can make this a yearly thing or a twice-yearly thing

01:57and grow it so it organically grows into something much bigger, hopefully.

02:02So, we've got something to look forward to in the future then?

02:05Absolutely.

02:05I reckon the summer might hold some surprises

02:08and we're thinking something hopefully a little bit larger

02:12that's more inclusive with a lot more local people, local things, culture.

02:19So, really to really push anything that's Manx and the Manx culture

02:23and there's a lot of space here.

02:25I mean, we're just using a little tiny bit of what's available.

02:30But the site was made, you know, back in the day with the Victorians

02:34and it was designed for people to come and walk around and enjoy

02:39and party and have a good time.

02:43And so, it's actually quite a great site for this

02:46because there's loads of different levels and paths that interconnect

02:48and loads of places where we can put different things on.

02:51So, here we are with the lovely Mikey and the lovely Leanne.

02:55So, do you want to tell me a little bit about what you've been doing here today?

02:58Today?

02:59Well, today we've been getting everyone prepared.

03:03This morning we did morning momentum at half eight,

03:07ran up to the Laxey Wheel, come back again

03:09and then we went straight into the ice bath in Alchemy.

03:12That's Ian Kirk.

03:14And then into the sauna to warm up with Riversea Sauna,

03:17which is my business.

03:19And then, yeah, then we moved on to the wellness circuit,

03:23which was mainly Leanne.

03:25Leanne's good work.

03:26Yeah.

03:27So, Leanne, do you want to tell me a little bit about what you've been doing?

03:30Yeah.

03:31So, I had this vision of having, like, a pocket of wellness under this TV.

03:37So, we moved with an opening ceremony where we utilize, like,

03:42the cosmic energy of the half moon and Halloween, which is Samhain,

03:46when that membrane is the thinnest between dimensional realities.

03:49So, we wanted to, like, tap into that and harness that magic

03:53and bring it into the opening ceremony as well.

03:56So, we had this, like, really witchy ritual.

03:59We got super witchy, guys.

04:01The witchy, the better.

04:02Why not?

04:02Exactly.

04:03So, we got super witchy and we had, like, a release and a receive ritual

04:08where we jotted down what it is that we wanted to release and receive.

04:11And that was, like, our main focus for, yeah, the movement in the TV.

04:16So, it was super fun.

04:17So, we moved from the opening ceremony, a little bit of ecstatic dance,

04:20and then we moved into yoga and then sound healing.

04:24So, we moved it in, like, this beautiful fluid motion where, yeah,

04:28it was pretty seamless and everyone got the benefits of movement, breath,

04:33good energy, and connecting to the mycelium network of the forest as well.

04:37So, it was super grounding, ready for dance time, which is now.

04:42So, guys, what do you think is it about this event that makes it unique?

04:47Well, look at the surroundings, for one.

04:49We've got a beautiful glen with beautiful trees.

04:52And this time of year, the leaves are turning orange.

04:55And, yeah, we've got two stages.

04:57We've got the big teepee over there that you can't see right now,

05:00but it's beautiful.

05:01And then we've got the pavilion stage, which is indoors,

05:04where the live bands are playing.

05:05DJs are down on the teepee.

05:07So, yeah, we've got some, yeah, it's magical, really.

05:10Oh, super magic.

05:11Yeah.

05:11Super magic, yeah.

05:12And also, yeah, just like what Mikey said,

05:15look at the scenes around here.

05:17You know, it's a proper forest.

05:19It's not like that plantation vibe,

05:20where everything's like linear and hands planted.

05:23It's like, yeah, just stunning.

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