Healing and Lifestyle Arts

Ian Gordon is a laughter yoga/wellness teacher based in Cape Town since 2017. He conducts sessions with intentional laughter to shift people’s energy. He will be doing a demonstration on the main stage at the Cape Town Festival from 10 am to 10.30 am, and on the rooftop between 11 am and 11.30 am.

The benefits of Laughter Yoga are far-ranging and are derived from sustained intentional laughter. Sustained refers to the length of the session, as well as the regularity over a period of a week or a month. Intentional refers to laughter that is created by body-based laughter exercises as practiced in Laughter Yoga and does not rely on comedy or jokes.

Come and enjoy free yoga on the rooftop of the Castle on the 29th of October from 1 pm to 2 pm with Elaine Seidel.  Bring your own yoga mat. Elaine’s love affair with Yoga started in 2000. Her first class left her feeling like a 5-year-old, so familiar and nourishing, she had come home! This Journey led her on the most Exquisite Adventure, revealing Yoga’s healing Medicine and Magic. Her Practice became her passion.

Elaine seeks to translate and express the Joy, Freedom, and Support that Yoga offers, in connecting and getting to know the body. She strives to show students the Beauty and Importance of this connection, despite our differences in strengths and abilities. Inspired by the precision and alignment of Iyengar; the strength and core connection physically and emotionally of Forrest yoga; the anatomical understanding of the safe and healthy practice of the spine,  through Synergy Yoga – culminating in the Grace and fluidity of Vinyasa. Respecting & valuing one’s body is the Key to good health.

Come and enjoy free Thai Chi and Chi Qong classes on the main stage from 10.30 am to 11 am and again on the rooftop of the Castle from 11.30 am to 12 pm on the Castle rooftop.

The Thai Chi demonstration (15 – 20 MINS) will show all aspects of traditional Tai Chi Chuan including the very special TAI CHI weapons. KELMAN MCPHERSON began his Martial Arts career by completing an intensitive five-year full-time apprenticeship at the Kushido/Karate -Do international headquarters HONBU DOJO. He is a 6th Dan Springbok (being recapped several times) with over 40 Years of full-time teaching. Kelman gives classes at Cape Town’s Martial Arts Centre HONBU DOJO where he practices the Inner Dimension System which is based in Claremont. For any other information please contact Renshi Kelman at 083 3636 254 or email him at renshikelman@gmail.com.

Join us at the festival for Zumba with Rizzy. Her first demonstration will be from 11.30 am to 12 pm on the big stage and from 12.30 am to 1 pm on the Castle Rooftop.

Rizzy created the 3G Bootcamp fitness club in 2015 as a charity club to bring health, fitness, and fun to the community who were unable to afford fitness facilities.

At 3G, she offers Bootcamp and Zumba classes as well as Hiking, Beach Walking, Kayaking, Yoga, Hip-hop, and Pound on the odd occasion.

The most common feedback she gets from new members is “Rizzy, we love how comfortable you and your team make us feel, it’s like a family”.

Free aerobics, boot camp, Taebo, and Hip Hop will be offered from 11 am to 11.30 am on the main stage and from 12 pm to 12.30 pm on the rooftop of the Castle. 

Glenn Hans founder/chairperson of Vannie Hanover Park’s “Walking Running Is Life” free community health & wellness for males & females of all ages has a deep passion to help uplift the community. Vannie Hanover park was established on the 27th of April 2020 to inspire people who were becoming depressed as well as unhealthy due to the COVID-19 Lockdown.