Join us for our third annual, MIND-BODY-SPIRIT Festival!
When: Saturday May 4th
Time: 11am-5pm EST
Where: Potawatomi Park, 500 S Greenlawn Ave, South Bend, IN 46615
Click here for your FREE Eventbrite ticket
The MIND BODY SPIRIT Festival is a must-attend event for anyone seeking to enhance their well-being and connect with their inner self. Join us on Sat May 04, 2024 at Potawatomi Park, 500 S Greenlawn Ave, South Bend, IN for a day filled with inspiration, relaxation, and self-discovery.
At the festival, you’ll have the opportunity to explore a wide range of activities that promote a healthy mind, body, and spirit. From rejuvenating yoga and meditation sessions to enlightening workshops and talks by experts in the field, there’s something for everyone.
Immerse yourself in the vibrant energy of the festival as you browse through an array of exhibitors offering art, holistic products, natural remedies, and spiritual tools. Discover new ways to nourish your body with organic and sustainable food options available throughout the event.
Connect with like-minded individuals who share your passion for personal growth and well-being. Engage in meaningful conversations, make new friends, and expand your network of positive influences.
Don’t miss this opportunity to invest in yourself and embark on a journey towards a healthier, happier, and more balanced life. Mark your calendars for the MIND BODY SPIRIT Festival and get ready to nurture your mind, rejuvenate your body, and uplift your spirit!
Below you will find our location map and the details about our vendors, classes, performers, and activities throughout the day.
Be sure to post your favorite highlights of the day using #MBSFEST2024.
Our Sponsors
PLATINUM
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
Traveling Yogi
COMMUNITY
Anam Cara
Beyond Zen Studio
Duality Divination
The Healers Daughter
Seva Ayurveda
GOLF CART
Deanna Waggy, OTC
CLASS
Ray of Sun Yoga School
Deanna Waggy, OTC
Festival Map
Musical Performances
11:00AM
Shivani & Friends
Shivani offers an enchanting blend of musical talent and spiritual wisdom, making her a unique presence in the healing arts community. As a devoted spiritual student, teacher, and healer, her journey has given her a profound understanding of how the healing vibrations of music affect the heart. Playing the harmonium, Shivani brings to life the soul-stirring bhajans of Southern India. Her music, rooted in the call and response tradition similar to kirtan, invites participants to chant the names of the Divine, fostering a deeply healing and co-creative experience. Join Shivani to open your hearts and weave together beautiful, positive vibrations in a shared celebration of spirit and song.
11:30AM
GxldSoulRebel
Hip Hop Recording Artist
Check out his music here: https://songwhip.com/gxldsoulrebel/maze
12:00
Reminisce.X
Reminisce X is a local artists in the South Bend music scene. Her sound is unique and her flow is unmatched. She has been told that she gives Erykah Badu vibes with her singing and Chance The Rapper with her rhymes. She also is the creator of Homegrown Hype, a local conglomerate focused on creating a marketplace and resources between artists. She aims to give you a taste of subtle nostalgia with every one word.
1:30PM
Sacred Waters Kirtan
Sacred Waters Kirtan has been making music out of South Bend, Indiana for fifteen years. With the powerhouse songwriting and lead vocals of Allen DeSomer, and a rocking world percussion sound, participants regularly tell the group after attending their kirtans, they feel renewed, at peace, and transported into the Oneness to which we all belong.
Sacred Waters Kirtan is an ensemble of musical seekers who combine diverse backgrounds in theology and world religions, music therapy, sound healing, meditation, ecstatic dance, and world percussion. But each member has one thing in common: a commitment to serve others through the Yoga of Sound. Using call and response chanting with easy, repetitive melodies and joyous danceable rhythms, the songs set free the chattering mind, deepen the breath, and create a state of calm, where the Eternal Love that lies in each heart can unfold and open.
Visit their website for more information: https://yogachant.org/
2:30
Our 3 Piece Trio
Our 3 Piece Trio Band, is an Original Eclectic All Instrumental band, based out of Goshen, IN. Providing your original soothing all instrumental music.
Visit their FaceBook for more information: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100065469859504
3:30
Mantra Music Medicine with Ananda Lila
Ananda Lila is a family of musicians who love to weave ancient chants from different traditions with newly birthed sacred songs. To offer healing grounding soundscapes for opening hearts and voices. To be timeless, primal or ancient, yet fresh and contemporary. To join together with the intension of moving into celebration, transformation and freedom.
Ananda Lila’s soundscape features the accordion, harp, world music rhythms, and transcendent voices creating a blending of East & West, with Eastern European and Middle Eastern grooves meeting ambient and folk flavors. As lovers of universal oneness, Ananda Lila has been sharing kirtan and sacred sound experiences in the Midwest since 2010 at places such as: Kirtan Festival Milwaukee, Chicago Vedanta Center, The Blue Lotus Buddhist Temple, Conscious Michiana, Yoga Now Chicago, Ahimsa Yoga, Yogaview, The Theosophical Society, Himalayan Yoga and Meditation Center.
Visit their FaceBook for more information: https://www.facebook.com/anandalilalove
Movement Stage Details
Time |
Title |
Led By |
Description |
11:00 | Marma Yogasana: Access the Conscious Body through Energy Points & Movement | Seva Van Why |
Deepen your yogasana practice with the awareness and implementation of the Marmani. Anatomical Energy points that connect your physical and subtle bodies.
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11:30 | Unlocking Your Practice: A Yoga Props Workshop | Melissa Gunter |
Feeling stuck in your yoga routine? This workshop will help you rediscover the joy and challenge of your practice with the power of yoga props! Discover how props (yoga blocks, straps, blankets, and bolsters) can help you achieve proper alignment and prevent injury. This interactive workshop will be filled with clear instruction, hands-on practice, and a chance to ask questions. Leave this workshop feeling empowered to use props effectively in your own practice. This session will be led by Melissa Gunter, owner of Traveling Yogi, LLC.
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12:00 | Michiana Acro Yoga | Kim Bell |
Join Kim & Jerrod from Michiana Acro Yoga for a free beginner Acro Yoga workshop. Acro Yoga is a partner-based physical activity that brings together yoga and acrobatics. This is an all ages no experience needed free flow space where we would go over balance, stability, and breath as well as safety tips and some basic acro yoga skills. Once we have gone over the basics, we will have an opportunity to play and explore new skills together. The intention of this community is to create a space to learn new things, have fun, and release our inner child, all while being present in our bodies and having a good time.
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1:00 | Inner Child Dance and meditations |
Rachel Inks & Martin Nowakowski |
Rachel believes that play is the way and having FUN is the greatest tool to get to where we are going. She co-creates a space of opportunity, for children of all ages. Free style and insynch we move through yoga poses with enthusiasm and SAS. ALL Ages and abilities and the goal is to lighten up. We make sounds to express and move in unconventional yet primitive ways to promote natural rythym and syncopate the community within and without.
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2:00 | Heart Opening Yoga |
Danny Touhey with Ray of Sun Yoga School |
Heart Opening Yoga – 20 minute yoga sequence aimed at opening up the heart center. All levels welcome!
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2:30 | Warrior Power Flow | Katherine Gibbons with Ray of Sun Yoga School |
Warrior Power Flow: 30 minute asana sequence that incorporates Sun A and Sun B Salutations with additional poses and counterposes to strengthen and build lean muscle
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3:00 | Yoga for your Core | Kristy Howell with Ray of Sun Yoga School |
Yoga for Your Core- A 20 min core focused yoga sequence designed to work the core in a variety of postures. Suitable for all levels
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3:30 | Gentle Yoga | Linda Willings with Ray of Sun Yoga School |
Linda is a yoga teacher in training through ROS Yoga School. She is passionate about being able to provide gentle yoga to those with medical challenges. Her own issues gave her a new appreciation for how modifications can provide extra support for poses.
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4:00 | Strengthen & Stretch |
Danny Touhey with Beyond Zen Studio |
Strengthen & Stretch in a beginner friendly Vinyasa style class. Flow through a sequence of fundamental yoga postures using the breath as a guide. With a focus on core strength and breath power, students will leave feeling centered and invigorated!
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4:30 | Hoola Hoop Flow Zone | Kim Bell |
Learn basic techniques and skills for both on and off body hooping. This would be an all ages and no experience needed space. Hooping is an opportunity for play, expression, and learning new things. Movement can be so incredibly healing and this is a fun way to get present in your body and integrate. Hoops will be provided |
Mind Stage Details
Time | Class | Led By | Description |
11:00 | Meditate Here & Now | Sunday Drive Meditation Collective |
Instruction on the elements of simple, quiet sitting meditation and short practice session(s).
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11:30 | Conscious Relating | Prince & Heather |
Conscious Relating – We see the evidence all around us – our culture is struggling with relationships. We are fed stories of happily ever after, only to find a trail of broken relationships we don’t know how to fix. Join Heather Grace and Prince Roc as they share from their own failures and victories how to build firm foundations for relationships that last.
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12:00 | All things Labyrinth in honor of World Labyrinth Day | Dr. Kevin Ladd |
Join Kevin Ladd, IUSB Professor of Psychology & Director of the Social Psychology of Religion Lab, at noon on the Mind Stage as he shares about all things labyrinth in honor of World Labyrinth Day.
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12:30 | Inflammation Reduction Equals Vitality Induction! | Jennifer Rumore |
Your invited to make a bit of time to learn about ways you might never guess we become inflamed, and simple ways we can turn this tide to support our well-being. Jennifer Rumore comes all the way from New Zealand to share what she has learned about the myriad ways inflammation expresses itself in the body, mind, and emotions. She shares some of the beneficial impacts on her life and that of many others from very doable thought and behavior changes, mindset shifts, and more!
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1:30 | Create a Life You Love | Kathi Szabo |
Create a Life You Love -Participants will learn science-based techniques to help them find clarity and harness the power of the mind to live their dreams.
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2:00 | Singing Fundamentals, Singing Circle & Sound Healing | Zella Ricks |
Learn healthy practices for singing and embodiment of the voice along with experiencing a community singing circle
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3:00 | Core U: Your Way to Wellness | Sandy Orsund |
Core U is an integrative wellness program focused on The Five Keystones of Health: Nutrition, Stress Management, Movement, Lifestyle, and Community. We believe they are all interconnected and play a vital role in overall wellness. Optimal health requires harmony among all of them. This program helps clear out the noise and walks you through how to build a solid foundation of health and wellness.
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4:00 | HeartSoul Essence Embodiment | Maria Falce |
In this guided meditation, we will journey together to meet and embody our HeartSoul Essence. HeartSoul Essence is US. The highest essence of us, the part that walks with Spirit, just as we walk here on earth. HeartSoul Essence is always with us, guiding, loving, and waiting for us to remember the wholeness of who we are. HeartSoul Essence holds the blueprint of what we chose to experience in this life on earth. What would it be like…to converse with your HeartSoul Essence? What do you think they would share with you? What do they want you to know…about yourself, your path, your life? What do they want you to remember? |
Activity Details
Art Wall
All Day / Kids Zone
Paint the wall with your favorite thing that represents connection, Spring, and this celebration of conscious living.
Tie-Dye Worship $7
All Day / Kids Zone
Color your own t-shirt. Tie-Dye Panda will be there to demonstrate and lend a hand. To ensure supplies are covered, we ask that you sign up in advance. Here is the link.
Labyrinth Walk
All Day
Labyrinth walking is an ancient practice used by many different faiths for spiritual centering, contemplation, and prayer. Entering the serpentine path of a labyrinth, you walk slowly while quieting your mind and focusing on a spiritual question or prayer.
Walk as One at 1pm
Labyrinth
Come celebrate World Labyrinth Day at the labyrinth as we “Walk as One at 1”.
An international event held on the first Saturday each May is sponsored by The World Labyrinth Society, in collaboration with partnering organizations, to celebrate peace, as well as the labyrinth experience.
We’ll join thousands of people around the globe in celebration of the 16th annual World Labyrinth Day, a moving meditation for Peace and Planetary Healing. Many will “Walk as One at 1”, at 1pm local times, to create a rolling wave of peaceful energy passing from one time zone to the next around the globe.
Your walk will be accompanied by the loving sounds of crystal bowls and drums offered by Sarah Vervynckt and Nicholas Brabhan.
Whether you’re familiar with labyrinths or new to the idea of the non-maze labyrinth path, all are welcome to learn more and take part.
Preparation for the walk will begin at 12:30pm
Meditate Here & Now
Sunday Drive Meditation Collective Booth #10 / On the hour every hour
Instruction on the elements of simple, quiet sitting meditation and short practice session(s). On the hour every hour throughout the day. Visit booth #10 to try on this experience.
Mindful Birdwalk
Traveling Yogi Booth #30 / 3:00pm
Enjoy the experience of a mindful bird walk around the festival grounds. Potawatomi Park is one of the last places you can find red-headed woodpeckers in South Bend, which is now considered a Species of Concern according to Indiana DNR’s Division of Fish & Wildlife. Birdwatching has been proven to help people suffering from depression and anxiety. It brings people into the present moment to admire these beautiful flying creatures around us. There will be binoculars available for use at the booth.
Solar Cooking
1:00 – 5:00
You will find solar cook chef, Diana Mendelsohn with her cooking gear to answer questions about this sustainable and fun way of cooking. She will also be preparing items to cook.
Glass Blowing Demo
All Day / Ether Glass Booth #25
Live Glass Art demonstration of lamp working with torch throughout the day.
MayPole Dance
Music Circle / 3:30pm
May Day is the half way point between Spring and Summer. Celebrate this ancient holiday by dancing the MayPole dance.
Drum Circle
Music Circle / 4:00pm
We will gather together to drum and dance. Bring a drum, shaker, or any music maker to celebrate and play.
Vendor Details
Booth Number | Business Name | Description |
1 | Conscious Michiana, Inc. |
Ticket check in. Information on our non-profit organization and services. T-shirt sales.
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2 | Sacred Waters |
Information about Sacred Waters, Numerology Reading, Reiki Healing
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3 | Reverent Life Services |
Birth work – birth and postpartum doula services Body work – zero balancing
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4 | Rooted Balance |
Professional cuddling, zero balancing
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5 | Freddie & Friends |
Oracle, pendulum, and tarot readings
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6 | Seva Ayurveda |
Ayurvedic Massage & Body Therapy Trainings
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7 | Kindred Root |
EarthDeva Oracle Readings, EarthDeva Oracle Books, possibly custom flower essences with readings.
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8 | Duality Divination |
Card Readings
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9 | The Healers’ Daughter |
Energy Healing for Narcissist Abuse Victims
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10 | Sunday Drive Meditation Collective |
Meditation Instruction & Practice. Offering Meditations on the hour ever hour
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11 | Sunny Roots Restoration & Refill |
Deep Root Energy Healing
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12 | Healing Arts Center of Valparaiso |
13 chakra clearing, reiki, shamanic soul retrieval, sound healing, pendulums, pain cream, stress free candles all crystal and reiki infused
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13 | A Healing Oasis |
Reiki, Sound bath, Holistic health products
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14 | Takara Tarot and Velvet Skin Spa |
Tarot readings and/or reiki sessions
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15 | Tarot by Monique Rose |
Tarot Readings by Monique Rose will offer a choice of 20 or 30 minute readings using a variety of standard Tarot decks.
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16 | A Mindful Place |
A Mindful Place is dedicated to the care of mind, body, and spirit. Stop in at our vendor booth to learn about upcoming events, check out hand-made jewelry, or have a chair Reiki experience.
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17 | The Union, Wellness Boutique |
Core U Integrative Wellness Program and offering Reiki demos
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18 | Beyond Zen Studio |
Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine, Functional Medicine, Yoga, Pilates, Massage
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19 | Holly Beth Handmade |
Handmade crochet clothing, purses and accessories
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20 | Hillary Rose Tie Dyes |
Award winning tie dye Artist. Local to Northern Indiana.
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21 | Crone by Design |
Jackets & hoop arts. Hand blended essential oils with a focus on feminine healthcare. Boutique quality items with a tasteful witchy/spiritual twist from stickers, enamel pins, books, journals, notepads, teas, body scrubs, perfumes, essential oil blends, bath bombs, shower steamers, vintage wares, and more.
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22 | Guevara Studio School of Rock |
Promoting music school and providing drum demonstrations
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23 | Katie Ladybug Book |
Katie Ladybug Book, stickers, crafts, string bracelets and toiletry kits
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24 | Hole in the Woods Farm | Live jewelry making workshop, creating and personalizing bespoke artisan jewelry in real time on the premises as requested by customers. I work with a variety of media, such as pressed flowers, genuine gemstones, metal stamped inspirational words and phrases, repurposed, industrial, steampunk, themed components, and many more! Customers can choose their ingredients from my displays, or bring their own. |
25 | Ether Glass | Glass blowing demonstrations throughout the day. Hand-made glass art. Solid borosilicate lampworking. Jewelry, sculptures, Fairy garden accessories, glass animals, glass garden stakes, pins, magnets. |
26 | Purple Porch |
Co-op focused on local, organic, and sustainably produced food
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27 | Get Bent Jewelry |
Wire wrapped crystal jewelry and beaded intention bracelets
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28 | Merry Little Forest Child |
Original artisan handmade whimsical, forest mushroom themed functional ceramics, fiber art, and book art and prints all created by me.
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29 | ReignWeaver |
Art! Pyrography/paint mostly. Some painted boxes, painted/burned necklaces, foraging bags. Gemstone tree dreamcatchers, freestanding gemstone trees. Suncatchers. Fine art prints.
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30 | Traveling Yogi, LLC |
I will be promoting my business, Traveling Yogi, LLC, which offers yoga classes across Michiana, with a goal of bringing yoga to anyone, anywhere. Mindful Bird Walk activity at 3pm.
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31 | Maya Beautherapy |
Plant based skin and self care products such as soaps, oils, body butters, candles and more!
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32 | Prairie Street Studios YOGA |
Yoga studio
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33 | Moonlight Makers |
Epoxy Resin Items and Crystal Wire wrapped jewelry.
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34 | Carefully Concocted |
Macrame cat beds/plant hangers, soy candles and wax melts, crystal jewelry and tiaras, skin care items: soap, lotion, salt scrubs and massage oils
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35 | Spacesuit Self, LLC |
Artist & certified holistic coach. I draw with people to connect & gain clarity.
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36 | Night of the Sun |
Handmade art
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37 | Gems of Pride |
Gemstone jewelry and artwork
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39 | Lilith’s Vivarium |
Original Paper Art, art prints, linocut prints, stickers, keychains, magnets, bookmarks
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40 | Holistic Mystic |
Copper electroform jewelry with botanicals, crystals, and stones, beaded chain link necklaces, herbal teas, zodiac oils, handsewn aprons, tote bags, tie dye
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41 | Raw Oats Eco-friendly Goods |
All natural skincare and eco-home goods made with primarily vegan ingredients.
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42 | Ellen Brenneman Studio |
Fine art, art prints, note cards
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43 | Apothica Teas |
Packaged loose leaf teas and tea making accessories
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44 | Dunn Right Designs |
Handmade jewelry and other crafts
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45 | Cosmic Connection Center |
Crystals, herbs, mystery decks, mystery books, jewelry
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46 | The Hive Of Light |
We sell crystals and Art made by Josh Cooper and Jewelry made by Debi Cooper
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47 | Coops Kreations |
Crochet Arigururmi, handmade bags and wallets
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49 | Grimm Enchantments |
Grimm Enchantments is a small business boutique focused on self-care! We have Candles, Body Products and more!
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50 | Raven Body Balance |
Spinefulness Classes, Courses, Private Lessons: Heal your back and joints without surgery or medication. Free assessments at the festival.
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51 | Art by Amber Olsen |
Artwork, jewelry, pins, stickers
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52 | Anam Cara Counseling |
Mental Health Counseling, Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy, herd meditations, labyrinth
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53 | Tangled In Thyme |
Essential oil rollers, shower steamers, ritual oils, spell kits, mojo bags, room and body sprays, elemental soy candles and melts, jewelry
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54 | Mosquito Joe of South Bend |
Botanical Mosquito and Tick Control Services
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55 | Sky Apothecary LLC |
I will be offering my hand-poured soy candles and gemstone jewelry.
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56 | First Unitarian Church South Bend |
We will be promoting the spiritually nurturing community we offer as the only Unitarian Universalists and non-dogmatic faith tradition in South Bend.
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57 | Chatty Katt Crafts |
Wire wrapped crystals , earrings, bracelets Couch quilts, makeup bags, handbags miscellaneous sewing items |
58 | Adina Arts |
Artwork: paintings, prints, drinkware, magnets, and keychains
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59 | Girls on the Run Michiana |
A non-profit organization that teaches girls in grades 3-5 to be healthy, joyful and confident through a curriculum that incorporates running (or moving forward) activities. We teach girls to be confident in their own bodies and be true to themselves.
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60 | Jean Bean Creation |
Handmade beaded and chain necklaces, earplug holders, glasses holders, earrings, etc. And fabric goods like garlands, coasters, cozies, etc. Our designs are made from recycled or repurposed materials.
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61 | Michiana School of Massage Therapy |
We are a massage school and will be sharing information about our program and offering chair massages. We are hoping to be located next to Sai Shakti so we can help each other if needed.
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62 | Sai Shakti | Rosewater spray, Muscle and skin balms, lip balm, sage, palo santo |
64 | Professor Butterbeer |
Non-alcoholic Butterbeer & Gillywater
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65 | Dope Lemonades |
Lemonade, Iced Tea, Fruit
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66 | Jetta’s Sweet & Salty |
Kettle corn
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67 | Tossed ToGo |
Food and Drink
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68 | Rico Suave Mexican Cuisine |
Tacos tamales quesadillas burritos nachos, street corn, churros fruit bars drinks and more
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69 | A Bite with Mee |
Specializing in delicious, nutritious cuisine for events & catering.Vegan, Vegetarian and Gf friendly
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Parking
Potawatomi Park is located in a residential area with limited parking. There are two available parking lots, Kid’s Kingdom and the Zoo lot.
Wall St. will be closed during the event.
If the two parking lots are full, you can park near Adams High School, or along the residential areas off of Greenlawn Ave.
Below is a park map for your convenience.
Check In
Be sure to come to the Conscious Michiana booth #1 for ticket CHECK IN. The first 100 participants will receive a tote filled with goodies from our vendors. Those who check in will be entered in our hourly drawing beginning at 12pm. You do not need to be present to win.
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