the team
Val Harris
Val gave up sugar a year ago. Now she manifests on a daily basis and she would like to share with you how fundamental it is to lead an authentic life from the skin out!
She has run her art gallery, The Table, www.thetablehay.com in the centre of Hay for the past five years but in January 2020, with no exhibitions for ten weeks, she turned that space into a workshop for her gongs and emerging art practise. As lockdown hit, and the gallery returned to hosting monthly exhibitions, she was offered/manifested a hall to work from. The gongs arranged themselves in the front and a stripped back kitchen served as her art studio out the back. No excuse now not to indulge in her creativity by banging and daubing!
Val qualified as an Energy Healer in 2009 and started playing the gong in 2010 www.valgongs.me albeit peripatetically! With the gongs installed in the hall by April, and no one allowed to come and listen to them, Val undertook a crash course in sound recording and within the month she was streaming her gongs live via binaural audio all over the world!
Witnessing her own transformation this year has galvanised Val into offering a retreat space for others here in the heart of Hay. She has gathered about her a team of good friends to hold a space for those who want to to embrace a slower, more loving and creative, way of being. During the retreat Val holds two gong baths plus a session of creative mark making in her hall and is available for guided walks if requested. Her old home for five years, above the gallery, looks after you during your stay and is imbued with warmth, comfort and much quirkiness!
Tashi Mannox
Val and Tashi arrived back in Hay at the same time in 2008 having unwittingly spent their early formative years not so far apart in these borderlands. Since meeting, Tashi has had a solo show at the Table with his Tibetan calligraphy works and together they have run workshops in the gallery.
Tashi provides an unique experience when he invites you to come into the present moment drawing an Enso. It is a rare privilege to witness Tashi and to be witnessed by him.
www.tashimannox.com
Clare Walters
Val has only known Clare for a comparatively short time but these few years of acquaintance have been profound. Coping with deep grief in 2016, Val was struggling. A chance introduction to Clare and weekly one-on-one Pilates ever since have been transformational.
Clare evaluates, interprets and holds you so that you can witness the core of your being working or struggling, then she gently works with you.
A two hour session of ZEN-GA® when you first arrive shakes you right down ready to receive the first of your Gong Baths shortly after.
James Coombes
Val first met James in 2006 when they were both at the School of Energy Healing. Since then they have run residential sound healing retreats and workshops focussing on opening to our creative essence through sound and movement.
James offers daily divine energy healing sessions via FaceTime during these retreats giving you an opportunity to go inward and shine a light on whatever is presenting for you or if you’ve got no pressing issues then just relax and receive an energising restorative healing from one of the best!
www.james-coombes.com