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Welcome to the Watkins Samhain Scavenger Hunt! 

This year is the first year we are marking the resetting of the Wheel of the Year with a month-long event spanning several locations across the city. Enjoy with your friends as a free Autumn activity or take your special someone on a date to see what you will discover as you walk (or bus) through the burnt orange leaves of London. Like grown-up trick-or-treating, you might return home with a bag full of goodies and surprises!

How it works:

• Take a look at the map of locations below. You can start anywhere you like.
• Visit the locations (preferably during business hours) between October 1-31st. Each one has a poster with a QR code on it.
• Using your phone camera (or an app if your camera doesn’t have code reading capabilities) scan the code. This will present you with a virtual STAMP.
• Collect them by screenshotting the page. Make sure you keep the timestamp in the screenshot. You must visit at least 3 locations (collect 3 stamps) to qualify for a reward – just like a loyalty card.
• End your journey at Watkins Books which is a 3 minute walk from Leicester Square Underground Station. It is also close to Covent Garden. Don’t forget to collect the stamp there, too!
• Show a member of staff your stamps (and be really nice to them!) and they will validate your quest with a reward of assorted goodies from Watkins Publishing and the participating small businesses.
• If you visit all of the locations on the map you will qualify for an extra-special bonus surprise!
• On your journey, don’t forget to support these incredible independent businesses by browsing their wares and posting on social media. Tag us @watkinswisdom on Instagram, TikTok and X.

 

View the map of locations here:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/b7zdkR3rCBaoehwP6 

 

List of Locations:

• Watkins Books
• Treadwell’s
• She’s Lost Control
• Ethereal Warrior – please note the best times to visit are Sundays 12-3pm and any time on October 31st
• Fire + Alchemy
• The Astrology Shop
• Wilde Ones
• The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities

 

Please travel safely and responsibly. Wear appropriate clothing for the weather. Please respect the staff in each location – they are not under any obligation to serve you. The shops taking part in this event are doing so out of generosity and mutual support. By taking part and making purchases at these locations you are helping to support a wide network of esoteric shops that form a wider community. Thank you for your participation. 

 

Award-winning nutritionist and author, Jackie Lynch is the founder of the WellWellWell nutrition clinic, where she specialises in women’s health and the menopause. Keen to break the taboo about discussing the menopause, she is the host of the popular diet & lifestyle podcast The Happy Menopause, which was shortlisted for the 2022 International Women’s Podcast Awards.

Her latest book, The Happy Menopause: Smart Nutrition to Help You Flourish (Watkins, 2020) was Highly Commended in the 2021 Health & Wellbeing Awards for the Wellbeing Book category.

Jackie is also the author of Va Va Voom; The 10-Day Energy Diet (Headline, 2017) and The Right Bite: Smart Food Choices for Eating on the Go (Nourish, 2016). Jackie’s advice features in a range of national media and she has appeared as a guest expert on radio and TV, including Channel 4’s Superfoods.

Jackie’s nutrition clinic was recognised as Menopause Nutrition Clinic of the Year in the 2021 and 2022 London & South-East Prestige Awards. She is also a Guardian Masterclass tutor.

From 2011-2022, Jackie was the Chair of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, the renowned training provider for accredited nutritional therapy in the UK. She is a Fellow of the British Association for Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine and an Affiliate Member of the British Menopause Society.

www.well-well-well.co.uk

23 Jul 2024, 12:30 

Olympia Events
Hammersmith Rd
London W14 8UX

Find Jackie at stand A10

BOOK HERE

 

About Jackie Lynch:

Jackie Lynch is a Registered Nutritional Therapist (mBANT, CNHC) and founder of the WellWellWell nutrition clinic in Notting Hill where she specialises in women’s health nutrition. She is the author of Va Va Voom: The 10-Day Energy Diet and The Right Bite: Smart Food Choices for Eating on the Go and the host of The Happy Menopause podcast. She is a regular contributor to the Mail on Sunday and has featured as a guest expert on Channel 4’s Superfoods. Jackie is also the Chair of the renowned Institute for Optimum Nutrition and winner of the 2018 Alternative Medicine & Holistic Health Award for Best Nutrition Clinics & Workshops.

Join nutritionist Jackie Lynch for an insightful talk on managing menopausal symptoms through diet and lifestyle adjustments. In this presentation, Jackie will share a holistic approach to alleviate the impact of hot flushes, anxiety, insomnia, and other common symptoms associated with menopause.

Drawing from her expertise in nutrition and wellness, Jackie will provide practical tips and strategies that can make a tangible difference to your long-term health and well-being. Whether you’re experiencing mild discomfort or more severe symptoms, Jackie’s approach offers a tailored solution to help you navigate this transformative stage of life with greater ease and vitality.

21 Jul 2024, 12:30 – 12:45

West Horsley Place
Epsom Road
Leatherhead
Surrey
KT24 6AN

Find Jackie at The Waffle Stage

Tickets: FREE

BOOK HERE

 

About Jackie Lynch:

Jackie Lynch is a Registered Nutritional Therapist (mBANT, CNHC) and founder of the WellWellWell nutrition clinic in Notting Hill where she specialises in women’s health nutrition. She is the author of Va Va Voom: The 10-Day Energy Diet and The Right Bite: Smart Food Choices for Eating on the Go and the host of The Happy Menopause podcast. She is a regular contributor to the Mail on Sunday and has featured as a guest expert on Channel 4’s Superfoods. Jackie is also the Chair of the renowned Institute for Optimum Nutrition and winner of the 2018 Alternative Medicine & Holistic Health Award for Best Nutrition Clinics & Workshops.

Big ideas in intimate spaces

In a world dominated by other people’s opinions, Salon gives you the knowledge to form your own.

Three expert speakers deliver TED-style talks designed to challenge perceptions and change your life for the better. Showcasing the most stimulating ideas in arts, science, and history, each scintillating speaker has the challenge of engaging their audience within a 25-minute set, interspersed with intervals where you can chat, get a signed book from the speaker, or grab a drink at the bar.

Voted number six in the ‘Top 100 Things to do in the World’ by GQ magazine, Salon is a night out that will enlighten, entertain, excite your curiosity and change your life for the better.

Resonant Voices

Reflect on the transformative power of exploration and connection with Ash Bhardwaj, Farzana Ali, and David Robson as they unravel the motivations behind travel, the restorative benefits of sound, and the science of social bonds.

‘Sound provides the perfect backdrop to help welcome an alternate, replenished way of being.’

We already use sound as a form of self-care, from self-soothing with music to immersing ourselves with the noises of nature to promote calm. Cutting through the noise, Farzana Ali, also known as The Sound Therapist, joins Berwins Salon North to dig deep into the science of sound to explain its full therapeutic and restful potential.

Farzana is a sound practitioner and leverages a 17-year career as a former lifestyle and wellness journalist, during which she tried out and tested all types of meditation and mindfulness activities and interviewed leading experts across the wellbeing field.

 

11 Jul 2024, 19:30 – 21:30

The Crown Hotel | Harrogate

Tickets: £18 (Please note that a £2.50 booking fee applies at time of booking)

BOOK HERE

 

About Sound Healing:

Discover how sound can help you overcome stress and anxiety

Taking a science-based approach which explores the impact of sound on your body and mind, popular sound healer Farzana Ali presents this accessible guide to using sound for self-care.

We already use sound as a form of healing, from self-soothing with music to immersing ourselves with the noises of nature to promote calm. This book provides the natural next step, showing you how to realize the many benefits of working with sound, from better sleep to pain management, and from dealing with stress to reducing anxiety.

Farzana shares practical tips and everyday activities with advice on extra tools, including active listening, art therapy, breath work, journaling exercises and visualizations. It also provides access to a sound healing recording that you can use for your practice, delivering the therapeutic potential of sound for whenever you need it most.

 

About Farzana Ali:

Farzana Ali, also known as The Sound Therapist, is a sound practitioner. During her former career as a lifestyle and wellness journalist, she tried out and tested all types of mindfulness activities and interviewed leading experts across the wellbeing field.

British artist Jamie Reid (1947–2023) is most famous for creating the ‘the single most iconic image of the punk era’: The Sex Pistols’ 1977 debut album cover. However, his latter work was heavily rooted in paganism.

In this illustrated lecture, author, curator and image-collector Stephen Ellcock takes a Treadwell’s audience through the full spectrum of Reid’s work. This includes not only his pre-punk, Situationist-inspired agitprop but druidry-inspired pieces created later in life. Reid observed the eight pagan festival dates, holding rituals at his allotment in Liverpool. Druidry also ran in the family – his great uncle was the famous Druid chief George Watson MacGregor Reid, who ‘put Druidry at the heart of the Stonehenge summer solstice’. Afterwards, there will be an informal soirée on the shopfloor with signings for the accompanying new book on Reid’s art.

Time for Magic: A Shamanarchist’s Guide to the Wheel of the Year – co-authored by Stephen Ellcock, John Marchant and Philip Carr-Gomm – is a full-colour 216-page survey of art, memorabilia, reminiscences and analysis. It features key Wheel of the Year artworks alongside famous earlier pieces (including his work for the Sex Pistols).

11 Jul 2024, 19:00 – 21:30

London, 33 Store St, London WC1E 7BS, UK

 

Tickets: £10.00 – £22.00

BOOK HERE

 

About Time For Magic:

Time for Magic offers an entrancing overview of Jamie Reid’s incredible art, structured around the eight seasonal festivals of the Wheel of the Year (the equinoxes and solstices plus Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain). Jamie observed these festivals, holding rituals at his allotment in Liverpool, and focused on this theme in his later paintings. This book features key Wheel of the Year artworks as well as famous earlier pieces, including the pre-punk, Situationist-inspired agit-prop and the work he produced for the Sex Pistols. Curator Stephen Ellcock has selected the art and in his own inimitable creative style arranged it into season-themed chapters, as well as finding images of Druidic ceremonies held by Jamie’s great-uncle, Chief Druid George Watson MacGregor Reid.

Stephen Ellcock in conversation with John Marchant introduces Jamie’s life, legacy and love of making trouble; John Marchant provides captions giving deep insight in Jamie’s work; and Philip Carr-Gomm writes about the Wheel of the Year and how it can help us find a new way of being in this era of climate crisis.

 

About Stephen Ellcock:

Stephen Ellcock is a London-based online collector and curator of images, writer, researcher and former musician and bookseller who spends most of his time nowadays creating an ever-expanding, virtual museum on Facebook and Instagram. His ongoing attempt at creating the ultimate social media ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ has so far attracted more than 350,000 followers and increasing media attention, not all of which is unwelcome.

Join our informal signing session with Elena Arietti and Francesca Chiarmetta and get your copy of their new deck that will help you discover new spiritual inspiration and find harmony in every aspect of your life. For more info visit www.watkinsbooks.com

Venue

Watkins Bookshop,

19-21 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4EZ, London, UK

Sat 6 July |12:00 – 13:00

RSVP on the watkinsbooks.com website

 

About The Life Alignment Cards:

Life Alignment is a system that can be used to release any blocked issues, transform limiting beliefs, and enhance your inner qualities. Life Alignment can be used in many aspects of life and is an inclusive system, which combines elements of ancient and modern wisdom, in a simple and effective way.

An essential part of the Life Alignment system is the concept of Vortex Technology, which has been developed by its founder, Jeff Levin, to facilitate the process of raising the vibrational frequencies of all aspects of our life, such as our body, food, water, environment and land. Vortex technology is imprinted with high vibrational frequencies that work in concert with powerful Light Beings.

This deck is the first tool of its kind: it brings new-found insight to the Vortex Technology and its inherent powers. Elena Arietti, a Life Alignment Academy teacher, was inspired to connect with the energies of the Vortex Cards and, with the contribution of Jeff Levin, the Life Alignment founder, she created these beautiful spiritual messages and affirmation for each Vortex Card. Together they make up the 48 Life Alignment Inspiration Cards.

The deck allows you to connect on a deep and intuitive level with the core energies of Life Alignment, aiming to be a great place to start understanding Life Alignment for beginners, or an inspiring new approach for experienced practitioners to unlock deeper understanding, facilitate connection and bring inspiration.

Read more & purchase here: watkinspublishing.com/books/life-alignment-cards/