The Wind Institute of Healing & Meditative Arts

03/29/2023

We know some of you are hurt and upset, so we need to take a moment to try to put some speculation and rumors to rest. Thank you for bringing things to our attention, we are looking into it, but as a reminder- ALL content on our websites, social media pages, newsletters and our personal pages are all copy written and may NOT be used without written expressed permission from our active CFO and President, Nicole Dockins. At this time, no person, company event or etc. has asked or been granted permission to use any photos or content. Please let us know if you continue to see infringements on these rights.

Good morning dear festival family!
We wanted to post a public announcement based off of recent events that are occurring and messages we are receiving in regards to a particular event. We know some of you are upset and hurt over recent activities, which is why we have decided to make this address to every one- so we can put to rest rumors and speculation. Trying to answer each of you is becoming difficult, so to answer as many questions as possible as quickly as possible-

The answer is NO.

No, we do not have an event this weekend.

No, we are not in any way affiliated with this event, though we understand now why you are asking.

Despite claims we are hearing, though the event hosts may have visited one of our events in the past before or after Jan trusted Nicole with her festival, no, we do not know who these new comers are. That is not to say we haven't exchanged greetings in passing, but you have to remember, we host hundreds of guests at our events and after 26 years of serving our community twice a year, that is a lot of people to try to keep up with, though we try our best. To clarify, the only people who were authorized by Jan to continue this event was Nicole Dockins in South Carolina, and Virginia Gilpin in Kentucky.

No, we have not closed or sold our event, nor relinquished our rights or licenses. We are still active and current on both state and federal levels. We are still a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All content on our website and social media pages as well as our parent company's page and our personal pages are all copy written and may NOT be used without written expressed permission from our active CFO and President, Nicole Dockins. At this time, no person, company event or etc. has asked or been granted permission to use any photos or content. We will be investigating this matter thoroughly to determine if legal or other action is necessary or not. We want to thank you all for contacting us and making us aware of this situation.

02/08/2023

This morning, we were disheartened to come to work and see and need to handle an uncomfortable but serious situation. We didn't think we would have this sort of problem, but as we all know, there is always that ONE person. That said, we feel forced to have to make this announcement-

PLEASE DO NOT POST OR LINK ENDORSEMENTS TO REDIRECT OUR GUESTS AND CLIENTS TO ANOTHER PAGE OR PRODUCT.

If you have a page or product that you feel we may be interested in, please private message the information to us so we can review it for personal and professional consideration. We are an active business and only ask that guests are kind, courteous and respect our page and other guests. We don't feel that is unreasonable or unreachable for our guests and clients. We are extremely selective when it comes to product quality, safety and effectiveness and typically use the products we carry ourselves. Most of which we have been using for YEARS. And we absolutely DO NOT AND WILL NOT allow or tolerate promoting or soliciting of illegal products, paraphernalia (or services for that matter) at our place of business. We have worked far too hard, invested entirely too much time away from our families, entirely too much energy and money dedicating ourselves to the service of our community for the last TWENTY FIVE YEARS (and dedicated 29 years to this field) to have anyone come along and jeopardize it now (or ever). The culprits have been reported and blocked, and the comments have been deleted. We apologize to any of you who may have been subjected to it before it came to our attention. We consider this a very serious matter. It is neither kind, nor courteous nor respectful to us, our distributors, our colleagues or our guests for people to visit another person's visit and ride their coat tails, (Attempt to solicit, steal, or benefit from another person's hard work with out permission) but it happens far more often than it should.

Our page is here to serve our guests and provide them with opportunities to grow and find balance, health and wellness on every level. It is here to emphasize Self Care. It is here to present natural options for mental, emotional, physical and energetic health. It is here to teach. It is here to offer a cyber extension of our physical sanctuary. It is here to be a safe place for guests to come and realize, they are not alone on their wellness journey and there are OPTIONS. We hope that in the past and in the days to come, you will find this to be so and that one day many of you will get the opportunity to come and visit our physical sanctuary and enjoy what we have to offer here.

09/04/2021

If you would like send anything to the family, you may send it to their business address:

Nicole Dockins
PO BOX 2881
Spartanburg, SC 29304

Brian has been a part of our clinic for over 18 years and specialized in Electromagnetic Realignment Therapy and is/was/and always will be the beloved husband to our Founder and Director Nicole Dockins. We are all in complete and utter shock. Reiki, Healing, Prayers, Good Vibes and other genuine intent are welcome. The family needs all the love and healing we can afford at this time. Namaste and go in peace our dear sweet friend. 🖤

This is the hardest post I've ever had to make.
I just feel like I'm making this post entirely too frequently and it's one I never eant to have to make again, but I know that I will. We have lost SO many precious members and friends of our of our festival family. When we lost our Carol, one of our CEO's and the best Secretary and friend anyone could ask for I was lost. We were lost. I didnt think anything could hurt that bad. But I was wrong. We were wrong. And the universe seemed to say, "hold my cup".

On Tuesday evening, I lost my beloved husband, our Vice President and CEO, Brian Dockins. I actually met Brian at our event's previous incarnation, The Festival of Healing & Spiritual Awareness. Soon after that day, we became inseparable and so began our epic and tragic love story. It's why the festivals were always so important to us, why we were so invested in it's success and why Jan had asked us to carry it on when she couldn't any longer. And we did. How could we not when it started our tale and our youngest 2 grew up there. Fedtival was everything to us because it meant so much for our family. It's just so hard for us all to believe we've reached the last page now.

We were not prepared. It was sudden and very unexpected and we wanted so badly to refrain from public notification but that was taken away from us by well meaning people who got ahead of themselves, and us. It's taken a lot away from us, and caused a lot of pain and unneccesary hardship because we hadnt even had the chance to notify family. Not even his own mother or all the siblings. We are all in complete shock at this time.

Please, respect our family's privacy and deep inconsolable mourning. Any arrangements will be private, but we do hope to have a celebration of life at some later time after we are able to catch our breath and think clearly, so we can arrange the celebration a light like this deserves. You are welcome to comment on posts or PM if you must. But please don't call, text or especially hand out our phone numbers if we at some point trusted you with them, because we are already incredibly overwhelmed as it is.

People keep asking where they could send things. If you want to send something, please send it to our business address:

Nicole Dockins
PO Box 2881
Spartanburg, SC 29304

Thank you for your kindness and understanding in this unbearable time. We have 5 kids, his mom who is almost 89 who's dimentia is declining rapidly with this incredible stress and loss and we are all just completely shattered.

08/23/2021

We've been completely lost and broken hearted these last few weeks, but out of love and respect for the family, we are only now able to make the official statement. Goodbye my precious friend. Until we meet again.

Dear Festival Friends & Family,
I genuinely, dont know what to say or how to say this. Posts like these are never easy. But some hurt more than others & I have to say that this is one that is especially painful & I have tried and failed to type this without tears in my eyes & a knot in my throat. Out of respect and honor for the family, we were asked to wait until now before releasing the official statement. That time has passed and yet still is not enough for those of us left behind. On July 19, we lost Carol, her mortal vessel following on the 23rd. Carol Nelson was my literal right hand. We spoke off & on all day EVERY day. She worked so hard behind the scenes first the Festival of Healing & Spiritual Awareness and then as my partner as we birthed the festival into it's next incarnation, the INSIGHTS Festival. Without her, there IS no festival. Carol was always a constant in my life, my beloved Auntie, respected and wise elder to many, faithful friend and companion. I am completely lost without her. I will NEVER be able to say enough about her and words can't encompass what she gave to this world. To all of us. Her love for her animals ran especially deep. She didn't have any human children of her own, but she had fur babies and she always went without to make sure they didn't. Please know, there are many of you we wanted to contact directly first, but were unable. Brian and I have contracted covid pneumonia and while I am slowly recovering, he has been hospitalized. I am ONLY including this so you all will please understand if we do not respond to comments or pms and respect our grief and need to heal. This post is NOT about us. We just can't and need to focus on avoiding additional posts such as this. Carol would want all of you to know that she did NOT die from this horrible plague. In fact, we are unsure if the doctors ever reached a definitive cause of death. (Continued in comments...)

04/30/2021

We've been working tirelessly behind the scenes getting things updated, upgraded and neat and tidy all the way around while we let the future unfold around us.

Sometimes, it's easy to get carried away and forget about self care, but self care doesn't always look like trips to the spa or vacations. (But don't get us wrong, we would LOVE that right about now!!). Sometimes self care is remembering to eat or eat better. Sometimes it's going to bed a little earlier. Sometimes it is getting up and walking away from your work for a few minutes for a mental re-set.

For us, today it looks like a refreshing tonic of fruits, water and ACV to help detox our system and rehydrate while we work towards getting our printer to connect to our new computer. (And, sometimes it looks like breaking down and getting that new computer!)

How are you working in self care these days?

04/08/2021

If anyone is looking for their next adventure, wants to travel the world, explore tiny house living or glamping and more... we are reluctantly parting with our beautiful (spacious) camper! Priced to sell 2 bedroom, 1 full bath, 1 slide, sleeps 8-10 comfortably. (And yes, the energy has already been properly cleansed and maintained 😉)

01/02/2021

New year, new beginnings!
We thought this would be as good of time as any to begin our journey on Instagram, so welcome to our new page and Happy New Year to all!

#2021

12/02/2020

Finding yourself a day late, and a dollar short?
It's OK. 2020 has been hard on us all.

It only takes a moment to make a big impact for small businesses. This year on giving Tuesday, we don't want financial donations, we just really want your help. Give us a hand up, rather than a hand out and support local small businesses in our area.

Please take a moment to LIKE, FOLLOW & SHARE us on social media.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/INSIGHTSFestival

INSTAGRAM:
https://www.instagram.com/insightsfestival/

TWITTER:
https://twitter.com/InsightsFestiv1

10/17/2020

What a great time Carolina Garden World today!!

We had a great day today at annual sustainability day festival!! We had an excellent turn out and the weather couldn't have been more perfect. 🖤

10/17/2020

Join us and Jennifer from Meadow Lark Farms School of Folk Medicine at our vendors Carolina Garden World for their Sustainability Day festival tomorrow from 10-4. Admission is Free, there will be a Free Raffle/door prizes (see pics), Free classes, Free hot dogs and plenty of other vendors to visit. The nursery will also be open and all services will be available! Come see us and visit our vendor Carolina Garden World at their new location: 1701 Union St. Spartanburg, SC 29302

10/06/2020

While we couldn't have the Insights Festival this fall, you can still come join us for this!! Come see us, we will be enjoying this event.

UPDATE: FREE HOT DOGS!!

09/15/2020

We sent an email to our mailing list, but our social media announcements disappeared. 🤔

•●•{{Now to repost a post originally posted June 29th}}•●•

We have tried to put off this message for as long as we could to see how current affairs would play out, but it seems like things are going to drag out longer than expected. After extensive procrastination, debate and soul searching; we have reluctantly decided to cancel our upcoming Fall Festival which we had scheduled for September.  We still have the weekend of February 20 & 21, 2021 booked at our new venue D&D Events in Greenville and hope circumstances will  allow us to keep that date, so please mark your calendars and join us in our ongoing World Peace and Healing work if you like. We have been using combinations of crystal grids, dowsing and distance healing but with all the  talented people and resources  that make this beautifully diverse group we could really make some ☆☆magic☆☆

09/15/2020

We have been experiencing technical difficulties here as well, so thank you for your patience while we try to resolve the issues. 🖤

Dear Festival Followers & Family... it has come to our attention that we have been having technical difficulties and we are working to trace the problems and duration of the problem. It seems our last post to actually post was our announcement of another beloved festival elders passing. We had several more posts there after seem to disappear and we are working to resolve the problem. We have also not received any messages or notifications from any of you that may have tried to reach us. So if you were trying to get in contact with us, you may have to send another message and hope we receive it. We always try to respond as quickly as possible, but please remember we all have additional full time jobs and responsibilities out side of festival, and festival is maintained strictly by volunteers. We apologize for any confusion, or problems this may have caused and fingers crossed it will be up and running properly again soon! 🤞🏼🤞🏼

06/29/2020

This weekend we were saddened to learn our festival family has lost another one of it's own.
Festival Elder Grandmother Waynonah Two Worlds was welcomed by those who have proceeded her to continue her work and support from the other side. Grandmother Two Worlds was an elder of Indigenous decent who joined us to share her wisdom and teachings in addition to her unique method for readings. We are honored to have had the great privilege to know and spend time with her on this Earthly plane.
We would like to thank Jessica Peach, one of our Veteran Readers, for letting us know of her passing and for sharing this beautiful picture capturing a glimpse of what it was like in her presence. 🖤 Fly high Grandmother.

This weekend we were saddened to learn our festival family has lost another one of it's own.

Festival Elder Grandmother Waynonah Two Worlds was welcomed by those who have proceeded her to continue her work and support from the other side. Grandmother Two Worlds was an elder of Indigenous decent who joined us to share her wisdom and teachings in addition to her unique method for readings. We are honored to have had the great privilege to know and spend time with her on this Earthly plane.

We would like to thank Jessica Peach, one of our Veteran Readers, for letting us know of her passing and for sharing this beautiful picture capturing a glimpse of what it was like in her presence. 🖤 Fly high Grandmother.

05/04/2020

Kids have all sorts of big feelings. They may feel sad, nervous, or frustrated, just to name a few feelings. And they may have trouble calming down. Sesame Street to the rescue, once again! Through

04/01/2020

How are you spending your new found free-time?

It's the perfect time to read that book, paint that canvas, organize that closet, take that walk, learn to make that recipie, spend time doing yoga, try meditation, take up gardening and many other rewarding activities.

As for us, we've been spending time finishing unfinished projects, finding new ways to make our space feel more cozy and complete and our favorite past time... lots and lots of gardening!

Pictured: one of several potted arrangements, featuring vinca (periwinkle), creeping Jenny from our grandmother's gardens, and some beautiful rose and wine colored pansies. It's hard to see but there are plenty of crystals tucked here and there as well as rocks from Grandma's creek. It's a small way we connect to home. 🖤

03/23/2020

In the spirit of promoting peace of mind, peace of heart and staying grounded in uncertain times, we want to flood our newsfeed with beauty and serenity, wherever we can find it.

We took these photos while visitng our friend's at Carolina Garden World. These beautiful bulb plants are called Ronocculous and are available for sale now 🖤

Gardening is our second favorite form of therapy we highly recommend to everyone, especially if you have difficulty staying grounded.

03/23/2020

Good friends, good medicine, great wisdom. Thank you Jennifer Bumpus Galbraith for sharing your wisdom with the world. 🖤