Sydney, May 7 (ANI): Sydney is apparently experiencing a new kind of nightlife.
It comprises groups of anything from 30 to more than 300. And, together, they're transforming what it means to get high.
Instead of going out to get blitzed, they're going out to get buzzed and instead of ending the night unconscious, they're ending the night more conscious, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Projects such as The Conscious Club, Soul Sessions and Wake Up Sydney! all started in the past couple of years and they're all growing increasingly popular.
In fact, if a person is not fast it's extremely hard to get a ticket - their events all sell out, usually within a couple of days.
Majorly because they are fun. There is good food, a far friendlier (but, just as pretty) crowd than average for Sydney and anything and everything from live music to movies, meditation to circus acts and even laughing yoga.
And at every event talented talkers take to the stage to share their ideas and inspirations. Topics range from science to inner-silence, entrepreneurship to enlightenment and everything in between.
The founders of 'The Conscious Clu'b said that they were tired of the same old pub or club routine where they would yell at each other for hours before going home with nothing to show for it except a hoarse voice and a hangover.
Only twelve days after the inception of the idea, they held their first event late last year. Two hundred people packed out the venue in Bondi. To cater to growing demand, they are already ready to move to a bigger space.
Founder and renowned meditation teacher Tim Brown asserted that attendees are the full age spectrum and around a 50/50 split of men and women. He believes the events are so popular because they allow people to engage and feel energised.
Likewise, the thought of sharing an enhancing experience with others is what inspired Wake Up Sydney!.
The founder, Jono Fisher took what he thought would be a two-month break from his corporate role seven years ago. Burnt out, depressed and unhappy he insisted that he started reassessing what was important to him.
"I started falling in love with a bunch of things, like meditation, music, performance, wine and chocolate," he said.
"I thought maybe they could be shared. So, I booked a cinema and hoped people would come."
"We had 800 people come to our last event from just one email," Fisher said.
"Everyone's [coming] ... people in suits, Buddhists, young people. Just people who want to hang together and be uplifted and hear real stories."
Eloise King's Soul Sessions are a more intimate affair, with space for only 33 people at the monthly wine and dine events in Surry Hills.
But, they were triggered by the same desire to share information and inspiration. And as a journalist of 15 years she has abundant access to both.
Such conversations have given her the tools to surmount many of her own demons like anxiety and an eating disorder.
So, within two weeks of the idea, she organised the first Soul Session on sex, love and marriage.
King thinks that the growth of these sorts of events - what Tim Brown calls "enlightertainment" - is a response to people's need for inner-nourishment and connection. They also provide the tools to integrate spirituality into increasingly stressed, busy lives.
Brown agrees that increasing number of people are realising that their levels of stress and distress are unsustainable.
Which is why the events often comprise meditation and encourage inner-awareness. While he maintained that they are designed to create a more conscious community, he insisted that they are secular.
"[Becoming more conscious] can be really fun and playful and enjoyable - and multi-dimensional, [the events are] all-inclusive rather than exclusive. Anybody can come - if you're a meditator great, if not, that's fine. We wanted to create an environment that was a more open space that allowed everyone to come in," Brown added. (ANI)
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