(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners from southeast Queensland, Australia, participated in the annual Mind Body Spirit Festival in Brisbane February 14 to 16, 2025. The event draws people worldwide who seek natural remedies and products.

Local practitioners participate every year. During the three-day event, they introduce Falun Dafa to thousands of people and demonstrate the five exercises. A steady stream of visitors stopped and learned about Falun Dafa.

A festival representative greeted practitioners and said the organizers were happy they were there and welcomed them to participate in next year’s Mind Body Spirit Festival.

Practitioners introduce Falun Dafa and tell people about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution.

A practitioner told many people about the spiritual practice and raised awareness of the CCP’s persecution in China. He talked to an elderly woman who was curious about Falun Dafa and recommended a practice site near Brisbane. She said she had seen practitioners in yellow and white clothes practicing before and said she enjoyed watching them demonstrate the exercises.

The practitioner explained that practicing the exercises helps people feel calm, energetic, and uplifted. The woman said she had this feeling just by watching practitioners do the exercises.

Visitors Learn Falun Dafa Exercises on Site

Kelly bought a copy of Falun Gong at the Mind Body Spirit Festival and began reading it that evening. After she went to a local practice site she said this was what she had been looking for, and she began learning the exercises the next morning.

Practitioners demonstrate the exercises.

Kelly said this was the first time she heard about the CCP’s persecution in China. It was hard for her to understand how a peaceful practice could suffer such horrific treatment, including the CCP-sanctioned forced organ harvesting. She was appalled by the photos displayed at the booth and immediately asked how she could help.

A practitioner suggested that she contact federal MP (Members of Parliament) and senators, raise awareness of the issue, and request the government take further action to urge the CCP regime to stop the persecution.

A Vietnamese family learns the Falun Dafa exercises.

A Vietnamese family was interested in practicing Falun Dafa. After they were shown the five exercises at the festival, they said they looked forward to practicing with other Vietnamese practitioners at the Forest Lakes practice site in Brisbane.

Two little girls enthusiastically asked their father if they could learn the exercises. He glanced at the booth, smiled, and said yes. The father told a practitioner that he recently learned some other exercises, and asked if they were Falun Dafa. A practitioner explained it was a different qigong and suggested he choose which one he wanted to practice.

A man learns the third Falun Dafa exercise

The man was drawn by the energy at the Falun Dafa booth and he could feel it. He thanked practitioners for their passion, trust, and faith in Falun Dafa. “You expressed your sincere gratitude for the many benefits this practice brought to your life, and I can feel it in every word you said to me,” he said. “I will read these flyers and do more research.”

Practitioners talk to visitors in front of the Falun Dafa booth.