SUNDAY’S
LINE UP
An illuminating programme of wellbeing workshops, classes, talks and healing experiences await you
Create your itinerary - by selecting from a range of ‘drop in’ and bookable experiences.
Sunday at a glance
Join us for the day or get the full experience! Every day is different and designed to energise and inspire.
THE
RIVERSIDE STAGE
Talks + interviews with storytellers + experts by the river
Free talks everyday from 10.30am - 5pm. Beginning with a magical 30min meditation to awaken and align for the day ahead. Grab a chair or bring a picnic blanket and get inspired!
10.30 - 11.00 Sunday | Riverside Stage
OPENING THE FESTIVAL: CONNECTING TO SOURCE WITH DEBRA STEPHENSON
Join actress, singer and yoga teacher Debra Stephenson for a soul soothing and body energising guided session inspired by the frequency of the Universe. Drawing on the many aspects of wellbeing practices that allow connection to your highest self combined with her skills as a trained performer,
Debra will take us on a gentle journey through breath, voice, sound and mindfulness. This session is an invitation to create a healing collective sound experience using the power of your voice.
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Debra Stephenson is an actor, singer,
impressionist and voice-over artist based in East Dorset. As well as having had extensive vocal training for singing she also trained as an actor at the Manchester Metropolitan University’s school of theatre under movement specialist Niame Dowling. Debra is well-known for her TV roles and impersonations but admits that finding confidence in her own voice has often been more challenging. In recent years Yoga practice, including transcendental meditation, kirtan and the use of seed sounds has helped Debra to find a new confidence in her own authentic voice. Newly qualified as a 200 hrs Yoga instructor with Your Yoga Flow, Debra would like to share her insights and techniques to help others activate their own authentic voices from within.
11.15-12.00 Sunday | Riverside Stage
THE WITCHING HERBS - THE SPACE WHERE MAGIC AND MEDICINE MEET
WITH FIONA HECKELS FROM SEED SISTAS
Meet the herbs of the witches garden, the mysterious, revered and feared poisons. Learn of their history and myth and of the infamous witches flying ointment. This will be a highly fascinating and enlightening conversation with Fiona Heckels of the Seed Sistas on their latest book Poison Prescriptions, on how the plants that are historically seen as the witching herbs are the ones that represent the remerging of ritual and magical practices with medical herbalism.
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Fiona Heckels is one half of the Seed Sista’s a herbal education social enterprise founded with Kaz Goodweather. Both are medical herbalists BSc (Hons) who have been in clinical practice for over 20 years and a bring with them a unique approach to teaching herbalism through magical performance lectures.
Instagram: @seed_sistas
12.15-13.15 Sunday | Riverside Stage
THE WILDING WOMAN PANEL DISCUSSION: REMEMBERING BONES
WITH KATY THEAKSTON, and special guests LISA LISTER, CARO GOMEZ & LUCY TIPPER
Katy Theakston gathers a group of wild women who are in deep partnership with the earth.These wonderful creatrixes, oracles, witches and earth medicine women have dedicated their work and their craft to Mother Earth. Here we uncover how they connect to the earth through ritual, craft and remembering their blood & bones.
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Katy Theakston
Katy Theakston is a wild woman, a modern day witch. Her purpose is to help women to rediscover themselves, to reconnect with the cycles of the seasons and to discover a beautiful way of living with their wild and wonderful hearts. She is an entrepreneur and founded The Owl and The Apothecary eight years ago, creating a home of sisterhood, ritual & magick. Katy has a goddess given talent in calling in the right women to the right moment and here she has gathered together an extraordinary group of women to form the panel, The Wilding Woman
Instagram @owlapothecary
Lisa Lister
Lisa Lister is an author, artist, psychotherapeutic coach + a somatic movement practitioner who offers support, space and counsel to women who are exploring, navigating and wanting to heal their relationship with their body, power, sex, creativity, spirituality, pleasure + passion in these 'interesting' times. Her movement practice In.Your.Body.Ment is a unique blend of nourishing movement, breath work, sound + somatic practices created + curated to support, resource + work in tune with the cyclical nature + rhythmic intelligence of your body. You can find out more about her work at
Lucy Tipper
Lucy Tipper is a botanical print artist living and working in Hampshire, she holds a background in touch therapy, embodied somatic practice and space holding. Lucy is a deeply intuitive human being, drawing her inspiration from the landscape. Through her work, she aims to create a sense of place and belonging, giving a voice to the voiceless and channelling the unheard whispers of the land through ceremony, ritual practice and creativity. Lucy draws in the earth's physical elements before guiding the plants through a unique alchemical process creating artwork imbued with the essence of place and story.
Instagram @tangledmuses
Caro Gomez
Caro Gomez is a visionary shaman's apprentice of the Maya K'iche lineage and an award-winning fashion & textile designer. She’s proud of both her Mayan and Spanish ancestry, a mix of ancient and modern, with a language that vibrates from the bone to the soul. With a trailblazing career spanning decades, Caro is the embodiment of magic and artistry.
For the spiritually curious creative woman seeking an experience beyond the ordinary, Caro’s ancestral and embodiment work is ground breaking. Caro is a published author, regular podcast guest and panel speaker. Notable appearances include the University of the Arts, Wilderness Festival and Tate Modern
13.30-14.30 Sunday | Riverside Stage
FEEDING THE SOUL: EXPLORING FOOD, MOOD AND SUSTAINABLE COOKING
WITH MELISSA HEMSLEY + CASS FARRAR
Melissa Hemsley, cookery writer, chef and sustainability champion will be talking to journalist Cass Farrar about all things food and mood. Looking at the best ways to introduce an autumn reset into your life, Melissa will be honing in on her experience of healthy, sustainable eating, how to pack as many plants into your diet as possible, the beauty of big batch cooking and her favourite Feel Good recipes for both body and soul.
As author of Eat Happy, Eat Green and, most recently, Feel Good, Melissa has a bevvy of experience both in and out of the kitchen, having appeared on television and festival stages across the country. With so many of us cooking today, not just for fuel and nutrition, but also with our mental well-being in mind, Melissa will be chatting to Cass about all the ways we can enjoy cooking, feel more confident in the kitchen and show love through food, benefiting and boosting our minds, bodies and souls.
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Melissa Hemsley
Melissa celebrates easy and affordable healthy food that everyone can enjoy as well to brighten up your mealtimes.
She began her food career as a private chef for international actors and bands, including TAKE THAT and has written and co-written four bestselling books published internationally: The Art of Eating Well, Good + Simple and Eat Green. Melissa celebrates easy and affordable healthy food that everyone can enjoy as well to brighten up your mealtimes.
This May, her latest cookbook Feel Good will be published, bringing you 100 easy and comforting recipes to help you feel your best, whether it's a quick dinner after a long day, cook-ahead lunches to see you through the week or a warming traybake for a cosy night in. These simple to make and affordable recipes with hopefully brighten up your mealtimes.
In Autumn 2019, she launched the Sustainability Sessions – an ongoing series of community panel discussions with experts from Anita Rani, Grace Dent and Skye Gyngell to Bryony Gordon, June Sarpong MBE, Matt Haig and Fearne Cotton. The sessions ranged from farming, travel and plastic pollution to mental health, fast fashion, green beauty and slow living with the aim to connect, empower and motivate our offline communities to make meaningful sustainable changes in our daily lives.
Melissa is a proud supporter of the food waste charity The Felix Project, and volunteers with them regularly to rescue surplus food and to cook for children and the vulnerable. She is an ambassador for Mental Health Mates, the Fairtrade Foundation and Women Supporting Women (The Princes Trust), among others.
She cooks, writes and tends her vegetable garden in Leytonstone, where she lives with her boyfriend Henry and their dog Nelly - as well as a steady stream of hungry diners, happily squeezed around her kitchen table.
Instagram: @melissa.hemsley
Cass Farrar is a freelance writer who has interviewed far and wide, specialising in portrait features, food and travel. Having interviewed Jamie Oliver to Jimmy Choo, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to Stanley Tucci, Yotam Ottolenghi to Gordon Ramsay, she has written for Vogue, GQ, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph and The Evening Standard, amongst many others. She and her husband Jamie own Shell Bay Restaurant where they happily live by the sea with their daughters, Lola and Maya.
Instagram: @cass.farrar
14.45-15.45 Sunday | Riverside Stage
A MONK’S GUIDE TO FEARLESS LIVING
WITH GELONG THUBTEN
Returning to the main stage at the wellbeing festival for another year Gelong Thubten will be sharing wisdom from his latest book, Handbook for Hard Times: A Monk’s Guide to Fearless Living. He will explain how we can use meditation to lead a fearless life; one that is rich in compassion, forgiveness, acceptance and courage. Thubten believes that hard times present an opportunity to discover our true strength. By ‘leaning in’ to our suffering we can re-frame our thinking and arrive at a deeper level of wisdom.
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Gelong Thubten is a Buddhist monk, meditation teacher and author from the UK. Gelong is a title meaning ‘senior monk’. Thubten was educated at Oxford University, and then became an actor, in London and New York. At the age of 21, tremendous amounts of stress led him to join a monastery. He ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk in 1993 at Kagyu Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Monastery. He has trained there under some of the world's most accomplished teachers of meditation, and has spent six years in intensive meditation retreats, the longest of which was 4 years.
Thubten specialises in teaching mindfulness meditation internationally, in businesses, hospitals, schools, universities, prisons and addiction counselling centres, and he gives keynote speeches at major events around the world. He has been teaching for over 20 years and is a world pioneer in the mindfulness movement, as he was teaching in these sectors many years before it became popular.
16.30-17.30 Sunday | Riverside Stage
LIE DOWN + LISTEN | OUR CLOSING SOUND BATH FINALE
WITH JASMIN HARSONO | EMERALD & TIGER & GUESTS
Dive into the depths of profound relaxation during our transformative collaborative south bath session.
Lie down, surrender your senses and let Jasmin and our gifted sound healers cocoon you in a tapestry of sound. Let the rhythmic cadence of the flowing river ebb and flow with the Gong, Crystal and Tibetan bowls, weaving a spellbinding web of tranquility around you, unravelling stress and dissolving tensions with effortless grace. Lie Down and Listen is an invitation to savour the present moment, to breathe in harmony with the natural world and to embark on a vibrational journey that lingers long after the final note fades away.
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“Guiding people to remember and come home to their true self”
Jasmin is the founder of the wellness brand Emerald and Tiger. As an intuitive wellness guide, she has worked in wellness worldwide for nine years as a multi-sensory artist, practitioner, writer, author, speaker, contributor, and brand advisor.
She combines her life experiences, training and practices to blend the synergies of modern living, a conscious heart and ancient rituals.
She is of mixed heritage, with Iranian, Italian and Welsh roots, and was born and raised in London, which she still calls home. Jasmin is a compassionate and grounded practitioner who shares her work worldwide. She brings a wealth of experience and offers transformational tools and sensory and healing experiences through modalities such as Breathwork, Reiki, and Sound Healing that can be used in everyday life.
Instagram: @emeraldandtiger
MOVE AND FLOW
Find your flow Classes designed for EVERY body.
Let our experienced teachers guide you through a movement practices, familiar and yet discovered.
10:30-11:15 Sunday | Move + Flow £10
HATHA FLOW WITH ISHVARA
Ishvara’s Hatha Flow class integrates breath awareness, sun salutations, postures and some creative flowing sequences. Both dynamic and relaxing, you’ll leave feeling refreshed, lighter and brighter after creating space in your body and mind. Join the class to energise your body, calm your mind and connect with your true self.
This class is open to All Levels and an ideal step up from beginners' classes. This class will offer a medium level of challenge for you to deepen your practice of yoga with a rewarding and meaningful experience on your mat.
THE VIBE: Energised, refreshed and connected
SUITABLE FOR ALL: With a medium level of challenge.
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Ishvara’s passion for teaching and sharing the holistic practice of yoga is honourable. He’s a highly regarded and authentic practitioner devoted to the union of mind, body and spirit. Ishvara trained and practised in a yoga ashram back in India, where yoga and meditation are still taught in the traditional style. His authentic and empowering classes reflect these classical teachings and focus on mindfulness, wellbeing and inner peace.
Instagram: @ishvara_yoga
11:30-12:15 Sunday | Move + Flow £10
CONSCIOUS BREATH WITH ROWAN WOODHOUSE
Experience the ability to quieten your innermost thoughts and be both relaxed and energised as Rowan guides you through a centring and uplifting breathwork journey. We will use conscious connected breathing to stimulate your nervous systems and enter a wondrous state. Discover the power of breath like never before.
THE VIBE: Energised, centred and uplifted
SUITABLE FOR ALL
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Rowan has been practicing conscious breathing for over 20 years.
His first discovery was through Tai Chi and Qigong where he found these practices deeply calming and aligning. Five years ago Rowan discovered a different breathing technique through a guided rebirthing breathwork session and was blown away by the blissful and peaceful state. A new explorative journey began.Rowan has trained with experienced practitioners and read the emerging researchabout why neurological and physical effects happen. Through experiencing the magic and understanding the science he tailors the breathing techniques for the desired results, guiding people on their own journeys and exploration of the breath.
12:30-13:15 Sunday | Move + Flow £10
FREEING THE VOICE YOGA + VOICE ACTIVATION WITH DEBRA STEPHENSON
Yoga techniques to find and free the voice, including activating the throat chakra with Asana and finding the voice with kirtan, accompanied by singing bowls.
THE VIBE: Illuminating, activating voice and authentic self expression
SUITABLE FOR ALL
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Debra Stephenson is an actor, singer, impressionist and voice-over artist based in East Dorset. As well as having had extensive vocal training for singing she also trained as an actor at the Manchester Metropolitan University’s school of theatre under movement specialist Niame Dowling. Debra is well-known for her TV roles and impersonations but admits that finding confidence in her own voice has often been more challenging. In recent years Yoga practice, including transcendental meditation, kirtan and the use of seed sounds has helped Debra to find a new confidence in her own authentic voice. Newly qualified as a 200 hrs Yoga instructor with Your Yoga Flow, Debra would like to share her insights and techniques to help others activate their own authentic voices from within
Instagram: @debra_stephenson
13:30-14:15 Sunday | Move + Flow £10
DISCOVER YOUR CORE MIXED ABILITY PILATES: WITH KATE CADBURY
Wake up your core muscles and get your body moving with this fun and dynamic pilates class. Led by Chartered Physiotherapist and GB Duathlete Kate is passionate about how pilates can help everyone in their everyday life. Come and discover how it can help you!
THE VIBE: Mobile, active and aware of muscles you never thought you had!
SUITABLE FOR ALL
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Kate, a Chartered Physiotherapist and APPI (Australian Physiotherapy Pilates Institute) Pilates Instructor is the founder of Cadbury Pilates. Her passionate and unique approach shine through in her classes. She is passionate about sharing her love for an active healthy lifestyle, allowing you to live life to the fullest.
14:30-15:15 Sunday | Move + Flow £10
LAUGHTER YOGA + AND DEEP RELAXATION TO SOUND WITH ANNETA PANZCAL
Even if you are not in the mood to laugh, you can come along.We will start with gentle smiles and laughter sounds as an exercise. The body will start releasing the good feel hormones and gradually everyone who participates will feel better and since laughter is contagious, the laughter sounds soon turn into real laughter & once you laugh, it is hard to stop. Connect to your childlike playfulness, let go, and be you.
Finishing with a lying down relaxation. A deeply relaxing experience that helps to re-balance your energy & helps you to feel more peaceful
THE VIBE: Joyful, relaxed and peaceful
SUITABLE FOR ALL
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Anetta Panczel is an FHT accredited Laughter Yoga Leader Trainer, Sound Healing Practitioner, Gong Practitioner, tutor for the College of Sound Healing and a part time Functional Skills Maths Lecturer.
Anetta has run laughter yoga, sound baths & improvised theatre workshops in Dorset and Wiltshire since 2012. She has run workshops at festivals, care homes, centres for adults with learning difficulties, hen parties, workplaces, young carers festival & was awarded a Laughter Ambassador Certificate in 2019.
Her passion is healing with sound, laughter, fun theatre games (short form improv) and training people how to run their own clubs.
FB: PositivityWithin
15:30-16:15 Sunday | Move + Flow £10
MANDALA VINYASA FLOW YOGA WITH LILLIE HUSSEIN
Embark on a transformative yoga journey with Lillie's captivating Mandala Vinyasa Flow. Immerse yourself in the mesmerising blend of Middle Eastern - inspired music, dance and flow, igniting your spirit and unleashing your inner power. Experience rejuvenation, inner alignment and a profound connection with the universe. Bring your yoga mat, an open heart and a thirst for energy healing. Explore the elemental forces, culminating in a short soul-stirring sound healing voyage that will leave you utterly revitalised and transformed at the end of the class. Don't miss this extraordinary opportunity to awaken your true potential through the power of yoga and energy healing infused.
THE VIBE: Energised, connected and abundant
SUITABLE FOR ALL
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Instagram: @lovinglifelillie
16:30-17:30 Sunday | Move + Flow
DARE TO DREAM: QOYA WITH MEGHAN FIELD
Join Meghan Field for Qoya -an embodied movement session combining yoga, dance and community connection.
Together we will move to remember our essence as wise, wild and free. There is no way to do Qoya wrong and it is for everyone in every body.
THE VIBE: Wise, wild and free
SUITABLE FOR ALL LEVELS
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Meghan Field is an empowerment activist, Qoya teacher, Celtic shaman, embodiment coach, Oracle Deck creator and community leader. Meghan supports you to do inner work that turns love into direct action and leads to meaningful change in self, community and the world.
Meghan’s podcast is The Intuition Conversations and she is the owner of Sacred Kernow Retreats, where she holds transformational experiences connected to lineage and land in Cornwall.
THE RETREAT
Transcendent Sound Healing experiences + high vibrations
Join us at THE RETREAT. We’ve gathered the very best sound healers to take you into deep relaxation, transcending the business of the everyday and bathing you in blissful vibrations. Sound healing experiences £25. Booking essential.
13:30-14:30 Sunday | The Retreat
BREATHE LOVE WITH JASMIN HARSONO OF EMERALD & TIGER
Jasmin will host her signature class where she shares a transformative journey of guided reiki meditation, touch, breathwork, affirmation practice, and live pure sounds from gongs, crystal bowls, and intuitive healing voice and more. It's an opportunity to cultivate inner peace and connect with yourself and others in a powerful and uplifting way, breathing love.
THE VIBE: Inner peace, uplifting and feeling the love
SUITABLE FOR ALL
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Jasmin Harsono, a multi-sensory artist and intuitive guide, is the founder of Emerald and Tiger, a wellness brand known for creating healing and sensory experiences. With roots in Iranian, Italian, and Welsh heritage, her work embraces cultural richness. Jasmin's passion for wellbeing has gained industry recognition, and this year she was a finalist for the prestigious Allbright Brightlist Wellness Pioneer award.
Through meditation, Reiki, Sound Healing, and more, Jasmin guides individuals to discover wholeness and heart connection in daily life. Her pioneering work has been featured in renowned publications like Forbes, Women’s Health, Vogue, and The Financial Times, HTSI.
Author of Self Reiki, Her expertise continues to inspire readers. Additionally, she supports charitable organisations, reflecting Emerald and Tiger's ethos.
12:00-13:00 Sunday | The Retreat
MEDITATIVE SOUND HEALING JOURNEY WITH ANETTA PANZCAL
Immerse yourself in the healing vibration of singing bowls, gongs complimented with beautiful percussion instruments. Unblocking stuck energies, strengthening your auric field. Starting with a meditative journey to let go of energies that don’t serve you anymore. Connect to your higher self to integrate strength, peace and joy.
THE VIBE: De-stressed, relaxed, content
SUITABLE FOR MOST: Contraindications (strictly not allowed) intoxication, epilepsy, major surgery in the last 6 months.
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Anetta Panczel is an FHT accredited Laughter Yoga Leader Trainer, Sound Healing Practitioner, Gong Practitioner, tutor for the College of Sound Healing and a part time Functional Skills Maths Lecturer.
Anetta has run laughter yoga, sound baths & improvised theatre workshops in Dorset and Wiltshire since 2012. She has run workshops at festivals, care homes, centres for adults with learning difficulties, hen parties, workplaces, young carers festival & was awarded a Laughter Ambassador Certificate in 2019.
Her passion is healing with sound, laughter, fun theatre games (short form improv) and training people how to run their own clubs.
Facebook: LaughterYogaTrainingWithAnetta
10:30-11:30 Sunday | The Retreat
SACRED SECRETS OF SOUND WITH TIBETAN SINGING BOWLS WITH ALI PALMER
Deeply-immersive, full-body listening experience using melodic sound from thirty Tibetan singing bowls. Gentle yet powerful therapeutic, vibrational processes, nurture, heal and soothe mind and body.
THE VIBE: Relaxing, calm and a total reset
SUITABLE FOR MOST - Contraindications (strictly not allowed) intoxication, epilepsy. Not recommended for first Trimester pregnancy.
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Captivated by the beauty and sacred secrets of the Tibetan singing bowls
Ali is deeply involved in the use of sound energy for well-being and healing. Ali offers ‘Sound Energy Practitioner’ training to fellow holistic specialists , as well as vibroacoustic massage therapy and healing sound bath to individuals and groups.
Ali’s main mentor/trainer is renowned spiritual sound healer, Lola Lhamo (Bali) and she has also trained at Sound Healing Academy (International) and with Altaf Javeed (India). Ali is a Yin Yoga specialist teacher and she often combines the two with amazing results- the combination of sound vibration and long-held, static poses of Yin , works even more deeply into the connective tissues of the body.
Instagram: @blissfulbowllady
15:00-16:00 Sunday | The Retreat £25
YOGA NIDRA RELAXATION WITH SOULFUL MUSIC WITH MAGDALENA ATKINSON
Connect with your dreams and surrender to a deep relaxation practice of Yoga Nidra. The healing sound of the hammered dulcimer, gentle chimes and Magdalena’s beautiful voice may create a pathway to your subconscious mind, helping you to release your tensions and allow you to be who you want to be. The practice is enriched with the Gene Keys wisdom and Magdalena’s original music and chants.
Bring a yoga mat & water (cushion & blanket optional for your comfort while lying down)
THE VIBE: Relaxing, calm and a total reset
SUITABLE FOR MOST - Contraindications (strictly not allowed) intoxication, epilepsy. Not recommended for first Trimester pregnancy
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Magdalena Atkinson is a singer–songwriter, Shakti Dance teacher, music therapist, Gene Keys Guide and a dreamer. She published 2 solo albums: Beauty & Power (2016) and Love & Light (2018) and with her band Magdalena and the Mystical Birds an album Lyric
Lockdown Live (2021). Her mission is to inspire others to pursue their full potential and creative dreams. She offers DRUM & CHANT workshops, SHAKTI DANCE-yoga of dance sessions, retreats, concerts and 1:1 Gene Keys guidance.
Instagram: @magdalenaatkinsonmusic
16:30-17:30 Sunday | The Retreat £25
SACRED EXPRESSION WITH ZOE FOSTER
Have you ever wondered how it might feel to draw sacred geometry from your own movement and self-expression? Using pastels on life size paper, get ready to create from your soul! A high - vibrational, playful & immersive experience, designed to unleash your most loving, sensual & fully - expressed self - far beyond the anxious, thinking mind!
Leave feeling: energised, inspired, integrated
Please bring old T-shirt & leggings/shorts and/or a towel as you will get pastelly! + yoga mat, water etc.
Bring a yoga mat & water (cushion & blanket optional for your comfort while lying down)
THE VIBE: High vibrational, playful and immersive
SUITABLE FOR MOST - Accessible to all (contraindications: intoxication, mobility aids)
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Zoë is a shamanic artist, creating immersive energy portals for rebel women. She is also the creator of the SacredExpression™ method, combining sacred geometry, Jungian mandala psychology and fully - embodied, energy - expanding self -expression. Into her work, she brings over 20 years of training and experience as a cognitive psychologist, yoga teacher, energy worker, and spiritually - creative misfit.
Zoë’s debut book, It’s Written in the Stars: Poems, reflections & transmutations on becoming, launched May 2023, and is a multi-sensory, energetic immersion like no other! She is also an author of several collaborative books and writes regularly for the spiritual & mainstream press
Instagram: @zoekmfoster
WELLBEING WORKSHOPS
Wellbeing Workshops for all. Where wellness meets creativity
Join us at THE WELLBEING WORKSHOP SPACE, next to The Marketplace. Get curious, open your heart and discover something new. Workshops to inspire and delight! Vision, craft, meditate, make magic and expand. Wellbeing workshops from £10-35 Booking essential.
10:30-11:30 Sunday | The Wellbeing Workshop Space £20
A RADIANT LOOKING FACE: THE NATURAL WAY FACE YOGA WITH POLINA RUMSEY
Face yoga is a relaxing yet deeply powerful practice to exercise and tone your face muscles naturally, without the use of Botox, surgery or expensive facials. In this uplifting, hands-on workshop, you will learn key Face Yoga moves (which can then be practiced at home), and will leave the session with a face that looks toned, rested and radiant. There will be lots of new moves for those who came to my last year's workshop or who are already practicing regularly.
THE VIBE: Uplifting, rejuvenated and radiant
SUITABLE FOR MOST: Contraindications recent Botox treatment (min gap of 4 weeks post injections)
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A body movement and face yoga wellness coach, Polina @RadiantYears creates hormone-balancing practices for body, face and mind to help women in their 40s, 50s, 60s to look amazing, feel radiant and live their most vibrant life. Polina has been using her extensive knowledge of body and face anatomy, breath, movement and meditation techniques to create face yoga programs that deliver powerful and effective results, with long lasting effects such as more lift and definition in the face muscles, less face tension, better face posture, more toned jaw and neck, and an overall confidence boost in one’s appearance.
Instagram: @radiantyears
12:00-13:00 Sunday | The Wellbeing Workshop Space £30
ADAPTAGENS FOR MIND, BODY & SOUL
WITH ADAPTOGENIC APOTHECARY
Join the alchemy sisters for a ground-breaking and radical way of using adaptogenic herbs, medicinal mushrooms and Affron®. In an interactive workshop where you’ll taste raw adaptogenic chocolate, learn about clinically proven adaptogenic therapy for peri/menopause or menstrual cycles and mix up your own up adaptogenic smoothie or mocktail.
THE VIBE: Elevating, calm and nurturing
*Accessible to all – If you are taking prescription medication, pls consult a medical professional about adaptogen usage.
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Jodie and Paris Welton are sisters and discovered adaptogens when their bodies and rhythms started to change post 40 yrs old. They shied away from modern pharmaceutical options and began researching traditional plant-based medicine and found adaptogenic herbs. A chance meeting with Sara Rooney, one of the UK’s leading hormone health herbalists and the Adapotogenic Apothecary was born. They have launched Harmony, the world’s first 4 phase menstrual support for women with PMT or in perimenopause and Freedom, adaptogenic therapy for menopausal women. Both winning 5-star reviews and awards. They are committed to sharing the healing power of adaptogens.
Instagram: adaptogenic_apothecary
13:15-14:15 Sunday | The Wellbeing Workshop Space £25
ACTIVATE YOUR DISCO BALL HEART THROUGH PRACTICAL MAGIC WITH KATE TAYLOR
Get ready to step out of the grey and into your full technicolor shine as you journey to activate your disco ball heart.
Through a melting pot of good stuff that is Practical Magic, you will fire up your creativity, awaken your intuition, and connect to your own superpower. Experience a cocktail of creative mindfulness, visualisation and breathing exercises, as well as somatic movement.
THE VIBE: Empowered, energised, joyful
*Accessible to all: Please note there will be some movement, which can be adjusted to suit everyone.
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Lover of disco balls, a bright red lip and more leopard print than is necessary, Kate Taylor is on a mission to help you live a
BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL life. Blending straight-talking strategy with a dash of spiritual sauce, Kate brings a fresh approach to self-development and modern spirituality. She is a life design and empowerment coach, Master NLP practitioner, Qoya teacher, author and speaker, as well as being and creator of the Practical Magic Activation Deck— the UK’s first life coach in a box.
Kate’s debut book BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL: A soul-seeker’s guide to living an empowered, purpose-driven life is out thisSeptember.
Instagram: @katetaylorcreativeliving
14:30-15:30 Sunday | The Wellbeing Workshop Space £10
REBEL TO BE WELL; FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE WORKSHOP & KITCHEN WITCHERY WITH GEMMA MACGUIGAN
"Rebel to be Well" is a fascinating dive into the Functional Medicine approach to wellness, restoring health by addressing the root causes of disease for each individual & using the intelligence of science and nature to transform health & focus on prevention. With health truly beginning at home, we will create some kitchen witchery, using our food as the medicine & creating the perfect environment for activation of our inherent healing mechanism. This workshop will allow you to look at your health from a whole new perspective and empower you to take control of your health in the most loving and informed way.
THE VIBE: Inspiring, practical and creative
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Gemma runs a busy Functional Medicine & Nutrition clinic in The New Forest and regularly holds clinics in London along with online consultations showing specialism in gut health, female hormone health, autoimmunity & chronic fatigue. Gemma is also a wellness speaker & educator, co-founding a wellness education & retreat company called Mind.Body.Reset. Gemma is one of 90 in the UK to hold a full Functional Medicine certification with the esteemed Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM). Gemma's passion is to empower the individual to use the intelligence of nature and science to transform their health & restore their inherent vitality. Functional medicine, nutrition & naturopathy are a beautiful combination using the best of science & nature, encouraging the body’s natural self healing mechanisms.
Instagram: @gemma.mcguigan.health
16:30-17:30 Sunday | The Wellbeing Workshop Space £10
THE ART OF WOMANHOOD WITH ANNA SCHEER
How to embrace your power and reclaim your radiance!
Rediscover Your Radiance in this empowering workshop for women where age is just a number, and self-knowledge is the key to confidence. Say goodbye to old belief systems and hello to a life of limitless possibilities.
Through this empowering presentation of sex educative materials and a guided discussion, you'll gain a deeper understanding of your body anatomy and its correlation to pleasure.
Indulge in a quick nurturing self-care practice, especially designed as a woman’s wellbeing session. Replenish your energy and revitalise your spirit as you connect with like-minded women on this transformative workshop.
THE VIBE: Inspiring, activating and empowering
SUITABLE FOR ALL
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Anna, a visual artist, art & design teacher, and sex educator, believes in the power of arts and sexuality as outlets for personal expression. Her coaching focuses on empowering women, exploring their bodies, pleasure and sensuality.
During her BA Degree at Dartington College of Arts, Anna found rituals to be a profound tool for creating transformative change. Her MA Degree in Art & Design revealed the need for overall better sexual education.
As a versatile freelance artist, camera operator, set designer, and workshop facilitator, Anna founded the inclusive non-profit association Sowieso! in 2010, offering art, dance, and music workshops for children and youth.
Certified as a DanceAbility® trainer in 2016, Anna continues to empower others through inclusive art and dance workshops.
Gratitude fills her heart as she shares ways to make life more pleasurable. Let Anna guide you to an ecstatic existence. Embrace the possibility of experiencing more pleasure in your life!
Instagram: @uncompromising_orgasmic_life
OUT IN NATURE
Soak up your surroundings. Open air guided workshops amplified by nature.
Meet at The Gallery /meeting point for our outdoor workshops, connecting you to nature and yourself. Forest bathe, take a mindful walk, experience a drumming circle. Together we’ll take a walk to our favourite spaces around the lakes and adventure together. Booking essential.
11:45-13:15 Sunday | Out in Nature £15
HOW TO CREATE A GARDEN BORDER TO SUPPORT YOUR WELLBEING WITH KENDALL PLATT
Gardening reduces the stress levels and increases the wellbeing of those who practice it. But we often don’t have hours to spend pruning and weeding. Enter Mindful Gardening, combining elements of mindfulness with gardening activities to allow you to quiet your mind in just 5 minutes a day. Come and learn how to design a wellbeing border around your busy life, using colours, sensory plants and other garden elements. Accessible to all, suitable for beginners. Leave feeling: Calm, confident and excited about growing your garden. Please bring a notebook, a pen and all your gardening questions.
THE VIBE: Grounded, light and peaceful
SUITABLE FOR ALL. We will be walking, standing and sitting, all at a slow pace. You may like to bring a mat or blanket to sit on.
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Kendall Platt, The Mindful Gardening Coach, helps women take time out of their busy lives to quieten their minds whilst creating a garden that sets their heart on fire. She does this through her Cultivate your Wellbeing programme, helping women to create their green haven, garden their way to calm and manage their anxiety in just 5 minutes a day.
Kendall is a writer and speaker on the topic of mindful gardening and gardening and floristry for wellbeing. She has been featured on This Morning, BBC radio and in multiple publications such as The Independent, The Telegraph’s Stella Magazine and Happiful magazine.
Instagram: @kendallmarieplatt
Linkedin: kendall-marie-platt/
10:30am-11:30 & 16:00-17:00 Sunday | Out in Nature £10
FOREST BATHING WITH AMANDA JONES
Join certified Forest Therapy Guide Amanda for a rejuvenating, restorative, relaxing experience amongst the trees in this 'Introduction to Forest Bathing'. Through a series of guided meditations and creative sensory based experiences we discover the healing power of nature and experience a deep connection with what is around us, and ultimately a deeper connection with ourselves.
THE VIBE: Relaxing, connecting and calming
SUITABLE FOR ALL
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My name is Amanda and I am in love with nature, and I want to reconnect you with your love of nature, and thus with your love for yourself-because you are nature too. Let's deepen our love and relationship with the interwoven web within which we all exist.
Being of a nomadic disposition, I originally migrated from my home town of Bournemouth to Brighton in my early twenties where I was fortunate enough to both enjoy the nineties and acquire a degree. A spontaneous decision led to me moving to Ireland, a place which subsequently kept me for 15 years.
Always gravitating towards plant lore, I studied herbal medicine and naturopathy there, whereupon I went the way of the hedge-witch with sprinklings of Celtic Shamanism.
During this time I was drawn to Africa as well as the South and Central Americas, where I free-style travelled and also worked with environmental charities in Ecuador, The Galapagos and Kenya. Whilst in Brazil I was blessed enough to work with a local shaman assisting with plant medicine ceremonies, and I then took this vocation further, moving to India and working at a plant medicine retreat centre. Spending two years in India deepened my spiritual practices through studying and then teaching Yoga-vedantic Eastern teachings, Sattva yoga and Himayalan breath-work. Suddenly, high in the Himalayas, I intuitively knew I was to return to England (which surprised me more than anyone). As a qualified Forest Therapist guide I now facilitate Forest Therapy walks,
Mindfulness in Nature courses and Alchemy in the Forest workshops. I also teach Himalayan Kundalini yoga, with a focus upon giving our energy bodies and chakras a workout. I'm all about the energy.
Instagram: @nature.connection.dorset
13:30-14:30pm Sunday | Out in Nature £15
EARTH RESONANCE FRAME DRUMMING WITH DAVE TIPPER
This workshop is an open space for people to come together and share a love for drumming, rhythm and meditation. The ‘circle of sound’ we form is about coming together and sharing our collective resonance for positive change and nature connection. This session will involve gentle movement, rhythmic play and sound based meditation. As we come together, we set our intentions for the workshop and move through a collective journey of sound. This workshop is unique in that it brings the practice of sound therapy to both a personal and collective level. Drumming is an excellent medium for channelling energy, emotion and the release of tension. It brings us together with a shared intention for wellbeing and allows us to get in touch with ourselves. frame drums are provided (feel free to bring your own)
THE VIBE:Grounded, connecting and therapeutic
SUITABLE FOR ALL
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Dave Tipper is a practising sound therapist, hypnotherapist and teacher of yoga and mindfulness. His practice encourages a full sensory experience through both traditional and modern approaches. Deeply inspired by the natural world he believes that through the practice of sound and meditation, we can build a stronger relationship with nature. His unique approach incorporates the use of sound vibration, visualisation and natural earthing to help release physical and mental tension.
His passion is to empower people to engage in their own independent personal practice and to move towards better health and wellbeing.
Instagram: @earthresonance
14:45-15:45 Sunday | Out in Nature £25
DREAMSCAPE: ANCIENT MEDICINE FOR MODERN TIMES WITH CARO GOMEZ
A cacao and shamanic drumming ceremony to journey into your subconscious without ps*chedelics. You're building a beautiful relationship with yourself, you love to move your body, express your creativity and loveto experience ancient magic. Join Caro for a very unique way of preparing and communing with ceremonial grade cacao from El Salvador-this is a hands on experience!-and then explore your inner dream world with a potent shamanic drumming journey. Come and explore your spiritual path through ancient practices delivered with integrity and a sh*t ton of joy. Receive beautiful insights and aha!moments without having to travel to far away distant landsLeave feeling: inspired, joyful and groundedSuitable for all levels-you will be moving lightly, sitting and then lying down for a short period of timePlease bring a yoga mat, a journal and pen, and anything else that brings you comfort when lying down.
THE VIBE: Informative, refreshing and recharging
SUITABLE FOR ALL.
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Caro Gomez is a visionary shaman's apprentice of the Maya K'iche lineage and an award-winning fashion & textile designer. She’s proud of both her Mayan and Spanish ancestry, a mix of ancient and modern, with a language that vibrates from the bone to the soul. With a trailblazing career spanning decades, Caro is the embodiment of magic and artistry.
For the spiritually curious creative woman seeking an experience beyond the ordinary, Caro’s ancestral and embodiment work is ground breaking. Whether it's through her transformative shamanic practices, ancestral wisdom or her exquisite flair for adornment, Caro invites you to join her on a journey of self-discovery and expression. So, let your inner visionary shine and step into the powerful world of The Mayan School of Embodiment.
She was awarded "Ones to Watch" title by the Sustainable Lifestyle Awards and won Fashion Designer of the Year for the 2019 LUKAS awards, which recognise Latin American talent in the UK and the rest of Europe, and
Best Sustainable Luxury Womenswear Label in London for the LuxLife Awards in 2022. Caro is a published author, regular podcast guest and panel speaker. Notable appearances include the University of the Arts, Wilderness Festival and Tate Modern.
“You are rainbows and volcanoes all in one, it’s time to create a life that turns you on and build your legacy as a future ancestor through a sh*t ton of joy and play” Caro Gomez
themayanschoolofembodiment.com
Instagram: @carogomez_joywitch
FLOATING MEDITATION
Mesmerising Guided Meditations sessions on the water
Join us at THE FLOATING MEDITATION. We’ve gathered the very best meditation practitioners to take you into deep relaxation, transcending the business of the everyday and connecting you to source. Floating meditation £6. Booking essential.
30 min Floating Meditation sessions begin at 11:00 and start on the hour - last session 17:00
Eat, Shop, Get Curious. Bitesized short talks + masterclasses
Join us in THE MARKETPLACE. Free talks and demo’s. Discover our handpicked indie retailers, grab your self some coffee, a juice or lunch and listen to our guests share their passions, products and experiences. No need to book.
Please note that our programme may be subject to change - due to circumstances beyond our control - Rest assured that we’ll endeavour to bring you a memorable experience and any changes or updates will be equal or better!
— Festival Team