Queer Spirit Beta

Abi Denyer - Bewick

Abi Denyer - BewickAbi (She/Abi) is a queer, kinky Audhd sea creature, who is passionate about the restoration of cyclical consciousness. Abi's work centres nature connection, embodied pleasure and the wild magic of the menstrual cycle.

 Abi lives to question everything and is driven by the need to dismantle harmful power structures and for all beings to know their true belonging and feel welcomed in this life.

Abi is facilitating in the Women’s Space at Queer Spirit 2026.

Website: abidenyerbewick.co.uk

Workshops

Wild Belonging

Wild and Held - Queer Desire, Kink and Power

  • Bewick
  • Abi Denyer

Abigail Maxwell

Abigail MaxwellAbigail has been a Quaker for 25 years.

Quakers decided to celebrate equal marriages in 2009, and believe in peace, equality, and something in each person so powerful and beautiful we call it "That of God". 

Workshops

Quaker meetings (outdoors)

Quaker meetings (healing garden)

  • Abigail Maxwell

Al Head

Al HeadAl Head is queer and nonbinary. They have been facilitating rituals and pagan-themed workshops for over 40 years.

In 2014 they founded This Land Sex Magic and have run workshops in the UK, Sweden and Berlin.

They are a cocreator of Queer Spirit Festival and a Priestex of Cernunnos. 

Workshops

Meeting the Deity Cernunnos

This Land Sex Magic Workshop

  • Al Head

Andy Fowler

Andy FowlerAndy is a popular world percussion leader, who has taught over five thousand groups for all abilities.

He has been leading drum circles at Queer Spirit since our first festival in 2016. 

Website: www.mbiramagic.com

Workshops

Drumming circle

Trance dance

  • Andy Fowler

Apollo

ApolloApollo brings sewing to Queer Spirit. He enjoys the challenges of making the 2D into 3D, and started sewing because he couldn’t do furniture-making in his flat of an evening.

He wants to share the fun of sewing and creating a unique object.

Workshops

Sewing Workshop

  • Apollo

Ash

AshAsh is a youth worker who has experience working with young people around queer topics. 

Workshops

Queer Identities (CYP)

  • Ash

Azure Peace

Azure PeaceA soothing presence and a gentle voice, he is a multi-passionate conscious holistic artist, a self-love guide, motivational speaker, workshop facilitator and holder of space.

 He shares insights on self-compassion, self-love, self-worth, inner work, creativity, and inner child healing.

He uses a multifaceted approach to healing and wholeness, using podcasts, videos, music, art, writing, courses and audiobooks catering to different learning styles and abilities.  

Workshops

Cultivating the Inner Landscape

  • Azure Peace

Bear Philips

Bear PhilipsBear (he/him) believes more connection, more pleasure and more joy is all possible. He works as both a trauma-informed bodyworker and relationship coach, supporting individuals and couples around authentic relating, intimacy, pleasure and alternative relationship styles.

As The Feminist Love Coach he works with men around questions of masculinity and how patriarchy impacts our ability to have meaningful and authentic relationships.

Bear is facilitating in the Exploration space.

Workshops

Navigating Relationship Repair

  • Bear Philips

Bela Emerson

Bela EmersonBela ( she/they) is a queer & ND socially engaged cellist, cuddle therapist, community musician, and facilitator who supports people to connect deeply with themselves and others.

Reflection, presence, curiosity, improvisation, playfulness, and communication are central themes of her personal and professional work.

Bela is facilitating in the Women’s Space at Queer Spirit 2026.

Website: www.belaemerson.com

Workshops

A playful exploration of live cello, sound, and movement

Consensual platonic touch space

  • Bela Emerson

Belski

Belski Belszki (she/they) is a queer feminist theatre maker with a passion for social justice.

They run workshops and 1:1 coaching in comedy writing, performance skills, show production and editing.

Belski is offering Improv games and Comedy Writing workshop in the Women’s Space at QS2026.

Workshops

Beginners Improv Taster

Comedy Writing Taster

  • Belski

Bex Harper

Bex HarperBex Harper (they/them) is an experienced, certified, and professionally-trained transformational coach who specialises in ADHD, AuDHD, autism, dyslexia, mental health, chronic fatigue and chronic illness, brain fog, and burnout.

Bex is currently training to be a naturopath, herbalist, and nutritionist, aiming to serve the queer community. 

Website: https://earthcoaching.net

Workshops

Living Within Your Capacity: Queer Life Design & Energy Management

Reclaiming the Body: Boundaries, Consent & Self-Trust for Queer People

  • Bex Harper

Billie

Billie Billie is an outdoor facilitator who uses story as a tool for strengthening community.

They are often found running groups and workshops in the woods.

Workshops

Storyweaving for community building

  • Billie

Brook Tate

Brook Tate Brook Tate (he /they) is a painter, musician and theatre maker who's exploration into animal alter-egos (particularly a zebra called Debra) lead to the discovery of a new method of mathematics, inspired by the queer legend Alan Turing. 

Website: brooktate.com

Workshops

Performing with Pwide

Queer Multicolour Maths (CYP)

  • Brook Tate

Cadernwydd Alys

Cadernwydd AlysCadernwydd Alys is a Welsh Witch and former coven leader with a lifetime's experience of herbalism, ritual, healing and divination.

As a magical herbalist she uses ancient blends of herbs in incense and sacred smoke, and magical oils, to enhance shamanic ritual. As a hedgewitch, she combines the use of herbs with sacred meal preparation and brewing to bring the sacred into everyday life.

And as an author of works on Goddess spirituality and embodiment, she integrates body, mind and spirit in healing and self-healing, divination and journeying practices supporting people of all genders and identities to connect with the Source. 

Workshops

Magical Incense Making

The Mother Goddess and Me - Queer Spirit and the Sacred Mother Archetype

  • Cadernwydd Alys

Calu de la Tierra

Calu de la TierraCalu is a mixed race gender queer activist passionate about decolonising identities, visibility, anti-oppression work, inclusive intimacy, and creative pleasure.

Their story has been shaped by internal and external migration journeys. Calu deeply believes the body is a gateway for our healing journeys as individuals and as a community. 

As an activist Calu promotes inclusive spaces, works on anti-oppression challenging prejudice and identity-based violence and raises awareness of sexual and gender diversity.

Calu is an experienced facilitator and space holder and has been part of co-creating workshops, rituals, retreats and festivals in several countries.

Workshops

Boundaries in Motion

Listening Massage

Queer Salsa

  • Calu de la Tierra

Capella

CapellaCapella (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist and astrologer who orientates their practice around a spirituality based in right relationship.

They use astrology as a tool to inquire into the stories humanity tells about itself, particularly in relation to power, and to examine queer relationship with the non-linear state of time.

Capella is facilitating in the Astrology Temple at Queer Spirit 2026.

Website: qwyrd.carrd.co

Workshops

Queering the planets!

Walking the starry sky

  • Capella

Che Young

Che Young

Che (she/they) runs a Health and Wellness Business, specialising in restoring peace to minds, and flow to bodies. Qualifying with a 1st class Psychology degree in 1999, Che went into the Corporate world as a senior people manager for 12 years, before choosing to qualify as an independent stress management and mindfulness coach in 2011.

Having had her own personal practice for 15 years, Che specialises in Dhyana Meditation – focused awareness and sustained contemplation, in silence with no guide nor object of focus.

Che now trains individuals, groups and organisations in stress, emotion and energy management, as well as offering mindfulness experiences, and guided meditations. Che is also qualified in Acupressure, Massage and Energy Healing.

Website: cheyoungwellness.co.uk

Workshops

Morning meditations (healing garden)

  • Che Young

Christen & Gasat

Christen & GasatGasat, founder of SONAR (Men's Mental Health), and Christen, co-founder of The Whole Some Space (Creating Safe Spaces for people to be authentic), we are devoted to creating safe, inclusive spaces for authentic expression, emotional healing, and deep inner connection.

Combining over a decade of trauma-aware practice, ancestral wisdom, and embodied approaches, their work weaves together men's work, sound healing, movement, and intuitive facilitation.

Together, they guide individuals to explore identity, release emotional blocks, and reconnect with their truth, integrity, and community. Through their collaboration, they support a more conscious and evolving vision of masculinity and collective healing—grounded in honesty, balance, and meaningful connection.

Workshops

The Playground: An Inner Child Workshop

The Playground: An Inner Child Workshop [GM Sanctuary]

  • Cristen & Gasat

Claire Lecarpentier

Claire LecarpentierClaire is a business coach, entrepreneur, Human Design coach & shamanic practitioner.

With years of leadership experience in France and internationally, she brings a grounded, insightful perspective to spiritual work.

Deeply engaged on her own spiritual path, she integrates shamanic teachings with humour, kindness, and boldness. 

Claire shares practical tools to help others navigate both the visible and invisible realms of life with autonomy and balance.

Workshops

Serpent Blessings ceremony

  • Claire Lecarpentier

Cloud

CloudCloud is interested in revolution and the role of technologies in revolution including digital, spiritual and craft-based technologies.

Workshops

Ethical technology in the age of AI

  • Cloud

Dafydd Tantra Wolf

Dafydd Tantra WolfDafydd Tantra Wolf is a qualified Tantra teacher and coach, with extensive experience in holding space for individuals and groups.

He has completed 15 weeks of residential training, and held numerous online and in-person workshops since 2020. He specialises in using active forms of meditation, music and movement to activate positive, creative energy, healing and connection.

He often incorporates art, essential oils, lighting, self-expression, shamanic and Tibetan practices, storytelling and myth in his work, and tries to be inclusive of everyone, particularly beginners and those with neurodiverse conditions.

Workshops

Creating Safety in an Unsafe World

Exploring Sexual Boundaries

Queer Activist Wellbeing and Self-Regulation

Tantric Body Dance workshop

  • Dafydd Tantra Wolf

Dandelion

DandelionDandelion (He/him/it) Queer dreamer, animist, dancer and creative tinkerer; magic is at the core of what we are, but who we are is up to us.

I love to embrace my ever-shapeshifting nature and to empower others to do the same, I believe self-expression is a game of self-discovery that we all should learn to play.

Workshops

Temple Ceremony, Thursday 10 pm to 11 pm

  • Dandelion

Deborah Maw

Deborah MawDeborah Maw (she/her) is a spiritual astrologer, teacher, and founder of SoulStar, exploring conscious evolution through the living language of the sky.

Her work blends myth, embodiment, and collective cycles, inviting people to trust the unfolding of their soul’s path.

Deborah brings astrology down to earth as a wild, wyrd, and wonderfully human guide and storyteller.

Workshops

Astro Chats

AstroDrama: Playing with the Planets

The SoulStar Portal Navigating the Great Shift of 2024-2029

  • Deborah Maw

Debz

DebzDebz is a pagan and self-taught artist who loves painting in acrylics and oils.

Her passion is trees, which she honours by making coffee tables with pyrography of birds and animals.

Workshops

Shamanic Drumming Journey

  • Debz

Dom Songfire

Dom SongfireDom (they/them) - which means "home" in Polish is the creator of Dom Pieśnisko (Songfire), a project devoted to song, gathering, and embodied presence.

Dom facilitates workshops, Medicine Song ceremonies, and individual sessions, and accompanies others in shamanic journeys. Dom graduated from the State Music School in Poznań, completed the first edition of Robert Rient's School of Shamanism, and studied Music Production at MusicLaboratory. 

They are currently part of the Singing Circle Leaders program with Uria Tsur. Alongside artistic work, they study Cultural Anthropology, exploring the role of ritual and collective experience in human communities.

Website: www.instagram.com/dom.z.milosci

Workshops

Singing circle - My place in the circle of life

Weaving Relationship with the Voice

  • Dom Songfire

Edward Daniel

Edward DanielEdward is a former Chair of The Vegan Society, a passionate vegan chef, and a poet.

He shares his work through spiritual veganism, cooking demonstrations, and poetry.

Believing that everyone has the power to follow what lights them up, including speaking for the voiceless, Edward's aim is to help others discover their passion and ignite their inner fire. 

Workshops

Creative Poetry

Manifest Your Dreams

The Beginner's Guide to Veganism

  • Edward Daniel

Em

EmEm is an independent funeral celebrant supporting queer people who are dying, their friends and their families to plan end of life rituals, ceremonies and memorials in Sussex and beyond.

Along side this, they are an active member of Brighton Death Collective and run the Brighton Queer Death Cafe. 

Website: emilyhatcher.co.uk

Workshops

Queer Death Cafe

  • Em

Eva Weaver

Eva WeaverEva is a queer writer, sex-coach, bodyworker, shamanic practitioner & snake medicine guide.

She believes passionately in the power of community and our birthright to a unique expression of our sexuality and creativity.

She loves to create unique rites of passage ceremonies with people and supports women, NB & gender queer folks who feel disconnected from their sexuality to find gentle ways to reclaim the joy of their sexuality and feel empowered and alive again. To support queer, inclusive, creative community is one of the deepest joys.  

Website: www.evaweaver.com

Workshops

Serpent Blessings ceremony

The Serpent Path of Pleasure

  • Eva Weaver

Faye Patton

Faye PattonFaye Patton has a varied martial arts background and is passionate about teaching and empowering ordinary people. 20+ years of Aikido (2nd Dan) 15 years of Wing Chun, 10 years of Tai Chi (ongoing) Western style boxing, breath and visualisation techniques. Bespoke health and fitness regimes for private clients.

Has studied with some of the best martial arts teachers in London. Has designed/delivered courses for varied levels of ability and has experience with teaching children, groups, individuals, disabled people and LGBTQ+ youth.

Has run Wing Chun sessions at ASHA centre with Queer spirit Retreats. Also a jazz musician and shamanic lucid dreamer. 

Website: peacewarriormartialarts.my.canva.site

Workshops

Peace Warrior - Queer Friendly Martial Arts For The 21st Century

  • Faye Patton

Felix

FelixSince graduation from the University of South Wales in 2013, Felix's interests have led him to explore a plethora of topics but over the last half decade his area has focussed on the connection between science and spirituality in the field of wellbeing. 

Workshops

The Science and Spirituality of Wellbeing

  • Felix

Fennel Waters

Fennel WatersFennel (any/may/hem), also known as The Fenwitch, is a queer, peri-menopausal, AuDHD coach, facilitator, speaker, accredited mindfulness trainer and working witch.

Focused on relationships, intimacy, wellbeing and emotional maturity, they have spent over 30 years supporting personal transformation through workshops, talks and private practice across the UK and France.

They lead the sex-positive community Vermilion and integrate movement, somatic embodiment, Sex Magick and authentic relating into their distinctive workshops.  

Fennel is facilitating in the Exploration Space.

Workshops

Erotic Embodiment and Striptease

Last Night on Earth

  • Fennel Waters

Free Wilders – Col & Sadie

Free Wilders – Col & SadieCol is a mushroom foraging teacher and body positive activist and speaker.

His work explores our connection with ourselves and the natural world and through embodiment looks at ideas of reconnection and repair. His campaigns around body acceptance include a 1000 mile charity naked cycle with Sadie from John O Groates to Lands End in 2022. 

Their experiences of nudity and breaking social taboos in public spaces both as lone naturists but also as a heteronormativity-performing pair has given us unique insights into the patriarchy, the male gaze, and the unspoken rules that quietly but without mercy shape the society that we live in. 

Website: www.foresthorizons.co.uk

Workshops

Being Naked Isn’t the Point

Embodied Foraging. Noticing, Connections and Repair

Rules We Never Agreed To

Where Shame Lives

  • Free Wilders
  • Col & Sadie

Gloria Gayer

Gloria GayerGloria Gayer is a London based Queer producer and DJ who has studied pop and broadcast music technologies at university in Bristol and Derby, played to crowds in Queer London bars and clubs, written a pop song, and annoyed countless neighbours.

Workshops

PopQueer!

  • Gloria Gayer

Greenheart

GreenheartGreenheart is a dancer, musician, tattoo artist and Druid.

Their work is inspired by their spiritual and somatic relationship with the Earth and their calling to help humanity reconnect to Gaia through embodied practices of reverence and love. 

They draw upon the rich mythic power of the British Isles to enchant and consecrate these times of societal upheaval and queer spiritual reawakening.  

Workshops

Ecstatic Druidic Movement Workshop

  • Greenheart

Honesty

HonestyHailing from Handsworth, Birmingham, Honesty has been at the heartbeat of Queer Spirit for the past 4 years.

Honesty lives at the intersections of Blackness, multi-heritage(ness), Queerness and Neurodivergency.

He’ll be hosting the daily heart circles and generally on hand supporting the Sanctuary and Village

Workshops

Heart circles

Hot seat

  • Honesty

J Beli Friel

J Beli FrielBeli is a writer, producer, and performer prioritising fat, trans, and disabled stories, particularly how these interact with working classness.  

They create work that moves towards joy, community, and connection with the human and beyond. They have previously facilitated creative sessions in food justice and queer ecology, and they are part of queer land justice cooperative Teasel.

They lead a political and creative workshop exploring the history, present, and future of Fat Trans Liberation.

Workshops

Fat trans liberation

  • Beli

Jewels and Angel

Jewels and AngelJewels and Angel are holding the Sacred Fire space and offering workshops.

Between them they bring decades of experience in working with people from all walks of life in supporting them to live and love their fullest most authentic version of themselves. 

They are both queer and are potent bridge workers between the straight and queer worlds. Their style of holding space is one of radical loving acceptance, depth, a sense of the sacred and powerful healing.

Workshops

Celtic Keening grief circle

  • Jewels Wingfield
  • Jewels and Angel
  • Angel

Joe Phillips

Joe PhillipsJoe is a palliative care nurse and good death advocate.

He is passionate about Queer health and well-being and believes that facing one's mortality and discussing death is an integral part of this. 

Workshops

Dead Queer

  • Joe Phillips

Joel Young - Capoeira

Joel Young - CapoeiraPracticing Capoeira for over 20 years, I've taught, performed and played in over seven countries, including countless festivals and events. After living in Brazil to study for my instructor belt, I've been involved in grass-roots projects to make Capoeira more accessible for all.

I'm passionate about everything this Afro-Brazilian art-form has to offer, and I am so excited to share that passion and empower more people within the queer community to discover the ways in which Capoeira can increase bodily autonomy, grounding, community and self determination, as a movement born out of resistance and empowerment.

Website: Instagram

Workshops

Beginner Capoeira #1

Beginner Capoeira #2

  • Joel Young

John Button

John ButtonJohn’s background is in humanistic group therapy, green politics and activism, graphic design and publishing, and researching the history of erotic art, especially from the queer perspective – he curates the honesterotica website, the world’s largest resource for erotic art and illustration.

John has been exploring ethical relationship non-exclusivity for more than four decades, as a writer and group leader as well as in his own life.

His book Getting Closer: Sex, Love and Common Sense discussed much of what later became called polyamory.

Workshops

QS 101

The Courage to Speak Our Truth

What Sex Isn’t

  • John Button

Kai

KaiKai has been learning and practising Egyptian Magick in the temples and pyramids of Egypt for the past 25 years and co-leads pilgrimage groups there every year.

He also trained as an energy worker at the College of Psychic Studies in London for 12 years and as a plant medicine facilitator in Brazil for 10 years.

The psychic and psychedelic training both inform his Egyptian Magick practises. 

Workshops

Ancient Egyptian Queer Sex Magick

Healing the Queer Wound with Plant Medicine

  • Kai

Karen Cassidy

Karen CassidyKaren is a queer celebrant and and you can find out more information on her website.

Website: SacredCeremoniesByKaren.com

Workshops

Sacred Ceremonies (handfasting)

  • Karen Cassidy

Kerri and Ash

Kerri and AshAsh is a Medical Herbalist practising in Yorkshire and at the time of Queer Spirit 2026 Kerri will be one month away from qualifying as a Medical Herbalist and setting up a mobile practice called Wild Service.

We love connecting people with the medicinal plants growing all around us and the amazing ways these herbs can support our health.  

Website: www.hebdenherbs.net

Workshops

Herb Walk

Herbal Medicine for Stress & Anxiety

  • Kerri and Ash

Kirstine Weaver

Kirstine WeaverKirstine Weaver (Caramel) is a land guardian and apprentice to Gaia.

She brings a variety of modalities to her work, including Sexological Bodywork and somatic coaching. 

Kirstine specialises in working with neurodivergent bodies and those who have experienced trauma, helping people become authentically themselves.

Kirstine is facilitating in the Exploration Space.

Workshops

Neurodivergent Eros

Practical Relationship Repair

  • Kirstine Weaver

Kivare

KivareKivare is a shamanic practitioner, pilgrimage leader and trainee psychologist currently working in the NHS to help trans people with eating disorders.

Trained as a plant medicine facilitator in Brazil, they facilitate a remembering of the empowered, reconnected, wiser self. 

Workshops

Cacao Ceremony

Healing the Queer Wound with Plant Medicine

  • Kivare

Laurie King

Laurie KingI'm Laurie (he/him), a queer British-Kiwi whose current home-base is Wellington, New Zealand. My passion is creating spaces that cultivate healthy, thriving human-to-human relationships, helping people take off their masks, feel their sensations and celebrate their aliveness on Earth.

Since 2019, I have organised and facilitated hundreds of Authentic Relating, Dating and Embodiment workshops in Oceania and Europe. My training includes Authentic Revolution, The Embody Lab, World Peace Yoga School, the Connection Institute, ISTA and Body Electric.

I have facilitated at internationally acclaimed festivals such as Stretch and Ignite and organisations such as ART International.

Website: itoiauthenticrelating.com 

Workshops

Inner Sanctuary - cultivating safety in your body

Relating in the Dark

  • Laurie King

Lee Harrington

Lee HarringtonLee Harrington (he/they) is a spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, author, editor, gender explorer, tarot reader, and eclectic artist based out of Denver, Colorado.

A genderqueer trans spirit-worker and ritual facilitator dedicated to Mother Bear and the Star Goddess, Lee has been speaking and leading experiences on sexuality, psychology, faith, and desire since 2001.

Some of his books include "Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond," "Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities," "Become Your Own Beloved: A Guide to Delighting In Self Connection," and the anthology he co-edited, "Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries."

Website: PassionAndSoul.com

Workshops

Elemental Bondage

Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond

Safer Sex Practices, Sex Magic, and Sacred Sexuality

The Queerness of Magic, the Magic of Queerness

  • Lee Harrington

Leni Rolfe

Leni RolfeLeni Rolfe (they/he) is a Bristol based yoga facilitator & community worker, who creates spaces for embodied self-enquiry, ritual, radical rest, and collective care.

Their offerings are rooted in the teachings of yoga as a practice of liberation and interwoven with the cyclical wisdom of the natural world.

Leni is particularly interested in crafting spaces which meet the moment: emphasising accessibility & autonomy, supporting folks to listen & feel into the soft and courageous intelligence of the body.  

Website: www.yogaloni.com

Workshops

Hatha Flow

Yoga Nidra

  • Leni Rolfe

Leopard

LeopardLeopard has been practicing Qi based energy movement and therapies for many years.

He enjoys sharing a simple and effective approach to these accessible and invigorating exercises, and to develop understanding how QiGong Medicine can assist with our well being as individuals and a community.

This year he is also sharing a fun vocal workshop also. 

Workshops

Daily Qi Movement

Qi Flow as Medicine

The Fun Hum!

  • Leopard

Lise Munro

Lisa MunroeI'm Lise, most know me as Killpussy aka wrestling name.

Outside wrestling: security leader, welfare advocate, crew chief and punk singer.

Workshops

Kinky wrestling

  • Lise Munro
  • Killpussy

Liv

LivLiv is a nature enthusiast and facilitator of outdoor experiences who lives and works in Scotland.

Liv loves nothing more than exploring wild places and is looking forward to bringing some of the wild into the Children and Young People’s area this year at Queer Spirit festival!

Workshops

Queer Spirit (CYP)

  • Liv

Lou Aphramor

Lou AphramorLou is a radical dietitian and spoken word poet committed to queer(ing) flourishing through rethinking food and body stories to be fat- and trans-affirming, centring Black aliveness and disability justice. 

Workshops

Queering Food

  • Lou Aphramor

Lou Hart

Lou HartI am a genderqueer artist, musician, witch, priestess and writer and one of the three founders of Queer Pagan Camp in the UK (back in 1998). 

Workshops

Call of the Wild Gods

Pagan Incantation and Chant

Sharing Circle for Older Queers

  • Lou Hart

Lou Thomas

Lou ThomasLou (they/he) is a yoga teacher, massage therapist, and founder of Gather Brighton, a non-profit community yoga and wellbeing space in Brighton.

They specialise in trauma-informed, accessible, and therapeutic approaches to wellbeing, and working with LGBTQIA+, disabled, and neurodivergent communities.

Outside of yoga, they love hanging out with their chihuahua, touching trees, getting involved in the local LGBTQ community, and taking lots of naps. 

Website: bodybitsbrighton.com

Workshops

Gentle + Restful Yoga

  • Lou Thomas

Mac J Hawk

Mac J HawkI am a Queer Pagan Shamanic practitioner experienced in hedge witchcraft and community creation.

I have led workshops for many years on shamanic and journeying practices. Led sweat lodges and drummed and participated in shamanic dance and trance dance.

I have deep connections to the land and have affinities with many animals especially Hawk, Badger and Stag.

My empathic connection to others and the Fae and five decades of magical practice and experience mean that I can and do enjoy sharing my knowledge especially with Queer folk.

Workshops

Find your Spirit Animal (Big top)

Journeying with Hawk (Dance tent)

  • Mac J Hawk

Malwen Queer Community Trust

Malwen community trust

Malwen is a queer, land-based community in Wales, dedicated to creating a space in which our queer kin can return to living in alignment with the Earth and explore the depth and breadth of our queerness amongst like-minded folk.

Our mission is to create a nurturing, queer, rural home that includes low-impact and eco-efficient dwellings, land-based livelihoods using permaculture/regenerative agriculture and a diverse, resilient sanctuary for nature in all her glory.

Website: www.malwen.cymru

Workshops

Visioning rural queer community with Malwen

  • Malwen Queer Community Trust

Mandy Butler

Mandy Butler

Mandy/Momma (she/her) is a holistic therapist, psychotherapist and teacher who blends mind-body clinical skills with intuitive and magical practices. 

She is passionate about self-empowerment and inclusion.

Workshops

Couples Massage Workshop

Safe massage and aromatherapy blending techniques workshop

  • Mandy Butler

Méabh and Daddy

Méabh and DaddyMéabh is a fierce demi-goddess of Irish sovereignty, embodying the land's covenant with its peoples.

Daddy is Jamaican rooted, Ogun-born, Legba-touched, Maroon-fostered, holding awe and dread, opening the gates.

Workshops

Temple Ceremony, Thursday, 11 pm to midnight

  • Méabh
  • Daddy

Miqxe

MiqxeMiqxe co-ordinates the "Campaigns and Communities" aspect of QSF.

This year, they will lead sessions on InterSectionality; on Queer Activism; on updating the FaeNet global social media platform; and on The Radical Faeries of Europe

Workshops

Intersectionality and Inter-functionality

Queer Solidarity Breakfast

  • Miqxe

Moon Scott

Moon ScottMoon is a nonbinary queer movement artist who lives in rhythm with the moon cycles.

A qualified yoga teacher of four years, they find deep meaning in physical self-expression.

A devoted cat parent with a love for astrology and nature, Moon has facilitated Queer Circles in Liverpool, is a certified Mental Health First Aider, and works in social housing supporting homeless young people. 

Moon's vision is to create queer community spaces rooted in creativity, healing, and cosmic connection. 

Workshops

Astro Yin Yoga

Morning Astro Yoga!

  • Moon Scott

Mouna

MounaActivist, facilitator of dialogue groups between Palestinians & Jews for the last 5 years and gender & sexuality facilitator in high schools and pre-academic organizations.

I was living in socialists community for the last 15 years and worked with a lot of groups.

 I used to work in youth organizations and to be responsible for taking care for sexual harassments with the including a rape crisis centre. Member of the radical fearies in Israel.

Workshops

Kinky by nature

  • Mouna

Nick Jarvis

Nick JarvisNick Jarvis lives in Cornwall , where he works as a forestry consultant specialising in ancient woodlands and temperate rainforests.

He is also a climate café facilitator, a poet and animist. 

Workshops

Tree ID for beginners

Web of belonging

  • Nick Jarvis

Nicky Wetherell

Nicky WetherellNicky Wetherell (they/she) is a Somatic Sexologist and Level 5 trainee counsellor listed on the BACP Student Register. Her work is trauma-informed, queer-affirming and grounded in nervous system regulation, embodied consent and therapeutic group process.

She is also a qualified Yoga teacher.

She has been teaching at festivals and facilitating group work for fifteen years, working by co-creating a safe-as-possible container through shared agreements, with confidentiality as a non-negotiable. 

Nicky is one of the coordinators of the Exploration Space.

Workshops

Being Seen

Introduction to Cuddle Spaces and Play Spaces

The Naming of Parts

  • Nicky Wetherell

Osku

OskuOsku is a qualified Tantra teacher and coach with extensive experience in holding space for individuals and groups, and uses a range of modalities to support people to explore their potential and access deep insights and healing.

He draws on a variety of traditions including plant medicine, shamanic energy work, music and dance to create safe workshops that promote positive experiences for curious souls.

Workshops

Creating Safety in an Unsafe World

Exploring Sexual Boundaries

Queer Activist Wellbeing and Self-Regulation

Tantric Body Dance workshop

  • Osku

Pampayruna

PampayrunaPampayruna comes from the Andean Kallawaya people, with curanderos (healers), sorceresses and psychics in the family.

Pampayruna lives in North London, where has been healing and helping people in different ways as a singer, teacher, life coach and spiritual healer. 

He created an ensemble for Indigenous Baroque Music and an ensemble for contemporary Indigenous classical music. 

Website: instagram.com/el.parnaso.hyspano.early.music

Workshops

Pachamama Ceremony

Shamanic Massage (Indigenous Manteo)

  • Pampayruna

Phoenix

PhoenixPhoenix (he/they) is a London-based therapist whose work weaves together bodywork, tantra, yoga, alchemy, creative exploration, and psychotherapeutic practice.

Astrology guides Phoenix’s approach, bridging personal and collective consciousness.

With a deep connection to the Moon, Phoenix integrates celestial archetypes, oceanic rhythms, and embodied awareness into an alchemical process supporting both conscious and unconscious evolution.

Workshops

The Kingdom Within

  • Phoenix

Pinkwitch

PinkwitchI am a practising Traditional witch who has been reading the cards for over 30 years, I teach witchcraft skills alongside personal development.

I am a teacher and an eternal student!   

Website: www.wonkycorner.co.uk

Workshops

Confidence in your Spell Work

Intuitive tarot and oracle workshop

Guided meditation (CYP)

  • Pinkwitch

Quill

QuillQuill is a cyber chaplain, facilitator, and Dionysian priest, blending spirituality, harm reduction, and queer community care to create grounded, transformative, and joyfully embodied experiences.

Workshops

Dionysian Ceremony

 

  • Quill

Qweaver

QweaverQweaver

is a queer, non-binary, magical being. Since the 90s, they’ve been active in LGBTQ+ support and community-making, through groups like London Friend, Edward Carpenter Community, Radical Faeries of Albion, and Loving Men +. They were also part of the early visioning that helped birth Queer Spirit Festival. Qweaver holds magic-themed retreats as a way to step deeper into presence and connectedness.

Website: lifelovecoaching.wordpress.com/magic-gateways/

Workshops

Sustain the Flame

 

  • Qweaver

Rhi Kemp Davies

Rhi Kemp DaviesRhi is a Sex and Relationship Therapist based in South Wales. They are a queer, nonbinary relationship anarchist and love helping people find erotic pleasure that works for them.

Workshops

Having sex in a trans/nonbinary body

  • Rhi Kemp Davies

Seanna Fallon

Seanna FallonSeanna Fallon (they/them) is a 400 hours certified breathwork facilitator.

Their work with the breath helps participants to build connections with themselves, with other people and with the world around them. It resources people, grounds people, builds resilience and comes with a cornucopia of other benefits.

Seanna loves holding space for the queer community and helping breathers to step into their favourite selves and let their authenticity shine.

Workshops

A breath for every occasion

  • Seanna Fallon

Shokti

ShoktiShokti is one of the founders of QS Festival, plus long time global Radical Faerie activist.

Shokti underwent a shamanic awakening while living with AIDS in the 90s and has served the cause of the Great Reconnection with Spirit ever since. He runs QS Drum Circle in London and writes blogs.

Shokti is also a historian keen to unveil the hidden history of queers in spiritual roles around the planet, and spread the word about queer healing powers, about the shamanic nature of our queer souls.

Website: rainbowmessenger.blog

Workshops

Here! Queer! Cosmic!

Trance dance

  • Shokti

Simon and Emy

Simon and EmySimon and Emy are a queer couple based in London.

They are experienced facilitators and energy healers offering Yoga, Sound Healing, Reiki, Meditation, life coaching and breath work.

They run regular sound baths in London and Essex as well as other events and retreats. 

Website: www.chokureikihealing.com

Workshops

Gong Bath

Healing journey

  • Simon and Emy

Sing with Nell

Sing with NellNell (she/they) is driven by the joy of singing and developing workshops that focus on releasing sound, creating beautiful resonance and luscious harmonies with high energy and big sound.

They studied voice growing up, at university and beyond moving from peripatetic singing teacher, conducting county choirs, head of music, singing in numerous ensembles and bands, teaching theory, leading vocal ensembles and vocal coaching. 

Website: linktr.ee/singwithnell

Workshops

Sing with Nell - Together We Resonate!

  • Sing with Nell

Sky

SkyDancing on the earth is joy in my life since a kid - coming into liberation revelation with Contact Improvisation and Celebrating the Elements of Creation - so early most days I'm amongst the trees moving body, imagination & voice in delight, release and thanxgiving.

And it's great to share with others the blessings of how & where I'm based next a fragment of forest in Devon. 

Workshops

Contact ImprovDance Introduction

Contact Trust Play

Daily movement ritual

  • Sky

Sophie Fishwick

Sophie FishwickSophie (she/her) is a lifelong professional musician, who now focuses on making music for healing purposes.

She has been studying Tai Ji Quan for 10 years and teaching for 4.

Sophie is offering a co-created sound bath and introduction to Tai ji Quan in the Women’s Space at Queer Spirit 2026.

Workshops

Sounds for the Soul

Tai ji Quan : Free the Qi

  • Sophie Fishwick

Sqy

SqyWith roots stretching from Java to Thailand, Sqy is an angel in the Queer Spirit family tree.

Sqy is a London-based architect with creative work that moves between drawing, mural painting, pottery, and textiles, usually tied together by a love for detailed textures, rhythmic patterns, and bold, expressive lines.

Workshops

Introduction to Batik Painting [GM Space]

  • Sqy

Suffi

Suffi

Sufi (Assaf Ben Moshe) is a workshop facilitator and chef for the past 20 years.

He has hosted retreats for gay men on sexuality, food and the world between these realms."

Workshops

I love you ass hole!

  • Sufi

Tam Omond

Tam OmondTam (they/them) is an organiser, facilitator and writer based in Glasgow.

They are a founding member of Camp Trans Scotland, Trans Rites and an educator within the queer, feminist and climate movements.

They love working with sex magic to release all this gorgeous, juicy energy into the world.

Tam is facilitating in the Exploration Space.

Workshops

Hidden Touch

  • Tam Omond

Tao

TaoTao is based in Manchester, England also in Valencia province, Spain  and is part of the radical faerie community in both lands.

Tao facilitates workshops at QSF, helps with the sauna and offers therapeutic massages.  

Beyond the festival, Tao works with particle accelerators and has a special interest in conscious communities, Vipassana meditation, and body therapies. 

Workshops

  • Tao

Tom Shillito

Tom ShillitoTom is a heathen celebrant, shamanic practitioner, and passionate advocate for the trans and nonbinary community.

He finds his joy in creating powerful, meaningful rituals to mark our passage through life, and to connect with our ancestors, deities, and the natural world are part of.

Workshops

Self Advocacy

Speed Friending

  • Tom Shillito

Tommy Nevo

Tommy NevoTommy Nevo, aka Mouna, works in Israel as a gender and sexuality lecturer.

They have worked with several youth organisations, including a rape crisis centre, and as a dialogue groups facilitator with young Palestinians and Jews.

Mouna has lived in community for the last sixteen years, and is in the Radical Faeries.

Workshops

Oops, I Did it Again!

  • Tommy Nevo
  • Mouna

Toulouse Lost-Track

Toulouse Lost-Track aka DagmarAn eco-drag king who forages for fruit rather than forging crowns. Following nature’s signs to find, or perhaps escape, his own, he invites you on "dragventures" through queer ecologies and communities.

Out of drag, as Dagmar, they are a multicultural outdoor leader dedicated to creating spaces of belonging. By weaving together poetry, performance, and outdoor skills, they lead workshops and camps that reconnect humans with their "inner nature."

From the silly to the profound, expect nature-grounding and playful creativity from this facilitator and performer who is equally at home on stage or in the wild.Toulouse/Dagmar is a facilitator, qualified outdoor leader and drag performer (on stage and in the wild).

Website: instagram.com/toulouse_lost_track

Workshops

Meet Your Inner Tree - From roots to fruits

Nurture your nature

Rediscover walking

  • Toulouse Lost-Track

Woody Fox

Woody FoxWoody Fox is a queer witch of 50 years.

He works as a willow sculptor in Devon and lives alone with his cat Midnight.

He co-created Queer pagan Camp 20 odd years ago and has taught at Reclaiming camps and often runs pagan and witch rituals with groups and sometimes the public. 

Workshops

Call of the Wild Gods

Meeting the Deity Cernunnos

Sharing Circle for Older Queers

  • Woody Fox

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