People

Abigail uses Quaker worship to heal from her hurt and grow in love. In the silence she strengthens her ability to find god in herself.

Abigail writes regularly for The Friend, the Quaker magazine, and has been introducing Quaker worship at festivals since 2014.

Website: clareflourish.wordpress.com

Ace Armande is a performer and storyteller, who brought queer folklore and mythology to Queer Spirit 2023 and told the tale of bisexual singer-swordfighter Julie D’Aubigny as part of the Women Who Gave No Fucks storytelling tour.

They are an experienced teacher and facilitator, and work for the Step Up Commission as a performance and development mentor.

Aeren is a queer practitioner specialising in sound, embodied movement, and mindfulness in nature, passionate about creating spaces that allow the exploration, expansion and flow of self within the unified worlds of nature, spirituality and queerness.

Al is a an energy-worker, a queer pagan, a radical faerie and a Priestex of Cernunnos. At Queer Spirit 2023 they coordinated the Sacred Sexuality Area, and this year they are offering workshops, ceremonies and performances.

They have led rituals and pagan-based workshops for over 35 years, and sex magic workshops for ten.

Website: movingenergy.me.uk

Alexis is a queer mixed-heritage human living in east London. She has a passion for supporting people to heal themselves, especially those from marginalised communities, through multidimensional practices, bringing the body and the mind into alignment.

She runs an online community space called Healing Myself.

Website: stylemesunday.co.uk

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

Website: mbiramagic.com

Angel is a pansexual radical faerie, kinkster, drummer, and lover of all things feral.

It was at Queer Spirit 2019 where they experienced the celebration of queerness in all its liquorice-allsort forms, and are excited to be back facilitating this year.

Apollo (Gordon) - Co-host of the Craft space

I’m bringing sewing to queer spirit. I started sewing because I couldn’t do furniture making in my flat and tried sewing instead.

I enjoy the challenges of making the 2D into 3D.

There will be a workshop on how to use your Granny’s old singer, and how to make a simple garment (shorts) from a pattern and teddy making demo.

Assaf has been facilitating in sexual spaces for mostly gay men for over six years, and this is his second year at Queer Spirit.

A radical faerie and sexual explorer, his personal approach is that of simplicity, authenticity and playfulness.

A soothing presence and a gentle voice, Azure 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.

Bamboo Albert is a qualified non-dual tantrik yogi, a certified mindfulness teacher, NLP coach, life coach and inner wellbeing specialist.

He believes that sharing the unconditional love we all have within us can lead to a collective rise in awareness, where the feeling of being enough can grow towards divine and natural abundance.

Bex is an earth coach who helps neurodivergents and chronically ill people to conquer stress, burn out, overwhelm and disorganisation, so that they can get back to being in control of their lives.

Bex is a neurodivergent chronic illness survivor, who continues to use nature and the outdoors for therapeutic purposes.

Website: https://www.earthcoaching.net

Grace brings her extensive experience from facilitating Unlearning Racism courses with the Racial Justice Network.
Predominantly working with folks with a racialised white identity, via collective political education which works to disrupt the oppressive facets of whiteness. 

Bibi works for 3 years as a facilitator-organiser for Resource Justice (RJ), delivering and developing praxis groups in the UK, as a model for wealth redistribution.
Working with RJ allowed Bibi to develop a toolkit for challenging progressive people with access to wealth or class privilege and requesting a direct commitment to the equitable redistribution of wealth.

Billie is a nature connection and workshop facilitator with a focus on community strengthening.

Many of their projects focus on how storytelling, connecting with nature within and feasting, can bring people together, heal societal wounds, and build anti-capitalist structures.

Bliss is a Tantrika Priestxess of Love and Sexuality with more than two decades teaching and supporting others in the Way, they founded Tantra Fest UK camps, the Lunar Womb Temple Arts Practitioner training, and Stroud Goddess Temple.

Online: blissmagdalena.com

Bonobo’s work is focused on group-centred consciousness, enabling people to find new ways to interact with the world and one another, and Jason from the Bonobo team is a queer artist-activist and sexological bodyworker, studying art and researching the effect of bonobo behaviour on humans.

He runs immersive retreats that take you deep into the bonobo world.

Website:  bonoboexperience.com

Charlotte is a writer, jester, alchemist and explorer. Her work with astrology and sound seeks to motivate you on the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual levels, aligning you to your body’s natural intelligence and core power.

Through sound and astrology we access the song of the universe.

Website: charlottedonachie.com

Dafydd is a qualified tantra teacher and coach, with extensive experience in holding space for individuals and groups. He specialises in using active forms of meditation, music and movement to activate positive, creative energy and connection.

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

Dan Glass is an AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) healthcare and human rights activist, performer, presenter and writer. His have been recognised as 'Activist of the Year' with the Sexual Freedom Awards and was announced a 'BBC Greater Londoner' for founding Queer Tours of London - A Mince Through Time.

His book United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow was  Observer book of the week and Dan's new book 'Queer Footprints - A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History' is out now.

Dan recently founded the self-defence empowerment programme Bender Defenders and Queer Night Pride to confront rising hate crime.

Follow him on @danglassmincer

Daniel is a queer non-binary trans man, psychotherapist, facilitator, parent and writer. He offers EMDR trauma therapy as well as talking therapy, and specialises in working with gender, sexuality and relationship diversity.

He's held spaces at Buddhafield, Quintasensual, Held in the Flow and Queer Spirit.

Website: qchanges.co.uk

I've been a pagan for 25 years and an artist for over 45 years now, self taught. I love painting in acrylic and oils; for oils I always have a hairdryer handy as I'm so impatient!

I also do fine ink and pen, as well as abstract and still life studies, but my passion is trees, absolutely love them.

 So I also honour trees by making coffee tables and doing pyrography on them of birds or different animals.

Dominic is a practice supervisor and psychotherapist.  He set up Pink Therapy 25 years ago and runs an international training programme in gender, sex and relationship diverse therapy, about which he has written extensively.

He is passionate about queer mental health, consent and queer joy. He identifies as a disabled neuroqueer kinkster.

Website: consult-dominic.org

Dunya is a DJ, musician, sound-healer and podcaster who is passionate about curating healing spaces, using music and storytelling.

Her mission is to bridge the gap between queerness and spirituality by creating spaces that are informal, inclusive, and spread joy.

Website: dunyarising.com

Edward is a vegan chef, poet and author, and former chair of the Vegan Society.

Having been in psychotherapy has helped him release the shackles of his past.  And, with renewed vigour, he is experimenting with cinematography to create his own recipe videos. 

Website: ethivegan.com

Eva is a queer author, writing coach, sex coach and a shamanic practitioner.

Her lifelong interest in embodiment, creativity and the power of the erotic has led her to train as an art therapist, breathwork practitioner, fire walk instructor and sexological bodyworker.

Website: evaweaver.com

Firefly is a London-based coach, facilitator and yoga teacher, working with tantra to help the queer community know that love is abundant, and possible to access using our sexual energy and connection to each other.

Website: fireflytantra.com

Fortune Tailed Beast is a trans witch, animist practitioner and facilitator curating an experimental queer open coven called Lunar Playgroundz at Ugly Duck in London. They are also a performance artist, playing at the intersections of poetry, dance and film.

Their work explores folk futurism by intersecting ritual technologies, embodiment practices and speculative fiction.

Website: instagram.com/lunarrrplaygroundz

Francis is a second generation homeopathic practitioner and third generation healer, based in the Midlands and offering online consultations across the UK.

Website: instagram.com/francisrushbyhomeopathy

A proud Cornishman, George lives a couple of miles upriver from where his family has farmed for four hundred years.

Gardening has been his profession for nearly 45 years, which ties in very well with his druidic spirituality.

Heather is an award-winning musician and music therapist, who has a broad experience of running successful community events with people of all ages and abilities. She founded the lesbian choir 'Les Veus de Venus' when living in Barcelona. She fell in love with the uke about 15 years ago and now runs 'The Remote Ukulele Collective', with participants from Morecambe to Milan, Brecon to London & beyond. 

She has trained in Japan and is committed to spreading the art and joy of taiko drumming. She runs the drumming group 'Taiko for Pride’. She also works as a psychotherapist, Yoga teacher and Wellbeing project facilitator. Participants say 'Couldn't stop smiling', 'Creative & nourishing', 'I feel bloomin' happy!’

Jenny is a heart-led, deeply intuitive practitioner of energy medicine, shamanism and music.

She lives the shamanic path, always in connection to the Earth, spirit, animals, seasons, moon cycles, the elements, self and community.

Website: wildewomancreative.com

With over thirty years’ experience supporting thousands of people to make profound shifts in their lives, Jewels brings a rare wealth of experience, wisdom and skills.

A natural group leader, a soul alchemist, an earth steward, a womb-wisdom keeper, high priestess and a wild force of nature, she aspires to be above all to be an educator and a catalyst for deep transformation.

Website: jewelswingfield.com

Jez Franck is a multidisciplinary visual artist, poet and facilitator living in Southampton, England.

Their work is informed by ecological activism, magic and ritual, their identity as a nonbinary person and their experiences as an immigrant, neurodivergent person and outlier.

They are interested in exploring the liminal spaces between objects, people, ideas and experiences.

They have an interest in grassroots arts and art as a tool for activism and community building, believing that art has an important part to play in changing the world for the better.

Website: janifranck.wordpress.com

John has been exploring ethical 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.

He’s a member of the international Polyamory Leadership Network, and a regular presenter at polyamory gatherings.

Joshi is the founder and chair of the Gay Indian Network, supporting the LGBTQ+ community of Indian and South Asian Heritage in the UK.

He also runs an LGBTQ+ Well Being meetup group.

Website: gayindiannetworklondon.com

Kai is a shamanic practitioner, plant medicine facilitator, psychic and pilgrimage leader who specialises in Ancient Egyptian Magick.

He has been working in all four fields for the past 25 years, and integrates them into a cohesive original practice.

Website: @kaifeatheredserpent

Kalie is a highly intuitive Psychic Medium, Sound Therapist, Reiki Master and Meditation Teacher with a passion for facilitating inspirational wellness workshops and spaces. She has been on spiritual journey from a very young age and loves passing on her teachings. She offers a mixture of online/face-to-face psychic readings and healings alongside her wellbeing-based events.

Kalie is also the organiser of Spiritual Lesbians and Wellbeing, a community support group for gay women & non-binary people, and LezBe Mindful who host gay women’s retreats and wellness festivals. She is a very active member of the lesbian community and strives to reduce loneliness and improve mental health, making gay women feel less isolated.

Website: clareflourish.wordpress.com

Kirstine is a sexological bodyworker and somatic coach working with marginalised folk of all genders, guiding them in listening to their own unique truths.

There can be powerful transformation when the body feels truly heard. Consent and boundaries are at the core of her work.

Website: kirstineweaver.co.uk

Kivare Foster is a shamanic practitioner and pilgrimage leader who leads shamanic pilgrimages to sacred sites across London, Oxfordshire, Dartmoor, Cornwall and Egypt.

Working with the spirits of these lands and ancient goddesses, he facilitates a reawakening of the old ways in our new age.

Website: sacredpathways.co.uk

LaMariposa is a psychotherapist, tantrika and somatrix who is passionate about encouraging people to reach their full potential and fulfil their deepest needs.

Her approach is holistic, integrative, trauma-informed and solution-focused, incorporating multiple modalities to harness the power of the imagination.

Website: embodiedmoves.com

Leonie is a queer non-binary yoga facilitator and community worker, a passionate social justice advocate whose work is centred around facilitating practices which enable individuals and communities to experience embodied healing and freedom.

Website: https://yogaloni.com

Instagram: @yogaloni

Leopard is a trained medical QiGong therapist who has been sharing both movement and healing practice for many years.

He brings a queer, accessible and gentle approach towards a deeper understanding of our mental/emotional and physical body with a universal approach to energy awareness and interaction.

Liam Creature is a non-binary and trans creative, maker and facilitator with a particular passion for clay, creative self-expression and empowering others.

Their workshops range from getting messy with paint and toilet roll tubes, to combining rapid change therapy and hypnotherapy techniques with ritual, guided meditation and the healing properties of clay

After realising that she was not compatible to the current system, Lisa embarked on a ten-year journey around the world trying to put herself back together from a build-up of trauma in her body and mind.

She studied different healing methods, ancient yogic practices, and her own inner world, her favourites methods being myofascial release massage, yin yoga, and breath practices.

Website: breathceremony.com

Lou is a radical dietitian and poet (poetitian) who queers food and body stories to nurture community-held narratives that serve collective liberation.

Their social action theatre – ‘raw, sexy, gut-punching and deeply thought-provoking’ – received five-star reviews from last year’s Edinburgh Fringe.

Website:   lucyaphramor.com

I am a queer witch, priestess, artist, musician, writer and a Radical Faerie! (I was given my faerie name, Loupgarou, at Short Mountain in Tennessee).

I am also one of the founders of Queer Pagan Camp in the UK (back in 1998).  Initiated in the Ninth Wave tradition in the UK some 35 years ago, (a ritual drama tradition), I have taught Ninth Wave & other witchcraft and the ins and outs of ritual in the UK to many groups and individuals.

I work with techniques such as path working, shamanic postures, journeying and trance drumming.

Phoenix has been a practicing pagan witch for over 33 years.

His knowledge and experience led him to found The Sunstone Coven and the Coven of the Sacred Oak in Cheshire, and the Brotherhood of Cernunnos, where he supports them all in his capacity as Grand High Priest.

Website: brotherhoodofcernunnos.org    https://www.sunstonecoven.org

Martin lives in Glastonbury with his husband, and is a writer of LGBT historical fiction.

In 2012 he had a brain haemorrhage, was left differently abled, and was forced to retire.

This gave him the space to write his first novel, The Love God, about the Roman gay pagan god Antinous.

Miqx was born in South Africa in 1947 and classified under the racist apartheid system, giving them a kick-start into how the political impacts the personal.

With long experience in the co-operative movement, healthcare and community projects, Miqx has also been one of the core organizers of the Queer Spirit Festival, various radical faerie gatherings and is especially interested in linking queer folk with eco projects and system change.

Moon is a movement safe spaces facilitator, drag king and artist. They host queer yoga sessions and queer circles with yoga, sound healing and a space to share.

Moon also hosts queer ecology workshops, exploring these themes through their nervous system, and drag workshops where people can explore their gender through natural materials and play.

Website: instagram.com/_movewithmoon_

Myrta is a French queer therapist and cis-white fem and priestess. She regularly leads workshops and retreats centring around the body, emotions, neo-tantra, trauma healing and sexual fulfilment.

Her spirituality has its roots in neo-paganism and ecofeminism, and dance, ritual and magical practices are a key part of her life and professional path.

Website:  instagram.com/tiphaine_besnard

Nick is a co-founder of a forestry social enterprise.

He is passionate about increasing access to land-based careers, and to developing deeper connections with the land.

Website: workingwoodlandscornwall.com

Nikki Wetherell (she/they) is a Somatic Sexologist, Pelvic Floor health coach, holistic therapist and Yoga teacher mostly working with LBGTQ+ people and sexual trauma survivors. She is passionate about creating safe/r trauma informed and inclusive spaces where people can heal from traumas, liberate themselves from the should’s and conditioning to find their most authentic, free self.

Nikki’s love of the Wheel Of Consent and Embodiment ripples through every aspect of their work sparking transformative experiences whether it’s in 1:1 sessions or group work at festivals and retreats. She identifies as Queer, Poly, neuro spicy, spiritual junkie & pleasure seeker. Outside of work can be found in the gym, cycling, singing or attempting crazy DIY projects with a power tool in hand.

Website: celestialsoul.co.uk

Noam is a dancer, biologist, sex educator and queer activist with a particular involvement in the Palestine/Israel peace movement.

Growing up and living in a land with intense, harsh and dark reality, and a core member of QueerMagic, he harnesses his skills and experiences for the benefit and freedom of all.

Ofra is a spiritual seeker, improv artist, and co-founder of the Rainbow Men group for gay and queer men.

Website: therainbowmen.com

Pampayruna comes from an Andean Aymara family, with curanderos, healers and psychics in the family.

They live in London, where they have been healing and helping people in different ways as singer, teacher, life coach and spiritual healer.

Website: instagram.com/rafaelmontero7773

Pol is a white Brazilian trans, middle class dance artist based in France.

Working as a choreographer and performer for the past years, he created the company No Drama in 2016, and since then has toured with his productions in France, Germany, Belgium, USA, Croatia, Brazil, Spain and Bulgaria. With Tiphaine Besnard, Pol also facilitates the retreat ‘Sexuality and Enchantment’.

Website: pol-pi.com

Qweaver has deep experience of creating transformative workshop, ritual and ceremonial spaces that connect, heal and empower mind, body and spirit.

Rowan is an aerialist, activist and feminist.  She lives in Cardiff and co-parents two amazing children.

She freelances for Nofit State Circus and other companies, as well as running an online peer support group called Bridging the Gap, working towards gender equity through community, with many amazing contributors and resources.

Website: linktr.ee/bridgingthegap23

Sab is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitator working at the intersections of animism, ritual, mythology, gender-fluid and species-fluid experience, and trauma.

Their practice explores embodying and communing with the natural world in the here-&-now, as well as with timeless mythos, as a way to defy linearity, scarcity and individualism.

Astrology has been a deep teacher for them in regards to this, and is something they are excited to share and facilitate with this year.

Sal (they/them) is a facilitator, writer and teacher with special interests in lichen, queer psychogeography and the relationship between sound and words.

I started Yoga as a means to come in touch with my organic reality. I had spent my early childhood taking off on wondrous flights and after a bumpy adolescence and early adulthood trying to land, I found my practice.

On my return from my first trip to India, I set off on an austere and potent sadhana which was to last 8 years. This was a time of extreme isolation often spent in the wilderness, practicing for hours, foraging for whatever food the land would yield.

I would walk on moonless nights to explore the physicality of fear meeting my demons and traumas and expanding the boundaries of self. 

Website: aurolabyoga.net

Scarlett Lassoff is a queer, high femme, neurodivergent facilitator, performance artist and songstress.

She has been running her inclusive singing workshops and movement practices as a song collector and songleader for the past few years, as well as being part of the queer feminist choir collective F*Choir.

Lately she has been organising a lot with Song Bloc, the radical protest singing group appearing most weeks at protests and actions. She also djs as Dolli Patrón, bringing joy and silliness to queer dancefloors. 

Shokti is a long term AIDS survivor, radical faerie healer, historian and co-creator of Queer Spirit Festival. They have been running monthly full moon drumming ceremonies in London for eighteen years, creating space for spiritual queers to find each other.

They blog about the spiritual evolution of humanity and the ancient and modern connections between gender-fluidity, same-sex love and the spiritual realms.

Website: https://rainbowmessenger.blog

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Sky’s fundamental resource is miraculous creation in every moment, both in his life and in the community he lives amongst.

His open-air morning movement feeds his days with elements from Tai Chi, Arab/Egyptian and Native American among others.

Tánaiste is an emerging faerie with a keen interest in neurospicy community building and radical shenanigans of all kinds.

He’s particularly interested in developing working-class neurodivergent power and leadership, especially in radical spaces and communities.

Tessa is a community artist who also works in the field of queer sexuality.

Over the past few years, major creative labours have included building a strong queer family, managing finances as a minority with dependants, and managing the cultural uproar of existing as someone with a sexuality practice who also has children.

Website:  yoursessions.com

The Faerie Mystic, Vlad Kolodiinsky, has a PhD in Psychology and has practised as an integrative art therapist working in mental health counselling and research.

He is a multi instrumentalist and electronic music producer.

Vlad has been practicing Central Asian shamanic practices, pilgrimage and other Eastern spiritual practices for over 20 years.

Woody Fox (Foxman) has been an initiated witch for the last 45 years, first taught by the Fae and later initiated into Wicca and trained in Celtic shamanism.

He is a devotee of the antlered god Cernunnos and is a Seer working with the spirit world, Totems, the Fae and many deities.

He is a cis queer male shamanic witch who delights in empowering other people and beings through ritual and witchcraft.

Website: woodyfox.co.uk     woodyfoxwillow.co.uk

Yolanda is a genderqueer somatic intimacy coach and sexological bodyworker. They feel most alive close to trees and water and they love play, silliness and eating pasta.

They are passionate about bringing pleasure into their life and helping to facilitate the same for others.

Website: softsentience.com