Workshops & Events

Through elemental magic, movement and writing we will undergo a meditative journey of stepping back into three ancestors of our choice.

We’ll queer ancestral practices by stepping away from the rigidity of biological essentialism, invoking lineages of creativity, activism, political action, pleasure and healing, chosen families, and queer ancestors known and forgotten.

Facilitator: Fortune Tailed Beast & Jonathan Enser

Location: Yoga space

Taiko is an exhilarating performance art that originated in Japan. We play large drums with big sticks, called ‘bachi’.

We make big movements that feel fierce, fun and empowering! We will be covering basic technique and learning a piece called ‘Matsuri’ (Festival), with additional treats in store.

Facilitator: Heather Murray

Location: Women's dome

A simple, informal acrobalance session. Enjoy some gentle stretching and full body warm up. Try some partner balances and leans, and some group balances and shape making. Open to all abilities and fitness levels.

A safe space to play a little, try something new, and get the endorphins flowing!

Facilitator: Rowan

Location: Big Top

Just sitting in silence won’t always help – real meditation starts only when you are truly at rest. Osho active meditations involve a beginning stage of activity, sometimes intense and physical, followed by a period of silence.

Clothing optional.

Facilitator: Bamboo Albert

Location: Big Top

Understanding, through hermetic practise, how your left and right hand are snakes which, when activated through the pineal gland, can dramatically amplify your orgasm.

We’ll be using self pleasure to harness the moment and waves of this particular orgasm in order to manifest your wildest dreams.

Ayahuasca is a feminine sentient plant being, often de-queerified in the hands of hetero normative shamans. Her use can have potent benefits for healing the specific wounds of feeling unwelcome on this planet common to the queer experience, but it’s not everyone’s medicine.

A tour through her history

Facilitator: Kai

Location: Temple

Learn how to make a pair of seventies short shorts from a pattern.

With a bit of help from pre-prepared pattern pieces, you learn all you need to take a sewing pattern and turn cloth into clothes.

Facilitator: Apollo

Location: Crafting

More a demo session on making teddy bears, as it takes longer than we have to create new bears.

Facilitator: Apollo

Location: Crafting

Using some older hand cranked sewing machine which are often inherited from older relatives you’ll learn how to set it up and sew.

I’ll show these are excellent work horses capable of another century of use.

Facilitator: Apollo

Location: Crafting

A detailed look at the twelve zodiac signs in astrology, their characteristics, gifts and shadow aspects, plus each sign’s association with a particular planet.

The talk is followed by a soothing sound bath using planetary gongs, opening our body, mind and spirit to the symphony of the skies. 

Facilitator: Charlotte Donachie

Location: Workshop dome

Kivare uses guided visualizations and trance techniques to connect you with your heart's palace, awakening your inner heart warrior.

Through ceremonial cacao, you create relation to the ancient goddesses Ixcacao and Sekhmet, re-discovering your activist calling.

Facilitator: Kivare

Location: Workshop dome

In this workshop we will look at the four elements: naming the Earth, the Air, the Water and the Fire and explore their symbols, their power and their medicine, in a neo-paganism and Celtic framework.

We will explore this mostly through group discussion and free dance (with live drumming and singing), then ask ourselves ‘how can I  balance the four elements in my life?’

Finding answers through deep learning with a tree.

Facilitator: Myrta

Location: Women's dome

Qi can be invoked and used as a powerful healing tool.

Based on ancient understanding and contemporary teaching, Medical QiGong offers a map of the energy body and practices to effect positive change within all the many levels of our physical, emotional and spiritual beings.

Come and find out how!

Facilitator: Leopard

Location: Healing dome

Learn about choices in leading to a vegan lifestyle.

This session will include discussions about protein and its presence in plants, vitamin B12, reasons to move into a vegan lifestyle, animal rights and the environment, substitutes for animal products, making nut milks, and preparing simple fulfilling dishes.

Facilitator: Edward Daniel

Location: Campaigns

There’s a clear overlap between people exploring their queerness and people exploring relationship styles beyond conventional coupledom.

 This workshop, a combination of introduction, discussion, small group work and roleplay, explores the promises and challenges of polyamory (though John prefers to call it ‘inclusive relating’), with an emphasis on our own experiences and solutions.

Sharing is caring!

Facilitator: John Button

Location: Workshop dome

Pilloried as a hag, a child-eater, unnatural, ugly, vicious, Black Annis is Outcast - found in marginal places, in the tales from Gloucestershire and Shropshire alongside their blue-faced counterpart in Leicestershire.Keeping themselves apart from humanity, they are the scapegoat for the imbalances, dissatisfactions and dissensions of local communities.

In this ritual we will call the Outcast – the spirit of Black Annis to be with us – and we will release the judgements of others (including those we may have internalised) to allow full transformation and acceptance to occur. The ritual involves a chant which can be used as an ongoing practise for working with the Outsider being – Black Annis.

Please note that this ritual could be upsetting for some – as we will revisit external misunderstandings and past judgements and rejections that may have created heartbreak, damaged our self-esteem or be holding us back. Please make sure you are able to do this.

Facilitator: Lou Hart and Woody Fox

Location: Big Top

As we rid ourselves of our earthly clothes, beliefs, pain, and other inhabiting forces, we will summon into our lives the magic we want to see in it as we slowly transform ourselves and others into beautiful colourful pieces of art.

The workshop contains nudity, non-sexual touch, and lots of creativity and fun.

Facilitator: Ofra

Location: Temple

As we slowly get rid of our clothes we start noticing the different naked bodies that are revealed in the space.

In this workshop we explore our relationships with our bodies, and discover new strengths within ourselves.

Involves non-sexual nudity.

Facilitator: Ofra

Location: Temple

Have fun exploring the sex-positive culture of our primate cousins.

Discover new perspectives of belonging and joy, while being rooted in your non-verbal, playful and primal self.

Foster inner growth as you make new connections with your tribe through supportive, bonding touch and compassion.

Increase your understanding of sex and sexuality and the many ways it can enrich and nourish your life.

Facilitator:  Bonobo

Location: Temple

A breathwork ceremony where we lay down for a deep journey into our bodies and energetic system, using a combination of biodynamic breathwork and shamanic ceremony.

Using sound and movement we will rebalance, release and process, to bring us closer to a state of wholeness and happiness.

The perfect way to let go ready for a beautiful festival experience.

Facilitator: Lisa Li

Location: Big Top

An informal friendly space open to all marginalised genders.

Share, discuss, learn and reflect on the importance and value of strong boundaries and how we can use them to Reclaim Ourselves.   

Facilitator: Rowan

Location: Womens dome

Create your own toilet roll characters, dots to dots and colouring pages.

Facilitator: Liam Creature

Location: Crafting

A clothed tantric workshop with music, where we will use breathing, sound and sensation to activate our chakras in two different practices – chakra meditation and chakra breathing.

This can unlock healing, wellbeing and peacefulness. 

Facilitator: Dafydd Tantra

Location: Temple

A brief sharing of thoughts as the festival closes, plus a short ritual to close the energy fields, for anyone who would like to participate.

Facilitator: Queer Spirit

Location: Workshop dome

Want to have fun, meet people with authenticity and depth, connect to your own desires and boundaries, communicate your truth, be heard and move on?

Brief meetings don’t have to be shallow! Join us as we build community and connection.

 Facilitator: Daniel Morrison

Location: Big Top

A safe interactive trust play workshop introducing contact improvisation, moving with ease with others, in and out of contact.

At your own safe speed you will explore giving yourself and receiving others, supporting and being supported, feeling what’s right for you.

Facilitator: Sky Chapman

Location: Big Top

Edward will take us through the process of creating poetry, from submerging ourselves in feelings, allowing these to wash over us, and allowing the creative flair to flourish.

Participants are encouraged to create their own poems and share their creative endeavours. 

This is a safe space for learning and opening up to self-expression.

Facilitator: Edward Daniel

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall

Explore strategies to build self-trust, enhance self-efficacy and self-compassion.

Bridge your past, present, and future selves, gaining insights into your behaviors and strengths, and cultivate your inner garden

Facilitators: Azure Peace

Location: Campaigns

Fluidly transitioning through a range of instruments & soundscapes, working with the vibrations of the Drum, Gong and Crystal Bowls, get ready to embark on a journey with Sound to enhance well-being through Altered States of Consciousness, induced by Deep Sound Immersion.

Facilitator: Aeren (Flow and Roam)

Location: Healing dome

In this follow-up session, we guide participants in envisioning and taking tangible steps towards wealth redistribution. 

Attendees will create & receive feedback on ‘Giving Plans’.

While designed as a standalone session, this session complements the previous workshop, seeing-class

Facilitators: Bibi & Grace

Location: Campaigns

In the company of shamanic healers from Asia and South America, Shokti will take you on a historical ride, from tales of Dionysus and the ancient Mother Goddess to the revelries of twenty-first century radical faeries.

We’ll travel the world to spotlight the associations of gender-fluidity and same-sex eroticism with the sacred, transcendent and spiritual dimensions.

Facilitator: Shokti

Location: Workshop dome