Queer Spirit

A 5-day festival celebrating the love, creativity and passion and spirit of the LGBTQ+ community.

Queer Spirit is more than a festival - It is a group that provides ways for LGBT+ people to explore spirituality, healing and personal development, and that celebrates the creative and spiritual gifts that the queer tribes bring to humanity. Queer Spirit is the synergy formed by bringing together many views, experiences, beliefs, philosophies and ways of being that have queerness and spirituality

at their core. It is a cauldron of queer vitality connecting the worlds, exploring energy, nature & love

28/05/2026

As we celebrate our 10th anniversary, we’re delighted to invite you to the next wave of carefully crafted workshops exploring connection, healing, embodiment, and mental health.

Led by an inspiring group of facilitators and practitioners, these offerings invite deeper self-discovery, authentic connection, and transformative experiences within our vibrant q***r community.

✨LAURIE KING✨
is a q***r British-Kiwi whose current home-base is Wellington, New Zealand. Laurie’s 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, Laurie has organised and facilitated hundreds of Authentic Relating, Dating and Embodiment workshops in Oceania and Europe. His training includes Authentic Revolution, The Embody Lab, World Peace Yoga School, the Connection Institute, ISTA and Body Electric. He has facilitated at internationally acclaimed festivals such as Stretch and Ignite and organisations such as ART International.

Laurie is facilitating in the Temple.

✨BEX HARPER✨
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 q***r community.

Bex is presenting workshops in the Healing Area at Q***r Spirit 2026.

✨KAI✨
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 Magic practises.

Kai is facilitating in the Healing Area and the Sacred S*xuality Temple.

Join us 13–17 August at Bridwell Park, tickets available at: www.q***rspirit.net

19/05/2026

We’re delighted to introduce the next wave of facilitators — bringing deep wisdom, powerful presence, and a rich tapestry of ceremony and healing.

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

✨ CLAIRE LECARPENTIER ✨
is an entrepreneur, Human Design coach a shamanic practitioner. With years of leadership experience in France and internationally, she brings a grounded, insightful perspective to spiritual work.

✨ EVA WEAVER ✨
is a q***r 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 q***r folks who feel disconnected from their sexuality.

✨ JEWELS & 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 q***r and are potent bridge workers between the straight and q***r worlds. Their style of holding space is one of radical loving acceptance, depth, a sense of the sacred and powerful healing.

✨ WOODY FOX ✨
is a q***r witch of 50 years. He works as a willow sculptor in Devon and lives alone with his cat Midnight. He co-created Q***r 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.

✨ KIVARI ✨
is a West Penwith and Brighton based shamanic practitioner, pilgrimage leader, and trainee clinical psychologist. They alchemise deep initiations with sacred sites, goddesses, and plant spirits into workshops and ceremonies that bridge the human heart with the divine spirit.

Join us 13 - 17 August at Bridwell Park

14/05/2026

Mental health, wellbeing, grief, compassion, self-trust, balance, and connectedness are at the heart of the next wave of workshops led by our facilitators and healers.

Too many q***r people experience challenges with mental health simply for living authentically and existing beyond heteronormative expectations. Creating spaces where we can be seen, supported, and understood matters deeply.🙏

This is an invitation to gather, to talk openly, to reconnect with ourselves and each other — and to heal in community.

✨AZURE PEACE✨
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.

✨JOE PHILLIPS✨
Joe is a palliative care nurse and good death advocate. He is passionate about q***r health and well-being and believes that facing one’s mortality and discussing death is an integral part of this.

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

✨QWEAVER✨
is a q***r, 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 Q***r Spirit Festival. Qweaver holds magic-themed retreats as a way to step deeper into presence and connectedness.

Join us 13–17 Aug at Bridwell Park. Tickets available at: www.q***r spirit.net

08/05/2026

Shamanism, witchcraft, and drumming have always been an essential part of the experience — and at Q***r Spirit 2026, you’re invited to explore powerful workshops, rituals, and community gatherings led by our inspiring facilitators:

✨ANDY FOWLER✨
is a popular world percussion leader who has taught over five thousand groups for all abilities.
He has been part of the Q***r Spirit team since the first festival and will be facilitating drumming practice circles at Q***r Spirit 2026.

✨MAC J HAWK✨
is a Q***r 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”.

✨AL HEAD✨
They have been facilitating rituals and pagan-themed workshops for over 40 years. In 2014, they founded This Land S*x Magic and have run workshops in the UK, Sweden, and Berlin.

✨PINKWITCH HELEN PRITCHARD✨
is a practising Traditional witch who has been reading the cards for over 30 years. Pinkwitch teaches witchcraft skills alongside personal development and is a teacher as well as an eternal student.

Come drum, learn, and connect in a q***r spiritual community.

Tickets available now at www.q***rspirit.net

***rmagic

06/05/2026

At Q***r Spirit Festival, we’ll gather in connection—through music, rhythm, and the power of the human voice. Together, we’ll explore sound as a pathway back into the body, into community, and into something deeper. 🎵🎶

Our incredible facilitators will be guiding us on this journey.

✨DOM SONGFIRE✨
At the heart of their work is the living voice, which they approach as a guide back into the body and into shared awareness.
Dom facilitates workshops, Medicine Song ceremonies, and individual sessions, and accompanies others in shamanic journeys.

✨LOU HART✨
a genderq***r artist, musician, witch, priestess and writer and one of the three founders of Q***r Pagan Camp in the UK
Lou will be teaching Pagan Chants at Q***r Spirit 2026 and co-facilitating The Call of The Wild Gods and a Sharing Circle for Older Q***rs with Woody Fox.

Come sing, listen, and belong.

Tickets available now at www.q***rspirit.net 🎟️

05/05/2026

Q***r Spirit is deeply rooted in nature, and we’re delighted to introduce our next wave of facilitators—each bringing a shared ethos of connection, creativity, and care for the living world.

Seed Sistas
Fiona Heckels and Kaz Goodweather, known as the Seed Sistas, are clinical herbalists, authors, practicing witches, and co-founders of Sensory Solutions Herbal Evolution CIC. With over 20 years’ experience, they blend herbal medicine with intuitive, magical practices, guiding others toward healing and a deeper connection with the plant world.

Nick Jarvis
Nick 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.

Kerri & Ash Hebden Herbs
Ash is a Medical Herbalist practising in Yorkshire and at the time of Q***r Spirit
2026 Kerri will be one month away from qualifying as a Medical Herbalist and setting up a mobile practice called Wild Service.

Toulouse Lost-Track
is an eco-drag king who forages for fruits instead of forging crowns. He follows the signs of nature in an attempt find his own nature, or perhaps escape his nature, maybe become nature, what even is nature...
He’s not quite sure at this point. But he invites you to join him on his dragventures and discover a world of q***r ecologies, communities and possibilities.

Tickets available at www.q***rspirit.net

01/05/2026

We’re thrilled to introduce our spiritual practice workshop facilitators:

LENI ROLFE (they/he)
A Bristol-based yoga facilitator & community worker, who creates spaces for embodied self-enquiry, ritual, radical rest, and collective care.

FAYE PATTEN
Has a varied martial arts background and is passionate about teaching and empowering ordinary people.

LEOPARD
Has been practising Qi-based energy movement and therapies for many years. He enjoys sharing a simple and effective approach to these accessible and invigorating exercises.

LOU THOMAS
Is a yoga teacher, massage therapist, and founder of Gather Brighton. They specialise in trauma-informed, accessible, and therapeutic
approaches to wellbeing, and working with LGBTQIA+, disabled, and neurodivergent communities.

MOON SCOTT
Is a nonbinary q***r 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.

Tickets available at www.q***rspirit.net

22/04/2026

Introducing the Free Wilders - Col & Sadie, workshop facilitators in the Exploration Space.

Col 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.

The Free Wilders are presenting workshops in the Exploration Space at Q***r Spirit 2026.

Being naked isn’t the point (Fri)
A lived exploration of the male gaze, consent, and body shame. Through stories, guided discussion, and simple reflective exercises, we’ll explore consent, responsibilities, and ownership of thoughts. Facilitators may be naked; participants are not expected to be.

Rules we never agreed to (Sat)
An exploration of public nudity, body shame, patriarchy, and social permissions. A participatory workshop using discussion and simple role-play to explore how unspoken social rules shape our responses to public nudity. Through shared experiments and reflection, we’ll examine power, projection, consent, and responsibility. No acting experience needed. Participation is always optional.
Care, clarity, and choice guide the space.

Where shame lives (Sun)
An interactive workshop looking at how shame is learned, embodied, and shaped by power. Using reflective exercises, we will examine how these messages affect our relationships with our bodies and our desires and explore where self-judgement comes from and how it connects to gender, sexuality, and power. No pressure to disclose. Consent, care, and choice are central.

Tickets available at: www.q***rspirit.net/tickets

17/04/2026

We are delighted to bring Woman’s Space to Q***r Spirit Festival this year again as we celebrate our 10th anniversary.

Our four experienced practitioners are co-creating a dynamic, magical, witchy cauldron for you to explore. Welcoming all women, and offering unique workshops.

ABI DENYER- BEWICK
is a q***r, 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 will facilitate:
* Wild and Held - Q***r Desire, Kink and Power
* Wild Belonging

BELA EMERSON
is a q***r & 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 will facilitate:
* Consensual platonic touch space
* A playful exploration of live cello, sound, and movement

BELSZKI
is a q***r feminist theatre maker with a passion for social justice. They run workshops and one-to-one coaching in comedy writing, performance skills, show production and editing.
Belszki will facilitate:
* Comedy Writing Taster
* Beginners Improv Taster

SOPHIE FISHWICK
is a lifelong professional musician, who now focuses on making music for healing purposes.
She has been studying Tai Ji Quan for ten years and teaching over four.
Sophie will facilitate:
* Sounds for the soul
* Tai ji Quan : Free the Qi

Tickets available at www.q***rspirit.net/tickets

15/04/2026

As we celebrate our 10th anniversary, we’re thrilled to introduce a brand-new workshop and hangout space

✨THE EXPLORATION SPACE✨
It’s for workshops exploring some of the most important issues and challenges that all of us, especially q***r folks, come across and need to deal with. Things like self-awareness, communication skills, consent, boundaries, neurodiversity, intimacy, shame, and doubt.

And in the evenings, it will be a safe cuddle space, where folk can hang out and put into practice what they’ve learned during the day. 🌚🤗

The Exploration Space venue and programme are being co-ordinated by John Button and Nicky Wetherell, who both have long and extensive experience of organising event programmes and group activities.

🌟JOHN BUTTON 🌟
John’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 q***r perspective – he curates the honesterotica website, the world’s largest resource for erotic art and illustration.
John has been exploring ethical relationships and non-exclusivity for more than four decades, as a writer and group leader as well as in his own life.
His book ‘Getting Closer: S*x, Love and Common Sense’ discussed much of what later became called polyamory.

🌟NICKY WETHERELL 🌟
Nicky is a Somatic S*xologist and Level 5 trainee counsellor listed on the BACP Student Register. Her work is trauma-informed, q***r-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.

🎟️ Tickets available at www.q***rspirit.net/tickets

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