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

15/06/2026

Our wave of facilitators for Q***r Spirit 2026 adds a rich and inspiring programme of workshops, talks, and experiences.

Through embodiment, intimacy, creativity, and deep listening, their offerings invite us to explore more authentic ways of relating—to ourselves, one another, and the living world around us.

✨ Kirstine Weaver ✨�(aka Caramel) is a land guardian and apprentice to Gaia. She brings a variety of modalities to her work, including S*xological Bodywork and somatic coaching. Kirstine specialises in working with neurodivergent bodies and those who have experienced trauma, helping people become authentically themselves.

✨ Nicky Wetherell ✨�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.

🌿 Join us from 13–17 August at Bridwell Park for Q***r Spirit 2026. 🌿

A celebration of community, creativity, wellbeing, spirituality, and belonging.

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

11/06/2026

Exploring intimacy, neurodiversity, pleasure, and authentic connection at Q***r Spirit 2026.

We’re delighted to introduce our next wave of facilitators, whose work invites us to deepen our relationship with ourselves, each other, and the many ways we experience connection, embodiment, and transformation.

✨ Fennel Waters✨ also known as The Fenwitch, is a q***r, 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, S*x Magic and authentic relating into their distinctive workshops.

✨ Dafydd Pearson✨ is a qualified ta**ra 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.

🌿 Join us from 13–17 August at Bridwell Park for Q***r Spirit 2026. 🌿

A celebration of community, creativity, wellbeing, spirituality, and belonging.

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

10/06/2026

As we celebrate our 10th anniversary, we’re delighted to share even more of the inspiring workshop facilitators joining us at Q***r Spirit 2026.

Through creativity, spirituality, embodiment, and storytelling, their offerings invite us into deeper connection—with ourselves, each other, and the living world around us.

✨ Edward Daniel ✨
Edward is a former Chair of The Vegan Society, a passionate vegan chef, and a poet. Through spiritual veganism, cooking demonstrations, and poetry, he explores the connections between compassion, creativity, and conscious living. Believing that everyone has the power to follow what truly lights them up—including speaking for those without a voice—Edward’s work encourages others to discover their passion and kindle their inner fire.

✨ Lou Aphramor ✨
Lou is a radical dietitian and spoken-word poet whose work is dedicated to q***r(ing) flourishing. Through reimagining food and body narratives, they champion fat- and trans-affirming approaches while centring Black aliveness, disability justice, and collective liberation. Their work invites us to build more compassionate and expansive relationships with ourselves and one another.

✨ Nick Jarvis ✨
Based in Cornwall, Nick is a forestry consultant specialising in ancient woodlands and temperate rainforests. Alongside his environmental work, he is a climate café facilitator, poet, and animist. Drawing inspiration from the wisdom of the natural world, Nick’s practice explores belonging, ecological connection, and our relationship with a living, more-than-human world.

🌿 Join us from 13–17 August at Bridwell Park for Q***r Spirit 2026. 🌿

A celebration of community, creativity, wellbeing, spirituality, and belonging.

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

09/06/2026

We’re delighted to introduce the next wave of workshop facilitators joining us at Q***r Spirit 2026.

Through spirituality, embodiment, mindfulness, and healing, their offerings invite us into deeper connection—with ourselves, each other, and the living world around us.

✨Lou Beardsmore✨
is an embodied mindfulness and meditation teacher, q***r leadership coach and Buddhist teacher. She co-founded Proud Futures with her partner, and together they deliver Scotland’s only LGBTQ+ change-maker and community building programme.

✨Che Young✨
runs a Health and Wellness Business, specialising in restoring peace to minds, and flow to bodies. Qualifying with a Psychology degree, Che became an independent stress management and mindfulness coach. Che specialises in Dhyana Meditation – focused awareness and sustained contemplation, in silence with no guide nor object of focus. Che trains individuals, groups and organisations in stress, emotion and energy management.

✨Felix✨
Since 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.

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

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

08/06/2026

We’re thrilled to introduce the next wave of workshop facilitators joining us at Q***r Spirit 2026.

Through creativity, spirituality, embodiment, and storytelling, their offerings invite us into deeper connection—with ourselves, each other, and the living world around us.

✨ Brook-Tate ✨
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 q***r legend Alan Turing.

✨ Greenheart ✨
Greenheart 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 q***r spiritual reawakening.

✨ Shokti ✨
is one of the founders of QS Festival, plus long time global Radical Faerie activist. Shokti underwent a spiritual 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 blogs at Shokti – Medium and rainbowmessenger.blog. Shokti is also a historian keen to unveil the hidden history of q***rs in spiritual roles around the planet, and spread the word about q***r healing powers, about the shamanic nature of our q***r souls.

✨ Capella ✨
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 q***r relationship with the non-linear state of time.

Join us from 13–17 August at Bridwell Park for Q***r Spirit 2026.
A celebration of community, creativity, wellbeing, spirituality, and belonging.

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

01/06/2026

As we celebrate our 10th anniversary, we’re thrilled to introduce the next wave of workshop facilitators joining us at Q***r Spirit 2026.

Their offerings invite connection, healing, creativity, self-discovery, and community through movement, embodiment, energy work, and collective care.

✨ CALU DE LA TIERRA ✨
is a mixed race gender q***r 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.

Calu will facilitate Q***r Salsa at the Dance tent.

✨ SIMON & EMY ✨
are a q***r 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.

Simon and Emy are offering Gong Baths and a Disco Yoga evening warm up at Q***r Spirit 2026.

✨ SKY ✨
“Dancing 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.”

Sky is offering morning movement practice and contact improvisation at Q***r Spirit 2026.

Join us from 13–17 August at Bridwell Park for Q***r Spirit 2026.
A celebration of community, creativity, wellbeing, spirituality, and belonging.

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

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

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