florence webb

Hey I’m Flo! I will be bringing the art of craft to the festival this year, in the form of crochet. I will be selling various wearables that I have made along with many other items. There will be something for everyone. I will also be holding a crochet class to teach anyone who is interested in learning or wanting to improve their skills. The class will be open to all, but due to the complexity of the craft it will be for 14yrs+.

tom morley

Tom Morley is one of the Mischief Generation and he generates mischief. Following his time in the music business with the irreverent 80s band Scritti Politti Tom has developed a truly artistic way of living where 20% of his experiences led him to the humorous uncovering of some universal truths. The other 80% are just good stories. Stick around.

joanne sumner

Joanne Sumner is a shamanic counsellor, yoga and meditation teacher, life coach, and energy healer based in Hampshire and running retreats through the UK. She is passionate and committed to helping people find their place, their path and their happy in the world. At it's essence, her work involves listening deeply to people's stories, witnessing and holding space for the full spectrum of human experience from raw vulnerability to wild hilarity and every tender or tedious place in between.

Assamia zoe bonner

Assamiya (she/her) is a trauma-informed Song Leader based in South East London and Creatress of Heart Song Collective CIC. She is a verified member of the Proud Wellness Practitioners Directory and has a background as an Opera Singer and Medical Scientist. 

www.heartsongcollective.co.uk

ERIKA TOURELL

I have been teaching and working in the holistic health sector for over thirty five years as a healer/somatic therapist and yoga/meditation teacher in the UK and internationally. I spent many years studying with buddhist and yogic masters, indigenous wisdom keepers and shamans from many different lineages and traditions. In more recent years my studies have been focused on tantra/sacred sexuality, trauma, grief work and animist psychology. I now serve my community as a Life and Relationship Somatic Coach for couples and individuals, Wellbeing Consultant and facilitate workshops, women's circles and retreats. Follow me on IG @erikatourell_healing or connect with me at erikatourellcoaching@gmail.com.

AJ England

Aj is a creative rebel, at heart ❤️

she is passionate about people feeling as comfy in their their skin as possible

She trained as a psychosynthesis counsellor, supervisor, breathwork facilitator, somatic medicine circle integration therapist , conscious kink and urban tantra practitioner, and authentic relating facilitator.

Aj has a delightful sense of playfulness in her therapeutic work.

She draws from her personal experiences in conquering challenges, including overcoming cancer and other health conditions,

So if you want to find your gold in the shit that life inevitably serves , and have a giggle doing it

Get in touch

07792322286

joanna foster

Joanna Foster has been running singing workshops and leading choirs in and around London for over 25 years and co runs Hackney Voices Community Choir, which welcomes adults of all ages and stages – the only requirement is your desire to sing!’. She  writes and performs with her four piece acapella group Anima and her song cycle Visions of 7- a mystical blend of jazz, poetry and folk - premiered at The Arcola Theatre. Jo also sings in local Eastern European Folk Band Beskydy often found raising the roof in The Cellar Upstairs Folk Club. As well as singing and composing music Jo’s acting career includes work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre and a variety of work for television. She is currently producing her new play The Inn of the Dawn Horse about the artist Leonora Carrington, due for a full production in 2025.

LUCY GIBSON

Lucy Gibson is a singer, workshop leader and arranger based in London.

As well as loving singing in classical choirs and small groups, she has been intensely involved in Bulgarian and Georgian song for more years than she cares to remember! She led the London Georgian Choir (Maspindzeli) for four years, sang in a Bulgarian trio (the Dessibelles) for ten years, and has been in the London Bulgarian Choir for nine years. With these groups and others, she has performed in venues across the UK and further afield, including the National Theatre and WOMAD 

She created the Walthamstow Wassail in 2011 and has led it every year since; her arrangements have resulted in a book of wassail arrangements for acapella voices (The Walthamstow Wassail Songbook). The songbook also gives commentary on setting up your own wassail, and the arrangements have been sung by singers across the UK to  welcome in the New Year. In recent years she has been learning and transmitting New Year songs from other countries to the Wassail participants.

Lucy regularly leads workshops teaching Georgian songs, mostly as one-offs or for community choirs. It gives her huge joy to gather a room full of people, whether they already know each other or not and lead them on a journey to learn a new song, and to experience the deep feelings of accomplishment, togetherness and faith in humanity which come from that one simple act.

sally davies

Sally Davies is a singer, choir leader, composer and multi-instrumentalist. She directed the Cecil Sharp House Choir  for 11 years until 2019 which sang mostly her own arrangements of songs from the British Isles. She continues to lead the Wing-It Singers in Hackney (est 2000) whose repertoire draws on other singing traditions as well, particularly those of Georgia, the Balkans, France and Spain. She collaborates frequently with other composers and musicians and her choirs perform regularly both in and out of London. For the last year she has also been running The London Climate Choir. 

She leads workshops all over the country including the Folk choir at the Dartington International Summer School for four years and folk workshops at Kings Place. Her arrangements are sung by many choirs and smaller acapella groups and her book of folk song arrangement, Lovers, Legends and Laments has sold widely both in the UK and abroad.

As a singer she has performed with many theatre companies and singing groups over the years and is currently performing with her daughters in the acapella trio Davies & Daughters and with Martina Schwarz in the duo Bow & Bellows

matt sparkes

Matt Sparkes is a passionate and dedicated teacher, specialising in Relational Improv with the repetition exercise from the Meisner Technique. Matt is deeply invested in teaching emotional expression, guiding his students to connect deeply with their feelings and convey them authentically on and off stage. With training from over 100 exceptional improvisers worldwide, Matt brings a wealth of experience to his classes. He teaches Relational Improv every Thursday evening in Oxford.

Matt is an empathetic, intelligent facilitator with a light-hearted yet profound touch. He got the class to open up easily and without stress and I experienced a significant amount of ‘aha’ moments in a short space of time.

ALEXANDER BAUER

Alexander started with martial arts at an early age. He then went on to discover Qi-Gong, where all movements are carried out in natural harmony with body and mind, nature, earth and the universe. He is now a passionate teacher of 5 elements and three treasure Qi-Gong. 

SONIA SUNG

Sonia and Alexander are a couple who have trained extensively over many years in sexuality work and other healing modalities. As partners in life and in teaching, they have a rare gift in creating safe spaces that are powerful fields for healing. They have a natural gift for putting people at ease and feeling safe and relaxed, providing many opening doors to transformation.

Our Website 
https://soniasung.com/

RACHEL HUTTON/ HEDGEROW HARE

I am a teacher, artist & woodland ranger, living & working in Sheffield on the edges of the Peak District, teaching a number of traditional crafts but specialise in baskets & natural cosmetics/soap making.Using traditional hand tools, techniques & process from an age gone by to create functional & beautiful contemporary & traditional baskets.I harvest wild forage as much materials as I can, woking with nature & the season, responsibly sourcing, copying & managing the land I work with.
​I teach & demonstrate all over the country for the RHS, English Heritage, Canal & Rivers Trust, National Trust, RSPB, Great Yorkshire Show, Harrogate Flower Show, RHS Flower Shows & Musgrove Willows to name but a few.
I also have a woodland & a woodland workshop to play in when the adults aren't looking!During the festival I will have examples of my work for sale, be demonstrating my craft & be doing drop in workshops for all abilities from 30mins up to 2 hours.

MARION GOLDSTRAW

‘Writing to Reveal’ is a journey of self-enquiry and self-renewal.  It invites you to write/work with a prominent story from your life, looking at all the dimensions of that story because no story ever means only one thing.    The emphasis is not on writing, writing is the doorway to insights.  We will be using Autoethnography as a method in order to ’thicken your story’.  Meet yourself on the page, have a conversation with yourself.  

I am trained as a teacher, a coach, a trainer, a psychotherapist and am currently undertaking an MSc in ‘Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes’.  I am in my Dissertation Year and am using Autoethnography as a research method’.

Rowan Andrews

Rowan is a business coach, couples intimacy coach, life coach, men’s coach, energy healer and tantra teacher. He has spent the past fifteen years helping people on their personal, professional and business growth journeys and to see beyond the personal limitations of the mind, to open them to new possibilities for their lives.

He has spent many years as a spiritual seeker, following gurus, guides and teachers to find the ‘truth’ that he always sensed was out there, somewhere, that would make sense of the human experience. Then one day, apparently, he experienced a total falling away of everything and a sudden recognition that this is already what the seeker seeks. Just this.

He now enjoys speaking about everything and nothing.