Anna, an Oxford-based yoga teacher and sound bath facilitator with over a decade of experience, will lead a guided yoga nidra style meditation inspired by the cycles of nature and the Celtic wheel of the year, blended with the soothing sound of gongs, chimes and singing bowls.  

Hannah Secouet of Base Camp takes us on a morning barefoot walk for adults. Find out why regular barefoot walks (or grounding) are good for your health and wellbeing, and be guided through mindfulness and reflection exercises along the way, to ensure you’re present and prepared for the day ahead. 

Join Hannah on a family walk where participants can take time to really feel what is beneath our feet as we tread (carefully!) through the different textures of nature, without our shoes and socks. There’ll be a few games along the way, as well as the chance to make your own lasting footprint from Septembersong - that is, if you’re brave enough to walk in mud! 

Lisa Doscher, who will also be performing on Sunday at 4:20 pm in the Wonky Church, will lead a harmony singing workshop on Saturday: a joyful singing experience welcoming all types of voices. Sing layered harmony songs and add a bit of rhythmic body percussion/ beatboxing if the spirit moves us!  No singing experience necessary. 

Dan Whitehouse (performing on Friday at 7:25 pm in the Marquee) will lead a songwriting workshop on Saturday morning, in association with Company of Song and Songwriting Campfire, called ‘Song Fishing’, designed to connect with your inner child and focus on the activities of writing as a playful experience, a kind of performance in itself. 

Singing to ground you, lift you, inspire and connect you. Elena Harris leads a singing workshop on Sunday morning. Elena is deeply inspired by the natural world to sing and serenade respect and gratitude in return for it's incredible gifts. Experience the joy of putting voices together to connect to each other and the earth.

In the afternoons, Karen Skehel will be facilitating a circling session. Circling is an authentic relating practice that fosters deeper, more meaningful connections with ourselves and others. Put simply, circling is a different way of having a conversation. Karen is a Facilitator of the Healing Arts, leading wellbeing workshops and sharing her work on ITV, BBC1 as well as being a regular contributor to Natural Health Magazine.

Romilly Swann talks about her chapter Inheritance from the recently published Wild Service.  "In Wild Service we meet Britain's new nature defenders: an anarchic cast of guerilla guardians who neither own the places they protect, nor the permission to restore them. Still, they're doing it anyway..." Romilly will discuss her chapter and give some updates on the Hardwick Estate with time for questions afterwards.

Listen to the sounds of frogs, hippos, bats and more as you immerse yourself in these composed sound worlds. Sound artist Nikki Sheth created these as part of a series of soundscape works using field recordings taken from around the world. Nikki is an internationally recognised sound artist and composer whose work aims to give voice to the environment and foster a deeper connection with the natural world.

Satyagraha Gongs offers individual sound baths-  an immersive experience where a safe space is created in a cocoon of sound for relaxation and letting go. Sound baths are an effective way of triggering a release of tension and stimulating the natural good feeling of the body. Colin & Olive have over 38 years experience and their sessions are unique in the field of using sound for deepening wellbeing.

James from the Tiny Tea House will share a tea meditation followed by a free-form journaling exercise. Tea meditation acts as a bridge to help us connect with a state of mindful awareness - using sight, sound, smell and taste to connect with ourselves and the season. Free-form journaling helps us to empty our thoughts unfiltered onto the page before reflecting on our words to gain new insights, perspectives and clarity on the summer that has passed and the autumn season ahead.

Artists Lucy Irvine and Jenny Pickford invite you to take a moment to reflect on recent events in Palestine through and interactive exhibition to create of a field of irises- the national flower of Palestine. Jenny’s Iris of Palestine sculpture is on loan from her current exhibition SUPERNATURE on at WaterPerry Gardens and will be on display next to a temporary installation field of paper irises. 50% of all sales of Jenny’s Iris sculptures will go to support humanitarian needs for the children in Gaza.

Hugh Warwick spends a lot of time talking about hedgehogs, but this year he is offering something a little different. Humans have marked the landscape with their lines - the hedges, walls, green lanes, canals, railways and roads all slice up the land as boundaries or transit. These lines have an impact on the nature with which we share the land. Some of them have become great corridors for wildlife, some of them deathtraps that fragment. Hugh will talk about the potential these lines offer as a way to reconnect the landscape and also to reconnect ourselves with what remains. Hedgehogs will appear … throughout … who is he kidding …

Accompanied by Owla and Phyllis her rescued barn and tawny owls, Zoologist, Dr Sasha Norris will speak about the  needs of wild animals in the wild and our desperate desire for and need for connection with the natural world; how this manifests in wildlife rescue work and how we can best direct it to help biological diversity everywhere. Sasha runs a wildlife sanctuary in Herefordshire and registered charity Siren conservation Education.  Sasha shares her home with over 100 rescued animals and 20 different species whom she cares for and observes diligently throughout the year. They are, she says, her greatest teachers.