Noisily Festival announces a diverse and immersive Mind Body Soul wellness programme for its 2025 edition, featuring exclusive experiences, workshops, and performances that aim to nurture the mind, body, and soul of attendees.
Noisily Festival 2025 Mind Body Soul Wellness Programme
Noisily Festival has announced a huge Mind Body Soul wellness programme with the theme ‘We are Collective’ for its 2025 edition, as it returns to its spectacular setting in Barkestone Woods, just outside Grantham, Leicestershire from 10th-13th July 2025.
Headlining the Mind Body Soul programme is a festival exclusive, pioneering collaboration with acclaimed futurist Adah Parris, who brings The Presence Lab to the woods this summer. Parris will co-create this immersive experience with Noisily MBS programme curators Hely Cameron and Heather Gordon Athie for a festival-long takeover of the main Mind Stage, that will take you on a journey.
The Presence Lab, Parris's playfully rigorous approach to navigating complexity and paradoxes through presence and collective intelligence, explores the profound question: "What type of ancestor do you want to be?". Already sparking transformation in corporate environments and leadership spaces, The Presence Lab creates containers for pause in our increasingly fractured times.
Aligning with Noisily's 2025 theme We Are Collective, The Presence Lab unfolds as a mythic elemental journey honouring ancient wisdom while embracing technological innovation. The exclusive festival adaptation draws on Parris's work with organisations worldwide, featuring contributions from diverse practitioners with a dedicated commitment to showcasing Othered voices.
PapaLoko is the first event to bring meditation, Kirtan, and sacred sound ceremonies to the queer and allies rave spaces. It will present a Divinely (or trans-dimensional) disruptive offering consisting of Othon ◯ Vaun’s electronic Kirtan and opening ceremony, transformative movement workshops by Haus of Somatica & Amaleya Osei, and a transcendental DJ-set experience by PapaLoko founder Othon.
Following a hugely successful Noisily debut in 2024, immersive kinky arts collective Fox&Badge will return with a bigger space and a more expansive offering. They will be inviting you to experience a wide range of practices including a Shibari tree suspension demonstration, intertwining the ancient art of Japanese rope bondage, performed within the majestic Barkestone Woods. Their nature dungeon’s natural environment will provide a unique container for curious adventurers to explore their shadow psyche in a controlled, pleasurable, and deeply transformative process.
Explore trust and deep relaxation by trying mummification, gently immobilising the body parts of your choosing. Enjoy the bliss of surrender and travel to a world beyond as you are fully swaddled and encased in layer upon layer of cling, and then embraced by loving, conscious touch.
Techno singing explores the intersection between two of music's greatest jewels, Techno and medicine song, by singing improvised songs to techno beats, reaching natural ecstasy as a collective. A mud bathing workshop will allow you to get messy and feral, and totally immerse in a sensual bath of the earth.
You will also be able to release your inner animal and shed the constraints of civilisation and reconnect with your primal self. Through guided exploration, movement, vocalisation, and sensory awareness practices, you'll unlock your natural, animalistic movement patterns, and rediscover the wild intelligence living in your body.
There will be many more Fox&Badge based surprises in store when you arrive at Noisily 2025, with an entire roster of immersive experiences carefully designed to help you to explore very different sides of yourself.
Making up the rest of the extensive and varied Mind Body Soul programme will be the Hello Sunshine Sauna where you can enjoy a sauna, steam room, cold plunging, the Wim Hof Method, breathwork, fire walking, sauna ceremonies, Auffgass, and naked yoga, while Once in a Blue Moon Café will provide a 24-hour chill-out and chai space with clowning, poetry slams, spoken word performances, craft, interactive workshops, live music, and DJs.
The Red Tent will be a welcoming environment for visitors to meet the voice of their womb, use womb belts, experience c*ntcasting, lucid dreaming with mugwort, topless tea parties, self-love, and sharing circles, as well as providing a safe space for bleeders, and PostModern Midwifery: Hosted by Da a Luz Oasis will be a place to experience cord cutting, c*nting, pelvic floor and womb self-massage, and an open space for families to share birth stories.
If you are feeling creative, you can take some time to visit the Craft Village to make your own jewellery, try some bushcraft, have a go at potion making, and learn about herbs, tinctures, and medicinal mushrooms. There will also be lots of yoga, ecstatic dance, cacao ceremonies, sound healing, circus and performance to sample throughout the weekend.
Heather Gordon Athié, curator of Mind Body Soul, comments: "I am beyond thrilled to welcome you into this wild, wonderful space of movement, magic, and deep connection. Noisily isn’t just a festival—it’s an invitation to step outside your comfort zone, into brave spaces where real transformation happens. Here, we celebrate inclusivity, honour the messy beauty of growth, and dance with the unknown. Come as you are, leave a little more expansive.”
Noisily is a family forged in a holistic environment which feeds the mind, body and soul. Each year thousands of attendees gather in the woods to dance, create, learn and connect. Guided by the environment and grounded in nature, Noisily celebrates the individual and cultivates understanding in the collective.
The Noisily team continues to invest in production across all of its stages, as well as significant upgrades in every element of guest experience, with an unwavering commitment to improve the festival year on year.
Published on 01 April 2025 by Ben Robinson
