OUT & WILD 2025 LINE UP

Find deep relaxation and be bathed in the beautiful sounds and healing vibrations of the Gongs. Bringing balance and harmony to mind, body, and Spirit. A unique and powerful passive meditation experience suitable for all. Bring a yoga mat (or camping mat) blanket (or sleeping bag), cushion and wear comfy clothes.  

"It felt like waves of sunshine through my whole body." Adrianna

"My body has never felt relaxed like that before." Sarahjayne

Ruth(she/her) is the co- curator of our wellness & workout zone and a firm favourite at Out & Wild. She is a wellness transformational retreat and workshop leader and depth coach. Weaving yoga, mantra, breathwork, sound, poetry, movement and writing, she creates space for deep healing and transformation. She has been running Retreats for the last 9 years on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales and in March 2022 she founded Rainbow Retreats for Queer Women (LGBTQ+). 

Sam specializes in helping others access this same clarity and truth. Her breathwork sessions are transformative, offering a safe space to release emotional blockages, reconnect with inner wisdom, and emerge feeling calmer, more relaxed, and better equipped to handle life’s challenges. Participants often report a renewed sense of abundance, joy, and purpose after working with her.

Whether in one-to-one coaching or group settings, Sam creates a space of honesty, vulnerability, and empowerment. Her work focuses on helping others embrace life’s transitions with courage, clarity, and a deeper sense of self, leaving them more connected, resilient, and ready to step fully into their lives.

Sam Adams is a co-curator of Out & Wild's wellness & workouts. She is a life coach and certified breathwork facilitator passionate about guiding people through life’s transitions, challenges, and transformations. With nearly 20 years of coaching experience, Sam believes that self-awareness is the cornerstone of growth, healing, and fulfillment. Through her unique Life and Breath method, she empowers individuals to uncover their truth, find clarity, and navigate change with greater ease and confidence.

Sam’s own life journey is a testament to resilience and the power of inner work. As an adopted mother to twin girls, a survivor of childhood abuse, and someone living with a brain tumor, she has faced profound challenges. It was through breathwork that she found a pathway to healing, moving through grief and trauma while cultivating a deeper connection to herself.

We have been running wild swimming sessions since the first Out & Wild festival. It's always been one of our most popular experiences.

For 2025 we will be running session at the sea and also at the lake on site.

All the sessions are run by trained experts and are open to all levels of swimmers. For 2025, thanks to our friends at Speedo we will also have a limited amount of free swim caps and goody bags for those who take part.

We will even have a pop up sauna on site, as well as plenty of hot showers to warm up afterwards.

Swims will have a charge and will be bookable from April.

 Mary is a hugely talented writer and performer. She sold out her Edinburgh Fringe debut last year with the critically acclaimed show ‘Money Princess’ which then transferred to Soho Theatre.

Winner of the Only Fans Comedy Creative; Funny Women Awards runner-up and longlisted in the Thousand Films Female Writing Competition, Mary’s broadcast credits include; Comedy Central Live (Comedy Central), BBC Presents: Stand Up for Live Comedy (BBC Three) and BBC Laugh Lessons (BBC iPlayer).

Last year she supported Tig Notaro on her UK tour and appeared on The Guilty Feminist podcast.

Image photographer is Rachel Sherlock.

Our infamous silent DJ sets will of course be back for 2025.

We will host on Friday and Saturday night from 10.30pm. There will be three tracks to choose from curated by our resident DJs, including all your faves to dance and sing along to.

After an amazing set last year, Justin is  back! Probably the most well-known drag king in Wales at the moment, Justin Drag will be both an act AND a host for our Music & Comedy Stage. 

Providing live vocals and hosting skills on a weekly basis multiple times a week, Justin has worked extremely hard to bring the talents of drag kings to the forefront of drag culture here inxci Wales. Whilst RuPaul's Drag Race UK doesn't accommodate drag kings yet, Justin would be a frontrunner if Mama Ru decided to change the rules.

Another Out & Wild favourite experience is forest bathing. Katie Wilkinson is back to run daily sessions.

Katie has worked in the conservation sector for 20 years and is a passionate advocate of the power of nature connection for our health and wellbeing and the importance of increasing equality, diversity and inclusivity within the conservation sector for the benefit of both people and planet. She is an experienced community engagement practitioner, events leader, forest schools teacher, and practical conservationist. 

Katie will be leading several Forest Bathing sessions throughout the weekend which will aim to slow you down, recharge your batteries and to find the joy in connecting deeply to yourself, to others and to nature.

Ever fancied trying archery? Our friends at Inspiring Learning will be running daily archery lesson on the festival site.

You will get expert advice plus all the gear you need to be a regular Robin Hood (Or Maid Marion). 

This is a great chance to connect with like-minded others and learn and new skill.

This experience will have a charge and will be bookable from April.

Join us for an exhilarating Dominican Bachata Class at Out & Wild, hosted by Cynthia, who hails from the Dominican Republic! This class welcomes dancers of all levels, offering a chance to immerse yourself in the authentic rhythms and movements of bachata.

Cynthia's expertise and passion for this beautiful dance will guide you through essential techniques, ensuring a fun and engaging experience. Connect with fellow dance lovers and embrace the vibrant culture of bachata. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from a true Dominican native!

Tania Nishi - Self Love Coach, Somatic Healing Therapist, Tantric Lay Buddhist Monk

Tania (she/her) is a passionate Self-Love Coach, Somatic Healing Therapist and Tantric Buddhist Lay Monk. Some know her as ‘The Naked Coach’ or ‘Dancing Unicorn’, a unique and wild advocate for transformative and unconditional Self-Love and being truly naked. 

She brings together powerful psycho-somatic techniques with her profound spiritual practices and studies in psychology and Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, creating a unique therapeutic approach that empowers individuals to shed from emotional baggage, overcome limiting beliefs and conditioning and integrate their full potential. 

Self-love, to Tania, is not just a practice, but a revolution. Her commitment to fostering self-awareness and self-worth is activism, driven by a belief that true freedom emerges from loving oneself wholeheartedly and nurturing oneness with all beings, through a lens of equity. Through mind, body and spiritual trauma-informed support, Tania helps people discover and embrace a deeper connection with their whole naked soul, their True Self. By cultivating mindful acceptance and surrendering to peace and fun, anxiety and stress reduces and confidence, self assurance and trust is heightened. All this opens your heart through a cultivation of wisdom in love, compassion, empathy and joy, and you’re inspired to live authentically. 

Ever fancied trying out stand up paddleboarding? You can do this on our on site lake with the expert trainers from Inspiring Learning.

There will be daily lessons on a calm and safe environment. Wetsuits will be provided for all sessions.

This is a great opportunity to try out a new experience whilst still on the festival site.

This experience will have a charge and will be bookable from April.

We know how popular football is with our audience.

There will be an opportunity to practice your skills with some trainers.

We will also be organising short games across the weekend that everyone can join in with.

Just bring your kit!

If you are a wipe out fan then you are going to LOVE this.

On site we have a fantastic and fun water obstacle course.

You will get a wetsuit and helmet and support from trained instructors from Inspiring Learning.

We will have daily prizes for the best times!

This experience has a charge and is bookable from April.

Grab a pair of poles and join Karen for this enjoyable 75 minute ‘Learn to Nordic Walk’ workshop. 

Nordic Walking is an amazing workout, quite different to trekking or walking without poles. You will use over 90% of your bodies muscles and feel for yourself how to "rejuvenate the Finnish way!” You will learn the INWA 10 step method of Nordic Walking, up and downhill technique, plus play some fun games and drills to get you mixing and meeting new people, all while learning a new skill. 

By the end of the workshop you will have learned enough to get your own poles and begin to enjoy this great way of exercising outdoors. Poles are provided for the session.

As an International Nordic Walking Trainer, Karen has over 22 years experience of teaching Nordic Walking, Pilates and movement and specialises in chronic pain using a combination of movement and coaching. Karen has a post grad in Pain Science from the University of South Australia. She is a Senior Master Instructor and mentor for Peak Pilates and is an International Trainer for INWA (International Nordic Walking Federation . She is a published author and was short-listed for the business book awards. Karen presents internationally and is known for her fun and motivational sessions.

 “I shall remember the high standard and the fun delivery of this course forever. Karen was friendly, professional, encouraging and so very funny! She has excellent teaching skills of which I was in total awe throughout.” DAWN, Workshop participant

Karen is based in Llantwit Major in Wales, where she lives with her partner Paula and their dog Max. Together they run www.nordicwalk.store the UK’s only dedicated shop for all things Nordic Walking.  When she’s not at the studio you are most likely to find Karen in the big outdoors, walking in the hills, mountain biking, messing about in the sea or out for a run with Max the dog.“I love helping people to move without pain and getting back to doing the things they love. I love anything to do with movement, being outdoors, running, skiing, cycling, walking the dog! Sitting still is the problem!”

We will be running solo meet up sessions across the weekend.

This will include meet ups in our Info Desk area from 2pm on Friday as well as meet ups from 7pm on Friday and Saturday night. A

We will also have some meet up games set up for the Friday and Thursday for those coming a day early.

Remember over 30% of attendees of Out & Wild come solo and many leave with friends for life!

We know LGBTQIA+ families come in so many different shapes and sizes.

Out & Wild Inclusion and Cultural lead Raga D'silva will lead a discussion with an intersectional panel about what family means to the LGBTQIA+ community.

We will explore being sex same parents, having LGBTQIA+ children, fostering/adopting as well as your community being your family in this interactive session.

 Raga D'silva, is a published author, TEDx speaker and an entrepreneur. 

Born and raised in India, she struggled with her sexuality for decades making headlines when she came out as a lesbian at the age of 50 through her debut book ‘Untold Lies’. Since then, Raga has been a vocal supporter of the LGBTQ+ community and has dedicated my efforts to championing the rights of the community. 

Raga sits on several other Boards that focus on domestic violence against women and education for girls.  She recently set up the UK’s first speaker network for LGBTQ+ women and those who are non-binary, OUTspoken Speakers with Polly Shute.

She has been interviewed by several television and print media over the past decades for her professional and personal journey, BBC India, BBC One, Sky news, Channel 4, ITV and also been the recipient of awards focused around inclusion.

“Your music moved me to tears.”

This is the refrain contemporary folk artist Hannah Scott regularly hears as she leaves the stage.

The best stories elicit profound personal reactions and in the 15 years she has been writing and performing, Hannah has become a consummate storyteller. Her music is shaped by human stories, with family, in all its chaos and glory, sitting at the heart of her work. Her lyrics are powerful and poignant, and her voice feels strangely familiar, though you can’t quite put your finger on why. Her writing may be deeply personal but her music has a universal appeal that extends beyond the melodies you catch yourself humming days after listening to her songs.

The connection she forges with her audiences often finds its most profound expression in the stories shared by audience members after her performances: the woman whose elderly mother lost a sibling in childhood and is moved to tears by Boy

Born in Suffolk and raised by an artist mother and an eccentric entertainer father, with music going back three generations to her songwriting great-grandmother, creativity was always destined to be an integral part of Hannah’s life. At the age of four, her father bought a second-hand piano for £70 from a friend in the pub and she didn’t look back, falling in love with both playing and listening to classical music. Picking up a guitar in her early teens as the influence of her peers and more contemporary music took hold, Hannah taught herself some simple chords that would lay the foundation for her earliest attempts at songwriting.

Hannah’s career highlights include having her song No Gravity featured on the hit international TV series Grey’s Anatomy, recording a live session on BBC Radio 2 with Dermot O’Leary and opening for Madeleine Peyroux, performing to an audience of two thousand. She has also shared the stage with folk luminaries such as Seth Lakeman, Cara Dillon and Fairport Convention and has performed at festivals including Cambridge, Sidmouth and Manchester Folk. Equally at home in small venues, she thrives on the intimacy of performing in spaces where she can look audience members in the eye, and, of course, speak with them after the show.

Hannah is currently working on her third studio album due for release in the autumn of 2024 and the first she will self-produce alongside acclaimed engineer/producer Adrian Hall (Tori Amos, Anna Calvi),. These songs are inspired by the greatest of human emotions - love, parenthood, grief - and an unwavering yearning for life, even during its darkest moments.

“I’m sorry, but also not sorry,” Hannah replies to the audience member moved to tears, so pleased her songs have connected in just the way she hoped they would.

“She reduces women and children to tears - in a good way…” The Guardian

“…and grown men.” Tom Besford, English Folk Expo & Richard Haswell, Liverpool Philharmonic

“This is beautiful.” Dermot O’Leary, BBC Radio 2

Award-winning musical comedy performer Hannah Brackenbury has been tickling the funny bones of Brighton audiences for over 15 years. Her hilarious and heartfelt original songs are the perfect accompaniment to her clever and ever-popular song parodies! 

She reached the finals of the Musical Comedy Awards in 2016 and clinched Best of the Festival at Brighton Fringe 2018 as well as Best Show at the Funny Women Awards 2019 for ‘Victorious’ - her joyful and poignant tribute to the late, great Victoria Wood.

She hosts Worthing’s monthly ‘Funny Girls’ comedy nights and her 2023 YouTube web series ‘Everything’s Fine’ features 17 silly songs including ‘Flying Ant Day’, ‘Auto-Correct’ and the ‘Deliveroo’ song!

“A talented musician and funny lyricist, Hannah Brackenbury will tickle the funny bone of even the hardest to please” - Zhoosh

At our new site we do have a cinema room so will be pulling together a series of short films by queer female and non-binary directors to show.

The films will include a short talk and q&a with the director.

We are really excited about this area and the opportunity to showcase new and existing film producers and directors.

We will be running both beginner and intermediate surfing lessons with an expert local partner.

We are just 10 minutes drive from Westward Ho, rated as one of the best beaches in Devon for learning to surf because of it's gentler waves.

Surfing is a great sport to learn and you will be provided with wet suits and supportive leads.

This experience has a charge and will be bookable from April.

This is defo a fun experience to get involved with, right on the festival site.

Inspiring Learning leads will be running sessions throughout the weekend. You will get wrist pads and knee pads plus a helmet as you get taught how to skateboard down a grass verge. Great fun!

This experience has a charge and will be bookable from April.

We have a fantastic high wires course on site for 2025 delivered by the expert leads at Inspiring Learning.

The course has multiple levels and you will get provided with all the gear, including of course safety ropes.

This experience has a charge and will be bookable from April.

Our daily hikes are always a firm festival favourite.

At our new location we will plan at least 2 daily walks, one short and one longer, so we can make them as accessible as possible.

We will be announcing the routes and the options to book from April. For the longer walks there will be a small charge to cover mini buses.

If you are camping and have booked in your dog, they are welcome to join you on the walks.

Susie Amann is an International Mountain Leader who has loved journeys in the outdoors since she did her first 'expedition' on the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme aged 14.

Since then she has spent over 40 years exploring all five continents and has a taste for deserts as well as mountains.

By popular demand we are teaming up with Wander Women Campers to offer a couple of workshops focused on campervan conversions.

This first one will focus on the basics and you will learn the key things to consider (and look out for!) when you are looking to do a campervan conversion.

We will also be running a session on electrics - details to follow.

Back by popular demand is the band Dryadic.

Dryadic's folk-fusion outfit traverses an acoustic spectrum with a Brit/Euro folk core and feisty smatterings of roots and gypsy round the edge. Rhythmical mix-ups underpin heartfelt lyrics, heart-soaring hooks and intoxicating vocals, creating an inimitable balance of trad, new, romantic, feel-good and rousing. Dryadic masterfully commands the audience with guitar, fiddle, keys, double bass and stomp, seamlessly smashing out feminist protest tracks and dreamy queer folk songs alongside each other.

Dryadic has shared stages with Heather Peace, Grace Petrie, Nadine Benjamin OBE at Glastonbury, Pride, Boomtown, Out & Wild, Sistafest, Hammersmith Apollo and countless more. She is also the founder and director of Gloucestershire’s only LGBTQIA+ choir - Queer Voices Gloucestershire.

"Compositions with intrinsic beauty and a relatable honesty, whether that be a rootsy shuffler or a contemporary folk story song.......an entity that is totally unique in today’s musical landscape," A B Records

“Gorgeous folk melodies &; charming showmanship” Overhead Wires Music

"Utterly lush from the very beginning to the very end" GrassRootsSE

Facebook: https://facebook.com/Dryadic.music

Instagram: https://instagram.com/dryadic_music/

Bandcamp: https://zorasings.bandcamp.com/music

Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/Dryadic-Youtube 

We will have TWO campfire spaces for Out & Wild 2025. 

This includes a space we will use for workshops in the day, which has a roof.

We also have an open firepit near the main food and drinks areas.

In the evening we will use one of the firepits for impromtu talks and music sets and the other will be purely a hang out and chat zone.

“A talented newcomer”

Funny Women Leigh Douglas is a queer Irish stand-up who likes making jokes about the English, Disney princesses and lesbians (with a light zesting of Catholic guilt). 

She recently performed, Daddy’s Girls, a split-bill of stand-up with Sophie Garrad at Edinburgh Fringe, Gilded Balloon 2024, BBC New Comedy Regional Showcase, Live at the Queer Comedy Club for OutFlix in the UK and OutTV internationally. 

In 2023 she was selected for the Female Writers Initiative for UKTV with her sitcom pilot, Queer Jig. She recently received a script commission for BBC Shorts and her comedy short, You’re Alright Hun, won Best Micro Short at the Women’s Comedy Film Festival: Atlanta and Best Short Short at the London Independent Film Festival. 

“Leaves you eager to see what Leigh Douglas will do next.” Andrew Lynch, Sunday Business Post, Ireland.

Perrin is a 23 year old non-binary freelance performer and presenter from Cornwall.

She is also a Trustee of Cornwall Pride!

They like to bring fun, engaging performances to the stage, with some general chatting, thoughtful banter and songs you can hopefully sing along to! 

Hi, I am Vera! I am a Nutritional Therapist and a Yoga teacher but before all of this, I was a registered nurse for 7 years!

In February 2020 I qualified as a Nutritional Therapist and started my 200 hours Yoga Teacher Training with Rosie Iles-Jonas (Y O G A | doyouromthing).

In my invaluable experience as a nurse, I had the opportunity to observe how lifestyle, eating habits, the quality of food, movement (or lack of), breathing patterns and self-awareness have an immense impact on someone’s health outcome. Health for me means vitality, being in charge of your body and being able to live your live to its full potential. I have found in nutrition and yoga the tools to revisit in order to go back to that healthy state and help other people do the same.

Hatha yoga originated in India more than 5000 years ago and was originally taught as a healing system for the mind and to prepare the body for seated meditation. In Hatha yoga, a series of asanas (poses) are practiced together with breathing techniques (pranayama) and meditation. 

My classes include a series of postures and gentle stretches connected in a slow flow that guides you into deep relaxation, through fun and light-hearted sequences. Attention is paid to the breath, used as a calming and grounding tool. My classes are suitable for beginners with plenty of options and modifications offered. It’s also appropriate for any other advanced yogini or yogi who wants a calming, relaxing class that will leave you feeling energised and, at the same time, rested.