2025
Kids Go Wild!
with Charlotte Allchinn
A monthly fun-filled Forest School session led by qualified Forest School leader Charlotte Allchin in 55 acres of meadows and woodland at Braziers Park. Suitable for all ages and whatever the weather – dress accordingly, it may get mucky!
Om & Bass Festival
Om & Bass Festival returns to Braziers Park, Oxfordshire for their 13th year of wellness celebration, fun and excellence, continuing their fundraising to end human trafficking in India with Yoga Stops Traffick. The festival prides itself as being one of the most ethical and environmentally friendly event, plus the most inclusive, diverse and accessible.
Septembersong Festival
Septembersong Festival is the new event from WOOD HQ. Now onto its third year, Septembersong will take place on the equinox weekend, 19th-21st September 2025. Just as Wood Festival kicks-off, the outdoor festival season in mid-May, Septembersong is our way of seeing out the summer festival season. While the first two years of Septembersong took place in the same field as Wood Festival, this year we are using the atmospheric barn for our main stage as well as the picturesque lawns and orchard of the historic Braziers Park house.
Painting Session with artist Wendy Botto
Come and join us for a three-hour painting session with artist Wendy Botto. This is going to be a relaxed session of artistic self-expression through acrylic painting on canvas. Open to all artists or beginners. All materials will be provided.
Harvest-Time Herbals:
Entering Autumn with Medicinal Stores for the Dark Time
with Rasheeqa Ahmad
We will spend a weekend drawing in from the land, preparing harvests of the summer season into healing medicines for the cold times. Learn about specific herbal techniques including tincture making, syrups, elixirs, vinegars and electuaries, specific for the respiratory, circulatory and immune systems as the energy shifts.
Living Fibres II: Gleaning & Coiling
with Fred BransonDuring this workshop, participants will have an opportunity to explore different plant fibres from the Braziers Park landscape, working with them to create coiled bowls and baskets. Participants will get to know a wide range of different crop residues, as well as to glean their own materials from our beautiful Walled Garden. This is the second of two Living Fibres workshops. It can be attended as a stand-alone workshop or as the second of the two-part series.
Journey Home: An Autumn Women’s Retreat for Hong Kong Leavers
with Linda To, Myriam Bartu, Josephine Ma & Joy LamCome rest, reconnect, and let go like the autumn leaves at Braziers Park, a beautiful historic community set in the peaceful Oxfordshire countryside. Whether you seek healing, connection with other HK leavers, or simply a break to listen to your own heart — you are warmly welcome.
This event is fully booked
Wool & Spindle
with Heather BanyardA relaxed course for beginners held in the beautiful setting at Braziers Park. Participants will be taken step-by-step through the basics of spinning wool using Basque drop spindles. There will be the opportunity to try weaving on a loom or spinning on a traditional spinning wheel.
Life Drawing: Discovering Your Artistic Voice
with Ranjit JhitaCome join us for a relaxed session of artistic self-expression through life drawing. This is the art of capturing the human figure from a live model and is a cherished tradition that transcends time and culture. This will be a valuable and personal creative experience whether you are a life drawing regular or have never attended a class.
Conscious Evolution Collage
with Heather LynchThe Conscious Evolution Collage is a collaborative and creative workshop designed to help you understand and address the complex sustainability challenges of the 21st century. Through this workshop, you will access breakthrough knowledge and innovative ways of thinking, based on New World Together transdisciplinary research findings that can empower and enlighten you.
Exploring the World of Moss
with Sean O’Leary & Caroline VitzthumJoin artist and educator Caroline Vitzthum and local bryologist Sean O’Leary for a moss workshop at Braziers Park. Beginning with a reading circle to reflect on the cultural perception of mosses, the session continues with a guided walk, hands-on identification, and close observation of Braziers’ diverse moss habitats.
SOCIETY Wider Community Gathering & 75th Anniversary
Join us for a two-day retreat exploring the ‘Society’ strand of Satish Kumar’s Soil, Soul, Society that we are exploring in this year’s education programme – a call to live in harmony with others, rooted in compassion, cooperation, and shared responsibility. As Braziers Park marks its 75th year as an intentional community, we’ll be looking at some of our history and reflecting on what it means to build and sustain community across generations.
Autumn Yoga Day Retreat
Treat yourself to a rejuvenating day of connecting with yourself and the cycle of the seasons; reflect upon our journey through the year so far set nourishing intentions for the coming months. We will journey through a range of seasonally inspired practices to explore the Autumn as a time for taking stock of our harvests (both literal and metaphorical) from the summer months, for processing and preserving the fruits of our labours to sustain us over the winter months, and for composting that which no longer serves us.