Solstice Temple Gathering- Roots To Freedom & The Wild Retreat

This is not your average festival or community gathering. While it carries elements of both, what truly sets this weekend apart is the land itself.

Redricks Lakes is already an amazing event space with a swimming lake, woodland stage, beach stage, and open natural spaces. Yet just a mile down the road lies something even older and more profound - an ancient site that has held human civilisation for over 7,000 years, with more than 5,000 years as active temple land.

This land has been home to a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer encampment, a Celtic temple, and later a Roman temple, before being abandoned around AD 600. The outline of the ruins still stands today and continues to be honoured and respected for the rituals that once took place there.

Over 1,500 artefacts from this site are held in the Harlow Museum, including the remains of the Goddess head of Minerva, known for wisdom, ethics, protection, craftsmanship, and mastery. Although the site is now surrounded by modern industry, it remains protected to continuity through time.

During the solstice itself, we will walk as a pilgrimage from Redricks Lakes to this ancient temple site, meeting the modern world with ancient connection. Together, we will hold ceremony and ritual on the land in honour of the solstice.

Throughout the weekend, we will gather as a village.

There will be music that carries ritual and otherworldly tones, fire and cacao ceremonies, dance, ancestral connection, and yoga including morning sun salutations to honour the solstice sun. Breakfast & Dinner is included in your ticket so we can eat together, as our ancestors once did, in rhythm and community.

You are free to swim in the onsite lake, set up your own camping space and enjoy access to the sauna included in your ticket. We will dance among the trees, play archery, sit by the fire, and return to our roots of connection, joy, freedom, and community.

This is a Alcohol & Drug free event.

Artists & Space Holders

Annida Tatvva - Martin Dubois & Ashwini Aria Delyth - Izzy Adams - The Sound Of Dusk - I Light Me - Nikki May - Lisa Shrubb (Wild Yoga Retreat) - Jon E Kay - Estella Star (Roots To Freedom) Serenity Yoga + More to be announced

What your weekend ticket includes

Entry, Car parking, Camping, Shared meals, Music/Fire and Dance Rituals, Workshops, Yoga, Archery, Wild Lake Swimming & Solstice Pilgrimmage. Sauna Access. Sunday Cacao ceremony. This is all included in your Day ticket apart from Camping and Campervan space. If you wish to stay Sunday evening in your campervan, you will need to purchase a campervan ticket with your day ticket. Subject to availability.

*Meals - Friday Dinner, Saturday Breakfast & Dinner, Sunday Breakfast & Dinner, Monday Breakfast. There will be vendors outside of these times for extra snacks and drinks. Of course, you are welcome to bring your own extra food as you need - but please do take your recycling/rubbish off-site with you. Water is always available and Chai tea will be sporadically available as part as your ticket price, as well as your cacao for the ceremony. Otherwise drinks are not included in the ticket.

First Tier tickets available until 4/4/26 or until sold out.

Instalments plans available.

Need To Know

This is a Zero waste event and site, please take all your rubbish home and bring your own cutlery, plates, drinks cups/bottles (water stations and washing up stations onsite)

Dogs are allowed with responsible dog owners. Please purchase a ticket, keep them on a lead and clean up after them (The dog & the human that is!) If its too hot, they may prefer being left with someone so they can keep cool!

Food - Your Breakfast & Dinner for the weekend is provided for and other vendors will be available to puchase outside of that. If you have allergies that are life threatening or serious, please email us to let us know on [email protected] . We will not be able to cater to food preferences. Vegan & Gluten free options will be available as well as ethically sourced dairy and eggs. Other drinks & food will be available to purchase. Water free on tap.

Full Weekend ticket entry time 2pm Friday 19th and leave time Monday 22nd 11am.

“Please note this is a drug and alcohol-free event. We ask all participants to respect this. Anyone not adhering to this policy may be asked to leave.”

Accessibility

The festival is accessibility-friendly; however, please note that some areas of the grounds are uneven and may not be fully accessible.

If an adult attendee has accessibility needs and requires a carer, we offer a complimentary carer ticket.

If a child or teen has accessibility needs, we can offer a complimentary child or teen ticket, however at least one full-paying adult ticket is required per booking.

Refund policy* Tickets are non refundable, however, can be passed on or resold via the ticket fairy platform. If you have chosen the instalment plan, we cannot refund part payments. In this case it will be your responsibility to sell your ticket on.

Musician/workshop/artist/volunteer/stalls/vendor opportunites

This gathering is aimed for around 150 people so our application process will be very limited due to already having confirmed our artists/faciliators and volunteers. That is not to say we wouldn't love to hear from you as we will have some spaces available. Please email [email protected] so our lovely Joules can send you the google doc application. Please note we will not accept any application any other way, otherwise you will get lost in the ether.

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