Today, we’re thrilled to welcome Medicine Festival back to Wasing Estate, returning from 12–17 August for 6 days of music, wellbeing, ceremony and connection.
Medicine is one of the UK’s most distinctive independent festivals – a community-rooted, not-for-profit gathering that brings together artists, musicians, facilitators, elders, activists and curious humans from around the world to explore what it means to live in relationship with ourselves and each other.
This year’s theme, “Walking Together”, explores the idea of a pilgrimage of the heart, a living prayer and commitment to move in harmony, tend our relationships, and create the conditions for peace.
An immersive cultural and wellbeing experience
Set within our woodlands and lakes, Medicine offers an immersive wellbeing experience alongside its music and talks programme. Guests can enjoy wild swimming, wood-fired sauna sessions, sweat lodges, yoga, movement, meditation and healing therapies, alongside a wide-ranging wellness area designed for restoration and connection.
Across the site, nourishing plant-based cuisine, artisan cafés, chai houses, cacao bars and a vibrant street food offering create spaces to gather, replenish and celebrate community throughout the weekend. The festival is also entirely alcohol-free, creating an environment centred on presence and connection.
The 2026 programme features internationally acclaimed artists and speakers including Fatoumata Diawara, Pat McCabe, Charlotte Church, Leah Song of Rising Appalachia, Acid Pauli and Gene Keys founder Richard Rudd, alongside respected Indigenous elders including Mamo Senshina and Alois Pokorwa.
Rooted in regeneration
Medicine is guided by regenerative principles, aiming to work in harmony with the land and look towards a regenerative future, while educating people on how we can live with a smaller environmental footprint on earth.
As a Community Interest Company (CIC), its core purpose is social good, not profit. To date, Medicine has donated over £109,000 to a wide range of grassroots, environmental and Indigenous-led initiatives.
The festival works closely with Indigenous leaders and organisations, placing Indigenous voices, teachings and cultural exchange at the heart of its programming, while supporting the preservation of land-based knowledge, traditions and languages.
A growing community
Welcoming a record number of over 10,000 attendees, artists, team and facilitators, Medicine has built its reputation as an access point and bridge for those seeking connection, healing and a different way of living, without needing to fit into a single identity, belief system or path.
In 2026, the festival is also strengthening its commitment to inclusion, with a growing focus on LGBTQIA+ community representation and programming. Highlights include Pan’s Curators, a dedicated queer space curated by queer facilitators Seda & Ria, alongside expanded queer-led talks, workshops and music. This sits alongside the evolution of Azania, a space celebrating African diaspora culture and community. Additional spaces include Gwynns Grove, a men’s space, and Ceridwens Cauldron, a women’s space.
New to Medicine this year is The Circle, a gathering space curated by our Custodian, Joshua Dugdale. Rooted in circle traditions from cultures around the world, it brings together ceremony, dialogue, deep listening, music, poetry and silence to explore themes including AI, ancestral intelligence and human agency, earth-based worldviews, the voices of the feminine and much more.
The festival’s Solidarity Initiative offers supported access, including free tickets, travel and food support, to people who may not otherwise have the opportunity to attend.
Walking together
Medicine’s long-term vision is to help nurture a world rooted in connection, respect and balance, where communities are empowered, cultural differences are celebrated, and humanity lives in greater harmony with nature.
It’s a vision that feels at home at Wasing, where the land provides a setting for people to slow down, reconnect and experience a different way of being together.
Today, we’re delighted to welcome the Medicine community back to Wasing for five days of walking together.
Discover more about Medicine and this year’s programme at https://medicinefestival.com/
