The Joy of Spring
Easter Celebration with Navanita & friends
Thursday 2nd – Monday 6th April 2026
Presale tickets now available with payment plans!
Join us for ‘The Joy of Spring’ this Easter Bank Holiday, our wonderful 5th edition awaits you!
Let’s dance, play, and connect together, as we celebrate the return of the light and enjoy the beautiful land coming into blossom after the stillness of winter.
There will be vibrant workshops, ceremonies, music, movement, and play, including some of our beloved classics alongside exciting new experiences, all celebrating our life force with love, laughter, and transformation.
This is a family friendly festival with heart, whether you come solo, with friends or family, you’ll find something for everyone…
Highlights include:
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An abundance of uplifting & transformational workshops
Dance, movement, and creativity
Feel good music journeys
Live Music with Riki Buckingham & Band + great DJ’s for Dancing
Leela’s Got Talent Show
Heart-opening ceremonies and rituals
Family-friendly offerings for kids and teens
Playful connection and community
Connect with nature – walking, sensing, being on the beautiful land
Delicious vegetarian food from the Leela Kitchen
Evening saunas + the special sauna experience
Treatments & healing sessions available from amazing therapists
A festival full of warmth, magic, light, togetherness and more!!!
What you’ll experience:
A rich, heart-opening mix of creative, embodied, and transformational workshops, with more to come soon.
- Creative Expression with Navanita – creative writing, spoken word, and performance
- Letting Go and Calling In with Louise – a ritual of release and renewal
- Spring Visionboard with Rose – hands on creative session – supporting you in manifesting your vision into life.
- Shamanism with Zohar – a shamanic workshop of depth and transformation
- Improv Comedy with …. – a playful, laughter-filled session of spontaneous theatre and creative expression.
- Singing Medicine with Tarisha – songs from the heart that nourish the soul and open the spirit through sound and connection.
- Sprouting with Sally – Learn the art of growing your own sprouts!
- Tango Intimacy with Navanita – connection through dance and presence
- Gong Bath with Darpan – Relax body and mind through an immersive sound journey.
- Lunchtime Choir with Jan Allain – a joyful, drop-in singing session to lift your spirits and connect through voice.
- The Sauna Experience – relax, restore, and connect in warmth and flow
- Sunrise Walk with Louise – greet the morning with movement and intention
- Active Meditations with Khalis and Prabuddho – energizing, grounding, and heart-opening
- …and so much more to come!
Kids Activities:
Our loving team are creating a magical programme for children, including:
Creative arts & sensory play
Nature connection & mindfulness
Fire & Breadsticks
Dance, movement & dress-up fun
Family games & sports
Kids disco and chill-out space
And of course… The Leela Easter Egg Hunt!
Navanita is a passionate and creative Event organiser, who leads with her heart, and has a love for bringing people together in celebration. She is a vibrant dancer, performer & artist, with training in community dance theatre, choreography & directing. She has worked in tv & radio, and founded the fun & glitzy ‘Leela Goes Strictly’ Dance show.
Navanita brings light and authenticity to her workshops such as intimacy & relating, dance, & community dance theater, creative writing & spoken word. She invites participants to enjoy a pleasurable, connective, and often transformational experience. Look out for her new creation: ‘Holistic Tango Retreat’ later in April 2026 for a juicy deep dive into the dance of the heart.
Navanita is also a brilliant therapist, mediator & empowerment coach, with many years of training in the field of personal and professional development. Navanita is loved here at Leela as a community Counsellor/Mediator with integrity. She inspires self sovereignty, and confidence through her work, and is naturally skilled, generous, kind, & caring.
Get ready to dance, express, and expand, dive into one of the many workshops with our amazing team of passionate facilitators… you’ll find something to nourish body, mind, heart, and soul.
Details Joy of Spring 2026
Start: April 2nd @ 8:15 pm (Arrive from 4pm, meditation at 5.50pm, dinner at 7pm & commences at 8.15pm)
End: April 6th @ 4:30 pm
There will be a separate program of kids’ activities & family-friendly activities but no formal kids club where kids can be signed in and left. Children remain the responsibility of their adult caregivers. There will be dedicated simple kids’ meals, if you come with kids, please buy a ticket for each of them.
Pre-sale ticket: £310 (includes festival, food & camping)
Payment plans available!
Accommodation 4 nights:
Own campervan £0 (plus £20 hook up if needed)
Dorm £80
FEMALE Deluxe Dorm Bunk £120
MALE Deluxe Dorm Bunk £120
Regular Private Room £200
Large Private Room £240
Premium Private Room in the house £260
Premium Ensuite Private Room £280
Single Pod £180
Double Pod £220
Shepherd’s Hut £220
Bell tent (glamping – double bed): £160
Sharing another participant’s accommodation £0
Click the button below to find out more about our accommodation.
Kids prices:
0 – 3yrs: Free
4 – 12 yrs: £60
13 – 16yrs: £70