MEDICINE

☀️ 2024 Lineup, Theme & Tickets ☀️

We’re excited to finally announce this years wonderful lineup (with more to come soon) along with our extra batch of tickets, one final ticket giveaway (see below) and, this years theme - ‘Carry Peace’ ♾️ 🤲🏻 (artwork by @scarlett_butters )

To be at peace is the heart’s deepest longing. In these challenging times, how can we all develop the qualities that lead to peace both in ourselves and in our communities? Can we set ourselves the aspiration to become carriers of peace? 
 This year we are joined by Hiroki Okano, an elder from the Japanese Shinto tradition, who will be bringing the Peace Flame to our gathering  - a flame lit from the atomic fires after the nuclear attack on Hiroshima in 1945, a flame which has been kept alight to this day. 
 Tatsuo Yamamoto lost his family in the attack, and on returning that day to the terrible devastation, lit the flame from the smouldering remains of his home. Initially, holding it as a symbol of anger, grief, and vengeance, over the years, as he kept the flame alight, this slowly transformed into acceptance and forgiveness.  From this was born a desire to bring a message of peace to all. As he journeyed the world carrying a living flame, it received millions of prayers and wishes for peace, undergoing its own transformation from a symbol of unimaginable terror into one of peace. 
 This year’s theme “Carry Peace”,  invites us all to walk this path of transformation together. We are each asked what kind of a flame do we wish to carry in our hearts. 
 Can we, like Tatsuo Yamamoto, find a way to bear and transform our conflicts so that we can become an active embodiment of peace in this world? Can we find the spirit of kindness, gentleness, compassion, and patience to support ourselves and each other as we walk this path of peace? Incredible artwork hand painted by @scarlett_butters ❤️

👀 We’re giving away 2 tickets 👀

👇🏼All you need to do to enter is 👇🏼
 1. Like & Comment your favourite contributors, and tag the friends you’d bring. 2. Repost our lineup to your story or feed & tag @medicinefestival & @scarlett_butters 🔗 Final Release Tickets on sale 🔗 #medicinefestival

✨🪶 2023 Aftermovie 🪶✨ In the freshness of Spring, we are thrilled to share the 2023 Medicine Festival mini doc with you! A fluid expression of everything our gathering stands for - community, collective healing & radical love for the Earth’s ecosystems and cultures that make life so precious & worthy of protection. Thank you for joining us - everything we are is strengthened by the vitality & openness you, our community bring to the festival, and ripple out into your lives beyond the week we gather in the woodland each year. Pop this video in your stories and tag us for the chance to win a Medicine Festival or Voices of Medicine Ticket 🧬🌿🪷🌏 We’ll soon be releasing our lineup of musicians, speakers and wisdom carriers for 2024, but for the time being we have a wonderful lineup of events over the next few months! ✨ Weaving Voice & Spirit Workshop - April 16th 🌎 Earth Prayer - Curawaka & Mira Khanya - April 17th 🌀 Cacao Dance - Mose & Nessi Gomes - May 16th 🌞 Soltice on the Mount - Nick Mulvey, Awarë & Ajeet - June 20th 👉🏼 Link in bio for further information & tickets. 📍 Join the Medicine Festival family from 15th - 19th August 2024 in the UK. 👁 Medicine is a registered Community Interest Company (C.I.C). All profits will go to help empower indigenous peoples to preserve and protect their land, traditions and wisdom. Directed by: @benjaminwedemeyer_ Cinematography by: @alexforstermusic , @benjimitchellfilm , @benjaminwedemeyer_ , @raisedbyvolcanoes , @jamesrisdon , @kaiohio , @soulfocus_media , @remibum Edit by: @mariosahbi Project supervisor: @zak_avery Words by: @maria_valdivia_wakantitlan , @txanatuwe , @helenanorberghodge , @aylaschafer , @samgarrettmusic , Annie Spencer, @aylanereo , @aware.musica , @glenniekindred , @ninawapaidamatahunikuin Music : These Walls by @nessigomesmusic Grandmother (I am the Earth) by @aylaschafer Ice Were Were/ Ardhi by @laboratoriumpiesni

Final Release Tickets 🎟️ 10am GMT • Monday 27th November (Tomorrow!) Tickets will be available via our website • only a limited number will be on sale- if you don’t manage to get one tomorrow don’t worry! We have a resale process available for tickets to be sold and repurchased all the way up to August 2024 ⚡️ 📸 @ricklh_ & @rickharropcreativemedia 🎟️ Medicine 2024 - Final release tickets 27th wNovember 10am - join our newsletter for updates 📩 Applications to be a part of Medicine 2024 open December 12th ♻️ Do not buy resale tickets privately, as to avoid scams - resale tickets will be published on our website ⚠️ Please be aware - we have 2 imitator accounts. Please don’t respond if they message you and report immediately. 🔗 link in bio for all of the above!

Arriving alone to the festival? We got you! ✨ Medicine Festival is a welcoming & inclusive space for all of the wanderers and explorers that walk through our gates.    If you are arriving to the festival alone and would like to reach out to others in the same boat we have a dedicated 🌿 Whatsapp Support Group 🌿 available for you! You can join the group through the link in our bio. 🛖🌾🫂🌾🛖   We can’t wait to welcome you; know you are never alone and we have no doubt you will be leaving the festival with many special connections.  📸🎞 Medicine on film by @joyaberrow #medicinefestival #medicine #festivallineup #britishfestivals #medicinemusic

🌞 PRE-BOOK YOUR FESTIVAL EXPERIENCES 🌞 With just over a month to go until Medicine Festival 2024, alongside the rich tapestry of our program we are delighted to be offering a range of unique offerings and experiences you can book in advance. These include Craft Workshops, Sweat Lodges, Saunas, 1-1 Healing Sessions, and Magical Immersive Performances. 🪶🪘🔮🐇🛖🎭 So if you have the dream of crafting your own medicine drum, or would like to gift yourself or a friend a restful therapy at the Healing Village now is your chance. Our wide array of offerings are available through our link in bio - right at the top. ✨🌿✨ This year’s program is full of delicious offerings that you have full access to with your festival ticket. There is no need to spend further money to enhance your experience. There will be a richness overflowing - all you have to do is be. #medicinefestival #medicine #festivallineup #britishfestivals #medicinemusic

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens” - Rainer Rilke ✨🪐🌾 Pictured above: Wiruungga, an Elder from the Namba Gumbaynggar Nation, New South Wales, Nambucca Heads. A Wisdom Keeper who is carrying the knowledge of the Dreamtime, past on from generation to generation. Leading ceremonies, rituals and walkabouts. 🎟 Final release tickets are still available through our website. Just under two months to go Medicine family! Check our link in bio for all tickets, our 2024 lineup, booking in festival experiences and further FAQ’s 🎫⛺️🔥🪶🔮💆‍♀️ Photography by @soulfocus_media #medicinefestival #medicine #festivallineup #britishfestivals #medicinemusic

A festival of healing on site and beyond - thank you to Medicine Festival for supporting EarthPercent this summer, helping to fund to some of the most impactful organizations working towards climate justice and environmental protection. Medicine is about interweaving communities and bridging cultures – wisdom keepers, indigenous communities visionaries, artists, all to inspire and ignite a deeper understanding of how we can live harmoniously to create an equitable and thriving world. To contribute to an equitable and thriving world through your festival or your music, please get in touch at hello@earthpercent.org 💚 Medicine carriers: Garra Rrana (Blue Dragonfly) @ninunihuyawa

🌞 A Summer Solstice blessing 🌞 Thank you to all who joined us at @wasing1759 for ‘Solstice on the Mount’ to celebrate and honor the the turning threshold of the long light. To sit in circle once again held by prayer, music and the land - we remember. We are in deep thanks to @nickmulvey , @rodrigoygabriela , @aware.musica & @ajeetmusic for transporting us into the otherworlds deep into the evening. To @chrischarlespark , Druid in the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids & Laura Wilcock who guided us in ceremony as we greeted the red sun. Pure magic 🌅🪶🪘 And to @movementmedicinewithmira for enlivening our morning with the medicine of dance - we bow to you! 🌀 ✨🌾🌅🔥✨ 🎟 We still have final release tickets available through our website. Link in bio Just under two months to go! #medicinefestival #medicine #festivallineup #britishfestivals #medicinemusic

Geshe Lama Ahbay Tulku Rinpoche - Tibetan Buddhism Like/ Follow /Share ✨ @wisdom.keepers Lama Ahbay Rinpoche was born in India in 1973. When he was twelve he was identified by His Holiness the Dali Lama as the reincarnation of the hermit Lama Lobsang Tenzin. #tibet #tibetan #buddha #buddhist #monk #lama #geshe #tulku #rinpoche #prayer #protection #impermanence #film #indigenous #native #wisdomkeepers #areyoulistening 🤍🐚 WK: @ahbay.tulku.rinpoche Film: @jeremywhelehan Music: @roryro111 💛🙏🏼⚡️

Listen to the enchanting words of Wisdom Carrier and Chilean elder María Valdivia. She sends us a profound reminder that amidst times of intense change, we can see beyond the immediate and trust in the grander unfolding of it all. Last year María led a “Pago a la Tierra” ceremony of the Andean tradition, along with several Temazcales. We had the honor of doing an in-depth interview with her. The insights that she gave felt like revelations, addressing the current state of the world while planting vibrant seeds of hope, joy, and trust. We just uploaded the full-length interview on YouTube and invite you to sit with the medicine that lies in the message that María carries. María Valdivia is a spiritual leader of the Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan, she is a Visionquest leader and Sundancer, a bearer of the Chanupa (Sacred Pipe), and a guide of Master Medicines. She is a renowned Temazcalera, embodying the prayer of Love and Respect for Mother Earth. Thank you, María, for your presence, your words of wisdom, and your unbroken spirit. Interview + Translation : @alisa_reimer Filming + Editing: @soulfocus_media #medicinefestival #medicine #wisdomcarriers #wisdomkeeper #mariavaldivia

“Stand still. The forest knows where you are. You must let it find you.” - David Wagoner 🌾🪶👁 Where will you be celebrating Summer Solstice? We have got you covered & are preparing to welcome you to Wasing Estate again for 🌞 Solstice On The Mount with @wasing1759 , @nickmulvey @aware.musica @ajeetmusic 🎫 20/21 June 2024 with tickets available through the link in our bio! Pictured: Images 1/3/5 - Huni Kuin Singing Circle Image 2 - @maria_valdivia_wakantitlan by @soulfocus_media #medicinefestival #medicine #festivallineup #britishfestivals #medicinemusic

Allow the armour to fall away @alexander_cottle of @the.unmaskedman speaking at the @advaya.life stage at @medicinefestival Watch the full panel on Advaya’s YouTube ▶️ #menswork #masculinity #medicine #advaya