Healing Weekend at Lighthouse, Poole- Winter Wellness

The Healing Weekend at Lighthouse 2026

The Healing Weekend at Lighthouse takes place in Poole in the heart of winter 2026, inviting you to step out of the February chill and into a softly shimmering world of mind, body and spirit. Across 7–8 February 2026, Lighthouse Poole becomes a sanctuary of candlelit calm, glimmering crystals, gentle drumbeats and bright conversation. This indoor festival gathers healers, artists, teachers and seekers for two days of reconnection.

From guided meditations and sound journeys to practical workshops on shaping your future, the programme encourages you to move at your own rhythm: linger with an exhibitor, settle into a talk, then drift downstairs for a cup of something warm before the next adventure. All of it unfolds at Lighthouse, Poole’s arts and events centre, with Concert Hall, foyer and function rooms transformed into a winter wellbeing village. Wrap up for the sea air on your way in, then let the festival itself wrap around you, with music, ceremony, children’s activities and the steady sense of kind-hearted community.

What to Expect at the Festival

Across the two days, The Healing Weekend at Lighthouse invites you into a gently curated flow. The Opening Ceremony & Dedication gathers everyone into shared intention, with hosts, healers and facilitators creating a first wave of connection. From that moment, the building fills with activity: the Concert Hall hosting talks and presentations, function rooms bathing in chant, drum, breath and guided visualisation, and the exhibition spaces sparkling with crystals, handmade crafts and quiet conversations.

You may drift into a guided meditation soundscape one hour and then find yourself speaking with a healer about family wellbeing the next. The festival embraces sensitivity, subtle perception and the longing for inner alignment, with a programme that ranges from psychic and shamanic approaches through to practical sessions on space clearing, subconscious beliefs and consciously shaping your future.

Performers and workshop leaders weave their own styles of music, movement, healing and reflective practice into the weekend, adding depth and variety to the evolving tapestry of The Healing Weekend at Lighthouse. Alongside the adult programme, a Children’s Programme holds space for younger visitors with age-appropriate activities, while the Exhibition Space becomes a living marketplace of therapies, readings, handcrafted items and wellbeing products. The Closing Ceremony gathers threads from the entire weekend, inviting gratitude, reflection and a soft re-entry into everyday life.

Talks and Presentations

Calling Your Spirit Back to the True Essence of Your Natural Rhythm

This guided meditation and soundscape journey offers a gentle invitation to remember yourself. You settle into your seat as tones and textures wash through the room, creating a field where scattered pieces of attention begin to drift home. The speaker leads you through imagery of breath, heartbeat and earth-pulse, helping you feel the subtle tempo of your own being. Expect moments of silence that feel full rather than empty, and a renewed sense of moving through life in a way that suits your actual rhythm rather than the clock on the wall.

Spiritual Healing with The Healer’s Healer Dave Viney

In this session, The Healer’s Healer Dave Viney offers readings and healing in a calm, supportive setting.

Turn Your Sensitivity into a Superpower

This presentation speaks directly to empaths, intuitives and anyone who has ever been told they are “too sensitive”. Instead of treating sensitivity as something to manage or conceal, the speaker reframes it as a finely tuned instrument. Through stories, simple practices and mindset shifts, you learn how heightened perception can support relationships, creativity, decision-making and spiritual growth. The talk honours the reality that sensitivity can feel intense, while steadily guiding you towards tools that help you navigate rooms, conversations and life choices with more ease and self-respect.

Transform Your Life by Transforming Your Space

Here, attention turns to the rooms you inhabit every day. This talk and demonstration explores how physical environment influences life flow, relationships, health and prosperity. You may watch as a table, chair or small altar area is rearranged on stage, illustrating how subtle shifts in placement, colour or clutter can reflect and encourage change. The speaker draws on principles of harmonious design and energetic awareness to show how your home, workspace or sanctuary can become an ally in transformation rather than a backdrop that keeps old patterns in place.

Workshops and Experiences

Chanting and Sound Meditation

This workshop blends chanting, dulcimer and inspiration from the Gene Keys into one luminous sound journey. Voices rise and fall together, supported by strings and overtones that shimmer in the air. You might feel the resonance in your chest, the soft vibration along your spine, the way group sound creates a shared field of gentleness and courage. Reflections on the Gene Keys add an oracular quality, inviting you to contemplate your own potential through sound rather than logic alone.

Awakening the Selkie Soul

Drawing on the mythic energies of the selkie, this guided meditation explores the space where shoreline meets sea, where human and otherworldly selves intertwine. You are invited to imagine seals slipping through silver water, skins laid upon rocks, old promises remembered. The facilitator leads you into inner landscapes of tide, moonlight and belonging, helping you recognise parts of yourself that feel wild, fluid and ancient. The session offers a sense of homecoming for ocean-hearted souls, with time to integrate what emerges.

Drum Journey to Connect to Your Power Animal

In this shamanic drum journey, steady rhythm becomes the vessel for your inner travels. As the beat begins, you relax into a gentle trance-like state, imagining pathways through forest, desert, mountain or ocean according to your own inner vision. Somewhere along the way, a power animal may appear: perhaps familiar, perhaps surprising, yet carrying qualities your soul is ready to remember. The workshop provides clear entry and return signals, along with time to reflect, draw or write about your experience and how this ally might support you beyond the festival.

Energy Healers & Practitioners

✨ Andrew Harby — healer offering frequency-based energetic support

✨ Angelic Harmony Holistic Therapies — Angelic Reiki with tuning forks

✨ Angel Energies – Tina Rowe — healing, coaching and energy modalities

✨ Brian Casey — healing and psychic surgery

✨ Chatty Flamingo — life pattern healing

✨ Dave Viney – The Healer’s Healer — readings and healing

✨ Empowered Holistics — tarot, hypnotherapy and reiki

✨ Hands R4 Healing — healing, creative arts and crystals

✨ Holistic Wellbeing — reiki and tarot

✨ Inner Path Wellbeing — therapeutic wellbeing guidance

✨ Life Balance Chiropractic — family chiropractic care

✨ Rachael Hopwood — tree and Atlantean energy healing

✨ Rose Griffiths & Julie LaTrobe — healing and chakra alignment

✨ Samantha Taylor — sound, trance and shamanic healing

✨ The Aura Healer — aura readings

✨ The Soul Sanctuary — seated acupressure massage

Readers, Mediums & Intuitive Guides

✨ Allison Michaela – Authentic Medium — mediumship, psychic and card readings

✨ Antony Doveton — 1-to-1 readings

✨ Beverley Eardley — aura-soma, tarot and numerology

✨ Elisabeth Cullen — evidential medium

✨ Greg Smith — clairvoyance and mediumship

✨ Michelle Towler — readings

✨ Patrick Gamble — psychic art and prints

✨ Past Life Progression — past-life explorations

✨ Poole Spiritualist Church — spiritual healing and information

✨ RELEASE: The Best You with Steve Mitchell — hypnosis, NLP, relaxation and courses

✨ Rosanna Ienco — readings, shamanic healing, books and CDs

Crystals, Spiritual Retail & Magical Goods

✨ Ama Menec Sculptures — ceramic goddesses and wildlife sculptures

✨ Blissful Wellness Treats — wellbeing-focused treats

✨ Crystal Wolf — spiritual retail

✨ Highland Oak — beeswax candles, CBD oils and yak-wool items

✨ Ivy Moon — magical crafts and altar tools

✨ KP Creations — jewellery and handmade gifts

✨ Love and Willow — ritual kits and wellness tools

✨ Marsine Art — crystal-inspired home décor

✨ Myndful Mushrooms — mushroom tinctures, workshops and merchandise

✨ Pegasus Crystals — crystals and minerals

✨ Sacred Crafting — shamanic drums and sacred tools

✨ Soaring Star Trading — crystals, minerals and jewellery

✨ The Crystal Source — ethical crystals and spiritual goods

✨ Upaya Global Ltd — meditation cushions, yoga accessories and artisan crafts

Sound, Drum & Vibrational Tools

✨ Pyramid Energy Therapies — sound healing and pyramid resonance tools

Bodywork & Massage

✨ Magic Touch and Deep in Wellness — bespoke massage treatments

Children & Family-Focused Exhibitors

✨ Cool Kids with Cool Minds — children’s meditation books and mindset support

✨ Jo Stratton — face painting

✨ Ro Boulton Nash — sprays, flowers and children’s books

Art, Craft & Creative Makers

✨ Gypsy Faie Lox — crochet dreadlock extensions and hair wraps

Inside the Festival Venue

Lighthouse, Poole’s arts and events centre, provides an inspiring container for The Healing Weekend at Lighthouse. The Concert Hall carries the resonance of music, theatre and shared storytelling, which suits ceremonies, talks and presentations that ask for both intimacy and scale. Acoustics hold chant, drum and spoken word with ease, while tiered seating allows every participant a clear view. Multiple function rooms branch off like quiet coves, perfect for workshops that require a more cocooned feel: chanting circles, energy activations, drum journeys and mindset explorations. Foyer and hall spaces transform into a vibrant marketplace where stalls, treatment couches and reading tables tuck themselves into corners and along walkways, creating new pathways for serendipitous encounters.

The Beacon Café & Bar on-site offers hot drinks, snacks and light meals throughout the day, giving you a space to journal, share session insights or simply sit in stillness while watching festival life flow by. Gallery and cinema spaces contribute to the overall creative atmosphere, reminding you that this building honours many forms of expression.

Accessibility sits at the heart of the site’s layout. Disabled parking stands directly outside the venue, there is a level-access route from the bus station, and access car parks lie close by. This allows visitors using mobility aids or travelling with family members to move in and out of the festival with more ease.

Local Area Guide

If your curiosity leans towards metaphysical and crystal shopping beyond the festival marketplace, Poole and the wider Dorset area provide a constellation of specialist stores. Rock & Rose Rituals at Upton Country Park offers ritual products, candles, bath kits and crystals in a nature-rich setting. Such A Beautiful Day in Westbourne Arcade focuses on ethical crystals, handmade jewellery and essential oils. Happy Buddha in Poole serves as a spiritual gift shop with incense and metaphysical items, while Crystalmaster, Crystals Shop (Dorchester), Baan 57, Crystal World Highcliffe, Anathema – Dedicated Witchcraft Emporium andC ompletely Crystals (Poole) present further opportunities to extend your crystal and ritual toolkit.

Nearby Accommodation Options

A weekend at The Healing Weekend at Lighthouse becomes even more spacious when you stay close. Poole offers accommodation ranges from boutique harbour-view hotels to budget-friendly central bases, many of them within walking distance of Lighthouse or a short drive away.

Hotel du Vin Poole in the old town combines characterful architecture with boutique comfort and harbour views, perfect for those who enjoy a glass of something delicious after a day of workshops. Holiday Inn Express Poole sits close to the rail station and town centre, offering modern rooms and breakfast included, ideal for straightforward festival logistics.

Premier Inn Poole Centre (Holes Bay) provides budget-friendly rooms near the harbour, while Travelodge Poole at Lifeboat Quay offers value accommodation with café/bar facilities and walkable access to the town centre. Harbour Heights Hotel on the Sandbanks Peninsula brings an upscale experience with panoramic harbour views, a beautiful option if you wish to pair the festival with coastal luxury. The Antelope in Poole’s High Street adds historic inn charm, combining pub atmosphere with rooms just a short walk from Lighthouse.

Plan Your Visit

If The Healing Weekend at Lighthouse calls to you, consider gifting yourself the full two days at Lighthouse, Poole, with talks, workshops, exhibitors and gentle ceremony woven through your February. Secure your place through the Lighthouse box office or the official event listing, and begin planning a winter pilgrimage to Poole where your spirit, body and mind receive equal care.

Festival Frequently Asked Questions

What are the dates and where is the festival held?

The Healing Weekend at Lighthouse runs on 7–8 February 2026 at Lighthouse, 21 Kingland Road, Poole BH15 1UG, an arts and events centre in central Poole, Dorset, UK.

How do I get to Lighthouse Poole?

Lighthouse offers disabled parking directly outside the venue, a level-access route from the bus station and nearby access car parks.

Is the venue accessible for visitors with mobility needs?

Lighthouse offers disabled parking directly outside the venue, level-access routes from the bus station and nearby access car parks. Inside, the layout supports movement between Concert Hall, function rooms and foyer spaces for those using mobility aids, companions or assistive devices.

What kind of sessions does the programme include?

The programme for The Healing Weekend at Lighthouse brings together talks, experiential workshops and ceremonies. Examples include guided meditation and soundscape journeys, spiritual healing sessions, explorations of sensitivity as a strength, space-focused transformation work, chanting and sound meditation, selkie-inspired guided journeys, shamanic drum journeys, energy activations with “White Diamond Light,” and workshops on beliefs, subconscious patterns and conscious creation.

Are there activities for children and families?

A Children’s Programme appears within the festival offering, alongside face painting and family-friendly exhibition spaces. This allows families to enjoy the weekend together while younger visitors experience age-appropriate activities and creative engagement.

What can I expect from the exhibition area?

The Exhibition Space hosts a wide range of exhibitors: crystal and mineral traders, readers, healers, therapists, artists, makers and wellbeing product creators. You can browse crystals, jewellery, ritual kits, wellness tools, essences, handcrafted gifts, candles, sculptures and more, as well as book sessions with practitioners offering therapies, readings and energy work.

Where can I eat and drink during the festival?

On-site, the Beacon Café & Bar at Lighthouse provides drinks and meals. Around the venue, Poole’s town centre offers numerous cafés and coffee shops, including spots on the High Street, at Poole Quay and within parks, where you can enjoy breakfast, lunch, coffee or a snack between sessions.

Are there nearby places to stay?

Yes. Options include boutique stays such as Hotel du Vin Poole and Harbour Heights Hotel, central hotels like Holiday Inn Express Poole, Premier Inn Poole Centre (Holes Bay) and Travelodge Poole, plus historic inn accommodation at The Antelope. Many of these lie within walking distance or a short drive from Lighthouse.

How can I extend my visit beyond the festival?

You might explore Poole Quay & Old Town, walk in Poole Park, visit Sandbanks Beach, take a boat trip on Poole Harbour, or cross to Brownsea Island. Further afield, Compton Acres, Upton Country Park, Hengistbury Head Nature Reserve and local metaphysical shops create a rich tapestry of nature, culture and spiritual retail to complement your experience at The Healing Weekend at Lighthouse.