Wellbeing
With 95% of us feeling happier, healthier, and calmer in nature, wellbeing isn’t a side note at ALSO – it’s woven into its DNA. ALSO is where boutique meets the wild. And being boutique and beautiful means your ALSO weekend enmeshes you in nature in a way no other festival can do, and with all your creature comforts covered.
With a half-mile-long Capability Brown-designed lake that can only open to the public for this one weekend of the year, enmeshed in a 17th Century landscape gently being reclaimed by the wild, it all works together to recharge you, even before you join one of our many wellness activities programmed throughout the weekend.
Wellbeing in 2026. . .
This ALSO26, find your fortune and flow with our most ambitious wellness programme to date, centred around our all-new lakeside Sanctuary Sessions – a restorative world within the wild featuring the gorgeous ALSO Sauna now upgraded for 2026 with new Ice Baths and Cold Plunges allowing you to build their own Scandi-style contrast therapy cycles.
Our lakeside sanctuary will be the place to relax and rejuvenate and fringes a programme of world-class wellbeing classes as we partner with Numinity (founded by sisters Melissa and Holly), who bring a curated series of transformative experiences designed to explore the festival's theme. Dive into the intersection of fate and wellbeing with Neural Reprogramming Meditation to rewire limiting beliefs, a Manifestation Lab to map out your future, and Fortuitous Breathwork using Ayurvedic Tulsi and Neem, to Rage Release: Catharsis, Dream Analysis, and you can take a fascinating deep-dive into The Dark Side of Wellbeing.
The lake will take centre stage with many ways to enjoy this beneficial body of water, and you can immerse yourself in the Blue Mind theory from wild swimming at dusk and dawn, raft building and paddleboard safaris. And you don’t have to get wet – our wellness programme continues on land with aquatic walks and talks, our programme of workshops and masterclasses, or just gazing across the rippling surface and the reflection of sun-dappled trees in a scented meditation.
Want to move move move? Join Stornoway’s Oli Steadman for TrAiLdAnCe (a joyful 5km dance-run) or his new musical (re) Orienteering challenge. Dip into one of our many sound bath and yoga sessions, engage the senses with From the ALSO Run Club kicking off the mornings to Scented Yoga with 4160 Tuesdays to a moonlit swim, ALSO offers endless ways to reset and reconnect, with plenty more experiences still to be announced.
Dive into the first wave ALSO26 wellbeing programme here.
