London festival blends yoga, breathwork and wellness marketplace in finale

The last stretch at Olympia

The free Yoga and Wellbeing Studio is the cleanest reason to go: it puts classes and taster sessions at the center of a festival that also folds in breathwork, meditation, sound healing and astrology. At Olympia London, from Friday 22 May to Monday 25 May 2026, the draw is not one headline class but the chance to move between rooms, sample different practices and leave with a fuller sense of what contemporary wellness culture actually looks like.

The scale helps explain why the event still pulls a crowd. The program features more than 100 speakers, 111-plus free sessions and more than 125 indie brands in the wellbeing marketplace, so the value proposition stretches well beyond a standard ticketed expo. Standard adult one-day entry is £23.15 including fees, weekend and four-day passes are also sold, and children aged 9 and under go free, with concessions for NHS workers, emergency services, NUS students, universal-credit recipients and over-65s.

Where the yoga fits into the festival

Yoga is not treated as a side room here. The official 2026 setup includes a dedicated free Yoga and Wellbeing Studio, described as one of the year’s free special features, with classes and taster sessions hosted by yoga and wellbeing teachers and experts from around the world. That makes the studio one of the festival’s most useful spaces for anyone who wants to test styles, meet teachers and compare approaches without treating every session like a separate purchase.

The practical value is obvious for newer visitors and seasoned practitioners alike. If you are curious about a style you have only seen online, this is the kind of setting where you can sample it in a low-pressure way, then move on to something more movement-led or recovery-focused. The festival’s broader shape matters here too: yoga sits alongside somatic dance, breathwork and calming practices designed to support emotional release and nervous-system reset, which gives the whole weekend a more embodied feel than a typical wellness marketplace.

A helpful detail for yoga readers is the festival’s link with triyoga, which was announced as the official sponsor of its Wellbeing Studio in 2025. Founded in 2000, triyoga operates studios in Camden, Chelsea, Ealing and Shoreditch, plus online, which gives the studio a recognizably movement-first identity and a strong local yoga pedigree.

Breathwork and sound are part of the story too

One of the clearest 2026 additions is the new free Alchemy of Breath Presents breathwork stage, led by Anthony Abbagnano, Amy Rachelle and their Alchemy of Breath facilitators. For visitors interested in the overlap between yoga and breath-led regulation, that is a meaningful upgrade, because it places breathwork in a dedicated public space rather than tucking it into an afterthought slot.

The sound program adds another layer of depth. The festival says its sound-bathing offering marks 15 years of sound bathing at MBS Festival, hosted by Anne Malone, founder of Oasis of Sound. That gives the weekend a strong recovery arc: movement in one room, down-regulating work in another, and enough room to let the two practices support each other instead of competing for attention.

The names on the programme tell you how broad this is

The speaker list spans a wide sweep of wellness, spirituality and self-development, with Yasmin Boland, Marisa Peer, Estelle Bingham, Jade Shaw, Francesca Amber, Sean Collyns, Liz Earle, Brad Riches, Dr. Richard Bandler, Steve Judd, Bhavini Vyas and Anne Malone all appearing across the program. That mix matters because it shows the festival is not built around yoga alone, but around the larger ecosystem that surrounds it: meditation, astrology, healing, coaching, sound and mind-body practice.

For yoga readers, that breadth can be useful rather than distracting. It means one ticket opens into a room set for movement, another for breath, another for sound, and another for a more talk-led exploration of wellbeing. The result is less like a single-track class day and more like a map of the current wellness landscape, with yoga sitting in the center as one of the clearest points of access.

What the market adds between sessions

The Wellbeing Market is where the festival’s commercial and community sides meet. The official description says independent organisations, companies and therapists are there with treatments and treats to sample, try and buy, and the wider coverage puts the marketplace at more than 125 indie brands. That makes the market especially useful if you like to test products in person, talk to practitioners face to face or compare books, crystals, self-care items and therapies before buying.

The festival also includes the Main Stage, daily opening and closing ceremonies and an Exhibitor Stage with free talks and product demonstrations. Taken together, those spaces make the event feel layered rather than linear: you can begin with a yoga taster, drift into a free talk, watch a demonstration and then browse the market without needing to leave the building. For a one-day visitor, that concentration is part of the appeal.

Why this festival still carries weight

Mind Body Spirit Festival launched in 1977, and its own history gives the event a longer cultural footprint than many modern wellness fairs. The festival says that across its five decades it introduced the first-ever vegetarian food offering at Olympia London, removed hundreds of thousands of plastic bags and cut paper printing by 75 percent while moving toward paperless systems. In 2025, a sponsorship announcement described it as the UK’s largest and premier event celebrating spirituality, wellness, mindfulness and holistic living, and that scale still shows in how many different communities it manages to gather under one roof.

What makes the finale distinctive is not just that the festival is still running, but that it keeps refining the mix. The free Yoga and Wellbeing Studio, the new Alchemy of Breath stage, the 15-year sound-bathing milestone and the expansive market all point to the same thing: at Olympia, yoga is part of a wider wellness commons, and the strongest final-day value comes from how much of it is open, sampleable and already inside the ticket.