Wellbeing
Escape to the truly unique and hidden romantic world of D’Oyly Carte Island. Launching our wellbeing experiences for 2025.
Begin your journey with riverside yoga, breathe deeply during our empowering mat pilates sessions & let it all go in a sound bath under the stars. Immerse yourself in forest bathing, breathwork, a cacao ceremony or the gentle flow of Tai Chi to name but a few of the workshops from our eclectic, ever changing schedule —all lovingly curated by IO Project. Designed to soothe your soul & spark joy - for adults who’ve forgotten how to play.
Set in the lush, private grounds of this enchanting island, each wellbeing class offers a moment of magic, tranquility, and escape. Join us and our partners at IO Project and Anthro Contrology
Wellbeing Classes
AUGUST and SEPTEMBER 2025
Thur 28th August 6.30-8.30pm BOOK
Live in Flow – The Functional Mushroom Sound Meditation Experience
D’Oyly’s Riverside Decking
Hosted by Flow Brew & IO Project
This workshop is designed to support mental wellbeing and nervous system regulation through a powerful combination of:
* Functional mushrooms (non-psychoactive adaptogens like Lion’s Mane and Reishi)
* Guided breathwork and meditation
* Bio-sonification – real-time soundscapes generated from the electrical signals of living mushrooms, creating a deeply immersive and grounding experience
The session will begin with a short educational introduction to functional mushrooms and their evidence-based benefits for stress, focus, and neuroplasticity.
We’ll explore how these can be integrated into daily rituals to support long-term mental clarity, emotional resilience, and energy regulation. Invited to taste and try the mushrooms themselves.
Participants will then be guided through a calming breath and meditation practice, supported by live sound from the mushrooms themselves, offering a multisensory journey that is both soothing and scientifically rooted.
This is a modern wellness ritual that blends ancient wisdom, emerging research and sensory experience, without
the need for any psychedelic substances.
Ideal for those curious about natural tools for mental health, looking to unwind from the week and reconnect with themselves in a calm, meaningful setting.
Fri 12th September 10.30am-12.30 BOOK
Wildlings Picnic
East Gardens
Hosted by Amber Bees
Gather your wildlings for the final giant picnic of the season on the D’Oyly Carte Island lawn. A deli picnic hamper and glass of Folc rose (or non-alcoholic drink of choice) included in your ticket. Come, feast & have fun in this incredible location with local parents and their little wildlings.
This month’s theme ‘Pirates & Mermaids’. Join us for an under the sea themed baby & toddler music class by Amber Bees (6-30 months).
Expect joyful tunes, bubbles, sensory fun and fantasy lobster magic. Perfect for your wildlings to dance, sing and play in this incredible location. Explore hidden treasure, make fishy friends and play hide and seek in a sunken pirate ship.
We’ll also have a professional photographer on site taking portraits of you and your little one for purchase after the event. What maternity leave dreams were made of.
Dress up welcome! (think mermaids, little fishes, pirates & octopuses)
Thurs 18th September 6.30-9.30pm BOOK
Closing Ceremony & Autumn Equinox Blessing
East Gardens
Hosted by Anthro Contrology, Cassie Awan & IO Project
Join us for our closing ceremony- an evening retreat featuring some of the highlights of our season of wellbeing on the island. Giving thanks for a glorious bustling summer and celebrating Autumn Equinox. Starting proceedings with empowering mat pilates, going into a relaxing yoga class on the wild flower lawn, before delving deep into a sound meditation featuring gongs & crystal bowls by candelight.
We’re delighted to be collaborating with Richmond’s boutique reformer pilates studio “Anthro-Contrology” on all our pilates offerings. Lululemon ambassador, Third Space instructor and Kew Gardens resident yogi Cassie
Awan will be joining us this evening as our guest yoga instructor bringing her magic zen touch to the island. Closing the event we’ll have a cathartic sound bath by our resident gong master, Sam founder of IO Project. Designed to help you let go, bringing the body & mind back into synchronicity leaving you feeling blissed out & content.
IO Project
IO Project host immersive sound meditation sessions in unique locations.
Our experiences are full of love, ritual & traditional practice but with a bit more contemporary attitude & delivery so they’re accessible & meaningful to a sophisticated, urban, contemporary clientele.
Using Paiste gongs, crystal bowls, Tibetan singing bowls as well as mantra, visuilisation techniques, breathwork and yoga nidra we take guests on deeply relaxing and cathartic sound journeys, helping you let go, re-balance and find peace. An incredible tool for body & mind helping release stress, have a gorgeous deep nights sleep and recalibrate the nervous system. You could call it the antidote to apathy... for adults who’ve forgotten how to play.
Created by DJ Goldierocks, having spent the last two decades travelling the world touring as a DJ & broadcaster she was very familiar with the need to seek balance. Throughout her career & life on the festival circuit, she’s extensively researched & created a set of personal practices & routines that she finds restorative.
Having recently hosted sessions for the staff of Google, Spotify & Soho House as well as festival appearances at Wilderness, Camp Bestival & Glastonbury, she’s delighted to be taking up a summer residency at D’Oyly Carte Island.
D'Oyly Carte Island Candle
Created with local artisan candle maker Willow & Finn. Take a moment to deeply relax, feel at peace and let it all go. Escape to the truly unique and hidden romantic world of D’Oyly Carte Island with this botanically blended candle.
Crisp, citrusy May Chang opens the scent like sunlight on water- bright, uplifting and clearing. A gentle bloom of geranium follows, to softly balance mood and heart, grounded by the herbal warmth of marjoram (believed to bring about positive life changes). Beneath it all, chamomile and lavender (both found growing wild on the island) weave a calming veil- soothing the nervous system.
Enjoy a complimentary guided sound mediation by IO Project to enhance your candle experience. Simply scan the QR code (enclosed in your candle box) and escape on a meditative journey around the island at sunset accompanied by the sound of nature, gongs and crystal bowls. Take a moment to deeply relax, feel at peace and let it all go.
Each candle uses pure essential aromatherapy oils and is blended by in house perfumer and Willow & Finn owner Nicky. Each vessel is reusable and refillable using 100% natural soy wax with a wooden wick.
Available to buy at D'Oyly's Deli
Anthro Contrology
We’re delighted to be collaborating with Richmond’s boutique reformer pilates studio “Anthro-Contrology” on all our pilates offerings . Anthro-Contrology pilates classes prioritse full body & mind wellness and are centred around precise resistance-based movements developed to stretch and strengthen the entire body – and brain. Their mat pilates classes allow time to recalibrate and realign hosted in our ballroom and in the open air on the front flower lawn.
Anthro-Contrology develops each client on an individual basis to build success on the foundations of inner focus, control and strength in order to take the practice of Pilates into everyday life.” – Amanda Caldwell, founder
Pilates is a core-focussed form of exercise that improves flexibility, strength, balance and overall body awareness, combining controlled movements with breathing techniques. Anthro-Contrology classes aim to enhance posture, muscle tone, joint mobility and mindful movement, – whatever your individual needs, experience and ability.