Australia’s 5 Best Wellbeing Festivals for 2025

Get ready to elevate your mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing with an array of health hacks and thought-provoking concepts. The Conscious Life, a holistic wellness festival now celebrating its 13th year, is an earth friendly event promoting personal empowerment. It’s designed to invigorate your life in a way that revitalises your energy, expands your awareness and unlocks your inner potential. Precisely what you need in the current world.

Over two jam packed days, connect with a community of like-minded individuals and experience a transformative journey towards happiness, wellbeing, and wholeness. Rejuvenating activities, nourishing food, enlightening workshops and seminars, captivating live music, and a diverse range of exhibitors offering meditations, massages, intuitive readings, alternative therapies, will help you let go of stress and discover your own truth. Between life changing sessions you can soak up sacred sounds while you tuck in to nourishing treats, organic coffee, kombucha or chai. Yep, sign me up!

Once again, the Pranafest team are gathering the Sunshine Coast’s leading breath-work facilitators, yoga instructors, musicians, meditation experts and inspiring thought leaders for a truly transformative event. Over three days, experience a fully immersive camping event that encompasses the essence of connection through yoga, music, art, community, and culture. Organisers, The Flow State Experience, create a secure space where connection and collaboration are cherished and fostered by a vibrant creative community that is dedicated to nurturing the creative spirit.

Pranafest goers are invited to embark on this evolutionary journey of self-worth, self-development, and self-discovery through participating in transformative activities that expand your horizons. While the full program hasn’t been released yet, last year’s event featured a whole lot of dancing, breathing, stretching, healing, relaxing and time spent in the present moment unlocking your boundless potential.

Desert Festival is Alice Springs’ award-winning annual arts and cultural festival and one very enticing reason to head north this September.

With an exciting program of local and visiting artists that embrace the diversity of creativity across multiple art forms, Desert Festival celebrates the depth and breadth of arts and culture residing in the oasis of Mparntwe / Alice Springs.

Hosting the Festival Hub is The Gap View Hotel, which will be transformed into an arts and culture wonderland with resident DJs, a bespoke container bar, community courtyard and food and drink for purchase. We recommend arriving early to enjoy the festival atmosphere before a show and make sure you have time to take in a few of the incredible sites this beautiful part of our country has to offer while you’re in the region.

This fabulous wellbeing festival has been hosted annually in regional Victoria for 12 years. It is a drug and alcohol free event, run by women for women. It provides opportunities for women to connect, contribute, support other women and to gather tools, resources and information to help inspire, connect them with their own truth and expand their possibilities across all areas of life.

The Seven Sisters Festival runs for 4 days and 3 nights from Thursday morning to Sunday afternoon. Guests stay overnight in their preferred choice of camping, glamping (basic or furnished) or offsite accommodation. There are multiple workshops and activities each day such as information talks, workshops, dance and craft classes, live music performances, massages and treatments, plus there are markets to explore.

Founder Dr Lauren Woodman explains that “the name Seven Sisters stimulates reflection of history and meanings, encourages women to share their stories and reminds us all that the light of the Seven Sisters Stars shine down on every woman-connecting us all”.

The Woodford Folk Festival is an annual cultural and music event held over six days and six nights, from Dec 27 through to January 1, on a 500-acre farm about an hour from the Sunshine Coast.

More than 2,000 local, national and international artists, musicians, practitioners and presenters host a range of performances, workshops and experiences. The festival begins each year with the iconic Opening Ceremony and closes with the spectacular showcase, the Fire Event on New Year’s Day.

There are concerts, dances, yoga and mindfulness sessions, street theatre, writers’ panels, a film festival, comedy sessions, acoustic jams, social dialogue and debate. Plus, an entire children’s festival, an environmental program featuring talks, debates and films, art and craft workshops, circus performances and workshops, late night cabarets and parades.

The festival streets are lined with restaurants, cafes, stalls, and bars. Tree-filled campgrounds, butterfly walks, ponds and wildlife complete the picturesque site. There are a range of accommodation options, so go solo or collect your favourite people and secure your tickets for this magical experience!