There will be no deafening indie music, no boozed-up moshing and definitely no queues for the urinals. There, will, however, be vaginal steaming, feminist debate, and a chance for contemplation in the sacred womb tent.

Make way for Women Fest, Britain’s first ever all-women festival, billed as an event of radical participation that aims to explore the “power and magic” that happens when women gather together, and the impact it can have on the wider world.

After a year of sexual politics dominated by women’s marches and the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, the festival hopes to bring together 400 women on a farm outside Frome in Somerset in August.

According to its founder, 30-year-old Tiana Jacout, its aim is to give women space, without men, to share experiences and ideas that “will open our minds and help us tackle the everyday battles we may face with the strength of the sisterhood behind us”.

With a ticket costing £225 (profits will be shared with the tree-planting charity Tree Sisters), Jacout says the event will turn the tables on conventional festival expectations. “Instead of people saying, I paid for a ticket now I’m going to be entertained, we’re asking them to think about what they can contribute: what’s the gift, knowledge, craft or skill they can share,” she told the Observer.

“The festival will celebrate women’s creativity and potential: it’s all about realising what we can do and what we can be, and it’s about sharing our gifts freely with one another to create a new spirit of womanly giving.”

One of the main arenas will be the expression stage, an open space where anyone can perform; there will also be a creativity tent, where participants can volunteer to run workshops in skills such as basket weaving and cloth making. In the “women circle” area, festivalgoers will be invited to share their stories, songs and prayers; a space called the “womyn rising tent’” is, according to the festival website, set aside for healing and learning and women will be encouraged to “delve into themselves … to learn and love through discussions and workshops”.

The “sacred womb tent” will provide “a sacred space … for contemplation”, while the “embodiment tent” will offer yoga, dance and circus workshops. Masseuses and therapists will be on hand in the healing area, and there will be workshops at which participants can paint their body scars gold, to celebrate surviving suffering. A spa centre will include a swimming lake, sauna and hot tubs – and the opportunity for yoni steaming, the practice of vaginal herbal cleansing made famous by aficionado Gwyneth Paltrow.

Some of Jacout’s ideas have filtered down from the hippy movement via her mother, who was a Greenham Common peace protester in the 1980s. After a childhood in west London, Jacout went to live in an ashram in India in her early 20s, before training as an acupuncturist and returning to India to practice.

She later spent a year working as a volunteer in the Calais refugee camp, before building a hut in a Somerset wood which became the basis of a small women’s sanctuary, “where we sang songs, cried a lot, grew vegetables and brought our lives back to basics”.

Jacout has been planning the festival for the past year, but says its roots date back via the Suffragettes and other female freedom-fighters to the women of the ancient world.

“The timing feels right,” she says. “There’s a beautiful wave of female empowerment happening right now, and this is about taking that a stage further.

“It feels to me as though most of the problems we’re seeing come from patriarchy and an imbalance in the energies in the world, and this is all about working out how to rediscover our womanly power and put it to better and wider use, in a way that will benefit all of humankind,” she says.

All women are welcome at the festival, says Jacout, including transgender women and pre-operative individuals. “We’re also happy to have non-binary people provided they have a vagina; but not non-binary people with a penis because we have to draw the line somewhere.”

So far about 150 have signed up, and Jacout says she’s confident she’ll fill the remaining 250 places. The youngest participants will be 13, and Jacout hopes the festival will be an especially inspiring environment for teenage girls.