Spring Equinox Synchronicities start off our residential workshops for the year!

Dear Friends,

We are delighted by the synchronicity of the Spring Equinox, the start date of our iconic Findhorn Experience Week and the planned ending of Scotland’s legal Covid restrictions – 21 March! This feels like a true turning point and we have a lot to celebrate.

This year we have already opened to over 2,000 guests online and we are reopening more fully to residential workshops. In this newsletter you can see many and wonderful ways you can connect with us and experience the Magic of Findhorn with a full calendar of events from the Spring Equinox through to the end of April. For our full list visit our website.

As well as partnering with the New Findhorn Association on the Findhorn Community 60th birthday history project, we are planning a day of celebration of the Findhorn Foundation’s 50th birthday on 9 May!

Internally, we continue to build capacity in many different ways and this last week our recently appointed staff have participated in an internal Findhorn Experience Week at Cluny! We have worked very hard to prepare Cluny Hill from a standing start and look forward to welcoming you from 21 March.

As well as growing fabulous vegetables, our Cullerne Gardens site, adjacent to The Park in Findhorn, is host to our volunteering workshops and local partnership initiatives. While building on what we already have, we are nurturing emergent projects. Read a more detailed update here.

Thank you all for supporting us – in so many different ways – to stay strong in holding to our vision, purpose and meaning as we offer more and more ways to welcome you back to co-create the Magic of Findhorn, whether online or here in Scotland.

Blessings,

Caroline Matters
Lead Steward

Deepen and refine your personal practices of connection and co-creation with our Gaian cousins, the Sidhe. This four-week online conference is offered by the Lorian Association as a benefit for the Findhorn Foundation – our deepest gratitude!
We will explore how the Sidhe might partner with us to shape a positive future for Humanity and for Gaia, with presentations by David Spangler, John Matthews, Rue Hass, Søren Hauge, Ian Rees, Anne Gambling and harpist Peter Berry, facilitated by Jeremy Berg.

Monday 4-8 April, Cluny Hill – Findhorn Experience Week (with optional deepening and integration time).

Saturday 9 April, 7-10pm, Universal Hall and livestreamed – A Hare-Marked Moon with David Lascelles & Judi Alston, a Findhorn Foundation benefit event.

Monday 11-15 April, The Park – Community Week. The Park will be alive with music, storytellers, kids' activities and much more!

Easter Friday 15 April, 7-10pm, Universal Hall and livestreamed – Shift Happens! with Robert Holden, a Findhorn Foundation benefit event. Save the date and check here for updates.

Easter Weekend, Saturday 16-17 April – Songs of Heaven and Earth.
Come and celebrate the Spirit of Comm-Unity over Easter with a glorious weekend of music and singing with Barbara Swetina, Ian Turnbull, Fabien Barouch and the Community. It’s time for rebirth, resurrection and rejuvenation, using music to heal ourselves and our world. Book the whole weekend with accommodation or individual sessions on their own.

Monday 18-21 April, Cluny Hill – Findhorn Experience Week (with optional deepening and integration time).

Monday 18-21 April, our gardens at Cluny, The Park and Cullerne – Coming back to the land.
Slow down and spend a week connecting with the earth in our gardens at Cullerne, Cluny and Park Garden, where a committed team of gardeners and living educators is ready to welcome you back to the land. Join us and the nature spirits, engaging in Love in Action and Co-creating with Nature. There will also be a chance to quieten, listen and connect with yourself or other like-hearted souls. Non-residential week. Book now!

Friday 22 April, 7:30-10:30pm Universal Hall and livestreamed – Our Nature Spirit Connection with Swan Treasure, a Findhorn Foundation benefit event.

Saturday 30 April, 7-9pm, Universal Hall and livestreamed – Jane Duncan Rogers and Phyllis Shacter: End of Life Talk and Q&A, a Findhorn Foundation benefit event.

Browse our full workshops and events schedule

See your image as a nature spirit
In support of the Foundation

Sacred land artist Hannah Hardy has created an unusual way to support our charity. In return for a donation to the Foundation, she will create your portrait out of objects found in nature, such as flowers, leaves, grass, petals, stones, seaweed or shells.

Please send a picture of yourself, a loved one or a pet to Hannah and request your portrait. She will create it out in nature and photograph it for you as part of her Rewilding Portrait Project.

The hugely popular wild camping retreats, run by the Findhorn Hinterland Trust in the woods and duneland next to The Park in Findhorn, will start again in May! Camp in the company of the elements and enjoy meals alfresco around the fire. You'll have quiet time and sharing space as you explore the land and landscapes of the soul. Choose from weekend retreats (13-15 May, 5-7 August), seven-night retreats (2-9 July, 3-10 September) and specialist themed weekends with community experts on topics such as biodiversity (10-12 June) and wildlife tracking (30 September-2 October).