The Findhorn Garden

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The Park, Findhorn, Forres, IV36 3TZ. United Kingdom
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Up to 16 in group
Date
July 4 - 11, 2026

Retreat Highlights

  • Explore the community’s core practices, such as listening to divine guidance through meditation, and attunement with nature, and actively discovering our interconnectedness with each other, and with the greater consciousness we’re all part of.

About this Retreat

Details of this retreat

The Findhorn Garden
Learning with the land through listening, care and co-creation.
Grounded in the spiritual community of the Park Ecovillage, Findhorn
The Findhorn Garden is both a place and a practice. For decades it has been a living experiment in cooperation with nature, where human intention, natural intelligence, and openness to the invisible realms of life meet, to shape what becomes possible.

The Findhorn Garden is for people who feel curious about that living story and how we all have the ability to co-create with life. Through time in the gardens, shared practice, reflection, and gentle enquiry, explore what it means to listen to the land, to one another and to the wisdom within.

The garden becomes a teacher, revealing patterns of interdependence, resilience, and right relationship. Practical engagement is part of the learning. Explore how inner attitudes shape outer form, and how tending the soil, plants and community can become a way of remembering our place within a larger living whole.
What The Findhorn Garden offers
As the week unfolds, you are invited into the rhythms of community life. Through shared meals, reflective practices, group activities, nature connection, moments of silence and time together, we explore:

Inner listening as a way of orienting to life
Relational awareness with human and non human form
Love in action as a way of engaging with practical tasks
Co-creation as an active partnership with infinite possibilities

The Findhorn Garden is a living classroom where much of the learning happens in ordinary moments: sitting quietly, being with nature, listening to one another, and noticing how this reveals pathways of care, cooperation and regeneration.
The Park Ecovillage, Findhorn
The Findhorn Garden is rooted in the spiritual soil of the Park Ecovillage at Findhorn, a place with a long history of exploring the inner dimensions of life, conscious relationship and regenerative ways of living.

The Park offers a unique combination of natural beauty and simplicity. Surrounded by dunes, forest paths, the beach and bay, and the wide skies of the Moray Firth, it provides a supportive environment to slow down, reconnect and listen more closely – both inwardly and outwardly.
Accommodation
You will stay in simple, comfortable accommodation within or close to the Park Ecovillage. Rooms are shared, supporting the sense of togetherness and community life that is central to the experience.
Meals
Meals are an integral part of the journey.

We share nourishing, vegetarian meals prepared with care, using seasonal and locally sourced ingredients where possible. Eating together is treated as a practice in itself: a moment to arrive, connect and experience community through sharing a meal.

Most dietary requirements can be accommodated; please let us know in advance.
Who this week is for
People join The Findhorn Garden for many different reasons:

To reconnect with themselves
To experience community life
To immerse themselves in nature
To slow down and listen to the land
To explore new ways of connection, co-operation and care
Or feel a sense of belonging within a larger living system.

No prior experience with gardening, community living or spiritual practice is required. What matters most is a willingness to participate, reflect and stay curious.
What you take home
The experience you take home will be uniquely your own.

It emerges through engaged participation, reflection, curiosity and lived experience. Many people leave with a renewed sense of connection, subtle shifts in how they listen and relate, and a deeper trust in their own inner guidance – qualities that continue to unfold long after returning home.

The Findhorn Garden is an invitation to slow down, listen and explore what it means to live in harmony with the world around us.

Grounded in the living ecology of the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, The Findhorn Garden invites an embodied way of being, where tending the earth becomes a practice of responsibility, reverence, and renewal.

 

Schedule

The week centers around the three core practices developed over 60 years in our community, and how to apply them in your own life:

Deep inner listening to the wisdom you have within you – recognising, accessing and working with your own inner knowing.
Learning how to connect and co-create with the intelligence of nature.
Practising how to put love into all that you do, making every activity an expression of your love, or seeing ‘work’ as love in action.

You will explore:

• A variety of practises that help you recognise your connection to the sacred, and support you to stay in loving relationship with yourself and all beings.

• Insight into your next steps, and what can support you as you move forward in your life.

• Time to learn or deepen your meditation practice.

• Learn more about our community, our rhythms and practises.

Woven throughout the week is a second, more personal dimension to the learning.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

Location icon Findhorn Foundation, The Park, Findhorn, Forres, IV36 3TZ. United Kingdom

Directions

Our nearest airports are Inverness and Aberdeen. From Inverness Airport Railway Station you can take a train to Forres. From there you can take a taxi for the 10 minute drive to Ecovillage Findhorn. Contacted local taxis on: +44(0)1309 671717 or +44(0)1309 673168

If you are arriving by car, there is plenty of parking on what we call 'the runway', the main road of our Ecovillage.

Accommodation

Our groups will stay in the beautiful Guest Lodge at the heart of our community.

Supported
Sustaining
Regenerative

Venue & Amenities

Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms icon A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi icon Free Wifi
Spa icon Spa
Sauna icon Sauna
Pool icon Pool
Towels icon Towels
Free Parking icon Free Parking
Kitchen icon Kitchen
Tour Assistance icon Tour Assistance
Hot Tub icon Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea icon Coffee/Tea
Cafe icon Cafe
Restaurant icon Restaurant
Fitness Center icon Fitness Center
Yoga Studio icon Yoga Studio
Housekeeping icon Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent icon Bicycles For Rent

Meals

Menu

Menu Types

We serve vegetarian food with as much organically grown seasonal produce as possible.

What's Included

  • We are currently launching our new events. More information will follow.

What's Not Included

  • Airfare
  • Transportation to and from airport (but we can help arrange)

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