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Chrysalis Retreat Centre

Posted in Findhorn 2012, Participants 2012, Visit a Center, tagged , on May 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Chrysalis Centre is one of the longest established, respected and leading residential holistic retreat centres in Ireland.

Chrysalis was founded by Ann Maria Dunne and opened in 1989 as a centre for reflection and spiritual renewal. It is a registered company with charitable status currently being lead by two directors and a seven member advisory board.

It currently rents the Ardenode Country House in Blessington, Co. Kildare (within one hour from Dublin near the Wicklow mountains and rolling farms of Kildare).

The main objective of Chrysalis is to provide services in personal and professional development, all encouraging and supporting guests to live their lives more fully, creatively and effectively. Since we started, thousands of people have benefited from their visits and we regularly receive heartfelt feedback about what a positive difference we have made to their journeys. (more…)

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Beshara

Posted in Findhorn 2012, Participants 2012, Visit a Center, tagged , on May 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Beshara School first emerged some forty years ago as of one of the UK’s first alternative healing centres at Swyre Farm in the Cotswolds.

Under the guidance of Bulent Rauf a Turkish émigré and man of the rarest refinement and wisdom, the vibrant and fertile mix of aspirations that characterised Swyre Farm became a more focused educational collective known as the Beshara School, or simply Beshara.

Since the early 70’s the School has been running courses in what is called intensive esoteric education more or less continuously at it’s main centre at Chisholme House in the Scottish Borders. Courses and group study are also run around the world when there is a need and request. (more…)

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Newbold House

Posted in Findhorn 2012, Participants 2012, Visit a Center, tagged , , on May 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Newbold House is a beautiful Victorian mansion set in an oasis of nature in the north east of Scotland. The Mission of this workshop and sustainability education centre is ‘developing, practicing and sharing skills for sustainable living, in harmony with ourselves, each other and the earth’.

The house is set in extensive organic gardens, surrounded by woods and close to wonderful coastline, ancient forest, river valleys and mountains. Newbold House has close ties to the nearby Findhorn Foundation spiritual community and ecovillage and can arrange visits and tours.

The centre is run by a small resident community with help from working guests and volunteers from all walks of life, who share a common vision. The house offers a wonderful nurturing venue for workshops, our ‘home-grown’ courses, personal retreats, B&B and special events.

Guests can enjoy a peaceful space to recharge their batteries, spend some time surrounded by nature, take part in a workshop or just experience life in community, exploring creative, sustainable ways of being and working together.

Christopher Raymont, the Focaliser of Newbold House, will be attending the 2012 Gathering hosted by the Findhorn Foundation.

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Grundstein Neukirchen

Posted in Findhorn 2012, Participants 2012, Visit a Center, tagged , on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Grundstein (Foundationstone) Neukirchen was founded in March 2001 as a community project based on the holistic homeopathy research of Edith Helene Dörre and a group of friends and colleagues.

In this research the diversity of perspectives and the step into a new integral awareness and planetary consciousness play a decisive role. Integral here means also the acceptance and integration or inclusion of the shadow parts of each being and our times.

Being offered the spacious accommodation of a former youth centre at the Baltic Sea in Northern Germany the place holds enough space as a home for an intentional community as well as for an educational centre with accommodation for temporary guests (90 beds).

As a non-profit association of artists, educators, therapists and craftsmen, we are dedicated to a variety of ways of experiential and holistic education. Community building, encounter, inspiration and lively exchange are our core concern.

The life on this wonderful spot at the Baltic enables us and our guests to live together inspired by each other and by the surrounding nature. (more…)

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Esalen Institute

Posted in Findhorn 2012, Participants 2012, Participants 2013, Previous Participants, Visit a Center, tagged , , , on May 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Esalen Institute is located on 120 acres of fertile land carved out between mountain and ocean, blessed by a cascading canyon stream and hot mineral springs gushing out of a seaside cliff.

300,000 people have come from all over the world to participate in Esalen’s 50-year-long Olympics of the body, mind, and spirit, committing themselves not so much to “stronger, faster, higher” as to deeper, richer, more enduring.

They come for the intellectual freedom to consider systems of thought and feeling that lie beyond the current constraints of mainstream academia. They come to discover ancient wisdom in the motion of the body. They come to rediscover the miracle of self-aware consciousness. At best, they come away inspired by the precision of a desire to learn and keep on learning through all of life, and beyond.

Cheryl Fraenzl, Director of Programs at Esalen, will be attending the 2012 Gathering hosted by the Findhorn Foundation. (more…)

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Mangrove Yoga Ashram

Posted in Participants 2012, Visit a Center, tagged , , , , on April 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Satyananda Yoga is an internationally renowned system of integral yoga that is suitable for everyone, from beginners to adepts. It is an evolving yoga that is grounded in tradition, yet adaptable to the needs of today. This system of yoga was developed by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, with the aim of spreading yoga from door to door and shore to shore.

Mangrove Yoga Ashram, in NSW, Australia, offers yoga classes, yoga retreats and yogic studies to help support the unfolding of physical health, mental peace and spiritual understanding that Satyananda Yoga brings.

Yogasandhan has been practicing, studying and teaching yoga at Mangrove Yoga Ashram for 7 years.  “The ashram routine, the relative isolation and the yogic practices, allows guests time to re-evaluate and gain perspective,” she says. “Most people leave with a fresh attitude towards themselves, their relationships and life in general. Shifting people’s paradigms without telling them what they should believe in is the gift of the ashram.”

She will be attending the 2012 Gathering hosted by the Findhorn Foundation and representing Satyananda Yoga Australasia. Yogasandhan says, “My interest in the gathering is to see beyond the valley I live in and to know how other organisations, groups and individuals are contributing to raising consciousness. To recognise the collective movement and honour that.” (more…)

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Auroville

Posted in Participants 2012, Visit a Center, tagged , on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Auroville is a universal township in the making for a population of up to 50,000 people from around the world. The township is located in south India, mostly in the State of Tamil Nadu, a few kilometres inland from the Coromandel Coast and approx 160 kms south of Chennai (previously Madras).

Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity – in diversity.

Aurovilians come from some 45 nations, from all age groups (from infancy to over eighty, averaging around 30), from all social classes, backgrounds and cultures, representing humanity as a whole. The population of the township is constantly growing, but currently stands at around 2,160 people, of whom approx one-third are Indian.

Ambre, a French national who joined Auroville in 1978, will be attending the 2012 Gathering hosted by the Findhorn Foundation and representing Auroville. For many years, she has been focalising the introductions to Auroville, the coming together of international guests for an exploration of the project, as well as her life time project Nilatangham, Moon Gold, which has become over time a forest wanting to move towards a small community for spiritual seekers.

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Finca Tierra

Posted in Community, Participants 2012, Visit a Center, tagged , , , , , on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Finca Tierra is a small community in the very natural northwest of La Palma/Canary Island. Four to six people constantly live there, well connected with a network of neighbours.

In our beautiful round seminar room we offer space for workshops in holistic healing, personal growth and all kinds of bodywork.

We also welcome guests for individual retreats in our unspoiled natural surroundings and provide healthy organic food for guests, mainly from our own gardens, and support them with different kinds of healing sessions.

In 1999 some friends bought these 20 000 squaremeters on La Palma and began the community, living for the first two years in big white tents and later in a beautiful round clay-dome and little huts. Brigitte Maine from Finca Tierra will be attending the 2012 Gathering hosted by the Findhorn Foundation.

The Finca Tierra community is featured in the full-length DVD documentary A New We: Ecological communities and ecovillages in Europe which explores 10 communities in Europe and opens doors to further exploration and discovery on the new Global EcoVillage and Sustainable Community Network. (more…)

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International Peace Initatives

Posted in Participants 2012, Visit a Center, tagged , , , on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

International Peace Initiatives (IPI) is a Kenya and U.S. based organization that is dedicated to supporting and funding initiatives that mitigate the effects of poverty, disease, discrimination and violence. IPI provides Homes for orphans and vulnerable children, supports African grassroots organizations and community leaders, and provides trainings in peace education and conflict resolution.

Mission Statement

International Peace Initiatives is committed to promoting cultures of peace for every individual through its support of sustainable peace, prosperity, and health.

IPI’s work in Africa uplifts the spirit and living standards of the people in their communities, thus radically improving their quality of life. Our tools are “Education, Enterprise and Empowerment.” (more…)

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Cortijo Romero

Posted in Participants 2012, Visit a Center, tagged , , on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »


Cortijo Romero is a centre for personal growth holidays, located in Las Alpujarras, the beautiful foothills of southern Spain’s Sierra Nevada mountains. Established in 1986, it operates for
most of the year, with a rich and varied programme of courses and workshops, staffed by visiting facilitators from several countries.

The working language is English but all local staff and some visiting facilitators can also work in Spanish. Participants are mainly from the U.K. and Ireland, with a minority from most other European countries and a few from further afield. The wonderful city of Granada is under an hour away.

Cortijo Romero seek to offer holidays embracing a journey of celebration, healing, restoration, learning and the greatest possible expression of human potential, both individually and together with others. Alan Dale, the Director, will be attending the 2012 Gathering, as part of the Community Exchange Programme of the host community the Findhorn Foundation.

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