Can you live at Findhorn?
If you want to live in Findhorn for a while then our Living as Community Guest programme is the way to go. You will do your love in action in for example the garden, kitchen or maintenance.
Can you visit the Findhorn Community?
Take a trip to the Findhorn Heritage Centre where you will learn about the fascinating history of salmon fishing in Findhorn. Or alternatively visit the Findhorn Bay Arts Centre who proudly display art that shows Scottish heritage.
What is Findhorn famous for?
We are a charity and a leading international centre of transformative learning, rooted in a spiritual ecovillage community in the north of Scotland.
Can you visit the Findhorn Foundation?
There’s plenty to see on your own, or you can sign up for an astonishing variety of activities, from meditations, sacred dance, and guided tours of The Park or woodlands, to a range of healing therapies from practitioners living here in the Community.
How many people live at Findhorn?
The Findhorn Foundation and surrounding Findhorn Ecovillage community at The Park, Findhorn, a village in Moray, Scotland, and at Cluny Hill in Forres, is now home to more than 400 people.
How did Findhorn Foundation start?
An unintentional community. Peter and Eileen Caddy and Dorothy Maclean unintentionally founded the Findhorn community in 1962. When they first came to north-east Scotland in 1957 to manage the Cluny Hill Hotel in Forres, they had all been on a disciplined spiritual path for many years.
Where is the Findhorn garden?
northeast Scotland
Updated to showcase color photographs, this spiritual classic presents the history and philosophy of Scotland’s Findhorn Community. Findhorn was founded more than 40 years ago in far northeast Scotland on windswept and barren sand dunes that happened to sprout a miraculous garden.
Who runs the Findhorn Foundation?
Our founders now Dorothy Maclean, having lived in North America for a number of years and being actively involved in leading workshops around the world, later returned to live in the Findhorn Foundation community. She passed peacefully on 12 March 2020, three months after her 100th birthday.
What happened at Findhorn?
A man who admitted starting two fires that caused £400,000 of damage to the Findhorn eco-community in Moray has been ordered to do unpaid work. Community centre manager Joseph Clark, 49, started the fires after learning he was going to be made redundant and his on-site residency would end.
Who founded the Findhorn Foundation?
Eileen Caddy
Dorothy MacleanPeter Caddy
Findhorn Foundation/Founders
Who owns the island Erraid?
The Isle of Erraid is owned by a Dutch family, the Van der Sluis. The Findhorn Foundation, via the Erraid Community, have been caretakers of the island for 11 months each year since 1978.
Is Findhorn still going?
The Findhorn Foundation and surrounding Findhorn Ecovillage community at The Park, Findhorn, a village in Moray, Scotland, and at Cluny Hill in Forres, is now home to more than 400 people. The Findhorn Foundation and the surrounding community have no formal doctrine or creed.
What is the Findhorn community?
The Findhorn community has been known internationally since 1962 for its experiments with new models for holistic and sustainable living. Today it is at the heart of the largest intentional community in the UK and the centre a continuously evolving and developing ecovillage.
What is Findhorn Ecovillage?
Findhorn Foundation Community and Ecovillage To live by spiritual and ecological principles and to inspire others to do likewise. The ecovillage at Findhorn is a tangible demonstration of the links between the spiritual, social, and economic aspects of life and is a synthesis of current thinking on ecological human habitats.
What’s new at Findhorn experience week?
Our signature on-site workshop, Findhorn Experience Week, is returning in a new format from March 2022. This opens in a new window. Embracing the New — Deeply rooted in our past, we are embracing the New: welcome to our new logo, new website, and a new Findhorn Foundation beginning.
What are the best things to do in Findhorn?
Aside from the quaint village, nearby Culbin Sands, Forest and Findhorn Bay are great places for wildlife, walking and watersport adventures. Bi-annually a cultural explosion takes place in the area in the form of Findhorn Bay Arts Festival, which showcases local and international visual, musical, and theatrical artists.