Allanton Peace Sanctuary

14/10/2026

🌱 STILL GROWING, STILL GIVING! 🌿

The Garden of Abundance continues to live up to its name, gifting us a beautiful harvest well into autumn.

There’s something extra delicious about food grown from seed, nurtured with love, care and tenderness, and gathered fresh from the earth.

Full of nourishment, flavour and all that care poured into it along the way… It tastes so much better ✨💚✨

Huge gratitude and appreciation for the generosity of nature, the hands that tend the garden, and the simple joy of eating what we grow.

From seed to soil to table. With love. 🌿

09/10/2026

Caroline, Alli and Sylvia are visiting Japan and Alli sent this wonderful video from Fuji Sanctuary.

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21/09/2026

@ Allanton Peace Sanctuary.

Our visitors here on retreat from Japan for the week were joined by members of our local Interfaith Group for a World Peace Flag Ceremony.

15/09/2026

The Rotary Club are doing such an amazing job promoting and planting Peace Poles…..

🌍 International Day of Peace – 21 September 2026 🕊️

A District Call to Action for Every Rotary Club with a Peace Pole

The United Nations Secretary-General has released this year’s International Day of Peace message, a reminder that everyone, everywhere can contribute to peace. 🌏💙

🤝 A kind word.
👂 A moment of listening.
💡 A step toward understanding.
🕊️ One small step for peace, every day.

Clubs may wish to invite someone to read the UN message aloud during their Peace Pole gathering or club meeting.

🔗 Link: https://www.un.org/.../international-day-peace/message

Across Rotary District 9510, Peace Poles stand in schools, parks, gardens, community centres, and homes. 🌳🏫🏡 They are visible commitments to hope, unity, and peacebuilding from the ground up.

📢 This is your call to action.

Between now and 21 September, and especially on the day, we invite every Rotary Club with a Peace Pole to:

✨ Host a gathering, ceremony, or community moment at your Peace Pole

🤝 Invite your local partners, schools, councils, and neighbours

🌟 Celebrate those building peace in your community

📱 Share your event on social media so we can amplify your leadership

Your event can be simple or creative:

🕊️ A reading of May Peace Prevail on Earth

🎨 A children’s art activity

🌏 A multicultural moment of reflection

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ A peace walk ending at your pole

🎤 A short ceremony with your club and community

💙 A quiet moment of unity

Rotarians are people of action, and people of peace. 🌍🕊️

Let’s make 21 September 2026 a day where every Peace Pole in District 9510 becomes a beacon of hope, friendship, and understanding. ✨

🕊️ Invest in Peace: For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day 🌏💙

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14/09/2026

21st September is the United Nations International Day of Peace…
The Goï Peace Foundation, our sister organisation, is collecting ‘voices of peace’ from young people aged 13-30. Answering the question ‘What does peace mean to you?’
If you are in this age group please add your voice.

In 2025, we asked youth (up to age 30) from different backgrounds around the world a single question: “What does peace mean to you?” The answers weren’t only about a world without war. Again and again, they spoke of small, everyday things — sharing a meal with family, being able to smile tod...

10/09/2026

FINAL FEW PLACES AVAILABLE for THIS SATURDAY’s 🍂 AUTUMN ‘HEART TO EARTH’ WELLBEING RETREAT DAY 🍂

What might you be ready to gather in, reflect upon, or gently let go of as we move into Autumn?

You are invited to spend a restorative day with us at Allanton Peace Sanctuary on Saturday 12th September, 10am–3pm.

As the landscape begins to turn inward, our Autumn Heart to Earth gathering offers a gentle invitation to pause, restore and reconnect: with yourself, with others, and with the living world around you.

Together we’ll explore the seasonal themes of 🍂 Release • Reflection • Harvest • Preparation, through gentle yoga, meditation, breathing, reflection, quiet time in nature and Allanton’s Heart to Earth practices: rooted in presence, compassion and our interconnectedness.

A day to slow down, notice what this season is asking of you, and consciously choose what you want to carry forward into the months ahead.

✨ Sliding Scale + Pay It Forward options: £35 / £45 / £55

✨ Optional overnight Bed & Breakfast stays available

🌿 All activities are optional - you are welcome to simply arrive as you are.

Saturday 12th September | 10am–3pm
📍 Allanton Peace Sanctuary, Auldgirth

For more information and to book your space:
Autumn Heart to Earth Wellbeing Retreat
www.allantonpeacesanctuary.org/whatson

10/09/2026

🔥 FIRST TRIAL SAUNA AT THE SANCTUARY 🔥

Our first proper sauna trial felt less like testing something new, and more like settling back into the rhythm of the land.

A dragonfly settled on the window. Three hares crossed the grounds. A deer moved through at dusk. Then came the bats, and the sound of owls calling into the dark.

Heat in the body. Cold water on the skin. Cool air around us. Dusk gathering.

Heat. Cold. Rest. Return.

Fire. Earth. Water. Air.

A simple, grounding return to the elements - and a beautiful glimpse of what Sauna at the Sanctuary has to offer.

A blissful experience, embedded in nature and peace.

🔥 Heart to Earth 🌿



We are delighted to be able to share this with you very soon! ✨

31/08/2026

Still time for all young people to enter this wonderful Art Exhibition!!

Email from May Peace Prevail On Earth International Be a Voice for Peace! Enter the 2026 Art Contest before It's Too Late! Peace Pals International 29th Annual Art & Exhibition Awards  DEADLINE EXT

29/08/2026

2 WEEKS FROM TODAY 🍂 AUTUMN ‘HEART TO EARTH’ WELLBEING RETREAT DAY 🍂

What might you be ready to gather in, reflect upon, or gently let go of as we move into Autumn?

You are invited to spend a restorative day with us at Allanton Peace Sanctuary on Saturday 12th September, 10am–3pm.

As the landscape begins to turn inward, our Autumn Heart to Earth gathering offers a gentle invitation to pause, restore and reconnect: with yourself, with others, and with the living world around you.

Together we’ll explore the seasonal themes of 🍂 Release • Reflection • Harvest • Preparation, through gentle yoga, meditation, breathing, reflection, quiet time in nature and Allanton’s Heart to Earth practices: rooted in presence, compassion and our interconnectedness.

A day to slow down, notice what this season is asking of you, and consciously choose what you want to carry forward into the months ahead.

✨ Sliding Scale + Pay It Forward options: £35 / £45 / £55

✨ Optional overnight Bed & Breakfast stays available

🌿 All activities are optional - you are welcome to simply arrive as you are.

Saturday 12th September | 10am–3pm
📍 Allanton Peace Sanctuary, Auldgirth

For more information and to book your space:
Autumn Heart to Earth Wellbeing Retreat
www.allantonpeacesanctuary.org/whatson

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28/08/2026

The Sauna Ritual begins long before the heat 🔥 🪵

It begins with preparation: selecting the right wood, cutting it carefully to size, stacking it, tending it, and understanding what will create the best, cleanest fire for the sauna.

And this wood has its own story… It comes from wind-felled trees right here on the Allanton grounds, giving new purpose to timber already brought down by the weather. It really couldn’t be more local, or more sustainable.

There’s something deeply grounding in that process. A reminder that the experience of warmth, rest and restoration starts with care, attention and relationship with the materials that make it possible.

At Allanton, we think about sauna not simply as a session, but as a ritual - one that starts with the preparation, with the journey to the sauna, with the firewood and carries through the process of heat, water, rest and return.

The ritual begins with preparation.