TIME + DATE: 10am-3pm, Saturday 21st March 2026

LOCATION: Allanton Peace Sanctuary, Auldgirth, Dumfries. DG2 0RY.

VALUE: From £60 - £160 (Overnight Retreat Options available)

🌿 Spring Equinox – Heart to Earth Retreat

Continuing with our ‘Heart to Earth’ series of sessions/retreats….

Our ‘Heart to Earth’ series of retreats are based on the concept of recognising that by finding and nurturing peace within yourself/heart that the positive ripple effects naturally ripple out to family, friends, community and the world around you. Thus we can each contribute to peace building, and the incremental achievement of ‘May Peace Prevail on Earth’.

Change Yourself, Change the World

Join us at Allanton for a spacious, regenerative, and deeply attuned seasonal gathering as we move with the shifting rhythms of the earth and celebrate the Spring Equinox.

The Spring Equinox invites us to move with the changing of the season, to lean into what is awakening, within the land and within ourselves, as we welcome the balance of light and dark, and the joyful emergence of spring in its fullness.

The Spring Equinox invites us to move with the rising energy of the season, to attune to the renewed vitality growing within the land, and to notice how that same renewal stirs within ourselves, and other living beings. 

✨ Spring Equinox - Balance, Renewal, Awakening

The Spring Equinox marks the moment when daylight and darkness stand in perfect balance - a turning point on the Wheel of the Year when the earth leans gently toward the brighter half.

This is a time of equilibrium: a pause between what has been, and what is beginning.

A moment to breathe deeply into possibility, to realign our intentions, and to meet the season with an open, steady heart.

Here, we look toward renewal, growth, and emergence.

We soften into the invitation of spring - the return of warmth, the unfurling of new life, and the quiet reminder that beginnings can be both gentle and powerful.

This gathering offers space for reflection, spaciousness, and tender revitalisation of body, mind, and spirit.

Together we honour the sacredness of this seasonal shift, recognising the presence of balance, beauty, and new beginnings in ourselves and the world around us.

✨ A Seasonal Gathering at Allanton

As part of Allanton’s series of seasonal gatherings, we are hosting a day devoted to listening deeply to nature’s rhythms and welcoming the energy of spring in its rising fullness.

At the Spring Equinox, the earth steadies herself at a point of balance - sunlight growing stronger, the land waking from winter, and the first signs of renewal appearing all around.

Buds begin to swell, birdsong returns with confidence, and the soil softens with promise.

Though subtle, these early expressions of spring remind us that life is gathering its strength, ready to unfurl into colour and growth.

Through gentle practices, meditative reflection, and time in the sanctuary grounds, we will tune into this growing light and welcome the season’s invitation to step forward with clarity, purpose, and renewal.

✨ Heart to Earth Practice

Heart to Earth is a simple yet transformative series rooted in presence, compassion, and interconnectedness.

Heart to Earth is the practice of aligning your inner world with the world around you.

Change Yourself, Change the World.

🌱 What the Day Holds

• A peaceful gathering held in Allanton’s meditative atmosphere

• Guided Heart to Earth practices include yoga, breathing, visualisation exercises and outdoor meditation (7 Stations)

• Time for silence, reflection, and gentle movement

• Connection with self, others / community, the land, the season, the earth and the strengthening light

• Space to restore, renew, and realign with spring’s unfolding rhythms and cycles

Booking Information

These Heart to Earth gatherings are gentle, day-long experiences held at Allanton Peace Sanctuary.

Your ticket includes all guided practices, quiet reflection time, use of the meditation room, access to the sanctuary grounds, and complimentary refreshments. 

This is a day for quiet guided contemplation to welcome the turning of the wheel. The day will start with a gentle yoga practice accessible for all levels and abilities, on the mat or chair.

We will continue the day with reflective meditative practices, in Allanton's meditation room and/or outside in the beautiful grounds of Allanton Peace Sanctuary, taking time to recognise the power our thoughts, words and actions have, in the creation of our own and others' wellbeing.

You are welcome to arrive from 9:30 to settle in for your day retreat (or to your room if staying over), and get comfy so we can all start together at 10am.

The lunch provided is vegan and gluten free; 

If you have additional dietary needs beyond this, please bring your own pre-prepared food. 

Please also let us know if you have any access requirements.

Further details on what to bring, how to prepare, and how to respectfully use the sanctuary will be shared in a follow up email after booking.

Guest Agreement

After reading this and continuing to purchase your Allanton experience you are agreeing to have read and understood the guidance in our ‘Staying at Allanton Peace Sanctuary Terms & Conditions’ statement (below). Therefore agreeing to honour the quiet atmosphere, detox environment, the ‘Leave No Trace’ approach, access shared facilities, and the vegetarian/vegan food provision. This ensures we all use the sanctuary and its grounds with care, respect and kindness for ourselves and others.