Peace Fest 2025: The Brighter Way to Spend Your Bank Holiday
About Peace Fest 2025: The Brighter Way to Spend Your Bank Holiday
This August Bank Holiday, the Global Retreat Centre in Nuneham Courtenay invites you to Peace Fest:Where Stillness Meets Joy – a free and heartwarming weekend of calm, connection and quiet celebration.
There you’ll find:
Meditation & Reflective Spaces – Enjoy Point2Point meditations, grounding practices, movement meditations, and affirmation sessions across the beautiful and tranquil grounds.
Live Sitar Music – Let gentle live music wash over you in a serene natural setting.
Wishing Tree – Write down your positive thoughts for yourself, for others, and for the world.
Soul Space – A calming indoor area to rest, reflect, and recharge.
Peace Fest 2025: The Brighter Way to Spend Your Bank Holiday
Main Marquee Show: The Light Show with Sunny & Dawn – each day 4.15pm – 6.30pm
The joyful finale of Peace Fest, The Light Showin the Marquee, is a heartwarming blend of wisdom, music, theatre, and stillness. Part immersive storytelling, part soulful conversation, the show invites you to pause, breathe, laugh, and reconnect. This year’s speakers include:
Maureen Goodman, Programme Director, Brahma Kumaris, UK
Neville Hodgkinson, Former writer and journalist and long term meditator
Manda Patel, Co-ordinator, The Global Retreat Centre
Each brings decades of experience in meditation, inner wellbeing, and spiritual leadership – sharing insights that are both profound and practical.
Expect to leave feeling:
Rejuvenated and calm
Uplifted and hopeful
Gently lit up from within
Whether you’re exploring meditation for the first time or simply seeking a peaceful afternoon in beautiful surroundings, Peace Fest has lots to offer. Come as you are. Leave feeling refreshed.
Answering the question, ‘Why go to Peace Fest?’, Sister Jayanti said:
“The Global Retreat Centre is a place where you can experience tranquility. It’s not just a beautiful place on the outside — it carries the powerful vibrations of nearly 30 years of ongoing meditation. And that energy is something very special….
“You are warmly welcome to come and be part of this at Peace Fest. It’s not just about peace — it’s also a festival! So there will be love, joy, laughter, inspiring programmes, uplifting music, and beautiful moments to share. And while you may discover many things, the most important discovery may be this: peace is within.”
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