Come for some Time and Space to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life. Arrive on Saturday or Tuesday of this week for a 6 or 3 night stay.
Explore congregational songs from around the world, including how they can enrich our worship and help us meaningfully connect with God, each other, and the world around us.
YouthFest is a great space to form friendships with young people from across the world on this stunning, rugged island with its breath-taking scenery. Bring your youth group!
Open to all, a week to investigate a different perspective on women’s spirituality, finding inspiration from some of the women in the Bible, and how their stories speak to us today. Facilitated by Evie Nieboer from the Iona Community's Young Adults’ Group.
This week is now also open for 3 night stays. Do you need to sharpen your vision of a world transformed? Are you longing to connect with others who care for Creation? Discover how you can act more justly for people and planet.
A week of creative activities, peaceful spaces and workshop/sharing times to enable LGBTQ+ people and those in sympathy to find space for both rest and resistance in a time of change and division. Facilitated by Alex and Jo Clare-Young.
This week will allow you to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life.
A week to celebrate co-operation and deepen friendship and understanding between faiths with a focus on caring for and listening to creation. Facilitated by Interfaith Scotland and a climate activist, in partnership with the Iona Community.
Has science or cynicism put an end to thinking about miracles of which the gospels record thirty one? Come and unbox the miracles with John Bell at Iona Abbey in 2024.
Creative writing and art workshops, storytelling, breadmaking, a ceilidh – and more. A week to celebrate creativity and spiritual enquiry. Readings by Wild Goose authors and space to write and share your own poems and prayers.
Exploring our lives as pilgrimage, deepening our resources to face climate change with Alastair McIntosh, author of Parables of Northern Seed, Soil and Soul, Hell and High Water, Poacher’s Pilgrimage and more.
This week will allow you to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life.
A time for Associate Members to gather on the land and in the space that has inspired a movement that offers belonging and challenges us to align God's longing for a world of justice and peace.
Come and help us restore Iona Abbey Centre at the end of the busy 2024 season. This week is offered at a discounted rate.
Join Quaker, and Iona Community Leader Ruth Harvey, for some days of gentle, stilling contemplative practices in the beauty of an Iona winter.
Join Quaker, and Iona Community Leader Ruth Harvey, for some days of gentle, stilling contemplative practices in the beauty of an Iona winter.
We explore the sacred art of waiting in community during Advent on Iona. Facilitated by the Iona Abbey Programme Team.
Come and help us get Iona Abbey Centre ready for the 2025 season. This week is for energetic people who don’t mind getting their hands dirty. This week is available at a discounted rate.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona. Arrive on Saturday or Tuesday of this week for a 6 or 3 night stay. Single room occupancy available at no extra cost from 15th March - 15th April 2025.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona. Single room occupancy available at no extra cost from 15th March - 15th April 2025.
How do creative mindfulness activities help us to see the world differently? Iona artist, Mhairi Killin, and island mindfulness teacher, Kerstin Felleiter, will help us explore a Gaelic way of seeing and being in the world through the rich visual history of Iona, from the Book of Kells to the present day. Single room occupancy available at no extra cost from 15th March - 15th April 2025.
Are you curious about how yoga intersects with Christian spirituality? Join Pauline Steenbergen, Steve Carter and Una Bentley, at the beginning of Lent, to explore the spiritual benefits of practicing yoga. Single room occupancy available at no extra cost from 15th March - 15th April 2025.
An invitation to adults and children to experience 3 days without media, and to reap the benefits of shared pleasure in the moment and deep relaxation. Single room occupancy available at no extra cost from 15th March - 15th April 2025.
This Holy Week and Easter journey will use guided conversations and creative arts to explore new perspectives on Jesus' death and resurrection. Children and young people are very welcome and will be offered their own programme sessions. Led by Alison Adam, Lesley Orr and Cara Riley.
Explore the intimate relationship between the body and the brain. Learn why body-based spiritual practices work. Explore how different styles of meditation impact our well-being. Honour and care for our whole selves. Led by seasoned practitioners and instructors Rev. Christopher Rowe and Rev. Keller Hawkins.
How can we think positively about the future when so much news and conjecture is bleak? We will be considering whether a faith which should essentially be liberating can offer positive pathways to the future. Led by John Bell.
A week for gentle exploration, reflection, and inspiration about what it means to belong to a vibrant, global, hopeful community today. This week for Associate Members will be co-led by Ruth Harvey, Iona Community Leader, and Caitlin Wakefield, Membership Manager.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona.
Explore how singing together shapes faith, heals brokenness, transforms lives, and renews peace. For beginner and intermediate hymn/songwriters, singers, and enthusiasts. Led by The Hymn Society in the US and Canada.
Join us as we celebrate St Columba. We’ll follow in his footsteps on Iona, discovering how his remarkable story resonates within us. Led by Simon de Voil.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona.
What inspires and sustains us in this time of anxiety about the climate? During this environment week we will discover tools to raise our spirits, and change our climate anxiety into climate action.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona.
The world's gone wild so why does worship matter? An interactive week exploring creative, participative and playful ways to worship, led by the Wild Goose Resource Group, Jo Love, Iain McLarty and Jane Bentley.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona.
A special week for Members of the Iona Community to gather on the Isle of Iona. Please note you must be a Member of the Iona Community to attend this week.
YouthFest on Iona is a great space for youth groups to make friends, explore the island and experience community life. Bring your youth group!
A week of creative reflection with experienced peace builders, we will explore what peace and security means in the local and wider context. Hosted by the Peacemaking CCN with input from Fellowship of Reconciliation, Rethinking Security, Quaker peace work and Ulster University.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona. Arrive on Saturday or Tuesday of this week for a 6 or 3 night stay.
How do places shape our spirituality? This programme is for those who are curious about the spaces we inhabit. We’ll have the opportunity to learn from history and archaeology. We’ll create maps of our own inner and outer landscapes to help us renew our commitment of care for the land upon which we live. Led by Dr Julian Richards.
What better place than Iona to rediscover the Bible as an ecological and indigenous text? If you breathe Earth's air, drink her water, eat of her bounty, and enjoy her beauty, this week will equip you as a contemplative activist and lifelong member of Team Earth going forward. Led by Brian McLaren.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona.
In the season of change we embrace the spiritual journey of ageing, navigating transitions and letting go, guided by Elspeth Murray and Rachel Weiss.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona. Arrive on Saturday or Tuesday of this week for a 6 or 3 night stay.
John Bell explores the often overlooked and fascinating minor figures and incidents in the Bible that humanise the scriptures and reveal hidden gems.
This Faith & Friendship week is for those who are, or who would like to be, engaged with communities, bringing people together across difference and seeking to nurture and implement values related to peace, justice, and compassionate leadership.
Join our Festival of Writing and Storytelling. Explore various creative processes, develop your literary skills, and enjoy fireside readings and storytelling. For writers and story enthusiasts of all ages.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona.
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