GreenSpirit is a welcoming and diverse network of individuals and communities committed to practising love for the Earth.
Based in the UK, and connected nationally and internationally, we bring together creativity, the insights of science and the wisdom of spiritual traditions. Through gatherings, shared exploration, and active participation, we support one another in living with greater care, awareness, and responsibility towards the planet that sustains us all. You can find out more about us here.
GreenSpirit 2025 Summer Magazine
Green Living in Changing Times
The magazine is free if you join GreenSpirit. To find out more about the magazine and buy your individual copy, tap here.
Article from the 25th-Year Anniversary issue: History of GreenSpirit Magazine.
GreenSpirit Spring Walking Retreat 2026
~ The South Downs Way ~
YHA South Downs, Itford Farm, Beddingham, Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 6JS
Tuesday 26th May from 5pm – Friday 29th May after lunch
Join us for the GreenSpirit Spring 2026 walking retreat. YHA South Downs is a uniquely refurbished Sussex farmhouse in an enviable location right on the South Downs Way. This hostel enjoys substantial grounds of its own and is surrounded by the hills of the South Downs National Park – perfect for anyone wanting to walk in the rolling Sussex countryside.
Click here for full details and how to book.
New Release in the GreenSpirit Book Series
Edited by Marian Van Eyk McCain, Ian Mowll & Santoshan/Stephen Wollaston
Spiritually Green includes a selection of articles and interviews from GreenSpirit Magazine, spanning a period of twelve years. It presents a diversity of green wisdom and Earth-centred practices, such as the importance of stories, eco-therapeutic work in green relationships, herbal medicine, rewilding, problems of consumerism, and much more.
Spiritually Green is the fifteenth title in the GreenSpirit Book Series, which is a low-cost series on Earth-centred spirituality, sold at production price only.
Tap here for full details of the book and how to buy it. Free eBook downloads are available in different formats for members of GreenSpirit in the Members Area (password protected).
Winter Solstice Celebration (zoom)
Monday 22nd December 2025 19:00
December is a holy month. The dark, silky silence that descends so early each day speaks of reverence. The promise that December holds — no matter how dark, how cold, how empty it can get, is that the light is coming back. We embrace the darkness and are eager for the coming Solstice when the whole world is “standing still” and holds its breath, waiting for light to be reborn. This sense of stopping, of the (temporary) deadness of the natural world, is central to our understanding of midwinter, and is fed every year, by our experience of what’s (not) going on outside in the natural world.
Do bring readings, songs, stories and maybe a candle to light together.
See the November newsletter for full details (scroll down).
GreenSpirit Calendar 2026: Living with the Seasons
The 2026 GreenSpirit Calendar: Living with the Seasons has beautiful photographs and inspirational quotations for each month.
It is free for GreenSpirit members. For each month, the calendar has a landscape A4 page with a picture and quote. And below it, another landscape A4 page with a box for each day of the month (the weeks start on a Monday) to write your own notes. The lunar cycle is included as well as UK holiday dates and Celtic festival dates.
To find out more and to buy the calendar in the UK, go to:
Video: Winter Solstice
~ the Shortest Day – a Celtic Celebration
Enter into the experience and meaning of Winter Solstice through this short, meditative video. The Winter Solstice is celebrated by many people all around the world and is one of the eight Celtic festivals in the year. It happens around the 21st of December when the night is longest and the day is shortest. It signifies many things including the coming of the light.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rXAdOsLljQ
This is part of a series exploring the months and Celtic celebrations throughout the year.
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See a page with all of the celebrations through the year here:
https://www.greenspirit.org.uk/celebrations-through-the-year/
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Quotations from GreenSpirit Books
“GreenSpirit: Path to a New Consciousness” book (2-page pdf)
GreenSpirit Blog
Cocreation with a Living, Intelligent Earth by Justine Huxley
Documentary – Ocean with David Attenborough – Review
My Green Journey Through Cancer by Jenny Leslie
My Green Spiritual Journey #11 – ‘My “Humpty Dumpty” Life’ by Roslyn Rus
Book (fiction) – Orbital – Review
‘In the Silence of Solace, a Green Spiritual Journey’ by Leah Black
Festival – Buddhafield – Review
Book Reviews
No Paradise with Wolves’ by Katie Stacey
This book explores some large themes including the nature of rewilding and the potential conflicts of interest this can create, particularly between wildlife and local people.
Hermit: A memoir of finding freedom in a wild place by Jade Angelis Fitton
Jade Fitton wanted to escape her messed up life and the ceaseless busy-ness of society, and decided she would take drastic action to bring it about. She would go it alone. Warnings about the negative effects of loneliness are easily found, but solitude can be, for a very few people, a different state altogether.
