World Peace Garden
A Sacred Sanctuary for Global Prayer and Inner Peace at Bali Spirit Festival
The Story of the World Peace Garden • What is a Peace Garden
The World Peace Garden at the Bali Spirit Festival was born from a sincere response to the times we are living in, a desire to stand in conscious solidarity with the world.
Bali has long been a place where people come for healing, reflection, and spiritual search. A festival gathers this shared longing into a lived experience of connection. The World Peace Garden gives that connection a direction: it becomes a space where we hold the world together, in awareness, in prayer, and in responsibility.
Now in its third year, the Garden continues to offer a sanctuary for meditation, prayer, and collective presence. This year, its theme is a clear and active call: pursue peace with everyone.
This is an invitation into action. Peace is no longer something we hope for at a distance. It becomes a personal responsibility, expressed in how we live, how we relate, and how we repair what is fractured in our own lives.
The Garden is also an interfaith space, where the spiritual traditions of the world are present side by side. Buddhist monks, Hindu practitioners, Sikh leaders, Christians, Muslims, and others come together, each carrying the depth of their own path, yet meeting in a shared intention for peace.
At the heart of the space stands the Interfaith Harmony Altar, where sacred texts from different traditions are placed together. It reflects both a reality and a prayer: that the wisdom of the world’s traditions can be experienced in unity, and that what has too often been a source of division can become a ground for reconciliation.
The World Peace Garden was initiated by Divine Indwelling, an interspiritual organization founded by Swaady Martin. It is brought to life by a circle of volunteers from the Bali community, who hold and care for the space throughout the festival. In this way, the Garden becomes both an offering and an invitation, an offering from the community to all who enter, and an invitation for each person to step into their role as a peacemaker.
In the World Peace Garden, we gather as one human family. We remember that peace is something we embody, something we practice, and something we offer, together.
What is a World Peace Garden?
Across the globe, World Peace Gardens have emerged as spaces where people gather to pray, reflect, and dream of a more compassionate world. The Divine Indwelling World Peace Garden at Bali Spirit Festival joins this global movement offering a sacred sanctuary where inner stillness meets collective hope.
This living, breathing space is a tribute to the enduring human spirit and a prayer for peace that transcends borders, religions, and beliefs. Rooted in the universal longing for harmony, it invites people of all faiths and backgrounds to return to the Divine within and to the heart of our shared humanity.
At its center, sacred teachings, devotional music, and interspiritual wisdom are shared by seasoned elders and teachers from diverse traditions.
The garden includes two gentle sanctuaries:
🌿 The Soul Care Corner: A space of sacred listening and compassionate presence. Here, participants are invited into healing conversations and tender witnessing, a soft place to land for those seeking to be seen and held.
🕯 The Intercessory Prayer & Candle Space: A quiet threshold for offering intentions. Light a candle, kneel, and let your prayers rise for yourself, your loved ones, and the world.
The Divine Indwelling World Peace Garden is a call to come home to Spirit, to peace, and to the truth that we are not far from one another, but deeply, beautifully connected.
For more information on what’s happening daily in the World Peace Garden, please see the boards in front of the tent and check the online SCHEDULE.
The World Peace Garden has been conceptualized by Swaady Martin and the volunteers of Divine Indwelling, Sumeena Gupta, Candice Halliday-Bryant, Alise Mihimana, Mahmoud Tieima, Yanick Labuthie, and Manuela Simone Sauter.