A Sanctuary and Retreat Center for Art, Earth, Peace, and Renewal

**Help preserve a desert sanctuary, honor a lifetime of art and community activism, and carry a global vision of peace into its next chapter.**

Near Santa Fe, New Mexico, artist Vijali Hamilton has created a sanctuary on 40 acres where art, nature, and spiritual inquiry meet beneath the vast desert sky.

The World Wheel for Peace Retreat Center brings together the threads of her life’s work: environmental sculpture, community gatherings, deep listening, and peace through the arts. We invite you to help care for this extraordinary place—and imagine yourself here.

A place to listen, create, and belong

Imagine waking to the quiet of the high desert. Stepping outside into clear morning light. Taking an unhurried walk among sculptures and native plants, with distant mountains opening the horizon.

Set atop a mesa in the Galisteo Basin, the sanctuary offers panoramic views, changing light, and space to hear your own thoughts. Here, you might paint, write, meditate, share a meal, or simply rest beneath a sky that seems to go on forever.

A retreat here is an invitation to reconnect—with your creativity, with the Earth, and with what matters most. Whether through a personal retreat, an artist residency, or a shared gathering, our vision is to welcome people into the spirit of listening and connection that has guided Vijali’s work around the world.

Your support will help care for the sanctuary and prepare it to welcome future retreat guests with warmth, comfort, and thoughtful hospitality.

A lifetime connecting communities through art

In 1986, Vijali began a seven-year artistic and spiritual pilgrimage, creating environmental stone sculptures and community ceremonies for peace. The first World Wheel connected 12 sites across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Beginning in 1999, World Wheel II carried her work into communities in Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Senegal, Los Angeles, Australia, and the Republic of Georgia.

Through these journeys, Vijali invited people to share their traditions, express their hopes, and create together. The sanctuary gives this global work a home—a place to preserve its stories, experience its spirit, and carry its invitation forward.

[Explore Vijali’s life and work](https://vijali.org/bio/).

What your gift will support

Your donation will directly support the World Wheel for Peace Retreat Center, with essential care, preservation, and long-term stewardship guiding our priorities.

- **Care for the sanctuary: Support essential repairs, ongoing maintenance, and welcoming spaces for rest, creativity, and gathering.

- **Steward the land and outdoor art: Care for pathways, sculptures, and the desert landscape through thoughtful conservation practices.

- **Preserve Vijali’s living legacy: Document artwork, organize archives, and record the stories and teachings behind a lifetime of creative work.

- **Support lasting stewardship: Provide organizational help sustain the sanctuary into the future.

- **Nurture retreat experiences: Prepare for creative retreats, artist residencies, reflective gatherings, scholarships, and meaningful volunteer opportunities.

- **Share the vision: Help more people discover Vijali’s art, books, teachings, and the World Wheel’s ongoing work for peace.

Every act of care helps sustain a place where people can step away from daily demands and return to the simple practices of noticing, creating, and being together.

Continuing the circle: Mexico 2027

**A circle of stones. A gathering of neighbors. An invitation to create peace together.**

Vijali’s Global Peace Circle Project invites communities to gather through music, dance, storytelling, and prayer. Created with local stones and earth, with the permission and participation of landowners and communities, each circle offers a place for connection.

Her hope is that people will continue gathering long after her visit, sustaining each circle through their own traditions and creativity.

Peace Circles in Mexico are planned for 2027, alongside her developing documentary, *Voices for World Peace*. As resources allow, support will help advance community coordination, travel, circle creation, and documentation.

Rooted in care

Our first responsibility is to care for what is already here: the land, the artwork, the stories, and the spirit of welcome.

We envision a sanctuary whose activities remain in thoughtful relationship with the desert—honoring its quiet, conserving its resources, and welcoming guests with care.

We will share spending and progress as work unfolds, keeping supporters connected to the difference their gifts make.

Donations are received through our fiscal sponsor, The Seeds Project, and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Donation receipts and our fiscal sponsor’s tax identification number will be provided for your records.

Help this living vision flourish

Your gift helps preserve more than a place. It sustains the possibility of an artist finding renewed inspiration, a guest discovering stillness, or a gathering becoming the beginning of a lasting friendship.

Imagine an evening here: the desert cooling, the sky filling with stars, and time to reflect on what the day has opened within you.

This is the invitation we hope to keep alive.

**Please give what you can and share this campaign. Together, we can help Vijali’s World Wheel for Peace Retreat Center continue connecting people through art, Earth, and the practice of peace.**

**Donate to care for the sanctuary, preserve Vijali’s legacy, and help welcome the next person into the circle.**

With gratitude,

Vijali Hamilton and the World Wheel for Peace team