Comings and Goings : New Year News This is a small but special edition of Newsphere, to warmly and officially welcome our new Caretakers to Wangapeka – Kaya Edgington as Centre Caretaker, and Ethan Mills as Land Caretaker. Kaya has been onsite since late December, where she spent nearly 2 weeks with Tracy doing a handover of the role, before taking her …
Kumanu March 2025
Written by Georgia McCrory-Bowick Kia ora koutou, The board met for our first in person meeting this year on February 14th at the Nelson Buddhist Centre. It was a great moment to get together and see each other, especially since one of us is usually Zooming in from Christchurch. Our BoT meeting was split into two halves, with a personal sharing …
Kumanu January 2025
Written by Georgia McCrory-Bowick and Chani Grieve Kia ora e te whānau, Happy New Year! This Kumanu is reporting on November and December 2024, as we all took a break over the Christmas holidays. The Board of Trustees continues to work away in the background supporting the functioning of the centre, ticking off tasks and responding to things as they emerge. Georgia was able …
Newsphere Newsletter
The Newsphere is an email newsletter. Look below for past issues. To read our latest community emails, that is Newsphere, Upcoming Events, and Kumanu, please click here. To subscribe to our email newsletter please click here. To contact the Newsphere Editor please email: comms@wangapeka.org Newsphere Newsletter Archive 2025 03/02/2025 – Newsphere – February 2025 2024 23/12/2024 – Newsphere – December …
Earth Body Human Body Retreat
Poem by Ed Cromwell and photos by Lorena Cardenas Corrales The Wangapeka Stream Sit awhile and marvel at the beauty, babbling brook in shaded valley, giving life to the dense forest. Flowing over the bedrock beneath, granite formed eons ago, on a timescale hard to comprehend. Time passing slowly, on a weekend escape, appreciating every moment with new …
A weekend of giving, by John Massey
Initially there was a little uncertainty about how this weekend and planned activities would develop. Weather forecasts weren’t favouring a weekend suitable for gardening so I advised those people who indicated they might come, that they could opt out if they wished, particularly those coming from Christchurch. Fortunately a rainy forecast didn’t seem to dampen everyone’s plans for a stay …
Roof For Ablutions Block
Glenn and Sol putting a roof on the ablution block, connecting in the work, physically, emotionally and spiritually. The next project for the volunteer accommodation are will be installing some kind of kitchen so that volunteers can prepare some of their own meals at Dāna Vihāra.
Evolution of Service as Path
SAP ran from March through to September 2024, guided by the consistent presence of Mark Schrader and Kath Mitchell, with huge support from Tracy, Bonni, Matthew, and many others. SAP itself is an evolution of many years of community hui and dreaming around what the needs of Wangapeka are, and what it could look like to have a more consistent community of practice …
Life As It Is – Theme Song
A full house of 14 adults and 10 children came together for a weekend in early October. The theme was Connection, and we explored the many facets and levels of connection – to planet, to the whenua, to self, to the body, to other living beings, to each other, to our inner life, to play, to the dharma and what …