The Wisdom of Angelic Archetypes with Mira Riddiford, Nelson Buddhist Centre

4 June 2020, 7pm, Nelson Buddhist Centre, 87 Nile St, opposite Central School Mira Riddiford will be giving an evening talk at the Nelson Buddhist Centre, before the seven day retreat at the Wangapeka the following day. If you aren’t in Nelson, the class will most likely be recorded. The Nelson Buddhist Centre is an amazing place to give a …

AGM and Community Hui 2020

[pdf version]   Weekend of Jul 24 – 26 2020 Kia ora koutou! You are warmly invited to attend. This is a wonderful opportunity to come and spend time with the Community. The Wangapeka Trust is offering all food and accommodation for this weekend on the basis of dana. Please come for the whole weekend, or just a day. There …

Kumanu Wangapeka May 2020

[pdf version] Kumanu Wangapeka Board of Trustees Process May 18th 2020 Opportunities to Give Kia ora whanau Kumanu means to foster, nurture and care for. If you are reading this, we appreciate your care for Wangapeka. As a Board of Trustees (BOT) we continue our care for Wangapeka and the community as best we can. We also appreciate the love …

Publications eBooks Kindle & Kobo

Books This Nectar of Naturalness by Tarchin Hearn Digital Editions on Kindle and Kobo. Published June 2022.NZD $10.50 Kobo only USD $7.00 Kindle and Kobo CAD $9.00 Kindle and Kobo Living the Dharma With Bonni Ross by Bonni Ross Digital Editions on Kindle and Kobo. Published May 2022.NZD $8.50 Kobo only USD $5.00 Kindle and Kobo CAD $6.50 Kindle and …

Wangapeka Elders Lunch by Mark Schrader

L-R Mary Jenkins, Tarchin Hearn, Shelley Szybowski, Mark Schrader, Bonni Ross, Matthew Eades, Keith Rowan On Thursday 19 March 2020, a unique occurrence involving a small group of dedicated Dharma folk with strong links to the Wangapeka Study & Retreat Centre met in Nelson.  This was the first time this particular configuration of Wangapeka Elders had met with all seven …

Retreat In A Time Of Covid 19 – Reviews by Alejandra, Karenza, and Linda

The opportunity to attend the retreat was presented to me with such an ease that I had a very accepting attitude once, due to the COVID 19 situation, Lama Mark had to leave the country earlier and it seemed perfectly natural to me that Jonathan offered to lead the retreat and Wangapeka Board generously supported us to going ahead with it. We …

Diary Of A Retreat Manager In A Pandemic by Jonathan Chambers

8 March: Our 5th Annual Dzogchen retreat appears to be coming together ‘according to plan’. A vague sense however that the process has been a little too smooth so far… 9 March: In discussion with Amber, we decide to email retreatants about COVID-19, requesting them not to come if they are high risk. 11 March: WHO declares a pandemic. 16 …

Mindfulness and More – A Review by Jaime Howell

[pdf version] I am animate. I am an animal. I am born from life and livingAnd so, dear friend, are you.Everything we experience reverberates with these truths.Tarchin Hearn Words shared with us in the intimacy of land, love and learning. Mindfulness and More, a three week retreat with Tarchin Hearn at Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre. Do the cicadas know …

This Morning I Woke Early by Bonni Ross

9/6/13 THIS MORNING I WOKE EARLY I never saw a whooping crane But sometimes, in the summer night I would fall asleep under the covers Under the covers we put over our heads My cousins and me When grandpa came ’round with the bug spray “So you don’t get eaten alive,” he said And I would fall asleep safe from …