Events

Awakening Intimacy with Ross Inness-McLeish and Camila Nieuwlands

Friday 30th May  to Tuesday 3rd June 2025   You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile ...

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30 May - 03 Jun

5:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Loving-Kindness and Compassion 2025 Chenrezig Retreat

Loving-Kindness and Compassion 2025 Chenrezig Retreat Friday 6 June (5pm) to Tues 10 June (2pm) Weekend only option – please enquire   This is an experiential meditation course on developing loving-kindness and compassion for oneself and others. Both beginners and those wishing to deepen their meditation practice are welcome to attend. Each day there will be explorations on Loving Kindness ...

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06 - 10 Jun

5:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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50th Anniversary Lunch at Fairfield House, Nelson

50th Anniversary Lunch at Fairfield House in Nelson June 15th 12.00 – 3.00pm We will catch up, share stories, enjoy a little entertainment, warm wholesome food and excellent company. Come and join this relaxed celebration commemorating 50 years of the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre. Families are welcome. Food for lunch will all be gluten and dairy free, prepared by ...

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15 Jun

12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Touching the Earth at Solstice with Jaime Howell

Touching the Earth at Solstice with Jaime Howell and Team Thursday 19th to Wednesday 25th June 2025 “The most important thing for true societal change is that we have educational systems to help people ecologically awaken. When we have a large enough percentage everything will shift and we will start to embrace the world as all relatives.” Bill Plotkin Touching ...

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19 - 25 Jun

5:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Community Weekend

Wangapeka Community Weekend June 27-29th This is the first of two community weekends happening at Wangapeka in 2025. The other weekend is November 21-23rd These community weekends are an invitation for the community to become more involved in the operations and decisions required to run the centre. We want to foster a sense that all of us are guardians of ...

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27 - 29 Jun

5:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Refraining from Harm, Supporting all of Life

A dynamic 10-week online community exploration of ethics in action Facilitated by Kath Mitchell, Mark Schrader and Chani Grieve With guest presentations from the Elders of Wangapeka July 2nd – September 3rd The current state of our world is a cause of deep concern for many. We see unskilful choices and actions being perpetuated and causing great harm. There is ...

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02 Jul - 03 Sep

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

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The Great Mother Goddess Retreat with Mira Riddiford – POSTPONED

This Retreat has been POSTPONED. This retreat event will be updated when new dates are confirmed. Before the agricultural age, it was The Great Mother Goddess who was revered, honoured and adored. Loved, She was of the earth, weighty, and within. All were from her, of her and never parted. No gender was considered lesser, but all was of Her. ...

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04 - 11 Jul

All Day

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Deepening the Practice of Awareness with John Massey

Friday 22nd August, 6pm to Sunday 24th August, 2pm There are probably endless practices of developing awareness; for example, mindfulness meditation, insight meditation and meditation on the breath. The seed of all these mindfulness practices is our natural, ever present awareness. Nourishing this seed, it grows and blossoms, finally fruiting as an awakening to the inexpressible wonder of the present ...

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22 - 24 Aug

6:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Sacred Healing Nourishment with Chrystal Nathal

Sacred Healing Nourishment with Chrystal Nathal Friday August 29th 5pm to Tuesday  September 2nd 2pm Nourishment is at the heart of our earthly experience.  Our bodies come from the earth and return when we die.  This precious human body is a vehicle to Awaken our full potential on earth.  Through attuning to our bodies with awareness and love, we can ...

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29 Aug - 02 Sep

5:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Life As It Is 2025

“Natural Goodness”   Life As It Is offers families a unique chance to pause – to carve out intentional space in busy family lives, to feel into and attend to what is most important for us, and to enjoy being supported by a place and a community that have been dedicated to spiritual enquiry for 50 years. How can meditation ...

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05 - 07 Sep

5:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Between Earth and Sky, A Journey of Human Unfolding with Chani Grieve

Between Earth and Sky – a journey of human unfolding With Chani Grieve Friday October 3rd – Monday October 6th   What is it to be a human being, on this earth, at this time? How can we bring all our natural intelligence and inheritance to bear, to walk through this life deeply rooted, clear-eyed, and open-hearted? We are, and ...

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03 - 06 Oct

6:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Announcement: Labour Weekend 50th Anniversary Gathering

Labour Weekend Gathering: Walking Backwards into the Future Friday 24th October, 6pm to Monday 27th October, 3pm Details will follow later. Costs Costs are still being calculated. Information and Registration Any enquiries please contact the Jane Hobday.  jane.hobday17@gmail.com There is no registration yet. More details will follow. Please consider becoming a Wangapeka member – click here for details.

24 - 27 Oct

6:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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