Events

Garden of Mindfulness Family Retreat 2024 – FULL

This retreat is now full please contact the course manager to go on the waiting list. Journey through the mindfulness looking glass with us! Nurture the wild creative within and enhance your and your family’s wellbeing through play and nature exploration. A morning class will give the adults time to learn and practice a range of contemplations based on the ...

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28 Dec

All Day

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Stardust, Starlight with Bonni Ross

What’s a Human Being made of? What are we for? This is a love song to the Star One, and all the precious friends and worthy opponents who hold Buddhadharma in their hearts to nurture and protect islands of sanity for the benefit of all. January 10 to 24, 2025   On our planet, Sakyamuni Buddha declared that human beings ...

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10 - 24 Jan

5:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Compassionate Contact with Brandon Schwinn & Chloe Loftus

Dates: Friday 31st January – Monday 3rd February 2025 In this retreat we will explore contact between ourselves and our environment/community. Using tools from Contact Improvisation dance, meditation, presence work, and play we will expand a sense of empathy and connection. There is a spectrum of possibility between stillness and dynamic movement. This retreat will offer space to explore that ...

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31 Jan - 03 Feb

5:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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8th Annual Dzogchen Retreat with Lama Mark Webber

February 7-16, 2025 With Lama Mark Webber (Lama Yongdu Chokyi Gyaltsen – via Zoom) and Jonathan Chambers (in person)   Amitabha: Embodying Great Love and Open Mind. Contemplating the natural freedom of mind with discernment and infinite love. ANNOUNCEMENT We are thrilled to announce this opportunity for Dharma practitioners to come together for a 9-day Dzogchen retreat at Wangapeka Study ...

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07 - 16 Feb

5:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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The Way of Harmony through Mindfulness and Movement

There’s calm in the eye of the storm; a refuge within the easeful flow of our own breathing. Spend a week focused on the satisfying practice of easeful mindfulness. Mindfulness of breath and body, combined with simple movement exercises, can clear our minds, bring peace to our bodies, with long-lasting results. Along with mindfulness sessions, there will be opportunities for ...

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21 - 28 Feb

All Day

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Luminous Presence, A Path of Bare Bones Awakening with Tarchin Hearn

A 16-day residential retreat with Tarchin Hearn Fri 28 March (5pm) – Sun 13 April (2pm) Tarchin has written: “There are no tricks, no shortcuts, 
no quick paths for realising a life of awakening. In some blessed way, we 
 gather all the resources of our life; 
 gradually learning the art of mingling interest and need, 
intellectual inquiry and ...

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28 Mar - 13 Apr

5:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Celebration of Wangapeka’s 50th Anniversary

Celebration of Wangapeka’s 50th Anniversary 18 – 21 April 2025 Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua. ‘I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past’.  In 1975, a bunch of inspired, determined, energetic young people known as the Sphere Group paid a deposit for the purchase of a large barren patch of land up the Wangapeka valley. ...

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18 - 21 Apr

5:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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The Human Imperative: longing to be free from suffering, and established in happiness, with Bonni Ross

THE HUMAN IMPERATIVE: longing to be free from suffering, and established in happiness BONNI ROSS with Matthew Eades, Jane Hobday and Graham Sandlant This silent retreat is an opportunity for both beginners and experienced meditators to receive instruction in the Buddha’s fundamental Samatha/Vipassana method and to practice, as is traditional, in community. This profound, integrated meditation process, when undertaken skilfully, ...

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25 Apr - 23 May

5:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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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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The Great Mother Goddess Retreat with Mira Riddiford

As many of us know, there was a time before the Patriarchy, where the god consciousness worshipped was not male and unseeable in the sky. 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 ...

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04 - 11 Jul

All Day

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