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July 2025

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. ...
04 - 11 Jul
All Day

Heads up! Notice of the Wangapeka AGM 2025

Heads up! Notice of the AGM 2025 You are warmly invited to the Wangapeka Educational Trust AGM weekend, which runs from Friday 18th through Sunday 20th July 2025. This weekend is one of the only chances the wider membership has to come together throughout the year to connect, relax, and practice together, as well as do the important work of consultation ...
18 - 20 Jul
5:00 pm - 2:00 pm
August 2025

Don’t Just Do Something. Sit there! 2025

Starts 6pm Friday 15th August, ends 3pm Sunday 17th August Want to learn to meditate? Perhaps you have tried and need some more skills and extra encouragement? Or possibly, you already meditate and wish to develop your practice and drop into a full weekend of meditation. If so, then this weekend retreat will support you to explore this. The weekend ...
15 - 17 Aug
6:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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 ...
22 - 24 Aug
6:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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 ...
29 Aug - 02 Sep
5:00 pm - 2:00 pm
September 2025

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 ...
05 - 07 Sep
5:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Beginning Now! An Introductory Meditation Retreat

Beginning Now! An Introductory Meditation Retreat Friday 12th September 5pm, to Thursday 18th September 2025 2pm. Where do I start? I’ve never done a retreat before. There is so much going on in the world. How can meditation really help me and others? I wish my busy mind could be quieter and calmer. Silent for 6 days – how could ...
12 - 18 Sep
6:00 pm - 3:00 pm
October 2025

Announcement: Labour Weekend 50th Anniversary Gathering

Labour Weekend Gathering 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 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
December 2025

Service as the Path Retreat

Service as the Path Retreat  Friday 13th to Friday 20th December  The Service as the Path retreat is the opportunity for those new to dharma and meditation, as well as those more familiar, to be guided and supported to develop your practice in the wonderful retreat environment of Wangapeka. Together we will explore themes related to the first two Parami: ...
13 - 20 Dec
5:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Welcome to the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre. People visit from all over the world to meditate and enjoy the peace of this remarkable destination. The Wangapeka is a purpose built retreat centre, with fresh, clean air and beautiful vistas. It is very quiet and ideal for respite, stress relief and deep meditation. Delightfully rustic, we have a meditation hall, solo retreat huts, a main hall for dining and community, and a fully catered kitchen and an onsite vegetable garden.

The Wangapeka Study and Retreat Meditation Centre is a Universalist centre home to a wide range of teachings, paths, and studies. Retreats are held on Mindfulness, Vipassana, Insight, Buddhism, Heart-based practices, Loving Kindness, Calm-abiding, Metta, Compassion, Conscious Movement, Nature, Forest Walks, Yoga, Dance, Feldenkrais, Wellness, Wellbeing, Archetypal Integration, Western Mysticism, Non-Duality, Zen, Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings with Empowerments and Sadhana Practice.

The Wangapeka Centre is located in the foothills of the Southern Alps overlooking the Wangapeka River, about an hour and a half drive SW of Nelson, in the South Island of New Zealand.

We have meditation retreats throughout the year, have huts available for solo retreats, and welcome bookings from external groups. There are also opportunities available to work on our land. Come and enjoy this uniquely vibrant and peaceful centre.

355 Wangapeka River Rd
R.D.2. Wakefield 7096
New Zealand
Phone: +64 3 522 4221
info@wangapeka.org


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