Unfolding Through Art with Graham Price

Date

11 - 17 Nov 2025

Time

5:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Unfolding Through Art

With Graham Price
Tuesday Nov 11 – Monday Nov 17 2025

In 1982, a collection of discourses, images and 44 exercises offered by Namgyal Rinpoche on the use of art experiences to unfold the being, were published in a book titled “Unfolding through Art”.

“The purpose of this exploration is not to produce a work of art but to “be” a work of art.”

This course explores COLOUR as a pathway to authenticity, that gold (Au) of your being, that resonates on the inner plane while supported by compassionate non-verbal visual enquiry. This dialogue invites you to become playfully curious, sensorially involved, with pigment and all of your senses, fully engaging with the supportive, alive Wangapeka environment and incorporating this into your meditative mandala of experience.

About Graham

In 1987, at a 10 day retreat in Taupo, Graham Price was directly introduced to this work. He spent an entire career supporting beginning students, teachers of art, and an international community of art education researchers into finding ways to support authentic response to the experienced world, using visual media.

His meditative journey continues to be supported by Chimé Shore, Tarchin Hearn, Namkhai Norbu, Cecile Kwiat, Sonam Senge, and Bonni Ross.

Costs

Costs: Food, Accommodation, Cooks Fee and Art Materials–Plus Dana*

Huts and Units

$582 Members
$642 Non-Members

Camping

$456 Members
$474 Non-Members

*Dana

Dana (Koha, donation) means a gift freely given. Dana is the practice of generosity from the heart. Generosity opens us to give and receive; it strengthens the giver and supports the receiver. The course cost does not include a fee for Graham’s teaching. You are invited to offer Dana to Graham, to support him to offer this work now and in the future. If you wish to offer Dana, please bring cash, you can place it anonymously in the box in the main hall. It is traditional to give Dana at the start of the course.

Information and Registration

For more information please contact the Course Manager Kath Mitchell: mitchell.kath@gmail.com

To register please fill out our online registration form

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Payment

Payment details are included on the Registration Form. Thank you.

If using Paypal please add 5% of the total cost and include with your payment to cover Paypal’s fees.

Please consider becoming a Wangapeka member – click here for details.

Image Credit: Graham Price

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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