Daniel Burgess-Milne has been studying Buddhadharma since 2012 and has received teachings from various teachers including Tarchin Hearn, Bonni Ross and Lama Mark Webber. He has been both a participant and facilitator of Young Adult’s Retreats and has a background working in mental health with youth. Dan has a passion for understanding insight through a contemporary lens, and finding new concepts and methods for exploring timeless wisdom in a modern world.
Wangapeka Community Weekend
Gather as guardians of precious Wangapeka to dive deeply into themes of collective stewardship, co-creating operations and decisions through donation-based community weekend, honouring our shared responsibility for this thriving centre.
Service as the Path Retreat
The Service as the Path retreat welcomes newcomers and seasoned practitioners to explore Dana and Sila at Wangapeka through meditation and work exchange—a chance to integrate inner practice with daily compassionate action, offering a doorway into longer service and study.
Young Adults Retreat 2023
Young Adults Retreat 2023 invites 18-35s to learn meditation's craft while embracing the four postures—sitting, standing, walking, lying—bridging formal practice and daily life. Subsidised by work exchange and generous dana, silence, guidance and camping await at Wangapeka Study Centre.
Young Adults Retreat 2022
Finding stillness in a busy world
Young adults (18-35) gather at Wangapeka to learn meditation through breathing practice, nature connection, art and conscious movement in the spirit of dana. Surrounded by wilderness, we cultivate inner wisdom amidst silence and shared exploration, building connections across Aotearoa.
YAR: Embracing Life
A toolkit for living with Wisdom and Compassion
YAR gathering for 18-35s explores meditation, conscious dance, art and nature connection at Wangapeka's wilderness retreat, fostering wisdom and compassion through accessible, dana-based practice within supportive young adult community of Aotearoa.
Young Adults Retreat 2020
The Courage to Question
Amidst 2020's shattered certainties, gather with peers in noble silence at Wangapeka, wielding dharma tools—wisdom, compassion, loving awareness—to cradle the heart's questions and unseal creative, loving response.
Wangapeka Community Hui and AGM 2020
All Welcome
Gather in dana-fed circle at Wangapeka to ask Who Are We, Here?—holding colonial wounds alongside healing aspirations, exploring what it means to be good ancestors and lineage holders in Aotearoa through ancient wisdom carried in the lamp of compassion.