Louise Petzold is one half of the facilitation team, both committed practitioners weaving the deepening enquiry of dharma with family and community life.
Life As It Is
2025
Join families to pause, practice meditation, and weave inner and outer lives, exploring how natural goodness lives in us all while supported by 50 years of dedicated spiritual enquiry. Together let's nurture joy, kindness, and love for the benefit of our children and our world.
Life As It Is (2024)
FULL
A family-friendly retreat pausing the beautiful chaos to weave meditation, Buddhadharma and earth connection with the joy of children. Together we sink into what matters, building true refuge in the lives we have while supporting all beings.
Life As It Is 2023
A Community Family Retreat
A community family retreat exploring how we can open to life just as it is, strengthening ourselves and others through meditation, silence and child-focused activities within the beautiful mess of human experience.
Life As It Is 2022 – A Community Family Retreat
FULL
A community family retreat exploring the Four Foundations of Mindfulness—practising together with periods of silence, child-focused activities, and an open, inclusive way of being for the benefit of many. Fully booked; wait-list available.
Life As It Is 2021
a Family Friendly Community Retreat
Gather as community to slow down and return to our interconnection with earth and all things. Through group/individual meditation, silence and child activities, access deep unshakable refuge in Life as it is.
Life as It Is 2020
A Family Friendly Community Retreat
A warm community weekend across all ages where we'll explore growing support, connectedness, curiosity and continuous presence through family practice, meditation, forest walks, sharing circles and creative sessions at Wangapeka.
Life as It Is!
a Family Friendly Community Retreat
Join us for a warm community weekend of mindfulness where we explore walking a spiritual path together with our families and lives as they are – simply exploring presence and shared learning while living our ordinary spiritual lives.