Past Events
Calm Mind, Open Heart
Mindfulness and Compassion Retreat
This retreat offers the opportunity to step out of the busyness of daily life and provides a practical immersion in mindfulness and heart-based meditation practices. Rooted in the timeless w...
The Guru Principle with Bonni Ross
Join Bonni Ross for a silent retreat exploring the Guru Principle through Guru Rinpoche's Seven Line Prayer and Namgyal Sadhana at Wangapeka, where sincere practitioners enhance their Path requirements.
Garden of Mindfulness Retreat
Gathering Our Gifts
This family retreat is now FULLY BOOKED. If you would like to be placed on the Waiting List please contact the team at [email protected]. Join...
Unfolding Through Art
This retreat invites you to become playfully curious with COLOUR as a pathway to authenticity, that gold (Au) of your being, through compassionate non-verbal visual enquiry into the meditative mandala of experience.
50th Anniversary Gathering: Reflecting, Connecting and Reimagining What’s Possible
Harvesting 50 years of wisdom, we gather to reimagine a thriving Wangapeka for future generations—practicing, working, and wondering together what makes dharma truly relevant today.
Between Earth and Sky – a journey of human unfolding
Between Earth and Sky guides us to remember our deep belonging through embodied practices, exploring human wisdom held within our bones and moving from that 'deep grain of love' that always connects us to this Earth and each other.
Beginning Now! An Introductory Meditation Retreat
Beginning Now offers a supportive space to learn the ancient breathing meditation, building confidence for newcomers while deepening experienced practitioners' skills in ethical living, inter-connectedness and compassionate wisdom within Wangapeka's beautiful silence and gentle guidance.
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.
Sacred Healing Nourishment with Chrystal Nathal
Through cooking and eating as medicine, we'll deepen our connection with Earth Mother's unconditional love, joining in ancient cacao ceremony, Healing Sound Meditation, and communal cooking to awaken our innate wisdom and heal ourselves, each other, and our planet.
Deepening the Practice of Everyday Awareness
A Weekend Retreat
Deepening the practice of everyday awareness at the historic Wangapeka Centre, where fifty years of wisdom meet non-clinging presence. Simply resting in natural awareness while walking, eating, sitting - reconnecting with life's wonder in each ordinary moment.
Tree Planting Day
With 100 gifted native trees from Biodiversity and Restoration Group and Motueka Catchment Collective, the Wangapeka community is invited to practice kaitiakitanga on 9 August, planting along the new Omahu track to stabilize land and restore habitat after track disruption.
Wangapeka Educational Trust AGM weekend 2025
Wangapeka Trust AGM weekend 18-20 July: our once-a-year gathering to connect, sit, and vision together after we've done the governance bit. Free stay, shared meals, emergent conversations to map our trajectory. Come for a day or the whole blessed spell.