This morning of practice offers gentle, mindful movement and guided meditation to soften us into the wakefulness and grace of the present.
Let's come together to to cultivate sanity, stability, and sensitivity.
Let's practice resting into our most natural selves - a human simply being.
Let's see if we can rediscover the wellspring of creativity, intelligence, beauty, and peace that lies at the heart of our human lives.
Suitable for beginners, as well as those with experience. All are welcome.
Life doesn't always have to be a struggle. Tap into your natural capacity for joy to make it more accessible and present in your life.
Get 2025 off to a fantastic start! Join over 40,000 people who have completed Australia and NZ’s #1 Mindfulness course for beginners. Your future self will thank you!
“You need go no further than your own body to understand the Universe.”
- Namgyal Rinpoche
Weaving together movement, meditation, art and science, we will enter the studio/laboratory of our own human experience. We will study, contemplate, explore and come to understand the patterns that shape our own lives, and all of life.
Our human bodies are the doorway to our personal, ancestral, collective and planetary history, and the vehicle for liberation in this life. They show us the way to remembering and realising our fundamental wholeness. As we align our human body with the heart of the earth body, we become the medicine so sorely needed in our world. Join us as we embark on a restorative, experiential and illuminating journey into our interbeing nature, to bring healing, insight, liberation, and joy to our lives.
✔ Australia and New Zealand’s number one 'in-person' mindfulness course - over 40,000 people have taken this course.
✔ Full length 4-week course so you can practise and report back.
✔ No risk money-back guarantee; if you attend all the classes and don’t feel you have received any benefit get your money back.
✔ Exclusive 45-page guidebook including weekly assignments, in-depth articles and a reading list.
✔ Over 15 guided downloadable meditations for you to keep.
✔ No religion. No dogma. No funny positions. Practical and non-religious course.
✔ Designed for absolute beginners.
✔ Access to follow up training and support so you can continue your mindfulness journey
Life As It Is offers families a unique chance to pause, to sink into connection with each other and the earth, to feel into and attend to what is most important in our lives.
Together we will practice how to weave our inner and outer lives together, infusing them with our deep heart of aspiration for ourselves and for our world. We will be supported by the teachings of Buddhadharma – insights and methods that are as relevant today as ever – that help us build confidence, contentment, and the capacity to meet with whatever arises with our whole being. In this way we find true refuge right here in the lives that we have, supporting and strengthening ourselves, our children, and all beings with whom we share this Earth.
The weekend will consist of group practice time, fun and explorations, children’s activities and space to be immersed in the oasis of calm that the Centre and the whenua offers.
Get involved in this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week!
The theme for 2024 is Community is…. what we create together.
DID YOU KNOW ??
Individual and Organisational wellbeing are inextricably linked. Your organisation is only as healthy as your employees are. Supporting mental health is everybody’s responsibility.
If you would like to invite me to come to your workplace to offer a Mindfulness Session specifically tailored to support the mental health and wellbeing of your staff, please get in touch here.
This annual retreat, now in its 11th year, is an opportunity for anyone wishing to develop or refresh a regular meditation practice in a supportive retreat environment.
Together we will study and practice the meditation on breathing, one of the oldest and most effective practices known, that has been taught and practiced continuously since the time of the Buddha. The practice is founded on, and naturally supports, a commitment to living an ethical life. It is designed to lead us gradually and skilfully from wherever we are right now, to the full experience of healing and freedom made possible through meditation.
