Meditation classes

Every Wednesday evening

7:15pm - 8:30pm The Ballroom, Fairfield House, Nelson

Come and practice simple breathing meditation in a supportive and caring atmosphere.

This is a universal practice and the sessions are open to everyone, from beginners through to experienced, people from any religious tradition and people with no religious affiliations.

No need to register, just show up!

The facilitators are all experienced practitioners, and we support and learn from everyone’s wisdom.

Meditation tuition is available on request.

There is a bowl available for Dana/Donation/Koha to cover venue hire

Six Month Online Program: Honest Conversations About Death and Dying

Hosted by Wendy Haynes and Chani Grieve

Through honest, generous and inspired conversations and practices, with no set beliefs or agendas, we will talk about death, dying and what’s important to each of us. We will meditate, write, talk, listen, be quiet. We will play, be serious, research, discover and listen deeply to find out what’s alive in us. This is not a death doula training although some people are inspired to undertake further training in this field. This course is for everyone, young and old, in prime health or facing terminal illness – everyone is welcome.

Join us to reflect, research, discover and listen deeply to find out what’s alive in us; and learn from those who’ve gone before, many teachers on this path and the wonderful people who are part of these groups.

Learn the skills and practice of mindfulness with New Zealand’s #1 provider of mindfulness training.

Suitable for beginners.

4 Monday evenings 6:30pm - 7:30pm

May 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th

Pūtangitangi Greenmeadows Centre, Main Road, Stoke

For all enquiries and to book please visit Mindfulness Works

This workshop is for anyone wishing to bring deeper presence, connection, clarity and harmony into their communication and relationships with self and others. It is also for those who are motivated to bring these qualities into our communal, social, and societal spaces.

Through gentle guided movement, meditation, individual and shared enquiry, transparent and compassionate communication, we will be learning and practicing skills to embody the kind of world we wish to create and live in - to heal divisive and harmful separations within and between individuals, to bring awareness and love into spaces of difficulty, and to be part of a global healing movement contributing to ecosystemic change on a deep level.

Together we will learn how to develop, refine and apply embodied listening in our personal, professional and community lives.

The workshop will run as two half-day immersion sessions, with time for integration in between.

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.

“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.