Wangapeka ProgramWangapeka ProgramWangapeka Notices || Caretakers Wanted | Newsphere Archive Teachings in Aotearoa || Teachings in Auckland Tarchin's Teaching Schedule || Leander Kane's Schedule  *new**Mark Webber Retreat 2011 *Leander Kane Retreat May 2010 - places now available for weekend only *details now available for* *David Wakeling Retreat *Bonni Ross at the Wangapeka Sept/Oct, and Auckland and Tasmania Nov 2010 *updated* *Leander Kane's Schedule until February 2011 *Tarchin Hearn Schedule until November 2010 *Teachings in Auckland Wangapeka Program 2010 - 2011 *May - July 2010* David Wakeling Retreat Leander Kane Retreat Tarchin Hearn Retreat *August 2010* WET AGM 2010 *September - October 2010* Bonni Ross Retreat Annual Labour Weekend Hui, with Bonni Ross *January 2011* Leander Kane Retreat *March 2011* Mark Webber Retreat *April 2011* Diamond Zen Retreat Program updated 23 May 2010 A summary of this Wangapeka Program is now downloadable here, or click here for the printfriendly version of this entire page To keep in contact with a particular retreat please contact the Wangapeka: ph 03 522-4221 email retreatcentre@wangapeka.org or join the mailing list here. Please note all dates and times are subject to change and all bookings require a deposit and enrolment with the Centre. Important: A place on any retreat cannot be guaranteed until a deposit and registration form are received at the Centre. A general registration form is available here for all retreats other than those giving specific contacts. For details and registration, please contact: the Wangapeka Caretaker: phone 03 522 4221 email retreatcentre@wangapeka.org Costs for retreatants: Groups hiring the Centre: Charges for retreats run by groups hiring the Wangapeka are by arrangement with the group. Retreats run by the Wangapeka: Charges for accommodation and food for Wangapeka-run retreats can be found on our Costs page, and some retreats may also collect money for travel and/ or a cook. All costs are provisional and subject to change. On Wangapeka-run retreats some support for those in financial hardship is available from our Sangha Support Fund and our Scholarship Fund (follow the links to more detail about these funds). It has been suggested that although, for some people, the charges are as much or more than they can afford, for others the charges are quite minimal and they could actually afford more. If you are in this financially comfortable position, please consider contributing more to the Sangha Support or Scholarship Fund so that the teachings are accessible to everyone. Please note that these retreat costs do not include Dana for the teacher. Dana: The Wangapeka teachers live by Dana (koha/generosity) – a manifestation of your own expression of appreciation and generosity for all you receive. Please give as generously as you are able and help to support this teaching. Wangapeka Program 2010 May 21 - 26 Insight/Vipassana Meditation Retreat with David Wakeling Options: Weekend or up to 5 days This gentle retreat will encourage mindful self-awareness of breath, body feelings and thoughts while sitting, walking, lying down and stretching. Suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators.  David has lived as a Buddhist Monk for 18 years, exploring and teaching approaches to mindfulness, awareness and meditation. He now practices Shiatsu healing bodywork at “The Villa” in Nelson and teaches Meditation, Yoga and Stress Reduction both for the Cancer Society and privately. His primary focus is on the “Insight/Vipassana” Method.Payment for teaching: by koha. Accommodation and food: $45 per night/day. Deposit $50 Arrive: Friday for soup at 5.30 pm Bring: Loose and outdoor clothing, slippers, torch, umbrella. Contact: Cheryll ph: 545 0710 A poster is available here. May 28 - June 3 The Wonderful Mystery called Body: Healing and Transforming through Mindfulness with Leander Kane *latest* Two places reserved for the weekend only; places also still available for the week. Our bodies hold the key to deep healing. All of our past experiences, our traumas, our emotional ups and downs are stored in the body and become our habitual way of being in the world. These held patterns limit our possibilities. When we free ourselves of these held physical, mental or emotional patterns we touch our true self, our naturalness. The work unfolds as we explore the body using particular, precise, gentle, movement sequences largely carried out while lying on the floor. While resting in this new experience we learn how to recognise, and expand, on new vibrant qualities as the clear, bright, alive, mind appears. Leander works with all age groups and all states of health. Elite sports people, infants, the elderly, people with mobility issues, people with injuries, and people with emotional issues have all benefitted from this work Leander's schedule is available here and a biography here For more information please contact Dawa dawarowley@gmail.com and to register please contact the Wangapeka: ph 03 522-4221 email retreatcentre@wangapeka.org A registration form is available here June 4 - July 16 Mind of Nature, Nature of Mind Experimental Insight Meditation: a merging of Buddhist meditation practice with Art and Science with Tarchin Hearn Tarchin's schedule is available here and a biography here Tarchin will be resident at the Centre until August 1 and will also offer a weekend of teaching at Wangapeka after July 16 if there is interest. Individuals are welcome to use the retreat facilities during those two weeks. Life is a continuous flow of experimentation and improvisation. Participants will need to have some maturity in their meditation practice. Specifically, they should already have basic experience in mindfulness practice and silent retreat, and know how to recognize and care for difficult emotional states coming up within themselves, should they arise. This path of intimate enquiry requires a heartfelt reverence for all life, a passion for deepening one's understanding of self and others, and a strong inclination to be of service. Please note that the retreat will not be suitable for people wanting solitude or needing to process unresolved emotional or relationship issues. It will however be a wonderful opportunity to explore mind and nature in an experimental and contemplative fashion guided by Tarchin's more than 40 years of meditative enquiry and teaching, and his great passion for making the dharma alive and relevant for the world of today. If you are in doubt as to whether or not this retreat is suitable for you, you should get in contact with Tarchin. Preference will be given to participants registering for the entire 2 months. If there is space available it may be possible to attend for a shorter time but everyone is urged to start on June 4. During the retreat, participants will share in the cooking and the general ongoing chores that are needed to run the centre. More details to follow. Tarchin will be resident at the Centre until August 1 and will also offer a weekend of teaching at Wangapeka after July 16 if there is interest. Individuals are welcome to use the retreat facilities during those two weeks. Download this retreat description here and a registration form is available here For more information and to register please contact the Wangapeka: ph 03 522-4221 email retreatcentre@wangapeka.org August 22 Wangapeka Educational Trust AGM All welcome to come for the weekend or just for the day. For more information and to register please contact the Wangapeka: ph 03 522-4221 email retreatcentre@wangapeka.org September 24 - October 22 Awakening Dream with Bonni Ross A biography is available here Once again we are privileged to host Bonni Ross for a retreat at Wangapeka this spring. Her retreat runs for four weeks, starting on Friday evening, 24 September, (that's the beginning of the school holidays) and finishing at the Labour Weekend Hui, 22-25 October, when she will be offering public teaching. Download this retreat description here and a registration form is available here If you'd like to read up about Bonni and her teaching, have a look the Sunshine Coast Retreat House website www.retreathouse.bc.ca . “When the Tathagatha . . . was not yet wholly awakened, but a being awakening, there As usual, if you are unable to come for the whole time, you're welcome to start at the beginning and stay as long as you can. Costs: to be confirmed. At current prices, these are likely to be as follows: Member: $48/day = $1,488 for 31 days Non-member: $54/day = $1,674 for 31 days This includes a fee of $4/day for the cook and a contribution of $5/day towards Bonni's airfare. Dana: Bonni lives by Dana (koha/generosity) – a manifestation of your own expression of appreciation and generosity for all you receive. Please give as generously as you are able and help to support this teaching. (Bonni’s article “Giving and Receiving – why Dharma Teachers don’t charge Fees” is available here or on the Sunshine Coast Retreat House website www.retreathouse.bc.ca) For more information and to register please contact the Wangapeka: ph 03 522-4221 email retreatcentre@wangapeka.org Donations for Bonni Ross’ Travel We are gathering donations now to go towards Bonni’s airfare. If you’re able to make a donation, please make out your cheque to Bonni Travel Fund and send it to Wangapeka, or pay it directly into the special bank account: Bonni Travel Fund, ASB Bank 123178 - 0033639 – 00. Another possibility is to set up an automatic regular payment, however small – it all helps! Download this retreat description here and a registration form is available here Bonni Ross will also be teaching in Auckland, New Zealand and Hobart, Tasmania in November 2010 Auckland Bonni Ross will be giving a mini retreat in Auckland from Friday morning October 29 - Monday afternoon November 1. The retreat will be held at the BellaRahka Centre in West Auckland. Preference will be given to people wanting to do the full retreat but if there are sufficient places, it will be possible to do the weekend only. More details to come within the next few weeks.For information contact Eileen Burton (09) 849-5501 eileenb@hrc.co.nz or Janet Eades (09) 846-8853 janete1@ihug.co.nz Hobart, Tasmania Hobart: November 10/11 - 16 Dorje Ling retreat November 19 - 28 For details contact chani_grieve@yahoo.co.uk October 22 - 25 Annual Labour Weekend Sangha Working Bee & Hui: All welcome. Bonni Ross will be giving teachings on Awaking in Community For more information and to register for any retreat please contact the Wangapeka: ph 03 522-4221 email retreatcentre@wangapeka.org 2011 January 28 - February 20 This Wonderful Mystery called Body with Leander Kane A registration form is available here More details to come March 5 - April 2 Death, Birth, and Great Bliss: A Meditation Retreat on the Transience of All with Lama Mark Webber. A three-week Vipassana retreat that starts with one-week of nature studies and body awareness (it is possible to come for the first week only)*. “Week One-Opening up the Enquiring Mind: To prime the mind of enquiry, joy and investigation, at a global scale, we will start with an introduction to the natural history of birth, life and death, combined with sessions of body awareness and energy yoga to settle the mind. We will spend the majority of each day exploring life forms with microscopes and keen field observation, mixed with informal seminars on the biology of reproduction, death, life and ecology. Learning the retreat skills of the gentle mode of enquiry, interest, study and observation will be especially emphasized through the field, body awareness and lab sessions and how these are applied in the following retreat. Please see the quote below from Thomas Eisner’s book, For the Love of Insects. Weeks Two to Four - Meditation on Transience: With the support of energy yoga and loving-kindness, I will direct participants minds to the insight meditations on the transient nature of all things: birth, continuity and cessation. This involves repeatedly observing with a still, clear mind the nature of sensation, feelings, mental states, self and the experience of all phenomena. Vipassana meditations, including the meditation on death will be given from the Theravadin and Vajrayana traditions as well as from some modern biological themes. By deeply contemplating the transient nature of all, we come to experience of the cessation of clinging - bliss-emptiness - a great freedom. The profundity of this type of meditation and its bliss-emptiness nature are summed up by this ancient Pali verse. Anicca vata sankhara - uppada-vaya-dhammino Uppajjitva nirujjhanti - tesam vupasamo sukho Transient are all component things, their nature is to arise and cease, Life comes into being, then dissolves, their cessation is bliss.” Lama Mark *Priority for accommodation will be given to those who wish to attend the entire four-week retreat. More details to come. For more information about the retreat, please contact: qtndharmahouse@yahoo.com For information about Lama Mark please visit www.markwebber.org Download this retreat description here A quote from Thomas Eisner’s book, For the Love of Insects: “How is it, I am often asked, that I make discoveries? I always feel a bit awkward about answering the question, because I do not have a particular method. The truth is that I spend a fair amount of time looking around. I already knew as a boy that if I wanted to see things happen- if I wanted to win the revelatory lottery of nature- I had to buy a lot of tickets. So it was in my youth that I formed the habit of taking exploratory walks, whenever possible and as often as possible, for the sole purpose of “eaves-dropping” on nature. Naturalists thrive of such walks, driven by curiosity and the hope of witnessing chance events. Taken at face value, such events may not amount to much. But they may “connect” to what you already know, to previous observations stored away in your memory, and thus take on added meaning. There has to be a constant readiness to make such connections. Every tidbit of new information, no matter how trivial, has the potential of amounting to more than a speck of colour. Properly assigned to the pointillist canvas that constitutes your inner view of the natural world, the new speck adds dimension to the vision. ... I have been extremely lucky in having nature reveal itself on occasion through chance events in my presence. I can remember as if it were yesterday witnessing for the first time Utetheisa being cut from a spider web, or Chrysopa dressing itself as an aphid, or Ammophila carrying a “flower,” and I yearn for future occasions when I may again be granted unexpected glimpses into the workings of nature. One of the great joys of returning to your natural haunts time and again, is that you have the opportunity of grasping the broader image. Observations tend then to become cumulative, to be evocative and revelatory in ways that are not possible until you begin to feel at home in the area. For the naturalist, in fact, feeling at home means having achieved a biological appreciation of a region.” (p. 395) April 22 - 29 Diamond Zen Sesshin Information available from www.zendo.org.nz/pages/retreats.html With the program now extending into the first part of 2011 there may be many changes in dates and content. To keep in contact with a particular retreat please bookmark and check here frequently. 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