Dharma Gaia

09/07/2026

For anybody aspiring to deepen spiritual practice, experience living together in community and further explore ideas of 'self', 'other' and 'interbeing', we are excited to be offering a new 3-month internship programme starting in Spring 2026.

If you are looking to explore new paradigms and ways of being in the world and feel some resonance with the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh and Plum Village practice (many resources can be found on the Plum Village app or Youtube), we invite you to see the link below for more information.

With much metta,
The DG Sangha 🙏

Over the past 4 years Dharma Gaia has been primarily focussed on offering Internship Programmes in Spiritual Practice, Community Life and working joyfully caring for the earth. We learn to weave the threads of Zen practice and creativity into our daily life so that we are naturally inspired to care....

02/09/2024

Breathe - You are alive! Free Body, Free Mind
Yoga & Mindfulness Retreat
October 24 to 27 Labour Weekend
https://www.dharmagaia.org/retreats/2024/8/27/naturally-well-yoga-and-mindfulness-labour-weekend-retreat

We invite you to join the Dharma Gaia community for a deeply nourishing Yoga and Mindfulness retreat this spring

We will offer the opportunity for yoga practice, sitting meditation, karma yoga, kirtan/chanting/singing and other restful embodied sessions which support mindful awareness in everyday life.

We welcome you to this opportunity to deepen awareness of the body and cultivate understanding, peace and freedom in the body and mind.

Gentle Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga practices will be offered in the spirit of nourishing mindfulness of the body through easy movement for all levels.

We offer this retreat in the spirit of deepening your sense of presence and seamless abiding in the inner and outer world. Yoga and mindfulness are foundations for our own everyday life and our facilitation is rooted in our own experience. We are inspired to share with you how these can be powerfully integrated into your own lives to generate stability, renewal, vitality, kindness and inspiration.

Our volition for this retreat is to deepen our love for life, our nourishment in each moment and our inner freedom on and off the mat

Email us at [email protected] to register 😊
We look forward to practicing with you this spring🪷🙏
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/share/LULvynGTCFXCq4sr/

04/04/2024

Wake Up 2024 Retreat - Zen and The Art of Saving the Planet

An invitation to join a dynamic Mindfulness Retreat in the Coromandel for young people offered by young people in May 2024!

Creativity is a powerful tool for social change.

We are powering up the Artist, the Meditator and the Peaceful Warrior within.
If you are aged between 18 and 38 and you want to be empowered to be the change you want to see in the world…. come join the Wake Up Retreat with like minded beings.

We all have within us the capacity for authentic, joyous and fulfilling creative expression. While it is our birthright to deeply embody our creative nature, many of us experience varying degrees of internal 'blockage' to this natural flow of life energy. In this retreat, we will provide a safe, supportive and nourishing environment to explore our creativity together, investigate its source, and discover how to liberate the pure light of self-expression in our day-to-day lives.

This retreat will include:
· Daily mindfulness/meditation practice;
· 'Open creative sessions' to include music, visual art and movement;
· Deep connection with the land, the mountain, the streams, the bush, and the gardens surrounded by the stunning scenic views;
· 'Heart sharing' circles;
· 'Deep relaxation' - similar to Yoga Nidra;
· Tai Chi/Qi Gong;
· Eating together in mindfulness; and
· 'Service meditation' - living and working together in community

Please register your interest by emailing us at [email protected] - subject line WAKE UP RETREAT.

COME WITH AN OPEN MIND, AND A WILLINGNESS TO DISCOVER AND CELEBRATE YOUR UNIQUE AND INNATELY CREATIVE SELF

For further information please view the following link:

We are powering up the ARTIST the MEDITATOR and the PEACEFUL WARRIOR within

11/10/2022

Next Wake Up retreat is happening soon!

We have a lot of inspiration for this one. Spaces are still available!

Come join us in the beautiful Coromandel, and let your body, mind and soul be nourished.

🔥🙏

07/10/2022

Sunrise from the top of the driveway 🌞

'With each sunrise, life begins a new. Each new dawn offers fresh beginnings, renewed resilience, and untold possibilities...'

- Fran I. Hamilton

07/10/2022

'Maple Alley' - the heart of the centre, with the main living space on one side and the meditation hall on the other.

While it is common to confine our meditation practice to a particular place or time, Thich Nhat Hanh invites us to bring it to each moment of our day-to-day life . . .

07/10/2022

Thich Nhat Hanh invites us to see that there is only one moment in which we can be truly alive, and that is the present moment 🙏