THE RETREATS:

17-21 SEPTEMBER 2023 (+weekend festival)

This year we are excited to offer two parallel retreats leading into the weekend festival. The Zen Permaculture Retreat

and the Zen Visual Arts Retreat.

ZEN PERMACULTURE RETREAT

Bringing together the worlds of Grounded Permaculture and Zen Thai Shiatsu, this retreat gives a small group the opportunity to embody the interconnectedness between personal well-being and healthy ecosystem function through daily therapeutic workshops and permaculture action on the land. 

Hosted by Bunya & Flavia from Growing Roots Permaculture. The daily program will have the following flow:

+ Meditation & Movement
+ Breakfast
+ Morning Workshop
+ Lunch
+ Zenthai Bodywork practice sessions
+ Afternoon Activity
+ Dinner

ZEN VISUAL ART RETREAT

A 4 day immersive journey into a variety of art forms, eating delicious food and incorporating daily movement and Zen Thai practice. Explore a range of diverse life drawing classes, lino and woodblock printing, collaborate on a mural project, study the principles of sacred geometry and how to work with natural pigments and dyes. 

Facilitated by:

Rudi Quinzalez - illustrator, printer, muralist and oil painter
Rabea Stader - Muralist, painter, printer and illustrator
Sammy Ciganka - Natural Dyes artisan
Yao Mikami - Natural pigment artist, muralist, mixed medium painter
Lauren Cuthbert - Zenthai flow yoga and bodywork

THE FESTIVAL:

22-24 SEPTEMBER 2023

What would happen if you brought together three well established communities to collaborate?

Zen Festival; nurtures the health and wellbeing of the individual, our community and the land we walk upon. 

meet the team

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