Activities
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| New Year Festival 2011
Join us at Prana New Year Festival 2011 from 30 Dec 2010 - 3 Jan 2011 for an uplifting 4 day & 4 night festival with more than 100 workshops, music, art, dance, and the pristine Opoutere beach for lazing on, swimming and long walks. In the exquisitely beautiful setting of Prana Eco Retreat heartland, near Whangamata; the festival offers a wealth of delights an awesome Global Village; with performance stage for open mic, singers, and comedians; Pohutukawa Outdoor stage for dance bands & performance artists; a vibrant Marketplace with retro vintage and international fashions; One World Café in joint venture with Vasku Media in the Barn; delicious, fresh organic food & drinks. More on the program....
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| Workshops
Experience your group working together on a creative project at Prana; the venue is unique and beautiful, found deep in the heart of the Coromandel Peninsula; the service detailed and personalised to cover your specific requirements. Prana Eco Retreat has more than eighteen years experience as a private, exclusive location for multi media events ... where creativity meets awareness... More...
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| A rustic Barn
In a rural quiet setting for events group activities and creative exploration an ideal and supportive venue
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| Your Special Event at Prana
Marquees, flags, fairy lights and more are available to dress the land and heighten the sense of occasion. Unique, rustic dwellings and beautiful camping places allow your guests to be looked after, an authentic back to nature experience.
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| Retreat to Prana
Be immersed in the natural beauty of an extraordinary setting... An authentic back to nature experience. Numerous tracks to explore bush and beach. Prana Eco Retreat is not a public camping ground. Only a maximum of 6 guests per day, (farm and home stay), are allowed in this very private retreat. All guest need to be registered on our database which can be done through subscribing to our newsletter. (see left column). Acception of subscription, which might take a few days, will be send to your e-mail address. |
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| Studio Production
We are expanding the Production Studio and offer an environment that is sympathetic to the creation and performance of art, music and film whilst providing state of the art technology with which to capture it. The result is a studio complex that embraces the natural environment of light and water and an atmosphere far removed from the claustrophobic confines of other production studios.
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| The location at Prana is exclusive
No noise, no connection to community except its own, totally devoid of any pollution or population. The large 100-acre natural site of land, bush and coastal positioning in Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, is magnificent; with rock faces covered in glorious ancient Pohutukawa trees, stands of native New Zealand bush, park like settings, walking tracks through the bush and to the pristine, white sand Opoutere Beach with 165.25 million sq.km of Pacific Fresh Air System in front of it. This haven encompasses camping, low, medium and high-budget eco-lodge accommodation, plus large spaces for: special events, retreats, weddings, workshops and music festivals. Spring at Prana is August and September, a pre-summer season spans October and November. Summer lasts four months December to March, there is a short autumn in April and May, and a brief winter in June and July.
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Interesting facts about Prana Eco Retreat
Location: A coastal 100-acre natural site of land, bush, beach, trees and native forest on the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. At the end of the World, at the end of the road, with 165.25 million sq.km of Pacific Fresh Air System in front of it. Land: A nature sanctuary for peace and quiet; native plant gardens; native bush walks; pine forest walking tracks; landscaped tent sites and the pristine Opoutere Beach for walking, surfing and swimming. Prana Eco Retreat is based at Ohui, which has been an ancient gathering place for Maori tribes and more recently has become a haven for new generations of New Zealanders and global travelers seeking personal meaning in their lives, by connecting with the natural order in a deeper way than modern lifestyles allow for.
Eco composting toilets: these toilets are designed for comfort and sustainability; instead of using water they use mulch, and worms in the base and each year they are emptied providing rich, composted mulch for the trees and flowering shrubs. Showers: these are designed for comfort and use an economical gas system that heats the water only when you need it. Spray free: The land is spray free and the principles of organic gardening are honoured. Tree planting: A tree planting program has been underway for many years transforming the self seeded pine tree landscape to native tree plantings & landscaped camping areas. Travel times: Prana Eco Retreat used to be a 3 hours drive from Auckland, but now with better roads, it is approximate 2 hours. Once the new Kopu Bridge has been built, it will take even less time. Summer: The summer at Prana Eco Retreat spans a long season, from October to April, inviting regular visits for camping, summer workshops, warm sun & fresh air, swimming, long walks, and all those wonderful outdoor summer activities. Accommodation: People come for a retro caravan experience in our eclectic fleet of 70’s style caravans, bush baths, or camp in grassy landscaped tent sites. New Year Festival: The festival started off as a group of musician friends getting together on New Years Eve 19 years ago. Prana New Year Festival, Rhythms of Nature Festival and Prana Full Moon Festivals: have become annual events which invite healers, explorers and modern thinkers of all kinds to feel welcome, share their knowledge, gather strength and support others to be the change that we need in the world today. These healers often feel the rich metaphysical properties of the land, which enhances their work. Ticket pricing for the festival reflects the need to constantly improve on creating a pleasant experience for everyone involved, this includes better facilities and maintenance of the land whilst limiting our ticket quota; focusing on creating a heart felt community, camping comfort and care, world class entertainment, with a kiwi can-do attitude. Mystical/Sacred Attributes: The very land you walk on here has a particular energy, sensed by everyone who comes here. A journey to Prana Eco Retreat is worth taking as a place to come to expand your consciousness, revitalize your health, simplify your life or just simply allow nature’s green healing to happen! Interrelatedness: The sacredness of the land is being discovered, and we who live here in New Zealand, and visit Prana Eco Retreat feel strongly to be a positive constructive force for this change, as it is a change we cannot deny the energy of. There is recognition of the interrelatedness of everything, and the impact everything we do have on our lives and our community, local and global.
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Delicious, sweet bore water for drinking from every tap!
