Activities
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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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Workshops 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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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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Varied settings for your special occasion include the Eco Villa, beach, cave, campfire, Pohutukawa outdoor stage; and the intimacy of The Barn; with its wooden dance floor, dining settings, well equipped kitchen and band stage. Retreat to Prana
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. For further info |
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Be immersed in the natural beauty of an extraordinary setting... An authentic back to nature experience. Numerous tracks to explore bush and beach. 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
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. |
No noise, no connection to community except its own, totally devoid of any pollution or population. | Interesting facts about Prana Eco Retreat
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.
Showers: these are designed for comfort and use an economical gas system that heats the water only when you need it. Eco composting toilets: these toilets are designed for 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. Delicious, sweet bore water for drinking from every tap! 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. Click here for directions 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.
Prana New Year Festival, Elemental, Fusion and Prana Full Moon Events: 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.
Prana Festival organizers are striving to produce a Festival that is sustainable and strongly reflects that magical, mystical place 'where creativity meets awareness'. 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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