SPRING Detox Week @ Te Wahi Ora

Te Wahi Ora Women's Retreat at Piha

Offers you from Monday 31st Oct to Friday 4th Nov 2011

SPRING DETOX WEEK ! ! !

Your partner has lived 7 weeks of rugby, now it’s your turn to have a treat!

Days of rest and relaxation at Piha’s Women’s retreat while trying new healthy eating and lifestyle habits, right on the waterfront of Piha!

Take home information on healthy foods, relaxation techniques and tips on gaining a healthy body. You’ll be given lots of recipes, handouts and loads of hints and tips.

Enjoy Himalayan salt footbaths, a BioCleanse footbath on Tuesday, guided meditations, breathing techniques, hair and skin care, facials, massage on Wednesday and amazingly scrumptious raw food to try as well as normal meals!

We encourage you to come for the full week, but if you can only get away for a couple of days that’s fine too and at our special low rate!

Choose how to pay: Either our ‘Winter Special’ accommodation rate plus the extras you choose; and one rate that includes all.

For bookings, costs, and more information, please contact . . .
(09) 8128775 - phone/fax
bev@tewahiora.co.nz - email
www.tewahiora.co.nz

Te Wahi Ora's Computing Week

5th September - 9th Spetember 2011

Do you or someone you know want to learn the "ins and outs" of how to skype friends and family around the world, update your facebook status and keep "up to date" with your facebook firends, email with attachments, upload and sort photos from your digital camera, produce documents with photos and more?

The, Te Wahi Ora's "Computer Week" could be just the thing! Come and be pampered at Te Wahi Ora while learning new skills on the computer.

Bring your laptop or computer . . . there is even a possiblility to hire a laptop for the week so having no computer is not an excuse!

This week would be a great oppourtunity to give as a gift to someone who you think might benefit from getting "Online". We can organise a wonderful full colour gift voucher to give to that special person.

Prices:
Loft View Room $ 600
Caravan $495
All other rooms $500

Call us on (09) 812 8775 to book a space.

Te Wahi Ora's Writing Week

8th August to 14th August 2011

Come join us at Te Wahi Ora for our first ever writing week!

The plan for our week of writing is to spend meal times .
together and then for the rest of the time we write,
we walk the beach or bush for inspiration,
relax or whatever we choose, then in the evening we come together
around a glowing fire for a delicious meal, relax with a glass of wine,
listen to music and share our writings if we want to.

Of course the venue is Te Wahi Ora a beach-side retreat run by women for women in Piha. The views are inspiring, the food is worth talking about, and the walks on the beach or in the bush are restorative.
A wonderful setting to inspire the writer within.


We have organised special all inclusive prices:

Loft View Room $655.00 ($93.50 per day)

Caravan $475.00 ($67.35 per day)

All other rooms $545.00 ($77.85 per day)


Contact us on ph: (09) 8128775 or email pihabivholt@clear.net.nz to book! Spaces are limited so be in quick.

Write from the Heart - A Weekend Retreat with Anam Cara Writing Journeys

Write from the Heart

A Weekend Retreat with Anam Cara Writing Journeys

Te Wahi Ora Piha, Auckland
Saturday 16th April & Sunday 17th April 2011

This well loved Retreat offers a treasure trove of resources in the form of guided writing prompts, ways to mine your journal for ‘memory sparkers’ and creative processes that will lead you into the memoir writing process. The focus of the retreat will be on learning how to take life stories and craft them into memoir.
Whether you are just beginning your writing journey or already on the path, you’ll leave the workshop with a glorious collection of poetry, a tool kit of writing activities, ways to create a framework for writing your life story and a deeper awareness of the larger issues at play that guide your story in a subliminal way.

Venue Te Wahi Ora is a beach-side retreat for women in Piha. The view is inspiring, the food delicious and walks on the beach are restorative. After dinner, linger and relax with a glass of wine, share ideas, read, listen to music, or take a moonlight walk by the ocean.

Fee: $380.00 includes GST, accommodation and all meals Saturday & Sunday
Date: Saturday 16th April 10am – 5pm, Sunday 17th April 10am – 3.30pm
Registration: Ph or email Gerri Power 021 623 870 gerri@xtra.co.nz
Accommodation: Space is limited to six places. To ensure availability of the retreat venue and to secure your place a 50% deposit is required by 30th March.

A limited number of commuters are welcome to join us at this retreat. Commuter’s fee of $315.00 includes lunch on Saturday and Sunday and dinner Saturday evening. If Saturday's dinner is not required the fee is $300.00

Gerri Power founder fo Anam Cara Writing Journeys is an acredited master coach and mentor. Gerri intergrates a strong focus on developing and sustaining personal resilience with the use of poetry that lights up possibilities, and resonates with those who face the challenges and oppourtunities inherent in lifes transitions. Trained extensively in the use of writing for personal growth, healing and transformation, her work is enriched by her studies in Poetry and Journal Therapy and as a Hospice Life Story Facilitator.

News from Te Wahi Ora

I was all set months ago, to show you this photo of us eating outside in May. I was all set to write "SEE, there is still sunshine in Piha" come and join us.

When sunddenly it was winter and I had a nasty does of Shingles! Life became somewhat painful and limited for me. But Winter went on in its own way - redesigning the stream so it now runs parallel to our road and the ocean was so wild!

People started to notice their high level of stress as the dark nights and grey days became more frequent. Requests came asking for time out at Piha.

"I need to unwind, catch my breath and regain my balance" they said, and their company enriched our winter months.

Winter walking was done inspite of gales or rain though most opted to wait for the sunshine! But they knew how to dress for the weather! Others found the shelter of the bush tracks and Garden road and walked anyway!

Dinners around the fire became a necessity . . . some one came for a week's study, several for spiritual direction and some simply for some rest.

One good friend came to help me cut back the hedges and trees to allow the sun onto the chalets.

Some came to sort out health issue's and Karen is just the one for the job with her cooking!

Tourists came from overseas, one to die actually, but while here life became important and precious to her again and so she returned home.

Several groups came to hold workshops. One guest even made a video of her visit to Piha, you can view it here www.tewahiora.co.nz/movie.htm Thanks Edna!

Winter certainly came fast and furious and now it seems that spring may be slowly emerging from the cold and wet. With day light savings we are enjoying crisp sunny days and longer evenings.

Hoping that this finds all our friends of Te Wahi Ora well and enjoying whatever life is bringing to you all.

More news very soon!

The Latest!

Did you know that Piha is holding the WORLD surfing Campionships from this Wednesday, 20th January, for a week.

We are fully booked in the weekends until February BUT we do have a chalet available from Monday afternoon 18th January until Friday 22nd for the SPECIAL summer rate of $395.00 instead of the usual $500. Wow. That includes three meals a day, linen, wonderful company at mealtimes and the championships just across the road on the beach!

Ring as soon as you read this - or email - so that you can get here first thing Monday morning. Phone 09 8128 775; or bev@tewahiora.co.nz

Remember, we close for the first 3 weeks of February for our annual holidays! Be in NOW for summer at Piha!

October 2009 Our Winter Special ends at the end of this month - unless you can convince us to keep it going for you - then we'd be very happy to oblidge!

Many of you have been asking about workshops and I thought it would be a good idea to remind you of what Te Wahi Ora has available.

One of the best ways to do these workshops is by getting a couple of your friends together and make a weekend of it. Two groups have done this recently and it works out well.

We can offer a selection of topics women have found most useful in their personal journeys. Fees are dependent on the Workshop chosen and the number attending.


Myers Briggs Temperament Indicator
One of the easiest and fun ways of understanding your own and others behaviour.

Enneagram
An ancient sacred psychology that provides an understanding of our ‘sacred task’ and of our ‘shadow side’ as well as affirming our strengths.

Maya Angelou’s Poetry and Life
Maya, the best selling black author in the world, believes that poetry needs to be magical, musical, mystical and lyrical! From her video you’ll learn some of her poems, explore her experiences familiar to you, and write about your life in a similar style.

The Greek Goddess and Archetypes
The feminine’s characteristics and potential is revealed through exploring the attributes of seven of the Greek goddesses.

"Awakening the Heroes Within"
Carol Pearson's book has a wealth of research on the growth and development of women from their birth to old age. These are explored in our three stages of life and our 12 styles of 'being'.

Clowning
An ancient dramatic art that is for fun and entertainment, yet teaches important truths from insights discovered through contact with your inner child to your own powerful inner ruler.

Everything around us is speaking of Spring, the garden, the sun, the later sunsets - even the staff are searching out new tasty recipes for the warmer weather. While you are tasting our workshops you can also be tasting our great food! See you soon.