Make Mahamudra Centre New Zealand
Your Mantra for Vacation Meditation

If spiritual retreats, holistic healing, and meditation are among your NZ vacation goals, make Mahamudra Centre for Universal Unity your mantra to experience Buddhist culture while in the peaceful and idyllic setting of Colville Valley on the Coromandel Peninsula, North Island.

A member of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, a worldwide organization, the centre is about four hours from Auckland City.

Painterly landscapes surrounding the center form an ideal backdrop to experience a retreat, Buddhist study, reflection, and inspirational relaxation at a healing centre established by two Tibetan lamas in 1981. The mission of Mahamudra Centre New Zealand is to promote timeless Buddhist wisdom and methods toward achievement of highest human spirituality.

Healing strategies include antidotes to everyday fears, anxieties, and agitation with the goal of substituting compassion, understanding, and joy. The center’s own mantra sets forth peace, tranquility, and simplicity.

The Centre hosts retreats and healing courses taught by visiting lamas and teachers. This is an oasis apart from typical New Zealand holidays that focuses on spiritual introspection. The self-contained cabins and large meditation hall, kitchen, and dining room make for a most unusual New Zealand vacation Auckland area accommodation.

New Zealand backpackers can gain valuable yoga retreat experience woofing at Mahamudra Centre, offering their services in exchange for New Zealand accommodations and lodgings while applying everyday Buddhist teachings. Principal activities include organic gardening, firewood collection, routine house and property maintenance, helping with community projects, picking fruit and weeding.

The Centre, surrounded by meadows, woods, and the Coromandel mountain range, offers an ideal environment for seeking peace, tranquility, and spiritual retreat in an 8-acre setting. It’s a member of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a worldwide organization that maintains over 140 centres, hospices and projects throughout the world.