Now's the time to make you plans for Voices of Sacred Earth Festival.

NOTE: All Festival tickets include access to all workshops, seminars and performances. First come first served.

You can save $21 on tickets for the full weekend.

That's right. The standard price will be $80.

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If you want to come with family and friends, you get great savings too:

Buy 5 tickets and get the 6th free - for just $294 total. 

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PLUS!

Catered Festival Weekend! Gourmet Healthy Feasts!

Come and be treated to two Gourmet Organic Vegetarian Smorgasbord Lunches.

Feed your mind AND your body at Sacred Earth!

Full Festival access both days. Full tummy both days. Plus special pampering treats.

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Earth Medicine – Kahikatea, Saturday

SACRED PLANT MEDICINE OF AOTEAROA with Franchelle Ofsoske-Wyber

1975 saw Franchelle begin her work with native plant essences. By 1985 she was pioneering the development of the world’s first integrated range of flower essences that include flower, fern, tree, seed and plant essences as well as specialist essences for healers and lightworkers around the globe. Since 1995, Franchelle has worked with Dr Rangimarie Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere. C.B.E C.M. highly esteemed tohuna and ancient wisdom keeper.

 KAWAKAWA HEALING BALM WORKSHOP with Tia
Tia will be facilitating a kawakawa balm-making workshop, demonstrating the process, and following tikanga ( protocols), to show respect for the bush and the plants used. You will go into the bush to find specific plants, learn how to pick them, how to follow moon cycles, use karakia, and benefit from general bush lore. All participants will receive a pottle of freshly made kawakawa balm to take home. There will be a surcharge of $10 to cover the materials.

 AOTEAROA EARTH MYSTERIES with Gary Cook
Gary Cook is a leading writer on the special nature of the mystic realms that are to be found in New Zealand and the South Pacific and leader of The Secret Land project. An explorer of ancient sacred places and energy sites in the unique New Zealand landscape, Gary has devoted many years of searching and writing of the wonders to be found within the islands of New Zealand and the South Pacific.

 CO-CREATING THE NEW EARTH with Elisabeth von Madarasz
Shamanism’s Role in Joyfully Co-creating the New Earth. The star seeded wisdoms of the shaman pave the way for a new marriage between humanity and nature. Our current evolutionary leap is to co-create together the New Earth unfolding.

Sacred Voice – Lotus, Saturday

EXPLORE YOUR VOICE WORKSHOP with Georgia Wood
The voice reveals much of who we are, or who we wish others to see. Have fun (make some noise!!) as you explore your voice as an instrument capable of sound, song, expression of emotion and your authentic truth. Establish a relationship with your voice and learn simple techniques (including asana and pranayama relevant to the throat chakra) to access and increase vocal, authenticity, ease, power, resonance and clarity to allow your voice to be the best possible expression of you.

 SACRED KIRTAN WORKSHOP with Jyoshna
Dr.Jyoshna La Trobe is leading two workshops that cover the foundation blocks of devotional music (kīrtan), focusing on specific raga melodies as well as instrumentation (including guitar, cymbals and Indian khol drum). You will learn songs and rhythms that call the divine, heal feelings of loss and anxiety, overcome negativity, balance the mind, induce compassion and feelings of ecstasy, all designed to inspire and uplift you.

 SACRED VOICE NAAD YOGA WORKSHOP with Antion
For healing and empowerment. Spiritual Union through Sacred Sound. Kick start your daily life and personal sadhana using powerful mantras and chants from India and Hawaii. Learn to use your own, authentic Sacred Voice to heal trauma, ease stress and open your heart. Through deep meditation, the ancient mystics ascertained that the universe came into being through the Sacred Word, which they called Logos, Shabd or Nam.

VOICE TECHNIQUE FOR KIRTAN with Dr Sam
A class on voice technique specific for Kirtan. Increase your vocal skills and vocal power to make kirtan even better. Learn the techniques and theory of progressing Kirtan from beginning to end.

 Indigenous Instruments – Shanti, Saturday

 TAONGA PUORO SEMINAR with Richard Nunns
Richard Nunns is a living authority on nga taonga puoro (Maori traditional musical instruments). He has been described as one of New Zealand’s most remarkable musicians. His thorough and sensitive research has provided a wealth of information around the sounds, history and stories of these taonga, ensuring their preservation for future generations. He has received national and international recognition as he takes the instruments into conversation, discussion and collaboration with different cultures and musical genres.

 ANCIENT CELTIC BRONZE INSTRUMENT WORKSHOP with Kenneth Sands
Kenneth has spent many, many years studying the Ancient Musical Instruments from his Bronze-Age and Iron-Age Heritage and Culture and the culmination of this is to be able to Sound and experiment with his reconstructed Bronze-Age Horn, a 100% accurate reproduction of the 3000 year old “Dord Iseal” instruments that were cast in Scotland and Ireland approximately between 1500 and 500BC.

THE GAMELAN SEMINAR with Budi Putra
Gamelan Padhang Moncar is a Javanese music ensemble that is based at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington. The instruments are predominantly gongs and other metal percussion as well as drums, vertical fiddle, bamboo flute and voices.

THE GAMELAN WORKSHOP with Budi Putra
Indonesian gamelan music has been played at Victoria University since 1975, when the first set of gamelan instruments was introduced by ethnomusicologist, Allan Thomas.

Healing Through the Earth – Teepee, Saturday

KUNDALINI KRUYA TANTRIC CHANTING with Elandra & AntionThis form of chant may be the most powerful and advanced of all transformational disciplines in the world today. You will be seated opposite a partner meditating eye to eye while chanting dynamic mantras with live music. This cocreative energy-moving experience will take you to altered states of consciousness. It is Sound Healing at the deepest holographic level.

 HANDS ON HEALING with Atarangi
Atarangi is one of Maoridom’s most respected healers. Her work is deep, unique, uplifting, enlivening and rewarding physically and spiritually. She is an example of the ‘living works’ of ancestral teaching. The body work she will be introducing includes: Mirimiri – which stimulates all parts of the body. This in turn activates the wairua (spiritual) body as well as other bodies; Romirom – which is more agitating. This deep work aligns as well as releases areas of the body that are holding on to various things.

 EARTH DRUMMING WORKSHOP with Jimi Dale
Jimi has been teaching African style hand drum courses in Auckland since 1995. These classes are using djembe drums from West Africa and will concentrate on West African rhythms and songs and there will be a focus on how polyrhythm works and how to use rhythm to inspire your own ability to improvise Also we will explore some of the healing music and Rhythms of southern Africa.

 EARTH ENERGY WORKSHOP with Barry Brailsford
Explore the frontiers of consciousness with dowsing rods. Restricted to 24 people. Barry explains: ”I have been carried into ancient Polynesian seaways and the lore of the navigation stars, propelled along the mountain trails of the sacred stone, sent into remarkable gardens in the ocean and on the shore, wrapped in the cloak of secret histories and given access to the highest Houses of Learning.”

Sacred Movement & Dance – The Glade

VOCAL… VERBAL… with Margaret-Mary Hollins
Discover your vocal potential using sound and text to offer participants insights on developing your sound range connecting voice to body. We’ll explore ways to connect the spoken word to your full sound giving your delivery full meaning. We’ll explore ways of engaging the voice subtly, physically and emotionally connecting fully to the essence, be it spontaneous or scripted dialogue.

 OJASVIN AND IRIS DAVIS Waiata and Healing Haka
Healing Haka with dance, song, physical and lightbody exercises, meditation, songs, rhythm and elements of ritual for your own well being. HAKA is an anciant power dance practiced by Maori people from New Zealand. It is known to be vigorously expressed with strong vocal and dynamic body gestures. This art form not only can prepare your state of mind for battle, but it can also bring your mind toward the state of healing. It gives you empowerment and self-confidence.

Plus go to our website for all details and timetable:

http://voices2013.kawaipurapura.co.nz/wordpress/