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🌞 Manawa Summer Festival 🌞On Friday, 29 November, we gather at Piha for a one-day summer festival of movement, creativity, and connection.
We’ll open with a 90-minute somatic dance journey guided by Blase and Sarsha Hope, weaving breath, embodiment, and rhythm to ground us deeply in the body.
Throughout the day there will be facilitated connection workshops, an arts and crafts station, and the wild beauty of Piha beach as our backyard for exploration and rest.
Food and drinks will be provided to keep us nourished and cared for.
As the sun begins to set, we’ll join in a sunset howl, followed by a 2-hour ecstatic dance with DJ Lady Fem — carrying us into the evening with delicious bass and sensual beats.
The day will close with a surprise, memorable ending — something to leave you full, grounded, and connected.
Tickets are capped at 70 people, with early bird tickets available now. This will be an intimate, heart-centered gathering — reserve your spot early.
📍 Piha, Auckland
📅 Friday, 29 November
🎟 Early bird tickets limited — total capped at 70
Facilitators:
🌿Logan & The Sacred Grove
The Sacred Grove was born from a vision: to create a place where people can return to themselves, to nature, and to one another. Nestled at the far north end of Piha Beach, the Grove is a sanctuary for heart-led dreamers, seekers, and curious souls who are ready to gather in ceremony, movement, and connection.
Logan, the founder and steward of The Grove, has dedicated years to weaving spaces where community and spirit meet. His facilitation draws from yoga, breathwork, ecstatic dance, and connection practices — but more than that, it comes from a desire to honour the sacredness of life and to remind us that we belong.
At this gathering, Logan will open the space with a grounding and joyful yoga flow — not just as movement, but as an invitation to arrive fully, to stretch into presence, and to prepare for the journey ahead.
The Sacred Grove is more than an event. It is a call back to the wild, to simplicity, to the medicine of movement and community. With Logan’s guidance, we enter together, held by the land, the ocean, and each other.
💗 Manawa
Manawa means heart — and our gatherings are just that: spaces to return to yourself and to connect with others in authenticity and care.
We create heart-centered wellness gatherings where you are invited to slow down, soften, and be fully yourself. Through dance, movement, storytelling, and creative expression, we open a safe space for vulnerability, courage, and real human connection.
Manawa is about more than events — it’s about well-being of body, mind, and spirit. Each gathering is a chance to release what no longer serves you, to ground in the present moment, and to experience the nourishment that comes from being seen and held in community.
Here, wellness is not about perfection. It’s about wholeness — living with an open heart, guided by authenticity, presence, and love.
🔴 Sarsha Marie Hope — Founder of Somatic Dance International & The Temple of Living Codes
Sarsha is the visionary founder of Somatic Dance International — a pioneering global training program launched in 2019 that integrates somatic facilitation, ritual, DJing, and eco-somatics into potent, trauma-informed dance containers. Through this work, she trains leading-edge facilitators and DJs who carry the medicine of embodied movement worldwide.
She is also the founder and transmitter of The Temple of Living Codes — an online and in-person sanctuary dedicated to embodying and reclaiming ancient feminine wisdom through ritual, dance, Goddess study, and initiatory immersion. This sacred temple invites women to step into their deepest power, reclaim lost rites of passage, and activate their fullest expression through the feminine current.
Rooted in over 25 years of facilitation experience and 40 years of embodied movement, Sarsha is a magnetic permission-giver, a thoughtful provocateur, and a dance mystic who holds space for transformation with fierce love, clarity, and grounded grace. Her lifelong devotion to the intelligence of the body fuels her international trainings, retreats, and offerings — igniting embodiment spaces where souls awaken, bodies remember, and radiant lives unfold.
🟡 DJ Blase
BLASE is an Auckland (NZ) based DJ & producer known for his diverse, multi-genre music journeys where dancers are guided on a curious and empowering experience out of the mind and into the body.
Blase is an alchemist of frequency and his love for dance and embodiment translates through his music, complimenting the entire journey with highs and lows, making sure every movement possibility is explored.
You can expect a smooth dance wave with Ecstatic highs to deep bassy lows and everything in between.
Blase pays particular attention to the subtle energies of dance and is always sure to land the dance floor and its nervous system safely back to the Earth before closing.
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https://soundcloud.com/stephenblase
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FB: https://www.facebook.com/stephen.blase
Website: www.stephenblase.com
🟣 DJ LadyFem
Ladyfem crafts multi-genre music journeys which create intrigue, taking dancers through different movement expressions with sounds to tantalise.
A regular DJ within somatic dance spaces, she is skilled at curating soundsxapes that transcend boundaries for people who want to move.
Expect luch bass lines which feel delicious in your body, sprinkled with a few surprises and woven together the sacred to bring something truly unique.
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femke.burger.5
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_ladyfem_/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Barnett Hall, 2 North Piha Rd, Piha 0772, New Zealand, Waitakere
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