WellFest

26/02/2026

🗺️ WellFest 2026 Site Map is here

Take a moment to familiarise yourself with the layout before you arrive 🌿

From the Main Stage and Grove Stage, to the Magic Nursery, sauna, ice bath, kids’ tents, markets, camping zones and quiet spaces — everything has its place along the beautiful Kawarau River.
You’ll find:

• Camping & family camping areas
• Main Stage, Dome Stage & Grove Stage
• Workshops, integration space & Zen Art Den
• Sauna, ice bath & river access
• Magic Nursery & cinema
• Markets & food trucks
• Kids’ zone
• Parking, admin tent & first aid

We recommend saving this to your phone so you can navigate easily throughout the weekend.
Please respect private areas and river safety signage at all times.

Arrival from Friday — we can’t wait to welcome you ✨

26/02/2026

🌿 SUNDAY AT WELLFEST

The final day. The integration.
Sunday holds a special kind of magic.

🌿 Workshops and artists throughout the day (check the program for details)
🎤 Open Mic continues
🎵 Continue to explore the Magic Nursery
🎶 Daytime DJs & Joydah Mae at 7 pm
🔥 Stick around for the fire and open jam
✨ Extra daily activities happening across the site

Pass Options for Sunday:
• 1 Day Pass (No Camping) – $99
• Evening Pass – from 5 pm for $50
• 2 Day Sat & Sun Pass (Includes 1 Night Camping) – $222
• Sunday Night Camping Add-On available

See all the incredible workshop descriptions in the link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/133_eiljhqaF-WGvh1bZ79xScKFvZuoD8/view?usp=drive_link

See all ticket options here:
https://events.humanitix.com/wellfest26/tickets

Join the closing ceremony.
And don’t leave before the fire. 🔥🎶

26/02/2026

🌿 SATURDAY AT WELLFEST

The energy builds. The weather looks stunning. 🌞

Saturday is full spectrum — workshops, music, markets, movement, connection.

🌿 Incredible workshops running all day (check the program below for details)
🎤 Open Mic — step up or come support
🎶 MUNDI (trio) on the Main Stage at 8pm
🔥 DJs carrying us into the night
🌙 Jungle Temple dress-up continues — prize for best costume
🎵 Magic Nursery glowing after dark
✨ Extra daily activities happening across the festival grounds

Pass Options for Saturday:
• 1 Day Pass (No Camping) – $111
• Evening Pass – from 6 pm for $65
• 2 Day Sat & Sun Pass (Includes 1 Night Camping) – $222
• Full Weekend Camping Passes available
• Family Passes available
• Children 12 & under are free

See all the incredible workshop descriptions in the link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/133_eiljhqaF-WGvh1bZ79xScKFvZuoD8/view?usp=drive_link

All options here:
https://events.humanitix.com/wellfest26/tickets

Come for the day. Stay for the night. Or camp and settle into the full experience. 🌞

26/02/2026

🌿 FRIDAY AT WELLFEST

The gates open. The weekend begins. The sun will be out. 🌞

Friday is about arriving fully — into the land, into the music, into community.

✨ Opening Ceremony — don’t miss this. It sets the tone for the whole weekend.
🥗 Community Potluck — bring a dish to share. Best dish wins a prize.
🎶 Craig Smith at 4 pm
🎵 Step into the Magic Nursery
🔥 Incredible DJs into the evening, don’t forget Jungle Temple dress-up begins
🌿 Workshops running throughout the day (check the program for details)
✨ Plus extra daily activities happening across the site

Pass Options for Friday:
• 1 Day Pass (No Camping) – $99
• Evening Pass – from 6 pm for $55
• 2 Day Fri & Sat Pass (Includes 1 Night Camping) – $222
• Full Weekend Camping Passes available
• Family Passes available
• Children 12 & under are free

See all the incredible workshop descriptions in the link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/133_eiljhqaF-WGvh1bZ79xScKFvZuoD8/view?usp=drive_link

You can find all pass options here:
https://events.humanitix.com/wellfest26/tickets

Arrive early. Settle in. Be part of the beginning.🌞

See you there. 😊

26/02/2026

Hello beautiful WellFest family ☀️

This is a gentle reminder to help you arrive prepared, grounded, and ready to fully receive the festival. Please take a moment to read through; it will help you get the most out of your experience.

🌿 ARRIVAL, OPENING & CLOSING CEREMONIES (VERY IMPORTANT)

🕗 Gates open: Friday from 8:00 am

🕤 Opening Ceremony: 9:30 am sharp

We kindly ask everyone to arrive on time and, if possible, stay until the very end of the festival. Opening and closing the container together is deeply important to us — some of the most powerful offerings, speakers, and moments live right there.

🍲 FRIDAY POTLUCK — COMMUNITY MOMENT

🕜 Friday at 1:30 pm

This potluck is a core part of WellFest culture. We lovingly ask everyone to participate and bring a dish prepared from the heart to share. 🌿 There will be a prize for the best potluck dish 🪴

🌴 FESTIVAL AND COSTUME THEME — VERY IMPORTANT

✨ JUNGLE TEMPLE ✨

Dress up anytime, with the main showcase on Saturday night. Best costume wins a prize 🏆

(Thank you for your patience around earlier messaging — Jungle Temple is the correct theme.)

🎤 OPEN MIC

Saturday & Sunday

Sign up with Julian or Sunny. Sign-up sheets are available at the Admin Tent. Bring your voice, your instrument, your magic ✨

🍕 FOOD, DRINKS & PIZZA OVEN

We have limited food vendors:

• Saturday: 2 vendors

• Sunday: 1 vendor

Please bring enough food to support yourself throughout the festival.

🔥 Wood-fired pizza oven — available Friday & Sunday. We sell restaurant-quality pizza bases. Please bring beautiful pizza toppings if you’d like to use the oven.

☕ We’ll have oodles of drinks provided and extra snacks on Friday, but please don’t rely on these as full meals.

🚫 This is a NO ALCOHOL event — thank you for respecting the container.

🎒 WHAT NOT TO FORGET

Please come prepared and self-sufficient:

• Weather-appropriate clothing (warm days, cooler evenings)

• Yoga mat

• Warm blanket

• Pens & notebook

• for the sauna: TWO towels + change of clothes + drink bottle (for sauna)

• Plates, cutlery & cups (including cup for cacao)

• Paints, brushes & jars (kids tent / abstract art)

• Camping gear + cookers (be mindful with open flames — it’s very dry)

• POWER BANKS (charging on site is not available)

• Instruments, drums, fairy/LED lights, hammocks

• Lawn games, river floats (observe river safety rules)

🚫 NO GLASS on site

🐕 NO DOGS at the venue

♻️ Please take all rubbish home — leave no trace

🧭 SCHEDULE AWARENESS

Some schedule changes may happen on site. Please check the on-site workshop board regularly and stay open — there will be a myriad of beautiful pop-up workshops and spontaneous offerings that may not appear online.

Workshop descriptions can be found here: 👉 www.wellfest.co.nz

Please read them in advance so you know what to bring (mat, cup, blanket, etc.).

🫶 CARE, SUPPORT & SAFETY

We’ve added an Integration Station on site. If you have a big experience during or after a workshop and need time to land, integrate, or be gently supported, this space is there for you.

We will also have a First Aid Tent available throughout the festival. Please familiarise yourself with the locations of both when you arrive.

🚗 PARKING & VEHICLE PASSES

Lower parking & camping zones are for those staying the full festival (no in-and-out).

Use upper/day parking if you plan to leave and return.

Please ensure you’ve purchased a vehicle pass if staying overnight.

There is a SUNDAY NIGHT add on ticket if you want to stay extra night.

💛 COMMUNITY & SUPPORT

If you know someone who would love to come but cannot afford a ticket, we can offer case-by-case hardship discounts. Please ask them to email: 📧 [email protected]

📣 HELP US SPREAD THE WORD (THIS REALLY HELPS ☀️)

1. Mark yourself as “Going” on our Facebook event 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/1Drq7Scnbb/

2. Follow WellFest on Facebook and leave us a review 👉 https://www.facebook.com/WellFestNZ

3. Share a post or story saying you’ll be at WellFest (media kit) 👉 https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1muw91ij8bebngNta723Zll-SGqX_LdH2

4. Tag us & friends

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WellFestNZ

Instagram:

With so much love,

Natalija, Rick, Wellspace & the whole WellFest team ☀️

25/02/2026

Workshop Information🌿
Have a scroll to see more workshops joining us at WellFest this weekend
✨ Kim Knight – Flying Qigong + Heart Meditation
Heavenly & Earthly Qigong reconnects you to universal Qi, restoring calm and vitality through Yuan Gong practice. With 25+ years’ experience in Ren Xue Qigong, Kim guides authentic self-realisation and a return to your True Self.
✨ Johanna Bristle – True Self Constellations
An embodied reconnection workshop using Spiritual & Somatic Trauma Therapy (SSTT) and constellation work to meet your inner ally with clarity and compassion. Limited to 10 participants (1–2 constellations).
✨ Anthea Carr – At Ease with Appetite
A gentle exploration of intuitive eating. Understand hunger types, emotional eating cycles, and reconnect with your body’s cues.
✨ Jasmin Hill – Seed Saving
Hands-on learning with NZ Seed Savers Library. Select, save and store resilient heirloom and native seeds.
✨ Adi Chaitanya – Permaculture & Awakening
Exploring the Yamas & Niyamas alongside the 12 principles of permaculture — spiritual and environmental integration.
✨ Dr Fiona McQueen – Foraging & Herbalism
Discover local Wakatipu plants and their nutritional and medicinal uses.
✨ Guillaume Dayakar – Sounds & Frequencies
A handpan-led sound journey into calm and presence.
✨ Nadia Havlena – Soma Breath & Quantum Consciousness
Rhythmic breathwork to shift state, access clarity and deepen awareness.
✨ Michaela Jones – Yin Yoga
A mindful hour of stretch and rest to balance the nervous system.
✨ Julie Faulkner – Crystalline Sound Bath
Crystal bowl frequencies guiding you into stillness and inner anchoring.
✨ Ra – Drum Circle & Body Percussion
20+ years in West African drum and dance. Playful, rhythmic, unifying sessions using drums and the body as instrument. All welcome.
Weekend, day & evening passes still available.
Full programme coming soon..🌿

25/02/2026

We looove Uplift Music! This Friday! ❤️

☀️ We’re super excited to be part of WellFest this Friday, the 27th at 7:30 PM at the Grove stage!

It means a lot to us to be part of this amazing festival and share our music with you all.

Get ready for live music, kiwi vibes, positive energy, and good times all around!

See you Friday with the good vibes ✨

25/02/2026

Workshops by Tina Schaefer

What is Trust?
A gentle, meditative inquiry into trust as a lived experience rather than a concept. Through silence, paired presence, and embodied awareness, participants explore how trust feels in the body when effort softens and control releases. This workshop invites you to rest in not-knowing, meet inner safety, and discover trust as something already here—quiet, alive, and deeply human

Second Workshop - Open to Authentic Intimacy with Ta**ra
Using simple, trauma-informed practices, we explore how to receive sensation, connection, and love without effort — remembering that we are already enough, exactly as we are.

25/02/2026

Workshops by Teresa Shanti - EMPATH Empowerment Journey
Designed for highly sensitive people to support through neuroscience, psychology, embodied practices and tools for your energy-management.

Second Workshop: Embodied Visionboard Journey
Drop into your body, heart and third eye to create your new Vision for your life with your Visionboard. Let your your Intuition lead you and use the energy of the Chinese new Year of the fire horse.

Teresa has been supporting individuals and groups in healthcare and wellbeing for over 15 years, with a holistic background in sports therapy, nutrition, bodywork, energy work and wellbeing workshops.

25/02/2026

Workshops by Steven Booth - New Encoding Pattern Workshop

Introducing Embodied Sacred Geometry derived from the Esoteric Acupuncture Template, in order to activate the Lightbody, expand consiousness, develop higher sensory perception, and increase coping capacity.
New Encoding Pattern WorkshopSpirit Path is a guided activation through six gateways of the upper energy centres, awakening a spinning geometry of light that expands awareness while grounding higher frequencies into the body. This process supports deep coherence across physical, emotional, and subtle layers. The session includes meditative immersion and integration, supporting clarity, intuitive insight, energetic recalibration, and renewed alignment.

Second Workshop Lightbody Activation
A practical Lightbody Activation workshop exploring embodied sacred geometry and the Eight Trigrams of the I-Ching. Drawing on meditation, Qigong, Integral Taoism, and Esoteric Acupuncture, this session teaches participants how to access and refine the octahedral energy field to support clarity, alignment, and energetic coherence. Suitable for healers, meditators, and embodied consciousness practitioners.
Steven Booth is a qualified Acupuncture Practitioner, senior qigong instructor, and Lightbody Activation facilitator. Trained in Esoteric Acupuncture under Dr Mikio Sankey, he specialises in meridian-based practice, Taoist internal arts, and expanded consciousness work. Steven is the creator of Metatron’s Cube, a 13-Gateway Lightbody Activation process, and teaches internationally through private practice, group activations, and practitioner training.

25/02/2026

Workshop by Jae Energy – The Energy of Reiki & Sanmitsu: 3 Diamonds

We all have Reiki within us. We are all a conduit for light & healing energy for self & others. Sanmitsu is a method that allows us to clean our diamond, 3 energy centres & come home to our true essence. This is also an opportunity to understand the traditional system of Reiki & how that differs from the energy itself.

Second Workshop– Ignite Inspired Inquiry
Where focus goes, energy flows. Get out of your own way. Words have spells thats why it is called spelling. Expectations are creating your suffering. What does all of that even mean?? We hear some of things alot, but do we understand them? Lets come together in a speak easy & discover what we perceive, how that creates what we believe & if that thinking is serving us. As a therapist, NLP practitioner, yoga, reiki & meditation teacher & sacred medicine facilitator these concepts are the foundation my work. If we don't understand how our thoughts create our reality or a story keeps us stuck, we will keep coming up against the same habits, behaviours and triggers. Together lets Ignite Inspired Inquiry.

26/02/2025

Wellfest 2025 Photo drop No.2

Thank you to the talented Joshua Yates Photography for capturing these special moments