Diane Covington-Carter, an award-winning American and NZ travel writer, recently participated in a successful Writer’s Retreat on our estate. While here, she interviewed Lasse Holopainen, Co-Owner of Maruia River retreat about all things yoga.

Last autumn seems a distant memory, and winter a fever dream. As we begin to awaken, the river swells with new, wild, mana, flushing away winter's lethargy - a harbinger of the new life to come.

Last year, we had what must be one of nature's most coordinated events, a Beech Mast, where all of the native beech trees drop their seeds simultaneously, in massive, unbelievable concentration.