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Welcome to Forest Healing Festival: A Journey Back to Nature
- Earth Village
- Feb 11
- 3 min read
Updated: Feb 24
There’s a deep wisdom in slowing down — especially when life moves fast and the world feels noisy. The Forest Healing Festival invites you to do exactly that: pause, breathe deeply, and rediscover the quiet power of nature, community, and your own heart.
Taking place at the beautiful Earth Village in Kerikeri, Northland, New Zealand from March 19 to 22, 2026, this four-day retreat is more than an event — it’s a space for restoration, reconnection, and awakening.
🌲 What Is the Forest Healing Festival?
The Forest Healing Festival is a nature-based gathering focused on mindful living, holistic wellbeing, and authentic connection. Here, instead of loud music and late nights, you’ll find gentle rhythms, healing sounds, and restorative experiences designed to help you:
✨ Slow down and restore inner balance
✨ Reconnect with yourself, others, and the earth
✨ Reawaken your vitality amidst quiet forest surroundings
Whether you come alone, with friends, or with family, this festival welcomes everyone seeking peace, renewal, and a deeper sense of belonging.
🌿 What to Expect
Throughout the festival, you’ll find a variety of mindful and nurturing experiences, including:
🌱 Guided Forest Walks & Bush Bathing
Walk among ancient trees and learn to slow your pace as you tune in with nature’s rhythms.
🧘 Healing Workshops & Sessions
From meditation and breathwork to sound healing and conscious movement, workshops support deeper self-connection.
🌸 Healing Zone
Connect with gifted practitioners offering bodywork, energy healing, and other therapeutic experiences.
🍃 Marketplace & Eco-Stalls
Browse artisan crafts, eco-friendly products, and wholesome foods that nourish body and mind.
👨👩👧 Family & Kids Activities
Creative, playful spaces invite families and children to explore, create, and enjoy nature together.
🌍 About Earth Village
Earth Village is a 365-acre sanctuary dedicated to a bold and heartfelt vision: a world where every person can fully realize the value of their own existence.
Its founder began this project with a lifelong commitment to creating a new way of living — one that empowers people to remember who they truly are and to live with courage, dignity, and purpose. The dream was to gift humanity the spirit of Earth Citizenship — a vision of humanity living as one global family, where the whole planet becomes one village, where harmony, coexistence, and peace are not ideals, but a lived reality.
Earth Village was created as a living model of that future — a place where people from all walks of life can gather, heal, grow, and rediscover their connection to themselves, each other, and the Earth.
At its heart, this land carries a deep intention: to leave behind a new path for humanity — one rooted in hope, compassion, and the belief that a more beautiful world is not only possible, but already beginning here.
🧡 A Festival of Mindful Living
The Forest Healing Festival isn’t about escape — it’s about returning to what truly matters. Held in an alcohol-free, mindful atmosphere, this celebration encourages presence, clarity, and genuine connection. You won’t find loud crowds or sensory overload here — just space to be, breathe, and belong.
Camp onsite under the stars, enjoy guided activities during the day, and gather around healing spaces in the evenings for reflection, shared experiences, and quiet joy.
🕊 Come as You Are
Whether you’re feeling tired, curious, inspired, or simply in need of calm, the forest welcomes you. This festival is an invitation to step away from distraction and step into presence — to reconnect with yourself, your community, and the earth beneath your feet.
Come as you are — the forest will do the rest.
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