Wellness Week or Weekend Rotorua

Be Well - isn't it time to look after yourself?

Our Wellness Week or Weekend nourishes mind, body and soul.

Breathe

Stretch 

Be 

Eat

Dance 

Nourish

Massage

Play

Walk

Soak

Dream

Rest

Laugh

Shop

Chant

Chat

Soak some more

Stretch some more

Breathe some more

Heal

Heal

Sigh

Find peace 

:)

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It's Wellness Week! 

From 11 - 18 of May 2025. 

Actually, it's 8 days because we needed two Sundays - because that's the best day for self-care. 

Hi, I'm Julia Anne

Together with the team at Look After Me Experiences, we facilitate day trips or single sessions for people who really need a break - but don't have time to organise it. 

We would looooove you to come and visit us in Rotorua, for a day or half day or even a couple of hours, anytime during Wellness Week. 

Mix and match by choosing from Workshops, Yoga, Meditation and Healing circles, and Markets, with popular therapies like spas, massage and spending time in our awe-inspiring nature. 

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

Every day we include activities that nuture mind, body and soul. 

Check the programme, because some events are better suited to young people and others, are created especially for the over 50's. 

You're so busy looking after everyone else (your children, your job, your house, your partner, your parents - but who is looking after you?

We do. 

Scroll down to chose which day suits your personal interests. We can personalise the morning and afternoon spa sessions, to suit your mobility, preference and budget. 

If you like words - here's the Wordy programme.

If you prefer pictures, keep scrolling for the Day By Day Break Down. 

DAY BY DAY PROGRAMME 

11 May: Self-care Sunday - Mother's Day 

• MEET: 9 am: Welcome and opening ceremony with Julia and the Look After Me team
• STRETCH: 9.30 am Soulshine Yoga and breathwork with Nilamani Wright
• HEAL: 11 am Ananda Sounds Healing with Philip Chen (Tibetan bowls) - a relaxing, healing treat
  
• EAT: 12.30 Shared lunch - BYO, Buy or Bring a plate
  
• IGNITE: 2 pm Ignite your inner flame: Kundulini Yoga with Sam Read
  
• SOAK ME: 3.30 pm onwards with our spa partners. Purchase Spa Pass. Choose 4 star or 5 star options

12 MAY: Me...Me....Me... Monday

• CREATE: 9 am  - 2 pm Journal and Doodle and Crafty Wee Inn: for Arty & Crafties - either BYO or build using our resources
• EAT: 11.30 - 12.30 Mad Hatter Natter Chatter with Platters
  
• LEARN:  2 - 3.30 pm  Hormones and Women's Health Circle
• STRETCH: 5.30 - 7 pm Yoga for Women 40+ with Amy Jozwiak
• SOAK ME: All day - 4 and 5 star options 
• MASSAGE ME: All day - choice of 7 types of therapeutic massage

13 MAY: NourishMe Tuesday 

• NOURISH: 9 am Breakfast with Julia, JuicePlus and the Community Garden Project
• STRETCH: 10.30 - 11.30 am Steady as you go - for 50+ year with Aged Concern
• DE-TOX: 12 noon Foot spas and gentle 10 day programme with Julia & JuicePlus
• WALK OR RIDE: 2 - 4 pm Group, Solo guided walks, forest bathing or cycling in the Redwood Forest 
• SOCIAL: from 5 pm at BaseCamp, Secret Spa, Redwood Forest
• SOAK ME: All day -  4 and 5 star options 
• MASSAGE ME: all Day  -choice of 7 types of therapeutic massage

14 MAY: Wisdome Wednesday 

• MOVE: 10.30 - 11.30 am For 50+ with Aged Concern 
  
• WALK: 12 - 3 pm Art, Lake and Sculpture Walk - Lakefront Rotorua or
• WRITE: 12 - 3 pm Wee Write Inn. Story Tellers Tour of the Buried Village
• STRETCH: 5.30 pm - 7 pm Soulshine Yoga and breathwork with Nilamani Wright
• SOAK ME:  All day with our 4 and 5 star partners

15 MAY: Healing Thursday

• NOURISH: 12 - 1.30 pm  Lunch: with Julia, JuicePlus and the Community Garden Project
• DE-TOX: 1.30 pm - 2.30 pm  - De-Tox - Foot spas and 10 day programme
• LAKES: 3 - 5.00 pm 5 Lakes Lunch and Tour
• EAT: 5 - 6 pm Night Market
  
• MEDITATE: 6.15 - 7.30 pm Ancient Yogic Wisdome and Meditation for inner peace with Kalaadivi, Barbara and Kavitha
• HEALING CIRCLE: From 7.30 pm - around the fire (BYO instruments)
• SOAK: All day with our spa partners 
  

16 MAY: Freedom Friday

• $15 Friday - Access to the Welcome, Dance and Fireside sessions.
• MEET: 7 pm Welcome and opening ceremony for Weekenders, with Julia and the Look After Me team
• DANCE: 8 pm Ecstatic Dance with DJ Wicks (Jarrod Anderson)
• BE: 10 pm Fireside chats and calm down 
• SOAK: all day with our Spa partners 
• SELF-CARE: Massage Me - choice of 7 types of therapeutic massage

17 MAY: Self-care Saturday 

• STRETCH: 8 am Sunrise Yoga with Amy Jozwiak
• LEARN: 9 am Energy flow and Colour Therapy workshop with Diane Rosenberg
• INNER PEACE: 11 am Mindfulness and walking meditation with Susannah
• MARKETS: 12 - 3 pm Make appointments with our healers, or learn about De-Tox and nutriceutical programmes, purchase wellness related products. Or:
• SOAK: 12 - 3 pm- choose from 4 options
• STRETCH:  3 - 4.15 pm Yoga with Carrie Hazleton
• LEARN: 4.30 - 6 pm Break free from Anxiety and Addiction with James Dear
• EAT: 6-7 pm dinner break
• CHANT: 7 - 8 pm Soothing kirtan 
• BE: From 8 pm Fireside chats, Open mic, singing, chanting, drumming

18 MAY: Soulful Sunday

• STRETCH: 9.30 - 11 am Soulshine Yoga and breathwork with Nilamani Wright
• MARKET: 11.30 - Mind, body soul market 
• SOAK: Choose from 4 options
• HEAL: Choose massage and therapy options at our Wellness Market
• WALK OR RIDE: Forest bathing, cycling, walking or 3 lake tours
• HEAL: 2 - 3.30 pm Sound Journey with Carole Song of Sound or
• FAREWELL: Closing Ceremony with Look After Me and Wellness Teams

HAERE MAI - NAMESTE - HARIBOL AND WELCOME!

We extend a warm welcome to healers and healees, the wellness "curious", people who need a bit of self-love and self-care to help them get through, whatever you're going through. 

If you are interested in stretching your mind, body and emotions for better health - Wellness Week is for you. 

We specialise in supporting women, who choose to travel or attend events by themselves.

Come sing, dance, eat, learn, stretch and be with us in our safe, empowering space and place.

Even if you called in for an hour or two during our special Wellness Week -  you will leave feeling better than you arrived. 

We have both a fixed ticket pricing and koha model to ensure this event is inclusive of every stage, age and budget.

It's that kind of place....and that kind of community.

Grab a couple of your besties, or trust yourself to come solo and come for a roadie or fly in for a nighty, night, night. Or two-ey?

Plan to arrive on the anytime during the week. Stay for 7 nights, or just come for a day-trip.

Our Wellness Week is 8 days.

It kicks off on Sunday 11th, yes, Mother's Day with events every day, running right until Sunday 18th of May. 

Throughout the Week, we'll be inviting our respected teachers to guide us in lots of "feel-good" and "heart-warming" activities.

Things like yoga, meditation, dance, singing. And of course, every day, we have 7 options for massage or 3 spa pool options to chose from. 

These are natural, fun and safe ways to release tension and re-tune your physical, emotional and mental energy. 

Come Saturday and Sunday things ramp up because we invite our suppliers to showcase some of the most well researched, highly beneficial nutraceuticals and therapeutic products to inspire your healthy living/ 

During the market time - taste delciousness all around, connect with like-minded people, book a massage, experience body balance or absorb yourself in reading, writing or being read or vive in the atmosphere of a healthy an healing community garden and sacred space.

Open your heart to reiki, journalling, learning, reading, writing, helping look after our community garden,

Hang in hammocks, social time snacks,

De-Tox, take foot baths, try forest bathe-ing in secret places.

Listen in on one of our workshops, 

Connect with our men's, women and rainbow sacred healing circles. Or Start your own circle! Talk openly and freely about whatever you want to talk about. 

Enjoy the buzz of cool new markets - gee there are some epic new tricks and tips coming out of the cosmos!

Wag your chin or beat your drum at our fireside chats. 

Why here? 

Why now?

You need to make time for your own personal health and wellness journey. 

If you don't make time, to look after yourself, then who will?

Treat yourself to a spa or a massage. 

Stretch your brain with our healthy heart and mind circles. 

Come find and be with your tribe.

Wellness Week, is all about looking after you. 

You come, we look after you, that's what we do.

Where are we?

Nestled right in the heart of Rotorua is a sacred and special building.

It was originally built as a church in the mid-sixties so it's been the heart of our community for decades. 

It has been restored and redecorated by the Hindu Council of New Zealand, for the purpose of bringing the community together. 

It is also the hub of Look After Me Headquarters - a wellness space for us all to enjoy.

It's a place where we promote self-care in nourishing ways proven to be good for mind, body and soul. 

In this one special week, we are bringing our community together. 

We'd love for our locals to pop in and volunteer for a bit, to help make our out-of-towners feel loved and special. 

You are part of this community, and it is part of you - so if you feel called to be at a Wellness Week in Rotorua - this is your chance!

Our pricing goes from a koha or volunteering, through to 8 Day Luxury Experiences tailored to our international guests. It's not about what you pay, it's about people seeking connection with themselves and each other. 

Together with our tourism operator and accommodation partners, we have a smorgesboard of "feel-good" experiences - all week long.

Who are we? 

We're a community of mainly women, who understand the needs of the modern-day woman. 

We get you. You need a break, but don't have time to organise it.

We understand that wellness is for everyone! Drop your problems at our door..... and then walk away feeling so much better than when you arrived.

Here are some photos of recent events.....we feel.... we heal. 

You'll see we are age, stage and faith friendly. 

Photo gallery (above) from our recent full-moon Chakra dance with Nadine Yoga and DJ Twisted Kiwi. We only allow 25 - 40 people in any of our events, to allow the space for everyone to relax and unwind in their own personal space. 

Need a Bed?

Look After Me manages an accommodation network in Rotorua. 

Through our selected and trusted partners we have a collection of homestays, bed and breakfasts, holiday houses, suites, apartments, campervan spots, villas, condos, or whatever suits you and your unique style. 

Just tick the No Obligation Enquiry and we'll match you with a decent place to stay, for a fair price. 

MEET OUR 'BE WELL' COLLECTIVE

We're a group of healers, teachers, therapists, counsellors, market stall holders and practioners who enjoy sharing knowledge to help people heal from emotional, physical or mental trauma, grief and stress.

Our Wellness Collective formed to teach effective practices to re-align and re-charge your energetic systems. In turn, this can make you feel healthier and happier.  

Nothing beats the energetic uplift from experiencing the lightness and power of a healing community when we come together to share our collective talents. 

It amplifies your healing experience. 

WHO COMES TO OUR WELLNESS WEEKS AND WEEKENDS?

We are age, stage, faith and gender friendly. 

We are so blessed to be working alongside the Hindu Heritage Centre. Because it is a sacred site - we respect and honour their practice of being meat and alcohol free. This creates a cherished and safe space, particularly for women and children.

We are accutely aware of the problems alcohol has created within our families, which is why we have included a special and courageous talk by James Dear on his experience with addiction and addictive behaviours. We do not judge. We only wish to support and assist these difficult conversations. 

Our community is people interested in wholistic approaches to their own personal wellbeing. 

We share nourishing mind-body-soul practices like yoga, meditation, journaling, sound journeys, healing circles, uplifiting speakers, chanting and dancing as ways to encourage clarity and healing in your life. 

Our events are helpful for people healing from emotional, physical mental trauma, grief, stress and various medical conditions. 

At this Wellness Week we are lucky to have wonderful healers who work in the Addiction Space. It is good to be open and honest about addiction - we know it's rife in our community so we are opening up some of those conversations within yourselves. 

If you can, we recommend you come for the whole week for a full Mind-Body-Soul experience. 

We are encouraging as many people to register as volunteers, market stall holders, or therapists... this event is for you!

ACKNOWLEDGING OUR FUNDERS, CO-HOSTS, PARTNERS AND PREFERRED SUPPLIERS 

Our Look After Me Wellness Events, Personalised Retreats and Writer's Workshops are only possible because of the work of many people, working right throughout the wellness, tourism, events, creative writing and publishing industries.

We work together to deliver memorable soulfully aligned experiences, in our sacred space. 

Our quest is to bring people and healers together. 

We are grateful to our healers, teachers, leaders, staff, volunteers, suppliers, organisations, businesses and the unwavering guidance from our Shareholding Team, who support/ed our Look After Me Experiences Company with funding, logistics, risk-management, catering, venues, photography, marketing, either in-kind or as cash contributions or sponsorship. 

Thank you to our original Look After Me Shareholders, partners and suppliers. 

We are humbled to be working with Guna Magesan and the team at the Hindu Heritage Centre.

Look After Me loves creating, hosting or being involved in memorable, enjoyable events, workshops, wellness circles, personalised retreats and gatherings to promote personal self-care and wellness opportunities.  Scroll down to check out our whole range of Experiences for 2025 and 2026.