Tabea | Albany
“Yesterday. We have a community dinner at the retreat and, yeah and I connected to a lot of different people there actually, just talking to different people and then even before that, because it’s a, you live in a community, you connect with a lot of different people.
Some days you don’t really meet someone new, but other days you meet someone new, and on other days you connect with people you already know and it’s beautiful. So it’s called the Kawai Purapura retreat, and I am a naturopathy student, and Wellpark College is the studio where I study, and that’s on the same property. So, that’s why I live there as well.
I find it very important because it really opens your horizons. If you’re just kind of with yourself, or even if you’re really into self-development and all these things, if you just kind of focus on your own perspective, or you read, or you don’t really connect with other people, you stay kind of focused and you don’t really have a mirror to show what you’re doing.
I was born in Germany in a village] near Hamburg in the North and I grew up there basically since I, until I was 16 and then I did an exchange on Waiheke Island for a year, and I fell in love, and basically since then I have been, with my ex-partner now, and we have been going back and forth between New Zealand and Europe, lived in Ireland for a little bit, and I lived in Portugal by myself as well, and in the last two years basically lived in Christchurch, and only now I moved back to Auckland. Yeah, that’s kind of a geographical background.”
