Antara Retreat

charity — Tomarata · Tomarata

About Antara Retreat

A registered charity, the Antara Association, which runs a rural retreat near Wellsford, north of Auckland, and a free natural health clinic. The retreat opened in 2002 and is set among native bush, organic gardens and orchards, just over an hour's drive north of the city. It offers respite and time out, along with workshops and retreats. Its earthbrick homestay sits inland from Pakiri Beach, and the retreat is run co-operatively by the people who stay there. Its address is 141 Tapu Bush Road, Tomarata. The association's own contact address is 66 Taikata Road, Te Atatu Peninsula.

The Antara Free Natural Health Clinic has operated since 1989 and offers free natural health care and counselling to anyone who cannot afford it. All services are free, and everyone who works with Antara does so as a volunteer. The association is a non-profit, non-religious and non-sectarian incorporated society, and it relies on donations of money, skills and time. Donations over $5 are tax deductible. The association was set up in 1988 to run community care projects and to teach a philosophy of seven principles, which it calls the law of one.