These retreats are geared towards individual and group needs and requirements. No riding is involved and no previous horse experience is necessary.

A 10-Day Immersive With Horses and Nature

Dune Lakes Lodge | Aotearoa New Zealand

By investing in yourself, you invest in your future. Dune Lakes Lodge offers national and international guests a rare opportunity to step out of noise, urgency and distraction and into a 10-day immersive experience with horses, nature and deep learning. This is not a retreat you attend — it is an environment you enter, where your body, mind and intentions are brought into coherence. Set across 37 acres of rolling pasture, ancient sandhills and pristine wetlands and lake, Dune Lakes is an EMF-quiet zone where free-roaming horses live in a natural herd culture. The lake lies at your feet, the Tasman Sea stretches beyond the dunes, and time begins to feel spacious again. Here, learning is uncommon and happens differently.

Horses as Teachers of Coherence & Leadership

Horses live in a constant state of heart coherence. They are exquisitely sensitive to intention, focus, emotional congruence and authenticity. In their presence, you quickly discover the gap between what you think and what you embody.

This immersive is an intensive in:

Natural horse-friend-ship and relationship-based horsemanship
Equine-inspired learning for leadership and corporate environments
Understanding herd culture as a model for healthy human systems
Practising behaviours that truly match your intentions

The horses respond not to story, status or strategy — but to energy, clarity and presence. They invite you to align your inner world with your outer actions.

For Those Called Here

This experience is designed for:

Leaders and executives seeking embodied, heart-led leadership
Facilitators, coaches and practitioners wishing to develop retreat-style, horse-assisted learning programmes
Organisations exploring equine-inspired leadership and team development
Individuals longing to step away from chaos, over-thinking and constant output
Those who wish to merge with nature, land and water — and remember what simplicity feels like

No prior horse experience is required — only curiosity, humility and willingness.

Learning That Reaches the Cellular Level

Much of what we “know” intellectually never makes it into behaviour. At Dune Lakes, learning is embodied.

You will:

Teach your body chemically and neurologically what your mind already understands
Experience how thoughts directly affect behaviour, posture and outcomes
Prime the brain for new patterns, then practise them until they become familiar
Learn how to create the life you want — rather than leaving it to randomness

This is where mind and body begin working as one.

Through visioning, elevating intentions, focused attention and playful engagement with energy, you’ll learn how to hold a sacred space — for yourself and for others. You’ll practise presence until it becomes natural, not forced.

Romancing The Future