Rest & Restore Respite

Modern motherhood is overwhelming and constant, for even the most well equipped of us. It is understandable to need time to escape and have opportunities to fill your cup, but making that happen can be really hard. Its hard enough to recognise and prioritise our own needs when they aren't in competition with our whanau. And lets face it, most of the time it feels very much like competition! 

So if your needs are getting to the bottom of the list over and over again and you really need a break, we have the thing... our Weekday Rest & Restore Respite Retreat is a private stay in the 'Pool House' at Social Nexus HQ. Its an escape for the evening away from Mum life that can work wonders! 

But this isn't respite care how a hospital might do it, this is lush, cup filling, soul lightening gentleness for you. This is the hotel vibe stay not at a hotel with extra support and awhi involved. We even cleanse and bless the place before you get here.

Weekday Rest & Restore respite retreats are an evening is organised in a way that enables you to arrive whenever works for you to escape for the night, in our experience, before dinner if you can is perfect.

Turn up, we will have the space ready for you to arrive, there will be dinner ready for you (we will give you a choice of options the day prior) and bed set to go. Check out is before school pick up the following day, so you can leisurely wake up and check out the river walk down the road or any number of other options. 

You can make yourself at home and hide away alone, check out our extensive library and other resources. If you would prefer to do some witchy or coaching type mahi or jump into the studio to play with some of our ridiculous range of arts and crafts materials and try something new like making resin earrings maybe.  We include an hour of our time however you want to spend it. 

If you are unsure of what to do with that hour, the massage table and healing room are always a good default option and an hour there is never wasted! Alternatively, go check out the hot pools on us ;) 

We provide a quiet, soothing space for you to wind down and come back to your heart center. Let us mother you, so you can get back into mum mode with more in your cup before it gets emptied by your family. 

And then probably come back and do it again in a bit when they are extra annoying again maybe?? 

We have organised it in a way that includes: 

Check-in in the evening (post 530pm), dinner will be ready for you. 

Tea, coffee and refreshments, dinner, breakfast and a light lunch are all included and provided.

Includes an hour of massage, hot pools, coaching or creating.

Check-out for school pick up the following afternoon.

We can arrange multiple evening stays as per situational requirements, please contact us to discuss further.  

Our space also suits newborns or younger babies, so if you are a mama of more than one and have recently had a pepi and wish you could sneak back to the hospital for after care, we are another option for you. Jess still has many tubs of slings and carriers and would happily steal your baby for a sling walk around the garden for a bit if you wanted! We have a natures sway hammock bed and change table, we have cloth nappies, probably everything possible.. can you tell we have seven kids between us and are kinda only just transitioning out of those stages ourselves despite also have tween & teens in our kid crew! 

Please contact us on socialnexusnz@gmail.com for availability.

Member price: $175 per night
Non-member price: $350 per night