Welcome to our family
As a family, we have often been asked what our secret to happiness is, and the one idea that we keep coming back to is our rituals.
We know that these rituals bring moments of joy to our lives and we know that the sum total of all these moments of joy combined add up to sustained happiness.
In March 2017, we packed up our family home and went on an overseas adventure, determined to show our children more of the beautiful world around us and to make space for more family rituals. It was on this journey that the idea for a healing space founded on the concept of rituals was born.
From New Zealand to India, from India to Ireland, from Ireland to Italy and Vietnam
We roamed through countries that were completely culturally contrasting to what we had experienced in New Zealand.
Through the immense poverty, crowds and heat of India, the streets of Italy and Ireland
alive with music, through to the bustling night markets of Vietnam, we kept seeing one thing that we recognised as a family – the art of rituals and the happiness they brought to those who practiced them.
We soon realised we had to share the art of rituals with everyone back home, and thus Ritual was born.
The adventure continues
On returning home to New Zealand, we sold our family home and relocated our 8-person family to a 90m2 house on commercially-zoned property on Waiheke Island.
Here, we began building a space in which to share the gift of rituals. The premise combined healing yoga with nutritious and delicious vegan and vegetarian food and gifts to nourish the soul. All of this is based on taking a pause to create your own rituals.
Lily and Lotus
In November of 2024, we as a family decided to embrace a new direction for our business, a concept store based around ethical and conscious fashion and consumption, while still retaining the core aspects of what made Ritual special.
Out of this, Lily and Lotus was born.
With a luscious new menu, a whole new range of incredibly beautiful and ethically conscious clothing, and a completely revamped space, Lily and Lotus is now not only ours, but yours too.
Oh how we've grown!
As our business has continued to grow and evolve in many beautiful ways, so have we. We welcome you into Lily and Lotus with open arms and hearts and truly implore you to come visit us.
Come for a coffee, stay for a chat. Browse our wide range of clothing, gifts and jewellery, spend some time for yourself in our yoga space upstairs, and grab a bite of some seriously good food for the soul. We can't wait to see you!