The SanctuaryWeekend Retreat
Nov
27
to Nov 29

The SanctuaryWeekend Retreat

A Nourishing Weekend of Rest, Movement & Connection in Nature

The Sanctuary
Weekend Retreat

FRI 27 – SUN 29 NOV  ·  HEALESVILLE

The Invitation

Time to put everything
down and simply be.

This is your permission to rest. Fully, without guilt. To slow down, move gently, eat beautifully, and let your nervous system find its way back to ease.

We've held the container. You just have to show up.

The Place

Maitripa Centre

Healesville, Upper Yarra Valley

Nestled in the Upper Yarra Valley, just 6.5km from Healesville and an hour and fifteen minutes from Melbourne CBD, Maitripa is one of those rare places that asks nothing of you except that you slow down.

Set on 50 acres of forest and gardens established in the early twentieth century, the property is alive with beautiful walks, sweeping vistas, and air that feels genuinely clean.

· 1 hour 15 minutes from Melbourne CBD

· 6.5km from Healesville

The Schedule

Your Weekend

What it feels like to be here

Friday: Arrive & Exhale

Drop your bags, settle into your room. A welcome circle, optional energy clearing, a nourishing dinner, and a restorative yoga and sound bath to close the day gently.

Saturday: Ground & Release

A gentle yoga practice to start your day, breakfast and on-site coffee, time in nature, breathwork and yin yoga. The afternoon is yours to move through in your own way. The evening holds a fire release ceremony and another deeply restorative yoga and sound bath event.

Sunday: Embody & Return

Morning yoga, a slow breakfast, an embodiment practice for those who feel called. Lunch and a closing circle to send you home whole.

The weekend has a natural rhythm, but it's yours to move through in your own way.
Sleep in. Take a walk alone. Sit in the garden. Follow what calls you.

Everything You Need

What's Included

Everything woven into your weekend

Core Experiences

  • ·Yoga: gentle morning flows, yin, breathwork & deep restorative sessions

  • ·Sound baths: nightly sound immersion for deep rest and integration

  • ·1:1 Reiki session: every guest receives their own individual healing session

  • ·Fire release ceremony: a quiet ritual to let go of what you're ready to release

  • ·Opening & closing circles: held with warmth

  • ·All vegetarian meals prepared on site daily by our professional retreat chef

Also Available

  • ·Guided nature walk through the property

  • ·Mandala making using elements gathered from nature

  • ·Embodiment & feminine movement practice

  • ·Explore the town of Healesville

  • ·Wander the 50 acres of forest and gardens

  • ·Rest and time alone

There is intentional space woven into every day. You never have to be anywhere you don't want to be.

Meet

Your Hosts

Di

Yoga Teacher · Counsellor · Hypnotherapist

Di brings a rare depth of presence to everything she offers. As a qualified yoga teacher, counsellor, and clinical hypnotherapist, she holds space with a warmth and steadiness that invites you to truly let go. With her background in hypnotherapy, her soothing voice guides you into the most restful, meditative states you'll experience. The kind of stillness that stays with you long after the weekend ends. On this retreat, Di leads the restorative yoga and gentle yoga classes, creating a safe space for your body to unwind completely.

Yelda

Yoga Teacher · Nervous System Coach · Emotional Healing Guide

Yelda is the kind of person who makes you feel at ease the moment you walk into a room. As a yoga teacher, nervous system coach, and emotional healing guide, she brings a deeply intuitive and nurturing energy to her work. Her approach is grounded in helping you reconnect with your body's innate wisdom and capacity for healing. On this retreat, Yelda facilitates the sound baths, yin yoga sessions, weaving together movement, stillness, and sound to help your nervous system find its way back to balance.

On Site

Nourishment & Healing

Fresh, healthy and delicious vegetarian meals, made on site daily

Meet Jess: Retreat Chef

Jess weaves nature and fermentation into every dish. She believes food is medicine and a form of profound connection. Her menus are vibrant, living, and drawn from nature and tradition. From glowing kimchi and krauts to naturally leavened sourdough, every plate is designed to nurture your body, delight your senses, and deepen your retreat experience.

Larry & Jen: Reiki Masters

Also joining us are Larry and Jen, our dedicated Reiki masters. Each brings over 30 years of individual experience in energy healing, something truly rare and special. Every guest receives a dedicated 1:1 Reiki session during the weekend, a deeply restorative experience that supports your body's natural healing process.

Dietary requirements are warmly catered for. Please let us know when booking.

A Note on Comfort

Bathrooms and toilets are shared. There are plenty in close proximity to all rooms. This is not a luxury retreat. But it is deeply, genuinely nourishing. The magic is in the land, the people, and the care woven into every detail.

Pricing

Investment

Choose your room. All prices include 2 nights accommodation, all meals, and every activity.

Single Room

Your own sanctuary

$1,450

Early bird / Members: $1,350

Private room. Your own space to retreat to.

Twin Room

Share with one other

$1,250

Early bird / Members: $1,150

Great for friends or new connections.

Dorm Room

Share with two others

$1,080

Early bird / Members: $980

The most accessible price point.

Early Bird Pricing: Book before 15 August and save $100

Members pricing also available. Get in touch to find out more.

Secure Your Place

Ready to come back to yourself?

Spaces are limited. Reach out to register your interest or ask about availability, room preferences, or members pricing.

Once you get in touch, Yelda will send you a registration form to complete to confirm your booking and secure your spot.

Register Your Interest

hello@yeldarahimi.com.au

Maitripa Centre, Upper Yarra Valley, Healesville

@think.focus.act@yelda.rahimi

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Return to Stillness in Healesville
Oct
17
to Oct 19

Return to Stillness in Healesville

  • with Think.Focus.Act & The Yoga Life (map)
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A Soulful Weekend Retreat in Healesville.

A weekend to create space for your soul to breathe,slow down & come home to yourself.

Join us for a nourishing 2-night yoga retreat at the peaceful Maitripa Centre in the heart of the Yarra Valley. Only a 90 minute drive from Melbourne, this is your invitation to unplug from the noise, reconnect with your inner calm, and return to life feeling clear, grounded, and radiant.

Over the weekend, you'll be held in a warm and welcoming space—with daily yoga, gentle movement and restorative practices, evening sound baths, and nourishing 3-course vegetarian meals prepared with love and ALL dietary needs catered for .This isn’t a luxury getaway—it’s something deeper: a chance to soften, restore, and remember what truly matters.

What’s Included:

  • 2 nights accommodation at the Maitripa Centre (Fri–Sun)

  • Daily yoga classes to energise and ground your body

  • Evening sound baths to soothe your nervous system and support deep rest

  • A 1:1 Reiki session for every guest—offering energetic clearing and healing

  • 3 nourishing vegetarian meals daily, lovingly prepared on-site, by our professional chef Ashley Mariani

  • Access to the beautiful natural grounds for walking, journaling or simply being

  • Morning coffee from the on-site coffee cart

  • Space to connect, reflect, and rest—at your own pace

  • Optional outing: Explore Healesville town centre, just a short drive away.

This Retreat Is For You If…

  • You're craving rest, but also want to feel reconnected and recharged

  • You want to deepen your yoga or spiritual practice in a supportive setting

  • You love the idea of nature, movement, healing and community

  • You’re ready to step away from busy and into presence

 

What your accommodation and price choices are…

  • Solo room ( just for you ) $1250. Members of Think.Focus.Act pay only $1150 and this price is available to non members as an early bird offer if booked before August 10th.

  • Twin room ( share with one other person ) $1050. Members of Think.Focus.Act pay only $950 and this price is available to non members as an early bird offer if booked before August 10th.

  • Dorm room ( share with two others, 3 beds per dorm ) $850. Members of Think. Focus.Act pay only $750 and this price is available to non members as an early bird offer if booked before August 10th.

 

If this gentle invitation to pause, replenish and return to life clearer, calmer and more aligned resonates with you, please express you interest to join us and/or book yourself in via an email to:

yelda.rahimi@gmail.com

You will be conversed with personal on all details including deposit, first and second installment payments the Retreat disclaimer and a short form to include dietary and an medical history.

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Winter Retreat ~ Nourish, Connect and Rest with Di & Lucy in Hepburn Springs
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to Jun 15

Winter Retreat ~ Nourish, Connect and Rest with Di & Lucy in Hepburn Springs

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Dianne and Lucy would like to invite you to a spacious 3-Day, 2-night Yoga Retreat at Hepburn Springs from 5pm Friday June 14th until Sunday June 16th 2pm. 

How often do you put yourself first?

Give this precious gift to yourself to nurture, relax and unravel. When you slow down to a pace of life that is spacious and relaxing it not only allows you to release the pressure and tension that can build up in your everyday but be more present and engaged in life. Time and space  to reconnect, find a little peace, clarity and replenish your reserves.

This retreat is accessible to all practitioners, beginners most welcome.

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Healesville Wellness Retreat - deepen your connection
May
17
to May 19

Healesville Wellness Retreat - deepen your connection

with Larry Turnley, Dianne Johnston , Fiona Hyde & Jenny Bozovic

This is a grand adventure of opening what has been closed inside of you so that your energy can flow freely again and you can know the joy of being alive ~ Mary O’Malley

This residential retreat offers an opportunity to experience, and strengthen, your connection to energy, largely through the modality of Reiki.

Reiki is Unconditional Love: when given from one person to another sometimes miracles occur

~ Hawayo Takata, Reiki Master

Did you know that there is a powerful, unseen life force within you, that flows through your physical body via junctions (chakras), nourishing your cells and organs along the way, all the while maintaining your overall health, vitality, and wellness?

The Japanese word Reiki, translates to mean Universal Life Energy, or Universal Life Force. Reiki is a simple, natural, healing technique that utilises the universal life force to improve health and wellbeing and enhance quality of life. The flow of life energy through us is what keeps us alive. Yet this flow is uneven for many. The stresses and tensions of daily living and our thought patterns, combine to create blocks and imbalances to the flow. These blocks are reflected in the body and can manifest as malfunctions or disease.

Reiki accelerates the body’s ability to heal physical ailments and opens the mind to the causes of disease and pain, the necessity for taking responsibility for one’s life and the joys of balanced health. It can also ease tension and anxiety, raise the general level of energy and feeling of well-being, and promote positive personal growth.

The gift of Reiki is the feeling of being reconnected to your source, of ‘coming home’.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain ~ C G Jung

As well as experiencing three individual Reiki sessions during this retreat, yoga and meditation will be offered each morning between 7-8am. This will be followed by breakfast. When you are not scheduled to have a Reiki session, you will be free to enjoy a walk around the grounds of Maitripa, rest, read, journal or converse with others. Lunch will be offered at 12.30pm and an ‘Energy Circle’, including a discussion about Reiki philosophy, will take place at 5pm on Saturday. Dinner will be served at 6.00pm, and this will be followed by an evening meditation.

Retreat package includes:

· Three individual reiki sessions

· Morning yoga/meditation sessions

· Energy circle including discussion of Reiki philosophy

· Evening meditation sessions

· Two night’s accommodation in your own room (shared bathroom facilities)

· Gourmet vegetarian and gluten-free meals – two breakfasts, two lunches, twodinners (all dietary requirements catered for)

Check-in is available from 2pm onwards on Friday May 17th

Check-out will be at 2pm on Sunday May 19th

Facilitators:

Larry's first discovery into self acceptance and self love came from pursuing his interest in Numerology, over 30 years ago. He studied with the late Judy McShanag in Melbourne in 1987 and has been reading for individuals ever since, with a continued passion for perfecting his understanding and intrigue with how Numerology impacts our lives.

Larry’s Reiki teachings began over 25 years ago and he has been running Reiki Level 1 and Reiki Level 2 Courses since 2013.

Learning how to look at himself has been his biggest challenge and, by taking ownership in his own life, he now teaches in a unique way with humour and optimism.

An eternal student, Fiona has been teaching yoga and meditation for 26 years and offering Reiki for the past two years having completed Reiki III training with Larry during 2021. The previous owner of Williamstown Yoga and Meditation, she has two children (17 & 20), a Masters Degree in Women’s Studies, and she has undertaken End-Of-Life Doula Training. A lover of retreats, Fiona absolutely revels in the opportunity to explore and share certain ‘matters of the heart and spirit’ in close connection with other seekers.

Cost: $940 to confirm your spot on this retreat, a $250.00 no-refundable deposit is required).

To book: please send an email to fionahyde1@gmail.com and we will forward a Registration Form.

One of the reasons I offer groups and retreats is so people can discover a place where they can be real and thus find out that everybody else has felt whatever they are feeling at some time in their life – and may even be feeling it right now ~ Mary O’Malle

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