Mindfulness Retreats in Australia, Hunter Valley NSW and New Zealand
Experience the power of total mindfulness at one of our immersive retreats. These retreats can be the perfect tonic to a busy year, a fabulous starting point for your mindfulness journey, or a place to focus and refine your use of mindfulness principles and techniques so you can take them back to your home or workplace. Our retreats provide you with the tools, the encouragement, the environment and the support to experience the full power of mindfulness.
Upcoming Retreats
Elysia Wellness Retreat: Finding Calm Amidst the Chaos
March 22 - March 25
Join us at the beautiful Elysia Wellness Retreat and discover practical tools and insights for more ...
Calm Living With Mindfulness, Robertson, NSW
April 22 - April 25
Join us at beautiful Robertson, NSW for our newest retreat, Calm Living with Mindfulness. Co-hosted ...
Charlotte describes the benefits of mindfulness retreats
Mindful Living Retreats
Our Mindful Living Retreats combine your complete mindfulness program with massage, yoga, a beautiful environment and plenty of warmth and kindness.
- Enjoy marvellous massages, yoga and wonderful food
- Experience different types of mindfulness (attention training, body scan,
mindful self-enquiry, loving kindness, walking meditation and yoga) - Gain an improved understanding of mindfulness theory and technique
- Learn about Buddhist psychology
- Discuss current research on mindfulness and neuroplasticity
- Practice mindful communication to improve relationships and resolve conflict
- Discuss negative bias and how to actively work on regaining more balance in your general outlook
- Explore the role of mindfulness training for self-care and stress management
These programs are run on an ongoing sign up basis. You will be contacted as soon as the group will run with dates and hopefully it works for you. Imagine going on a retreat with some of your best friends! Get a group together yourself, this way you have more influence on the date.
ARE MINDFULNESS RETREATS FOR YOU?
At times do you feel that life is just one big rush? Do you feel overwhelmed like you never get it all done? Do you feel short with those you love? Do you find it hard to get a good night’s sleep?
Would you like further inspiration professionally? Have you heard and read a little about mindfulness and would like to experience it in a deeper way and get the ‘tools’ to integrate mindfulness into your daily life?
Would you like a break to recalibrate, reflect and recharge?
Do you want the best massages in the most exquisite surroundings, and do you want the wisdom of mindfulness and for your heart to be reinvigorated?
Mindful Leadership Retreats
Have you proven that you know your job on a practical, technical or intellectual level and feel it’s time to hone in on your inner strengths, on the interpersonal, and on the core leadership attitudes and skills? Then, a Mindful Leadership retreat is for you.
Our Mindful Leadership retreats are designed for leaders and managers in operational roles, for business owners, HR and learning and development professionals, finance sector professionals, sales and marketing professionals, coaches, and anyone seeking to better manage their workload and personal life.
Mindful Leadership Program Learning Outcomes:
- Ability to implement the key leadership traits that determine effective leadership
- Ability to keep calm, focused and creative in an ever-changing work environment
- Increased clarity and focus, improved physical wellbeing, increased physical, emotional and mental resilience
- Increased self-awareness and self-mastery, increased compassion for self and others
Run at any time as 3-day or 7-day retreats. Get a group together or get on the list! Cost 3-day $495 or 7-day $995.
Dear Body - Mindful Eating Retreats
Our Dear Body – Mindful Eating Retreats provide you with the tools and a way of changing the relationship with your body, weight and food forever. Charlotte Thaarup is one of only a handful of people in Australia trained in mindful eating, and this life-changing program has been researched with great results.
These retreats are for you if are sick of the relentless inner dialogue around your body and food, and would like to stop dieting and allow your body to find its happy weight.
The benefits of reconnecting with the body include:
- More presence and greater calm
- Increased ability to emotionally regulate and self manage
- Ability to pre-empt emotions and thoughts
- Increased sense of internal freedom
- Coming into alignment with our weight and food intake
- Healing old pains and overcoming dislike of the body
- Increased self compassion
There is a correlation between high mindfulness and a lower incidence of obesity, being more physically active, and binge eating less.
After a mindful eating program participants show:
- Decreases in food cravings
- Reduced dichotomous thinking/black-or-white thinking
- Reduced body image concerns
- Reduced emotional eating
- Cognitive restraint around eating
Mindful eating programs have resulted in statistically significant decreases in weight, binge eating, depression and perceived stress.
