Sometimes a holiday needs a good dose of selfcare. From wellness sanctuaries with multi-day programs to relaxed country stays with saunas and spas to use at your own pace, pick from NSW’s best health retreats.
This female-owned and -run retreat aims to realign your life physically, mentally and emotionally. The roaming luxury retreats vary in theme and location across the South Coast; their summer retreat ‘Awaken Your Glow’ takes place in
Gerringong and includes fitness sessions, nutritionist talks and healthy meals, energy healing, flower workshops, nature walks and swims, and massages. Accommodation is in luxury multi-bedroom properties, with options to share rooms or have your own space. Check their website for the latest retreat schedule.
Nestled between the spectacular headland and sprawling beaches of the Barrenjoey peninsula, north of Sydney, Crane Lodge is a luxury stay matching its idyllic and quiet locale. Book a stay at the lodge to bathe in the 38-degree-Celsius cedar hot tub and heated magnesium pool, cook with the outdoor firepit, walk to
Whale Beach and curl up beside the fireplace before retiring to one of five bedrooms that look out to the green canopy. Add on the Signature Wellness Package for a forest bathing experience (mindful forest hiking), three-course meal, private yoga class and sparkling wine on arrival.
While some wellness retreats champion luxury and exclusivity, Happy Buddha offers a humble approach: the individual is what is important, not the surrounds. The accommodation is rustic and bohemian but the workshops are rejuvenating, spirited and varied. Try a multi-day Sound Healing or Drum and Dance retreat, check into a Silent Meditation retreat or connect with yourself and others through the Inner Joy retreat. While immersed in your
Blue Mountains health retreat you’ll be nourished with a multicultural and vegetarian menu, made with produce grown onsite by the Happy Buddha team.
4) For wellness just outside Sydney: Billabong Retreat, Maraylya
Perched on the edge of a forest and a billabong topped with lilies, this retreat just an hour’s drive from Sydney promises a wellness experience connected to nature. Book into one of the lodges and organise spa treatments including massages, facials and reiki, or lock in a longer program that uses yoga, meditation and workshops to help you focus on destressing and living mindfully. Between learning and relaxing, the Billabong chefs will prepare vegetarian buffets centred around nutrition with all food intolerances catered for.
5) For a mindfulness masterclass: Soma Retreat, Ewingsdale
If Soma isn’t instantly recognisable (it was the set of Nine Perfect Strangers with Nicole Kidman) it will be instantly memorable. The 22-acre wellness retreat near
Byron Bay is meticulously designed for purpose. Here multi-day retreats, designed by Soma founder and vedic meditation practitioner Gary Gorrow, range from meditation-focused beginner courses to masterclasses that promise to help transform your career, business, health and life purpose. The sprawling abode boasts communal living and dining areas that flow out to the surrounding rainforest, an enormous clear-roofed dome provides a space to practice mindfulness surrounded by nature, and 10 king-sized bedrooms (each with an ensuite) are luxurious without being ostentatious.
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