Name: Returning to the Heart: A Winter Retreat
Start: 2026-07-09T06:00:00+12:00
Location: Bella Rakha Retreat Centre & Creative Venue

Returning to the Heart: A Winter Retreat

You are warmly invited to join us for the Returning to the Heart Winter Retreat - a deeply nourishing 3-night, all-inclusive experience lovingly facilitated by Amy - Intuitive Yoga Teacher, and Monika - Reiki Master and Emotional Integration Coach.

Held in the quiet beauty of winter, this retreat is an invitation to slow down, soften, and reconnect deeply with yourself and life around you. Surrounded by nature and supported by a peaceful, heart-centred environment, we create space to rest deeply, breathe fully, and return to the wisdom already living within you.

So often, life encourages us to keep striving, improving, and searching outside ourselves for fulfillment. Yet beneath the noise, many of us are simply longing to feel grounded, connected, safe, and fully alive again. This retreat offers an opportunity to gently step away from the pressures of everyday life and rediscover the calm, clarity, and wholeness that emerge when we give ourselves permission to simply be.

Together, we will gather in a sanctuary of authentic connection, shared presence, belonging and care - united through open hearts and shared intention.

Throughout our time together, you will be supported through a powerful blend of restorative practices, meaningful exploration, silence, reflection, and spaciousness. Every offering is designed to support nervous system restoration, holistic healing, inner connection, and conscious living.

Retreat Offerings

Fire Release Ceremony
A gentle yet powerful evening ritual around the fire, inviting you to consciously release emotional weight, limiting beliefs, old stories, or patterns that no longer serve you. Through reflection, intention, and symbolic release, we create space for renewal, clarity, and inner lightness.

Intention Setting Cacao Ritual
A nourishing heart-opening ceremonial cacao ritual to support grounding and inner listening. Together, we will slow down, connect with our intentions, and create space for clarity, intuition, gentle uplift, and a sense of feeling more present and connected with ourselves and one another.

Heart-Centred Gentle Restorative Yin Yoga
Gentle, nurturing yin yoga designed to calm the nervous system through mindful movement, breath, stillness, and deep relaxation. Suitable for all levels, these soothing sessions invite you to reconnect with your body with compassion, presence, and ease, meeting yourself exactly where you are.

Yoga Nidra
A calming guided meditation practice designed to bring the body, mind, and nervous system into deep rest and restoration. Through effortless relaxation and gentle awareness, Yoga Nidra supports emotional well-being, inner stillness, mental clarity, and a profound sense of peace.

Sound Journey
A deeply immersive sound experience using soothing instruments and healing frequencies to support relaxation, inner calm, and energetic harmony. Allow yourself to soften into stillness as vibration and sound gently wash through the body, inviting deep rest, restoration, and a peaceful meditative state.

1:1 Sacred Reiki Journey
Step into a deeply nurturing 1:1 Sacred Reiki Journey - this session supports emotional release, nervous system regulation, inner clarity, and energetic renewal through intuitive energy healing, chakra balancing, compassionate presence, and restorative stillness. Held within the sacred rhythm of the retreat, this offering invites you to simply rest, receive, and return to the heart.

The Art of Letting Go
An exploration of releasing the emotional weight we carry through past experiences, stories, judgements, and inner resistance. Through guided reflection, compassionate awareness, and emotional presence, this experience invites greater softness, clarity, peace, and freedom within ourselves. It’s a space to honour our human experience while opening to a new way of relating to it. An invitation to return to the heart, soften what feels heavy, and reconnect with the peace within.

Conscious Creation Exploration
At the heart of the Conscious Creation exploration is the understanding that our experience of life is shaped not only by external circumstances, but also by the meaning we give them, the awareness we bring, and the emotional energy through which we perceive them. As we become more conscious of our inner world, new possibilities can naturally emerge, not through striving or force, but through openness, authenticity, alignment, and the quiet wisdom of the heart.

Walking Meditation in Nature
Mindful walks immersed in the beauty of the natural surroundings, inviting a sense of presence, grounding, and a deeper connection to the simplicity of each moment. An opportunity to slow down enough to truly see, feel and receive.

Sacred Pauses of Silence
Moments of intentional silence will be woven throughout the retreat, inviting deep rest, reflection, nervous system regulation and a deeper inner connection. Within the spaciousness of silence, there is an opportunity to soften, listen inwardly, and hear the wisdom of your heart more clearly.

Mindful Living Experiences
Simple, grounding moments woven into daily retreat life - sharing meals slowly, connecting authentically, moving gently, resting deeply, and returning to presence in ordinary moments that become meaningful through awareness.

Spaciousness in the Timetable
This retreat is intentionally designed with spaciousness woven throughout the retreat schedule, inviting you to honour whatever you need during moments of free time. You are invited to rest, journal, walk, nap, be creative, or simply be with yourself in whatever way feels nourishing and supportive.

Energetic Yoga (If Feeling Guided)
For those feeling drawn toward more energising movement, optional Vinyasa yoga sessions will also be offered. These slow, mindful, heart and breath-centred practices encourage intentional movement and deep presence, gently awakening vitality, and inner strength while staying rooted in self-awareness, softness and self-honouring.

You will also be lovingly nourished with delicious plant-based meals, warm connection, cozy evenings, and time to simply rest, reflect, journal, walk in nature, or sit quietly by the fire.

This retreat is an invitation to remember the wisdom, peace, and fullness that already exist within you beneath the noise of the world.

Whether you are seeking deep rest, emotional renewal, meaningful connection, or simply time to breathe and reconnect with yourself, you are welcome here exactly as you are.

We would love to share this experience with you.

Investment: $888 All Inclusive

All retreat guests will enjoy their own private bedroom with shared bathroom facilities.
All food will be vegetarian. Please advise of any further dietary restrictions upon booking.

Please contact us directly if you would like to pay via direct deposit to avoid fees (preferred) or would like to set-up a payment plan.

Contact:
Amy - Bliss Yoga and Adventures - 020 4100 4587
Monika - Emotional Integration and Reiki - 022 6822 453