Name: Winter Elemental Day Retreat
Start: 2024-07-27T10:00:00+12:00
End: 2024-07-27T17:30:00+12:00
Location: 40 Moa Avenue, 1081

Come and cosy up by a warm fire, sharing stories and nuggets of wisdom with some beautiful people that will touch your soul. Stoke the passion from within and shift the stagnancy that can come from the stillness of this season. Let your emotions be felt, your cup be filled. We explore the balance between moving and resting deeply, you’ll walking away feeling a sense of harmony and rejuvenation. This time carved out for reflection making your purpose clearer, preparing yourself for the actions needed in the coming season of spring.
As the waters still and freeze over during the cold winter months, it is the perfect time to pause, contemplate and reflect. Nourishing ourselves at this time of year sets the scene for the year ahead. Inspiration often comes from the stillness and by giving our bodies the support they need we are able to flourish as the season shift to yang once more. It’s time to cosy up, rest and receive.
The day will include a combination of movement and stillness, the opportunity for some challenge (including an ice immersion), as well as to nourish and rest deeply. Below is a sample itinerary for the day.
10am ~ Opening Sacred Sharing Circle, with Cacao and Meditation. Here we come together as a collective and set our intentions from this heart opened, expansive state.
10.30am ~ Movement Practice (yoga and/or dance). We move to stoke our inner fire and melt away any stagnant waters within and anything else that needs to be shifted. It’s when we drop out of minds and into the body that we remember the essence of who we are, and discover the innate wisdom resides within.
12.30pm ~ Lunch. It’s time to replenish the body with a nutritious nourishing lunch made with fresh seasonal and ingredients which are locally sourced and organic where possible.
1.30pm ~ Breathwork. In the rhythm of our breath lies the key to unlocking our deepest sensations. When we embrace it fully, our breath becomes a gentle yet potent force, moving us from within. As we surrender to its flow, tensions melt away, paving the path for newfound spaces within us to blossom - an invitation into curiosity and expansion.
2pm ~ Contrast Therapy session. Now it’s time to meet yourself in the ice. There is nothing like a cold immersion to meet your mind where it’s at and we’ve found there’s nothing quite like this experience to bring you into pure present awareness. The combination of breath and cold immersion has been scientifically proven to reduce inflammation in the body, which is the root cause of many health issues, including auto immune diseases. This is followed by an infrared sauna session that detoxifies the body, along with numerous other benefits. And then if you’re feeling brave there is the opportunity to face the cold once again. We do this for the brown fat activation, which is the good fat that we need more of! This is what stokes our metabolism and helps to prevent diabetes and heart disease.
3pm ~ Tea and snacks.
3.30pm ~ Yin and Yoga Nidra. Designed to invoke a deep sense of relaxation, regeneration and replenishment of the body, whilst stilling the mind and resetting the nervous system. We will be working more deeply with intention (Sankalpa) to plant the seed deep within your mind (and neural pathways) for what you’re calling into your life.
5.00 pm ~ Fire ceremony and closing circle. Having ignited our fires within, it is time to light a literal fire, with the chance to offer anything up that you may wish to release or transform. This could be in the form of written words, artwork or offerings from this earth.
Please note that this itinerary is a guide to give you indication of what to expect for the day and could potentially be moved around a bit. Timing can vary depending on how much people share in the beginning circle, for example, but we will ensure the day has come to completion by 5.30pm so that those needing to get the 6pm ferry home can do so. We highly recommend extending your stay here and booking a night or two to really integrate the learnings from the day. Please get in contact if you'd like to stay, prices start from $250 per night, which includes dinner, breakfast and use of the facilities (sauna, cold plunge and hot tub) during your stay.