Spiritual Retreat
The world if full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper ~ W.B Yeats
Our spiritual retreats are suitable for:
Those looking for something deeper and more transformative than a standard yoga, meditation retreat or weekend getaway
Discovering one’s soul life and exploring how to prioritise inner life in order to tune in to one’s higher purpose
Commencing on the spiritual path or taking a deeper dive through undertaking shadow work and shedding that which is limiting your potential
Exploring a range of spiritual practices to discover those which speak to you and can be integrated into everyday life
Navigating the midlife passage to transition from ego development to a burgeoning soul life
Those who enjoy an experiential approach to wellbeing and wish to experience a holistic approach to healing through a variety of modalities
Spiritual Awakening Retreats
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The Surrounds
Work inside or take time outside in the elements to soak in birdsong and nature
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The Space
A tranquil, restful space with bushland views and access to starry skies
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Local Walks
Chase waterfalls after dark on a local spectacular floodlit night walk in Katoomba
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Local Waterfalls
Our retreat centre is within walking distance of healing Mini Ha Ha waterfall
Spirituality Retreat
Testimonials
The spiritual retreat gave me a lot more than I could of ever imagined. Through the hosts kind, open and genuine energy, they created an environment that was judgement free and safe to explore my deep inner self. Through guidance with narrative therapy, spiritual developkment, breathwork, reiki and tarot, it opened up my inner self with ease and helped me to understand myself and my life journey in a different light. The experience unlocked something with in me and ensured I felt supported. I don't care who you are or what you have experienced in your life, I believe everyone will get something from these spiritual retreats!
- Craig Day
The spiritual awakening retreat was exactly what I needed as someone at the start of their spiritual journey. My facilitators were calming and knowledgeable. I felt completely heard and understood. The round dwelling house is filled with heart warming art, books, cards and yoga/meditation items. I decided to switch off from the outside world and found a wealth of various teachings on my consciousness journey. The fresh wholesome food provided was delicious. I was also given plenty of time to myself to soak everything in my own time. I will definitely be back for many of the other spiritual events or retreats available here. I highly recommend it.
- Sage McDonald
I’ve been to many retreats over the years and this one is like no other! You usually go on retreats and learn about other topics, but on this retreat I focused solely on learning about myself, who I am and why I am the way I am. It was confronting but it was an eye opener. Marcus & Ginny have such a great energy and created a safe space for me to unpack all of my childhood trauma, realise my blockages, self abandonment tendencies, attachment styles and the resources provided gave me practical insights to heal.
I’m excited about my spiritual journey and growth and can’t thank them enough. A month on and I’ve noticed a huge difference in myself, my friends and family have also made positive comments. I’m a lot more aware and most importantly kinder to myself. I highly recommend this retreat if you are looking at making a radical shift in your life!
- Julia Murray
Spiritual Healing Retreat
Growing up in a highly rationalistic western culture has made it hard for many people to accept that we have an energetic body and not just a physical one.
Philosopher, Alain de botton speaks about how stunted our development has become from an overabundance of mental development at the expense of emotional growth:
“Our energies are overwhelmingly directed toward material, scientific, and technical subjects and away from psychological and emotional ones. Much anxiety surrounds the question of how good the next generation will be at math; very little around their abilities at marriage or kindness. We devote inordinate hours to learning about tectonic plates and cloud formations, and relatively few fathoming shame and rage.
We are as clever with our machines and technologies as we are simple-minded in the management of our emotions. We have the technology of an advanced civilization balancing precariously on an emotional base that has not developed much since we dwelt in caves.”
The same could be said about our spiritual development and by association, our disconnection from our energetic body.
Fortunately, there is a growing willingness in many people to explore forms of therapy, or rebalancing.
Eastern cultures have long believed that we have an energetic body.
The Hindu Scriptures are thousands of years ago. They describe chakras, which translate as wheels of energy. Energy flows through these centres in our body. The 7 major chakras feed into the minor chakras in the same way streams feed into a river. In total there are 114 chakras.
Focusing on what we can see and touch, the West has taken an overly rational approach to understanding the human body. When we do study it scientifically we learn that our brain and heart is run by electrical impulses. Our brains have around 100 billion biological wires that conduct electrical impulses.
Scientist Werner Heisenberg once said, “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” Heisenberg went on to become the father of quantum physics, which is the strain of science that regards everything as energy.
The rise of ancient cultures, spiritual traditions and the cutting edge fields of modern science, is moving our culture back to the realisation that we have an energy body. For those who enjoy hard science you might like this article.
Reiki and seichim work to clear energy blockages. They also strengthen and amplify the connection between our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual body. A car with 3 functioning wheels and 1 flat one isn’t going to operate very efficiently. So too does our energetic body need to be regularly aligned.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
- Nikola Tesla
To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.
- David Whyte
Spiritual Retreat Sydney
Program Outline
Day One
Morning Sessions 9:30am - 12:30pm
You will explore what is a spiritual awakening, what comprises the psyche and the different spiritual journeys that occur during particular phases of our lives.
Mid Morning Session
You'll look at what it means to go through spiritual crisis, ego dissolution, shadow work and the dark night of the soul.
Lunch 12:30pm
Afternoon Sessions 1:00pm - 4:00pm
To understand the physical world we draw on the natural sciences of physics and chemistry. Exploring the unseen realm draws on the metaphysical sciences of astrology and numerology.
This session will explore your soul blueprint through either an astrology reading or a numerology reading.
Mid Afternoon Session
Breathwork is a valuable tool that helps to bypass the rational mind and work through blockages and outworn beliefs or trauma stored in the body. For those who have not explored this modality before I guide you through the process in a gentle and supportive manner.
Waterfall Walk (Optional) 4:00 - 6:00pm
Should the weather and your energy levels be accomodating, you can use this time to take in a nearby bushwalk to our local waterfall.
Alternatively, you might indulge in some art activities or enjoy one of the more physical activities we host (mountain biking / stand up paddleboarding).
Dinner 6:30 - 7:30pm
Enjoy a home cooked, organic meal or travel out to try one of Katoomba’s local dining facilities.
Evening (Optional) 7:30pm onwards
There are a range of optional evening activities for you to enjoy, such as listening to or reading poetry, life stories, or enjoying a thought-provoking film or inspiring documentary. Other options include self-guided meditation and yoga.
Day Two
Breakfast 8:30am
Enjoy a homemade breakfast, tea or coffee on the verandah whilst the kookaburras and other local birds sing.
Morning Sessions 9:30am - 12:30pm
We'll look at letting go, surrendering outworn beliefs and look at how other people have gone through the metamorphosis process to unveil their true self.
Mid Morning Session
This session will outline what it means to live an integrated life. You will look at the practical steps you need to take to ensure your values, passions, relationships and life circumstances match up with your highest self and the soul's blueprint you've chosen to work with.
Lunch 12:30pm
Afternoon Sessions 1:30pm - 4:00pm
You’ll have another Soul Blueprint reading. Incorporating both modalities gives you a comprehensive insight into your soul's journey.
Mid Afternoon Session
Our last session will involve a reiki or energetic healing session to help release any lingering blockages and ground the new energies which have come in during your intensive experience.
Cost: $590 for 2 day spiritual retreats. $50 off for a weekday program. $850 for a 3 day program
Inclusions: Our retreats include accommodation, meals, workbooks, counselling and activities.
Optional session of bibliotherapy. Learn more about our bibliotherapy service.
Location: Katoomba, Blue Mountains NSW.
Your Facilitators
Click on the + sign below to learn more about the backgrounds of the counsellors you’ll be working with
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Ginny’s training in guiding and supporting others began with her hairdressing career where she informally coached, listened and offered support to the thousands of clients she came to know both in Australia and abroad.
After navigating a crisis period where she had to take control of her life and steer it in a healthier direction she found her calling to work with people who were also ready to reclaim their life.
In addition to following Buddhist practices and doing extensive studies in self-development, she complemented her self-education with formal studies in Youth Work, Community Services and a Bachelor of Social Work.
Finding Breathwork to be a transformative form of healing she has done much training in it and continues to deepen her practice. Ginny is also trained in Theta healing.
Taking an intuitive approach, Ginny found a gift for interpreting the messages offered by tarot cards, working as a spiritual healer and being a clear vessel for the collective unconscious to work through.
Counselling is something that Ginny both enjoys and has a natural affinity for.After you undertake our therapy retreats, Ginny is available to offer ongoing counselling if you’d like to build upon the work completed during the retreat.
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Marcus studied social work and education at university, grounding that knowledge by working in a diverse range of roles as an adult educator and caseworker.
Through his time at Rudolf Steiner College, he realised the importance of holistic education and the need to focus on the whole person in contrast to the compartmentalised approach of institutions.
Deepening his knowledge by studying humanistic psychologists such as Abraham Maslow and Carl Jung and spending time in the Jungian community, he gained further insights into the value of depth psychology.
After running a variety of workshops in Australia and overseas he launched his initiative known as Writes of Passage Retreats, in the belief that contemplation, nature, carefully curated ideas and guidance is the ideal means for people to look at life with greater possibility and unearth their own dormant potentiality.
Through his retreat programs and individual counselling work, he has worked with a large number of individuals to help them find greater purpose, healing and enthusiasm for their future.
The privilege of a lifetime is to
become who you really are
We have 2 programs relating to spiritual development.
One is designed for people who have a well developed spiritual life and are wanting to deepen it further.
The other program is designed to be an ideal introduction to spiritual development for those people who have recently undergone a soul encounter, also known as a spiritual awakening.
As the Earth is undergoing phenomenal rates of shock, there has been a quickening whereby many people are growing beyond the egoic life in order to help bring healing and much needed change.
With a dearth of elders, many people are experiencing illumination but find themselves unsure of how to navigate it.
Achieving a strong ego identity is foundational for our development. In order to grow whole, however, we are asked to then hand the baton over to our soul. With our culture having grown overly rationalistic and materialistic, opening to consciousness can be a disconcerting experience.
“For a long time Jonathan forgot about the world that he had come from, that place where the Flock lived with its eyes tightly shut to the joy of flight, using its wings as means to the end of finding and fighting for food. But now and then, just for a moment, he remembered.”
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Spiritual retreats typically focus on one particular area such as yoga retreats, silent meditation or studying a particular belief or philosophy.
Our programs are tailored to where you are at and what blend of modalities would suit you best.
The spiritual awakening retreat has been designed to help people going through a consciousness shift to understand the stages of awakening and the momentous change that occurs when we grow beyond the ego needs to embrace the pull of our soul.
For those in greater need of healing work, a spiritual retreat can help explore family and generational wounds, relationship and shadow work, excavating beliefs and then facilitating a shift through energetic healing, theta healing and breathwork.
. . . There’s only one question:
how to love this world. . . .
~ Mary Oliver
A major focus of soul awakening is tuning into our higher purpose or soul's blueprint. For those intent on finding greater clarity around this, your retreat program will incorporate the metaphysical sciences of numerology and astrology to elucidate this.
Spiritual Healing
Our spiritual retreats assist you with healing the disconnect between the life you're living and the destiny you came to fulfil. Intuitive counselling, tarot and theta healing can help you tune into your unconscious. Reiki and body work sessions allow you to release grief, trauma and other blockages in your body.
As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You're not thinking about loving: you're just being love, radiating like the sun.
- Ram Dass
Blue Mountains Retreats
“Great things are done when people and mountains meet;
this is not done by jostling in the street.”
- William Blake
Take in a local stargazing tour at night
Rejuvenate in the Blue Mountains natural wonders
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Astrology Retreat
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Breath Work Retreat
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Career Retreat
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Couples Therapy Retreat
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Family Constellations
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Family Healing Retreat
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Healing Retreat
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Health Retreat
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Life Purpose Retreat
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Love Retreat
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Mental Health Retreat
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Midlife Crisis Retreat
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Mystical Retreat
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Rewilding Retreat
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Self Discovery Retreat
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Self Love Retreat
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Silent Retreat
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Spiritual Awakening Retreat
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Tarot Retreat
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Wealth Retreat
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Wellbeing Retreat
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Writing Retreat
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Yoga Retreat
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