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The Eco
Retreat
Earth Circle
Daylong Retreat
The Earth Circle Daylong Retreat will be returning late 2026 at The Eco Retreat in Boonah, Victoria. Join us for a full day retreat on Gadubanud Country, diving deep into sacred nature connection and community. Exploring Eco-Dharma, The Work That Reconnects and creative practices for inspiration and hope.
Located at Boonah Farm, Victoria, Earth Circle Daylong Retreat offers you the natural space, surrounded by the ancient Otway ranges for learning and growing together with the more than human world, including eagles, kookaburra, kangaroo and elder gumtrees. Our carefully curated daylong retreat will support you in processing grief, deepening relationship with the earth in an embodied, compassionate and expansive way.
Be guided through transforming practices like mindfulness meditation, creative expression, counsel and group work. Awaken your innate nature within and engage in the practices of coming home to embodied interconnected field of presence in the wider web of life. Receive holistic mind body and heart opening Dharma teachings to navigate our grief and love, engage in conversations and inquiry on The Work that Reconnects for these troubled times.
Day Retreat Details:
The Earth Circle was founded in 2023 by Arian Young and Marion Miller to support people to navigate life's grief and love while connecting more deeply to nature, creativity and community. The next event will be held late 2026.
Time: 10am-4pm
Location: The Eco Retreat, Bambra-Boonah Road, Boonah, Victoria.
Catering: Local Vegetarian Lunch, morning and afternoon tea provided (Inform if you have dietry requirements).
Fee:
Basic Rate- $80.00
Sustaining Rate- $95.00
Supporting Rate-$110.00
(Sliding scale allows us to support the upkeep of The Eco Retreat and provide lunch.)
Kind Words from Past Participants
The eco retreat was a very grounding experience in a safe and sacred space with beautiful surroundings to immerse whole heartedly in nature. With a warming fire as the centre of our circle we connected with our emotions and each other and walked away lighter to continue on each of our own paths in life. The retreat also brought an awareness of nature in our daily lives to be a constant reminder of our connection with the earth and the healing properties it freely gives us.
Meet the Facilitators
Arian Young is a grief counsellor, qualified in Soul Centred Counselling and Traditional Chinese Medicine, with over thirty-five years of experience exploring intention, discovery and consequence, while remaining curious about what I am here to do.
An actively engaged Buddhist and, former Buddhist nun from the Gelug School of Tibet's Vajrayana tradition, I will help you explore unprocessed grief that crafts outcomes of clarity, acceptance and transformative insight, using tools from spiritual counselling, mindfulness, meditation and ancestral history to enable vital, conscious gratitude to help you live and love more deeply.
Marion Miller is a licensed eco-therapist and holistic counsellor, coach, mindfulness teacher (MBSR). She is a graduate of the Port Phillip Eco Leadership Program. She has been providing holistic coaching, counselling and mindfulness support for community and workplaces for more than twenty years. She supports people to connect more deeply to nature and share their authentic gifts creatively.
Marion teaches social mindfulness for practitioners, leaders and educators and facilitates circles. She manages the farm, nature retreat and art studio in Boonah. Marion is participating in Dharma teacher training with the Insight Meditation Institute of Australia.
