Marion Miller

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Blogger, Artist and Mindfulness Teacher

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Join date: Sep 27, 2025

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Marion Miller is a holistic counsellor, coach, artist, and the founder of The Eco Retreat.

After 25 years of practicing as a counsellor and mindfulness teacher in clinical and corporate settings, she's shifted focus to a 70-acre farm in Boonah, Victoria, to ground her work and art in the land. Soul Notes is Marion's digital journal of this transition. It’s a space where she shares the 'behind-the-scenes' of establishing the retreat and organic garden, the evolution of the art barn, and reflections on living a life of deep nature connection and reciprocity.

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Jun 13, 2026 ∙ 9 min

The Ancient Mother in the Otways: An Imaginative Ecotherapy Way of Seeing Place

Life at the Boonah farm slows down, and after spending a large portion of my life in inner-city Melbourne, the change is dramatic. Perhaps it is the down-regulation of the nervous system you notice first, but it is also the environment, which is mostly wild, that has its own pace and presence, and somehow we become attuned. In the city, my ecotherapy practice was about actively rewilding a small space, clearing away the manicured grass to invite the wild back in. But here at the farm, the...

Apr 7, 2026 ∙ 3 min

A New Chapter at The Eco Retreat

Hello friends, old and new. For those who don’t know us, I’m Marion. My husband Richard, our dog Lewis (pictured below), and I are the founders of The Eco Retreat. I am currently managing the Boonah farm and the "TER" project, and I look forward to keeping you updated on our happenings! We have officially launched our new website, where I’ll be sharing this farm blog on a regular basis. Many of you may not know that I recently resigned from my counselling and coaching role and have reduced my...