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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Aug 17, 2026 ∙ 4 min

What Our Oaken Bones Reminds Us About Restorative Care & Well-being

Every now and then, a book crosses your path that feels less like a reading experience and more like a mirror to your own journey. Recently, while browsing a nature display in Sydney at Kinokuniya bookshop, I picked up Our Oaken Bones by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison. It tells the extraordinary story of his journey back to his family farm in Cornwall, where he set about recovering from PTSD and the crushing velocity of modern burnout culture by committing himself to rewilding. Reading his account...

Aug 15, 2026 ∙ 4 min

Feral Beauty and Learning to See the Whole Landscape

This morning, seven deer grazing peacefully across our middle paddocks. Among them were a few young fawns, their spotted coats still visible as they bounded and gamboled through the lush winter grass while their parents kept a watchful eye. They stayed for hours, bathed in the soft morning light. It was impossible not to feel a quiet sense of wonder. Deer carry a timeless, almost mystical aura, steeped in folklore and myth across the European cultures as symbols of grace, gentle strength, and...

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...