THE ECO
RETREAT
Holistic Retreats Victoria
Our Holistic Retreats in Victoria offer a naturally beautiful space, surrounded by the ancient wild Otway ranges and the surf coast of Airey's Inlet, for retreating into slow living, nature-based learning, contemplative arts and ecology. Our restorative retreats are offered by qualified practitioners and bring together thought leaders, designers, artists, change-makers, activists, practitioners, healers and people seeking deep nature connection and regeneration.
We include diverse approaches like nature eco-therapy, holistic wellness, well-being science, Insight and mindfulness meditation, creative arts, movement, walking, regenerative leadership and land care, ecology and community making. We offer simple camping and cottage accomodation options with a very light footprint on the land. We are actively growing an organic kitchen garden, orchard and food forrest to help nourish our retreat community.
We have two retreats we aim to offer in 2027. Subscribe to Inner Circle and we'll keep you updated when registration opens.
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Camp Regen: A Land Restoration & Community Retreat
Camp Regen is your invitation for deep nature connection at Boonah farm. This weekend retreat Friday-Sunday will include a planting drive, shared meals, expert permaculture talks and some evening circle work with TER team facilitating The Work that Reconnects, mindfulness and creativity.
Camp Regen will be offered via registration and involves landcare work in exchange for camping meals and facilitated community circles. Join our dedicated Inner Circle Whats app community to stay connected when we release the dates for the first Camp Regen, we'd love your help and hope to share with magical place with a multi-generational and inclusive community.
Deepening the Roots
Weekend Retreat in the Otways, Victoria
This optional 3-day retreat allows you to step fully into silent land contemplation, community circles, dawn sit spots, and hands-on-the-soil learning, spiritual enquiry and leadership lab.
The Weekend Retreat Deepening the Roots will give participants of the 8-week Insight Eco Leaders course a chance to connect in person in nurturing foothills of the Otways.
Silent walking meditations, Council of All Beings deep eco-psychology practice, star meditation, tuning in to the sacred aliveness of the Otway ranges and celebratory community circle.
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Note: Priority registration into the retreat will be given to graduates of 8-week immersion immersion.
Why Retreat?
The concept of the retreat holds a profound place in human history, serving across millennia as a vital pause from the noise, demands, and collective crises of active society. Historically rooted in the world’s major spiritual and philosophical traditions, the act of consciously stepping away from the ordinary world—whether into the forests of ancient India, the deserts of early Christendom, or the mountains of Daoist hermits—was never merely an escape, but a deliberate seeking of essential truth.
In Western Europe, in early pagan traditions, the deep forest was not a backdrop to a temple, but the temple itself. By retreating into sacred groves, pre-Christian Celtic cultures stepped across a threshold into an animate, interconnected cosmos, seeking deep communion with the natural world and the rhythms of the earth.Throughout history, these diverse sanctuaries provided a protected space for circled gatherings, contemplation, creative renewal, and the cultivation of wisdom.
During periods of profound cultural or ecological upheaval much like this era we now live, groves, retreats and sanctuaries often functioned as vital repositories of deep knowledge, keeping art, literacy, and insight alive when the outer world was fracturing. The Eco Retreat is continuing in this ancient practice with a modern, intersectional, nature based approach. The Otway ranges are our grove and with 70 acres of untouched wilderness on Gadubanud country those who visit are invited to experience a deep, soulful coming home to our true nature.