A 3-night luxury retreat that inspires self-exploration & allows you to bloom into the greatest expression of yourself.
Are you craving time for yourself and the chance to press pause?
Are you tired of all the responsibilities and struggling to find stillness in your life?
Are you ready to rise above all the busyness, distraction, overwhelm, and reactivity?
Are you ready to just relax and reconnect with yourself and other like minded women?
If you’re ready to say yes to yourself, this 3-night winter retreat is the answer your heart has been seeking. It’s time to uplevel your self love and learn how to cultivate more stillness and calm in amongst your busy life so you can live each day with more grace, ease and flow.
18 – 21 August 2022
Sunshine Coast Hinterland
The moment you step through the door of your hinterland retreat, you’ll feel a comforting wave of relaxation wash over you.
You’ll pause and take a deep breath, and you’ll feel ever so grateful that you said yes and allowed yourself to be here. Instantly, your racing mind will start to calm and all you’ll be aware of is the atmosphere of peace and tranquility that welcomes you.
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of being truly nourished and cared for. As women, our daily lives are so often about giving to others, supporting others and making sure other people’s needs are being met.
On retreat, all you need to do is arrive. The rest is taken care for you. In a space that feels safe and homely, you have the opportunity to simply let go.
With no to-do lists and no-one else to focus on, you can snuggle up by the log fire and allow yourself to soften and relax.
The world feels messy right now and it’s exhausting. But it’s through the messiness and exhaustion we are being reminded of how important it is to find stillness and find sustainable ways to look after ourselves.
Perhaps it takes something as tumultuous as our current world to clarify what that word stillness means.
When was the last time you felt the beat of your heart? Listened to the quiet whispers of your soul?
This is your opportunity to press pause on life for a while and take that much-needed time out you deserve. When you stop and become mindful and present, you gain deep insights into who you really are, who you want to be and how you want to show up for yourself.
How would if feel to have a calm mind, free from mental clutter?
Your retreat experience will help you redefine your relationship with busy and help you understand yourself better so you can reduce the stress and overwhelm that pervades your life. With simple tools and reflections, you’ll gain new insights to help change some of those old habits for good.
What if you could learn the true meaning of self-love? Do you yearn to rediscover your passion and purpose outside of the roles you play at work and at home?
Learn tools to make this a reality. Through self-reflection activities and guided meditations, you will be able to see yourself and your life in a beautiful new way. You’ll walk away with ways to fill your own cup, knowing that giving from the overflow is the best place to be.
By the end of our few days together, you’ll return home glowing, radiating, fully rejuvenated, empowered and connected to your inner light, passion and purpose and excited for what’s to come next.
IS IT TIME TO FIND YOUR BLISS?
THE VENUE
Our winter retreat is set in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Nestled amongst 300 acres of bushland are a row of Scandinavian inspired mountain cabins for you to step off the treadmill and retreat away from the pressures and responsibilities of life.
The cabins are perched high on a ridge with breath-taking views across the valley. Epitomising relaxed luxury, you have the choice of either single or twin room options, both offering opulent comfort and tranquillity for that perfect night’s sleep. Each cabin has a living area with an open fire, a balcony to watch the expanse of nature below you and plenty of space to simply rest and relax.
A day on retreat …
Start your day on retreat with morning yoga and meditation, flowing through a heart-opening practice and diving into blissful meditation with the sounds of nature serenading you.
Feast on an abundance of healing plant-based, high-vibrational food. Each meal is made with love and designed to be both deeply nourishing as well as energising and uplifting.
Throughout your retreat, spend time in nature with a mindful walk to Mary river; enjoy the incredible panoramic scenery from your cabin and spend the afternoon to fill as you please – read that long-awaited book by the open fireplace, treat yourself to a massage or enjoy taking in your natural surroundings with a herbal tea or coffee on your deck.
Embrace the opportunity to let go of things no longer serving you with a fire release ceremony. Gain a deeper insight into who you are with our self-love workshops, allow yourself time and space to contemplate your needs, passions and desires and how you can consciously create the life you want to be living.
This is the perfect setting to retreat away and renew your inspiration and joy.
THIS RETREAT IS FOR YOU IF:
You often feel exhausted and depleted from your busy life
You’re emotionally drained from constantly meeting the needs of others
You’re craving time to simply stop and give yourself the space to just relax
You’d love some clear thinking time without being pulled in a myriad of different directions
You feel like you’ve lost a special part of yourself and you daydream about being able to reconnect with the ‘old you.’
You have a hundred tabs open in your head and you struggle to quieten your mind and you’d love to be able to be more mindful and present
You’re ready to say yes to an opportunity of deep rest, fun and transformation
Enjoy 3 blissful nights of nourishment and self care with the most incredible team to look after your every need. From yoga, meditation and nature walks, to incredible meals, soul nourishing conversations and magical sunsets, your retreat experience has everything you need to feel whole again.
Our guests attest to coming away feeling rested and rejuvenated with their cup full to overflowing, feeling excited and inspired to step back into their lives with renewed energy.
They return home a better version of themselves which ripples out to positively impact every single person in their lives.
WILL YOU BE JOINING US?
As women, so much is expected of us; we are constantly under pressure to hold everything together. The last two years have asked even more of us in so many ways.
Now is the perfect time to drop that heavy load you’ve been carrying for so long now.
This is your invitation to let go of all the responsibilities and expectations and to gift yourself a much-deserved time to rest and reflect.
WHAT’S INCLUDED IN YOUR LUXURY RETREAT
3 nights accommodation in a private or twin share room
1 hour soft flow Yoga sessions in the morning to help release stagnant energy and allow for greater radiance and vibrancy
Welcome platter on arrival. Breakfast, lunch and dinners prepared by your own personal plant-based chef
Mindful walk through the rainforest to Mary river
Fire ceremony to help you release anything no longer serving you and open space for new beginnings and opportunities to come through
Guided meditations focused on shifting old patterns and beliefs
Self-love workshops to help you deeply reconnect to yourself and everything you love and admire in you.
Afternoon crystal bowl sound bath to balance and soothe your energy systems
Beautiful connections with other like-minded, supportive women
Quiet free time for self-reflection and journaling
A beautiful journal to record your passions, dreams and desires- a place you can return to and remember who you are.
LEAVE THE RETREAT
FEELING …
Relaxed, refreshed and rejuvenated
Healthier, happier and more fulfilled
Feeling expansive, motivated and inspired for what’s to come next
Clear-minded with greater clarity and focus
With a deep authentic connection to yourself
Knowing your cup is full and overflowing so you can give to others from the overflow rather than always giving from a half empty cup
Feeling confident and happy in your own skin
Greater strength and resilience to support you over the weeks and months to come
MEET YOUR TEAM
Katrina is the Founder of Hart Retreats, a mindfulness teacher, health coach and she is passionate about helping women reconnect with themselves and live life with passion and intention.
Katrina spent the best part of the last 20 years working her way up the corporate ladder and achieving great success in the process. However, that success came at a price – it cost her wellbeing. Katrina was addicted to her busy career-focused life and she was losing a part of herself that she cherished. She knew she needed to find a way to slow down, to find inner fulfilment and to reconnect to the fun and happy version of herself.
At the age of 32, Katrina was diagnosed with breast cancer and so began a lifelong discovery of herself and what it meant to be healthy. Not just in the physical sense, but rather a holistic view of health, incorporating the mental, emotional and spiritual side of health too.
However, Katrina’s diagnosis didn’t stop her pursuit of promotions and perfectionism. Add motherhood to the mix and the juggle became overwhelming. Her fear of failure and not being ‘good enough’ was almost debilitating. It led her to the point where she’d lost her identity and the sparkle for a life she once loved.
At the age of 40, and just before the birth of her second child, Katrina decided to train as a health and wellness coach, primarily as an opportunity to improve her overall wellbeing. That path led her to also become a mindfulness teacher. After sitting with dozens of women who were all experiencing incredible amounts of stress, overwhelm and anxiety, it became very clear that so many women were longing for a way to create a sustainable way of life, particularly after having children.
Katrina knew that she needed to create a healing and nurturing space where women could come and reconnect to what’s important to them. To have space to think about themselves and their own wellbeing so that they could effortlessly thrive in all areas of life and transform into the best version of themselves.
Since 2019 over 250 women have joined Katrina on retreat.
Mollie Cox is a Marine Conservation Campaigner, Yoga Practitioner and 
Yoga Teacher with over 900 hours of Yoga + iRest Yoga Nidra Teacher Training behind her.
She draws from the methods of Ashtanga, Iyengar and Hatha Yoga, as well as teaches iRest Yoga Nidra, Meditation and Pranayama. Mollie teaches a wide demographic of bodies and minds in a trauma informed approach. She believes that there is no one way of doing anything, and reflects this in her teachings through having a million different ways to access all forms of movement.
Mollie teaches in an open, light hearted way, while honouring the source of Yoga, and in a way that is accessible to all levels of practitioner. Her aim is to hold space for each individual and meet them wherever they are at in their own practice. She specialises in Yoga for Mental Health and has extensive experience in the mind-body connection.
Mollie feels very privileged to be able to empower those she comes in contact with to build their own practice and their own tool kit for this wild ride we call life.
Thaly is a qualified chef with more than 8 years’ experience in various different kitchen environments. She became vegetarian in 2016, and coupled with a strong background in the fitness industry, she began studying vegetarian nutrition. This was the beginning of her journey as a vegan chef.
Thaly uses her creativity, skills and knowledge to create beautiful plant-based meals. She has been supporting people to establish a healthy lifestyle with a focus on sustainable and ethical eating since 2017. Thaly promotes her passion for healthy food by providing cooking classes, catering retreats and workshops, and offering private chef services and ready-to-eat meals around the Gold Coast and Brisbane region.
READY TO JOIN US?
WHAT WOMEN HAVE SAID ABOUT THEIR RETREAT EXPERIENCE
TESTIMONIALS
I just wanted to say a big thank you for the amazing experience. Every part of it was perfect and I left feeling so refreshed and reset. I hope you can do some more of these wonderful experiences next year as I have many friends who would love to experience it also.
I got far more from my retreat experience then I ever thought could be possible. I stopped and put my phone down. I learnt valuable skills to help calm my mind and there are so many tips that I will be taking back to my home life, just small changes that I can make on a day to day basis for me, my family and learning how to prioritise things a bit better and just to be an all round calm, more relaxed, mindful person. I’m really excited to go back and start implementing these things day to day.
