Returning Home to Yourself
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A retreat that feels like a pilgrimage home to yourself. A Day Retreat for Reflection, Healing & Inner Renewal
“Healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about gently remembering who you have always been beneath life’s experiences.”
This immersive retreat invites you on a gentle inner journey- a day of slowing down, reconnecting with yourself and cultivating greater compassion, clarity and peace.
Through mindfulness, somatic awareness, nature, reflective inquiry and therapeutic wisdom based practices, you will be guided to reconnect with the wisdom that already exists within you.
Rather than striving to become someone different, this day is an invitation to return home—to your body, your heart, your inner knowing and your authentic self.
Your Journey
Arriving- Coming into Presence
Leave the busyness of everyday life behind as we settle into stillness.
Together we create a safe and nurturing space through mindfulness, breath awareness, gentle movement and intention setting.
You will explore:
• Grounding practices
• Nervous system regulation
• Returning to the present moment
• Opening with compassion and curiosity
Listening
The Wisdom of the Body
Our bodies often speak long before our minds understand.
Through mindful somatic awareness, discover how sensations, emotions and physical symptoms can become valuable guides rather than problems to fix.
You will explore:
• Mindfulness
• Somatic awareness
• Understanding stress responses
• Using the body as a doorway to deeper self-awareness
• Developing greater ease and inner freedom
Meeting Yourself
Welcoming Every Part Within
We all carry different parts of ourselves.
Some protect us.
Some criticise us.
Some still carry old wounds.
Some hold incredible wisdom.
With compassion, we’ll gently welcome these inner experiences rather than pushing them away.
Together we explore:
• The Inner Child
• The Wise Adult
• The Inner Critic
• Self-compassion
• Emotional resilience
• Inner harmony
Remembering
Honouring Your Story
Each of us belongs to a much bigger story.
Together we reflect on how family, ancestry and intergenerational experiences may continue to influence our beliefs, relationships and ways of living.
Through gentle reflection we create space for greater understanding, gratitude and freedom.
You will explore:
• Honouring your ancestors
• Intergenerational patterns
• Forgiveness
• Gratitude
• Compassion for yourself and others
• Finding peace with your past
Reflecting
Nature as Teacher
Nature has an extraordinary way of showing us ourselves.
Through reflective practices outdoors we learn from the rhythms and wisdom of the natural world.
Together we explore:
• The elements as mirrors
• Life transitions
• Seasons of change
• Letting go
• Renewal
• Trusting life’s unfolding
Returning Home
Embodying the Journey
The day concludes by bringing everything together.
Discover practical ways of integrating mindfulness, therapeutic insight and spiritual practices into your everyday life so that the retreat becomes a beginning rather than an ending.
You’ll leave with simple rituals and practices to support continued wellbeing, self-compassion and authentic living.
Throughout the day, your experience includes:
• Guided meditation
• Mindfulness practices
• Gentle movement
• Somatic awareness
• Nature immersion
• Reflective journalling
• Compassion-focused therapeutic exercises
• Healing sound
• Quiet reflection
• Community connection
• Light vegetarian lunch
Your body, mind and soul will be nourished through healing sound, gentle movement, nature and wholesome food.
Meet Your Facilitator
Nilanthi Dayananda is a Registered Counsellor and Holistic Therapist with more than 25 years of experience supporting individuals through trauma-informed and grief-informed therapeutic approaches. Her work thoughtfully weaves together evidence-based practices with ancient wisdom traditions, creating compassionate spaces for healing, transformation and wholehearted living.
Details
Saturday 26 September
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Art Sanctuary, 1 Cockram Road, Kelmscott WA
Investment
Early Bird: $130 (book by 31 August)
Standard Investment: $150
Includes a light vegetarian lunch.