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TIDE & SEEK: Reflect, reconnect and ground yourself in readiness for the next chapter of your life in the beautiful surroundings of Menang Country at New Farm Denmark, Western Australia.
Next Retreat
Tide and Seek: Cycle Remedy
23rd – 27th October 2024
We live in a world that prioritises the linear, where disconnection from our cyclical nature is systematic. Is it time you were supported to harness your beautiful changing self?
Join us on a holistic journey to celebrate your cycle on this deeply restorative retreat. Connect deeply with your whole self as you explore the emotional landscape of your body’s rhythms.
Immerse yourself in a supportive experience of practical wisdom guided by expert facilitators, Lucy Peach, Bo Wong and Phoebe Jones.
This women’s retreat is for you, if you want to:
- Feel grounded, restored, refreshed and inspired for the next season of your life
- Learn and practise impactful resources and skills to support yourself and others
- Experience a deeper connection with yourself through embodiment and presence
- Explore your cycle(s) in a supportive space
- Build confidence and language to communicate your cyclical needs
We acknowledge there are many unique variations to the cycle – all experiences and stages are warmly welcomed, no matter the stage of your cycling life or depth of cycle awareness. No prior knowledge or skills are required – we encourage a beginner’s mindset for all.
What’s included?
- A spacious, unhurried and impactful program of workshops and sessions.
- 4 nights accommodation (see options below), exclusive use of facilities and grounds at NewFarm Denmark.
- Guidance from an experienced and knowledgeable facilitation team
- 5 days of lovingly curated, hormone nourishing meals and snacks.
- Daily movement, yoga, meditation and mindfulness to support the exploration of retreat themes.
- A supportive environment to make space for personal enquiry.
- Mindful forest bathing and a guided walk in ancient old-growth forests.
- Optional visits to nearby Greens Pool.
- Time to reflect, restore, replenish and re-energise.
- Ongoing Retreat Alumni Monthly Zoom sessions
Retreat Practices
Working with Cycles
Using our toolkit and practical strategies, learn how you can implement cycle awareness into your work, home, relationships and creative endeavours. Create unique routines and rituals that you can use daily to work with your natural ebbs and flows.
Yoga & Breathwork
Enjoy balancing and restorative yoga, mindfulness and breathwork sessions throughout the program tailored to each menstrual phase, with inclusive and fun sessions suitable for all levels of fitness and ability. All of these sessions aim to reduce anxiety and stress and have educational components that you can take home with you.
Practising Your Power
By tapping into the wisdom of natural cycles and seasons, we explore ways to support every phase of a project or idea in both your professional and personal spheres. Continue or begin to create a life that supports you in every phase.
Forest Bathing
Take a guided, soulful journey through the ancient Valley of the Giants. Enjoy the unique landscape and take time to listen to and connect with our natural world.
Creativity & Play
We practise playful sessions of crafting and movement to build our capacity for imagination, creativity and fun.
Purpose & Values
Together, we’ll explore your deeper purpose and clarify your values so that you can thread your values through all aspects of your life.
Wellbeing & Self-Care
Wellbeing and mindfulness sessions will be integrated throughout the program and anchored in self compassion and care. Be inspired and leave with a toolkit of strategies to implement into your daily life.
Movement & Meditation
Daily movement and meditation for all levels will be integrated into the carefully designed flow of the retreat, to assist in the unwinding experience and to send you home with practices to suit every aspect of our cycles and seasons.
Support & Resources
Learn to map your existing support structures so you can realistically plan your next week, month, year or decade to create a life that supports you. Enjoy extra resources from the facilitators to further your exploration.
Meet the facilitators
On our retreats, facilitators bring their whole selves to both the development and delivery of our program and experiences. Lucy and Bo stay onsite with participants and bring an immersive, warm and inclusive dynamic to all of the sessions.
Bo Wong
Leadership + Communications Facilitator
Bo Wong is a photographer and educator working across the visual arts and culture sectors. She’s passionate about elevating the creative sector through strong imagery and communications. She co-hosts Soul Traders Podcast, the podcast about creative work, where she shares tips and tricks on running a creative business. Bo leads the organisation and program development of her retreats and brings a spirit of collaboration and fun to all of her leadership roles. She also draws on an endless (Greens) pool of ocean-swimming related metaphors for all of her work 🙂
Photo: Roger D’Souza
Lucy Peach
Women’s Wellbeing Leader + Period Preacher
Lucy Peach is an award-winning period preacher who draws on her experience as a human biology teacher, sexual health educator and performing artist to create transformational experiences with the menstrual cycle. As a published author, speaker and educator, Lucy has delivered her message to hundreds of thousands of people through her book Period Queen, as a TedX speaker, via her two online courses and her show, My Greatest Period Ever. Understanding the cyclic nature of the planet and our bodies (menstruating or not) is a way of approaching anything from long term strategic business outcomes to daily scheduling. Lucy works with schools, corporates and athletes, championing the importance of rest and reflection and their connection to the more outward facing aspects of our lives. Lucy is here to help you celebrate life, in all of its ebbs and flows, with a warm and compassionate embrace.
Photo: Liz Looker
Phoebe Jones
Yoga Educator
Phoebe is a yoga educator with 14 years of experience offering classes steeped in philosophy in WA, Sydney and to an international cohort online. Phoebe also teaches meditation coursework, mentoring and accredited coursework for other teachers and has brought yoga into the offices of large corporate companies.
Phoebe has studied with many luminaries over time, following pathways of classical Hatha yoga, creative and intuitive vinyasa, Sri Vidya Tantra, the work of Vanda Scaravelli, all intertwined with the science of Ayurveda. This depth in study has allowed for an ability to hold space for the more subtle elements of the practice, to become quieter so the student is able to listen and to tap into the deeper layers within themselves.
Location
Menang Boodja. The wildly beautiful southern coastline of Western Australia
Located on Menang Boodja, New Farm Denmark is a 62-acre property nestled between Denmark and Walpole in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia. We’ll have the entire property to ourselves for the duration of the retreat. Nearby, are two of the most stunning places on Earth: Greens Pool in William Bay National Park and the Valley of the Giants in the Walpole Wilderness Area. You’ll need to be able to travel to and from NewFarm Denmark independently for this retreat and we’ve made an epic playlist of podcasts and music for your road trip down. If you have any questions about this region or travel queries, let us know.
Testimonials
Investment
Pricing is based on which accommodation option you choose to stay in for the retreat. Please note there are no day passes available. The costs listed below cover all workshops, sessions, accommodation and meals for the entire retreat. There are no further costs.
Your ticket price may be tax deductible (see “More Questions” below).
01. Cabin
Enjoy a queen bed in your own spacious New Farm cabin. Cabins have a fridge and kettle so you can make your own cuppa – plus a balcony to watch the sunset (or sunrise?!) from.
3 cabins available
02. Bell Tent – Queen
The signature NewFarm experience, enjoy a comfy queen bed in a glamping bell tent complete with a proper mattress, electric blankets and gorgeous outlooks across the property.
6 bell tents available
03. Bell Tent – Single
Enjoy a comfy single bed in a glamping bell tent with one other person, complete with a proper mattress, electric blankets and gorgeous views. If you’d like to bring a friend, this is a great option. A $250 discount applies to friends/colleagues/twinsies booking together.
4 tents available (8 beds)
$2450 + GST
04. Camping
If you have your own tent, swag, caravan or campervan, then the self-camp option is for you. Set up in the campground and enjoy your own bed at night, complete with stars and the safety of a women-only campground.
3 campsites available
Places are strictly limited
Small group, big impact.
We’re capping numbers so that you’ll be getting guaranteed IRL facetime with our facilitators. We’re ready to give you strategic support and cheer you on in your next endeavour.
Food, glorious food.
“This is literally the best food I have ever eaten in my life”
(Overheard at the 2022 Soul Traders Retreat at Newfarm)
One of the most rewarding parts of our retreats is the opportunity to showcase fresh, seasonal and local produce from this abundant region.
With honey from NewFarm’s own beehives and produce from our local partnering suppliers – you can rest assured that you’ll be well fed and contributing to the fabric of the local community around Denmark.
I mean, you’re basically helping people by eating and drinking. Cheers!
More questions?
Accessibility, Health and Safety
Accessibility: Some aspects of the program may be difficult for participants with reduced mobility. While the accommodation and program venue at NewFarm can be wheelchair accessible, the program includes excursions to natural locations that are not. While no element of the program and activities is compulsory, it is important that you understand this. There is no discount or refund for activities you do not participate in.
Health and Safety: We work to create an inspiring and culturally safe space for personal development in a collegiate group environment. The program activities are not designed as personal counselling or therapy sessions and if you are looking for that type of program, this may not be the right program for you.
If you require medications or pharmaceuticals (including inhalers and EpiPens) it is your responsibility to bring, maintain and administer these while you are at the Retreat in accordance with your doctor’s advice.
We may travel to Greens Pool which is unpatrolled beach which can have strong surf and rips. If you are not a confident swimmer, it is a great place for a walk.
You accept all risks associated with swimming, physical exertion, bush walking, and exposure to the sun or adverse weather.
Food + Drink
With a focus on fresh, regional produce and collaborations with local producers, the food is quite simply, going to be AMAZING.
Sunny Peach Kitchen will be bringing their thoughtfully created, nourishing and delicious menu, designed to support your hormonal health and inspire your tastebuds!
We request that you notify us of any food allergies; however, we cannot guarantee to cater for all combinations of allergies and intolerances. Caterers will be in touch if we see anything in your Expression of Interest that might not align with the menu.
‘All meals included’ means : Breakfast, Morning tea, Lunch, Afternoon tea and Dinner. Coffee, tea and fruit will be available all day, self serve.
Alcohol is not provided, though if you’d like to BYO, please feel free to bring something to drink with dinner. There are excellent wineries nearby if you’d like to pick up a local drop on your way.
Payments + Cancellations
Payments
Following receipt of your Expression of Interest, we will notify you if a place is available and, if so, send you an invoice. You can accept the offer of a place by paying the deposit of 50% by direct deposit into our bank account. Your place is not confirmed until payment has been received by us.
If you need a more flexible payment plan, please get in contact with Bo.
Cancellation Policy
All cancellations must be in writing.
- If you cancel by close of business 12 weeks before the retreat start date, we will refund your deposit less a 20% administration fee.
- If you cancel by close of business 8 weeks before the retreat date, your 50% deposit will be forfeited and the balance refunded to you.
- If you cancel by close of business 6 weeks before the retreat start date, there is no refund.
- We hope this doesn’t happen but it’s possible that we may need to cancel the Retreat. We reserve the right to do so if we think it necessary. If so, we will refund your entire payment.
COVID-19 + Hygiene Policy
We follow WA Department of Health guidelines for our retreats.
There are a number of shared facilities at New Farm including the bathrooms – however all spaces are well ventilated and have sanitiser and hand-washing stations.
If you contract COVID-19 and can’t attend we’d like to know as soon as possible so that we can start contacting our waitlist. We’ll need proof of a medically supervised RAT or PCR for a refund, minus administration fees. You’ll have priority placement in the next retreat.
Travel Arrangements
You are responsible for your own travel arrangements to and from New Farm to attend the Retreat. While most of the program takes place at New Farm, optional excursions to nearby places of interest may be arranged. You can use your own vehicle or carpool with another participant; however, this is at your own risk. We are not responsible for any damage or injury you may sustain while driving yourself or as passenger in a vehicle.
WiFi + Connectivity
There is no mobile coverage for any providers except Telstra so if you need/want coverage and are not with Telstra, New Farm Denmark suggest buying a Telstra SIM prior to your arrival. There is no wifi. Many will take the opportunity to be free of their phone while on the retreat, but it’s not compulsory at all. There will be an emergency mobile phone on site at all times.
Is this tax deductible?
Cycle awareness improves wellbeing, increases your capacity for self care and communication skills in the workplace as well as supporting bringing the whole self to relationships, work and creative projects. Explain to your accountant how our program will improve your capacity for workplace productivity, reduce your stress and make you a better colleague, collaborator and leader.
You can read more from the ATO.
community.ato.gov.au/s/question/a0JRF000000ABIM2A4/p00256311
