Byron Embrace Retreat
TBC
Gymea Eco Retreat Centre & Spa – Uki, NSW
We are delighted to welcome you to beautiful Byron Hinterland for a 5 night retreat of rest, relaxation and rejuvenation. Give yourself the precious gift of time, space, stillness and self-care as we practice the ancient wisdom of yoga, meditation, sound immersion and energy healing in a beautiful serene picturesque setting.
Each day you will embrace the healing power of yoga and meditation practice, embrace nature and all the elements, embrace wisdom teachings and enriching experiences. Enjoy the lush rainforest surroundings, whilst de-stressing with a relaxing massage or facial, or spend time in the magnesium pool, hydrotherapy spa, and sauna. Be nourished with beautiful organic plant-based nutritional meals, from produce sourced locally.
You will connect body, mind and spirit to your true essence and greatest power – Self – bringing you deeper peace, love, wisdom and knowing. A time to acknowledge and reflect on the year that’s been and consciously prepare for the coming year by hearing your inner voice, to create your intentions and energise your vision and dreams.
Retreat Details:
5 night all-inclusive retreat (per person)
Twin Share – AUD
King Single – AUD
All rooms are equipped with luxury 5 star eco inner sprung latex topped single or king beds. All bedding, manchester and room furnishings have been carefully selected to meet biodynamic or organic certification standards. Each room includes its own shower and toilet, and ceiling fan.
COVID-19 safety: Due to the Covid-19, new hygiene procedures are in place along with modifications to ensure guests remain healthy and relaxed. Twin Share rooms are reserved for family and friends only. Please email me if you have any questions.
Retreat contribution includes:
- 5 nights retreat accommodation
- Local organic, delicious plant-based meals
- Morning yoga (suitable for beginners to advanced)
- Afternoon restorative yoga (suitable for everyone)
- Nature trail walks
- 1 hour relaxation massage or facial
- 2 hr Spa circuit including sauna, steam room, plunge pool and hydrotherapy spa
- Healing meditation, chakra energy class
- Intuitive practice and visioning
- Sound healing workshop and sound bath
- Nature quest exploration
- Plant-based cooking class
- Beach adventure with sand yoga
- Unlimited access to magnesium mineral pool
Sample daily schedule (subject to change):
- 6:30am Meditation and Yoga Practice
- 8:30am Delicious organic vegan breakfast
- 9:30am Nature trail walk, swim, rest
- 11:00am *Wisdom session / experience
- 1pm: Abundant organic vegan lunch
- 2pm: Spa circuit, spa treatments, swim, rest
- 5 pm: Afternoon Restorative Yoga
- 7 pm: Evening organic vegan meal
- 8:30pm: Moonlight music, meditation, rest
*includes sound immersion, energy healing, visioning, nature quest, cooking class
Healing Spa Menu: available for treatments throughout the retreat (at additional cost)
Deep Relaxation Massage 60min $110 Enjoy a full body healing experience with a beautiful relaxing massage, alleviating all the stress and leaving you feeling rejuvenated and peaceful
Remedial Massage 60mins $110 A full body deep tissue massage offering a stronger more intense experience for healing tense muscles and pain points in the body
Aroma or Magnesium Massage 60min $115 Aroma: your choice of relaxing or uplifting oils to add to your relaxation massage. Magnesium: addition of Magnesium oil to enhance your remedial massage
Pink Salt Glow Scrub, Body Wrap & Hair & Scalp Treatment Massage 60mins $145 A beautiful salt scrub followed by a soothing body wrap (your choice of coconut or clay) and topped off with a head massage with nourishing hair oil
Organic Radiance Facial 60min $110 Discover the embrace of First Love Organic Facial whilst your skin gets a beautiful organic treatment. Products by Synthesis made in the foothills of Mt Wollumbin.
Arrival Day: Check in is from 3pm onwards. Retreat commences at 5pm on Tuesday 16th February with a welcome circle, meditation and movement, followed by a nourishing organic plant-based welcome dinner.
Departure Day: Morning meditation and yoga practice followed by a delicious buffet breakfast. Retreat finishes at 10am on Sunday 21st February. Check out is 11am.
About your facilitators:
Natasha Sohamrita Curry will lovingly guide you throughout the retreat. She is a yoga and wisdom teacher, meditation facilitator, coach, mentor and energy practitioner. After delving deep in spiritual study and spending the last 10 years practicing, teaching and sharing her wisdom with others, you will feel supported, inspired, and empowered to make ever-lasting changes to live a happier, healthier, more abundant life.
Positive psychology and executive coach, and energy practitioner Karren Boyd will join the yoga classes to offer gentle and loving one on one support, and also lead you through a nature adventure quest to connect you to the beautiful natural surroundings for healing and inspiration.
Renowned award winning musician and kirtan artist Edo Kahn will lead you through a sound bath and mantra healing workshop to connect you to the healing vibrational frequencies of sound and how we can use this in our daily lives for optimal health and wellbeing.
About the meals and our chef: Enjoy fresh locally sourced plant-based organic produce created with love by one of Byron Bays leading chefs Cade Mcconnell. Cade’s approach to plant-based cooking is an extension of his spiritual practice, where food is an opportunity for connection and presence – with ourselves, each other and the earth. All meals are highly nutritional, nourishing and energising. Our wholefood vegan menu is free of meat, dairy, sugar, oily and processed foods. Be inspired with a special masterclass where Cade will share traditional techniques gathered along his travels and life journey. Following the concept of ‘consciousness > convenience’, you’ll learn to create wholesome & nourishing foods, and leave the retreat feeling healthy, vibrant and radiant.
About the venue: Gymea Eco Retreat Centre & Healing Spa is located at 128 Bonnydoon Road, UKI NSW. Gymea is situation on 46ha of lush rolling rainforest positioned at the base of majestic Wollumbin in the northern rivers region of New South Wales. Mt Wollumbin is consider to be a sacred mountain by the Bungjalung people and certainly those who live and visit this area often remark on the healing energy of these lands. The property and facilities provide a rejuvenative and re-energising environment that supports retreats of transformation including health, spiritual, yoga, meditation and energetic retreats.
Travel: Parking is available onsite for guests who are driving. For interstate travellers, the closest airport to Gymea Eco Retreat & Spa is the Gold Coast Airport, which is 46km or a 35-40 minute drive. The other airports that can be used are Ballina Airport, which is 82km from Gymea (1¼ hours drive) and Brisbane Airport, which is 153km (2 hours drive).
Questions & Bookings: please contact Natasha on 0432747889 or email natasha.curry@iinet.net.au A $500 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your booking. Final payment is due 18 January 2021.
10% will be donated to A Sound Life charity, bringing yoga, music and meditation to vulnerable people in need http://www.asoundlife.org
Bank details BSB – 182222 | A/C – 118582832 | Name – Natasha Curry (please contact me for credit card payments).
We look forward to welcoming and embracing you on this beautiful uplifting journey xx
♥ Connection retreat has been like no other for me personally. I wasn’t sure what or how I was going to feel or even fit in. I absolutely loved this experience, it couldn’t have been more perfect. It came with lots of love and it made it all the more special. Thank you so much Natasha x ♥
♥ The retreat surpassed my expectations. Natasha was an retreat excellent facilitator. She provided a nuanced balance of supporting ‘arms’ while the freedom and independence to work it out for myself. If you are up for some serious spiritual work don’t hesitate it’ll change your life. It did mine ♥
♥ A wonderful weekend. Thank you for creating the perfect retreat. My soul is so grateful! ♥
♥ The retreat was an expediated journey into better understanding myself, nature and reconnecting with myself. I’m leaving the retreat with useful and practical tools and techniques that I can call upon at any time to reconnect to this feeling. I met wonderful people along the way. Memories I will cherish ♥
♥ Natasha has an amazing gift and is such an inspiration. I loved all the beautiful details at this Connection retreat. The journals, sacred ceremony, location, flowers, food – everything! I walked out of here a more evolved soul than when I entered ♥
♥ The Connection retreat was a sublime experience. I enjoyed the people, the food, the activities and the insights that came to me. Natasha was an exceptional host that held the space for all of us ♥
Sohamrita 