Wild Heart Wild Soul Retreat
Wild Heart, Wild Soul Retreat
with Anahata Giri
7-10 June 2024 King’s Birthday weekend
This retreat is a deep dive immersion into practices designed to help you hear the wild calling of your deepest self. Through embodied, heart-based, nature-attuned, soul-centred practice, you will be supported to come home to your sovereign self and claim belonging, meaning, purpose and a soul-led life.
All practices can be adapted to suit whatever is emergent in your path. The retreat offers creative and evocative inner inquiry, held in the nourishing container of embodied practice, community and nature.
Our group will be a maximum of 12 participants. Our small supportive circle will mean each individual can receive deep listening and personalised guidance.
The retreat includes:
Soul-based practice
Nature wandering and nature-based practice
Heart-based inquiry
Creative art practice
Meditation
Self-designed ceremonies
Stream of consciousness writing
Dream work
Embodiment practice & authentic movement
Heart circles, deep listening & mirroring practices
Co-creating a supportive community of like-minded pilgrims on the soul path
Delicious catering
You will be given preparatory practices before the retreat and integration practices after the retreat, to help you make the most of this soul deep dive
“This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. ”
There are words from Mary Oliver that guide us beautifully on the Wild Soul Retreats:
“There is only one question: how to love this world.”
I facilitate in a way that holds precious the sovereignty and wisdom of each participant. Together we co-create a deeply nourishing holding space so the tender edge of your life can show you your next steps of unfolding and your way to love this world.
♡ Anahata
Wild Heart Wild Soul
Retreat Schedule
6.30am Wake Up Bell
7.30-9.00am Nature-based & Soul-based practice
9.00am-10.00am Breakfast & Free Time
10.00am-1.00pm Nature-based & Soul-based practice
1.00-2.00pm Lunch & Free Time
2.30-5.30pm Nature-based & Soul-based practice
6.00-7.30pm Dinner & Free Time
7.30-9.00pm Soul-based practice & Integration
Image by Anahata Giri: When we follow the golden spiral of soul, it leads not only into the depths of our own soul-self, but also into the world, into profound love for this precious green and blue planet.
Venue & Catering
This retreat is held on a magical bushland private property near Neerim South, about 1.5 hours drive from Melbourne CBD. The 50 acres is mostly a nature reserve and includes a large picturesque and lush ferny gully around a small creek, with hundreds of tree ferns and huge trees and a diversity of birds and mammals including wombats, kangaroos, echidnas and lyrebirds. Perfect for soulful nature wandering! My first visit there, a lyrebird strolled across the driveway!
There are single or shared rooms inside the house with shared bathroom. There is plenty of room for camping. The camping area is lovely, next to beautiful bush and campers have easy access to an outside toilet. Campers also have full access to the cosy house and hot showers.
Our amazing chef Katie Ward cooks wonderful food that is:
Delicious, nutritious & abundant
Vegetarian & mostly organic
Able to be adapted to suit any dietary requirements
Always receiving rave reviews!
Arrival time for the retreat on the first day is 4.00-6.00pm with dinner at 6.00pm. The finish time for the retreat is about 3.00pm on the last day.
Price
Single Room: $1450 (Double bed)
Shared Room: $1150 each (Shared with one other person, single beds)
Camping: $950
Cost includes extensive practices each day, all meals, fruit & beverages, your own room or shared room or camping, a pre-retreat preparatory practice package and a post-retreat package of practices for integration.
A non-refundable and non-transferable deposit of $100 is required to secure your place. Full payment is due 16 days before the start of the retreat. Refunds are not available after 7 days before the retreat, except in extenuating circumstances at the discretion of the organiser.
How to Book
This retreat is open to anyone wanting to dive into soul-based practice. If you have done soul-based work previously, you can book via my website. It is fine if you are newer to this work.
If we have not met before, please email me your interest and we will have a 30 minute zoom chat to see if this retreat is a good fit for you. Note: if you feel you need rest, space, contemplation - this retreat will not be the one for you and the more “empty practices” of yoga and meditation on the One Heart Silent Retreat could be a better fit.
If you have worked with me before, please send me an email of your intention and I will let you know the next steps.
What is the difference between the
Wild Heart, Wild Soul & One Heart Silent Retreats?
The One Heart Silent Retreat: has a focus on rest, regeneration and contemplation, with space for deep solitude and self-reflection on your life’s questions. The main practices are meditation, yoga and embodiment practices, held in the supportive container of silence and nature. This retreat offers deep nourishment for body, mind and spirit. All levels of yoga and meditation experience are welcome.
The Wild Heart, Wild Soul Retreat: has a focus on soul-based practice designed to help you connect with the inner wisdom, belonging and purpose of your own soul, nature and community. Practices include: nature wandering, movement, journalling, creative art practice, stream of consciousness writing, poetry, dream work, creative imagination, work in pairs, small groups, heart circles. (This is not a silent retreat). This retreat offers deep nourishment for heart and soul. It is for those who are ready for a deep soul dive.
Retreat Calendar 2024
♡ 7-10 June 2024 King’s Birthday Weekend
Wild Heart Wild Soul Retreat, on bush property, near Neerim South, Victoria
♡ 26-29 September 2024 Grand Final weekend
One Heart Yoga & Meditation Silent Retreat at Maitripa, Healesville