One Heart Meditation & Yoga Silent Retreat

One Heart Meditation & Yoga

Silent Retreat

with Anahata Giri

This retreat offers spiritual practice, deep rest, regeneration, solitude and contemplation so you can follow the deep questions emerging in your life. This retreat is held in the profound and supportive container of silence. Silence gives you deep permission to be with yourself, to hear the deeper murmurings of your inner world.

All practices can be adapted to suit whatever is emergent in your path. Care is taken to provide a warm, friendly space for practice, and this friendliness infuses the silence. One to one support and conversation with Anahata is available if needed.

The retreat includes:

  • Yoga & Movement

  • Meditation: sitting, walking, yoga nidra and nature meditation

  • Self-inquiry and journalling

  • Sound practices and Kirtan

  • Co-creating a supportive community of like-minded pilgrims on the spiritual path

  • Delicious catering

  • Your own room

This is the temple

of my adult aloneness

and I belong

to that aloneness

as I belong to my life.

There is no house

like the house of belonging.

David Whyte

What if our religion was each other?

If our practice was life.

If prayer, our words.

What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church.

If holy water - the rivers, lakes and oceans.

What if meditation was our relationships.

If the teacher was life.

If wisdom was self-knowledge.

If love was the centre of our being.

Ganga White

One Heart Silent Retreat Schedule

6.30am Wake Up Bell

7.00-7.30am Silent Meditation

7.30-9.00am Yoga

9.00am-11.00am Breakfast & Free Time

11.00am-12.30pm Walking & Sitting Meditation & Yoga Nidra

1.00-3.00pm Lunch & Free Time

3.00-4.30pm Yoga, Meditation & Self-Inquiry

4.30-5.00pm Short Break

5.00-6.00pm A Spiritual Life: Talk & Group Inquiry

6.00-7.30pm Dinner & Free Time

7.30-9.00pm Meditation, Sound Practice & Integration

Clearing

Do not try to save the whole world

Or do anything grandiose.

Instead, create

A clearing in the dense forest of your life

And wait there patiently

Until the Song that is your life

Falls into your own cupped hands

And you recognise and greet it.

Only then will you know

How to give yourself to this World,

So worthy of rescue.

- Martha Postlewaite

I have been running retreats for almost 20 years and each retreat is unique, powerful and heart-warming.

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.

♡ Anahata

  • The whole retreat was held with such loving presence and integrity. The best way that I can describe the experience is 'gentle but potent’.. The most powerful takeaway for me was not only the reminder that suffering is resistance to what is, but also the reminder that 'what is' is the portal, the invitation. I departed feeling more centred than I had felt in probably two years, with tools that I am continuing to integrate into my life.

    Natasha, 2022

  • I feel incredibly lucky that my first-ever meditation retreat was the One Heart Retreat. Anahata’s teaching style is gentle and supportive. She creates soft space for big transformations. I felt nourished by her thoughtful schedule with a wide variety of practices, all blended with her unique wisdom. 

    The gentle silence held by everyone became a cherished part of my experience, as did the evening group chanting. The gorgeous catering by Katie Ward provided meals that were fresh, flavourful and sustaining. 

    I highly recommend this experience especially the longer 5 night option. My biggest moments came on day 4 and I was grateful for the extra time.

    Amelia Black 2024

  • Anahata gently and powerfully holds the space into which each student can step with their own selves - on their own journey, with whatever messages are coming through from beneath. 
Anahata is a wonderful, inspiring and gentle "game changer". She held the space for people's journey with a profound, deep and compassionate listening.

    Viv Waller, 2017

  • What a space for unwinding, unraveling, softening, release. Anahata holds a truly supported safe space to enable me to let go of this habitual contractions that no longer serve me. To restore kindness and compassion to this ole body and mind. Somatic unwinding- what a simple powerful way to feel and fall back in to my body- freeing, a little more available to this sensory life.  Thank you also to Katie, who  provided whole food with love and grace, such rich nourishment.

    Holly Beaumont, 2019

  • Thank you Anahata for your gentle and caring guidance and for providing a safe space on retreat. It is a place where I always feel that I belong. Your words and poems inspire me. But it is more than your words, because you embody the practices that you teach with compassion and wisdom and grace. Each time I attend I discover a new layer of something within, rising to the surface. The time-out on retreat is precious, not always easily found in every-day busy life.

    Karen Buckland, 2018

  • The retreat was otherworldly, I've never experienced such a concentrated time for introspection. The work we did helped me shape my path moving forward. Anahata perfectly facilitated the journey and asked all the right questions to help me reflect and progress. I cannot recommend her retreats and services highly enough to anyone considering such an adventure.

    Marcus Willis, 2022

  • I want to express my deep thanks for all of your teachings and guidance. I love that we were the group with the most notes and the most tears! It was a pleasure to be taught by you - you are lovely to listen to and I love how you moved with the group and were still able to interweave the themes around our collective energy. For me, my fierce protector dropped away (not without protest mind you!) and my heart opened, and the tears came. Thank you for the opportunity, the space, the guidance, which allowed me to do that, to turn towards a place ‘in my forest’, if you like, that I had forgotten how to find. Now I feel I can continue walking with my senses receptive, feeling the earth beneath my feet, and listening through my heart. Thank you again for all the gifts.

    Rachel, 2023

  • Thankyou Anahata for creating such a nurturing retreat space. The nourishment of your loving guidance of yoga, meditation and chanting and holding the space for us all created tangible safety. This enabled me to visit tough feelings and open to new insights on my journey home to wholeness. I’m now in a clearer place in my life and can notice that all of me belongs. 

    Katrina Roberg

  • I have completed two One Heart Silent Retreats led by Anahata Giri. Each retreat has been unique and has taken me to places of profound insight, peace, and grace. Anahata has a beautiful, gentle, and invitational style. Whether you are a seasoned meditator trekking the embodiment path for some time or new to meditation and yoga, this retreat has the capacity to gently hold and meet a diversity of needs and levels. To experience the greatest depth and full benefit of the retreat, I would definitely recommend attending for the full 5 days. Also, the organic, vegetarian food provided by chef Katie Ward is so good that it is almost beyond words. You will remember it for years!

    ~Sara Moshenrose 2024

  • I was someone who didn't practice meditation or mindfulness before this retreat and I was initially intimidated by the concept of this retreat. I can't express how glad I am that I booked this retreat...and for the 5 days.

    I learnt SO much about different ways to practice meditation, mindfulness and inner healing. I can genuinely say this retreat was life changing. Anahata was so wonderful, gentle, passionate and wise. I look forward to doing another retreat with her in the future and can't recommend this enough!

    Chloe, 2024

One Heart Silent Retreat Venue & Catering

At the Maitripa Contemplative Centre near Healesville you will enjoy:

  • Your own room

  • Simple accommodation in a beautiful bushland setting

  • A wonderful peaceful atmosphere & nearby walks in nature

  • Shared toilet and bathroom facilities.

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 5.00-6.00pm with dinner at 6.00pm. The finish time for the retreat is between 2.00-3.00pm on the last day.

Price - book early as the retreats usually book out

Price: 3 night One Heart Retreat: $985 full or $885 concession / 4 night retreat is $1250 full or $1150 concession. Concession is for students, unemployed or pensioners and is available on request by email.

Book by paying a deposit via the booking button below.

Cost includes extensive practices each day, all meals, fruit & beverages, your own room and a post-retreat package of handouts and practices. A non-refundable and non-transferable deposit of $100 is required to secure your place. Full payment is due 14 days before the start of the retreat. Refunds are not available after 7 days before the retreat.

So let us pick up the stories over which we stumble, friends, and build altars.

Padraig O’Tuama

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 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. Scroll down for all details.

The Wild Heart, Wild Soul Retreat: has a focus on soul-based practice designed to help you connect with inner wisdom, belonging purpose and connection with 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, and is by application (which simply means a 30 minute chat with me to see if it is a good fit for where you are in your life).

Retreat Calendar 2024

♡ 8-11 OR 8-13 March 2024 Labour Day long weekend

One Heart Yoga & Meditation Silent Retreat: Choice of 3 or 5 Nights, Healesville

♡ 28 March - 1 April 2024 Easter weekend

Wild Heart Wild Soul Retreat in the Brisbane Ranges (Victoria)

♡ 26-29 September 2024 Grand Final weekend

One Heart Yoga & Meditation Silent Retreat at Maitripa, Healesville