This retreat is about empowering and enjoying the five senses, experiencing life through sensory play, and exploring connection in a safe space to take new confidence and depth out into your life.

Our program includes individual and connective meditations, venturing into all that your energy encompasses through the body, the emotions, and the mind. We intend to strengthen your expression in its totality; to follow it as it evolves and changes focus, as it grows, shrinks, strengthens and becomes more vulnerable in relation to the self and to others.

We will explore ways of communicating with each other to produce a sense of harmony and real safety: this will involve honest, compassionate authentic sharing, as well as listening from a space of love and total presence.

The ultimate focus of this weekend is to relate from the heart: honouring and enjoying yourself and the other, equally.

Come to celebrate and nurture yourself!

Couple's cabin $750 / single cabin $400
Shared room $320 / camping $280
Inclusive of nutritious vegetarian meals.

Sensory Awakening Program Outline

Thursday
Arrive from 3pm to meet, greet and settle in. We will start with a welcoming circle, to set the space and our intentions for the retreat before dinner. For the first evening, there will be a fun contact dance session and an open fire to connect with the splendours of sight.

Friday
We start the day with a soundbath, entering into and moving the power of breath, before a silent breakfast meditation to activate our sense of taste, as well as sight and smell. We spend our first morning exploring what it is to receive and to give through all the senses, moving through colour and texture,  tuning into tangible objects and landscapes, and finally bringing awareness to the pulse, the palm, and physical touch through massage and contact exercises. For the rest of the day we ground our sensitivity in spaces in nature, including a sauna, bushwalk, and 5Elements dance session. Our evening meditation explores imagination and the senses, taking us deep into the silent receptive space from which our senses originate.

Saturday
A playful start to the day with healing bowls, animal stretches, feeling into and exploring our physical energy. After breakfast we enter into a morning of laughter and imagination, moving our energy in the most joyful possible way with improve, breath work, and whatever flows naturally and spontaneously from the imagination! After a romantic picnic lunch we spend creative time in nature, connecting with ourselves and each other through music, art, and sharing. Surprise events for the evening include a kidult party, and a super sensory sonic cacao journey from some very special guests.

Sunday
We start our final day together with an ecstatic dance, and after breakfast we meditate on self-expression and awakened communication with Poetry Beyond Words. Today we work with the voice, the breath, to feel empowered and healed in communicating the essence of ourselves. After a sublime sensory farewell lunch, we gather for a final sharing circle and celebrate the experience we have shared together with chai and sweet treats.

We will be offering a feast for the senses and the imagination, exploring each individually and combined. We will spend time in nature, around the fire, dancing and singing as well as enjoying the sauna, sweatlodge and the meditation hall.

Special features include:

• Laughter and imagination playtime
• Exploring the breath,
• A Kidult Party
• Intimacy meditations
• Contact dance,
• Special Mealtime delights
• Heart sharing
• Journeys into the senses and the imagination and so much more… 

Sensory Awakening is facilitated by Nikhilananda, a devotee and lover on the path of authenticity, honesty, fearlessness and joy. She is a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader, dakini, rock climber, gardener, dancer and artist; fundamentally human, her goal is to deepen and share her understanding of how people relate to themselves, and others, through the realm of the sensory.