YOGA + SURF retreat
(REGISTRATION OPEN!)
4-day, 3-NIGHT Bush & BEACH IMMERSION,
THURS 16 -SUNDAY 19 March 2023
CRESCENT HEAD, NSW
The power of retreat is total immersion. Imagine if you want to learn a language—you can either take a weekly class and learn bits of grammar and broken sentences, or you can go and live in a foreign country! True metamorphosis comes from living, breathing, digesting and dreaming inside a new culture and way of being.
A Full Body Yes retreat is not a yoga holiday, it’s a journey curated with intention, infused with ritual and connection and woven with mini-cliffs to leap off with the invitation to step out of the known and experience something new. Together, we nurture the part of us that gets unsure right before we let go of the familiar. Encouraging and inspiring one another, we’ll use our yoga practices, breath workshops, surf coaching and other practices, to ensure our sense of self expands and never stays fixed in one way.
JOIN BROOKE ELLISTON alongside a masterful TEAM OF CREATORS
We’ll have an entire crew of creators and magic-weavers looking after you—including:
Surf coaches for both beginner and intermediate surfers
Zenthai Shiatsu Massage therapists
Professional musician for LIVE evening campfire tunes
Photographer to immortalise our underwater majesty
Well-loved master-chef
The schedule has been crafted to offer a sweet balance of inspiration and relaxation. It will be both uplifting as well as down to earth. The focus will be on slowing down to savour the extraordinary as something not separate from daily life—the ocean, nature, good food + amazing company.
We’ll come back to the beauty and profundity in the simple pleasures of life—breath-fuelled morning highs, salty skin, the deep relaxation post yoga class, surf stoke, and a full belly as we sit and share and laugh by an open fire, underneath the stars.
You’ll be nourished on every level from physical to subtle + energetic with world class instruction in yoga, surfing, breath + body work, and make friendships that last for many, many surfs beyond retreat.
THE intention
All of the practice and classes are designed to provide mind & body nutriment, and woven with contemplations to help shed any outdated, habitual ways of thinking, feeling and acting. With a calm mind and relaxed body, we can consciously shape our personal reality for fresh times to come.
If it’s a Full Body YES to what scares and excites you the most, join us for an immersion into yoga, surfing, breath, connection and body work. This retreat is the perfect nexus between potent and joyful. Think soul-reverberating yoga classes that touch the inner most parts, off the chart delicious whole-foods, otherworldly Zenthai massages and epic surf adventures with warm and welcoming new friends.
Please note, you don’t need any surf experience or gear to attend (we have plenty of board options for you), nor do you need a buddy. All you need is a willingness to dive courageously into the liminal space of the great unknown.
Leap, and the net will appear!
Retreat from the everyday life
With the collective energy of the group, a retreat of this kind brings the benefit of months of practice, in just a few days.
The ‘everyday life’ is the environment that reminds us daily of who you think we are, as a personality and as an identity. By taking yourself out of the familiar, you can transform what is routine, automated and subconscious, and replace it with thoughts, feelings and actions that are aligned with your visions + dreams.
This time together is precious. By retreating for a period, you are invited to step out of the olympic levels of stimulation + distraction of the daily world. This is a space to be open, playful, to reinvent and free.
ACCOMMODATION
A simple and tasteful bush & beach retreat with 5 separate cottages surrounded by leafy outlooks and ocean-views just a few minutes drive from Crescent village. Each cottage is equipped with its own kitchen, living room, bathroom and wrap around deck. Set on 28 private acres, our venue is on one of the untouched backroads, just a stones throw from a spoilt selection of magic surf beaches and national park.
LOCAL WHOLE FOODS
All meals will be thoughtfully cooked up by masterful chefs using healthful, organic and vegetarian produce. We accommodate for all food preferences and intolerances. Dishes are intended to support the schedule and flow of the retreat with the understanding that food is one of the most important parts of a self-love container.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
All meals (3x healthful, nourishing buffet style meals per day)
Professional photography— including underwater, surfing and throughout retreat
Live music performances
Surf coaching and surf gear if needed
A 1-hour Zenthai massage with one of multiple Shiatsu therapists setting up onsite
Shared accomodation in one of 5 large cottages
All classes, workshops and retreat activities
SAMPLE SCHEDULE
7:00am — Fluid yoga flow (all-levels)
8:30am — Breakfast buffet
9:30am — Surf (lessons)
1:00pm — Scrumptious lunch
FREE TIME
4:00pm — Workshop (specialised breath training or bodywork)
5:00pm — Deep stretch (Yin) + meditation/Yoga Nidra
6:30pm — Healthful dinner
7:30 — Fire Pit, live campfire music + chill
PRICING OPTIONS
Private Bedroom for 2 people
One queen bed & ensuite bathroom for 2 people: $1,557 per person
This option is ideal for 2 family members, a couple, or 2 close friends
Private Bedroom for 3 people
One double bed for 1 person: $1,557
One bunk bed (top and bottom bunk available): $1,4973 people in solo beds
This option is ideal if you are coming solo (we’ll allocate your room) or with a small group of friends
Bed in shared loft for 5 people
Double bed in shared loft: $1,497 per person for couple or solo
Single or bunk bed in shared loft: $1,457This option is open to couple wanting to share double bed (double bed is positioned up one end of loft room, divided by staircase), or a solo person wanting a double or single bed in open loft
Entire friend or family cabin
6 person in entire private cottage $1,397 per person
This option is discounted for a group booking of friends or family
The property is a 4.5-5hour drive from both Sydney (driving North) and Byron Bay (driving South).
Non-Refundable AU$500 deposit to confirm your place.
Remainder due 1 month prior to retreat start date, non-refundable after that time.
*Please note if circumstances change due to natural disasters or other extraordinary event the retreat may be cancelled last minute, in which case you will be fully refunded.