Seeing Anew: A Retreat for Connection and Renewal 21-23 FEB, 2025

Seeing Anew: A Retreat for Connection and Renewal  21-23 FEB, 2025

We invite you to join us at School of Being for our Summer retreat ‘Seeing Anew’ in beautiful Jervis Bay on Yuin and Jerriwa Country to replenish, renew and reconnect. 

During this new year retreat we will honour ourselves and our personal walk, our shared collective walk and set some intentions, to move forward with greater clarity, balance and purpose.

Connect with like-hearted people, through guided practices in nature, connection circles and opportunities for stillness, reflection and play.

Dates: 

Fri 21 Feb, 7:00pm to Sun 23 Feb, 1pm

What you'll experience:

• Gentle grounding practices like sound bowls and Qigong to soothe your body and mind.
• Safe and supportive connection circles to honour emotions and experience our shared humanity
• Time in nature to listen, reflect, and reconnect with the Earth.
• Creative visioning activities to clarify your hopes and intentions for the future.
• Playful moments and nourishing community to spark joy and renewal.

Bookings:

Spaces are limited to ensure an intimate and connected experience. Reserve your place now to join us on this restorative journey.

Retreat Flow:

PRE-GATHERING reflection: Questions for contemplation

FRI
> Opening circle: Connecting and setting our intentions
> Sound bath relaxation

SAT
> Qigong
> Cleansing and gratitude ceremony : Honouring the emotions within ourselves, in relation and the earth
> Embodied practices to foster new perspectives
> Nature connection: Time in nature to listen, reflect, and reconnect with the Earth.

SUN
> Seeing with New Eyes: Somatic centring 
> Seeing with Hope : Creative visioning to reflect upon your gifts and clarify hopes and intentions for the future. 
> Closing circle : Going forth

Location: 

The retreat is held on a beautiful 8-acre bush property close to national parks and beaches in Jervis Bay (2–2.5 hours from Sydney and Canberra).

Retreat exchange: 

Retreat: $325 (Inclusions: breakfast, tea and coffee, morning and afternoon tea and materials)

Accomodation: 

There is a choice of accommodation on the land for an additional fee.
Please choose your preferred option on checkout.

• Bunk bed in shared room - 5 available - $110 for 2 nights 
• Caravan single in shared room 2 people - $100 for 2 nights 
• Single room (own room) - 1 available - $135 for 2 nights  
• Queen bed (own room), 3 rooms available $150 - you can share it if you like.

Note: Fitted sheet, pillow and doona provided. 
Bring your own linen (doona cover and pillow slip) or hire for $25

Food

Breakfast, morning and afternoon tea, tea and coffee is provided throughout the retreat.
To foster a community spirit and to make the retreat accessible, we will have shared lunches and a pot luck dinner with shared food on Saturday evening. We will co-ordinate what to bring and there is a kitchen and large fridge in the cottage to store food.)
We will meet in a local pub on Friday night for dinner at 6:30pm and gather together in circle after dinner. 

Carpooling 

We will help organise carpooling to get to the retreat and there is also the possibility to catch a train to Bomaderry (20m drive) and someone can pick you up. 

Retreat Facilitators

Jax Wechsler
Jax is a strategic designer, regenerative practitioner, trauma-informed facilitator, educator, and coach passionate about change, inner development and enabling better futures for individuals, society and the planet. Jax has been interested in earth-based spirituality for 20 years and over the last few has been on a personal journey into greater embodiment and new ways of being. Studying neuroscience and polyvagal theory helped her draw a link between intergenerational, personal and collective trauma, personal and collective resilience, and creativity. She strongly believes that new ways of being will help people to develop the resilience, creativity and response-ability to meet current social and environmental challenges, to thrive and to flourish.

Vivien Sung
Viv is a systemic designer, regenerative practitioner, and educator passionate about facilitating individual and collective change to restore wellbeing and right relationship with our living world. Her deep curiosity has led her on a lifelong quest to explore diverse modalities that foster societal and planetary well-being. By integrating her expertise in visual and systems thinking, leadership and inner development, regenerative practices, systemic constellations, earth-based traditions and energy healing, she stewards transformative pathways for inner and outer renewal. She believes that transitioning to flourishing futures will involve much more than technological solutions but a rekindling of heart, creativity and spirit.

We look forward to being with you
Viv (left) & Jax(right), School of Being