Spring Creek Day Retreat

We warmly welcome you to join the Great Ocean Path Sangha for a day of meditation, movement, stretching, resting and planting.

Our passionate community continues to regenerate and tend to Spring Creek Valley, a diverse and treasured land feature in our very own backyard.

We will practice reciprocity with the land and community as we mindfully care for Country, weeding and planting, preparing a patch of land for hundreds of native Poa grass. In doing so, we care for self.

Where: Wadawurrung Country/Ashmore Arts, Torquay and the wider Spring Creek Valley surrounds.

When: Sunday 23rd August 8am-3.30pm approx.

Cost: Sliding Scale: $20 -$40** (this will cover the costs of the venue for yoga and meditation offerings, as well as refreshments on the day) .

Please bring: Hat, sunscreen, BYO light lunch and mug*, working clothes, stretching clothes, gardening gloves and weeding tool/screw driver (if you have them).

*There will be some light refreshments on the day, some fruit, baked treats, pot of chai on the boil as well as tea and coffee.

** If you feel called to join the day retreat but the cost is a barrier, please get in touch with organisers

Loose Schedule

8am: Acknowledgement of Country

8:30am Gentle movement

9am: Meditation

9:30am: Walking meditation to Creek (walking meditation)

10-12 Planting

1pm Lunch and relax

2pm Yoga Nidra

2:45pm Sharing circle

3:30 Finish

Acknowledgements:

Plants grown by West Coast Indigenous Nursery.

Practices offered by volunteers.

Special thanks to Stew for re-wilding his block.

Photos from the film Saving Spring Creek Valley. Courtesy of Surf Coast Environment Group (SCEG).