Nirvana Wellbeing Retreat
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come home to yourself.
Nirvana Wellbeing Retreat provides a conducive environment for learning, practice, and community through all the seasons of your life. This nature-inspired sanctuary is a destination for those seeking a more purposeful and fulfilling life.
Through contemplative practices, nature stewardship, and timeless wisdom from respected teachers, we invite you to connect with nature and support your wellness by helping you pause, reflect, and reconnect. With mindfulness and awareness as our foundation, we encourage you to find your center, nurture your inner well-being, and carry this tranquility into your daily life.
We look forward to helping you extend this peace into the world.
We also host group events for those looking for a unique atmosphere for retreats, contemplative gatherings, leadership offsites, and community meetings. We are conveniently located in the Scenic Rim of the Gold Coast, just a short drive from Brisbane.
Transformational wellness experiences.
Reset, rebalance, boost your individual capacity to restore health…
"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature."
Joseph Campbell
If your nervous system has been crying out for rest. If you've been feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated or simply in need of space, here, at Nirvana Wellbeing Retreat, surround yourself amidst all that is serene and spiritual, in the most supportive and grounded environment to help you go inward and reconnect with what truly matters.
GURUKULAM: The house of the teacher, where students stay, serve, and study. Every once in a while, a teacher comes along who completely changes the rules of the game. You are invited to a truly phenomenal lived-in experience. This is not a program based on theory or observation. With 50+ years of continuous teaching, Shantiji will guide you step-by-step and hold the space with absolute precision, helping you bring hope to hopelessness, strength to fear, joy to sorrow, and peace to anxiety.
IDYLLIC LOCATION
A tranquil eco haven, set in 70 acres in the hills behind the hustle and bustle of Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach
in the stunning hinterland, the Scenic Rim of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
ALL-INCLUSIVE EXPERIENCE
No stress. With space to be still, reflect, journal, sleep, and simply be. The most healing, mind-body, restorative Yoga practices, cultural and wellness activities, with time for relaxation and rejuvenation, and delicious gourmet vegetarian meals, featuring local Ayurvedic cuisine.
COMMUNITY AND CONNECTION
Meet like-minded individuals and deepen your transformation in a supportive environment.
Here nature, people and animals coexist.
Through encounters with plants and animals, individuals learn the values of nature.
The core essence of natural healing lies in becoming one with nature.
To become nature means to align oneself with the laws of nature.
"Nature does not hurry,
yet everything is accomplished."
Lao Tzu
RETREAT DATES
ONE DAY RETREATS
10am - 7:30pm $350
Includes guided practices, program, delicious ayurvedic vegetarian lunch, and afternoon tea.
One Day Wellbeing Retreats
Breathe, soften, reset. Come back to your body, and feel more like yourself.
• Jul 4 • July 11 • Aug 29 • Sept 19 • Sept 28 • Oct 24 • Nov 7 • Dec 28
One Day Meditation Retreats
Minimal distractions and entertainment. Not for the faint of heart. Transformative.
• Aug 8 • Oct 10 • Dec 12
MIND-BODY RESTORATION WEEKENDS
Yoga, Ayurveda and Relaxation
Restore your vitality. Transform your physical well-being and mental health
• Aug 28-30 • Oct 23-25 • Nov 6-8
Silent Meditation Retreats
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. Lao Tzu
• Aug 7-9 • Oct 9-11 • Dec 11-13
KEY CONCEPTS IN AYURVEDA AND VEGETARIAN COOKING
Cook, Taste, Heal
• July 24-26
AYURVEDIC DETOX RETREATS
• Jul 3-12 • Sept 18-27 • Dec 27- 3 Jan 2027 • Jan 3-10 2027
Which retreat is for you?
When your head won't shut off: Meditation Retreats
Real quiet is hard to find and even harder to cultivate on your own. A silent meditation retreat provides that space for you, creating a sense of calm that remains long after you return home.
When you're running on empty: Ayurveda Retreats
This is more than a spa holiday; it is a complete reset of how you eat, sleep, and rest. Guided by experts, a week-long Ayurveda retreat is designed to restore those who are worn out with lasting results.
To feel whole again: Gentle. Mind-Body Yoga Retreats
With Hatha yoga practices in the morning, Yoga Nidra in the afternoon and Shanti Yoga practices in the evening, you will return home with a happy mind-body and a renewed sense of wholeness. There is an invaluable fulfilment that comes from this wholistic practice.
Each of our retreats offers nutritious food, meaningful practices, time outdoors, down time and genuine connection. You will return home feeling rested, clear-headed, and reminded of how little you actually need to feel good.
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Hi Shanti, just want to thank you for a wonderful time I had during the Ayurveda detox retreat.
I really enjoyed the healing process and just having time out to be with myself in great company and to recharge and heal on a deeper level.
Arthur
Ecology
Looking reflectively at the world around us, and concerned about our footprint on the environment, and mindful about land and habitat for Wildlife, we
- support long, deep-rooted, and deeply held traditions, understandings, practices, and world views about living in harmony with nature.
- savour and enjoy an interest in the local, diverse, natural environment, and related issues, the treatment of animals, and about what is actually at our doorstep.
- allow a collective, childhood sense of nurturing a deep, secure, trust in nature to bloom and flourish.
- run programs to create a groundswell of people willing to care for and actively defend nature as the essential means towards a sustainable future.
- believe that nature is alive, interdependent, and something that we are a part of and dependant upon, not an external and inert resource to plunder without any consequences.
We are self-sufficient with water and sewage.
Thank you for taking short showers.
Nirvana is equipped with solar hot water heating system and a grid-connected photovoltaic electricity generating system.
As we rely on a septic sewage system, it is important that only biodegradable waste is put down the toilets and sinks.
We aim to minimise recycling and landfill, and compost all our food waste.
The Nirvana Retreat Centre
The Yoga and Meditation room on the ground floor is where retreatants congregate for practices.
You can read a book or simply rest, taking in the breathtaking view of nature outdoors, under the wrap-around undercover veranda.
Upstairs you will find yourself in the media room, the art room, and the lecture area…, but it’s the relaxing dining area, that is the most popular.
Here we build community, and enjoy socialising over our delicious cuisine, congregate and chitchat in the kitchen, or enjoy the panoramic vistas on the indoor or outdoor lounges for a glimpse of the Pacific Ocean over the lush green, rolling hills. This is a paradise within Paradise.
Take a deep breath and feel the serenity of the great outdoors.
Rooms
Accommodation is clean, simple, restful, and comfortable, in small, private or twin-share bedrooms, with shared facilities or ensuite, with the focus on the enjoyment of the beautiful, natural surroundings, and in line with the eco nature of the retreat sanctuary. Nirvana's purpose-built facility has all rooms with washbasins, fans, insect screens, heating and are well insulated.
Beds are single, and made up with clean sheets, electric blankets, doonas, and pillows, and have reading lamps. Hot water bottles are available.
Bathrooms have complimentary biodegradable shampoo and conditioner, handwash and body wash for you to use. These are available for purchase. The ensuite bathrooms have a shower, toilet, and washbasin.
WiFi access is free. Please be mindful and in consideration of others and the retreat environment when using laptops and mobiles There are no TVs.
What will you do?
Jumpstart your journey towards wellbeing at this one-of-a-kind retreat, featuring world-renowned leader Shanti Gowans’ cutting-edge teachings of the wisdom traditions of Yoga, Ayurveda, Meditation, and Ecotherapy for modern life.
Gain the tools to empower your personal and collective wellbeing through immersive practices and activities, all while taking in the striking views of the Scenic Rim and coastline.
Ground your body in one of our multi-level gentle yoga or chair yoga and mindful movement classes guided by one of our master instructors.
Enjoy mindfulness and pranayama (yoga breathing) to connect with your authentic presence, focus your mind, and bring balance to your whole being.
Participate in engaging talks by Shanti Gowans, as well as mealtime chats, and Q&As to deepen your understanding of yourself and foster a connection with others.
Enjoy music and entertainment.
Nourish
All meals are vegetarian. Give your body the nutrients it needs with delicious Ayurvedic-inspired, vegetarian cuisine, prepared for you daily with super-fresh, local, and organic ingredients. They are not only good for you but you will feel lighter in your body, mind, and spirit.
All meals are supplied. Please do not bring any food, snacks, lollies, chocolates, health bars, alcohol, packaged drinks, drugs or tobacco.
We are meat, poultry, and seafood-free. We occasionally cook using the eggs from our free-range chickens.
A surcharge applies for gluten-free, vegan, and dairy-free options, or if you have any specific allergies that our cook has to cater for. Please let us know when you confirm your booking.
Everything at retreat is relaxed, from a member of the welcoming team who makes you feel like family, to the gentle teaching styles of the activities, and the meals shared with other like-minded retreatants. Retreat life is slow and easy. Simply enjoy some quiet time to reflect, reconnect with peace, and regain your focus. Once you’ve arrived, the hectic outside world quickly disappears amid the stillness and beauty of nature. You melt into the deeply relaxing world of calm breathing, gentle stretching, nature walks, and deep relaxation, and all whilst releasing stress and anxiety.
