The Oria local guide
Make a little time for yourself in Freo.
Explore local classes, treatments and places to pause, then shape an outing around what interests you. Find an experience, leave room for a walk or coffee, and discover Fremantle at your own pace.
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Build your visit around one experience that interests you, then leave space to explore. This guide brings together wellness listings and ideas for the time around them, so you can plan a short visit or something more leisurely.
Elisabeth Eitelberger practises as both a psychodynamic psychotherapist and a creative arts therapist in Walyalup/Fremantle, with a Vienna philosophy and theatre background behind a Murdoch creative arts therapies masters. Clinically registered with PACFA and ANZACATA. Sixty-minute sessions at $190, with concession and block rates, in person or online. Adults and couples.
The Fremantle salon of a national waxing chain, on High Street. Body and facial waxing, brows, and the Brazilian work the name is built on.
Claire Belton runs breathwork and shamanic breathwork practitioner trainings from Fremantle — regular courses locally and around Australia — for those who want to move from receiving sessions to facilitating them.
Massage across remedial, relaxation, pregnancy, hot stone and lymphatic drainage, with reiki and reflexology on the same menu and float tanks in the building. Hour-long sessions run $129–$159, evenings included most nights, and a membership from $95 a month suits people who treat it as maintenance rather than a treat.
An Aveda lifestyle salon and day spa on High Street, Fremantle, running since 2010: four spa rooms, a relaxation lounge, two pedicure spas and twelve hair stations with massage chairs at the basins. Massage with aromatic oils, facials, waxing, tinting, spray tans and makeup sit beside low-tox hair colour and styling, all with Aveda's plant-derived products, and the salon runs RISE, a wellness program for people affected by cancer.
Jessica Ruescher, an accredited practising dietitian with more than fifteen years in practice, consults from Fremantle with a deliberately kind, non-judgemental style — evidence-based nutrition support across weight, gut health, diabetes and cholesterol.
Structural integration on High Street in Fremantle, worked as a twelve-series rather than one-off appointments, plus active fascial release and breath and gait assessment. The practitioner is a Board Certified Structural Integrator with the International Association of Structural Integration, trained in Anatomy Trains Structural Integration, and holds a Bachelor of Exercise and Health Science from UWA. An initial consultation is $150; sessions run $110 for 45 minutes to $170 for 90.
A seven-day remedial clinic on Market Street covering deep tissue, sports and trigger-point work, pregnancy massage, cupping and lymphatic drainage. Prices are published plainly — thirty minutes from $70, an hour $130, concessions across the board — and HICAPS handles most health-fund rebates on the spot.
Running since 1987 with more than thirty speech pathologists, covering early language development, speech clarity, stuttering, literacy, feeding and mealtime management, plus school screening programs, holiday programs and telehealth. Therapy approaches include PROMPT, the Lidcombe Program, Sounds-Write and Hanen.
Paige McNaught works across an unusually wide set of materials — visual art, clay, sand play, photography, textiles, movement and music among them — from Fremantle and Perth, or online Australia-wide. A PACFA-registered counsellor and ANZACATA member with a psychotherapy degree behind the arts training. Individual sessions are published at $156.16 an hour, with NDIS creative counselling groups alongside.
A Fremantle ceramics studio running small-group wheel-throwing and hand-building workshops and beginner courses, plus memberships for independent potters.
A dedicated Ayurvedic centre in a Fremantle cottage offering consultations, abhyanga oil massage, panchakarma programs and rasayana therapy in the classical Kerala tradition, guided by senior advisor Dr L. Mahadevan. There are yoga classes, a herbal dispensary, courses and a supervised student clinic. Open Monday to Saturday.
A free weekly community meditation held outdoors at Bathers Beach in Fremantle, meeting at the hut in front of the art centre on Mews Road. Sessions start at 6.30am each Saturday and follow three steps: a welcome circle, a 20-minute meditation combining mindfulness, breath and gratitude, then a closing circle. Trained volunteer facilitators lead each session. It is free, open to beginners and experienced meditators, has no religious affiliation and needs no registration.
A courtyard café in a West End warehouse doing wholefood breakfasts and lunches daily until 3pm, with vegan and gluten-free options run as standard rather than as an afterthought.
A small studio within the Sanctuary Wellness Collective on Wood Street, Fremantle, founded by Amy and run as a collective of women practitioners. The published programme includes a fortnightly Monday meditation and sound bath from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, a weekly Thursday evening stretch class, and monthly sound bath and yoga events. Practitioners also offer one-on-one sessions in reiki, breathwork, yoga therapy, kinesiology and remedial massage, by appointment.
Paula Flinn holds conscious connected breathwork in a small Fremantle studio, deliberately kept intimate — group sessions cap at six people, on the first Friday evening of each month, alongside private one-to-one work.
Kristina Ritchie pairs Reiki I and II certification with diplomas in remedial massage, remedial therapies, herbal medicine, naturopathy and mind/body psychotherapy. Her Fremantle practice offers reiki at $120 an hour ($170 for ninety minutes), intuitive counselling and coaching from $120, and remote sessions by Zoom or phone.
A Fremantle-based men's collective that meets outdoors rather than in a room: monthly trail hikes in John Forrest National Park and Ellis Brook Valley, beach meetups at Trigg, walks around Lake Monger, and a Brazilian jiu jitsu session they call Warrior Flow. Most events are free, with occasional charity runs taking donations. Joining happens through their WhatsApp group.
Sharon King has practised reflexology and Bowen therapy for eighteen years, splitting her week between George Street in Fremantle (Fridays and Saturdays) and Morley (Tuesdays and Wednesdays). Alongside foot and hand reflexology and Swedish massage she offers Reflexology Lymph Drainage — the RLD technique developed in UK cancer-care settings — as a gentle lymphatic option. Member of the Reflexology Association of Australia and the Bowen Therapy Federation.
A private music therapy practice working out of Victoria Hall on Fremantle's High Street, building personalised music therapy programs around each client rather than a set curriculum, with NDIS participants supported.
Somatic breathwork out of Fremantle in every format the practice comes in — group circles, private sessions, workshops and retreats — with the somatic emphasis on letting the body lead rather than the technique.
Fremantle's Spanda School runs structured silent retreats built on non-dual meditation, gentle movement and rest — one-day sittings at the school itself, and three- and seven-day residentials at Donnelly Lakes near Pemberton. Two formats serve different depths of practice: a guided version for those newer to silence, and longer unguided sits for experienced meditators. Around a hundred students come through each year, some from interstate and overseas.
Four sites between the South Terrace studio and the beaches at South Beach, Leighton and Hillarys Boat Harbour, and the format changes with the location. The studio runs private infrared rooms at thirty minutes and a private magnesium bath and sauna at sixty; the beachside rooms are communal, including a silent session where nobody talks. A bath house experience and massage run alongside. Booking is online.
Monthly two-hour conscious connected breathwork in a warm room at Spanda Yoga, capped at ten people. Sessions pair the guided breathing with plain-science education and a follow-up email the next day, which is more aftercare than most group breathwork offers. Mats, bolsters and blankets provided.
Fremantle's arts centre runs term-based adult courses in ceramics, drawing, painting and more, including an open wheelwork and hand-building studio.
A small ceramics studio in Fremantle's West End running hand-building workshops where you make a single functional piece, such as a mug, bowl or vase.
Fremantle's yoga and Ayurveda house, running since 2008: daily classes from gentle to dynamic, Friday-evening yoga nidra and deep-restore sessions, and an Ayurvedic clinic alongside — consultations, massage and steambox treatments. Six-week beginner courses from $126 prepaid; even Bollywood dance gets a slot in the week.
19 places have no street address on file, so they are not on the map.
Counted from the places Oria Haven lists here, which last changed 5 October. A place counts once for each kind of practice it offers. Prices are the lowest each place publishes for a session; many publish none, and each sets and changes its own.
Day ideas
Start with an experience, add a little time outdoors or a refreshment stop, and make the outing your own.
A free group meditation by the water, then breakfast nearby if you want it.
The meditation is free. Anything at the cafe is optional.
Checked against the listings 26 September 2026. An idea, not a booking: confirm times and availability with each place.
A private sauna session, some time under the pines, then something to eat.
Costs vary. The sauna is booked online, and the cafe is optional.
Checked against the listings 26 September 2026. An idea, not a booking: confirm times and availability with each place.
The small beach below the Round House, at the edge of the West End.
Find it on the map (opens Google Maps in a new tab)A courtyard cafe in a West End warehouse. Wholefood breakfasts and lunches, daily until 3pm.
Built in 1831 on Arthur Head, the oldest public building still standing in Western Australia.
Find it on the map (opens Google Maps in a new tab)Nothing is listed in Fremantle in the coming weeks yet. The events page covers the rest of Perth.
A few details to check before you head out.
Fremantle Station is the last stop on the Fremantle train line from Perth.
Parking in central Fremantle is run by the City of Fremantle — check the signs and rates before a long appointment.
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Confirm times, prices and booking requirements with the provider.
Check the organiser's updates on the day. Outdoor sessions can change with the weather.
Access details are not yet verified here. Ask the venue about step-free entry and any facilities you need.
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Oria Haven lists 27 places in Fremantle across 12 kinds of practice. The most common are Mind & Mental Wellbeing (9), Massage & Bodywork (5) and Retreats, Nature & Experiences (5). A place counts once for each kind of practice it offers.
10 of the 27 places publish a starting price, from $70 to $190. What you pay depends on the experience, and each place sets and changes its own, so check the listing before you go.
2 of the 27 places list their sessions as free or by donation.
We build the directory ourselves rather than taking paid submissions, so a practice appears because it exists and serves Perth — not because it paid. Practices can claim their listing for nothing and keep it accurate, photos included. Paid plans add booking links, offers and visitor stats. We never take a cut of bookings, and enquiries go straight to the practice.
