Meditation & wellness in Rockingham & Peel

Kate Bennison's small spa on Peel Street, Mandurah, after 24 years as a beauty therapist including resort spa work. Express facials from $80 and full 75-minute facials from $130, dermaplaning, microdermabrasion and gua sha, Swedish, deep-tissue, back-neck-shoulder and Indian head massage, reflexology, spa-day packages of one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half hours from $130, and waxing and brows. Tuesday to Saturday, Mondays by request; every price is on the booking page.

A day spa on Railway Terrace at Rockingham Beach, open since 2007 and multi-award-winning by its own account. Massage, facials, skin needling, Dermalux LED, body wraps, foot treatments and a sauna, grouped into packages for singles and couples, with Ultraceuticals skincare on the shelves. Tuesday to Saturday; lift access for wheelchairs; gift vouchers online, by phone or in store.

The Centre for Attitudinal Healing's bush retreat an hour south-east of Perth, used by community groups, families and teams. Accommodation runs from a cottage to shared quarters for 23 or 46, with a hall for meetings and meditation, a fully equipped kitchen, an outdoor meeting grove, a winter bonfire area and walking trails through the property. Published rates: cottage $500 a night, the 23-bed wing $1,600, the 46-bed wing $3,000, and hall hire $500 a day Monday to Thursday.

A rammed-earth retreat house in the timber town of Dwellingup, purpose-built in 2012 for small groups of up to eighteen: eight ensuite bedrooms, a large common room and kitchen, and the Bibbulmun Track at the boundary, under a kilometre from town. Yoga studios, art teachers and craft groups book the whole house for weekend retreats — myoga's Iyengar weekends and Art Outdoors' painting retreats among them — and self-cater or bring in local caterers.

Three float cabins — roomier than the traditional pods — in the middle of Rockingham, serving the coastal strip south of Perth. The cabins' extra space makes floats less daunting for first-timers who baulk at an enclosed pod.

A Perth women's community running retreats since 2012, best known for the Wild Woman Weekend — four days and three nights of ceremony, dance, workshops and singing in bushland at the foot of the Darling Scarp in Serpentine. Facilitators Tracy McFie and Larissa O'Neill have held the weekend for thirteen years. Fully catered with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options; $1,666 all-inclusive, alongside mentoring and smaller gatherings through the year.

An award-winning, locally owned Rockingham practice covering toenail care, diabetic foot treatment, orthotics, minor surgery and sports podiatry, with home visits available. Medicare and DVA rebates accepted, and pensioner rates offered.

Chiropractic and physiotherapy near the Mandurah foreshore: manual adjustments and mobilisations, shockwave therapy, dry needling, cupping, clinical pilates and structured pre- and post-operative rehabilitation, open weekdays in morning and afternoon sessions.

Remedial, sports and pregnancy massage with kinesiology and dry needling, working from rooms inside Feel Good Fitness on Reserve Drive. Most private health funds rebate on the spot through HICAPS, and booking runs online — one of the more complete hands-on therapy menus in the Peel region.

The Buddhist Society of WA's purpose-built retreat centre in a Darling Scarp valley beside Bodhinyana Monastery — sixty single rooms with ensuites, a large meditation hall and covered walking-meditation halls. Weekend and nine-day residential retreats are led by monastics, with long days of sitting and walking practice; experienced practitioners can arrange mentored self-retreats of a week or more.