PERTH · Retreats, Nature & Experiences
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Explore equine assisted therapy across Perth, compare the details and choose somewhere that suits your day.
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A Byford property running equine assisted therapy and learning, therapeutic riding and hippotherapy. Sessions involve grooming, groundwork, observing the herd, leading horses and supported riding, and can be booked individually, as a family or in groups. Self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants are welcome and progress notes can be provided.
Social worker Liz Dos Santos runs ground-based equine sessions on a small Oakford property. The main offering is the seven-session Horse Wisdom Program for people aged 13 and over, alongside corporate team days. No riding is involved — the work happens on foot alongside the horses. NDIS registered.
Equine assisted learning and counselling on a Bullsbrook property, where the session happens outdoors alongside the horses rather than across a desk — the practice's own phrase is that the therapy room is outdoors. Sessions are groundwork rather than riding: no one gets on a horse. Grief and loss work runs alongside the general counselling.
3 of the 46 retreats, nature & experiences listings in the directory match this view. The count is live, and the order puts specialists first — paid placement never moves anyone up it.
As of October 2026, 3 of the 46 Retreats, Nature & Experiences listings on Oria Haven are in this view (Perth) — counted live from the directory.
Every listing is hand-checked by Oria Haven. Figures updated 8 October 2026.
Most relevant means practices that specialise in this first, then the ones with the most reviews to go on. A listing that publishes its price, describes itself and names its services gets a small nudge, never more than a quarter of a star, because you can decide on it without ringing. Paid placements are shown once, in their own band, and never move anyone up the list.
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Sound Silence Stillness: a day retreat in the hills
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The guide
A day retreat and a bushwalk are both on this page, and the difference between them is mostly how much of your day is planned for you.
Day retreats run four to eight hours in one place, usually with food, and combine two or three of movement, sitting, sound and rest. Weekend retreats add accommodation and a second morning, which is where most of the value is. Guided walks and forest bathing sessions are shorter and cheaper and generally ask nothing of your fitness beyond being able to walk for an hour or two. Surf and ocean sessions are the ones with actual conditions attached, and they get moved.
On practicalities: retreats book out further ahead than anything else in the directory, and the small ones fill first because they are small. Read what is included before comparing prices — accommodation, meals and transfers move the number a long way. For anything outdoors in Perth, check the forecast and the fire danger rating the day before, and expect a change of plan in summer.
Related: wellness retreats, day retreats, forest bathing, bushwalking, surf sessions, and walking groups.
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The Reel, from Australia’s South West, introduces the floating sauna at Pemberton Pool: two wood-fired sauna rooms on the water with big windows onto the karri forest, and the ritual its caption describes — warm up, step outside into the pool, and repeat.
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It captures the setting and the whole hot–cold ritual — including the dive that deserves a word of caution.
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Oria Haven lists 3 practices across 3 suburbs in the Perth metro. Every entry is checked by hand before it goes live, and the list is updated as practices open, move or close.
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