PERTH · Retreats, Nature & Experiences
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Explore hiking & bushwalking across Perth, compare the details and choose somewhere that suits your day.
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9 places · 7 suburbs
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Over 15km of bush trails and ten lookouts on the highest natural ground along this stretch of coast. The climb from the car park to the Reabold Hill platform is about 200 metres, unpaved in places, and turns to face the ocean at the top — which is the reason to time it for the last hour of light.
Guided hikes from two hours to five days, most of them in the Perth Hills, Yanchep and on Rottnest, with longer trips to Denmark, Karijini and Esperance. The wellness-leaning walks — 'Wild & Well Perth', 'Zen in the Cave' — pair the trail with time to sit, and more than half of guests come alone. Day hikes are priced from free to $349, multi-day trips from $1,590; cancellation is free with 48 hours' notice, and one per cent of earnings goes to mental-health and land-restoration causes.
Julie Baker and Emma McLarty run small-group wellness journeys from Perth, with their signature Rejuvenation Retreat held on an 1,800-acre property in the Chittering Valley surrounded by state forest above the Avon River. The long-weekend format pairs private cabins and all meals with guided bush walks and unhurried days built around rest. The pair also lead international journeys — Kerala, Bhutan, Japan among them — and arrange private group retreats.
One of the oldest and largest bushwalking clubs in Western Australia, with a program of graded day walks most Sundays and Wednesdays plus multi-day hikes, base camps and navigation courses. Walks are both on-track and off-track, mostly within about an hour's drive of Perth, and the club is a HikeWest member.
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.
Frieda runs yin and vinyasa classes in Claremont and Cottesloe and takes the practice into the bush: yoga hikes — 'yikes' — such as a four-kilometre walk at Bells Rapids followed by a slow-flow class and afternoon tea, and a hike to the Golden View lookout above Mundaring Weir, forty-five minutes east of the city. Longer retreats run in Balingup and overseas. Private one-to-one classes and corporate yoga and pilates round out the calendar.
A retreat centre on ten acres of bushland in the Perth hills, with a seasonal creek, native forest and an octagonal yoga shala. Alongside weekly classes it runs a monthly one-day silent retreat, longer weekend retreats through the year, self-guided personal retreat stays and long-form teacher training. Retreat days fold in bush walks on the property.
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.
Holly Dutton teaches yoga at City Beach and runs residential retreats in WA's south-west — most recently a four-day Margaret River weekend combining daily yoga, sauna and ice bath sessions, breathwork, meditation, bush walks and a cacao ceremony, fully catered. Shared and single rooms from $1,495. Private retreats for groups of six or more can be arranged at Rottnest, Yallingup, Ferguson Valley and the Swan Valley.
9 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, 9 of the 46 Retreats, Nature & Experiences listings on Oria Haven are in this view (Perth) — counted live from the directory.
2 places here publish a starting price, from $25 to $1,495.
5 of these specialise in retreats, nature & experiences — it is their main focus. The other 4 list it among other things they offer.
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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Oria Haven lists 9 practices across 7 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.
9 practices across 7 suburbs. The most choice is in City Beach (2) and Perth CBD (2) — use the area filter on this page to narrow it to the side of town you can actually get to.
3 of the 9 practices listed run sessions that are free or by donation. Sort by price on this page to bring them to the top.
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.
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