Meditation classes in Fremantle & South

Guided meditation in the Karma Kagyu tradition three times a week at Bibra Lake — Monday and Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons — each session opening with a short talk before twenty to thirty minutes of guided practice in English. Free to attend, donations voluntary, no experience needed; cushions and chairs provided.

A not-for-profit centre teaching modern Buddhist meditation, with its home in East Fremantle and weekly drop-in classes across the metro — Joondalup, Kingsley, Bayswater, Baldivis and free lunchtime sessions at the WA Museum. Drop-ins are $15, need no booking, and assume no background whatsoever.

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 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.

A dedicated meditation centre in Bicton running live guided classes morning to evening six days a week, in person and online, built around a simple seven-step method pitched at every age and experience level. Kids' classes run Tuesday evenings, membership includes unlimited daily classes, and a free one-on-one consultation starts things off.

A lay Zen community in the Diamond Sangha lineage, sitting zazen every Thursday evening at the Beaconsfield church hall since its founding in 1982 — newcomers arrive at six for orientation. Teachers Mari Rhydwen Roshi and Glenn Wallis Roshi guide the practice, with monthly sits on country, quarterly intensive sitting days and an annual multi-day sesshin. Runs on dana; mats and chairs provided.

Euphemia teaches small-group workshops from Hamilton Hill: Reiki levels one to three ($200–$390), a six-week Awaken & Raise Your Vibration course ($320), a reiki and chakra balancing weekend ($350) and a $30 pendulum workshop, with online meditation and journaling at $10 a week. Healing sessions include sound meditation, clairvoyant readings and aura drawings.

Neerja Ahuja's Applecross centre pairs classical Ayurvedic treatment — snehana herbal-oil massage, nasya, purvakarma and panchakarma programs — with diet and lifestyle sessions and yoga nidra. A long-established practice on the south side of the river with consultations and treatments booked separately.

Charley has taught for over two decades from shared studio spaces in Applecross, Bateman and Hilton, with a practice built deliberately for stiff mornings and old injuries rather than for people who already bend easily. Gentle therapeutic yoga, strength work, mindfulness and meditation, plus private yoga-therapy sessions, seniors classes and online options. Registered as a Yoga Therapist with both Yoga Australia and IAYT, and a Level 3 teacher.

Christie's home clinic in Booragoon mixes energetic kinesiology, Holy Fire and Karuna reiki, sound healing and ceremonial cacao, with monthly group healing sessions for up to ten. Open Tuesday to Thursday and Saturdays by appointment, with evening slots on request, plus reiki and Access Bars training through the year.

Lyndal runs a monthly women's circle on the last Saturday of the month, 7–9pm, at the Fremantle Yoga Centre space on Petra Street. Evenings move through grounding meditation with sound, yin yoga, a cacao ritual and guided sharing by candlelight, with themes following the seasons and moon phases.

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.

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.