Mind & mental wellbeing in Perth

A small studio in Connolly run by Louise Jennings, combining personal training with health and lifestyle coaching. Group fitness is capped at six, and one-on-one work runs alongside family sessions, post-pregnancy training and teen programmes. The coaching side covers menopause, weight management and lifestyle planning; a 75-minute lifestyle consultation takes in a nutrition plan, an exercise programme and goal setting. Group sessions are $21.50 and lifestyle plans $99, both published on the site.

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.

Mandy Francisty runs day retreats around Perth and weekend retreats further afield — the next in Pemberton — built from slow-flow and restorative yoga, yoga nidra, meditation, breathwork, journaling and a vegan, gluten-free lunch, each day on a different theme. Based in Two Rocks, where there is venue hire, a sauna and ice bath and weekly yoga, she is a yoga and pilates teacher, breathwork practitioner, NLP and EFT therapist and personal trainer, and takes private bookings for hens, birthdays and teams.

Mark Simpson works from Princess Road in Doubleview and over Zoom, with group breathwork most Tuesday evenings and some weekend afternoons, two-hour one-to-one journeys, and a shorter hour-long introductory session. His training is a year-long course recognised by the Australian Breathwork Association; he is also an 800-hour yoga teacher and a Reiki master, and runs programs for organisations. Prices are on the site: $80 for the hour, $160 for a two-hour private session.

A dedicated sound space on five acres of jarrah bush beside a nature reserve in Sawyers Valley, on the same property as Sawyers Valley Retreat. The public calendar runs sound sessions on the new and full moons, solstice gatherings, yoga, mantra and chant, storytelling evenings and slow-stitching workshops, and the temple takes private group bookings and retreats. Published event prices sit between $111 and $180.

Richard and Helena Boyd have run Energetics Institute from a Federation home in Inglewood for more than twenty years. Breathwork sits alongside their somatic psychotherapy practice — private sessions in the rooms or online, and group breathwork sessions that fold in sound. Both are professional members of the Australian Breathwork Association. Open weekdays to 7pm and Saturday mornings.

Life in Flow is the breathwork arm of Breathe Counselling, a Perth counselling practice with rooms across the city. Joanna Gwynn, the practice's co-director and an internationally accredited breathwork practitioner with trauma-informed and somatic training, runs individual sessions in person and online and small group sessions, offered at the Perth, Rockingham and Mandurah clinics. The sessions are built as a series of five, each with a different focus, and are gentle enough for children.

Graeme Salvetti has facilitated breathwork for more than sixteen years and holds a degree in psychotherapy and counselling. Weekly group sessions run on Sunday afternoons in South Fremantle, online group journeys most Thursday evenings, and two-hour private sessions for individuals or couples by arrangement, alongside men's groups, embodiment coaching and bespoke sessions for organisations. Published prices: $80 for the Sunday group, $65 online, $180 private.

Kevin teaches meditation from Aberdeen Street in Northbridge as a structured progression rather than drop-in sittings — three six-session courses running from a first introduction through to advanced practice, each with weekly materials and guided audio to take away.

Miranda Diprose combines reiki with seventeen years of clinical hypnotherapy from Woodlands, holding Clinical and Fellow membership of the Australian Hypnotherapists Association and having served on its board. Counselling, NLP and EFT sit alongside, in person or online.