Retreats & day escapes in Perth Hills

Eight luxury chalets tucked into Perth Hills bushland at Mount Helena, each with a private spa on its deck. The day spa offers massage and facial treatments, and The Lounge restaurant and bar keeps a stay self-contained — breakfast hampers arrive at the chalet door. Accommodation is strictly adults-only; stays start from $495 a night.

An adults-only retreat set in its own jarrah forest in the Perth Hills, about half an hour from the city. Self-contained lodges each have a kitchen, log fire and outdoor heated jacuzzi, and the on-site day spa — massage, facials, rituals and wraps, pregnancy pampering — takes casual day visitors as well as lodge guests, Monday to Saturday. In-lodge dining, platters and picnic hampers round out a stay.

A small, purpose-built adults-only retreat on a secluded hilltop outside Mundaring, surrounded by state forest and national park, running residential programs since 2013. Themed retreats span day visits through to multi-day stays — yoga, forest walks, mindfulness and spa-focused formats — with a swim pond, gym, infrared sauna, mineral baths and a library on the property. Airport pick-up is complimentary for retreat guests.

A day spa in the gardens of a Gooseberry Hill property that began life in the early 1900s as Kalamunda's first girls' high school. Five treatment rooms, three of them for couples, with massage, facials and Omnilux light therapy, hands and feet, eye, head and scalp treatments, crystal body treatments, prenatal treatments, waxing and tinting, and day packages built from them. Tuesday to Saturday, 9.30am to 5.30pm.

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.