Retreats & day escapes in Perth

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.

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.

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.

A long-standing Wembley day spa built around multi-hour 'spa journey' packages — massage, facials, body therapies and healing treatments using organic Sodashi and Li'tya products, with sauna and light-therapy rooms on site. A team of around forty therapists runs six days a week, with late Thursday evenings. Pregnancy-safe rituals and men's treatments sit alongside the classic day-escape packages.

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.

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.

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 and small overnight retreat in the Swan Valley with an unusually broad wellness menu: massage, facials, clay treatments, hydrotherapy and floatation therapy, plus The Oasis — sauna, ice bath and spa sessions. Day visitors are explicitly welcome, six days a week, with Oasis and float sessions running Sundays too. Three luxury rooms serve those who stay over.

Structured retreat packages in the Swan Valley, from single-day resets built around yoga, meditation and spa treatments through to multi-day residential programs. Day formats start at $395, the one-day yoga and meditation retreat runs at $525 with group rates, and longer packages extend to five days. Retreats run Monday to Friday, booked online.

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.