Retreats & day escapes in Western Suburbs

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.

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.

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.