Oria Haven lists 29 wellness practices under Retreats, Nature & Experiences in Perth, across 21 suburbs. The largest clusters are in Perth CBD (5), Serpentine (3) and Bedfordale (2). Seven publish a starting price, running from $25 to $1,666 with a median of $395. 23 publish a price band, and the most common is $60–200 (10 of them).
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One of the oldest and largest bushwalking clubs in Western Australia, with a program of graded day walks most Sundays and Wednesdays plus multi-day hikes, base camps and navigation courses. Walks are both on-track and off-track, mostly within about an hour's drive of Perth, and the club is a HikeWest member.
Vanessa Forbes runs outdoor fitness sessions in Kings Park, meeting near Sticky Beaks café on Kings Park Road. Boxfit and short midday sessions are the mainstay, aimed at people fitting training into a work break, with group and one-to-one programs for adults and children. Sessions run by appointment.
Social worker Liz Dos Santos runs ground-based equine sessions on a small Oakford property. The main offering is the seven-session Horse Wisdom Program for people aged 13 and over, alongside corporate team days. No riding is involved — the work happens on foot alongside the horses. NDIS registered.
An NDIS-registered outdoor practice running counselling, animal-assisted sessions, art and music therapy, exercise physiology and community-access programs in natural settings around Perth. Programs are built around each participant's own plan and goals rather than a fixed class timetable, and include therapeutic respite and retreat options.
A Byford property running equine assisted therapy and learning, therapeutic riding and hippotherapy. Sessions involve grooming, groundwork, observing the herd, leading horses and supported riding, and can be booked individually, as a family or in groups. Self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants are welcome and progress notes can be provided.
A clinical psychologist who holds sessions outdoors instead of in a consulting room — walking side by side, with an initial assessment by video call first. Group hikes, multi-day trips and corporate programs run seasonally. Sessions are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays at varying locations, and seated or flat-ground options are available.
Belinda guides forest bathing (shinrin-yoku) walks in bushland and gardens within about an hour of the Perth CBD, and also works in the South West. Walks are deliberately slow — roughly 2km over two to three hours, with long pauses for stillness and sensory exercises rather than distance covered. Nature journaling, workshops and workplace sessions are also offered.
The Buddhist Society of WA's purpose-built retreat centre in a Darling Scarp valley beside Bodhinyana Monastery — sixty single rooms with ensuites, a large meditation hall and covered walking-meditation halls. Weekend and nine-day residential retreats are led by monastics, with long days of sitting and walking practice; experienced practitioners can arrange mentored self-retreats of a week or more.
Sound baths in the hills above Armadale — fortnightly Sunday sonic immersions plus sunset, full-moon and cacao-ceremony sessions, with mats, bolsters and blankets provided. The bush setting is half the experience, and a three-event pass suits people who want it as a regular reset rather than a one-off.
A day retreat and a bushwalk are both on this page, and the difference between them is mostly how much of your day is planned for you.
Day retreats run four to eight hours in one place, usually with food, and combine two or three of movement, sitting, sound and rest. Weekend retreats add accommodation and a second morning, which is where most of the value is. Guided walks and forest bathing sessions are shorter and cheaper and generally ask nothing of your fitness beyond being able to walk for an hour or two. Surf and ocean sessions are the ones with actual conditions attached, and they get moved.
On practicalities: retreats book out further ahead than anything else in the directory, and the small ones fill first because they are small. Read what is included before comparing prices — accommodation, meals and transfers move the number a long way. For anything outdoors in Perth, check the forecast and the fire danger rating the day before, and expect a change of plan in summer.
Related: wellness retreats, day retreats, forest bathing, bushwalking, surf sessions, and walking groups.
Oria Haven lists 29 practices across 21 suburbs in the Perth metro. Every entry is checked by hand before it goes live, and the list is updated as practices open, move or close.
29 practices across 21 suburbs. The most choice is in Perth CBD (5), Serpentine (3) and Bedfordale (2) — use the area filter on this page to narrow it to the side of town you can actually get to.
Of the 7 practices here that publish a starting price, sessions begin from $25, with a typical starting price around $395. Prices come from the practices themselves and change without notice — confirm before you book.
We build the directory ourselves rather than taking paid submissions, so a practice appears because it exists and serves Perth — not because it paid. Practices can claim their listing to keep it accurate and add photos, offers and booking links. We never take a cut of bookings, and enquiries go straight to the practice.