Nature & Outdoor Wellness in West Perth

Outdoor group fitness, running clubs and personal training held at beaches and parks across the western suburbs — Leighton, City Beach, Swanbourne, Mosman Park, Peppermint Grove and Dalkeith — plus lunchtime sessions in the CBD and Fremantle. Equipment is brought to the session, so there is no gym to join.

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.

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.

A volunteer-run WA charity that gets autistic children and adults into the surf, started in 2016 and now with thousands of participants behind it. Free community events run at beaches around the state, including Trigg Beach in Perth, with wetsuits, boards, lifejackets and instructors supplied. Weekly Surf Experience sessions can be booked using NDIS funding.

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.