Oria Haven lists 16 wellness practices under Community & Support in Perth, across 10 suburbs. Three publish a price band, and the most common is $25–60 (1 of them). Seven of the 16 run sessions that are free or by donation. Three offer online or hybrid sessions.
Every listing hand-checked. Figures live from the directory, last updated 26 August 2026.
Each is a filtered view of the 16 listings — it counts, it never ranks.
A Finnish sauna house on Erindale Road, grown out of a mobile sauna that spent a couple of years touring Perth before settling into a permanent room. Sessions are built around aufguss — a facilitator working steam and scent through the sauna in rounds — with hot and cold magnesium plunge pools alongside, and a separate private room for anyone who would rather do sauna and ice bath alone. Physiotherapy and massage are booked from the same room, and the lounge runs group classes and events.
The Centre for Attitudinal Healing's bush retreat an hour south-east of Perth, used by community groups, families and teams. Accommodation runs from a cottage to shared quarters for 23 or 46, with a hall for meetings and meditation, a fully equipped kitchen, an outdoor meeting grove, a winter bonfire area and walking trails through the property. Published rates: cottage $500 a night, the 23-bed wing $1,600, the 46-bed wing $3,000, and hall hire $500 a day Monday to Thursday.
Council-run centres for residents over 55, with keep-fit classes, yoga, tai chi, chess, bridge and bingo, plus visiting podiatry and hairdressing and shopping excursions. Term-based rather than casual.
Day centres for people over 55 running gardening, cooking, music, arts and crafts, outings and seated sport, with programmes for people living with dementia and support for complex needs. Four centres across the metro and South West.
Monthly get-togethers in ordinary cafés for people living with dementia or memory loss and the people who care for them, with table games, puzzles and company. Around two dozen locations across WA, each meeting once a month.
A registered WA charity running community art wellbeing programs — studio sessions, workshops and art and somatic experiences facilitated by peer workers alongside art and somatic therapists. They're explicit that the work complements clinical care rather than replacing it, which says a lot about how they operate.
Free, volunteer-led local walking groups run under the Heart Foundation's national walking program, with groups meeting on regular weekly schedules across the Perth metro. Join online, pick a group near you, and walk — no cost, no equipment, all paces.
A long-running WA counselling organisation whose free SMART Recovery groups meet across the Perth metro, north-east metro and Wheatbelt. Sessions are peer-led and structured around practical skills — motivation, urges, weekly goals — and are open to the public with no bookings or fees.
A volunteer-run meditation centre teaching Raja Yoga meditation through free introductory courses, public talks and workshops, with an ongoing Thursday evening class for those who have completed the intro course. All courses, classes and retreats are offered free of charge.
A social walking group that has been going for more than ten years, with 60–90 minute walks most Saturday and Sunday mornings at rotating spots around Perth, usually finishing with coffee. All fitness levels welcome — it is as much about meeting people as covering ground.
Most of what’s on this page costs nothing. Peer support groups, recovery meetings, walking groups and community circles run on volunteers, donations or small term fees, and several of the organisations listed have operated in Perth for decades.
The formats differ in ways worth knowing before you walk in. Open meetings admit anyone, including people just wanting to see what happens; closed meetings are for people who identify with the group’s purpose. Peer-led groups are run by people with their own experience of the thing the group is about; facilitated groups have a trained convenor. Men’s groups and women’s circles tend to run as ongoing series where the same people return each month, so joining is easier at the start of a term.
One practical warning: meeting times and venues in this category change more often than any other part of the directory, and church halls and community centres get rebooked at short notice. Ring or check the organisation’s own page before you drive across town.
Related: peer support groups, recovery meetings, wellness meetups, and free sessions around the metro.
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Oria Haven lists 16 practices across 10 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.
16 practices across 10 suburbs. The most choice is in Perth CBD (7) — use the area filter on this page to narrow it to the side of town you can actually get to.
7 of the 16 practices listed run sessions that are free or by donation. Sort by price on this page to bring them to the top.
Yes — 3 of the 16 practices listed offer online or hybrid sessions. Filter by format above to see only those.
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.