Deluxe shared room
$2,300per person
Early bird until 30 November, then $2,500
Share a room with one other woman. Come with a friend, or I'll match you with someone I think you'll get on with.
26 Feb to 1 Mar 2027
From $2,300 per person
or 4 × $575
Women’s Retreat
Four-day women’s retreat · BlueGreen Sanctuary, Byron Bay hinterland
26 Feb to 1 Mar 2027
Spend three nights in the hinterland with women you’ll love, in a place you won’t believe is real.
from $2,300 · early bird until 30 Nov
Your invitation
Elementa Women’s Retreat is four days at BlueGreen Sanctuary in the Byron Bay hinterland, with movement, creative workshops, time in nature and every meal cooked by a private chef. This is time taken out of your familiar, where no one needs anything from you. No emails, and no pressure to perform.
You’ll be surrounded by women from completely different lives, who you’d probably never have met on the street, and who’ll feel like old friends by the second morning. In between sessions, you’ll swim in one of three pools, sit in the sauna, try the ice bath or book a massage from heaven, while alpacas wander the fields.
For women who love the extraordinary.
See the four days →This retreat is for you if…
The women who love this retreat most usually see themselves somewhere in here:
- You’d love a few women in your life who’d happily talk until midnight about the real stuff.
- You miss being carefree, and laughing until everything hurts, the way you did before life got so serious.
- Your laptop usually comes on holiday with you, and you can’t remember the last time you properly switched off.
- You can’t remember the last meal someone else cooked and cleared up for you.
- Something has just ended, or is about to begin, and you’d like to mark it with other women before the next chapter starts.
- You’ve been saying for years that you need to get back to the things that bring you joy, but there’s always something in the way.
- You used to call yourself creative, or you never have, but you’re curious to try it out without pressure.
Nine out of ten women come on their own, so you won’t be the only one.
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A day at the Elementa Women’s Retreat
Morning movement to wake up, then a long breakfast from your private chef on the sunny terrace by the pool. Workshops in the open plan studio, and lunch under the trees. Then the afternoon is yours: three pools, the sauna, a massage, the hinterland to wander. Candlelit dinner as the light goes, then the fire and conversation that runs late.
The full schedule stays a secret until you arrive.
So you can let go of planning and meet each day with an open mind.
Choose your room
All accommodation, food, activities and your gift bag included.
What's on the table
Catered by Tom and Tash at Burbury Wholefoods.
Tom and Tash build each menu around local, seasonal produce, most of it from organic and regenerative farms, with Mediterranean and Ayurvedic principles underneath.
Their kitchen is refined-sugar free and cooks in coconut oil, ghee or cold-pressed local olive oil. The menu is gluten free apart from a 72 hour fermented sourdough at breakfast, and primarily dairy-free, with occasional biodynamic yogurt, Deb's cheese, cultured butter and eggs from Oliver's Hens.
BlueGreen Sanctuary
Four days in your own pocket of paradise.
Just twenty minutes from Byron Bay, tropical gardens open onto lily ponds dotted with blue lotus flowers, three pools, a luxury yoga shala and a massage treatment space floating over the water. Ease into the ice bath and the infrared sauna, wander past alpacas in the fields, then gather around the outdoor fire pit and tipi as dusk settles over the gardens. The whole property is ours to enjoy.
Choose your room
Pay in full, or in four payments a fortnight apart, starting the day you book. The payment plan is open until 16 December.
All rooms have their own bathroom.
Deluxe private room
$3,400
Early bird until 30 November, then $3,700
A room to yourself with a king bed and your own bathroom.
Come with a friend and take 10% off, on top of the early bird or full price. Enter code FRIEND10 at checkout.
Included
Three nights' accommodation · Every meal by private chef · The full retreat program · Three pools, sauna and ice bath · Linen and towels · Your Elementa gift bag
Not included
Flights · Getting to BlueGreen · Travel insurance
Living nearby? Join for the four days without a room for $1,100, including all daytime meals.
Book a day place →Cancellation terms are in our refund policy.
54 five-star reviews on Google
A few of them below.
Your facilitator, Anastasia.
I’m a somatic and creative facilitator and researcher, and my work draws on theatre, education, yoga, qi gong, arts therapy and somatic inquiry. I’ve been hosting retreats for seven years, for more than 800 women.
The women who get the most out of my retreats are the ones who put a little trust in the unknown and let themselves be looked after.
500hr Hatha and Yin Yoga · Zhong Yuan Qigong · Universal Healing Tao · Somatic Mindfulness · Arts Therapy · PhD candidate
Anastasia’s experience and training“Every experience has been unique, yet Anastasia always manages to create such a beautiful and inclusive space in which magic truly happens.”
An easy arrival into Byron Bay.
The retreat is held in the hills just outside Byron Bay, a coastal town in northern New South Wales known for its ocean air and slow rhythm.
Fly into Ballina (BNK), 15 minutes away with direct daily flights from most major Australian cities, or the Gold Coast (OOL), about 1 hour 15, or Brisbane (BNE), roughly 2 hours 30. A taxi from any of them is the simplest way in.
BlueGreen Sanctuary · Byron hinterland, NSW
Before you book your place.
Read: what actually happens at a women’s retreatWhen and where is the retreat?
26 February to 1 March 2027 at BlueGreen Sanctuary in the Byron Bay hinterland, northern New South Wales, Australia. Residential stays include three nights' accommodation.
Who usually comes?
Women from all kinds of lives, mostly aged 25 to 65, though every age is welcome. Some are closing a chapter, some are celebrating a new one, and nine out of ten come on their own.
I've never been on a retreat before. Will I feel out of place?
No. Most women arrive slightly nervous and 90% come solo. Every session is optional, every practice is beginner-friendly, and nobody is asked to perform, share or push through anything.
I don't know anyone else going.
Neither do most of the group. Shared meals, circle and the small size of the retreat mean you know everyone by the second morning. Guests in a deluxe shared room can bring a friend or be matched.
What's the difference between a deluxe shared room and a deluxe private room?
A deluxe shared room is one place in a room with another woman, currently $2,300 per person. A deluxe private room is yours alone, currently $3,400. All rooms have their own bathroom. Meals, practices and property access are identical.
What is included, and can I attend without staying overnight?
Residential bookings include three nights' accommodation, every meal by private chef, the full retreat program, three pools, sauna and ice bath, linen and towels, and your Elementa gift bag. A non-residential place is A$1,100 for the four-day program, daytime meals and property access, without accommodation.
I have dietary requirements.
Tell us at booking and Tom and Tash from Burbury Wholefoods cook around them. Vegetarian, gluten free, dairy free and allergy needs are all standard here.
Can I pay it off over time?
Four equal payments are available for residential bookings made before 17 December 2026, Brisbane time. The first is paid when you book, followed by a payment every 14 days. Non-residential places are paid in full.
What if my plans change?
Cancellation terms are in our refund policy. Email hello@elementa.au if you need to discuss your booking.
26 Feb to 1 Mar 2027
Four days at BlueGreen Sanctuary, Byron Bay hinterland.
Every meal, every practice and full use of the property are included. Pay in full, or in four.
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