Meditation and Wellbeing Retreats
Relax, unwind, get inspired and discover new ways of living, at one of our workshops or retreats.
Below are details of workshops and retreats we hold throughout the year for the general public and the workplace.
Who Are You? Who Am I? Kinder Respectful Relationships with the Enneagram - A 3-day weekend Retreat
Millions of individuals are grappling with these questions, in the face of conflicting messages about who we should be, how to behave and what’s important in life. We know we need to grow and evolve, but often the journey takes us away from where we want to go and it’s difficult to know when to go with it, and when to take control.
My name is Tania, I’m a certified enneagram coach, supporting people who are looking for answers and how and why we are the way we are and how to overcome your obstacles and improve your relationships.
The Enneagram is an ancient tool used by coaches, therapists, and managers around the world as a model for mental, emotional & spiritual growth. It refers to nine different personality styles, each having their own worldview. Each archetype resonates with the way different people think, feel and act in relation to the world, others and themselves. The Enneagram is much more than a personality profile however, offering insight into personality traits, as it delves deeper into the core motivations, defence mechanisms and fears that often lay in the unconscious layers of our personality.
At this 3-day retreat, you will discover the wisdom of this ancient map, to better understand yourself and others. You will gain insight into the 9 different personality traits, delving into the core motivations, defence mechanisms & fears that lie in the unconscious layers of the psyche. You will discover how to recognise the qualities of each type and develop greater respect and appreciation for their gifts.
This retreat brings together the practice of yoga and meditation with the wisdom of the enneagram, so you can better understand your ‘self’, your colleagues, peers & loved ones; enhancing communication, understanding & connection to enjoy kinder, respectful and collaborative relationships.
It is a non-residential retreat, giving you the opportunity to split your time between home & the retreat space, enjoying the best of both during the long weekend, without the expense of travel & accommodation.
If joining with a partner, please message Tania for the couple’s price of $1500, just $750 each.
Here's what you can expect to gain from the weekend:
Here’s how it will run:
After registration, you will be sent a link to complete the enneagram questionnaire. Upon completion, your comprehensive 25-page report will be created detailing your:
The enneagram relationships retreat is only offered once per year. A rare opportunity to discover what makes yourself and others tick, it helps you develop deep appreciation and respect for everyone in your life, breaking down barriers that create separation. This insight makes it a huge asset both personally and professionally.
The report alone is an invaluable document valued at over $250, think of it as a road map with wisdom and guidance to support your evolution and development over a lifetime. Combined with the therapeutic benefits of yoga and meditation, this retreat offers you an opportunity to hit the pause button, look at yourself and others differently and change the way you relate to the world around you.
Places are strictly limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.
Peaceful Communication Workshop
You need to talk it through and work it out.
This can be really challenging, especially if you feel anxious in the face of conflict. Maybe your conflict style is reactive and you get easily fired up? Or perhaps you prefer to focus on the facts, which can come across as insensitive?
Whatever your conflict style, avoiding difficult conversations because you dont want to hurt other people’s feelings - or risk your own feelings getting hurt - doesn't resolve the issue. In fact it can lead to resentment and apathy, which can be the end of trust and connection.
The non-violent communication technique was created by Marshal Rosenthal. It offers a peaceful way to communicate, bringing individuals, couples and families together, allowing each person to be seen and heard in a safe, respectful way.
Whether your conflict style is anxious, reactive, avoidant or fact-focused, each has its limitations when difficult feelings are in play.
The peaceful communication model allows individuals to share their thoughts, feelings and needs without blame or judgement.
Bypassing triggers like defensiveness, the model invites participants to be responsible for communicating their needs and stopping the drama associated co-dependant communication.
Join me for a playful introduction to this mindful technique in an interactive workshop that will change the way you deal with difficult conversations.
Everyone is welcome.
Ayurveda Workshop
Ayurveda is often called the sister science of yoga, but it’s more like the Mother of yoga, because yoga is just one part of this philosophy of bringing yourself into a natural state of balance, in harmony with nature through diet and lifestyle. It teaches you how to eat, rather than what to eat, so you feel happier and healthier.
Modern diets separate foods into good and bad, with an over-emphasis on weight and appearance, which can be confusing and overwhelming, not to mention frustrating if they involve complicated regimes and the sale of expensive powders and supplements. These diets don’t take into account the different life stages we go through, nor the subtle nuances that make your body’s different to 2/3 of the population.
Eating for your type – The Ayurveda Way, is a 2 hour workshop that introduces you to the yogic way of eating, with a focus on understanding your body constitution and how to use food as medicine, not just fuel, keeping you in balance.
Tania Burgess is wellbeing coach and yoga teacher with over ten years experience in supporting clients to optimise their mental, emotional and physical wellbeing through diet and lifestyle.
Melida
“Tania helped me balance my meals and snacks, so that I was eating for my mental health and my body and not just convenience. I eat different food at work now and I know what spices and vegetables to cook with when I get anxious and stressed. It feels good to know. I am a single mum, so my life is very busy. I also feel like I’m a better Mother, modelling good habits to my boys."
By attending this workshop you can expect to gain a clear understanding of why you are drawn to particular foods and not others, and how to nourish yourself with best choices. You will be able to connect with intuitive eating. You will gain more clarity around how to create meals that suit yourself and the family. You will discover what your cravings are telling you and how to satisfy them naturally.
During our lifespan, we go through cycles and phases when our energy changes and so our dosha may present itself differently. The most important thing we will be exploring in the workshop is how to recognise imbalance and how to create balance, so regardless of whether your dosha aligns or not, you will discover how to eat more mindfully.
Chance is your dietary requirements will be consistent with your dosha (body type ) and you may discover more foods to support your body. You may also discover why the energy of what you are intolerant of is not suited to you.
You don’t need to cook to do this workshop. Knowing what different foods contain and how they are made will help you make better choices when buying food prepared by others.
Discovering your dosha and eating for your type is a big step away from the diet culture that has become part of modern life. Eating for your type will bring your body into balance, so the systems of digestion, metabolism etc are less taxed and more supported. This process of coming into balance naturally tends to shed excess fluid and weight because your energy returns and you feel better. When you feel better, you are more likely to make better choices.
A Good Night's Sleep Workshop
There’s lots of advice about sleep out there, but much of it rarely works, especially if your sleep problems are triggered my established habits. At this 2 hour workshop, you will discover the latest science that supports timeless wisdom, to help you discover how to get a good night’s sleep?
You will discover how to:
- Establish new habits
- Create a good sleep routine;
- Recognise what’s preventing sleep;
- Tweak your diet to support better sleep;
- Discover techniques to get to sleep & get back to sleep if you wake.
Holding Better Boundaries
About the day
As empaths & carers, we feel what others are going through and all too often, the lines between their stress and ours becomes blurred. In a whirlwind of love, care & duty, we find ourselves feeling empty & depleted. Anger & resentment can make guest appearances too.
Take a day for yourself to relax and unwind, without needing to think about anyone or anything else.
Gain clarity on what is & is not your responsibility & how to better manage your boundaries reducing defensiveness, reactivity & exhaustion.
Just one day, time out for you.
This is a day to develop new skills insights & understanding, so you can reduce your stress & experience more energy & freedom.
What you will experience on the day:
Fran
How to look After Myself
During this one day retreat, I acknowledged that I don't have good boundaries with my family or work. And without those boundaries, it's much harder to look after myself.
I learned what I can actually control and how to communicate for better relationship dynamics.
Kristy
Take Time for Me
Taking time for myself doesn't have to be booking an actual event. At this retreat, I developed a deep understanding of how to be present, embrace my life and take time for myself, even in the face of others.
8am Welcome & Mindfulness Yoga:
Start the day with a dynamic yoga class to release muscle tension and soothe your mind. Suitable for all levels and abilities.
9.30am Morning Tea
Freshly brewed coffee & a selection of organic herbal teas.
Enjoy a delicious home made morsel to go with your drink of choice..
Chat with other participants or chill in one of our rest areas.
10am Women's Circle
In this session, ancient teachings & neuroscience meet the experience of each participant as we explore the purpose of boundaries, why we hold them and why we dont.
You will become clear on the 4 powers of control and how to define your boundaries.
You can expect a new perspective, sharing, discussion and connection within the women's circle.
12.30pm Vegetarian Lunch
Savour a gourmet vegetarian lunch with fresh seasonal produce and delicious flavours.
Special dietary requirements catered to upon request (at time of booking).
1.30pm Afternoon session
Reflecting on the insights of the morning session, you will integrate new ways of managing your boundaries.
3pm Afternoon Tea
Take a break with a cup of tea and something yummy from the kitchen.
3.15pm Reflection, insights & meditation
Farewells, celebrations and ongoing support.
4pm Farewell and goodbye
Where, When & How Much?
Unless indicated otherwise, all our One Day Retreats are held at our Wellbeing Centre, tucked away in the leafy suburb of Killara on Sydney's North shore.
The day begins at 8am with yoga and concludes at 4pm.
Address & confirmation details are sent out at the time of booking.
The cost includes all meals, classes & workshop sessions.
Gabby
I Loved Everything
I loved everything about the day - the yoga, meditation, the food, the discussion, the new understandings.
Most valuable, is the reassurance that it's OK to have boundaries.
Thank you Tania for your clarity & inspiration.
Bring your own yoga mat, drink bottle, blanket & note book with pen for any notes you may wish to capture. Everything else will be provided.
These classes are tailored to suit the fitness and abilities of everyone in the class. Come with an open mind and be guided through your first yoga experience.
We love friends to come together. Whether its a relative or a friend, we welcome everyone over the age of 16 years.
If you are nursing an injury or condition, please let us know at the time of booking, so we can modify the yoga practice and the meditation to suit you.
If you cant make the date of this retreat, then join our list below and we will keep you updated about when this retreat returns to the schedule. Alternatively you can host your own retreat with a minimum group size of six participants.
All our foods are home cooked, using the freshest and where possible organic ingredients. For the most part our meals are gluten, egg & dairy free. If you have allergies or special dietary requirements, just let us know at the time of booking.
Whilst some of our practices draw on Hindu & Buddhist traditions, our retreats are religious neutral, free from preaching & dogma. All perspectives are encouraged and welcome.
Women have gathered in circles to share their stories and wisdom for millenia. The Women's circle is a way of honouring the innate wisdom of each & every women through deep listening.
Self Care Essentials Retreat
About the day
It's easy to put everyone else first when you are a Mum, business owner, carer, high achiever, or over thinker.
All too often, when your time and energy are going towards the support and nurturing of others, you forget about your own needs.
In attempts to stay on top of everything, you cut corners on your own self care, skipping meals, not getting enough sleep & down time and before too long, you find your energy and tolerance is low and you feel numb, resentful, burnt out.
Take a day for yourself to relax and unwind, without needing to think about anyone or anything else.
Reset your nervous system and regain your sense of self.
Just one day, time out for you.
Bring your own yoga mat, drink bottle, blanket & note book with pen for any notes you may wish to capture. Everything else will be provided.
These classes are tailored to suit the fitness and abilities of everyone in the class. Come with an open mind and be guided through your first yoga experience.
We love friends to come together. Whether its a relative or a friend, we welcome everyone over the age of 16 years.
If you are nursing an injury or condition, please let us know at the time of booking, so we can modify the yoga practice and the meditation to suit you.
If you cant make the date of this retreat, then join our list below and we will keep you updated about when this retreat returns to the schedule. Alternatively you can host your own retreat with a minimum group size of six participants.
All our foods are home cooked, using the freshest and where possible organic ingredients. For the most part our meals are gluten, egg & dairy free. If you have allergies or special dietary requirements, just let us know at the time of booking.
Whilst some of our practices draw on Hindu & Buddhist traditions, our retreats are religious neutral, free from preaching & dogma. All perspectives are encouraged and welcome.
Women have gathered in circles to share their stories and wisdom for millenia. The Women's circle is a way of honouring the innate wisdom of each & every women through deep listening.
Meet Tania
Tania Burgess, Certified Wellness Coach, Yoga & Meditation Facilitator, and Founder of Turn UP Your Zen, has more than a decade of experience working in the wellbeing industry.
She is driven to visibly creating community change through the delivery of her relevant, scientifically proven Mindfulness and Meditation programs to individuals, corporates, learning and caring communities.
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