A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
- Rumi
Work through Conditioning & Baggage to Prepare for Lasting Love
Singles retreats are suitable for:
Excavating your dating approach to filter out Romance Roulette and move towards intentional dating.
People looking to clarify their relationships values and needs in order to determine the right relationship container and partner
Those not looking to game love, but master the game of love by understanding core needs and the stumbling blocks between you and a lasting, enriching connection.
Discovering how to release old connections and cut any cords that inhibit you from giving yourself fully to a connection
People who are looking for a high functioning, conscious connection rather than play small with conventional, transactional relationships
Those who can benefit from setting better boundaries and cultivating a healthy sense of self-love to magnetise a worthy equal
Retreats for Singles
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The Surrounds
Work inside or take time outside in the elements to soak in birdsong and nature
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The Space
A tranquil, restful space with bushland views and access to starry skies
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Local Walks
Chase waterfalls after dark on a local spectacular floodlit night walk in Katoomba
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Local Waterfalls
Our retreat centre is within walking distance of healing Mini Ha Ha waterfall
Relationship Retreat for Singles
Testimonials
I feel deep gratitude 🙏 for your hospitality Ginny & Marcus!!! The time, energy & support you gave me this weekend on the relationship retreat has been nothing short of heartfelt, deep, compassion, passion & love 🙌 I cannot put into words how much I appreciate you both. You are absolutely magical ✨️ MAGICAL! Thank u from the core of my heart ❤️ & soul I'll always remember how much you have helped me Keep shining ✨️ The world needs your light ✨️ If any of you are reading this & questioning coming, don't doubt it for a second 😇 You will feel truly supported, held & come away with deep gratitude & a sense of clarity & knowing It's all working out just beautifully x
- Michelle S
It was such a special experience to take part in the retreat hosted by Ginny and Marcus. 2 days just to focus on yourself with various sessions throughout the day. I found their counsel and guidance intuitive, relevant, meaningful and heart felt, not something you can just find 'online' and pay for, they have real gifts to share through the sessions together. The space where you stay and spend most of your time in the yurt is magical. A true opportunity in a sacred space to go deeper into your own self. Highly recommend. Thank you Ginny and Marcus for this fantastic weekend, I won't forget it.
- Vicki N
It was such a special experience to take part in the retreat hosted by Ginny and Marcus. Two days of self reflection just to focus on yourself with various sessions throughout the day. I found their counsel and guidance intuitive, relevant, meaningful and heart felt, not something you can just find 'online' and pay for, they have real gifts to share through the sessions together. The space where you stay and spend most of your time in the yurt is magical. A true opportunity in a sacred space to go deeper into your own self/journey. Highly recommend. Thank you Ginny and Marcus for this fantastic weekend, I won't forget it x
- Donna Taanman
Love Retreat
Program Outline
Day One
Morning Session 9:30am - 12:30pm
The swipe, date and repeat approach treats dating as a sprint rather than marathon. Discover the most effective ways to meet like minded people while refining and smoothing out your rough edges along the way.
We start by exploring your readiness for love and developing a positive expectation around romance to move away from dejection, inflated expectations or overwhelm around relationships. We’ll sift through cultural conditioning around what love is and introduce a more sacred or elevated perspective as to what relationships can offer us.
Lunch 12:30pm
Afternoon Session 1:00pm - 4:00pm
In order to find someone sympatico we need to deeply understand ourselves. In this session you’ll learn your love languages, your intimacy languages, your model of relating and insights into how you’re wired so you better understand what to look for in a suitable partner.
Choose from a reiki healing or breathwork session to help you release bodily what has surfaced in you through the mind or feelings during the day. Alternatively, have a numerology or astrology reading to glean insights into the issues and themes relating to partners from a metaphysical perspective.
Waterfall Walk (Optional) 4:00 - 6:00pm
Depending on the weather and your energy levels, you can use this time to take in a nearby bushwalk to our local waterfall.
Alternatively, you might want to play a couples board game or indulge in some of the relationship themed activities available or simply just be together and talk about your experiences so far…
Dinner 6:30 - 7:30pm
Enjoy a home cooked, organic meal or travel out to try one of Katoomba’s local dining facilities.
Evening (Optional) 7:30pm onwards
There are a range of optional evening activities for you to enjoy, such as listening to or reading poetry, life stories, or enjoying a thought-provoking film or inspiring documentary. Other options include self-guided meditation and yoga.
Day Two
Breakfast 8:30am
Enjoy a homemade breakfast, tea or coffee on the verandah whilst the kookaburras and other local birds sing.
Morning Session 9:30am - 12:30pm
Fulfilling relationships, like most areas of life are not a matter of luck as much as they are a matter of strong foundations, deep understanding and the clearing of sabotaging behaviours as well as limiting beliefs.
In this session you’ll work through your patterns, beliefs and behaviors which perpetuate misalignment and unsatisfying dating experiences.
As important as it is to determine what we need from a relationship, its equally vital to work through all of the family, cultural and internal conditioning that restricts our relationship potential.
Lunch 12:30pm
Afternoon Session 1:30pm - 4:00pm
The final session involves either an intuitive tarot reading, reiki healing or breathwork session. Alternatively, have a numerology or astrology relating to relationship needs and challenges.
Intentional dating is looking for that kind of partnership — the partnership that is “just right.” Recreational dating too often sticks you with the opposite — the kind that is “just right now.”
- Michael Todd
Cost: $590 for a 2 day weekend program or $540 for a 2 day weekday program.
Inclusions: Our retreats include accommodation, meals, workbooks, counselling and activities.
Optional session of bibliotherapy. Learn more about our bibliotherapy service.
Location: Katoomba, Blue Mountains NSW.
Your Facilitators
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Ginny’s training in guiding and supporting others began with her hairdressing career where she informally coached, listened and offered support to the thousands of clients she came to know both in Australia and abroad.
After navigating a crisis period where she had to take control of her life and steer it in a healthier direction she found her calling to work with people who were also ready to reclaim their life.
In addition to following Buddhist practices and doing extensive studies in self-development, she complemented her self-education with formal studies in Youth Work, Community Services and a Bachelor of Social Work.
Finding Breathwork to be a transformative form of healing she has done much training in it and continues to deepen her practice. Ginny is also trained in Theta healing.
Taking an intuitive approach, Ginny found a gift for interpreting the messages offered by tarot cards, working as a spiritual healer and being a clear vessel for the collective unconscious to work through.
Counselling is something that Ginny both enjoys and has a natural affinity for, particularly in the area of relationships.After undertaking our singles retreat, you’re invited to continue with Ginny’s relationship counselling to build upon the work completed during the retreat.
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Marcus studied Social Work and Education at University, grounding that knowledge through working in a diverse range of roles as an adult educator and caseworker.Through his time at Rudolf Steiner College, he realised the importance of holistic education and the need to focus on the whole person in contrast to the compartmentalised approach of institutions.
Deepening his knowledge by studying humanistic psychologists such as Abraham Maslow and Carl Jung and spending time in the Jungian community, he gained further insights into the challenges and opportunities relationships afford us.
After running a wide variety of workshops in Australia and overseas he launched his initiative known as Writes of Passage Retreats, in the belief that contemplation, nature, carefully curated ideas and guidance is the ideal means for people to look at life with greater possibility and unearth their own dormant potentiality.
Through his retreat programs and individual counselling work, he has worked with a large number of individuals on their relationship issues as well as through the intensive couples therapy retreat programs, employing ideas from relationship experts such as John Gottman and Esther Perel.
Lay The Groundwork
For Relationship Bliss
This retreat is designed for those not simply desiring a high calibre relationship but willing to undertake the hard work, self-reflection and honesty required to move from wishing to realising.
The poet Rilke once said, “For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
Finding our life partner and fostering a sustaining connection is arguably our greatest vehicle of growth and opportunity to practice and receive unconditional love. Social conditioning from our culture, families, peers, education and the faulty scripts we adopt ourselves requires a major rethink and reset if we are to be authentically ourselves and show up for another.
"Sometimes people walk away from love because it is so beautiful that it terrifies them. Sometimes they leave because the connection shines a bright light on their dark places and they are not ready to work them through. Sometimes they run away because they are not developmentally prepared to merge with another- they have more individuation work to do first. Sometimes they take off because love is not a priority in their lives - they have another path and purpose to walk first.
Sometimes they end it because they prefer a relationship that is more practical than conscious, one that does not threaten the ways that they organise reality. Sometimes it has nothing to do with us. Sometimes the one who leaves is just not ready to hold it safe. Sometimes they know something we don't - they know their limits at that moment in time. Real love is no easy path - readiness is everything.”
― Jeff Brown
For those having done significant self-development to be ready for healthy connection we offer a Sacred Union Retreat to understand the sacred masculine and sacred feminine to incorporate them into partnerships.
We also offer a Couples Therapy Retreat for couples who are working through challenges in their relationship.
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