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Summer is the season of expression. The days are longer, the energy is outward, and life naturally moves toward connection, expression, and celebration. Festival of Joy is an invitation to step into that space.
Inspired by the Fire element in Traditional Chinese Medicine. This experience centres in the heart of joy, expression, aliveness, and connection. It is where embodiment meets celebration, and where practices are experienced through the lens of play and our capacity to feel and relate.
This retreat is a celebration of being fully alive. Everything is designed to optimise energy, enhance resilience, and restore natural joy. Picture bare feet on warm grass, golden evenings under open skies, swimming in the magnesium pool, and laughter carrying across rolling hills. Its movement, music, and meaningful connection woven together with intelligent structure.

Not everyone wants another New Year’s Eve built around excess, noise, or disconnection. As the year turns, this retreat offers an opportunity to step away from the noise and enter the New Year feeling clear, energised, connected, and fully present.
A grounded and intentional space where celebration and embodiment come together. Where joy is not something forced or performed, but something that naturally emerges when the body softens, the nervous system settles, and we reconnect with ourselves and others.
This retreat is designed to support vitality, openness, emotional resilience, and authentic relating through intelligent practice, nourishing food, nature, movement, and shared experience. This retreat is limited to 22 participants.

Joy is often misunderstood. It is not something you create or force. It arises naturally when you are no longer holding yourself back. This retreat explores expression, authentic relating, movement, and the freedom to experience life more fully.
Each day balances activation and restoration, movement and spaciousness. Practices are guided with intention while allowing space for the group and environment to shape the experience.
This is nervous system intelligence woven into summer festival energy. Five energising days of breathwork, movement, music, connection, celebration, and space to simply feel fully alive.
There are moments of stillness and moments of celebration. Times for reflection and times for expression. The rhythm of the retreat allows energy to build, open, and settle naturally.
You'll experience Yoga, Qi Gong, Breathwork, sauna and ice baths, and plenty of time to socialise and relax. Evenings include a fire ceremony under the stars and relaxed DJ sessions by the pool.
Day 1: Arrival, grounding, and connection. Settling into the space and the group with ease.
Day 2: Opening into expression and welcoming the New Year with presence and energy.
Day 3: Slowing down, reconnecting with the body, and allowing what has opened to settle.
Day 4: Supporting long-term vitality and connection through education and practice.
Day 5: Anchoring the experience and reconnecting with what you carry forward.

King bed with private ensuite (one with bath) AC + ceiling fan, inside the main house. The most central rooms on the property, steps from the kitchen and shared living spaces. $3,400 solo or $4,300 shared.

King bed, private bathroom, AC + ceiling fan. Private cabins have their own deck, kitchen, and lounge. Ideal for partners who want their own space, or for guests who value solitude. $4050.

Double bed with private ensuite, AC + ceiling fan. The best choice for solo guests who want privacy without the price of a king suite.
$2,750 solo share only.

Double or Queen bed rooms, with shared cabin bathroom. Pedestal fan + AC in shared living room. Quiet and rustic feel.
$3,150 solo pr or $4,050 shared queen bed.

Two double beds, with shared bathroom, AC + ceiling fan. Ideal if you're coming with a friend, or open to being matched with another guest. $1,600pp twin share.
Mark Moon is known for creating grounded and immersive spaces that bridge breath, movement, embodiment, and human connection.
Drawing from Breathwork, Bioenergetics, and Yoga, Mark’s work supports people to reconnect with vitality, presence, emotional resilience, and a deeper experience of being fully alive.
Em Cruickshank is a Yin Yoga teacher, Qi Gong practitioner, and space holder with a deeply grounded and intuitive approach.
Drawing from Five Element Theory, somatic awareness, and energetic practice, Em creates nurturing spaces that support stillness, restoration, emotional connection, and inner balance.

This retreat is for those wanting to begin the year feeling clear, energised, and more deeply connected to life. For people drawn to meaningful experiences, nature, movement, and authentic human relating. And for anyone feeling the need to step out of constant doing and reconnect with what truly matters.
This retreat may be for you if:
✔️ You want to begin the year feeling powerful and clear
✔️ Want to feel energised, clear, and fully engaged with life
✔️ Need connection without the chaos
✔️ Love movement, music, and being fully present
✔️ Want to celebrate life more consciously
Join us in the Byron Bay hinterland for five days of breathwork, movement, connection, nourishment, rest, and celebration in the lush surrounds of Wybalena Organic Farm.
The retreat unfolds across expansive open landscapes, beautiful accommodation, nourishing meals, and expansive natural surroundings.
Reserve your room with a $500 deposit. Flexible payment plans are available.
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