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· The Power Within ·

A Luxury Byron Bay Wellness Retreat at Blue Green Sanctuary

Autumn Retreat April 9–13 · Spring Retreat Oct 29–Nov 2, 2026

Step into your next evolution at this luxury wellness retreat in Byron Bay. Held at the breathtaking Blue Green Sanctuary in the Byron Bay Hinterland, The Power Within is a five-day immersion that blends nervous system regulation, Breathwork, Yoga, and whole food nourishment into one deeply restorative experience.


Designed for high-achieving and self-aware individuals who value both ambition and inner alignment, this retreat offers a rare blend of luxury and depth, with a space to pause, reset, and realign with your purpose. 


Whether you're seeking more energy, emotional clarity, or sustainable transformation, this is your invitation to recalibrate and come home to the power within. This isn’t just time away — it’s a full-body reset.

Presence · Vitality · Direction

Whether you’re navigating change, a renewed focus in your work, deepening your self-awareness, or ready to create from a more authentic place, this Byron Bay retreat gives you both the pause and the pathway to make that shift possible.

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Nervous System Healing that supports Purposeful Living

More than a Holistic Health Retreat. It’s a Return to Alignment.

Recalibrate your body. Realign your energy. Reconnect within. Step out of the noise and into a luxurious sanctuary where your health, energy, and deeper purpose are invited back into harmony. At The Power Within Retreat, rest isn’t an escape — it’s a portal to profound transformation. You won’t just leave feeling rested. You’ll leave feeling completely realigned.


This is where luxury becomes a healing technology, designed to help your nervous system soften and your energy return. Fire-lit conversations, massages by the lily pond, and consciously curated spaces allow your body to settle — and your true self to re-emerge.


This is nervous system care you can feel. A space to drop the masks, return to presence, and open your energy to what’s next.

Why do a Byron Bay retreat in Autumn and Spring?

These aren’t just beautiful times of year. They are energetically potent transitions. In Autumn, we work with the energy of release. This is the season to shed what no longer serves you, metabolise unresolved emotion, and prepare the ground for what's next, all in lush green surrounding.


In Spring, we align with emergence and renewal. This is the season to clear stuck energy, awaken new vision, and move forward with integrity. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Autumn governs the Lungs (breath, grief, boundaries), while Spring governs the Liver (planning, movement, frustration, and vision) and Blue Green Sanctuary Byron Bay is the perfect location. 

What Does This Mean for You?

By working with nature’s rhythms, your body doesn’t resist. It recalibrates — organically, intelligently, and sustainably.

· The Foundational Elements of The Power Within Retreat ·

Where your Inner Ecology Meets an Intentional Way of Living

Restorative Luxury for Body, Mind and Senses

At The Power Within Retreat in Byron Bay, luxury is not about indulgence, it’s a healing technology. Every element is designed to help your nervous system regulate, your energy recalibrate, and your body remember its natural rhythm. From massages by the lily pond and fire-lit conversations to elegantly styled spaces that invite stillness and serenity, where your shoulders drop the moment you arrive.


We’re not here to give you more to do — we’re here to help you remember who you are when you stop doing. 


This immersive wellness retreat is intentionally structured around five elements of transformation. Each one speaks to a different layer of your inner ecosystem — from your breath to your beliefs — offering a full-spectrum approach to optimal health, vitality, and aligned living.

Breathe: Awaken The Intelligence Within

Breath is the bridge between body, mind, and spirit. It’s the original intelligence of the nervous system, guiding us back to presence, clarity, and inner power. Through Coherent Breathing and Qi Gong, you’ll settle into a grounded rhythm that  guides you into stillness and energetic harmony, restoring calmness and balance. 


Conscious Connected Breathwork invites you to explore the subtle layers of your inner world — releasing emotions, increasing vitality, and reconnecting with what’s true, revealing your power, and possibility.


Each technique supports nervous system regulation, clears held tension, and opens space for new awareness. Here, the breath becomes both mirror and medicine — revealing what’s ready to move and what’s waiting to emerge.

Move: Activate The Rhythm Within

Movement is more than exercise. It’s how we harmonise with the inner tides of energy, emotion, and life itself. True vitality doesn’t come from pushing harder, but from moving with your body’s natural rhythms.


Throughout our wellness retreats, you’ll explore practices that support your circadian cycles and seasonal flow. Morning sessions energise with functional, flowing movement. Evening practices slow you down, offering deep release through yin yoga and restorative postures that calm the nervous system and reset your internal state.


Each class is designed to meet you where you are to support strength, resilience, and presence without pressure to achieve. You’ll leave feeling more at home in your body, with a movement practice that sustains your wellbeing long after you’ve left.

Nourish: Fuel The Alchemy Within

Food is more than fuel — it’s chemistry, consciousness, and care. The way you nourish yourself directly impacts your energy, gut health, and emotional clarity. At this Byron Bay wellness retreat, meals are more than delicious — they’re deeply intentional. 


Created by renowned chef Simon Favorito, each dish honours the healing power of seasonal whole foods, aligned with your body’s natural rhythms. Every ingredient is chosen to support digestion, vitality, and mental clarity — without the stress of calorie counting.


You’ll also explore the art of conscious cooking, learning how to prepare simple, nutrient-rich meals that support both your nervous system and your life force. Every bite becomes a practice in presence — a reminder that nourishment can be both grounding and expansive.

Relax: Support The Freedom Within

In a world that glorifies achievement and busyness, true relaxation becomes a radical act. Rest isn’t weakness, it’s wisdom. Relaxation is reframed as both a skill and a strategy, that nourishes your nervous system, restores your inner vision, and creates sustainable energy.


From infrared saunas, magnesium pools, massage by the lily pond, and deep meditative stillness, you’ll be guided into tangible states of regeneration. This is where your body softens, energy recalibrates, and your mind begins to clear. Tension melts. Clarity returns.


Each day is a gentle invitation to pause and receive, allowing your body the space it needs to regulate, reset, and remember how good it feels to be rested. You’ll leave not only rejuvenated, but reconnected to a version of yourself that feels grounded, spacious, and fully alive.

Align: Realise The Truth Within

Are you living from alignment or from obligation and expectation? Through Dharma talks, guided journaling, and integrative psychology, we explore the unconscious patterns that shape your choices, relationships, and energy. 


You’ll be invited to meet yourself with honesty and compassion, gently uncovering what no longer serves, and making space for what’s ready to emerge. When you live in harmony with your values, purpose, and truth, life doesn’t just feel clearer — it flows with ease and momentum.


You’ll leave with a deeper sense of clarity, grounded confidence, and the tools to make aligned decisions — not from pressure or pattern, but from your energetic truth. This is the path of living on purpose, with presence and power.

Why this retreat works?

Most people don’t need more information. They need a space to process, regulate, and realign.

The Power Within Retreat is intentionally designed to integrate science and spirit — supporting real, embodied transformation. We won’t overload you with practices. Instead, you’ll receive what truly works: grounded, repeatable tools that restore balance and become part of your life beyond the retreat.


This isn’t about escaping your life. It’s about returning to yourself and restoring the energy, clarity, and alignment to live your truth with more ease and impact. We meet you at the intersection of ambition, sensitivity, and soul for:


✔️ Nervous system regulation meets energetic calibration and alignment
✔️ Deep rest meets purposeful activation — with openness, not pressure
✔️ Breath, movement, and nourishment meet integration and awareness


You’ll be guided through practices that recalibrate your nervous system, renew vitality, and bring clarity to where you are and what’s next. This is for those who are tired of managing the symptoms of burnout, and are ready to step into deeper alignment. You’ll leave not just rested, but realigned with your energy flowing forward, and your next chapter already in motion.

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· Meet your Byron Bay Retreat Hosts ·

About Mark Moon

Breathwork and Holistic Wellness

Mark Moon is a globally registered Breathwork practitioner, known for his integrative and soul-aligned approach to Breathwork. With over 25 years of experience in the wellness industry, Mark bridges ancient wisdom with contemporary science to support lasting, embodied transformation.


Combining Breathwork, Yoga, Bioenergetics, and Spirituality, Mark creates spaces where the breath becomes both mirror and medicine, revealing what’s ready to be released and what’s waiting to emerge.


He is professionally registered with the GPBA and currently serves on the executive committee of the Australian Breathwork Association. Mark is known for his deep presence, intuitive guidance, and respect for each individual's process.


Whether facilitating retreats, private, or group sessions, Mark supports clients to regulate their nervous systems, realign their energy, and reconnect with their purpose — all through the power of breath and expanded self-awareness.

Who is this retreat for?

✔️ You’re ready to move beyond burnout and reclaim your energy and strength
✔️ You want more than surface-level self-care — you want lasting tools
✔️ You’ve done the work and are craving space to integrate it with clarity
✔️ You value quality, intention, and transformation
✔️ You want to align your life with who you truly are, not just who you’ve had to be

About Em Cruickshank

Yin Yoga Educator & Energy Guide

Em Cruickshank is a respected teacher of Yin Yoga, Qi Gong, and Five Element Theory, known for her embodied approach to energetic alignment, breath awareness, and inner transformation. With over a decade of teaching experience, Em draws from multiple disciplines including Meridian Energy, Fascia Release, meditation, and the inner methods of Taoist and Buddhist traditions.


Grounded in nature-based wisdom, Em’s work invites you into a deeper relationship with your own energy field and the rhythms of the earth. She honours the interplay between structure and subtlety, where stillness becomes strength, and breath becomes a bridge between the physical and the unseen.


Em doesn’t follow a single lineage but intersects spiritual traditions and scientific understanding, with lived experience. 


She teaches with compassion, clarity, and a commitment to truth, encouraging you to meet fear with presence and reclaim your sovereignty through somatic awareness and energetic harmony. You’ll walk away not just feeling better, but remembering who you are beneath the noise.

What will you leave with?

✔️ A recharged nervous system and renewed physical vitality
✔️ Greater clarity in your personal and professional life
✔️ Simple tools for regulating your emotions and staying grounded
✔️ Deeper understanding of your energetic patterns and how to align them
✔️ A felt sense of connection to your body, your purpose, and your next chapter

About Simon Favorito

Whole Foods & Conscious Cooking

Simon Favorito is a renowned whole foods chef, wellness educator, with over 20 years experience. He blends culinary artistry with an understanding of the body’s innate ability to heal through food. His approach integrates functional nutrition, TCM, kinesiology, and mind-body wisdom — creating meals that are both deeply nourishing and energetically aligned.


After overcoming significant physical and mental health challenges, Simon’s path became one of radical healing. This lived experience fuels his passion: to help others reconnect with their vitality through the intelligence of nature’s healing foods.


Simon offers more than meals — he creates an experience of nutrient-dense nourishment that supports digestion, energy, and clarity. You’ll also have the opportunity to explore conscious cooking practices — learning how to prepare simple, seasonal dishes that feed your body, calm your nervous system, and align with your unique rhythm.


Simon’s mission is to inspire you to take ownership of your health and awaken the potential that begins on your plate — one mindful bite at a time.

Your Luxury Retreat Accommodation Awaits

Step into Serenity at Blue Green Sanctuary Byron Bay

Luxury that holds you — not distracts you. Nestled in the lush Byron Bay hinterland, Blue Green Sanctuary is a private retreat estate designed for deep restoration. Just minutes from town, yet worlds away, this tranquil haven invites you to unwind into presence.


Surrounded by macadamia groves and the stillness of nature, you’ll experience elegant living spaces, expansive outdoor areas, and sensory details that soothe the nervous system. From timber beams and open fireplaces to infinity pools and the scent of tropical blooms, this is embodied luxury, crafted for regulation, presence, and renewal.


This isn’t just a break from your routine, it’s a return to what’s already whole within you. A time to reconnect with the vitality, clarity, and alignment that’s been waiting underneath the noise.


Over five days and four nights, The Power Within Retreat creates space for a full-body reset — not just physically, but emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Your room isn’t just a place to sleep. It’s a sanctuary to remember who you are when everything else falls away.

Accommodation Options

The Villa

Main House

Main House

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Main House

Main House

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The Loft

Main House

The Loft

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Ready to Reserve Your Place?

Join us for this deeply nourishing Byron Bay retreat and rediscover the power, presence, and vitality already within you. This retreat is for those ready to invest in their health, their energy, and their next chapter. Not just for a moment, but for lasting transformation.


Spaces are intentionally limited to maintain the depth and integrity of the experience. Flexible payment plans are available to support your commitment.

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