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- weekend escape winner
- learn to cook
- healthy vegan recipes
- permaculture residential
- sustainable clothing workshops
- midweek escape
- massage training courses
- thai yoga massage training
- early morning yoga
- yoga retreats
- mediation retreats
- school camps
- tipi accommodation
- massage & shiatsu
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weekend escape winner
Congratulations to our Weekend Escape prize winner, Peter McDonough, and a huge thank you to everyone who gave feedback about our newsletter and website.
We have taken all your comments under consideration and we will work over the next few months to make some of the changes and improvements you have suggeted.
hepburn retreat centre gardens
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healthy vegan recipes
We have begun publishing some of the recipes created by Alexis on the last yoga & vegan cooking with wholefoods retreat.
Learn how to cook healthy vegan cuisine
Some recipes added so far include:
- Saag curry with potato, chickpeas, chilli, tamarind and coconut
- Greek eggplant dip
- Buckwheat stirfry
You can view recipes on the Retreat Centre Recipes page.
Advanced Permaculture Principles & Planning Tools
4 day residential course with David Holmgren
Targeted at Permaculture Design Certificate holders who are looking to deepen their understanding of Permaculture and improve their conceptual skills & tool kit for design & action. In this intensive course, David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept (with Bill Mollison), provides an insight into permaculture as a set of design principles for reshaping how we manage land, our lives and our livelihoods in a world of energy descent.
Using a combination of free flowing lectures, visual presentations, case studies of his own work, structured group discussions, observations and a site design exercise, David breathes life into the design principles which link the diversity of permaculture solutions. The core of this course is the presentation and workshopping in groups of the format of design principles from Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability. Additional presentations and group work focus on Reading Landscape, Landscape Mapping, Energy Descent Scenarios and Community Mapping. Participants also gain experience in using the design principles in an extended small group site design exercise.
An internationally respected author and public speaker, David Holmgren is committed to presenting permaculture ideas through practical projects and personal example, providing a refreshing and unorthodox approach to the environmental issues of our time. To learn from him in Hepburn is an excellent rare opportunity.
Cost $530, includes meals and BYO camping onsite.
More info at www.holmgren.com.au, email info@holmgren.com.au, or phone 03 5348 3636.
sustainable clothing workshops
From September 4th
Have you got a wardrobe full of things you never wear?
Perhaps you collect ill-fitting op-shop garments that you never get around to altering?
From mid August to the end of October, retreat centre regular Kim Kneipp will be running clothing reconstruction wardrobes, where participants can bring along a suitcase full of old (unworn) favourites, and over the course of 2, 3 or 4 sessions, we will turn these garments upside down, inside out and back to front – cutting, unpicking and embellishing them to give them a new life.
Come alone, or bring some friends – and if you’re coming from Melbourne why not stay here at the retreat centre for the weekend and s-l-o-w r-i-g-h-t d-o-w-n.
You can read more about sustainable clothing workshops at Kim's website, the sustainable stylist.
thai yoga massage practitioner training
Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner Training
In May this year, the retreat centre hosted Heather Agnew for Thai Yoga Massage - Level 1 Practitioner training. The course was a 5 day residential, including meals. By the end of the training, students were able to give a full 90-minute thai yoga massage.
Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner Training Level I and Level II training will be held at the retreat centre in February 2011. Click on the link to read more about the Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner Training.
cooking with wholefoods and yoga retreat
ever wanted to learn to cook wonderfully tasty and nutritious food?
Fun with food - learning to cook wholefoods the yogic way
In June, Alexis and Ostii ran their first Cooking with Wholefoods and Yoga Retreat. We had a wonderful group of people, who thoroughly enjoyed exploring vegan cooking and deepening their yoga practice. There will be photos on our new Gallery pages soon.
The next Cooking with Wholefoods and Yoga Retreat will run from 16th - 18th October, and participants will have the opportunity to learn how to cook and prepare delicious vegan, vegetarian and raw food meals that promote health & vitality. Read more about the Cooking with Wholefoods and Yoga Retreat.
other upcoming retreats include
- weekend yoga wellness retreat - october
- cooking with wholefoods and yoga retreat - october
- long weekend yoga and meditation retreat - october
- long weekend yoga and meditation retreat - november
- 7 day meditation retreat - december january
- fasting & silent meditation retreat - january 2011
- thai yoga massage level 1 practitioner training - february 2011
- thai yoga massage level 2 practitioner training - february 2011
- core yoga instructor training - september 2011
- yoga teacher training - october & november 2011
If you are looking for a venue to hold your next yoga, meditation or spiritual healing retreat, please view the details on the bookings page or phone Ostii on 03 5348 2005.
The retreat centre with surrounding bushland, a yoga class and accommodation
midweek winter escape
Retreat from the business of Melbourne for some rest and relaxation. Escape from the bustle of the city and find time to relax, rest and rejuvenate in the peaceful surrounds of Hepburn Regional Park. The retreat centre offers midweek escape packages on Monday through to Thursday nights. Enjoy a massage, or yoga or meditation class, a walk in the surrounding bush and some quiet time to yourself.
We have a number of yoga and massage winter escape packages, including
- 2 nights accommodation and 45 minute massage for $120
- 2 nights accommodation, breakfast & yoga class for $80
- 2 nights tipi accommodation, breakfast & yoga class for $90
You can read more about midweek winter escapes on the Midweek Winter Escapes page.
Please note that Midweek Escape packages are NOT AVAILABLE on school holidays.
early morning yoga intensive
Ostii is now offering early morning yoga intensives in the Hepburn Daylesford region.
Yoga Intensives are run in blocks of two weeks, on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning. There are 2 yoga classes to choose from each morning.
6.00am - 7.00am or
7.00am - 8.00am
Or you can attend both classes for no extra cost.
Early Morning Yoga Intensive Dates
Monday 11th October until Friday 22nd October 2010
Monday 29th November until Friday 10th December 2010
See the yoga timetable for more details about other yoga times and types of yoga classes.
School Camps
Hepburn Retreat Centre is an ideal school camp facility for mature students.
We recently hosted the Year 11 girls from Gilmore College in Footscray for their HSC preparation school camp and are now actively seeking year 11 and year 12 groups for school camps.
tipi
We expect the tipi will be continue to be popular, complementing the existing accommodationand also extending the opportunity for both individuals and groups to experience this sacred space. Please request the tipi option at time of booking.
massage and shiatsu treatment rooms
Two treatment spaces are located with ready access from our private bedrooms. A Shiatsu room with tatami floor mats, and a dedicated Massage room. Ask at Reception to arrange a treatment.
wwoofas & woofing
wwoofas (willing workers on organic farms) are usually able to access the Retreat Centre readily, so please complete the WWOOF Enquiry Form or phone us on 03 5348 2005.
A great exchange, and we highly recommend this activity to anyone traveling. WWOOF (Willing Workers On Organic Farms)- ing is on offer in most countries around the world. Read more about woofing at our Continental House website.
