New Year’s Eve Celebration

New Year’s Eve Celebration

Billabong Retreat held a special retreat to celebrate New Year’s Eve Retreat Hosts Lacie and Natalie led their group for 6 days and 5 nights in what was described by guests as a “life-transforming experience.” Activities included; nature walks, yoga...
Yoga is a practice for everyone

Yoga is a practice for everyone

Yoga is a practice for everybody… And it is much more than just a physical practice. When most people think of yoga, they think of a series of strenuous, physical postures. Yoga is also a mental, and spiritual practice. It originated in ancient India over 5,000...
Reset your Circadian Rhythm

Reset your Circadian Rhythm

The circadian rhythm is a natural, internal process that regulates the body’s sleep-wake cycle and other physiological processes over a 24-hour period. It is commonly referred to as the “body clock” and is controlled by a group of cells in the...
Celebrate Christmas Sustainably

Celebrate Christmas Sustainably

At Billabong Retreat we love to give gifts, celebrate and share. However, we are always trying to be mindful about our impact on the environment. This festive season we are sharing our top 10 tips on how we celebrate Christmas in a sustainable way. Give Gift Vouchers...
Day Retreat Special Package

Day Retreat Special Package

Visit us for a Day Retreat before December 23, 2022 and save $80 with this special offer. Indulged in a relaxation massage, reiki session, nutritious lunch, yoga class and wellness workshops for only $295 per person. We know it isn’t always easy to get the night...
5 Yin Yoga Postures To Try With A Bolster

5 Yin Yoga Postures To Try With A Bolster

Not all styles of yoga incorporate strong, standing, warrior-like postures. Yin yoga offers a slow practice where all postures are undertaken low to the ground, seated and supine. The postures are held for long periods of time, usually 3 to 5 minutes and are designed...
4 Yoga Poses to Release Tight Hips

4 Yoga Poses to Release Tight Hips

During winter we tend to spend much more time seated. This builds up tension in the lower body, especially the hips. As we skip into spring we start to demand more from our bodies. To help you move with ease into the final months of 2022, Billabong Retreat Host...
8 Yoga Poses to Promote Digestion

8 Yoga Poses to Promote Digestion

During wintertime everything begins to slow down. The days feel much shorter and we spend more time seated indoors, usually snuggled up on the couch with a hot cup of tea in hand. As we begin to move towards spring, it’s time to start moving our bodies again....
welcome to autumn

welcome to autumn

Welcome to Autumn, Billabongers! Autumn represents shorter days, cooler air and preparation for winter. As the leaves fall from the trees, Autumn invites us to let go on all levels whether that be spiritual, emotional or physical. The spent leaves on the ground...
Winter Yin-spiration with Phoebe

Winter Yin-spiration with Phoebe

Winter is a time for slowing down, rugging up in your cosy woolies, drinking warm mugs of tea and nourishing yourself inside and out. When the colder and darker months approach us, we often do hibernate and curl ourselves into tight little balls of goodness and this...
How well do you AUM?

How well do you AUM?

AUM is one of the most recognisable mantras in Eastern philosophy, it has amazing benefits and makes you feel so good when you chant it! Read on to learn more about this magical sound… Did you know there are four sounds which make are the mantra? AAAA UUUUU...
Bed Yoga with Larissa

Bed Yoga with Larissa

Yoga promotes a bounty of mind and body benefits, including things like strength, flexibility and stress relief… and we can do yoga without even leaving our bed. It’s all about finding ways that works for us that is realistic and accessible to us. There are so...
Feeling scattered and unstable? Try this!

Feeling scattered and unstable? Try this!

You probably learnt about the five elements growing up but have you ever considered how they affect us? Our current society rewards doing, achieving and succeeding and all of that physical and mental movement can mean we spend a lot of time with fire and air running...
Two Ways to Beat the Heat this Summer

Two Ways to Beat the Heat this Summer

This summer is set to be a hot one. Host Phoebe has provided two ways that you can beat the heat using tried and tested yogic techniques. Sitali Breath During these hot, steamy summery days and nights, we tend to lean on the use of fans, air conditioning, icy cold...
The Ethics of Yoga: The Yamas

The Ethics of Yoga: The Yamas

Although yoga has been around for thousands of years, it has evolved in the West to often be nothing more than a form of exercise that incorporates breath. Although this is great for some and is the reason why most people come to the practice, we are missing some of...
Visualise your day meditation

Visualise your day meditation

Click to view our Meditation Retreats This is a short 6-minute meditation to do in the mornings. It’s a meditation which envisions your day and the way you would like to feel during the activities you have planned. There is a lot that is out of our control in our days...
Meet our new Retreat Host Phoebe

Meet our new Retreat Host Phoebe

Q. What’s one piece of advice you could give to someone to transform or take their yoga practice to the next year ( from a beginner to an intermediate) Pheobe: Oh! that’s a tough one. I would say, listen to your body, but also challenge yourself. Flirt...
Life After a Retreat – What Now?

Life After a Retreat – What Now?

How many of you have been on a retreat, especially a Yoga retreat, experienced breakthroughs, learnt skills and come out revitalised and inspired to practice on the ‘outside’? In reality, this often proves more challenging than that first day you go back into the...
What is Yoga by Paul von Bergen

What is Yoga by Paul von Bergen

By Paul von Bergen Yoga is an ancient guide to bringing joy and contentment to human beings. It originates from the Vedas, one of the earliest sources of human wisdom that is over four thousand years old and was chanted from generation to generation before the written...