Yoga • Meditation • Sound Healing • Thermal Waters
A weekend to honour the balance within🤍
Gift yourself a weekend of warmth, wellness, and restoration in the heart of New Zealand’s thermal wonderland.
Join me for a beautiful Balance Within Yoga Retreat in beautiful Taupō, where we’ll gather to rest, reconnect, and replenish amidst stunning surroundings, nourishing experiences, and gorgeous comfort. Over the weekend our theme of the Balance Within, explores many different areas of balance; of physical, mental, giving and receiving and rest and restore. You will find something within the theme that resonates and this is what you’ll take away.
Our home for the weekend will be the iconic Hilton Lake Taupō Resort, offering elegant accommodation, welcoming hospitality, and the perfect sanctuary for our retreat experience. With a heated outdoor pool, gymnasium, saunas and spas all onsite, this is retreat rest at it’s best in our own beautiful backyard. It’s prime location in Taupo is close to a diverse range of attractions, outdoor activities and breathtaking scenery to walk, ride and just to take in.
Throughout the weekend, you’ll enjoy:
✨ Daily yoga and meditation practices to suit all levels
✨ Deep relaxation through sound healing ✨ Yin, Tea and Journaling session
✨ Optional massage treatments
✨ Thermal hot swims, saunas, and spa experiences
✨ Nourishing food and mindful connection
✨ Breath for Calm and Resilience, a practical workshop to take home ✨ Time to explore, slow down, rest, and simply be
Taupō offers the perfect balance of retreat and adventure. Explore boutique shopping, lakeside walks, thermal hot springs, world-class cafés and restaurants, or perhaps embrace the invigorating energy of a cold plunge in New Zealand’s largest lake.
Whether you’re seeking relaxation, inspiration, connection, or simply a planned holiday where you can relax, go with the flow and be looked after, this retreat is for you.
Dates
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Accommodation options and Retreat Package:
Your retreat experience includes yoga, meditation, inspiring workshops, deeply restorative sound healing sessions, breath work practice, enjoying all the stunning amenities at Hilton Lake Taupo, plus delicious nourishing meals throughout the weekend with the option of adding on a relaxing massage.
Arrive on Friday afternoon and settle into retreat mode with a welcoming afternoon tea, a grounding yoga practice, and time to relax before gathering together for dinner.
Saturday begins gently with an optional swim, followed by a warming yoga, meditation class before breakfast. After breakfast an offering of a Balance Within workshop on breath work for calm and resilience. Leaving you with some free time afterwards to explore Taupō, indulge in a massage, browse the local boutiques, find a delicious spot for lunch or enjoy the thermal pools, spas, and saunas.
We come together on Saturday evening for a deeply restorative yoga and a sound bath experience (being surrounded/bathed by music) with Tibetan Bowls. I have recently completed a beautiful training in Bali in the area of sound baths, meridian and chakra balancing and healing with Tibetan Bowls and in this retreat everyone will get extra bathing! I can’t wait to share. Our session will be followed by a nourishing dinner and enjoying connection with like-minded souls.
On Sunday, enjoy some morning yoga, meditation, and breath work practice before breakfast. Then time for a last soak, swim, or quiet reflection, we’ll then gather for our yin, tea and journaling session, closing circle and farewells, leaving you refreshed, restored, and ready to return home.
Choose from either a private room for your own peaceful sanctuary or a twin-share option to enjoy the retreat experience with a friend or fellow guest.
Please see the accommodation options and full retreat pricing below to select the stay that feels right for you:
Own Room in a King suite, one King Bed: $1650
Shared room in Twin Hilton Room: two King Single beds: $1350 per person
Locals (no accommodation): $1050
Booking Details
- Your non refundable deposit of $300 is due upon booking to secure your place and room. Book now, spaces are limited.
- After your deposit is paid, the balance is due six weeks before retreat date.
- Limited rooms – book early to secure your preferred accommodation
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