Personal Retreats
A present to yourself - Become present to yourself
Origins Centre, Balingup
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Here is what others have said..
”What a beautiful gift you do have Dan! The gift of life…the breathing technique with meditation and yoga made a huge contribution to my health. It basically changed my life….
I feel blessed to be on the receiving end of it all
Dan ….You share your light energy so generously and genuinely - thank you for that.”
“I have been practicing yoga for over 10 years, I’ve explored the asana’s but have shied away from meditation, this changed that!”
“The week went into area’s I didn’t even know exisited, or the impact it has on my breath and life”
“I found this week life changing. I’ve learned so much about what happens inside my body and mind, and got amazing tools to improve my life”
Past Participate’s Feedback
“You provided me with tools and techniques so basic yet so effective!!! Who knew you could change a mood or emotion within an instant just by breathing differently. I didn't sign up because I needed to learn to manage stress (which I tend to encounter due to my job) but it was an added bonus to recognising my feelings and breathing them into something more relaxed and positive.
I adored the lectures, the diagrams and your simple teaching techniques. I would recommend your course to anyone and everyone.”
Personal retreats
November 9th- 12th
4 days of nourishment
at Origins Centre, Balingup WA
Personal retreats are offered as a time for refuge, reflection and a deeper understanding of health in all its forms.
Over four days, you are given the space to slow down, reconnect and establish a personal practice, supported by one-on-one guided sessions exploring breath, nervous system balance, lifestyle and mindfulness.
The intention is simple: to help you develop practices that are personal, practical and sustainable - creating the conditions for a life that can be more fully expressed, experienced and enjoyed each day.
Four-Day Personal Retreat — $800
The accomodation is simple to reflect the contemplative mood .
The numbers are intentionally low to give you space.
🎙️ “Here I am interviewed on Perth radio, sharing my journey with breath and meditation, and how my own life experiences — including surviving cancer — inspired me to create ‘Back to Breath.’ We talk about the power of breathing to reset the nervous system, find stillness, and rediscover balance.”
Inner Healing is Our Greatest Resource
The complexity of our lives and bodies makes one thing clear:
our innate ability to heal is the most important resource we can cultivate in these times.
A practice that brings you into stillness offers more than calm, it creates the space for your whole system to ground, stabilise, and return to centre.
From that quiet centre, something beautiful begins to grow.
A joy that is not borrowed or fleeting,
but innate, unshakable, and entirely yours.
This is the gold of this life. This is the gold of practice.
The breath is our bridge.
It brings the nervous system and body back to balance, and gives the body’s own ecosystem the time and space to heal itself.
It doesn’t push - it restores.
It reminds the body how to come home.
The Breath is Our Bridge
Simple
Origin Centre is a place of deep compassion for the human experience.
It is a centre of learning, reflection and practice — a place where you can step away from the demands of everyday life and begin to rediscover your own equilibrium and balance.
The centre itself is simple, and there is a real beauty in that simplicity.
Accommodation is comfortable and uncomplicated, creating an environment that allows you to focus less on distraction and more on yourself, your practice and what you need at this point in your life.
There is a large communal kitchen available throughout the retreat. You are welcome to bring your own food, with allocated space provided in the commercial fridge, and meals are prepared mindfully in the shared kitchen. Even this becomes part of the retreat experience — slowing down, paying attention and bringing awareness into the ordinary parts of the day.
The intention of your personal retreat is not simply to give you a few peaceful days away.
Personal
Our goal is for you to leave with a personal daily practice that you can realistically continue at home — usually around 15 to 25 minutes each day.
That practice is developed with you and may incorporate breath, simple postural exercises , mindfulness and other simple tools designed to gradually create greater stability, calm and nervous system regulation.
Over time, that greater inner stability can begin to influence every aspect of your life — how you respond, how you think, how you rest and how fully you are able to experience each day.
Your practice is developed with you, for you.
It is personal. It is tailored.
Doable
Retreat numbers are limited to five people.
This keeps the experience personal and in-depth while allowing you to benefit from a small group. Even within the group, you can follow your own journey into what you truly need at this point in your life.
Over four days, your retreat includes a personal biofeedback session to explore your breathing and nervous system responses, along with an individual biotensegrity assessment to deepen your awareness of what is showing up in the body and how those patterns relate to the whole.
We also come together for small-group sessions exploring the relationship between body, mind and breath as one interconnected system.
There is plenty of time to be by yourself — to walk, sit, reflect and simply be in nature.
An important part of the retreat is beginning to experience, rather than simply understand, that everything is connected: you and your environment, your breath and your body, your inner state and the way you experience the world.
Nature, the centre and your own awareness all become part of the process.
From this, the aim is to find one small, valuable nugget to take home: a simple, personal and completely doable daily practice.
Something you can return to each day.
Through repetition, it becomes familiar — part of your body and breath memory — creating the conditions for the deeper intelligence of the whole person to emerge.
This is the mindfulness we seek to cultivate at Origin Centre: not simply thinking about the present moment, but developing a deeper whole-body awareness and intelligence to guide the way you live.
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Yes. This retreat is designed to meet you where you are—especially if you’ve struggled with meditation before or never even tried. If you’ve ever said “I can’t meditate,” this course will gently rebuild the foundation so that meditation becomes natural and deeply nourishing.
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This course is grounded in the ancient Buddhist meditation traditions, but it is not religious. It offers a deeply spiritual experience rooted in breath, presence, and personal transformation—without dogma.
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This retreat is personally guided with one on one time for you to grasp the feeling and intentions behind a mindfulness practice. It isn’t just a collection of guided meditations—it’s a complete system. You’re not just learning to "relax"—you’re building a foundation that can transform how you breathe, think, feel, and live. Plus, you're guided by a teacher who walks beside you, not in front of you.
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Yes. If your completly satisified and don’t feel the retreat is a good fit, reach out we’ll refund you—no guilt, no hard feelings.
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No in a personal retreat we are developing our practice. Even in advanced sits we are looking at no more than 20 mins which can then be added back to back if you feel called.