Embodied

wisdom

retreats

For a healing retreat as individual as your journey.

Embodied wisdom retreats

For a healing retreat as individual as your journey

Create a different kind of retreat experience.

Let’s be honset-most wellness retreats offer the same generic formula: some yoga, a bit of meditation, healthy food and cliched self-care routines. They might feel good in the moment, but rarely create lasting transformation.

The Body Talk Therapist Retreats are different.

We create bespoke, intimate healing experiences designed specifically for small groups of 2-5 people who need more than just relaxation-they need a way to integrate and embody everything they’ve learnt and to experience changes that actually stick when they return to thier daily lives.

Each retreat is cusotm-crafted for your specific group, ensuring the experience addresses exactly what you and your companions need most-whether you’re friends, partners, colleagues , or family members seeking deeper connection and healing.

Two retreat paths, one intention

All retreats are held with trauma-informed care, nervous system sensitivity, and deep therapeutic support.

We offer two distinct formats to meet you where you are in your journey.

  • (Up to 12 participants)

    A supportive group experience focused on establishing your overall emotional and mental wellbeing through shared practices.

    This is for you if you are seeking:

    • Community connection with others on similar journeys

    • Nervous system restoration in a gentle, supportive environment

    • Shared therapeutic practices that feel less intimidating that intensive 1:1 work

    • An introduction to somatic healing practices

    What’s included:

    • Group-based therapy sessions and psychoeducation

    • Yoga, Somatic movement, and nature-based practices

    • Clarity and reflection sessions

    • Flexible scheduling tailored to the groups collective needs

    Ideal for those who thrive in community settings and want to experience embodied healing alongside others who undertand the journey.

  • (Up to 5 participants)

    An intimate, deep-dive retreat designed to compliment the illuminate program or support more advanced therapeutic work.

    This is for you if you’re ready:

    • Focussed 1:1 attention and presonalised guidance

    • Deep inner work that goes beyond surface-level wellness

    • Integration of significant life shifts or trauma healing

    What’s included:

    • Daily 1:1 therapy/coaching sessions with Martine

    • Deep inner work, isight integration, and nervous system repair

    • Small group reflection and witnessing practices

    • Fully customised schedule

    Ideal for participants who’ve already begun their healing journey and want intensive, personalised support to create lasting transformation.

Both retreat formats honour the principle that healing happens differently for everyone.

Some people need the safety of community, while others require the focused attention that only comes with initimate group work.

Why a therapy retreat helps take your healing to the next level

Here’s what our clients consistently tell us: its incredibly difficult to gain real traction in therapy when you’re constantly pulled back into the stress of daily life and commitments.

A therapy retreat allows what’s normally impossible-the space to truly uncover, process, and integrate in a supported environemnt, free from the constant demands of everyday life.

This concentrated time allows you to:

  • Recognise the unconscious patterns driving your life choices

  • Make conscious, well-considerred decisions about your path forward

  • Reconnect and reestablish relatioships that matter to you

  • Transofrm long-standing behaviour patterns that no longer serve you

  • Process traumatic experiences that have kept you feeling stuck

  • Dismantle barriers to your happiness and genuine contentment

All while being deeply supported in a setting designed for both healing and relaxation.

For those who need more than just relaxation

Our healing retreats are perfect for those who:

  • Have “done the work” but still feel stuck in old patterns and behaviour

  • Excel in their professional lives while feeling uncertain in their personal ones

  • Have tried traditional therapy, yoga classes, and meditation apps, but still feel fragmented-understanding things mentally while their bodies and emotions are telling a different story

  • Are tired of generic wellness advice that doesn’t account for their unique experiences and needs

  • Want to be surrounded by people who understand and support their healing journey

  • Couples, families and colleagues who are looking to do deeper inner work together to create healthier connections, understanding and communication with each other-this is about healing old wounds,. holding space for each other and valuing connectioon enough to eexplore self-improvement and transformation in a safe, guided setting

If you’re looking for surface-level wellness or Instagram-perfect yoga poses, this isn’t it.

If you’re ready for a raw, honest, transformative experience that bridges mind and body, personally and collectively, you’re in the right place.

What’s included in your custom healing retreat

Each healing-focused retreat is uniquely designed, but all include these core elements:

1. Somatic exploration

Direct experience of how your specific emotions, thoughts, and patterns live in your body-and practical tools to transform them.

4. Integration practices

Concrete methods to ensure your retreat experience translates into lasting shifts in your daily life, rather than fading when you return home.

2. Nervous system regulation

Science-based techniques to shift from survival mode into a state where healing, creatvity, and authentic connection become possible.

5. Community connection

Intimate group sharing and witnessing in a container that honours both vulnerability and boundaries.

3. Embodied movement

Thoughtfully curated practices that go beyond traditional yoga to help you reclaim your relationship with your body on your terms.

What’s included in your custom healing retreat

Each healing-focused retreat is uniquely designed, but all include these core elements:

  • Direct experience of how your specific emotions, thoughts, and patterns live in your body-and practical tools to transform them.

  • Science-based techniques to shift from survival mode into a state where healing, creatvity, and authentic connection become possible.

  • Thoughtfully curated practices that go beyond traditional yoga to help you reclaim your relationship with your body on your terms.

  • Concrete methods to ensure your retreat experience translates into lasting shifts in your daily life, rather than fading when you return home.

  • Intimate group sharing and witnessing in a copntainer that honours both vulnerability and boundaries.

An example of the kind of retreat you can create…

The “Slow and Insightful Jungle Retreat”

To give you a better idea of what’s possible, here’s a snapshot of a recent retreat we created for a recent small group.

This 7-night experience was crafted for the attendees seeking a deeper understanding and clarity in their lives. The theme was “slow and insightful”, with an emphasis on creatin space to recognise patterns and make conscious choices movin forward.

Daily flow:

  • 7:30am: Morning nature walk through the local village

  • 8:00am: Gentle yoga and mindfulness practice focused on nervous system regulation

  • 9:00am Nourishing breakfast

  • 10:30am Individual therapy sessions (duration TBD)

  • Afternoon: Rest, swim, personal reflection time

  • 3:30pm: Afternoon tea

  • 4:30pm Evening yoga, wellness workshop or sound healing

  • 7:00pm: DInner in the resort restaurant

Special experiences:

  • Journey to Titra Empul water temple for a traditional purification ceremony

  • Sound healing session at the Pyramids of Chi

  • Closing ritual to integrate insights and set intentions

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*Transportation included

*All yoga/ workshop/ sound healing sessions run in flow with the day according to your energy levels. We often find that as emotions arise and surface, sometimes it’s appropriate to workshop those areas with your group and use body-based therapies as a complement/ adjunctive therapy, and therefore we will work with what arises. This really is about working through things deeply as they arise, and this is that safe place to do so.

Stories of transformation

  • I feel like this sort of training should be mandatory for all yoga teachers. I spent my first few years as a yoga student being told how I should feel and move in my own body. I now consider this sort of language as negligent, especially for anyone who has experienced trauma in their life. And let’s be honest, it would be hard to find some today who hasn’t had a traumatic experience in their lifetime. I highly recommend this training to all yoga teachers.

    TRAINING PARTICIPANT

  • Genuinely one of the best trauma or yoga learning workshops I’ve participated in. Martine’s style and her focus on the participants embodying their own experience and her facilitation is excellent. Highly recommend to everyone.

    TRAINING PARTICIPANT

  • I am forever grateful for the experience I had with Martine during the mentorship program. Martine was incredibly generous with her knowledge, experiences and time. Martine was very emphatic as a mentor and gave me insights that were not only rooted in scientific, evidence-based findings but also her rich experiences spanning over many years.

    TRAINING PARTICIPANT

  • This training is invaluable in understanding helping to understand people's experience with complex trauma and how is unique for everyone and every body. Highly recommend to everyone.

    TRAINING PARTICIPANT

  • I came into the course not knowing much of Martine, now I am such a fan of her work and authentic delivery of some incredibly sensitive topics that need not be shamed but sat with as reality for some.

    TRAINING PARTICIPANT

  • Martine's style in presenting this training is warm, confident and inviting to all individuals participating. She has extensive knowledge and experience and brings this into the training material.

    TRAINING PARTICIPANT

  • Thank you for a wonderful and insightful weekend. I am so looking forward to the next training session. You do wonderful work :)

    TRAINING PARTICIPANT

Led by Martine Coates

These intimate retreats are personally facilitated by Martine, bringing her 30+ years of experience as a psychotherapist, trauma specialist and psychedelic assisted therapy specialist to create a container where profound healing can occur.

Drawing on her extensive training in somatic practicies, trauma-sensitive approaches, and mind-body integration, Martine creates experiences that honour both science and soul-never sacrificing one for the other.

Her own journey of moving from an unhealthy high-achiever to embodying presence and more soul-aligned living, informs how she guides people through this same transition, creating space for both vulnerability and empowerment.

Our therapeutic approach

Our retreats are gounded in cutting-edge therapeutic approaches that focus on what’s happening in your life NOW, as these current challenges reveal the protective patterns you’ve developed in response to past experiences.

Rather than merely recalling memories (which often trigger s defensive responses that block real healing), we work respectfully with all parts of your psyche. We honour the well-evidenced understanding that “the body keeps the score”, working at a practical level to create lasting transformation.

All elements of the retreat are optional. This is a powerful opportunity to practice CHOOSING what feels right and ALLOWING yourself to opt out, take more rest , or pursue what feels most supportive for your unique journey.

Your encouraged pathway to transformation

Our retreats don’t exist in isolation-they’re part of a compehensive healing ecosystem designed to support your journey at every stage:

For those new to The Body Talk Therapist

We recommend beginning with our Ignite program before your retreat experience. This 3-week foundation helps you to develop the fundamental body awareness and nervous system regulation skills that will allow to to get themost from your immersive retreat time.

For those ready to dive deep

If you’ve already completed Ignite or have significant somatic practice experience, a retreat offers the concentrated time and space to accelerate your healing journey

For continuing the jouney

After your retreat, many participants choose to continue thier tramsformation through our illumniate program or join our membership community for ongoing suppoert and practice. These options help integrate andbuild upon the profound shifts that occur during retreat time.

Ready to create a healing retreat with us?

How it works:

1. Gather your group

Bring together a group of up to 5 people who are ready for deep, transformative work. These might be friends, partners, colleagues or family members.

4. The retreat experience

Join us in one of our immersive locations for a 7 nights/6 days of deeply transformative work in a stunning setting that supports your journey.

2. Initial consultation

We’ll meet with your group to understand your collective and individual needs, challenges, and goals for the retreat experience.

5. Integration support

After the retreat, we provide resources and many other opportunities to continue your journey of growth with us.

3. Custom design

We craft a 7-night experience specifically for your group, with practices, content, and a pace that serves your unique dynamics.

Ready to create a healing retreat with us?

How it works:

  • Bring together 1-4 other people who are ready for deep,transformative work. These might be friends, partners, colleagues,or family members.

  • We'll meet with your group to understand your collective andindividual needs, challenges, and goals for the retreat experience.

  • We craft a 7-night experience specifically for your group, with practices, content, and a pace that serves your unique dynamics.

  • Join us in one of our immersive locations for 7 nights/6 days ofdeeply transformative work in a stunning setting that supportsyour journey.

  • After the retreat, we provide resources and a follow-up sessionto help you integrate the experience into your daily life.

The practicals

Duration

7 nights/6 days of therapeutic immersion

Location

We have a few location spots to choose from including the luxury jungle resort in Bali.

Group size

Up to 5 participants to ensure deep work and personalised attendtion.

*Enquire with us today if you would like to discuss larger groups.

Whats included

  • 7 nights accommodation in a luxury setting

  • Daily breakfast, afternoon tea and dinner

  • Daily yoga and mindfulness sessions

  • Daily one-hour individual therapy/coaching sessions

  • Group workshops and sound healing experiences

  • Special excursions (water temple, sound healing centre)

  • Airport transfers

  • Pre-retreat consultation

What to bring

  • Comfortable clothing for yoga and movement

  • Light layers (evenings can be cool)

Investment

Starting from A$6000.00 per person with custom pricing based on group size and specific retreat elements.

Dates

Retreats are scheduled based on your group’s availability, typically requiring 2-3 months’ advance booking.

Begin your journey

Ready to explore creating a custom retreat experience for your group?

Alternatively, you can join an existing healing retreat……

We occassionally offer retreats thjat individuals can join. Join our waitlist to be notified when spaces become available