Date: March 26 – 30, 2025
Location: The beautiful Seafusion at Blueys Beach

This retreat is an all-inclusive program that uses nature, nutrition, mindfulness, yoga, and art therapy to enhance your well-being. It's an opportunity to reconnect with self, rest and restore with like minded people. The maximum number of people is 8 - this allows both the facilitator Charlotte and retreat host Sally the opportunity to look after you and offer you a personalised experience.

You'll enjoy Mindfulness, Art, Nature, Yoga, Beauty and Love, with:

• Delicious nourishing food.
• Beautiful accommodation at Seafusion Blueys Beach for 4 nights.
• 3 morning invitations for yoga.
• 3 hour Art therapy with Trisha Fitzpatrick in her working art studio, create your own canvas to take home.
• Full mindfulness program delivered by Charlotte, founder of the mindfulness clinic.
• Mindfulness manual to take home.
• A one-on-one session with Charlotte.
• The price is all inclusive, all you need to do is arrive and enjoy.

"Art from the Heart" - Our Journey Towards Mindfulness

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I faced many challenges that allowed me to spend time reflecting on my art. During the pandemic period, I unfortunately lost a close friend, Chantel, to COVID. She was a beautiful Italian lady who was also an art gallery director and my contact for exhibiting and selling my art over in Europe. During this time, I made the decision to reconnect with my art and bring my journey back closer to home.

In 2023, I decided that I needed to go in a different direction with my art and start to give back after my 30-year journey.

At the start of 2023, I was sitting on Bluey's Beach with my daughter Sally. We were spending some time reminiscing and taking in our beautiful surroundings. We then begun a conversation about how wonderful it would be to share this delight and the beauty of art with other people. This seeming idealistic conversation led to much bigger plan. From here Sally and I came up with the idea to combine an art retreat with a mindfulness retreat that would be run by Charlotte. Sally knows Charlotte from a retreat that she facilitated in New Zealand a few years ago. Since Sally attended this retreat, she hasn’t stopped taking about how amazing it was and still is to her mindfulness, "a feast for the soul" she says!

Combining the Mindful Regulation of Emotions and Art Therapy

Our plan to combine the mindfulness retreat and art came into fruition November of 2023. We combined Charlotte's mastery of the mindfulness practice with my love for art and Sally's passion for Yoga. During the retreat, people are able to express their feelings through powerful emotions and then lay it down on a canvas, I call this class "Art from the Heart". By combining the mindful regulation of emotions and art therapy, we found this class to be one of the most successful and sought out elements of the retreat. Individuals are also able to have a one-on-one session with Charlotte to deeply dive into the mind space of mindfulness. Sally has also made sure that whilst we are looking after our minds, we are equally nourishing our bodies with daily yoga sessions and organically home cooked meals.

This retreat proves to be successful which lead us to host two more and take bookings for further into the future. Many of the people who have attended have given rave reviews and some even coming back around for a second go!

These photos show the ladies' wonderful expressive artwork at the "Art from the Heart" class! I was amazed and inspired by the fantastic stories they told through the art, and how they were able to give meaning to their artwork.

If this retreat is something that you are interested in or inspired by, please get in contact with my daughter and I through the contact page on this website or email me directly on trisha@trishafitzpatrick.com.au.