Retreats

Immersive luxury retreat experiences — for restoration, clarity, and the kind of change that lasts.

Not just a spa weekend.

These are evidence-based containers for deep restoration.

Immersive retreats hosted by Dr Maria-Elena Lukeides, in Byron Bay, Bali and Greece.
Some things can only happen when you step away. Into stillness. Into beauty. Into yourself.

Women's Retreat

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BYRON BAY

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August 21 - 24

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Women's Retreat ~ BYRON BAY ~ August 21 - 24 ~

These retreats are not productivity hacks with better scenery. And they are not the kind of wellness experience that feels good for a few days and then evaporates on the drive home.

They are something rarer — a genuinely held container where neuroscience, psychology, and the wisdom traditions work together, in places chosen precisely because their beauty does some of the work before we even begin.

Each retreat moves through multiple layers. Clinically grounded workshops and dharma talks that shift how you understand yourself. Breathwork that reaches places words can’t. Sound healing and movement — pilates, yoga, yin — that work directly in the body, bypassing the thinking mind entirely. And the kind of stillness that only becomes available when you have truly stepped away from your ordinary life.

Some retreats are curated and led by me alone, built around a specific theme — burnout and depletion, shadow work and self-acceptance, or simply the need to remember who you are underneath everything you carry. Others are co-hosted with esteemed colleagues whose expertise complements mine in ways I couldn’t replicate solo — bringing medicine and psychology into the same room, or depth and body-work together.

What they share is this: small groups, full immersion, and a level of care that goes all the way down. You will be held. You will go deep. And you will return more restored — and more yourself — than when you left.

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THE CONTAINER

Intimate groups of 12–16. Fully residential. Carefully held from arrival to departure.

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THE PRACTICE

Movement, breathwork, meditation, sound, and rest. Each element chosen for what it does in the body, not for how it looks.

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THE UNDERSTANDING

Neuroscience, psychology, and dharma talks that explain why the practices work — so they stay with you long after you leave.

Women's Wellness Retreat

Dr Lukeides and Dr Feingold co-host a Women's Wellness Retreat at Villa Riad Byron Bay.

21 - 24 Aug

Villa Riad * Byron Bay

For women in Peri & Menopause

A luxury women’s retreat.

Led by GP, Dr Natasha Feingold and psychologist Dr Maria-Elena Lukeides.

Medicine and psychology in the same room.

4 Days, 3 Nights.

  • Private Chef, all meals included

  • Pilates, Yin Yoga, Soundbaths

  • Meditation & Breathwork

  • Sauna, Mineral pool, cold plunge

Workshops by Doctors:

  • Understanding Hormones

  • Nutrition During Peri/menopause

  • Hormones & Your Brain

  • Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby!

  • How Exercise Needs to Change in Peri/menopause

  • Becoming the Goddess

Clinical Psychologist Dr Maria-Elena Lukeides and GP Dr Natasha Feingold co-hosting an integrative perimenopause retreat in Australia
A supportive residential container for perimenopause restoration, combining hormone health and somatic psychology.
Women's Perimenopause retreat. Luxury hotel, Villa Riad.

“We are not here to optimise you. We are here to restore you. There is a difference, and you will feel it.”

An Intimate group of 18 women.

Each room is a luxury suite, with coffee and tea facilities, mini fridge and private bathroom.

From the linens to the Aesop Body Care products - every detail has been carefully curated.

Private Luxury Suite or Garden Villa $3800

Bring a Friend (1 King + 1 Queen bed) $3000 ea.

Make it a girls weekend! $2300 ea. (max 3)

1 King + 1 Queen bed

A woman practicing yoga outdoors on a mat, performing a Warrior pose with one arm raised and the other arm resting on her bent knee, in front of a modern house with minimal landscaping.
Participants in a somatic heat therapy session during a Dr Maria-Elena Lukeides women's retreat.
You have been everything to everyone. Now its your turn.
— Dr Maria-Elena Lukeides

Past Retreats

Pathway leading to a cozy wooden house with a stone staircase, surrounded by lush green tropical plants and trees.
Pathway leading to a cozy wooden house with a stone staircase, surrounded by lush green tropical plants and trees.

The Quiet Bloom - Yin, Shadow & Self-Acceptance

Location: Villa Boreh, North-East Bali

Dates: 6 days, 5 nights  ·  August 2025

A journey into radical self-acceptance in one of Bali’s most sacred and beautiful settings. Pilates, breathwork, sound healing, yin yoga, dharma talks, and cultural immersions in the sacred north.

A glass greenhouse surrounded by dense bamboo forest with a dirt pathway leading to it.
A glass greenhouse surrounded by dense bamboo forest with a dirt pathway leading to it.

Retreat. Reset. Recharge -
For Health & Wellness Professionals

Location: Soma, Byron Bay

Dates: 4 days, 3 nights  ·  June 2022

Designed for those whose work involves caring for others — and who have quietly forgotten to care for themselves. Mindfulness, yoga, dharma talks, and forest bathing in 22 acres of Byron hinterland.

INTIMATE GROUPS

Maximum 12–16 participants.

FULLY RESIDENTIAL

All meals and accommodation included.

LOCATIONS

Byron Hinterland  ·  Bali  ·  Greece and beyond.

INVESTMENT

Varies by retreat. Payment plans available.

Get in Touch

Each retreat fills quickly and often before dates are publicly announced. If you’d like to be among the first to know when something new is coming — or if there’s a particular kind of retreat you’re hoping for — leave your details below.