Calling all seekers, dreamers and the creatively curious! 🥰🧡🌈
The Creative Retreat offers a unique art and mindfulness experience in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Join us for a creative escape during the NSW school holidays – open to adults and creative teens 14+ attending with a guardian.
This retreat has been designed especially for the curious at heart…
Whether you’re creatively curious, craving connection, or simply want a fresh kind of reset ~ this retreat is your invitation to explore what lights you up.
With a focus on art, yoga, movement and mindfulness in the peaceful surrounds of Happy Buddha Retreats, it’s an inspiring space to rest and create.
Creative Connection Retreat
All-inclusive retreat including yoga, workshops, clay creation, meals and twin-share room for $549
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Slow down, explore, and reconnect with your creative spark.
Surrounded by nature, you’ll have the space to slow down, connect with like-minded people, and let inspiration unfold naturally.
Through art, movement, yoga, and creativity, you’ll explore new ways to express yourself—whether creativity feels familiar or entirely new. All in a setting designed to nourish your spirit, spark joy, and awaken possibility.
✨Stretch out with yoga and mindful movement.
✨Get hands-on with an air-dried clay creation workshop (you’ll also paint your creation!)
✨Partake in a Mindful Art Session and notice the calming impact it has on your mind
✨Enjoy nourishing plant-based meals.
✨Unwind in cosy twin-share accommodation, hike to Water Nymphs Dell, or find one of our hammocks to take a nap.
We’re also welcoming teenagers 14+ to join with a guardian—alongside anyone who feels young at heart, because creativity knows no age.
“A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life…”
~ Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Your Creative Retreat Program
Access the most up-to-date version here.
Everything on the program is optional and you are welcome to skip a session. Be sure to note the creative sessions because that’s what you’re here for, right?! 🌈
Arrival Day 1
4:00pm – Check-in (Sorry, no earlier)
4:45pm – Gentle Yoga (1h)
6:30pm – Final Check-in
6:45pm – Dinner
8:15pm – Opening Circle (45min)
9:00pm – Whisper time
Day 2*
7:00am – Dynamic Yoga (1h)
8:00am – Gentle Yoga (1h)
9:00am – Breakfast
9:45am – Free Time
10:45am – Clay Creation Workshop (2h)
1:00pm – Lunch
2:00pm – Drumming
5:30pm – Clay Creation Workshop (1h)
6:45pm – Dinner
8:15pm – Mindful Art Session (45min)
9:00pm –Whisper time
Final Morning
7:00am – Dynamic Yoga (1h)
8:00am – Gentle Yoga (1h)
9:00am – Breakfast
9:45am – Closing Circle
11:00am – Check-out and farewell
*For longer retreat, the schedule of DAY 2 repeats with different workshops. It’ll be a surprise but we won’t disappoint 🙂
Ready to explore your curiousity + creativity?
A special creative-inspired retreat for $549pp
We Can’t Wait to Retreat with You!
Especially if…
✨ You’re craving a deeper connection to yourself through creativity.
✨ You want to express, move, and create—without pressure or expectation.
✨ You’re curious about art, movement, and mindfulness but don’t know where to start
✨ You love yoga and see this is an extension of that.
✨ You just love the idea of getting away to the mountains with your creative teen.
✨You’ve attended Inner Joy and you’re looking for a new experience with us.
Whilst 14+ teens are welcome, we ask that they are curious and open to connecting in meaningful ways. As the parent or guardian, you will be required to participate with your teen in sessions.
This is an all-inclusive retreat for $549 per person, twin-share. This means all of your sessions, meals and your clay creation and craft are covered!
For those craving a little more privacy, you can treat yourself to a solo room for an additional $248 per person.