Yoga Retreats
This is a range of workshops to expand and deepen our understanding of yoga. In a class situation we often only get to practice postures, yet yoga has an insightful, practical and fascinating body of knowledge regarding the workings of the mind and the soul, as relevant today as it was 4,000 years ago.
Each Yoga Retreat involves yoga classes, relaxation, meditation, some periods of silence, and guided walks. The structure of each workshop is the same, but different themes are focussed on each weekend.
Two-day retreats have 5 yoga sessions. Three-day retreats have 7 yoga sessions. Four-day retreats have 9 or more yoga sessions. Free time between yoga sessions allows guests to rest and explore. Class sizes are kept small and students of all levels of experience are welcome. If there are areas of particular interest or special needs, i.e. injuries or pregnancy, please let us know in advance so we are able to better tailor the program to suit you.
Home-cooked, delicious, inspiring vegetarian meals are provided, beginning with Friday night dinner. Special diets are catered for.
The retreats are held at Clearview Retreat, a residential retreat centre ninety minutes north of Melbourne in the King Parrot Valley in central Victoria. Clearview Retreat backs onto the Tallarook forest and ranges, with immense views 100 kilometres across to Mount Buller and other spectacular mountain ranges.
Each yoga retreat is limited to small numbers of people (8 max).
Upcoming Yoga Retreats
• Feeling, Discerning & Deciding - w Antonia Pont: 31 Oct-3 Nov 2025 (3-day retreat)
• Replenish: Restorative, Yin, Massage - w Angela Robb: 7-9 Nov 2025 (2-day retreat)
• Replenish: Restorative, Yin, Massage - w Angela Robb: 23-26 Jan 2026 (3-day retreat)
• Aligning Heart, Mind and Body - w Antonia Pont: 6-9 March 2026 (3-day retreat)
• Replenish: Restorative, Yin, Massage - w Angela Robb: 2-6 April 2025 (4-day retreat)
More retreats will be scheduled for 2026.
Check the website later for updates or ask to be put on our email list.
Clearview Retreat also offers Nature Meditation Retreats and Cooking Retreats.
When
2-day retreat: 7pm Fri until 3pm Sun
3-day retreat: 7pm Fri until 3pm Mon
4-day retreat: 7pm Thurs until 3pm Mon
Enquiries
Jocelyn Bennett, ph 0437 813 737
Cost
2-day retreat: $495, $575 or $650
3-day retreat: $745, $865 or $975
4-day retreat: $990, $1150 or $1300
See full price information below
Feeling, Discerning & Deciding: yoga & artful intention
…with Antonia Pont
Fri evening 31 Oct - Mon afternoon 3 Nov 2025 (3-day Cup Day long weekend retreat)
This intermediate retreat invites students to explore the aspects of quietness, listening, strength and decisiveness that emerge with sustained practising of a balanced yogic curriculum. Cultivating our personal connection to its suite of practices, we will study the refined methods of sitting meditation, breath, posture, alignment, and relaxation. Revising and extending understanding, we will engage yogic ways of moving/relaxing, and directing energy, thought and action. Yoga teaches us to work with pauses, spaces, silence and waiting since these often reveal fresh pathways, modes of hidden creativity and reserves of steadiness and skilful responding. Eating well, resting well and under the big skies of Clearview, students are offered a chance to re-invigorate and re-affirm their love for and connection to yoga’s artfulness.
Replenish: Restorative, Yin, Massage
…with Angela Robb
Fri evening 7 - Sun afternoon 9 November 2025 (2-day retreat)
We all deserve time to step out of daily habits and routines, space for rest, space to let the clutter of the mind fall away…exposing our true nature of connection, play, joy and peace. Relaxed and nurtured, our natural clarity and centre surfaces; we again feel connected and purposeful, vital in body and mind. This retreat will guide you on this journey, giving the gifts of slowing down, play and gentle reflection. You will be expertly guided through a course of gentle restorative/yin yoga practices (lightly structured through the 5-element model of earth, wood, fire, water and metal) that are sprinkled with massage to enhance the release. The retreat program is highlighted with Yoga Nidra Meditation, gentle morning yoga-flow, sound meditation, nature walks and a personal massage for each retreatant. The collection of practices initiates a shift of energy to clear out that which is stuck or stagnant, creating space for new inspiration and personal freedom.
Replenish: Restorative, Yin, Massage
…with Angela Robb
Fri evening 23 - Mon afternoon 26 January 2026 (3-day long weekend retreat)
We all deserve time to step out of daily habits and routines, space for rest, space to let the clutter of the mind fall away…exposing our true nature of connection, play, joy and peace. Relaxed and nurtured, our natural clarity and centre surfaces; we again feel connected and purposeful, vital in body and mind. This retreat will guide you on this journey, giving the gifts of slowing down, play and gentle reflection. You will be expertly guided through a course of gentle restorative/yin yoga practices (lightly structured through the 5-element model of earth, wood, fire, water and metal) that are sprinkled with massage to enhance the release. The retreat program is highlighted with Yoga Nidra Meditation, gentle morning yoga-flow, sound meditation, nature walks and a personal massage for each retreatant. The collection of practices initiates a shift of energy to clear out that which is stuck or stagnant, creating space for new inspiration and personal freedom.
Aligning, Heart, Mind and Body
…with Antonia Pont
Fri evening 6 - Mon afternoon 9 March 2026 (3-day long weekend retreat)
This 3-day retreat will allow for a restful but active exploration of one’s own middle, or unique alignment. Engaging in practices that invite a gradual recalibration of the heart, mind and physical body, this retreat offers a space to reharmonise and reset using the reliable techniques and curriculum of Vijnana Yoga. Embarking on the physical practices of asana (poses), alongside sitting meditation, pranayama (breath work), and study — in the midst of the peaceful surrounds of Clearview Retreat — each participant has time to meet themselves kindly where they are at. This respect then supports an ability to listen without reactivity to our memories and inner longing. Via yoga practice across several days, we will build fortitude, steadiness and capacity, clarifying and moving towards wished-for directions and more nourishing possibilities.
Replenish: Restorative, Yin, Massage
…with Angela Robb
Thurs evening 2 - Mon afternoon 6 April 2026 (4-day Easter retreat)
We all deserve time to step out of daily habits and routines, space for rest, space to let the clutter of the mind fall away…exposing our true nature of connection, play, joy and peace. Relaxed and nurtured, our natural clarity and centre surfaces; we again feel connected and purposeful, vital in body and mind. This retreat will guide you on this journey, giving the gifts of slowing down, play and gentle reflection. You will be expertly guided through a course of gentle restorative/yin yoga practices (lightly structured through the 5-element model of earth, wood, fire, water and metal) that are sprinkled with massage to enhance the release. The retreat program is highlighted with Yoga Nidra Meditation, gentle morning yoga-flow, sound meditation, nature walks and a personal massage for each retreatant. The collection of practices initiates a shift of energy to clear out that which is stuck or stagnant, creating space for new inspiration and personal freedom.
Angela Robb
Over twenty years of personally enjoying the transformative benefits of yoga inspires Angela to share what she loves. Angela’s nurturing and intelligent style arouses connection with one’s own vitality and sense of centre and relaxation. During the nine years Angela has been teaching yoga, her meaningful classes have allowed students to discover the joy of yoga; physically, mentally, energetically and spiritually. Angela has an Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teaching - a 2 year, 1300+ hour course, from the Academy of Yoga Learning Australia. A trained massage therapist, Angela specialises in Thai Yoga Massage, which she integrates in her Restorative and Yin Yoga classes. Angela has additionally completed teacher training with some of the world’s renowned yoga teachers: Shiva Rae, Judith Lasater and Donna Farhi, and completed teacher training in Restorative Yoga, Pre-natal Yoga, Nada Yoga (the yoga of sound), Laughter Yoga, and Chakra Vinyasa Flow.
Antonia Pont
Antonia has been practicing yoga for almost two decades, and studying zen since 1996. She has trained and practiced with teachers in Australia, India and Europe, and has taught locally and internationally. She completed her first teacher training in Melbourne, with Paul Wooden of Gertrude Street Yoga in 2004. She then trained in the Vijnana tradition and received certification as a Vijnana teacher from the founder of the style, Orit Sen-Gupta, in 2011. She continues to study with Orit, and edited Orit’s book, The Heart of Yoga. Antonia has established Vijnana Yoga Australia in central Melbourne,which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2019. Her approach to teaching postures, breath and meditation is precise, steady, and sometimes irreverent. She encourages students to trust the strengthening and startling journey that practice can be, and to integrate this wisdom into their lives off the mat. She is a scholar, poet and essayist, and works at Deakin University. www.vijnanayogaaustralia.org
Yoga Retreat Rates
2-day retreats
$ 495 per person: yoga tuition + all meals + camping (BYO tent & camping gear)
$ 575 per person: yoga tuition + all meals + sharing bedroom (2 or 3 people in a room)
$ 650 per person: yoga tuition + all meals + one person to a bedroom
3-day retreats
$ 745 per person: yoga tuition + all meals + camping (BYO tent & camping gear)
$ 865 per person: yoga tuition + all meals + sharing bedroom (2 or 3 people in a room)
$ 975 per person: yoga tuition + all meals + one person to a bedroom
4-day retreats
$ 990 per person: yoga tuition + all meals + camping (BYO tent & camping gear)
$ 1150 per person: yoga tuition + all meals + sharing bedroom (2 or 3 people in a room)
$ 1300 per person: yoga tuition + all meals + one person to a bedroom
Meals include: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
~ Gift certificates are available, and are valid for 12 months from date of purchase
~ GST is included in these prices
~ Non-refundable and non-transferable deposit to secure booking: $ 150
~ Balance to be paid 3 weeks before retreat
~ Full fee is forfeited, & non-transferable, if booking is cancelled by guest less than 1 week before retreat