Wild Women Retreats
2027
Introducing Wild Women Retreats
Across the year, we will be offering a small series of immersive retreats created especially for women.
Each will take place over four or five days, with groups intentionally kept small — around 10 women — so there is time to settle, build trust, create meaningful connections and go beyond the surface of a topic.
These retreats will still hold everything I love about Wild Stillness: mindfulness, expressive art, nature, place, travel, shared experience and beautiful creative processes.
But each retreat will also explore one courageous question in women’s lives.
The art and the landscape aren’t simply activities around the edges. They become ways of paying attention, expressing what is difficult to put into words, experimenting with new ways of being and carrying what we discover back into everyday life.
COMING BACK TO MYSELF: . 11 - 15 Jan 2027
We begin with the foundation: knowing ourselves more clearly. What restores me? What drains me? What brings me joy? What am I carrying? What have I lost touch with while being busy working, caring and getting things done?
Across four days beside the water, we’ll use meditation, nature, facilitated reflection and creative exploration to develop a clearer understanding of our own pathways back to peace, energy and connection. At the centre of the retreat will be a personal Canvas of Becoming, developed gradually through intuitive painting, cyanotype, nature printing, gel plate printing, paper marbling, block printing, collage, words and mark-making.
We’ll also journey into the Coorong, explore Ngarrindjeri stories of Country and share plenty of time around the table and beside the water.
The intention: to leave knowing yourself a little better — and knowing how to find your way back to yourself when life becomes full.
Only 10 places. Bookings are now open HERE.
MAKING SPACE FOR MYSELF: 19-23 April 2027
This retreat will explore something many women find difficult: setting boundaries and making space for ourselves without guilt.
Where am I giving more than I genuinely have to give? What do I need? What deserves protecting? Where do I need a clearer yes — or a clearer no?
Set amongst the autumn landscape of the Adelaide Hills, our creative practice will draw on the season through botanical printing, natural dyes and paints, textile work, pattern and nature-based mark-making.
The intention: to leave clearer about your needs, your boundaries and the parts of your life that deserve your time and protection — with greater permission to make space for them.
Only 9 places. Bookings open soon
COURAGE, Following What Calls Me: 5 - 9 July 2027
Courage isn’t always dramatic.
Sometimes it is admitting what we want. Trying something unfamiliar. Following a creative impulse. Changing direction. Travelling somewhere new. Or taking the first step towards something we have been quietly postponing.
Bali gives us the perfect setting to explore this through traditional arts and crafts, sound healing, batik painting, cultural immersion, nature and a traditional Balinese cooking class.
As we step outside our usual roles and routines, we’ll ask:
What is calling me? What have I been waiting to begin? What might become possible if I trusted myself a little more?
The intention: to return home with renewed creative energy, greater clarity about what you want, and the courage to take a meaningful step towards it.
Only 12 places. Bookings open soon
COURAGE, Following What Calls Me: 5 - 9 July 2027
Courage isn’t always dramatic.
Sometimes it is admitting what we want. Trying something unfamiliar. Following a creative impulse. Changing direction. Travelling somewhere new. Or taking the first step towards something we have been quietly postponing.
Bali gives us the perfect setting to explore this through traditional arts and crafts, sound healing, batik painting, cultural immersion, nature and a traditional Balinese cooking class.
As we step outside our usual roles and routines, we’ll ask:
What is calling me? What have I been waiting to begin? What might become possible if I trusted myself a little more?
The intention: to return home with renewed creative energy, greater clarity about what you want, and the courage to take a meaningful step towards it.
Only 12 places. Bookings open soon
Why Wild Women
Wild Women has grown from something I have witnessed again and again in retreats: when women are given time and space to slow down together, something meaningful happens. Different lives and stories begin to reveal shared threads — around joy, creativity, courage, self-trust, voice, belonging and making space for ourselves within full lives. There is something powerful in being able to share honestly, listen deeply, laugh, create and recognise parts of our own experience in one another.
Wild Women creates space for that connection, while allowing each woman to follow her own path.
Some of the most meaningful moments on retreat happen naturally — in the conversations between sessions, the laughter around the table, the honesty that grows as trust builds, and the feeling of being seen and understood by other women. Alongside our facilitated group sessions, there will be plenty of space for these connections to unfold, creating the kind of friendships and shared memories that often become one of the most treasured parts of the experience.
About Your Guide
Jan Carey is an educator, author, retreat facilitator and creative practitioner whose work brings together mindfulness, expressive arts, nature, place and meaningful human connection. With more than 30 years in education and school leadership, Jan has spent many years exploring how awareness, creativity and connection can support the way we live, learn and relate to ourselves and others.
Jan is the founder and author of Wild Stillness. Her approach has been shaped by her own life — from living on a 46-acre bushland property in the Adelaide Hills to many years of living, working and volunteering in India, particularly Tamil Nadu. Through meditation, nature-based creative practice, art-making and immersive experiences of place, she creates retreats that invite people to slow down, notice more deeply and reconnect with what matters.
Jan has facilitated retreats, workshops and trainings across Australia and internationally in India and Bali, weaving together mindfulness, creativity, cultural immersion, nature and shared experience. Her work is grounded, experiential and gently reflective — creating space for people to explore, make, notice, connect and discover their own way forward.
Cancellation & Transfer Policy
Because our retreats and journeys are offered as a small group experience, all bookings are confirmed through full payment and are non-refundable. Once your place is secured, that space is reserved especially for you.
If you are unable to attend, you are very welcome to transfer your booking to another person of your choosing, subject to suitability and final confirmation. This approach helps keep the journey fair, sustainable, and accessible for everyone involved, while honouring the care and commitment required to hold a small-group experience.
If you have any questions or concerns before booking, I warmly encourage you to reach out so we can explore whether this retreat feels like the right fit for you at this time.