Return to Stillness
Private Couples Weekend Retreat
A completely private two-night retreat created just for the two of you. This is not a group retreat. Your accommodation, sessions, practices and time at Rise Temple are held personally for you both throughout the weekend.
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Sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves and one another is space.
Return to Stillness is a private couples weekend created entirely for the two of you. A chance to step away from the demands, noise and responsibilities of everyday life and experience a different pace together.
You may arrive feeling stressed, overwhelmed or disconnected from yourselves or one another. Or perhaps life is good, but you recognise how easily everyday responsibilities can take over and simply want the space to pause, reconnect and experience something meaningful together.
Through breathwork, meditation, witness consciousness, time in nature and restorative practices, the weekend creates space for you both to slow down, turn inward and reconnect.
Why You May Be Here
Life can become busy without us noticing how little space we leave to simply pause, turn inward and be fully present with ourselves and one another.
You may be carrying stress, anxiety or exhaustion, navigating a particularly full season of life, or simply longing for time away from the usual routines and responsibilities.
Perhaps one or both of you feel drawn towards meditation, breathwork or a deeper exploration of yourselves. A desire to understand the mind differently, experience greater stillness, or simply become more present in the way you move through life.
This retreat offers the space to explore that together, while also allowing each of you your own individual experience.
A weekend to slow down, listen more deeply and reconnect with what can so easily become lost beneath the noise of everyday life.
What to Expect
Your retreat begins with time to arrive, settle into your private accommodation and leave the outside world behind.
Across the weekend, we'll have space to talk about what is happening in your life and explore the thoughts, beliefs and patterns that may be shaping your experience.
Through guided witness consciousness meditation, you'll begin practising how to observe thoughts as they arise without automatically attaching to them, adding narrative or becoming caught within what the mind is presenting.
Your deeper breathwork journeys use gentle, conscious breathing to calm the nervous system, followed by guided visualisation and inward exploration.
There is also time simply to be. Time in nature, private sauna, yoga, massage, meditation, nourishing meals and space without expectation.
This isn't a weekend of constantly doing the work.
It is an opportunity to slow down enough to experience yourselves and one another from a quieter place.
No previous breathwork or meditation experience is needed.
Continue Your Practice
Following your retreat, you'll receive access to the Rise Temple meditation and breathwork library, with guided witness consciousness meditations, gentle breathwork journeys and recorded insights, to support your nervous system and continue your practice at home.
YOUR TIME AT RISE TEMPLE
For two nights, Rise Temple becomes your private place to step away from everyday life together.
Set within 45 acres in the Byron Bay hinterland, the retreat gives you the privacy and space to move at a slower pace, spend time in nature and allow the usual demands of life to fall away for a while.
Everything is held privately for the two of you. There are no groups to join and nowhere else you need to be.
This is your time.
YOUR PRIVATE ACCOMMODATION
Your two-night* retreat includes private accommodation at Rise Temple, giving you both somewhere comfortable and quiet to completely settle into the experience.
Your space includes a queen bedroom, private living area and kitchenette/workspace, surrounded by the stillness and nature of the property.
This is your home for the weekend. Somewhere to rest between sessions, talk, journal, read or simply enjoy having nowhere else you need to be.
*Please note that if you would like to extend your 2 night stay to include additional nights, this can also be arranged.
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THE STILL WATERS SANCTUARY
You will stay in the Queen Room with exclusive access to a semi self-contained space, including a private living area and kitchenette. The rest of the grounds are yours to explore. Please note that the shower in the luxury bathroom is shared with Amanda Jane who has her own toilet upstairs and is not en-suite.
Your Return To Stillness Weekend
Two nights private accommodation
Two private Breath & Belief journeys
Morning and evening meditation
Private infrared sauna
60-minute massage each
1-hour private couples yoga session
Time in nature and access to the property
All meals throughout your stay
Lifetime access to the Rise Temple Members Area, with guided witness consciousness meditations, breathwork journeys and ongoing recordings to support your practice when you return home.
RETURN TO STILLNESS
Private Couples Weekend Retreat
Friday 4:30pm - Sunday 1:00pm
$2888 AUD per couple
Two guests. One private retreat. Two nights away from everyday life. Time to slow down, turn inward and reconnect, both individually and together.
CONTINUE YOUR PRACTICE
The intention is not for everything you experience at Rise Temple to disappear the moment you return home.
Your lifetime access to the Rise Temple Members Area gives you somewhere to continue the practices explored during your retreat, with guided witness consciousness meditations, breathwork journeys and new recordings added over time.
A space to return to whenever life becomes loud again. To pause, observe and remember what you experienced when you gave yourself permission to become still.
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SPACE TO BE HEARD
Your retreat includes time for open, grounded conversation throughout the weekend, both as individuals and as a couple. There is no need to arrive knowing exactly what you want to explore.
Together, we can look at the thoughts, beliefs, patterns and reactions that may be shaping how you each experience yourselves, your relationship and one another, as well as anything that begins to surface through meditation, breathwork or simply having the space to slow down.
This isn't couples therapy or structured relationship coaching. It is a calm, attentive space where you can both speak honestly, listen and begin noticing what may be happening beneath habitual reactions or the stories we sometimes create around one another.
We return to these conversations throughout your stay, particularly after your deeper journeys, allowing time to reflect on what arose individually and what you may want to carry forward together.
The intention isn't to analyse your relationship or search for something to fix. It is simply to create enough space to see yourselves and one another with greater awareness.
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A Deeper Exploration
Your weekend doesn't need to be the end of your experience with Rise Temple.
If you feel called to continue exploring witness consciousness, breathwork and the patterns that shape how you experience yourselves and one another, there are gentle ways to continue the journey.
Return to Stillness — Weekly Online Meditation
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Private Couples Breath & Belief
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Private 1:1 Breath & Belief
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5-Week Private 1:1 Breath & Belief Reset
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Embracing Inner Calm
A complimentary guided practice to help you slow down, reconnect with the present moment, and return to the stillness that has always been within you.
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“My wife and I spent three nights with Amanda at Rise Temple last weekend, and I can honestly say that it was a life-changing experience. We have both been drawn to the spiritual path, but felt we needed some guidance to help us further in our journey. We feel that we were able to achieve this through the meditation, breathwork sessions and conversations we had with Amanda throughout our weekend together.
Amanda offered us a really warm welcome when we first arrived, and continued to show us amazing hospitality throughout our time. She took care of everything, from preparing all of our meals, keeping the fire on during the chilly nights and preparing the infra red sauna for us to relax in during the afternoons. She also organized a relaxing massage and Yin/Restorative Yoga session during our stay, which further added to this amazing experience. All we had to do was slow down, relax, and focus on the stillness and quiet that our busy minds we’re preventing us from experiencing. This was helped by the beautiful property that we were staying in, with the only sounds coming from the birds and the wind outside.
I would highly recommend a stay at Rise Temple to anyone serious about deepening their journey on the spiritual path. Amanda is a really beautiful person, who cares deeply about helping others to experience this, and my wife and I feel incredibly grateful that we were able to meet Amanda and spend this time with her. We will continue to practice these lessons everyday, and are exited to see how this will continue to transform our lives into the future.”
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