Soul Work Retreats
By Helen Forster
Transformational Wellness Retreats in Victoria and Bali
Helen has been facilitating SOLD OUT transformational retreats since 2019, both in Victoria and overseas.
As a Soul Work Guide and Intuitive Healer, she has come to deeply honour and witness the changes that unfold at a soul level when we are truly witnessed and held in the deep work.
Each retreat is lovingly and consciously held, in intention and heart.
If you're craving stillness, deep rest and reconnection to your own wisdom, coming on retreat may be exactly the medicine you need. To nourish the parts of you that have been holding it all for far too long.
You certainly don't need permission to pause and reclaim your sacred gifts: your intuition, your inner knowing, your ability to flow, adapt and nurture. These are the very gifts that nourish and sustain your soul. The energy source that lets you thrive, not just survive.
All retreats are by application only, due to the intimate and deep nature of the work we do together.
Upcoming Retreats
Explore Helen’s 2027 Soul Work Retreats in Hepburn Springs and Ubud, Bali. With the exception of Panchakarma, all retreats will be held at the newly refurbished Continental House in Hepburn Springs.
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Winter Retreat
Continental House, Hepburn Springs
18–22 June 2027
4 nightsFour nights away to rest deeply, reconnect with yourself, and return home renewed.
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Annual Panchakarma
One World Ayurveda, Ubud, Bali
15–22 August 2027
7 nightsHosted by One World Ayurveda
Ancient wisdom, deep cleanse, true renewal.
Let Bali hold you while you let go.
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Spring Retreat
Continental House, Hepburn Springs
10–13 September 2027
3 nightsA retreat designed to help you feel light, clear, and renewed; inside and out.
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Deep Work Retreat
Continental House, Hepburn Springs
15–20 October 2027
5 nights . 2 days of intentional silenceA dedicated 5 night retreat for silence, stillness, and real inner work.
You don't need another holiday.
You need a homecoming.
Soul Work Retreat with Helen Forster isn't about ticking off sights or filling your days with activity for the sake of it.
It is a deliberate pause.
A sacred container designed to help you meet yourself again, fully and without apology.
Here's what women consistently discover when they say yes to that pause.
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Permission to Stop
Most of us don't realise how much we're carrying until we finally put it down. Whether it's the two days of intentional silence on the Deep Work Retreat or the slower, rhythm of the Spring Retreat, every schedule is built around one thing: giving you real permission to turn your awareness inwards. No phones demanding your attention, no roles to perform, just space to breathe.
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A Safe Container for Deep Release
Real transformation needs real safety. Every retreat is held with the kind of warmth and non-judgement that allows women to be vulnerable; often for the first time in years. This is where old patterns, buried grief, and past trauma get the room they need to finally move.
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Reconnection With Your Intuition
Somewhere between the demands of daily life, many women lose touch with their own inner knowing. Through ceremony, ritual, breathwork and stillness, retreat guests describe reclaiming a sense of self they thought was gone — and learning to trust that voice again.
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A Program Designed With Intention, Not Filler
Every workshop, ceremony, and quiet moment is sequenced with purpose, so you're gently guided deeper rather than overwhelmed. It's the difference between a retreat that entertains you and one that actually changes something.
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Nourishment on Every Level
Wholesome meals, herbal teas, beautiful accommodation, time in nature, and optional treatments (massage, facials, Turkish Hammam) mean the body is cared for as attentively as the soul. Healing happens faster when you're not running on empty.
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Genuine Connection With Other Women
You are never doing this work alone. Retreats bring together women who are ready to go deep, and there's a particular kind of relief in being witnessed; and witnessing others; without masks.
Attendance is by application only
Ensuring every gathering holds the right energy for deep, safe work. If you're feeling the pull, that's usually the sign it's time.
Meet your retreat host, Helen Forster
Based in the south east suburbs of Melbourne and founded by Helen Forster in 2014, Whole Beginnings began as a sanctuary for people to come home to themselves through holistic healing, sacred practices, and soul-led transformation.
Over the years, as the work deepened and the offerings evolved, so too did the name.
Today, Helen Forster Soul Work is the next evolution. An invitation to meet yourself in the raw, honest places beneath the surface. It is a space where transformation is not only possible, but inevitable when you are held with safety, truth, and reverence.
Here, we honour the whole being mind, body, heart, and spirit. Whether through 1:1 coaching, sacred women’s circles, retreats, breathwork, intuitive healing, or sound medicine, this work invites you to slow down, soften, and courageously do the work.
Enquire about a Soul Work Retreat
Attendance is by application only, ensuring every gathering holds the right energy for deep, safe work. If you're feeling the pull, that's usually the sign it's time.