Body first
Practice starts in the body, not in analysis. Movement, breath and stillness do most of the work.
About Elementa
What Elementa is
Elementa runs women's retreats in the Byron Bay hinterland, plus an online retreat, monthly circles and mentorship for facilitators. Over 700 women since 2019, most of them arriving on their own.
Ways in
Six ways to work with Elementa.
Most women start with a day retreat or Homecoming, then come to a four-day retreat. There is no order you are supposed to follow.
In person · Byron Bay
Multi-day retreats
Four days at BlueGreen Sanctuary or Wybalena Organic Farm in the Byron Bay hinterland. Movement, creative practice, sauna, ice bath, chef-cooked meals and a small group of women.
In person · one afternoon
Byron Bay day retreats
Four hours of movement, art, fire ritual and circle. The shortest way to meet the work in person, and the usual first step for women local to the Northern Rivers.
Online · self-paced
Homecoming
An online retreat you can begin today, from home, in your own time. For women who want the practice before they can travel for it.
Online & in person · monthly
Inner Circle
Monthly women's circles that keep the practice alive between retreats, with a community that already knows the language.
Mentorship
For facilitators
Private mentorship for women building their own retreats and circles, covering design, pricing, group safety and filling the room.
For teams & organisations
Team retreats
Retreats, offsites and in-house wellbeing days designed and facilitated for women-led teams, in the Byron hinterland or at your workplace.
Who comes
Who these rooms are for.
- Women who are competent and capable in every other part of life, and quietly exhausted by it.
- Women who want depth and honesty in a room without being asked to perform vulnerability.
- First-timers. Roughly half of every retreat has never done anything like this before.
- Women travelling solo. Most arrive alone and leave with people they stay in touch with.
How retreats run
Four things that stay the same, wherever we are.
Small groups
Rooms are capped so that everyone is actually seen, usually 15 to 18 women.
Nothing to organise
Meals, accommodation, transport logistics and the schedule are handled. You arrive and stop deciding things.
No fixing
Nobody is treated as a problem to solve. The invitation is space, not repair.
Led by
Anastasia Stockwell.
Founder of Elementa and the facilitator in the room at every retreat. Trained in theatre and education, then 500hr Hatha Yoga, Qi Gong, Arts Therapy facilitation and a PhD researching how the body carries what the mind files away.
Newsletter & Elementa updates
Receive notes from Elementa and retreat invitations.
Occasional letters for retreat dates, embodied practice and quieter ways back to yourself.