You are invited to a weekend of deep connection, self-care, and renewal. Reflect on your journey, restore your spirit, reweave your story, renew your sense of hope, and reimagine your future through ritual and shared experience. Come as you are. Leave with a heart more open, a spirit more resilient, and a renewed sense of belonging.

Gentle Sessions and Healing Spaces

Through gentle group sessions, creative expression, ritual, and quiet reflection, you’ll gain practical tools and new wisdom for your grief journey.

Safe Space

In this small group retreat, you’ll experience the profound healing of being truly seen and heard, surrounded by women who understand the power of tears, laughter, and the quiet strength found in shared stories.

About Sarah Tolmie

Throughout the weekend you’ll be guided by Sarah Tolmie, a Holistic Therapist, Celebrant, and Sacred Deathcare Practitioner, whose compassionate presence and expertise create a safe, healing space for transformation.

Learning to Live, Love and Laugh Again

We all love. We all grieve. Grief is not a flaw-it is a natural response to love and loss that connects us all. This women-only weekend retreat offers a gentle place for honouring the full spectrum of grief, from quiet sadness to the fierce love that drives it. You’ll explore how to safely navigate and integrate losses, deaths, and injustices – not by “getting over” them, but by letting your grief flow, honouring its wisdom, and learning to live, love, and laugh again.

Healthy Grief = Life + Love + Loss.

Retreat Details

• Dates: Friday 13 March– Sunday 15 March 2026
• Location: Women’s Healing Sanctuary, Brandy Hill, NSW
• Accommodation: 2 nights, including meals and beverages. Select the retreat package below that suits your budget.

Pricing

Pricing includes Transforming Grief into Hope Workshop package (as above), 2-nights accommodation, all meals & drinks, late check-out, linen & towels, access to shared lounges, gardens and relaxation spaces, free WiFi, tea/coffee making facilities, privacy/security.

Essential Retreat — $1140

• Room: Amber
• Bed: Single Bed
• Bathroom: Shared main bathroom

Comfort & Connection —  $1290

• Rooms: Blush or Sky
• Bed: Double bed
• Bathroom: Shared main bathroom

Garden View Retreat —  $1430

• Room: Haven – Queen bed (shared main bathroom)
• Rooms: Garden or Lily – Double bed (shared ensuite between 2)

Suite Sanctuary Retreat — $1530

• Room: Honey
• Bed: Queen bed
• Bathroom: Private ensuite

Itinerary

Friday

4.00pm: Check in

6.00pm: Dinner

7.45pm – 8.45pm: Welcome:  Meditation/ Visualisation

Grief enables you to survive losses by immersing you in the deep river that flows underneath all life. If you can’t move into your grief, you may only experience destabilisation and dissociation in response to the shock of loss, injustice, inequality, and death – instead of being cleansed and renewed in the river of all souls.

Saturday 

Breakfast (self-serve) in bed or at leisure 

10.00am-11.30am: Morning Session

Meeting Grief – Who are you grieving? What are you grieving? How are you grieving? Where are you grieving? Why are you grieving?

Goal Setting – how to be in mindful, meaningful, and healthy relationship with your grief?

12:30pm: Lunch

3.00pm – 4.30pm: Afternoon Session

Expressing Grief – Riding the waterfalls, waves, floods, torrents, runs and ripples…

Finding Hope – Drinking from Wisdom of the WELL

6:30pm: Dinner

8.00pm-9.00pm: Evening Session (optional)

Rituals for Grief – enacting, transforming and harnessing our deep soul energy

Sunday 

Breakfast (self-serve) in bed or at leisure 

10.00am – 11.30am: Morning Session (Final)

Making Meaning – Making bridges, crossing the river, reflections

Integrating Grief and Living Well with Loss – Learning to live, love, and laugh again.

12.00pm: Depart