Couples Retreat in the Blue Mountains
...strengthen your connection, heighten your intimacy, and deepen your love...
Are you romantic adventurers seeking spiritual, sexual and relationship growth?
Join me, Jacqueline Hellyer, at my LoveLife Couples Retreat, now in its fourteenth year! This unforgettable weekend getaway at Parklands in the Blue Mountains, just over an hour west of Sydney, offers the perfect escape.
Leave the stresses of daily life behind and immerse yourselves in your 'couple bubble' as I guide you on a transformative journey into Conscious Relating and Sacred Sexuality.
I combine empowering practices and insights from modern scientific knowledge, therapeutic techniques, and ancient Tantric and Taoist wisdom to create a unique experience that will help you connect more deeply and open up more fully than ever before.
Next Retreat
14-16 February
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Numbers limited!
COUPLE TESTIMONIALS
"We had a fabulous time at the retreat. The surroundings, the people, and the teachings were all a blessing. It has taught us to explore new horizons in our love relationship and has brought our connection closer. We will be using all the techniques in the time to come as our sex life develops and improves. In fact, the results have been almost instantaneous!"
"We will always remember the weekend, we discovered so much together and shall keep learning with each other with the skills gained for a long time to come. Thank you for such a great experience."
"It's not a course, it's an awakening. It opens your eyes to what's possible as a couple."
"Thank you for a wonderful retreat. All the things we were worried about turned out to be no concern at all and all the things we were looking forward to turned out to be much better than we dreamed! We are still buzzing from the experience. "
What You’ll Do at the LoveLife Couples Retreat
Friday:
11am-1pm: Introduction
2.30-5.30pm: Conscious Relating
7-8.30pm: Touch
Saturday:
10am-1pm: Connection
3.30-6.30pm: Sacred Sexuality
7-9pm: Fine Dining at Wintergarden
Sunday:
10am-1pm: Taking it home
2-3.30pm: Consolidation & Closing
The workshop is exclusively focused on you as a couple, with no group activities.
You will learn:
- How to build and maintain a conscious relationship.
- Strategies to keep your ‘Couple Bubble’ strong.
- Techniques for experiencing mindful, bodyful, and soulful loving.
- Tantric concepts related to sexuality, their scientific basis, and their relevance for modern lovers.
- The seven key elements that contribute to a great love life.
- Effective communication about sex and intimacy, including how to ask for what you want.
- How to co-create memorable and fulfilling experiences together.
- Ways to explore the ecstasy of the ‘valleys’ as well as the intensity of the ‘peaks’ of sex.
- Techniques to pleasure each other for heightened erotic arousal.
- An approach to love-making that remains endlessly creative and satisfying all life long!
Please be assured that, as with all my workshops, this Couples Retreat is completely classy and sleaze-free. There is no need for self-disclosure, and no nudity or sexual interaction is involved. That’s for you to explore on your own!
Read more about the benefits of attending this Couples Retreat here.
Please note that this Retreat is intended for couples who are already in a relatively good place and wish to enhance their relationship further (i.e., not on the brink of separation or experiencing significant conflict). If your relationship is deeply troubled or in crisis, please arrange private sessions with me first, either in person or online.
Details and Accommodation
When:
The retreats runs from 11am Friday until 3.30pm Sunday.
14-16 February 2025
20-22 June 2025
17-19 October 2025
Where:
The venue is the beautiful and serene Parklands in Blackheath, Blue Mountains, located just a 1.5-hour drive or a 2-hour train trip west of Sydney.
Who:
Couples of all ages and stages of life and relationship join this retreat. Some are working on healing their relationship, some are starting a new relationship, and others have a thriving relationship, in part because they engage in enriching experiences like this retreat together!
Maximum ten
couples per retreat.
Same sex couples are very welcome.
What:
The retreat features two to three workshop sessions per day, with plenty of time to enjoy the environment and practise your "homework". You’ll also enjoy abundant gourmet meals and receive special gifts!
Fee:
The retreat fee is $2550 per couple. This includes all meals except breakfast, which you book with the accommodation.
Your accommodation is additional and booked and paid directly with Parklands. Rates vary depending on the season and time of booking. And you get a discount as a retreat participant! I'll give you the code once you've booked in. Please follow this link to browse availability and prices.
Book into the Love Life Weekend Couples Retreat
When you book, you'll be asked to pay a 50% deposit. I’ll then invoice you for the remaining balance, which is due four weeks before the retreat. Feel free to contact me if you’d like to discuss any details before booking or if you’d like to arrange a payment plan.
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On a personal note:
I’ve been running couples’ workshops and retreats for fifteen years, and I absolutely love what I do. Our society is filled with myths and misinformation about sex within relationships, and it's a great privilege for me to shed light on this important aspect of life!
Finding truly empowering and high-quality information about sex as it evolves throughout a lifetime can be challenging. I’m the sex geek who has done the research and can present it in a positive, accessible way. With over 20 years of experience, I’ve helped countless couples discover how amazing their sexuality and relationship can be. I hope I can do the same for you.
During this retreat, I’ll distill all my knowledge and experience to guide you in your evolution as a couple. I look forward to helping you explore the beauty and power of connection and sexuality within a loving relationship!
MORE TESTIMONIALS
"We've just spent a wonderful weekend with Jacqueline. Her workshops are fun, informative, sensual, and in many ways deeply profound - the weekend brought us closer in ways we could never have imagined. Thank-you for filling up our love bank!"
"‘The couples retreat is something every couple should do if they can. The course is refreshing, inspiring and gave our relationship a fun tool set to set us up for a joyful life together. It’s not just about sex (though that stuff was great), it debunks myths and starts a conversation that changed our relationship - definitely for the better. Jacqueline has a gift to make everyone feel comfortable. Don’t wait until there is a ‘problem’ - all relationships can be improved. Would recommend to all couples!’"
"Thank you for the weekend retreat - I greatly enjoyed and learned a lot at it. Your combination of spirituality and philosophy meeting is an inspiration."
"We LOVED the retreat. You created a safe, adult, sexy space where we could be honest and open, exploring ourselves and the connection that exists in really different ways than we've ever been able to in the past. Your rich and sensitive holding of the spiritual side, and ease of its emergence as sexual energy - an energy to draw the other in and connect with - was really a gift and a beautiful model to offer. "
"We traveled to Australia from the United States with the main purpose to attend Jacqueline's Blue Mountains retreat for
our anniversary. Although we arrived with some uncertainty of what to expect, we left more than satisfied with the entire phenomenal
experience, refreshed in our relationship, and inspired to continue to learn from Jacqueline!
Our nerves were promptly calmed with the way Jacqueline presents, the staff were welcoming, the facilities were gorgeous, the food
was amazing, and the atmosphere was perfect to do some self and shared growth. It was more than worth traveling across the world
to meet Jacqueline and participate in her retreat! Jacqueline is positively reinforcing relationships with vital tools to not only change their relationship/s and lives, but also everyone around them! Thank you for sharing some TLC from the bottom of our hearts Jacqueline, we will see you at one of your Bali retreats in the future!"
BD&TD
"My partner and I just got back from a fantastic couples tantra retreat in the Blue Mountains with the extremely talented Jacqueline Hellyer. It was FANTASTIC!!!
I absolutely loved her grounded approach, her sense of humour and realness, no prescriptive, one size fits all approach, just REAL talk and providing an incredibly safe space to deeply connect with each other.
It was really interesting to take a deep dive on where humans are at in general sexually, how it has been such a taboo topic for so long and how this hasn’t served us at all. There’s not much quality education and instruction on what makes incredible, loving, safe, conscious, pleasurable, and consensual and CONTINUED consensual sex.
We learnt how to really communicate and feel safe to share our most vulnerable parts of ourselves with each other but also how to bring up challenges in a way that they can actually be calmly resolved and how to ask for what we really want. How to sink into ourselves and hold ourselves.. and ownership and responsibility for ourselves so we can show up and sync in with our partners in the “couple bubble”.
We did beautiful activities like:
• How to REALLY hold someone. Not drag them down or throw yourselves on them, but lovingly embrace them while holding your own energy.
• How to actively listen to what your partner is saying. Listening to understand, not to go on the defense or the attack.
• Learning how to keep things interesting even when you have been together for a long time and the original passion and sex drive may no longer be there.
• Really paying attention to and acknowledging each other.
• It was beautiful doing some of the touch and massage exercises.
• How to really enjoy and be with each other. It starts with that feeling of safety and connectedness.
• How to explore fun new things you might not have considered trying, but to make it safe, fun and something not to be ashamed of talking about or trying with each other.
Thank you for taking us on such a divine journey in such a beautiful setting. You are an incredibly skilled facilitator and it is clear the passion you have for making a real impact and changing the future of sex, intimacy and really meaningful and long-term connection."
J&S
Couples Retreat FAQs
If you're not sure, feel free to contact me and I'll give you a call to discuss your situation. As long as you're in a reasonably good space you should be fine. If you have big issues or are volatile then I recommend you see me or one of my colleagues at The LoveLife Clinic for private sessions first. Often couples do have a session or more with me before attending the retreat, and some have private sessions afterwards to consolidate and focus on individual issues.
If at any time you want some time out or don't want to participate, you are very welcome to have a break or sit out. That's totally up to you.
I will be available to everyone on the retreat to make sure you feel comfortable and supported. As a therapist I will be available to talk to participants during the breaks.
There are no group activities during the workshops, it's rather like ten individual retreats going on at the same time, with each couple focused on themselves.
But socially, that depends on you! Some couples are quite gregarious and friendly and others keep to themselves. Generally anyone who comes on this retreat is a pretty cool couple, dedicated to their love and growth, so generally it's a very open and loving group of people and often new friendships are made.
No, the whole venue is reserved for our retreat.
No, everything is provided. You might want to bring a small speaker to play music in your suite. As to clothes, wear comfortable clothes during the workshops and something fancier for Saturday's dinner at Wintergarden.
Yes, all food requirements can be met. And it's all delicious!
Read your partner all the testimonials on this page and show your partner the photos of all the very 'normal' looking participants!
I'm happy to have a chat with anyone who needs to be reassured.
Absolutely! Love is love and everyone is welcome.
You pay a 50% deposit on booking. This is done through Stripe's secure payment gateway. The remainder needs to be paid up to a month in advance by bank transfer (preferably), credit card or through Stripe.
If you need a different payment plan, such as paying in smaller installments, please contact me to make an arrangement that suits.
You can transfer to a later retreat up to six weeks in advance of the one you're booked in for. You can also cancel up to six weeks in advance, with a 10% admin fee. Less than six weeks in advance you can only cancel or transfer if another couple is able to take your space.
Please read the Terms and Conditions for more information.
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