Lord Howe Island Retreat with Positive Energy

The first thing you notice when you land on Lord Howe Island is the quiet.

Not just the usual peaceful kind, but a deeper kind of stillness, the kind that shows up when there’s no traffic, no notifications, no endless scrolling. It takes a moment to settle into it, but once you do, it feels like magic.

Not long after we arrived, someone asked, “What’s the weather doing today?” And out of habit, we all reached for our phones. But of course, no signal, no surf app, no forecast. So, we did what people used to do, we jumped on bikes. Some of us hadn’t ridden in over 20 years, but we rode anyway, all the way to the lagoon to check the water ourselves and find the best snorkelling spot.

That simple moment set the tone for everything that followed on our very first Positive Energy Lord Howe Island Swim, Hike and Wellness Retreat.

Over the next few days, we lived a bit like people did back in the 80s.

We rode bikes, walked everywhere, printed out day sheets based on the weather and what felt right. We planned our retreat days around that rhythm. Having visited the island many times since 2012, we had a good sense of what worked best, and we were so excited to share it with our clients.

With hardly any reception, guests relied on us to help plan their days. After morning visits to beaches on both the east and west sides of the island, checking the swell, watching how the wind changed, chatting with locals for their tips, we created the best possible day sheets, sometimes updating them a few times a day. If you wanted to know something, you asked a local. If you wanted to meet someone, you called a landline or just turned up. We left handwritten notes for clients to snap photos of, and remembered what it felt like to really communicate face to face. Lodge briefings became a whole new kind of connection.

For so many of our clients, this was their first 1km ocean swim, their first hike up a mountain that usually unravels them, their first time on a bike in 20 years. And so, the stories kept coming.

That shift, stripping away all the noise, made space for what really matters.

Spontaneous adventures. Ocean swims we’d planned, sometimes riding barefoot to the start. Wellness sessions to keep bodies moving and help unpack the noise from home. Yoga outdoors with Mt Gower watching over us. Hiking to summits, gently nudging people beyond their comfort zones, always making sure there was something for everyone.

Wellness gets talked about a lot, classes, rituals, routines, and yes, we love all of that. But this retreat reminded us wellness isn’t always about adding more. Sometimes it’s about letting go, taking away the clutter, the rush, the constant pull to be reachable, and stepping into nature. That’s what the Lord Howe Island Positive Energy Retreat is really about.

And we’re so excited to offer dates for April 2026 and March 2027.

There’s something deeply healing about being unreachable.

Some of our clients were experiencing floods in the Mid North Coast, and for them, this trip was a chance to remind each other that we need to live with what life throws at us, to come back full of positive energy and ready to help others on their journey home. It’s about going back to basics, discovering the joy of letting go, and simply following your curiosity. We didn’t need to schedule our adventures and sheer happiness it just bubbled up naturally.

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That’s what this retreat is, a return to presence, letting nature lead, trusting that when distractions fall away, connection happens, whether it’s with yourself, the ocean, or the person sitting next to you at sunset.

This was our adventure on Lord Howe Island, a reset, a reminder, a beautiful kind of freedom.

And if your heart’s craving that too, maybe it’s your turn next.