SECURE YOUR PLACE

Rewire Your Habits

Feeling Stuck? Rewire Your Brain to Rewire Your Habits.

A 3-night immersive retreat at SOMA Lorna Jane

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The Retreat

Up to 70% of what you do each day is running on autopilot. Habits formed long ago, quietly shaping your health, your energy and the life you are living.

Spring is the season we set intentions. Most don't last past March. Not because you lack discipline, but because no one has ever shown you how your brain actually forms and holds a habit, and how to use that to your advantage.

This retreat changes that.

Across three immersive nights, Dr Gina Cleo, one of Australia's leading habit researchers, guides you through the neuroscience of behaviour change. You'll understand why willpower fails, how automatic loops form and reinforce themselves in the brain, and how small, strategic shifts in your environment and identity create the conditions for habits that finally stick.

Unlike motivation-based programs, this retreat works with what actually drives sustainable change: identity, environment design, nervous system regulation and strategic habit shifts.

Woven around the learning is ample leisure time, movement classes, nourishing meals, deeply satisfying rest, and spa and bathhouse rituals.

A woman relaxes on a wooden deck poolside, lying on a white towel and reading an open book. She is wearing a black and white patterned swimsuit, and the background shows a swimming pool and green trees.
A woman relaxes on a wooden deck poolside, lying on a white towel and reading an open book. She is wearing a black and white patterned swimsuit, and the background shows a swimming pool and green trees.

Meet your Facilitator

Dr Gina Cleo

Habit Researcher · Behavioural Scientist · Author

Dr Gina Cleo is one of Australia’s leading habit researchers, a behavioural scientist, award-winning academic, and author whose work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, and the practical science of lasting change. With a PhD in habit change and over a decade of clinical and research experience, Gina has a rare ability to translate complex brain science into something immediately actionable and deeply humanising. Her approach is warm, rigorous, and genuinely empowering, grounded in the conviction that understanding how your brain works is not just interesting, but transformational. She doesn’t ask you to try harder. She shows you how to design smarter.

Retreat Add on available - 1:1 session with Dr Gina Cleo

“You are not broken. You were never given the right design.”

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Want to learn more? Dr Gina Cleo and Lorna Jane Clarkson discuss the neuroscience of behaviour on the Never Give Up podcast

Listen now

Dates

New dates for this retreat are coming soon.

Rooms

  • Private king room

    1 guest

    Indulge in the luxury of silence and space, with a king bed and ensuite all to yourself.

    Introductory Offer: 10% Off*

    Was $4,950 now $4,455per person

  • Shared king room

    2 guests

    Share the journey and a king room with a friend or loved one. Available as one king bed or two twin singles.

    Introductory Offer: 10% Off*

    Was $3,465 now $3,118.50per person

    Was $6,930 now $6,237 per room

  • Local day guest

    1 - 6 guests

    Join the full retreat, including all your meals, then return to your own accommodation to sleep and shower.

    Introductory Offer: 10% Off*

    Was $3,300 now $2,970per person

Terms and Conditions

This retreat includes

All-inclusive retreat with meals, workshops, movement sessions, group experiences, and daily bathhouse access.
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All meals, snacks, and beverages throughout the retreat.
Our Approach

Every meal is a balance of nourishing macronutrients

One of the most powerful habits you can build is the way you eat, and every meal on this retreat is a quiet demonstration of what that looks like in practice. Seasonal, whole, and genuinely nourishing, the food here is not incidental to the program. It is part of the rewiring.

Breakfasts are protein-rich and grounding, designed to stabilise blood sugar and support the cognitive clarity needed for the morning’s learning. Lunches are generous and balanced, built around whole foods that sustain energy without the afternoon crash. Dinners are lighter and unhurried, an invitation to slow down, connect, and let the day’s insights settle. Snacks, elixirs, and teas woven throughout the day continue the same intention: every offering chosen to nourish the brain and body that is doing the work of change.

A woman in a black sports bra and leggings performs a yoga pose on a pink mat beside a swimming pool, with a scenic landscape of rolling hills in the background.

All activities, workshops, movement classes, and learning sessions.

Our Approach

Every moment on retreat is curated with intention

Every hour on a SOMA Lorna Jane Retreat is part of the journey. The daily program includes ample leisure time alongside interesting activities and experiences that open the mind to new insights and possibilities.

Movement classes encourage strength, mobility, fitness, flexibility and conscious breathing that leave you feeling energised versus depleted. Our workshops provide practical tools that can be woven into a busy life; presented by qualified educators who have been carefully selected for their expertise, lived experience, and genuine desire to uplift and empower. While evening gatherings invite quality conversations, reflection, light celebrations or quiet meditative experiences. This is the time where the day integrates, and when connection with other women deepens.
SOMA Bath House Garden

Daily bath house access: sauna, warm soaking pools, and cold-water immersion.
Our Approach

Nature, bathing and spa therapies for deep restoration

Together, the day spa and bathhouse create an opportunity to deepen your connection to self and the natural surrounds. A small yet carefully curated menu of signature treatments has been intentionally created to deliver a deeply satisfying experience for your mind, body and nervous system. The bathhouse provides a sequence of hot, warm and cold hydrothermal therapies that further enhance your restorative journey.

Our therapists work with intention and care, creating space for the kind of deep rejuvenation that supports everything else you experience while on retreat. Whether you arrive carrying tension, fatigue, or simply the weight of a busy life, you will leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more present in your body than when you arrived.

Additional Day Spa therapies are available as an add on
A styled dining table set with multiple white bowls of colorful salads and prepared foods, alongside lit white taper candles in a wooden holder, flowers, and a bright window background.

All meals, snacks, and beverages throughout the retreat.
Our Approach

Every meal is a balance of nourishing macronutrients

One of the most powerful habits you can build is the way you eat, and every meal on this retreat is a quiet demonstration of what that looks like in practice. Seasonal, whole, and genuinely nourishing, the food here is not incidental to the program. It is part of the rewiring.

Breakfasts are protein-rich and grounding, designed to stabilise blood sugar and support the cognitive clarity needed for the morning’s learning. Lunches are generous and balanced, built around whole foods that sustain energy without the afternoon crash. Dinners are lighter and unhurried, an invitation to slow down, connect, and let the day’s insights settle. Snacks, elixirs, and teas woven throughout the day continue the same intention: every offering chosen to nourish the brain and body that is doing the work of change.

A woman in a black sports bra and leggings performs a yoga pose on a pink mat beside a swimming pool, with a scenic landscape of rolling hills in the background.

All activities, workshops, movement classes, and learning sessions.

Our Approach

Every moment on retreat is curated with intention

Every hour on a SOMA Lorna Jane Retreat is part of the journey. The daily program includes ample leisure time alongside interesting activities and experiences that open the mind to new insights and possibilities.

Movement classes encourage strength, mobility, fitness, flexibility and conscious breathing that leave you feeling energised versus depleted. Our workshops provide practical tools that can be woven into a busy life; presented by qualified educators who have been carefully selected for their expertise, lived experience, and genuine desire to uplift and empower. While evening gatherings invite quality conversations, reflection, light celebrations or quiet meditative experiences. This is the time where the day integrates, and when connection with other women deepens.
SOMA Bath House Garden

Daily bath house access: sauna, warm soaking pools, and cold-water immersion.
Our Approach

Nature, bathing and spa therapies for deep restoration

Together, the day spa and bathhouse create an opportunity to deepen your connection to self and the natural surrounds. A small yet carefully curated menu of signature treatments has been intentionally created to deliver a deeply satisfying experience for your mind, body and nervous system. The bathhouse provides a sequence of hot, warm and cold hydrothermal therapies that further enhance your restorative journey.

Our therapists work with intention and care, creating space for the kind of deep rejuvenation that supports everything else you experience while on retreat. Whether you arrive carrying tension, fatigue, or simply the weight of a busy life, you will leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more present in your body than when you arrived.

Additional Day Spa therapies are available as an add on
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Add Ons

Personalised Expert Consultation

Private consultations are available with your retreat facilitator during scheduled leisure time.
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Spa Therapy Treatments

Book in advance for one of our 6 Spa Therapy Treatments.
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Airport Transfers

Book the SOMA luxury airport shuttle or Private Transfer from Ballina or Gold Coast Aiport.
This Retreat is for You If...

You want to remove the confusion around why willpower fails and understand the psychology behind self-sabotage.

You want to release stress patterns and emotional drivers that keep you stuck in autopilot.

You are ready to reframe habit change from discipline to systems design.

You are ready to reset your identity with practical tools that make consistency achievable.

You are ready to replace guilt and shame with compassion and self-care.

You want to understand the nervous system and the part it plays in habit formation.

You love nature, delicious food, movement, a good night’s sleep, wellness experiences, spa and bathhouse therapies and connecting with like-minded women.

What You Will Take Home

A genuine understanding of the neuroscience behind habit formation, why patterns form, why they persist, and exactly how to interrupt them.

Clarity on the specific habits quietly running your life and the triggers, environments, and identity stories that are keeping them in place.

A personalised plan for building the habits you want, designed for your life.

Practical exercises and choices for nervous system regulation and stress management that support habit consistency.

A framework for identity-based habit change, shifting from ‘I am trying to do this’ to ‘this is who I am’.

A personalised Habit Blueprint created by you and for you based on what you learn in Gina’s insightful sessions.

A newfound confidence and trust in yourself.
Our Foundation

Every SOMA Lorna Jane Retreat is rooted in the same philosophy Lorna Jane Clarkson has lived and led for over 37 years: when a woman moves with intention, nourishes herself deeply, and truly believes in what she’s capable of, everything changes. This is not a wellness trend. It is a proven practice. And SOMA Lorna Jane is its most immersive expression.

Set within SOMA Lorna Jane's hinterland sanctuary, our retreats are designed so that the environment itself becomes part of the transformation. Surrounded by rolling hills and rainforest, with architecture intentionally shaped for stillness, connection, and restoration, SOMA Lorna Jane creates the ideal conditions for women to step out of life’s intensity and into calm and clarity.

Facilities include the beautifully appointed SOMA Residence with expansive views across the landscape, a day spa and bathhouse featuring sauna, warm soaking pools and cold-water immersions, two forest Domes, one for mindfulness experiences and one for active strength and movement, and 22 acres of peaceful nature to breathe, explore and restore in.

The daily program weaves together a supportive rhythm of movement, nourishing wholefoods, spa and bathhouse rituals, and deeply satisfying rest. Time in nature: fresh air, sunshine, forest bathing, and swimming; awakens the senses and quiets the mind. Throughout the retreat, quality conversation fosters genuine connection and friendship with like-minded women.

Our featured educators and facilitators have been carefully selected for their qualified expertise, lived experience, and a genuine desire to uplift and empower; always with warmth, depth and a touch of humour.

At SOMA Lorna Jane, we believe a pause can also be productive. Our retreats offer you the opportunity to recalibrate and rise, within an environment that is beautiful, unhurried, and deeply considered.

Secure Your Place

Every SOMA Lorna Jane retreat is intentionally intimate. It is how we ensure every woman who joins is genuinely seen and supported. If this feels like your retreat, trust that. Places are limited and we would love to hold a place for you.

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Have a question?

Email us at info@somalornajane.com.au or call us on +61 455 205 603 between 8am to 4pm AEST, Monday to Friday.

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    Learn more: Nervous System Reset

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