Rewire Your Habits

The neuroscience of lasting behaviour change

An 4-night immersive retreat at SOMA Lorna Jane

The Retreat

The quality of your life is shaped by the habits you repeat daily - how you eat, move, think, work and rest. Habit change isn’t just helpful — it’s foundational. Yet most habit change efforts fail because they rely on motivation instead of science.

This immersive retreat is a science-backed behavioural reset designed to help you break unhelpful cycles and build habits that stick. Unlike motivation-based programs, this retreat focuses on what truly drives sustainable behaviour: identity, environment design, nervous system regulation and small, strategic habit shifts.

The daily program also includes ample leisure time, movement classes, nourishing meals, deeply satisfying rest, and spa and bathhouse rituals.

Blending neuroscience, behavioural psychology and practical habit architecture, Dr Gina Cleo guides you through a structured journey to break unhelpful patterns and build habits that feel achievable, sustainable, and aligned with who you want to become.

This retreat offers space to pause, reflect and reset - away from the noise of everyday life.

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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.

This retreat includes

All-inclusive retreat with meals, workshops, movement sessions, group experiences, and daily bathhouse access.

Meet your Educator & Facilitor

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.”

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.

Invest in Yourself

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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