We believe taking time out for a retreat can be a truly transformative experience for all women. We delight in creating personal and authentic experiences in beautiful environments and invite you to escape regular life and enter into a divine space filled with fun, laughter and renewal. We appreciate that fully experiencing the simple joys in life can lead to a profound sense of inner happiness and peace; simple pleasures like the feeling of sunshine on your face, your bare toes in the sand and tucking an island frangipani flower behind your ear. Through exploring our inner and outer worlds, we open ourselves up to a life filled with endless possibilities.
About Us
How You will Feel on a Goddess Retreat…
Connected
Something wonderful happens when women come together in a positive space. Consistently our guests discover, that the highlight of their retreat is the other beautiful women who they meet and share their journey with! This is why we choose to have set start dates for our retreat groups, rather than open dates where people can come and go anonymously.
Treasured
We don’t offer a one size fits all retreat program or an generic hotel stay. You will choose your own unique combination of experiences, that will delight and inspire you as an individual. Your retreat concierge will help you customize your wellness retreat and also assist with any post-retreat arrangements.
Pampered
Our unlimited spa treatment promise truly means you can indulge in blissful pampering every day on our Seminyak based retreat – including your arrival and departure days. At both retreat locations in Seminyak and Ubud, your stress will melt away in the caring hands of warm hearted spa therapists, leaving you relaxed and rejuvenated like never before.
Relaxed
Whether you’re travelling with friends or going solo, from the moment you step off the plane you are taken care of, so all you have to do is show up and enjoy! Most of our work is done long before arrival on our retreat, with every detail carefully and lovingly planned, so that you experience a remarkable holiday filled with memories you will cherish long after you return home.
Enchanted
Our team is made up of big-hearted professionals, who have decades of experience in facilitating truly magical and transformative journeys, that most regular tourists to Bali could never imagine. This is the main reason that we are consistently praised, retreat-after-retreat, by our happy guests.
Delighted
We pride ourselves on offering the highest quality retreat experience. With decades of amazing reviews and awards, you can be assured that you are in the best hands. We are honoured to be featured as Bali’s Best Retreat from Conde Nast Traveller, Harpers Bazaar, Tatler and Wall Street Journal to name just a few. Best of all, our all inclusive retreats start from only US$1999
Chelsea aka ‘Shellsea’ – Goddess Retreats Founder
“May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and freedom for all.”
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
This mantra perfectly expresses my most heart felt desire in life.
In 2003, I was inspired to create ‘Goddess Retreats’, because I felt a call to create a woman-only retreats, that were accessible and meaningful for the modern woman. A place to, not only have a healthy holiday, but to renew in an environment with the intention of holding a sacred space for a life-transforming experience. A place where a woman can reconnect with her empowered inner Goddess.
A Goddess Retreat is a very special self-care experience and I feel privileged to have been able to create a space where every woman can explore the joy and freedom of being fully themselves. Seeing women begin to glow, as the tension melts away and deep levels of peace, ease and spontaneous joy arise. I am infinitely grateful for the continued opportunity to help others discover a deeper purpose, happiness and self-empowerment.
For decades I traveled around the world seeking to deepen my spiritual understanding. My global pilgrimages led me to start practicing yoga and meditation in 1999 through the direct linage of Paramahansa Yoganada of SRF who wrote Autobiography of a Yogi. After decades of yoga and meditation practice and I was initiated as a Kriyaban into this sacred linage of Kriya Yoga.
Through my own journey, I discovered the importance of a retreat in its historical form, where people would temporarily leave behind life’s distractions for a period of time to allow relaxation, exploration and self-reflection to facilitate an inner transformation.
My deepest wish for you is to awaken, inspire and celebrate the Goddess within you…and that you shine your Goddess glow brightly in the world.
Namaste,