MEDITATION & NATURE THERAPY
Hosted by Omanisa and her apprentices
A New Season of Retreats
For many years, I have loved hosting residential Gaian Healing Retreats - immersive "sleepover" weekends full of healing, nature connection, and community.
Life, however, is calling me into a new rhythm, one of greater spaciousness and ease. The residential retreats are taking a pause, and in their place I am offering Day Retreats. These one-day immersions carry the same heart and depth, in a form that is simpler and more sustainable. Should the residential retreats return one day, they will do so in their own time; for now, this is the new shape of Gaian Healing.
Day Retreats carry the same heart and depth as the residential retreats, but without the intensity of overnight stays. They are designed to weave healing, attunement, and connection into a single, spacious day – leaving you refreshed, grounded, and inspired as you return home.
Each year, there are four Day Retreats offered in two parts:
Home & Heart (two retreats held back-to-back across one weekend)
Vision & Voice (two retreats held back-to-back across another weekend)
You’re welcome to attend a single day, a full weekend, or the whole four-retreat series.
If you are travelling from interstate or overseas, we can help you find nearby accommodation and provide transport to and from the event.
A Gaian Healing weekend of grounding, compassion, and connection.
Held during the dry season, Home & Heart is the first weekend of the Gaian Healing retreat series. These are spacious day retreats — designed to feel like a retreat, while fitting more easily into everyday life. This immersive outdoor experience focuses on the Lower Hara (Earth) and the Heart Hara. Through meditation, mindfulness, and embodied practices, you’ll learn to:
Ground yourself deeply in the Earth’s healing energy.
Strengthen your presence through mindfulness and body awareness.
Open your heart to compassion, empathy, and authentic connection — with yourself, with others, and with the living world around you.
Join the Home & Heart waitlist — so when the circle opens, you’ll be ready.
A Gaian Healing weekend for inner clarity and authentic expression.
During the wet season, when storms stir the sky and the air is thick with possibility, we turn inward to explore the Upper Hara — the realms of vision, intuition, and spirit — and the Throat Hara, where truth longs to be spoken.
Through meditation, guided imagery, and creative practices, you’ll learn to:
Listen to your inner wisdom with clarity and trust.
Strengthen your intuitive vision.
Free your voice and express your truth with compassion and courage.
Add your name to the waiting list and be the first to know when bookings open.
RECONNECT WITH NATURE
Recover from burnout/stress by resting your senses mindfully in Nature
Soak up some Nature-therapy and learn how to prevent burnout
Cleanse, recharge and reconnect with “Wild Qi”, Nature’s healing energy
Get some time out from your busy life and connect with like-minded others
Have a rest from social media, alcohol, junk foods and drugs
Slow down, ground yourself and reattune to Gaia's Heartbeat
Creator of the Gaian Healing system
Omanisa is an Australian naturopath, spiritual healer, and psychic medium who has been practising her craft for almost 30 years. Over this time, Om has run countless workshops and courses, having mentored many professional healers and psychics.
Omanisa is a gifted visionary artist who sketches and paints spirit guides and aura portraits (she recognises over 100 different aura colour frequencies! She is also the author and creator of several card and book sets and therapeutic modalities such as the Aura Colour Therapy, the Rainbow Medicine system and the Gaian Healing modality.
Om is on a mission to provide healthy drug-free spiritual retreats that help you connect with your inner wisdom and the spirit medicine of Nature.
You can learn more about Om, her deep love for Nature and her ethos, here.
OM'S PURPOSE....
"Being born in Central Australia and raised by elders with a fierce love for Nature, my core mission is to inspire this same love in others. I want to help people fall in love with Nature and develop a spiritual relationship with their “larger body”, the natural world around them of which they are a part. Many years ago I had a profound drug-free visionary experience where I was taken into the belly of the earth to meet Gaia, Mother Nature, who pushed white quartz crystal shards into the palms of my hands and said to me “Go forth daughter-sister mine, Heal the People, Heal the Earth”.
For insight into our retreats and what they offer, please have a look through at what we've been doing over the past three years....
We have been hosting nature-based healing and meditation retreats at the historic Golden Sands Retreat since 2023. This beautiful beachfront property is at Mandorah, on Larrakia country, on the western side of Darwin Harbour on the Cox Peninsula. This home-away-from-home is a pleasant 15-minute Sealink ferry ride from Cullen Bay or a 90min drive from Darwin city. Deepen your connection with Nature, come exploring with us, enjoy delicious healthy food, watch the sun go down over the ocean, and learn unique nature-meditation skills you can use to heal yourself, self-soothe, and become more grounded with heightened awareness. These skills are part of the self-care aspect of Om's unique Gaian Healing modality, a modern shamanic approach to healing which draws on Nature-therapy, therapeutic story-telling and creative visualisation.
2 nights and 2-3 days accomodation (arrive Friday afternoon, leave Sunday afternoon)
2 days of Nature-based healing meditation and self-care training
All meals and snacks (healthy plant-based wholefoods for a gentle and nourishing cleanse)
Transfers to and from the jetty if you’re catching the ferry over
Personalised Gaian Healing attunements that reconnect you with the healing medicine (energy) of Nature
OM'S PURPOSE....
"By healing the People, we heal the Earth. When we resolve our wounds and recognise our Oneness with the rest of Nature, it’s easier for us to have a more loving, respectful relationship with all of Nature. When we think of ourselves as being separate from Nature, this creates divisions and conflict within us and in the world around us. Healing is about wholeness, making whole. My mission is to build bridges and repair the rifts that separate us from ourselves, from each other, and from this beautiful world we live in. Often, the repairing of divisions requires diplomacy, compromise and the balancing of opposing points of view."
This retreat ran for the first time in 2023, an extra-big event, with Om inviting many students and apprentices to attend for free, with some special day-guests invited to help cover costs. We also had the beautiful Lynette Fejo who did such a beautiful welcome to country that moved us to tears! A big thank you to apprentices Larni and Jill, who did all the cooking, and to the apprentices who co-facilitated with Om: Larni, Peter and Kristel. Most of all, thank you to Gaia.
An extra special mention goes out to kookaburra, our main spirit-helper for the weekend. You reminded us to "keep it Light" and made us laugh by commenting after everyone's shares with your little croak that sounded like "wow"!
From Jayde
"I unlocked a part of myself that I had been shut off from and I feel like I am now connected back in my body. It's hard to describe the profound shifts I experienced. Omanisa held space for me, guided me in how to guide myself and allowed me to see just what I am capable of. My connection with nature, Gaia & myself has strengthened and I feel like I found myself again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Om and every person who witnessed me, guided and inspired me there. I walked away feeling such a sense of love and belonging. If you feel the call but are unsure if this is for you I say do it!"
In 2024 we took everything we learned from our first year and made it even better! We had professional catering, but did the breakfast pancakes ourselves with lots of collaborative fun in the kitchen with attendees who wanted to help. Our meals were provided by Martin of Martin's Cafe who we have a very long friendship with. And we had a guest facilitator, the famous master-weaver Aly de Groot, who has us making beaded spiders and our own string during her "Weaving in what you want" workshop.
"What an amazing weekend away at the retreat!
Lots of delicious clean food, amazing meditation and healing sessions. I met the most incredible people who inspired me and shared their stories, creating a truly supportive environment. I will forever cherish the memories made with these amazing individuals. I left feeling refreshed, lighter, and eager to embrace everything I learned. It was a profound experience that I'll always treasure!"
Carlene
Thank you for a weekend I will cherish forever .
A soul nourishing weekend surrounded by nature, meeting amazing men and woman ,sharing stories , lots of laughs, amazing clean food and activities that connected everyone.
This weekend has enriched my life.
Huge gratitude and heartfelt thanks to Omanisa, Steven, Mikiah, Zephyr, Kristal, and Charlie for your time and your wisdom. See you next year.
Marie
Mikiah and Zephyr
Both years (and hopefully next year too!), Omanisa and Stephen's daughter Mikiah and her partner Zephyr come from Brisbane to dance for us, with attendees able to play with the flow props and get a little lesson afterwards if they wanted to. Om is hoping to train them up over the year to come so they can facilitate next year!
Mikiah says: "As Omanisa’s daughter, I cannot speak enough on my appreciation for her. She has been my mentor for almost 30 years (my entire life). I am following in her footsteps in many ways, and her knowledge in the areas of spirituality, personal development, psychology, and naturopathy never cease to astonish me. She is an expert in her chosen field, although, also so humble that she would never admit it. There is a reason her business is so consistent, and on many occasions throughout the years she has been booked out for up to 6 months in advance. I’ve seen her help hundreds of people and do so at an affordable rate. It’s ridiculous how much value is included in these events for their cost. She has the skills to charge more, but she wants to be accessible for those in need."
If you've come before, or you're an existing client (ie if I know you already, just reach out and ask if it's okay to come. If I don't know you, please use the booking button below to book a free conversation with me. (This is the link/consult type I use for ALL student and apprenticeship conversations, so you might also want to send me an email or text about what you're booking in for.)
Mobile : 0438110872
Email: omanisaross@gmail.com
OM'S PURPOSE
"First Nations people and ancient cultures have a special kind of wisdom that modern Western society is lacking and tends to be dismissive of. Some of what I’ve said so far about love for Nature, about the great web or tree or river of life we are all a part of, is a good example of this wisdom. It’s a wisdom that tends to be more right-brained by nature, more holistic, creative, feminine, organic, metaphorical, and abstract – a wisdom that isn’t easily understood or readily valued by science, government or mainstream thinkers. While I love science and prefer that my spirituality be grounded in practicality and good psychology, I find the short-sightedness of the dominant mechanistic, reductionist world-view inherently frustrating, so I’m determined to inspire respect for the ancient wisdom of First Nations people and Eastern spiritual healing systems! I hope to do this in part by translating some of this ancient wisdom for mainstream thinkers, using language and concepts the general public is more likely to understand, respect and value."