Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat provides guests with a rare opportunity to explore nature and refocus. All - natural organic cuisine, an incredible selection of activities, nurturing massage options, spectacular ocean and valley views, scenic walks and a casual, relaxed atmosphere all provide pure inspiration.

Gwinganna offers you space to breathe, relax, revive, nourish and the opportunity to re-energise. This retreat offers the opportunity to explore, try new activities and learn. Gwinganna has the facilities to tailor your stay to be as active or relaxed as you need it to be. Choose a retreat from a ‘Healthy Weekend’ to a 7 day ‘Gwinganna Detox’ - there is something to suit everyone.

Accommodation at Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat

Gwinganna is set on over 400 acres, with a plateau housing the main village including dining and leisure, activities centre and the heritage spa. The guest accommodation at Gwinganna is set in a village of beautifully appointed buildings, all made from recycled timbers. All nine rooms and 30 superior suites feature king-size beds, cosy doonas, soft pillows and pure cotton linen to guarantee a good night’s sleep. The decor is elegant yet understated, featuring earthy warm tones and natural fibres. Heritage Rooms Heritage Rooms – in three historic ‘Queenslander-style’ houses, each of which has been brought to Gwinganna piece by piece and reconstructed.Rooms open onto wide veranda’s shaded by tropical gardens which shelter the most beautiful of birds. Sit and relax in the afternoon with a long cool drink and enjoy the natural sounds and surrounds. Some houses such as Mimosa and Mudbrick feature private rooms opening onto a spacious lounge area, which is perfect to share time with friends. Each room opens into a beautiful ensuite for your comfort. Orchard Suites These superior suites offer the perfect environment with soaring ceilings, natural stone bathrooms, timber floors and private balconies. Built from beautiful Australian recycled timbers, the Orchard Suites as the name suggests, are nestled into Gwinganna’s orchard. Views of the distant mountains provide a restful place to watch the sun set on a perfect day. Choose from a spacious one bedroom suite featuring a large private verandah and sitting area, or share with a friend a two bedroom suite offering ensuites, a relaxation lounge area and private verandah. The aptly named Valencia, Mulberry, Olive, Macadamia and Lychee Orchard Suites are all constructed from stone and beautiful Australian recycled timbers and sit in natural surroundings with birds and wildlife a plenty providing an ever-changing sculpture.

Facilities at Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat

• Air conditioning (individually controlled) • Alarm clock/radio • Bathroom amenities • Bathtub (Heritage Rooms only) • Ceiling fan • Complimentary fruit basket and mineral water • Daily maid service • Electric blankets • Ensuite bathroom • Hairdryer • Heating • Insect screens • International direct dial

• Internet/email access • Iron and ironing board • Kimono-style bathrobes (an arrival gift) • Mini Fridge • Private balcony/verandah • Non smoking rooms • Sitting area • Stocked Mini bar • Tea and coffee making facilities • Telephone • Temperature control • Make up and shaving mirror

Dreamtime Dreamtime is that wonderful part of the day to slow down and appreciate your surroundings and enjoy the environment. Each day after lunch we give you the chance to stop... visit our Spa for some amazing treatments, read a book, nap, sit by the pool, relax in one of Gwinganna’s many lounge areas, wander through the orchard, stroll down to the rainforest or meditate... Our spa offers a tempting “Dreamtime Menu” ranging from indulgent and luscious spa treatments through to the highly focused therapies. Our therapists come from near and far to share their extraordinary skills. All of our therapists excel in their field of passion offering the highest standard of treatment. At Gwinganna, we understand your daily routines are filled with timelines, lists, deadlines, responsibilities and family. To assist your body to reach optimum health we have designed you the ideal day: a morning of activity followed by an afternoon of relaxation, as a fit body deals with life more efficiently but equally important for that healthy balance is time to rest.

There is also the opportunity to try something different such as, painting, jewellery making, bush tucker foraging, fruit picking in the orchard… all designed to take you on a journey of relaxation. There are so many options to ensure your mind and body have the chance to escape.

Gwinganna is a centre for activity, health and well being
Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat’s ‘village’ offers many facilities and services – including an outdoor leisure area and amphitheatre, two swimming pools, tennis courts, gardens, a clubhouse with library and games, the superb air-conditioned Activities Centre and an outdoor yoga deck. And a wonderful range of face and body treatments are available in the tranquil environment of the Heritage Spa.

The dedicated and highly professional staff includes specialist instructors and therapists, and seminars and workshops are offered to stimulate the mind as well as the body. The Activities Centre is a large air conditioned Exercise Studio complete with sprung timber floor, amazing sound system, separate indoor Spinning Studio sporting 25 indoor cycle bikes. Gwinganna offers an incredible selection of activities and workshops along with private sessions which may be booked prior to or during your stay. Just to name a few of the available exercise options - Scenic walks, mountain biking, swimming clinics, athletic/resistance training, aqua classes, body combat, Pilates, Thai boxing, cricket, tennis bocce, golf, lawn bowls, abseiling, high ropes course, volleyball, Tai Chi, meditation, Qi Gong and relaxation. Heritage Spa - provides a beautiful and tranquil environment for massages and spa treatments. Rooms open out onto verandahs overlooking Gwinganna’s gardens. Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat offers Specialty Retreats throughout the year that focus on a particular interest. The ‘Yoga Hike’ addresses yoga enthusiasts, ‘Women’s Discovery’ deepens your understanding and exposes new viewpoints on women’s health; you might indulge in true nourishment, real food and optimal nutrition in ‘A Feast of Nutrition’ or be guided through a week of allowing your body to cleanse, regenerate and renew in ‘In The Raw Detox’. Dining at Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat One of the most interesting dining rooms in Australia, Gwinganna exudes a casual ambience and offers a relaxed atmosphere, where guests are full of life and chatter about their daily experiences. The dining room extends out through bi-fold doors onto an outdoor dining deck and leisure area with infinity swimming pool, jacuzzi, amphitheatre and outdoor fireplace. This is the place to dine, lie by the pool, relax on the deck under the shade of the trees with views across the valley. Gwinganna’s superb organic cuisine is a delight to the senses. The aromas from preparation to plate are followed by a journey of clean and pure tastes. From gardens, farms and the ocean, as nature intended, the cuisine is certified organic and selected daily. Gwinganna’s own organic orchard features over 200 tropical fruits including papaya, lemon, jaboticaba, mango, lychee, olives, macadamia and pecan nuts. These are selected by the chefs so the guests at Gwinganna can enjoy the flavors of freshly picked fruits. Perfectly balanced nutrition ensures the required nourishment is provided for the body for energy and vitality. Gwinganna’s Nutritionist and Chefs ensure all appetites are catered for and specific individual allergies or intolerances are met with flair and creativity. Breakfast and morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea are followed by a two course evening dinner offering alternative choices to tempt all taste buds. Organic tea and coffee are served on selected retreats with daily amounts set to provide choices without compromising your health and wellbeing. Wine is served with dinner as a celebration to the success of your achievements at the end of your stay.

Cuisine Seminar
Learn about true nourishment, real food and optimal nutrition from Gwinganna’s Nutritionist. We will offer seminars covering a range of subjects including how to make sense of the huge amount of nutrition information that floods our everyday lives. How to find a way of eating that is right for you. A new perspective on nutrition awaits you.

Nature Enthusiasts Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat is the perfect place from which to explore nature’s heaven. This is an Eco Place. This is Gwinganna. Here, you can stand on a mountain top and watch the world evolve with microscopic progress at your feet. Mount Gwinganna remains largely as it always was. Significant areas of rainforest and flora from the age of the dinosaur are still growing in rocky crevices, fauna of the area intact and evolving as if nothing had ever made changes in this southern continent. Explore the rainforest with its exclusive mammals, insects and other creatures like the bearded dragons and tree frogs. Admire king parrots and rosellas who live and breed here and fear nothing more than natural enemies of the bush. Spot wallabies, mountain brushtails and sugar gliders. Make your way through the rainforest trails and listen to the music of the rainforest wildlife. Wind your way through vegetation ancient and new, stumble upon flowers and fruit growing in the wild, discover streams and, most of all, loose yourself in the pleasures offered by the vibrant life all around you! Location 192 Syndicate Road, Tallebudgera, Queensland. On Queensland’s Gold Coast, high up on a plateau, in a hidden region of the Tallebudgera Valley, less than 30 minutes from the Gold Coast’s Airport at Coolangatta and 15 minutes to Burleigh Heads beach, Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat feels twenty million miles away.

Getting To Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat
Qantas, Jetstar, Virgin Blue and Freedom airlines all fly into the Gold Coast Airport and complimentary transfers meet specific flights – alternatively, private limousine transfers can be arranged at an additional cost. We can arrange your flights along with your accommodation package.

Directions from Coolangatta Airport
Drive north on the M1 (Pacific Highway) for 20 kilometres, then take Exit 89 and drive to a set of traffic lights. Turn right into Tallebudgera Creek Road and drive for 8 kilometres (10 minutes) into the Tallebudgera Valley. Turn left at Syndicate Road and drive for another 1.9 kilometres (5 minutes), then turn right at the gate signposted ‘Gwinganna Retreat’ (192 Syndicate Road) and follow the private road for 1.6 kilometres (5 minutes). Parking is available at the church. Approx 30 mins.

Directions from Brisbane
Drive south on the M1 (Pacific Highway) for 100 kilometres, then take Exit 89 and drive to a set of traffic lights. Then follow the ‘Directions from Coolangatta Airport’ above. Approx 1 hour.