Bali Mindfulness Retreat
With Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness and Compassion Training
with Kate Duncan and Lisa Brown
at Bali Mountain Retreat Centre 24 to 29 June, 2025
A beautiful 5 night retreat, suitable for anyone interested in developing skills and tools to manage and prevent stress and cultivate wellbeing.
This retreat is particularly relevant for therapists and health workers working with others as well as developing practices to manage and prevent burnout.
Bringing together trauma sensitive mindfulness and gentle yoga practices, the program will also draw on the richness of elements from the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction – Trauma Recovery (MBSR-tr) program.
In 2022, Lisa and Kate together adapted and created MBSR-tr for Frontline Workers, and research has consistently shown significant reductions in symptoms of PTSD, Depression and Anxiety as well as increases in a sense of Wellbeing.
Both Lisa and Kate are qualified, experienced facilitators in the areas of Psychology, Trauma Recovery, Mindfulness and Compassion Meditation and Trauma Sensitive Yoga, and have backgrounds as Frontline Workers.
This retreat may also qualify as professional development.
For more information and to register: https://events.humanitix.com/mbsrtr-retreat
Enquiries: phone: Lisa – 0400491477 or Kate – 0475771918
Email: Kate@kateduncanyoga.com or lisa@mindful-wellbeing.com
Why do we need a retreat?
A retreat provides a safe container to understand more deeply our mind-body connection so we can make wise choices and cultivate greater states of health and wellbeing.
To take time out from increasing stress in the world to replenish energy and build resilience.
To learn new ways to connect with our innate capacity for stillness and inner calm so we can live with greater compassion and care.
All-inclusive Retreat Prices:
You can secure your place right now with a $500 deposit.
– Single Room with ensuite – $ 2950.00
– Shared Room with ensuite – $ 2500.00
– Shared Room with outside (nearby) bathroom – $2400.00
Remainder can be paid in instalments if required. Please contact Lisa to organise your payment plan 0400491477 or lisa@mindful-wellbeing.com
5 Night Retreat Inclusions:
- 5 nights beautiful accommodation overlooking the surrounding rainforest.
- Transfers to and from the airport or from your accommodation.
- Local, vegan and vegetarian cuisine (you can order meat at an additional cost from the menu)
- One complimentary massage or healing treatment
- Daily instruction in Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and Compassion Meditation Practices
- Daily gentle Mindful Movement (Trauma Sensitive Yoga)
- Trekking to a local Temple.
- Balinese Welcome Ceremony with a Hindu Priest
- Traditional Balinese dancing
- Individual Meetings with Kate and Lisa
Enquiries: phone: Lisa – 0400491477 or Kate – 0475771918
Email: Kate@kateduncanyoga.com or lisa@mindful-wellbeing.com
For more information and to register, please see https://events.humanitix.com/mbsrtr-retreat
Kate Duncan
Kate is an Insight Dharma Teacher, a Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction teacher, and an E-RYT 500 Yoga Instructor. Kate facilitates silent meditation retreats, women’s retreats and leads mindfulness-based trauma recovery programs for frontline workers. She has been a practitioner of meditation for 15 years and has sat (and facilitated) over 40 retreats in the Western Insight tradition of up to 30 days in length.
As a former Firefighter Paramedic and Intensive Care Paramedic, Kate deeply understands the stress, anxiety, burn out and post traumatic stress that can accompany a frontline workers life. She is most interested in exploring how frontline workers can return to a place of safety, ease and wellbeing in the world, regardless of what they have experienced. As a guest lecturer of Mindfulness to Paramedic students at Flinders University, she also enjoys teaching about trauma prevention.
Kate has been deeply influenced by the role of mindfulness of the body, yoga and breath in her own recovery journey and is deeply passionate about sharing these body based practices.
You can find out more about Kate at her website www.KateDuncanYoga.com
Lisa Brown is a Registered Psychologist, Yoga Teacher, Certified Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Teacher (Brown University, USA), Mindful Self-Compassion Facilitator and Insight Dharma Teacher. She is dedicated to helping people connect with their innate capacity for healing and wellbeing through practices which integrate ancient wisdom and modern science for trauma recovery. As an Adjunct Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, Lisa taught mindfulness and retreats for post-graduate students and has a deep interest in the conjunction of western science, Buddhadharma and earth-based wisdom traditions in health, healing and trauma recovery. Lisa has more than 20 years experience as a psychologist and currently works in private practice in Coffs Harbour NSW. She has experience working with the NSW Sexual Assault Service, Child Protection, Family Therapy, Aboriginal Health and Diabetes. Her training as a Yoga Teacher provides an integration of somatic healing practices with mindfulness and wellbeing to support trauma recovery.
“I feel a strong purpose to contribute to the resilience and development of our inner resources in meeting the challenges we face to find balance collectively on the planet. When we remember our potential as human beings and our interconnectedness with all things, we allow for the healing of relationship with ourselves, each other and the rivers, oceans, land and sky.”