Come Back to You: The Self-Rediscovery Retreat is a deeply focused, soul-affirming experience designed for those ready to reconnect with their authentic selves and embrace their healing and growth in their personal journey.
Friday 14th – Sunday 16th November 2025 – Geelong, Victoria Australia
Take a long weekend to rediscover and reconnect.
Cost includes bonus extra night of Thurs 13th and bonus cuppa chat with Mel the night before we begin if you stay the night before.
Highlights:
Tangibles You’ll Get:
Hosted by: Mel Ryan | Holistic Coach | Author | Kinesiology Practitioner
Original price was: A$2,111.00.A$1,777.00Current price is: A$1,777.00.
Have you been feeling disconnected from yourself? This retreat is your opportunity to pause, reflect, and reconnect.
In a world that often feels like it’s moving too fast, many of us find ourselves caught up in responsibilities, expectations, and the demanding pace of life. This creates deep feelings of disconnect from our true selves.
We’ve all experienced moments where we wake up and wonder, “Is this really what I want?”.
If you said to yourself this year, “I can’t keep doing this, something has to change”
Then your Soul is calling you, and this retreat is all about learning how to listen to yourself.
Come Back to You Retreat is a call from your soul for you to return to yourself.
A 3-day self-discovery retreat where you will Learn how to unpack your story. By safely and curiously exploring your inner truth, to rediscover your authentic self, and learn to lead your life from a place of empowerment.
This is for you if you are:
Retreat Details:
Dates: Friday 14th – Sunday 16th November 2025 – Geelong, Victoria Australia
Take a long weekend to rediscover and reconnect.
Cost includes bonus extra night of Thurs 13th accommodation, breakfast and bonus cuppa chat with Mel the night before we begin if you stay the night before.
Location: Geelong, Victoria Australia
Times:
If staying Thursday night: Arrival anytime after 4pm
For Retreat: Arrival by 8.30am Friday and Depart 3pm Sunday
With over 25 years of experience as a compassionate guide and Self–Understanding Coach, I absolutely understand the weight that societal expectations loads onto you. And the importance of self-trust to combat them.
My own journey was profoundly changed when I started to ask the hard questions about my own story, and why things happened, igniting my life-long dedication to understanding grief, resilience, and the healing power of self-awareness.
This retreat is not about fixing you, to blend in with the world. It’s about empowering you to see your life through a new perspective to reclaim your story and embrace the truth about being You.
What You’ll Experience:
The retreat intention is to help you regain a sense of control over your life, feel empowered to make the changes you need, and trust yourself in every decision you make moving forward. You’ll leave the retreat feeling like you’ve come back to yourself, ready to embrace the next chapter of your life with clarity and purpose. And most importantly knowing that Self abandonment will no longer be part of your story.
Inclusions:
1 (prior to retreat) Evening Online session with Mel
3 days + 3 nights in single room accommodation
Individually focused learning and reflection
Nutritious breakfast, lunch, snacks, and beverages
Welcome gift and daily mini-wellness sessions
Pre and post retreat support
Mel’s book Soul Talk Earth Walk
3 months membership to Mel’s Life Unpacked Workshop Vault
3 months membership to Mel’s Life Unpacked Circle Discussion Group
Workbooks and self-discovery resources
Retreat Structure & Rhythm:
Evening Online Session: The Curious Unpacking – Introduction to self-exploration and emotional tools to support us along the way.
Day 1: The Truth Seeking – Exploring how self–abandonment became the easy option.
Day 2: The Deep Dive – Immersive unpacking where you’re at today, what shaped you till now, and how to free yourself.
Day 3: The Return – Integration making you make sense re-entry support tools to prevent you from getting lost again, and action planning to deepen yourself knowing and support.
Venue: Eden Oak Geelong
Why I Created This:
My experience working with clients one–on–one and seeing the depths and confusion that self-abandonment has come to has ignited a passion in me to create a safe place to challenge and change this.
The joy in my own journey of self-discovery and healing, as well as witnessing the shift to self-understanding and empowerment in so many others I have worked with, has inspired this retreat.
I create a safe space for individuals to reconnect with their authentic selves and explore their own stories. So, they can free themselves of the past and what’s holding them back in the now. And create a life where self–abandonment no longer exists.
“You’re allowed to feel lost. That’s usually where the real path begins.”
Mel Ryan | Holistic Coach | Author | Kinesiology Practitioner
Come Back To You Philosophy:
Self-discovery is a journey of empowerment and authenticity. This retreat honours your unique path, blending emotional healing with practical tools for ongoing growth.
“This space moves at the speed of trust. Yours. Not mine.”
Through my years with my clients, what I’ve noticed is that life is a series of transitions. And often for those who’ve found their way to me, these transitions are marked by significant events I refer to as “life bombs.”
These “life bomb” moments can shake us to our core. They prompt us to take a deep reassessment of who we are and what we truly want. Below, I want to give you some examples of what potential life bombs you might be facing, along with a heartfelt invitation to join us on a journey of self-discovery.
This is for you if…
You’re an everyday average person (insert your current job here), and life has delivered you a “Life Bomb” that has stopped you in your tracks and made you question everything.
You’re the “I don’t know what just happened, or why that would happen to me’er”.
Potential Life Bombs:
Retreat Intention: To find clarity in your life and space to make sense of the bigger picture. To reconnect you to your story and your why life happens the way it does for you.
It’s all about your own ability to understand yourself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
You’re an Early Career Professional or The Midlife Manager
(in a career like Marketing, Education, Healthcare, Alternate Health, Travel)
You’re the “I don’t know what I want anymore’er”.
Potential Life Bombs:
Retreat Intention: To find clarity in your life/career path and develop a strong sense of self-worth and confidence. “I need to allow myself the space to rediscover what makes me feel reconnected and happy”.
Overwhelmed Mum or Overstretched Daughter
You’re the “I’m tired of holding it all together’er”
Potential Life Bombs:
Retreat Intention: To rediscover passion and purpose in life, and to create a meaningful contribution to their life besides their family. “I need space and ways to listen to what I want and reconnect with what I need for myself.”
The Unknown Path-Taker
You’re the “Something big has changed for me, I’ve changed, or life changed, and I don’t know what to do with that now’er”.
Potential Life Bombs:
Retreat Intention: To find joy and fulfilment in this new chapter of life, and to connect with others who share similar outlook and experiences of reconnecting with themself. The “I need to discover what this new way of moving forward could look like for me and know how to ask for what I need as support as I make changes.”
“This is for those who are ready to feel more, not just do more.”
Which one has you saying “yep, that’s me” …?
Love for the Come Back To You Retreat
“I came to this retreat feeling the lowest I have ever felt with no clear options. I am leaving able to connect better with myself so I can be my healthiest and authentic version of who I am.”
Lissette
“I don’t think I can put into words the gratitude, love and light am feeling now. I am beyond grateful for this week. Coming on the retreat literally did beyond what I even thought. You just create such a beautiful space for honesty and authenticity. I feel so changed & know that will continue to evolve and I am going to create a beautiful life, because I am so worthy. Thank you for helping me discover this & realise I am so wonderful and spread the light by being me. You created a really safe space for me to be authentic. An abundance of love and hugs xxx “
Mikaela
“My biggest insight was gaining clarity on my life. The most amazing part of the retreat was how perfectly tailored the whole day, every day, was to each person. Mel’s attention to supporting you through the concepts was incredible. I got so much insight into where I am at in my life. Understanding the blocks is something that will stay with me forever, it made so many things about me and my partner make sense. Most importantly I have so many new ways that I will support myself now. I feel perfectly supported.”
Elyce
Find Your Spot with Us on Your Journey
If you resonate with any of the “that’s me” profiles, and you’re facing your own life bombs, then there is definitely a spot for you at the “Come Back to You“ Retreat.
There’s a safe space just waiting for you to unpack your story, explore your truths, and reconnect with your authentic self. And better still, you to do that in a judgement free and nurturing environment? Simply perfect.
Together, we’ll explore the challenges of life. And you’ll leave feeling empowered in any situation to reclaim your power and trust in your own decisions. Long after the retreat.
In fact, retreaters who’ve recently attended said that there is a distinct ‘before retreat them’, and an ‘after retreat them’. And that life for them will never go back to what it was again.
Remember, you’re not alone in this journey. Let me support you in rediscovering the joy and fulfilment that understanding you has.
“You don’t have to earn rest. You deserve it just by being here.”
Here’s Our Full Itinerary
Please note that this is our outline. The dynamics and needs of the group and individuals will always be taken into consideration to ensure your experience is absolutely what you need.
Mel works both with structured plans, and also intuitively. This is from her experience, always the best and most powerful way to hold the space for the deepest transformations to occur.
Pre Retreat Online Evening Session Wednesday 5th November 7.30 – 9.30pm Online.
Mel is aware that taking multiple days off work can be difficult, so she has come up with a Plan B. It will be a pre 2 Hour online session that holds the foundation keys for the retreat.
This will be Wednesday 5th November 7.30 – 9.30pm Online. This is the first session of the Retreat.
It is highly recommended that you attend. And it is essential that you have viewed the content before continuing with the retreat.
This session will also be recorded and sent to you as a video and audio recording before the retreat.
Pre Retreat @Eden Oak Thursday Evening Come Have a Cuppa with Mel Session
The retreat starts at 9am on Friday morning.
So there is an option to stay Thursday night. This option is included in the cost of the retreat as a bonus night for you!
The Thursday evening invites you to a “Lets have a cuppa together session” with Mel and those attending the retreat. We’ll relax, chat and get to know each other better and have any questions answered about the materials shared from the 5th Nov session pre the retreat. We’ll then tuck ourselves in for a sleep in our own slice-of-heaven rooms, before breakfast the next morning.
Wednesday Evening Session. Let’s unpack you
Mel’s analogy: Think of it like you are a puzzle. (There is no picture on the box!) This session is like upending the puzzle box and sorting the pieces into colours and edges.
7.30pm – 9.30pm
This session, in a safe space, begins your investigation and understanding of your childhood self, and understanding why you are you. Your childhood experiences are still influencing part of your life today. How you felt as a child, your position in the family, the illnesses and trauma your body held and where you fit in to your generational line all mean something. Seeing your childhood and your past from a fresh perspective can be very liberating.
Friday Let’s Understand You
Mel’s analogy: Now you find the corners of your puzzle and you begin to find and join the straight edges together making the frame.
7.30 – 8.00am Optional Morning Meditation or Journal Questions
8:00am – 8:45am Buffet Breakfast
Friday Session 1. Understanding What You Learned
9.00am – 11.00am
We live on auto pilot. Our responses, our emotions even our goals are often made from a place that’s not aligned with our truth.
Before being able to help you understand why you do the things you do, we firstly have to understand how and why you got to live on autopilot. This is where we step out to look at what we learned and the way we have been taught to live and what that truly means for you and your story.
11:00am – 11:30am
Morning Tea Break
Friday Session 2. Understanding Why Your Blocked
11:30am – 1:00pm
Self–abandonment feels safer and easier than self–trust.
Understand the Blocks quietly influencing your life in more ways than you knew. Work out where you are blocked and where the blocks come from, and why they are part of your life. Step back and review where you are currently at to see what blocks are preventing you from being able to listen to or support yourself the way you wanted to.
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch
Friday Session 3. Understanding Why You Stay Blocked
2:00pm – 3:30pm
An interactive Game to play together – where we put together what we have learned so far and introduce a few new concepts about what happens when we don’t know how to listen to ourselves.
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Afternoon Tea
4:00pm – 5:15pm
Journal/Workbook time
Go over what you learned about yourself today.
Take the time to journal with the prompts provide, or explore your own topic.
6:15pm Onwards
Thai Dinner onsite
Evening
Sound Bowl Healing and Cacao Experience
Saturday Let’s Find the Real You
Mel’s analogy: Now you begin, piece by piece, section by section, to put your puzzle together. You begin to see the picture start to come together.
7.30 – 8.00am Optional Morning Yoga/or journal questions
Saturday Session 1. How to listen to yourself
9.00am – 11.00am
When we can shut out the noise of the world around us, we are left with a quiet space. In this quiet space void of outside influences is where you will find you. This is where you learn how to tune in and hear yourself and the Truth about how you really feel and what you are really looking for.
11:00am – 11:30am
Morning Tea Break
Saturday Session 2. How to find your Truth
11:30am – 1:00pm
Once we understand ourselves on the deepest level, we can be present to ourselves. This is where we hold the truth for ourselves. This is where we can reframe everything. Knowing how to reframe situations empowers us to be our own solution. The answers will always be found within.
Learning how to support yourself doesn’t come easily. You need a strategy and a plan. So let’s make one.
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch
Saturday Session 3. How to find your Clarity
2:00pm – 3:30pm
An interactive session to go over anything, clarify any concepts, or answer any questions that may have come up for anyone.
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Afternoon Tea
4:00pm – 5:15pm
Journal/Workbook time
Go over what you learned about yourself today.
Take the time to journal with the prompts provide, or explore your own topic.
6:15pm Onwards
Thai Dinner onsite
Evening
Release ceremony
Sunday Let’s Protect You and Empower You
Mel’s analogy: Now that you have finished your puzzle of you, seeing your life, your story from your soul’s perspective, you bask in awe of the uniqueness of how amazing this picture is. It’s so good that you now find the puzzle glue and smother it all over the puzzle so when you go home this picture stays solid.
7.30 – 8.00am Optional Morning Frequency healing /or journal questions
8:00am – 8:45am Buffet Breakfast
Sunday Session 1. Let’s set You Up
To test the plan to know how to be the You, you want to be, how to stay in that space, not sabotage yourself but to truly know how to listen to and support yourself properly when you get back.
11:00am – 11:30am
Morning Tea Break
Sunday Session 2. Post Retreat Support
11:30am – 1:00pm
Using your stories, and examples of other people’s life struggles her we will:
Play the Game of Life together – the New Way – where you practise all the tools and insights you have gathered in the retreat, to consolidate a new empowered way of thinking. Where you can trust yourself to listen to your truth and know how to stay in that space.
QUESTION TIME FOR MEL To cover any unanswered questions you have that have come up for you in this retreat. To talk about challenges for you when you come up against things when you get home.
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Departing check in and send off.
Making sure that you have all of the tools you need to support yourself – the empowered way you want to upon your return home.
Tips and tricks to regulate your nervous system. Ways to reconnect with yourself. Grounding.
And where to from here with your 3 months pass to Mel’s Life Unpacked Workshop Vault and Mel’s Monthly Life Unpacked Circle Group.
This is a “Maybe Not Yet” for you if…
The work in the retreat goes deep. It isn’t fast or flashy. Below are a few things to help you figure out as you’re looking at this and thinking these, then the space may not be right for you right now. And that’s totally okay to be where you are.
“I need someone to do a quick fix. I need my emotional stuff and baggage to be sorted out yesterday.” This isn’t a space for quick fixes without exploring why. It’s for real, lasting change. And I can’t do that for you. You need to be willing to be with it and I’ll stand by you so you can see what’s there for you.
“I’m looking to be matched in making this into a big drama and thing.” Mel doesn’t hustle or hype. She’s not the hype-type. She’s a guide, a celebrator, a cheerleader and a coach.
“If I do this work, I’m going to get a headache or feel like I’ve run a marathon”. The work with Mel moves at the speed of your body. Slow enough to be safe, strong enough to affect real clarity and change.
About Mel Ryan:
With over 25 years of experience in self-awareness, emotional healing, and holistic practices, Mel has helped 10,000+ people reconnect with life by viewing life from a different perspective. As a holistic coach, author, and kinesiology practitioner, she guides individuals in breaking free from conditioning and situations that leads to self-doubt, and emotional blocks— helping them step into a life of confidence, purpose, and peace.
Mel’s journey is deeply personal. Having experienced profound loss with the passing of her first born 4-year-old daughter, she intimately understands the depth of grief, resilience, and the power of healing. This lived experience, combined with helping others searching for meaning in the unpredictability of human experiences, she discovered the power of understanding your own life story. Self-love, emotional awareness, and understanding the subconscious mind can become possible when explored without conditions. This powerful insight allows her to speak with authenticity, wisdom, and compassion— helping others navigate life’s challenges with curiosity, strength and self-trust.
An Amazon best-selling author, Mel wrote The Six Happiness Myths, breaking down common misconceptions about what truly leads to joy and fulfilment. As a writer and presenter, she has over 50 life changing workshops that empower people to reconnect with themselves. Her expertise and leadership in self-awareness and self-understanding has led her to speak at Seven Sisters Festival, corporate events, professional development days, community gatherings, and guesting on podcasts, in addition to, her own podcast “Life Unpacked with Mel Ryan”. Her insights have been featured in magazines and publications, making her a trusted voice in the fields of mental health, emotional resilience, and self-discovery.
“You don’t have to be fixed. You just need space to feel like you again. Come back to you.”
Next Steps:
Only 12 spots available
Flexible payment plans available (PayPal Pay-In-4)
A note on Inclusion + Belonging:
This retreat is designed as a space of restoration and belonging. All individuals are deeply welcome, and we honour the diversity of experiences and backgrounds.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Why choose this retreat in Australia and not Mel’s Bali Retreat?
A. Come Back to You Retreat in Geelong has been priced as an affordable path to Self-Discovery.
Mel understands that the journey of self-discovery and healing is essential. She also recognises the importance of affordability in today’s cost of living situation. This Come Back to You Retreat therefore being offered in Geelong, Australia. Mel wanted to provide an unique opportunity for those seeking transformation without the luxury price tag associated with the all-inclusive wellness retreat immersive in Bali. Read on to help you make your decision if this retreat, over the Bali location, is right for you.
Why choose this Come Back To You Retreat Geelong over Mel’s Bali location?
Your Invitation
You’re invited to take this step towards self-empowerment and healing without the burden of extra costs like flights, insurance, parking and transfers AND extra time away from your family. Our Come Back to You Retreat in Geelong, Australia, is a safe space for you to explore your truths, regain your power, and reconnect with yourself.
It’s time you felt true support in your journey. Where you can feel loved, safe, and empowered to make the changes you need in your life.
Isn’t it time to claim your Come Back To You spot?
Non-inclusions
Dinner and additional drinks outside of tea, coffee and water. (Approx. $25-40 a day.)
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