Name: Golden Wellness Festival, Castlemaine
Start: 2026-10-31
End: 2026-10-31
Location: Sunken Oval

Retreats
- Group Getaway
  Enquire for dates. from $850. Two nights at the River House for six to eight of you, with the whole place to yourselves. Morning practice, two hours of treatmen
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- Personalised Ayurvedic Retreat
  Enquire for dates. from $980. One, two or three days, built around you rather than a program. An Ayurvedic assessment first, then your treatments, practice and
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- Sacred Baby Moon
  Taking bookings. $560. Three hours for two people, for the stretch before a baby arrives. Positioning and pressure are adjusted throughout, by therapists who do
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- The Matriarch Threshold
  Enquire for dates. $980. There are moments when you need more than a treatment, a day off or a weekend away. A sacred pause created around you.
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- The Quiet Escape
  Enquire for dates. from $1,200. A weekend an hour out of the city. Treatments across two days, somewhere to stay, and time in Kyneton rather than a schedule.
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- The Sacred Return - Women's Retreat
  Taking bookings. from $1,695. Two and a half days for women at Continental House in Hepburn Springs, held by Marye. Twelve rooms, sixteen places.
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All retreats and how they work
Treatments
- Ayurvedic therapies
  Traditional Ayurvedic treatments with warm herbal oils: abhyanga, shirodhara, Indian head massage, pinda swedana, kati basti and udvartana, through to a full panchakarma program.
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- Bodywork
  Our Signature massage, remedial massage and myofascial cupping, lymphatic drainage, hot stone, pregnancy and post natal massage, Lomi Lomi, reflexology, and a gentle massage for children.
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- Facials
  Facials from two ranges. OmVeda is made to traditional Ayurvedic formulations, chemical and preservative free. Roccoco Botanicals is made for sensitive skin. From a thirty minute add-on to ninety minutes, and LED light therapy.
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- Spa rituals
  Longer sequences that put several treatments together, from two hours to a half day. Built for when an hour was never going to be enough.
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- Mind and body
  Counselling, sound, Reiki, tarot, meditation and private yoga, many of them with our founder, Marye O'Brien. Also our half day healing journeys, and ninety minute Ayurveda sessions in person or on Zoom.
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- Beauty
  Non-toxic manicures and pedicures with Dazzle Dry polish, gentle waxing for sensitive skin, and brow and lash tinting. The products are vegan and cruelty free.
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The full menu with prices
Wellbeing
- Ayurvedic consultations
  A twelve day home based panchakarma program at Maiaveda, Kyneton, supervised by Dr Gurnam Saini, with three days of treatments.
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- Mentoring and coaching
  A twelve week one to one mentoring program with Maiaveda founder Marye O'Brien, in person or on Zoom, and Ayurvedic wellbeing coaching.
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- Online sessions
  Online Ayurvedic sessions with Maiaveda founder Marye O'Brien. Your first thirty minute session is free, then priced to your circumstances.
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- Somatic bodywork
  Private, trauma informed somatic sessions with Maiaveda founder Marye O'Brien, combining bodywork, meditation and conversation.
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- Rejuvenation and Recovery
  A personalised half day of Ayurvedic treatments, food and yoga, for a big change.
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- Sleep Reset Immersion
  A private four hour immersion built entirely around sleep.
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All wellbeing pathways
Practitioners
Gifts
- Gift vouchers
  Instant e-gift vouchers from $50 to $2,000, for any Maiaveda service.
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- Memberships
  A massage or facial every month for a year at Maiaveda in Kyneton. Grounded and Balanced memberships, $130 and $155 a month.
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- Collective giving
  The Maiaveda community fund offers full and partial scholarships to retreats, events and healing sessions, funded by donations.
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Buy a gift voucher
About
- Our story
  Founded by Marye O'Brien in 2011, upstairs at the Old Flour Mill in Kyneton.
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- Ayurveda explained
  Ayurveda means the science of life. What it is, why warm oil, and why bodywork opens with a foot bath and ends with chai.
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- Journal
  Writing from Marye and the team.
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- In the media
  Marye on Sunrise, and everywhere else Maiaveda has appeared.
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- Questions
  What people ask before they book: getting here, rebates, cancellations, what to expect.
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- NDIS and rebates
  Short term respite for NDIS participants, and health fund rebates on remedial massage.
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- Contact and directions
  18 Piper Street, Kyneton. Open seven days, 9am to 7pm, by appointment.
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Our story

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Our founder, Marye O'Brien, is running a ticketed workshop at the Golden Wellness Festival in Castlemaine. Crossing the Inner Thresholds is a 90 minute circle in the Heart Temple, from 1.30pm to 3pm, on Ayurvedic wisdom for the Maiden, Mother and Matriarch within.

Tickets for the workshop are on the festival's own website.

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