Your Facilitators
Elise Lavers
Co-Founder of Active Rest Retreats
Founder of Enliven Outdoor Adventures
Elise is an outdoor guide with a passion for inspiring, lowering barriers, and creating opportunities for women to get outdoors for their body, mind, soul and planet. With A Bachelor of Health Science and another in Education, Elise is also a qualified kayaking, stand up paddle boarding, and bushwalking guide and loves using these activities to connect women back to themselves, to one-another, and to nature. Elise spent her childhood walking and camping in the Flinders Ranges, and loves sharing this special place with others.
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You MUST join Elise on an outdoor adventure ASAP! She is a highly organised, caring and passionate person who clearly works hard (and loves) to immerse those she guides fully into the experience. Elise creates connections between people, culture and nature. She does this all with humour, warmth, inclusivity and obvious skill!
Kylie - Facebook Review
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Elise provides a wonderful safe place for you to immerse yourself in nature and connect with like minded individuals, breathe, pause, laugh and ground yourself. It’s 5 stars from me. A must for every woman!
Meagan - Facebook Review
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My guide and instructor, Elise, was professional, highly engaging, informative and her passion and enthusiasm was infectious. I highly recommend
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Sarah Hayes
Co-Founder of Active Rest Retreats
Founder of Sarah Hayes Yoga & The Slow Living Studio.
Sarah is a scientist-turned-yoga teacher who is passionate about inspiring and empowering others to live a life more rested, more sacred and more awake. Trained in vinyasa flow and pranayama (yogic breathwork), and with Ecology and Psychology degrees up her sleeve, Sarah provides an accessible-to-every-day-life and no-fluff approach to the worlds of yoga and spirituality. Sarah’s students always report feeling ‘welcome and safe’ in her classes - with previous training in Trauma Informed Yoga Foundations, you won’t feel anything short of capable and nourished when you practice with Sarah on our retreats.
Practicing with Sarah is like a remembrance of your own self-authority, a deep dive into the intricacies of your breath and body, and a nurturing surrender to restoring connections to self and earth.
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Thank you Sarah - I'm ready to take part in the next wonderful opportunity to connect with Country and be present in the moment with respect and love, one breath at a time.
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Sarah is a calm, connected yoga teacher who creates a relaxed space for women of all abilities.
Meagan - Facebook Review
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I highly recommend allowing yourself to be guided by Sarah, whether that be in yoga or breath work or meditation or connecting with the great outdoors - or better still in all of the above! She has strong knowledge of the science behind the practice and connects us with this in a thoughtful inclusive way. Sarah gently encourages and supports others to take time to explore and be curious.
Kylie - Facebook Review