Breaths and Barks

Breaths and Barks is a truly unique three-day experience designed to bring you and your dog into deeper connection. It’s about slowing down, becoming present, and creating the space where true partnership can grow—while also meeting your dog’s deepest needs for fulfillment, expression, and connection.

Across the weekend, you’ll explore practices for personal development such as breathwork and meditation, helping you regulate your nervous system and find balance. As your presence deepens, trust grows and your dog naturally follows your grounded energy.

Your dog’s fulfillment is just as important. Through structured play that mirrors natural patterns like the hunt cycle, they’ll enjoy moments of joy, confidence, and satisfaction. Scent work adds another layer—instinctive, rewarding, and deeply connective. Each search becomes teamwork, strengthening your bond through shared success.

This retreat is about connection on many levels. Presence becomes something you and your dog share, while calm communication and intuitive leadership replace stress and uncertainty. It’s also about community—sharing meals, fireside conversations, and time in nature with like-minded people, creating friendships and memories that often last well beyond the retreat.

Set in beautiful natural surrounds, the environment itself supports you in finding stillness and clarity. You’ll also be nourished with wholesome, organic meals designed to fuel both body and mind, giving you the energy to show up fully for yourself and your dog.

When it comes to accommodation, you can choose between free BYO camping or upgrade to a luxury bell tent glamping option. The bell tents come fully styled and ready with a queen bed, linen, warm blankets, floor mats, subtle lighting, and decorative touches—providing a private space for you and your dog to rest in comfort and convenience. Please note: Bell tent hire is arranged separately after purchasing your ticket. Contact us directly to secure your tent.

Important note: Participants are required to bring a crate for their dog. While we maximise the time your dog spends alongside you, there are moments where safety requires them to rest securely, such as during the transformational breathing journey or mealtimes in the homestead.

At its heart, Breaths and Barks is more than a retreat—it’s an integration of breath, play, scent, nature, and community woven into three days of discovery. You’ll return home with a calmer, more intuitive relationship with your dog, tools to regulate your own nervous system, confidence in meeting your dog’s natural needs, a grounded sense of leadership built on trust, and a deeper awareness of yourself and your partnership.

What’s Included:
✔️ Three days of guided sessions blending breathwork, meditation, play, and scent work
✔️ Structured games and scent activities designed to meet your dog’s natural needs
✔️ Evening circles and shared conversations to deepen community connection
✔️ Wholesome, organic meals fully catered across the weekend
✔️ Space for reflection, stillness, and simply being with your dog
✔️ Cacao ceremony and transformational breathing experience (for humans only)
✔️ Accommodation options: free BYO camping or luxury bell tent glamping

🌿 Step into three days of connection, fulfillment, and discovery. Join us at the next Breaths and Barks retreat and experience it for yourself.