Deb Pepperdine and Ian Trew

About Deb and Ian

We’re Deb and Ian.

Our love of people, natural living and the coast is at the heart of Beach Health Retreat.

We plan each retreat with you, welcome you when you arrive, and stay in touch through your stay, as much or as little as you’d like. One guest or one couple at a time.

Deb Pepperdine

Deb Pepperdine

A warmth for people. A love of the coast.

Deb’s background includes meditation, yoga, time in retreat settings, and work with people in wellbeing and community settings on the Sunshine Coast.

With guests, Deb’s interests are personal conversations, bodywork and coastal experiences.

Ian Trew

Ian Trew

Natural living. Time with purpose.

Ian’s background brings together Ayurveda, natural living and practical education, including permaculture.

With guests, Ian’s interests are Ayurveda, bodywork, meditation and time in nature.

From our history

Dr Gabriel Cousens and Ian Trew side by side, in an archival Beach Health Retreat photograph
Dr Gabriel Cousens with Ian Trew at Beach Health Retreat, Sunshine Coast.

“Most holistic health retreat & healthy accommodation on the coast.”

Dr Gabriel CousensMD, MD(H), DD
Deb Pepperdine and Ian Trew on a balcony by the sea

The people you talk to are the people who welcome you.

Your retreat plan sets out exactly who does what for your stay. In general:

  • With Deb or Ian: planning your retreat with you before you arrive, your welcome and check-ins, personal conversations and counselling sessions, massage and non-invasive bodywork, and hosted sauna setups. The practitioner for each is agreed when planning your retreat.
  • Drawing on Ian’s background: Ayurveda and traditional wellbeing practices on the Holistic & Alternative Retreat.
  • With outside providers: main meals, and optional extras such as yoga, Pilates, personal training, beauty treatments and airport transfers, subject to availability.
  • The accommodation: apartments in a separately managed beachside resort, whose pools, spa, sauna and grounds are shared with other guests and residents.

Beach Health Retreat is a non-clinical wellbeing retreat, not a medical or psychiatric treatment service.

The way we see a retreat

Small on purpose.

Enough structure to be useful. Enough room to make the time your own.

From past stays.

From a guest who stayed with Beach Health Retreat in earlier years. Each retreat is now shaped around the person, so every stay is a little different.

  • “This was my first visit and it was an amazing place to recuperate & relax. I loved the ocean views and the two second park walk to the beach.”

    Camilla · England

What guests have said about Deb and Ian.

Guests on how Deb and Ian looked after them. Their words, shortened where marked.

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It starts with a conversation.

Tell us what you’re looking for, call Deb or Ian on 0402 130 552, or email [email protected].

No payment to enquire, and no obligation.