There is a 200-year-old fig tree on this property with a seat hanging from it.

That is the detail that tells you everything. Someone walked these 22 acres, found the most beautiful tree on the land, and hung a swing from it so you could sit under it by yourself.

SOMA Lorna Jane opens in September, and it is one of the most beautiful places in the country.

Some places you visit. Some places you feel yourself soften the moment you arrive.

The land

Ewingsdale, in the Byron hinterland. Twenty-two acres of rainforest and bushland, landscaped forest trails winding through it, a zen stone garden built purely for sitting and thinking.

Two soaring geodomes rise out of the green, and they are where the yoga, the meditation and the sound healing happen. Light pours through them. You will have seen a version of this property before without realising it, because it starred alongside Nicole Kidman in Nine Perfect Strangers, and it looks even better in person.

Ten light-filled suites. A saltwater pool looking out over the hinterland. A circular fire pit positioned exactly where you would want to be at sunset.

Every corner of this place has been designed for a woman to sit down in it.

The bathhouse

This is the heart of it.

A bamboo-framed bathhouse holding an infrared sauna, a magnesium ice bath, warm pools and a forest day spa beyond it. You do the circuit in the late afternoon with the rainforest right there, hot to cold and back again, and you come out feeling like a different person.

It is available every day of your stay. Everyone books thinking they will use it once. Everyone uses it every single day.

The woman behind it

Lorna Jane Clarkson bought this property a year ago and has spent the time since reimagining every part of it.

Thirty-seven years into building her brand, this is her next chapter, and you can feel her hand in the details. The aesthetic is soft, feminine and deeply considered. Nothing here is accidental.

Thirty-seven years of knowing exactly what women want, poured into 22 acres.

What you actually do here

Five programs, each led by a specialist, each shaped around the conversations women are having right now: energy, hormone health, longevity, and habits that hold up on a busy Tuesday.

Rewire Your Habits, 7 to 11 September and 23 to 26 October, with Dr Gina Cleo, one of Australia’s leading habit researchers. Four nights on how habits actually form, and you go home with a personalised Habit Blueprint.

Active Living, 21 to 25 September with Shannon McNeill, built on the Move Nourish Believe philosophy the brand was founded on.

Nervous System Reset, 11 to 15 October with Tracy Whitton, on vagus nerve regulation and how the body handles stress.

Reset. Realign. Return to Yourself, 12 to 15 November with Patty Perlman. Yoga philosophy, journalling and getting clear on what comes next.

The Longevity Code, 15 to 19 November with Shannon McNeill, on the feminine science of ageing well.

Pick the one that matches the season you are in.

A day here

Movement in the morning, strength and mobility, with the hinterland doing its thing outside the window.

Meals built for energy and made beautifully: protein-rich breakfasts, long lunches, lighter dinners, all of it designed around longevity.

Afternoons are workshops, one on one time with your facilitator if you want it, and hours that are yours. Walk the trails. Sit under the fig tree. Swim.

Then the bathhouse, then the fire pit, then the kind of sleep you only get this far into the green.

Four days here is enough to reset the whole year.

Book it like this

Ten suites means it is small, and small means it will go.

Rooms come as private king or shared king, with a local day guest option for anyone already in the Northern Rivers. Rewire Your Habits is $5,247 per person private, $3,911 shared and $3,168 as a day guest with the current discount applied.

Go with your best friend and take the shared room. Go alone and take the private one. Both are excellent decisions.

The details

SOMA Lorna Jane
221 Kennedys Lane, Ewingsdale, Byron Bay NSW
Opening September 2026
Five retreat programs running September through November
Bookings and full program details at somalornajane.com.au

Consider this your sign.