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The Wellness Fountain Evidence-based psychological treatment for depression, anxiety and stress and Mindfulness Training i

The Wellness Fountain was created to provide a caring and nurturing space for people to find peace psychological pain and to provide expert advice and skills within a holistic framework. With a focus on overcoming obstacles to wellbeing and happiness.

10/09/2026

After many years having taught my Foundations of Mindfulness course to hundreds in Sydney, I decided to put the course, the practices and essentially everything I wanted people to takeaway from therapy with me into a book.

An honest review from a book reviewer:
There is a quiet kind of exhaustion that comes after doing everything right. Years of therapy, self help books, mindfulness practice, and still the same anxiety, shame, or sadness returns, sometimes louder than before. Most people assume this means they have failed somehow, that they simply have not tried hard enough.

No Parts Left Behind speaks directly into that exhaustion. Rather than offering another technique to fight harder against difficult emotions, your book makes a different claim entirely. Fear, shame, sadness, and inertia are not enemies to defeat. They are parts of us asking for attention. That shift alone, from combat to relationship, is the kind of idea that changes how someone wakes up the next morning.

This is exactly who I wrote the book.
Available now.

07/06/2026

Oestrogen governs over 400 biological functions in your body.

Memory. Metabolism. Bone density. Cardiovascular health. Mood regulation. Sleep architecture.

When its production shifts — every system responds simultaneously.
The metabolic changes, the cognitive shifts, the sleep disruption — these are not personal failings.

They are biological signals. And they respond extraordinarily well to the right evidence-based strategy.

Most women navigate this transition entirely without a clinical roadmap. That is the gap we built this retreat to fill.

Pause with a Purpose. Villa Riad, Byron Bay. 21–24 August 2026. Link in bio

24/05/2026

PAUSE WITH PURPOSE
✨ A Luxury Women’s Wellness & Perimenopause Retreat
📍 Villa Riad, Byron Bay
📅 21–24 August 2025

What if your exhaustion isn’t a sign you’re failing… but a sign your nervous system needs care?

Join us for four deeply nourishing days designed for women ready to step out of stress, overwhelm, hormonal chaos, overthinking, and emotional burnout — and reconnect with peace, softness, vitality, and themselves.

This retreat is a blend of luxury, science, movement, healing, and feminine restoration.

Over the retreat you’ll experience:

✨ Nervous system down-regulation
✨ Talks on women’s health and hormones with a GP
✨ Neuroscience-based workshops on stress, fear & emotional wellbeing
✨ Pilates, meditation, breathwork & mindful movement
✨ Self-love, healing & reconnecting with the divine feminine
✨ Luxury accommodation, beautiful food & time to truly exhale

This is your permission to slow down.
To be held.
To reconnect with the woman beneath the pressure of doing it all.

Limited places available.

DM us “RETREAT” for more information 🤍

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We are all about SLOW Travel. Finding stillness. Tearing up the agenda. Meandering. Slowing down time so it feels as if ...
21/05/2026

We are all about SLOW Travel. Finding stillness. Tearing up the agenda. Meandering. Slowing down time so it feels as if you’ve stepped through a portal where time has PAUSED.

For info on our next retreat, see Bio.

Most wellness retreatswill help you relax.This one will changehow you understandyour own biology.Doctor-led.Science-back...
15/05/2026

Most wellness retreats
will help you relax.
This one will change
how you understand
your own biology.
Doctor-led.
Science-backed.
Deeply restorative.
Pause with a Purpose.
Byron Bay. August 2026.

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05/04/2026

💙 An Important Update from The Wellness Foundation 💙

To my wonderful community here — thank you for being part of this space and for your support over the years. I want to let you know that The Wellness Foundation will no longer be where I share my clinical psychology work and updates.

If you'd like to stay connected and keep up with the work I'm doing, I warmly invite you to follow my personal page:

👉 Maria-Elena Lukeides

That's where you'll find all the latest news, insights, and updates on my ongoing work. I'd love to see you there!

With gratitude,
Maria-Elena 🌿

As we move toward the end of the year, I’ve been reflecting on the subtle ways love reveals itself — not as grand gestur...
21/11/2025

As we move toward the end of the year, I’ve been reflecting on the subtle ways love reveals itself — not as grand gestures or perfect moments, but in the quiet, ordinary spaces we often rush past.
A smile from a stranger. A moment of being seen. A soft exhale that reminds you you’re still here.
These small threads of connection are the antidote to the wound we all carry — the perceived separation from love, from Source, from the unified field of consciousness that every wisdom tradition points to.

This Tuesday, 25 November, I’m offering our final meditation gathering for the year, and the theme is simply:

LOVE — Returning to the Unified Field
7:00–8:30 PM (arrive 6:45)
📍 EJ Ward Community Centre, Paddington

We’ll begin with a Dharma talk exploring what psychology, attachment, spirituality, and contemplative traditions all agree on: that the root of much of our suffering is the belief that we are separate from love — and that our healing begins the instant we realise we never truly were.

Then we’ll move into a gently guided breathwork session — both active and surrender phases — followed by a meditative integration designed to dissolve the boundaries of the physical self and settle into the spaciousness of consciousness.

No experience needed.
Just bring your yoga mat, a cushion, and your heart exactly as it is.

This evening is for anyone longing to release the tension and stories of the year… to reconnect with themselves… to soften back into the field of love that holds us all.

It will be my last gathering before I go away for December and January. I’m now fully booked for the rest of the year, with just two appointment spots left in January.

I’d love to see you one last time before we close the year together.
With love,
Maria-Elena 🤍

























You’ve stayed strong.You’ve softened when it was safe.You’ve kept moving—sometimes without knowing why.But lately… there...
29/08/2025

You’ve stayed strong.
You’ve softened when it was safe.
You’ve kept moving—sometimes without knowing why.

But lately… there’s a restlessness you can’t name.
Not sadness. Not fear.
Just something stirring beneath the surface.

Pause with Purpose is a retreat designed for this in-between.
A space to be held while you remember what your body is really asking for.

✧ 18 women. Byron Bay. Sept 25–27.
✧ Medical insight, deep rest, gentle ceremony

→ Explore the retreat: link in bio

Perimenopause doesn’t have to feel like a breakdown.It can be a breakthrough.Join us this September in Byron Bay for Pau...
23/07/2025

Perimenopause doesn’t have to feel like a breakdown.
It can be a breakthrough.

Join us this September in Byron Bay for Pause with a Purpose — a transformative 3-day retreat designed to nourish your body, reset your hormones, and reconnect you with your strength, softness, and soul.

✔️ Pilates, Barre & restorative movement
✔️ Breathwork, meditation, sound healing
✔️ Expert-led talks on hormonal health & nutrition
✔️ Sacred fire ceremony & sisterhood circles
✔️ Gut-loving, hormone-supportive meals

Whether you’re exhausted, curious, or simply ready to feel more you, this is your invitation to rest and rise.

📍 Wybalena Farm, Byron Bay
🗓️ 25–27 September 2025
🎟️ $1100 all-inclusive
🔗 Bookings at www.drmariaelenalukeides.com.au or link in bio

🧡 Only a few spots remaining — DM for details or visit the link in bio.

🌿 Join us this coming Tuesday for an evening of deep connection, stillness, and expansion 🌿After returning from a powerf...
29/03/2025

🌿 Join us this coming Tuesday for an evening of deep connection, stillness, and expansion 🌿

After returning from a powerful retreat, I’m so looking forward to holding space again for our beautiful monthly meditation group — and this one will be particularly activating.

🌀 We’ll explore a guided practice designed to clear mental noise, awaken higher states of awareness, and open the doorway to your own intuitive wisdom.

✨ My dharma talk will focus on using the body as an anchor — a sacred access point to inner strength, clarity, and expansion. We’ll move into a breathwork and sound journey to deepen this experience.

Details:
🗓 This Tuesday – April 1
🕖 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM (please arrive by 6:45 PM)
📍 EJ Ward Community Centre
189 Underwood Street, Paddington NSW

Please bring:
🧘‍♀️ A yoga mat
🛋 A cushion or something comfy to sit or lie on
💧 Water bottle
💖 An open heart

✨ This session runs by dāna (generosity) — pay what feels right for you, either in cash or via digital transfer on the night.

🌸 Please RSVP via DM or Messenger — spaces are limited.

Come as you are. Leave with more of who you truly are.

With love,
Maria-Elena

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11/99 Stewart Street
Woollahra, NSW
2021

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm

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