Nestled beside the Gawler River, just 45 minutes from the city and close to the Barossa Valley, Riverdell Spiritual Centre offers a peaceful environment for personal transformation and spiritual growth.
Riverdell provides a wide range of life-enhancing programs designed to inspire personal growth, leadership, and awakening consciousness. From yoga and meditation to holistic experiences, our workshops and retreats are crafted to support your journey of self-discovery.
At Riverdell, we are guided by our vision to inspire humanity to be motivated by love, truth, and respect, creating an empowered and sustainable future for all. We foster a welcoming community where individuals come together to connect, learn, and grow.
Whether you’re here for a workshop, event, or retreat, we invite you to experience the tranquil energy and nourishing atmosphere of this special place. We look forward to sharing this space with you, where you can feel at home and supported in your journey.
Riverdell Spiritual Retreat Centre hosts a variety of workshops and retreat events that provide opportunities for self-empowerment and conscious living. We offer teaching and accommodation spaces suitable for small and medium groups and are situated on a 3.5-hectare block on the banks of the Gawler River, only 45km’s from Adelaide’s CBD.
We respectfully acknowledge the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the land on which Riverdell Spiritual Centre operates. We pay our deep respects to the Kaurna Elders, past, present, and emerging, for their enduring connection to this country. We honour the rich history and cultural significance of the land, and we are privileged to gather, celebrate, and share in its beauty. As we come together in the spirit of unity and diversity, we honour the ongoing connections to this land and its people.
Ruth French is a Riverdell resident and Spiritual Focus at the Riverdell Spiritual Centre. Ruth has many years of experience in assisting others to realise their own potential through mentoring and workshops. Ruth is particularly passionate about the Primal Spirituality program that the FSE is based around and spent many years traveling the world growing her experience in spiritual matters. Ruth can be found in the Riverdell Sanctuary every Sunday morning, leading our Sunday Service gathering and on the first Sunday of each month leading and participating in an International Service offered at Riverdell via the internet. When Ruth is away from Riverdell she enjoys singing, nature walks and maintaining connections through out the community.
Is a seeker of wisdom, she is dedicated to restoring health and wellbeing to all who come her way and has been a regular presence around Riverdell for the past 20 years.
Christine has been specialising in many years of physical and energetic healing. It is with her inquisitive, free spirit and devotion to her practise, that takes her to find teachers and methods that can enhance her own abilities of providing powerful healing for her clients.
Her unique ability lies in revealing unconscious patterns and blocks that causes disease and dis-harmony. Christine has a natural ability to hold a surrounding space with patience and diligence where she creates an openness to a deep cellular flow which gently restores balance.
Cheyne grew up on the east coast of Australia and travelled in her 20’s to Europe and the United Kingdom living abroad for 3 years.
She met the Emissaries in Italy and did a number of their courses living in a spiritual community overseas and then for 10 years in Australia. She developed her academic career gaining a Masters in Social Ecology, an Advanced Diploma in Holistic Psychotherapy as well as an Honours Degree in Botanical and Wildlife Illustration.
Her career focus has been with migrants and refugees and teaching English. She has had her own business as a Counselor and currently works in Canberra with the National Disability Insurance agency.
Cheyne loves to engage with people and preparing food. She believes it is how we prepare the food that makes the difference.
Hiya I’m Jasmine,
I first started my journey at Riverdell teaching The morning Vinyasa & Hatha Yoga. I now work collaboratively to coordinate the wonderful events in which are facilitated here, whilst teaching a Hatha and Yin yoga class. I teach to not just help the physical but the mental and emotional. I love people leaving my classes feeling recharged and calm. My practice has helped me grow stronger both on and off the mat. Yoga reminds me to live each moment more mindfully.
I love being creative and bringing like minded individuals together. Through workshops, events and retreats.
Riverdell is a place of coming together and sharing the holistic approach to life. I am beyond blessed to work here at Riverdell, connecting with so many inspiring individual’s.
I love yoga of course, big walks, cooking, reading, writing. Anything being creative and expressing myself. Catching up with loved ones and learning more about myself and the world around me.
If you would like to collaborate or come for morning tea please don’t hesitate to email!
I would love to see you on the mat or on our wonderful grounds soon!
Light and Love
My name is Jude Fenton and I have been working in the office at Riverdell Spiritual Centre since August 2006
Married for 35 years with two beautiful children and two amazing grandchildren
Born in Gawler I attended the local primary schools and high school. Earlier in my career I served in the Australian Army followed by seven years working as a data processor for the South Australian Police Dept in Adelaide. I enjoyed the challenges associated with these positions.
I spent the next chapter of my life as a stay at home mum and will always be grateful for this time.
Riverdell is a wonderful place to spend time, grow and learn. When I walk onto the property I feel a sense of welcome and belonging. This is what I connect with. Riverdell is also a place where I can be myself and allow all that is great to connect with others.
Life-long friendships have been formed, which I treasure. I love meeting new people and having the opportunity to get to know them in an environment that focusses on what is right with us.
Dr Andrew Horwood is an holistic medical doctor, workshop presenter, mentor, poet and a leader in the Emissaries of Divine Light in Australia. He’s an accredited Attunement Practitioner and Teacher and also a passionate teacher in Primal Spirituality. Andrew believes that Primal Spirituality is the first spirituality with which we are each born and which children intuitively know well. He believes that reconnecting as adults with this inner spiritual power source we each have opens gateways to leading a fulfilling and contented life.
Finding the ways to access this parallel universe may lead to trusting in our Inner Spirit. There are settings and atmospheres that encourage this access. Through deep listening, story-telling, poetry, ritual and learning, it is possible to gain an understanding and respect for the larger design in which your life is nestled- that parallel universe in which the sacred resides. This can evoke a new awakening- awakening the true Being you are, and living your own, unique, inspiring life. What could be more fulfilling?”
He lives in Melbourne with his wife Lyell and enjoys time with his 2 children and 3 grandchildren.
