A place to slow down and feel genuinely cared for.

Chakana is a founder-led day spa in Avalon Beach, created by Australian therapist, sound artist and singer-songwriter Mardi Ritchie.

For more than three decades, Mardi has explored the relationship between touch, beauty, sound and the simple act of being deeply cared for. Chakana is the physical expression of that work – a place where restorative skincare, bodywork, botanical collections, scent and original music come together in experiences composed as a whole.

At the heart of Chakana is Ascend, Mardi’s body of work merging her practices as therapist and artist into one language. The Ascend Collection has its own musical compositions and aromatic blends, each woven into facial therapy, massage, body treatments and sound.

Alongside Ascend, sits Chakana’s traditional spa menu, celebrating the pure and simple pleasures of the spa.

The wider offering includes Mother’s Love for pregnancy and motherhood, private sound healing work, group sound bath immersions and Chakana’s Full-Day Retreat.

 Chakana’s Skin + Spa product collection carries the experience of the spa into daily life with botanical collections for the face, body and bath.

 Set among earthy timbers, natural linens and objects collected from around the world, Chakana has been created to feel removed from the pace of everyday life – intimate, warm and quietly transportive.

 This is care delivered in a considered way; personal work shaped around the person receiving it.