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TRUE LOVES

IMMERSION

LORD HOWE ISLAND, TASMAN SEA

Step into the wild beauty of Lord Howe Island,

where nature surrounds you at every turn.

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Wake up each day on this remote volcanic island, with towering mountains in the distance,

lush forests underfoot, and a stunning marine park that holds the world’s southernmost coral reef just beyond the shore.

 

Every moment here invites you to embrace the vibrant life around you

and the true loves within you.

 

November 2026

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your guides

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matty lawrence
FOUNDER & GUIDE

Matty is the creator, lead program facilitator and guide of More Than Happy Journeys. This offering is devoted to helping people reconnect with their essence, navigate transitions with depth, and create lives rooted in meaning, magic and love. A lover of nature, trails, journeys and what they inspire, Matty is a loyal student of words and what they reveal. He draws from the landscape around him as much as the one within, holding space for reflection, transformation and connection to something greater. Matty is a passionate advocate for the inner journey of life. He works at the fertile edge of expression, belonging and transformation — where service becomes medicine and truth becomes home. His approach is grounded in lived experience and formal training. He is a certified Gross National Happiness Practitioner, having studied with the GNH Centre in Bhutan and Schumacher College, and a trained Rites of Passage Facilitator through The Rites of Passage Institute in Australia. These frameworks deeply inform his work, blending ancient wisdom and contemporary relevance to support personal and collective growth. Matty believes we all have the opportunity to discover our true nature and embrace our true loves in life. Through More Than Happy Journeys, he invites others to step into sacred transitions, reimagine the stories they live by, and return to a deeper kind of being — one that honours the full spectrum and adventure of being human.

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CHRIS WILSON
YOGA & MEDITATION

Chris sees the practice of yoga and meditation as a means to help us live more skilfully and recognise our inherent wholeness. He came across the practice in 2003, having quite a turbulent mind at the time, the teachings quickly became a place of refuge. ​ Over the past 20 years Chris hasn’t stopped learning and evolving his understanding. Among the many teachers he has studied with, Chris has been primarily inspired by Erich Schiffman, Richard Miller and Rupert Spira. ​ Chris has lead over 30 teacher trainings, advanced trainings in Pranayama and meditation, along with many immersive retreats. His passion is to simplify the practice, to help make the deeper teachings more accessible and to help each of us develop our own unique relationship with the life’s truths. He was previously the co-owner of Power Living Melbourne and is now the founder of Yoke Yoga, bringing his insights and experience to our immersions. He comes with a whole hearted, grounding and playful presence that can be felt. ​​

our way

The More Than Happy Way doesn’t push or prescribe. It flows and unfolds like a good story.

 

Through inspiring environments, thoughtful experiences, connected communities and transformative practices, what’s true begins to surface.

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We create the container that allows the insights to be revealed.

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MORE JOURNEYS

True Nature pilgrimage
kumano kodo, japan

2025 | April | September

 

Journey to the ancient pilgrimage trail walked for over 1,000 years. 

 

A place of inspiration and creation. 

The Kumano Kodo.​

WAYS WITH WORDS

Receive inspired insights, reflections and stories on the journey of true nature

Thanks for connecting.

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