This is a place for the senses. The Healing Garden is set within the grounds of the Heide I kitchen garden – a site that was once home to John and Sunday Reed and that hosted Modernist painters and writers in the early part of the 20^th Century. The brief called for the creation of a space that would allow for small groups and individuals with special physical and developmental needs to occupy and experience a sensory garden. The garden and its program are intended to align with the philosophies of Sunday Reed as a place of well-being, produce, experimentation and sensory indulgence. Our proposal is not a remaking of the site or the importation of a new idea. Instead, we have looked, observed, framed and created tipping points in the existing landscape that invite occupation and allow people to be in an environment in which they are free to slow down, to notice and to change their behaviour. An arbour structure creates a threshold between the familiar space of Heide I and the heightened space of the garden. The existing heritage paths and planting are carefully retained with new areas of immersive textured planting and seating that invites the body. The result is an intimate space that creates permission to experience the positive distraction of nature.