Welcome to Newport Yoga Centre

Living in a fast pace urban environment is highly stressful. Our senses are constantly bombarded with stimulation. Our intelligent bodies adapt to this situation by recalibrating our sensitivity, dulling the senses, shutting down. This can leave us feeling disconnected from our environment, unaware of the subtle natural rhythms and cycles of the earth.
The results can be anything from low levels of vitality to sickness and disease.

Each season has a different energy and area of focus in the body. We can learn how to connect to this energy and work with it rather than struggling against it. Take the opportunity to access, heal and improve specific areas of your body mind and spirit. In this series of day retreats we aim to give you the tools to tap into the energy of each season creating positive change and profound healing.

Experience the profound healing effects of corrective yoga therapy. We introduce you to a powerful and holistic healing system that is accessible to everyone, no matter what your level of fitness or experience. Discover the movements your body needs to improve strength and flexibility and create a healthy state of balance.

We will create a feast of delicacies from fresh organic produce, discovering the foods & cooking methods that harmonise your body with the energies of the season. Learn fascinating facts about the nutritional and medicinal value of the foods we prepare that will stimulate your appetite for healthy living. Beautiful wholefood dishes, sugar and dairy free, desserts - all designed to promote vitality and nourish your soul!

AUTUMN is all about elimination – LETTING GO! The colds and flus that abound in this season simply reflect our body's lack of ability to eliminate. Learn special macrobiotic cold remedies and ways to introduce more fibre and fermented foods into your diet, boosting the efficiency of you colon. Yoga for this season focuses on contraction, the lungs and the large intestine. Bring tone to your belly buttocks and thighs, redefine your waist and strengthen your lower back. Increase your breath awareness and clear your mind.

WINTER is the time to consolidate the bodies energy, to build strength and stability. This season is our chance to
“de-stress” & regenerate. Calm your nervous system, regain balance and find that stillness within. Warm to nourishing meals that re-energise and re-build, enjoy mineral rich foods and long slow cooking methods. The yoga focus is on the spine, building its strength and flexibility. Learn how to improve your balance, reduce lower back pain, and recharge your energy levels so you don't have to rely on artificial stimulants.

SPRING is an opportunity to cleanse and renew yourself - break old habits and create a positive new direction. Get rid of the heaviness, stiffness and the accumulated toxins of winter and lighten up! Real improvements in flexibility become possible at this time. Food focus is on lighter, fresher and smaller meals. Learn valuable tools to boost your immune system, eliminate lasting colds and flus and rejuvenate your liver and gall bladder. Eat less, do more!

SUMMER the season of expression and creativity. Celebrate summer's abundance and increase your capacity for joy and playful vitality. The chance to soften upper body tension, open and heal your heart and connect to your inner strength and power. Learn innovative barbeque ideas, cooling salads and delicate finger foods. Refresh and re-energise yourself.

Mother of 3 beautiful children, Tania Elder studied shiatsu and Ryoho Yoga with Andrzej Gospodarczyk back in 1992 and has been sharing her knowledge with the Newport community ever since. Tania started the Newport Ryoho Yoga Centre in 2000, and currently teaches yoga to children and adults in Newport .

Tania is passionate about health and good food and love inspiring others to make positive lifestyle changes.

Start the day on the beach with some fun activities and an invigorating dip in the ocean! Strengthen & energise your body with a dynamic morning yoga class. Enjoy a delicious organic breakfast. Experience an interactive cooking demonstration with recipes & nutritional notes supplied. Restore balance & rediscover your body with a special corrective yoga class. Feast on all scrumptious food we prepared earlier. Relax by the pool, stroll along the beach, or curl up with some interesting yoga & food books. Nurture your body and integrate the activities of the day with a soothing relaxation and ginger compress.