Coastal Yoga & Kitchen Medicine Apollo Bay

26/07/2026

📌 PINNED ANNOUNCEMENT:

WE’VE MADE IT TO QUEENSLAND!
☀️🌴

Hi everyone,
We have officially crossed the borders and arrived in beautiful, sunny Queensland! 🚙 After an epic journey traveling along the rugged, freezing spine of the Great Dividing Range and horse riding through the deep valleys of the Blue Mountains, we are so happy to be setting up camp here in the warmth.Experiencing those extreme mountain temperature drops—all the way down to -1 degree! 🥶—was the perfect physical reminder of why our bodies crave deep, protective care at this time of year.

🗺️ WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

THIS WEEK🧘‍♀️
Yoga @ HOME
Recommences

Our brand-new, 4-week closed-loop video curriculum drops tomorrow morning!❄️
The Theme: Late Winter & the Nervous System

Over the next month, we will be diving into a dedicated three-class weekly loop specifically designed to ground your nervous system, protect your inner energy, and prepare your body for the transition ahead.

📖 Check Your Inbox and Messenger for recordings and updates

I have just sent out your comprehensive *Late Winter Information Guide* in our messenger group.

It is packed with deep self-care protocols for your fascial tissue, pelvic floor, and seasonal kitchen medicine nutrition to help you nourish your inner soil.💬

JOIN THE CONVERSATION

I’m pinning this post to the top of our FB PAGE so you can easily access our community space as we start this new series. Keep an eye out for our very first practice link tomorrow!

With Winter Warmth & Health,

Coastal Yoga & Kitchen Medicine

🙏💜💗Fab & Frances

13/06/2026

❄️ WINTER STAY SPECIAL ❄️
OCEAN HAVEN RETREAT APOLLO BAY

Winter isn’t something to escape... it’s something to experience.

Take a restorative coastal getaway at Ocean Haven Retreat, a wellbeing-inspired sanctuary designed for deep rest, renewal and reconnection on the Great Ocean Road.

🌿 Winter Special
Stay 2 nights and receive:
✨ 2 x 1-hour Bodywork Treatments
OR
✨ 1 x 1-hour Couples Bodywork Treatment

📅 Must Book & stay between 19 June – 31 July

Your stay includes:
• 2 x 1-hour Bodywork Treatments or x 1-hour Couples Bodywork
• Swim Spa & Cold Immersion Experiences
• Passive Solar Warmth & Natural Light
• Wellness-Designed Accommodation
• Access to Coastal Yoga & Kitchen Medicine Wellbeing Centre
• Just a short 400m stroll to Apollo Bay beach

Perfect for couples, solo travellers and anyone needing a mid-winter reset.

📍 Apollo Bay, Victoria
📧 [email protected]
📞 0467 528 800

Limited winter availability. Book direct and save.

13/06/2026

❄️ WINTER STAY SPECIAL ❄️
OCEAN HAVEN RETREAT APOLLO BAY

Winter isn't something to escape... it's something to experience.

Take a restorative coastal getaway at Ocean Haven Retreat, a wellbeing-inspired sanctuary designed for deep rest, renewal and reconnection on the Great Ocean Road.

🌿 Winter Special
Stay 2 nights and receive:
✨ 2 x 1-hour Bodywork Treatments
OR
✨ 1 x 1-hour Couples Bodywork Treatment

📅 Must Book & stay between 19 June – 31 July

Your stay includes:
• 2 x 1-hour Bodywork Treatments or x 1-hour Couples Bodywork
• Swim Spa & Cold Immersion Experiences
• Passive Solar Warmth & Natural Light
• Wellness-Designed Accommodation
• Access to Coastal Yoga & Kitchen Medicine Wellbeing Centre
• Just a short 400m stroll to Apollo Bay beach

Perfect for couples, solo travellers and anyone needing a mid-winter reset.

📍 Apollo Bay, Victoria
📧 [email protected]
📞 0467 528 800

Limited winter availability. Book direct and save.

02/06/2026

02/06/2026

🍄 Beyond the Vitamin D Pill:
Traditional Kitchen Medicine for Deep Winter Resilience

Hack Your Food’s DNA:

The 15-Minute Protocol to Supercharge Winter Nutrition

Stop treating your body like a simple calorie calculator with fluctuating nutritional value.

For many of us, it is time to stop wasting money on synthetic Vitamin D pills. Do this to your grocery store mushrooms instead! 🍄‍🟫
Food is not just fuel—it is priceless information for your genes. Your food, and where it is sourced, sends a direct molecular message straight to your cells. This means your genetic health is not a fixed destiny. It is a living, breathing conversation written by what you take in. Every single day, your kitchen choices hold both the pencil and the eraser.

Most people miss out on the easiest "Epi-nutrition" hack on the planet. By changing just one tiny step in your kitchen on how you prep your mushrooms, you change the message you send to your cells—significantly boosting their Vitamin D levels naturally. That’s right, a massive biological upgrade! 🤯

For decades teaching kitchen medicine, I have shared a vital wintertime well-being hack that strengthens your body’s baseline health. This year, join us as we bridge the gap between secure science and ancestral wisdom.

🧬 *The 3 Key Pillars of the Workshop*

* The Software Update: Learn the exact preparation and timing tweaks that transform everyday, store-bought mushrooms into an active, natural Vitamin D powerhouse—without chemicals or expensive tools.
* The Epi-Nutrition Blueprint: Discover how traditional cultural practices intuitively knew exactly how to unlock natural "gene regulators" to navigate the winter months with vitality.
* The Synergy Protocol: Master crucial pairing considerations and meal prep combinations to ensure your body fully absorbs and utilizes these upgraded nutrients.

🗓️ Event Details

Venue: Coastal Yoga & Kitchen Medicine – Apollo Bay (Plus Live via Zoom & access to the recording)

Date: This Saturday, 6 June

Time: 10:15 AM (1-hour masterclass)

Investment: $35 Or use 2 sessions on your existing studio Yoga Pass!

👇 How to Secure Your Spot

I am revealing the exact science and traditional methods this weekend.
Send me an email on :
[email protected]
and I will instantly send the private invite and registration link.

Frances Paderno
🙏❤️

01/06/2026

A boutique coastal wellbeing accommodation with a difference. Located in Apollo Bay along Victoria’s iconic Great Ocean Road.

Designed for rest, renewal and longevity, our retreat space offers a peaceful sanctuary for individuals, couples, small groups and families seeking a deeply restorative wellbeing enhanced stay by the ocean.

With the clever use of nature inspired environmental plant air filtration, and EMF reduction technology used through out the home, it supports occupants in rest, & rejuvenation.

Ocean Haven Retreat is also the host location for our Coastal Yoga & Kitchen Medicine retreats, offering curated wellbeing experiences including movement, nutrition, and lifestyle practices designed to optimise health.

Located just 400m to the beach and a 15 minute walk to the town centre.

In the interest of keeping it local and reducing booking fees you can book direct with us. For all enquires and more information call 0467528800 or email [email protected] visit https://www.yogaandfoodasmedicineretreats.com/retreataccommodationapollobay for a walk through.

31/05/2026

May ends
Winter begins !

Following this weekend we enter the season of inner warmth and winter sacredness.

Winter Fire 🔥 ( Agni )
offers a sanctuary of divine renewal
on the inside.

🙏

25/05/2026

25/05/2026

❄️ A WINTER PAUSE … THE SOLSTICE ❄️
Apollo Bay June 19-21 2026

RECLAIM YOUR INNER BASELINE

The 7 Senses Winter Retreat is a journey into the deepest attributes of wellbeing, healing, and transformation.

This Winter Solstice, stop trying to “shake it off” and start resetting from within. The Solstice arrives each year as nature’s invitation to slow down, restore, and reconnect.

Discover the true purpose of winter darkness — and how it can support:
✨ Mental health
✨ Nervous system repair
✨ Neuro-regeneration
✨ Deep emotional restoration

Winter can create a heaviness within the mind and body. When ignored, unresolved patterns accumulate season after season, often resurfacing in different ways throughout the year.

It is time to embrace the winter pause the way nature intended.

Within The 7 Senses Winter Experience, we work deeply with winter body imbalances across five essential pillars:
• Chemical
• Structural
• Respiratory
• Mental
• Emotional

Go beyond the surface.
Cleanse the five physical senses, awaken cellular awareness, and reconnect with your sixth and seventh senses.

A retreat designed to restore balance, clarity, vitality, and inner stillness.

❄️ Winter Solstice Retreat
✨ Deep Healing • Nervous System Reset • Inner Transformation
📍 Limited spaces available
Web: For more information visit link below https://www.yogaandfoodasmedicineretreats.com/copy-of-winter-2026-info-1