New Year Cornwall, 29th December 2024 - 2nd January 2025

Feel the need to get away for the New Year? Want to completely unwind, immerse yourself in your yoga practice and soak up some tranquility? Join us at our stunning and cosy retreat in Cornwall. Reset and revive with this relaxing yet active break, with hikes, stunning scenery and delicious vegan/veggie food to feel energised and ready for 2025.

We also run a retreat on the 2nd - 5th January in Cornwall. Or join us in Yorkshire, Brecon Beacons or Peak District. Find all of our New Year Retreats here.

If you want to get away over the New Year to enjoy an alternative experience to the usual festivities, join us on our New Year yoga holiday in Cornwall. We have a four-night New Year coastal walking and yoga retreat near Newquay in Cornwall in a beautiful manor house filled with activities to help you reset and have a positive start to 2025.

Enjoy having the whole itinerary planned for you as soon as you arrive so that you can switch off and be looked after by our expert retreat teams. With coastal walks scheduled, share the walk, talk with others and make new friends with like-minded people.  Feel invigorated going out in all weathers and enjoy the connection to nature.

With coastal walks to invigorate, cosy fires to unwind in front of, a workshop on goals and setting intentions for the new year, yoga twice a day and delicious plant-based food, you will feel refreshed, revived, and ready for 2025.

Your New Year yoga retreat in Cornwall is 15 minutes away from 10 beautiful beaches. Enjoy country living in a homely estate with expansive grounds to wander around in. Stay in comfort with spacious and cosy bedrooms, with a choice of single and twin sharing occupancy rooms with en-suite and shared bathrooms.

There’s a special evening schedule to bring the New Year in with a setting of intentions, meditation, a delicious vegetarian feast, and dancing. Each yoga teacher brings their own style of New Year celebrations, so enjoy and you can opt-in or out, it is your new year to spend the way you would enjoy the most.

If you enjoy coastal walking in Cornwall then try this one around St Agnes.


  • Location

    Location
    Nr Newquay

  • Season

    Season
    winter

  • Duration

    Duration
    4 nights

  • Group size

    Group size
    17

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation
    Manor House

  • Meeting Point

    Meeting Point
    St Austell train station

  • Yoga level

    Yoga level
    All levels

  • Activity level

    Activity level
    All levels

  • Food

    Food
    Veggie/plant-based

  • Carbon Footprint

    Carbon Footprint
    46Kgs

Dates & Prices

FAQs

A twin/double room is for two people sharing either two single beds or a double bed.

Single occupancy with double bed and en-suite – £1099

Single occupancy with double bed and a shared bathroom 1 other person (with double bed) – £1049

Bunk room en-suite – £749pp

Twin room (two people sharing a room with two single beds) with en-suite bathroom – £999pp

Twin room (two people sharing a room with two single beds) with a shared bathroom – £899pp

Bunk Room for two people with shared bathroom with 1 other person – £699pp

For your new year walking yoga retreat Cornwall we have pulled out all the stops to make it very special
What's included
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4 nights beautiful accommodation in a private country estate

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4 x delicious and wholesome veggie/vegan inspired breakfasts

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4 x light warming lunch

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4 x hearty vegan evening meals

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4 x 1.5 hour morning yoga practice which will energise and awaken sleepy bodies and a variety of types of meditation practice to calm the mind

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4 x 2 hour evening yoga to unwind and calm with restorative practices

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A setting intention workshop for the new year

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New year evening celebrations and special dinner

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Sea swimming for the brave!

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Guided walks along the coastal paths

What's not included
  • Travel to and from the venue
  • Treatments

Your new year yoga retreat in Cornwall will begin at 4 pm on the first day with our opening yoga class at 6 pm.

On the last day, checkout is at 10:00.

Itinerary

8am

Pre-yoga snacks and tea enjoying the views

8.30am

Morning Yoga & Meditation Class

10.30am

Brunch served wholesome warming foods and teas

11am - 5pm

30th December: Morning walk, afternoon setting intentions workshop

7.30pm - 12pm

NEW YEAR EVE: 4 course vegan dinner, dancing and seeing in the new year.

11am - 5pm

1st January: Long coastal walk and sea swim for the brave!

11am - 5pm

Relax day

2.30pm

Light warming lunch

5.30pm

Evening Yoga & Meditation

7.30pm

Dinner

Accommodation in Cornwall Estate

Recently converted and restored, this truly stunning estate manages to maintain the grandeur of a true Manor house while embracing a modern feel.

Beautiful touches such as White Company London linen in all of the bedrooms and REN products in all of the bathrooms add little luxuries that make the whole experience feel even more special.

The estate is split into three properties. The main one being the Manor House, the hub of the home as this is where the kitchen and dining room are located. In fact, you may recognise the kitchen as it is where celebrity chef Rick Stein has used to film his TV shows many times! Within the Manor are 8 bright and spacious bedrooms that all boast views across the gardens. There are also multiple communal areas with a drawing room, study and library for you to relax in.

The Apple Store is a more modern space only a skip across the courtyard from the Manor. With 6 bedrooms there is also a beautiful sitting room with plenty of comfy sofas and its own kitchen. The Apple Store is also where the yoga studio is located! Through a door in the kitchen you find yourself in the bright and super spacious yoga studio boasting stunning oak beams, pillars and high ceilings.

If you want total privacy, there is also the adorable Laundry Cottage. A fully self-contained cottage attached to the Manor that is full of character and a beautiful first-floor bedroom perfect for a solo traveller or a couple. As a former laundry, this building was where the water was heated to wash the linen and has an enormous original Tudor inglenook fireplace fitted with a wood-burning stove.

There are plenty of ways to reach us on our retreat!

Car

Arriving by car means you have plenty of freedom to explore on your own terms too. We will give you the full directions to the venue on booking. It is roughly a 5-hour drive from London.

Train

The train journey into Cornwall is beautiful!  From London we recommend the following trains for your return journey.

Depart London Paddington with the direct train to St Austell to arrive around 3.30pm.

Depart St Austell  from 12pm onwards with the direct train to London Paddington

We arrange a WhatsApp group prior to the retreat so that you can arrange shared taxis together.

Fly

Newquay airport is 17 minutes away. There are direct flights from various domestic airports including London, Manchester and Newcastle, plus others during the summer months.

When booking or arranging travel, please be aware that the retreat arrival to the retreat is at 4 pm and earlier arrivals may be asked to wait until the house staff and team are ready.

Sustainability

We are working towards reducing our carbon footprint, and here are some ways we, as a company, are doing this.

We are a 88% vegan company, 10% vegetarian and 2% fish or meat (only when staying in boutique hotels that offer these options). This makes up a huge percentage of carbon emissions that we avoid so easily because our food is still delicious, balanced and even more creative. So, thanks to you all for enjoying our healthy (mostly) plant-based meals.

The difference: Most travel companies struggle to reduce their travellers’ meat and dairy consumption, which accounts for a large portion of their carbon emissions.

We stay primarily in one location for the duration of the retreat. We have started staying in a few locations on our long haul, but it is limited to 2 or 3 locations over an 8 – 10 night period. Staying in one place means low carbon emissions because we aren’t burning fuel to get around.

The difference: Other adventure travel companies move around every two days, using alot of petrol in vehicles for sometimes only 1 or 2 people.

Our activities are low-impact—yoga, hiking, surfing, skiing/boarding, whitewater rafting, SUP, and kayaking are all very low-carbon activities, in fact, zero-carbon (except skiing/snowboarding due to the ski lifts, which is also low). These activities are included in the price we measure. The carbon may increase with travel to and from these activities in vehicles.

The difference: Other travel companies can include high-carbon activities in the price, such as jet skiing, quad biking, and jeep driving, which increases their carbon footprint.

We run more than half of our retreats and holidays in the UK; these are very low-carbon holidays.

We currently don’t measure our guests’ travel as part of our carbon output because our guests don’t only come from the UK, so it is hard for us to predict this. We also don’t include travel in the holiday price, which is not part of our calculations. We know that we provide these holidays, so we are looking to include this carbon measurement in the future so we are investigating how we can reduce this.

The carbon measurements at the top of the page with the icons are per person for the whole retreat.

Ultra-low-carbon holidays

These holidays are below 200 kg per person, and our UK retreats are below 100 or even 70 kg, so these are great adventures for low carbon breaks.

Ski holidays are actually low in carbon!

In France, many ski resorts are turning to green energy to power the lifts. If you eat low in meat and dairy while you’re there and hire your ski equipment, this makes your trip as low-carbon as possible.

How can you help?

There are ways that you can help reduce your carbon when coming on our retreats and holidays:

Travel by train, try slow travel across Europe and the UK.
If travelling abroad to Europe or further afield, choose carbon capture schemes, check out Ecologi. Offsetting is not the best thing to do these days, but try carbon capture where you pay for carbon to be absorbed into the environment.
Car share UK – we recommend when guests travel by train to arrive and depart at the same time to taxi share – which helps keep costs and carbon emissions down. Why not consider car share, too? Most guests who drive come alone or with a friend; we have WhatsApp groups that, if you like, you can see who is driving from your area and enjoy getting to know each other on the way to the retreats, and save on your carbon emissions at the same time!

We are by no means saints when it comes to producing carbon, as a travel company we know this is very difficult to reduce. We are working to reduce our carbon output each year by measuring it and then creating plans to reduce it. We are reviewing all our venues and asking them how they can improve their carbon reduction as we don’t own any of our venues but we would like to work with them to help in any way we can. We want to be transparent with this, so please get in touch for more information. As we change things, we will update the website.

For those travelling by train we suggest arriving into St Austell to arrive around 3.30pm. This is a direct train from London. The station is around 25 minutes from the venue, and taxis cost £25.
We arrange a WhatsApp group prior to the retreat so that you can arrange shared taxis together. Please check out our ‘getting there’ section.
Yes we do. We provide yoga mats and blocks. If you need anything else that you like to use please bring it with you. We recommend a shawl/blanket for savasana, for extra cosiness.
This is for all levels with some walking experience. The walks aren't difficult regarding incline but my be long and so a good level of fitness is required.
Yes, it does. Not in every room but they are available. We suggest you bring your own if you prefer to have easy access to one.
Yes, it does. Not in every room but they are available. We suggest you bring your own if you prefer to have easy access to one.
There is plenty of free, private, parking on-site
There are no electric car charging outlets.
- Any extra yoga equipment you like to use - blanket, bolster, strap
- Comfy clothes to feel totally relaxed for yoga and relaxing
- We recommend bringing comfortable clothes and shoes to go on our coastal path hikes. It can get breezy so a hat, waterproof coat, and suitable layers.
- Backpack to carry your packed lunch, water bottle
- A plastic container (lunchbox) for your packed lunch and a refillable water bottle
- Indoor shoes or slippers to pad around in
- A good book or journal
- A shawl for savasana
Check in is from 4pm on arrival day, before this time you will not be allowed on to the property, and check-out on departure day is 10am.
Yes! Most of our guests travel solo, or with a friend or family member. It's a great way to meet like-minded people and find yoga travel buddies!
We are happy for you to have a drink at new year, not to get drunk but to enjoy with your meal. If you bring a bottle or two we ask that the group is asked if it's ok as there may be some people there who are getting away from alcohol for various reasons, and then offering it to those who may want a glass. This is our suggestion of how to introduce alcohol to the group and it has worked well over the years.
Here at AY we do things in a peaceful way, so as to escape the usual new year. We ai for you to return home feeling energised, clear headed and excited for the year to come. The setting intentions workshop helps you figure out what to let go of and what to bring into the new year. Then there is a 4 course meal, where you can dress up if you like! After dinner there will be some sort of celebration! Every teacher does it slightly differently so we leave it up to them; it could be a dance party, or a meditation, or sitting around the fire chatting and laughing.

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Beautiful Cornwall

Whether you have come to Cornwall to enjoy the coastal paths, swim in the sea, surf the waves or just have some R&R, you will feel fulfilled in this beautiful region of England. Just taking some time out of the day-to-day is enough to return home with a new outlook and completely refreshed – those looking for an active retreat with time to relax – Cornwall is bound to tick many of your requirements.

Our country estate is only 2 miles from the coast and a 20 minute drive to stunning beaches like Mawgan Porth and Perranporth. Enjoy a bit of countryside and beach on this sumptuous location.

About the yoga

On our Cornwall new year yoga retreat this new year, the classes are suitable for all abilities, from beginners to intermediate. Everyone is welcome. We have a range of inspiring and experienced teachers who are well-practiced at adapting the class for everyone.

Our yoga classes take place in the large, spacious yoga shala with skylights to the stars.

They will be tailored to the group’s level and energy and will be warming Vinyasa/Hatha flow in the morning and slower and more meditative in the evening, with yin, restorative, and yoga nidra.

Highlights

  • A healthy, relaxing and rejuvenating way to see in or start the new year

  • To reflect on the past year and set positive intentions for 2025

  • 2 Coastal walks to refresh and revitalise

  • Setting intentions workshop to get clear for the year ahead

  • New year celebration evening

  • Soothing treatments

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About the Food

We are a veggie/plant-based company and take great pride in creating incredible food on our retreats. Our chefs create diverse and imaginative menus that really highlight the seasonality of local produce. We are able to cater to all dietary requirements.

The meals provided are brunch, and we have coffee, tea, cow’s milk, plant-based milk and eggs for breakfast. Lunch is either at the venue or packed lunches if out and a 2-course evening meal that is plant-based.

For the new year expect a 4-course plant-based treat for the new year celebrations,

 

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