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Yoga and movement classes, trails and retreats in the South African bushveld | Founded by Renata Harper | Hosted by a team of teachers/facilitators with a passion for mind-body-spirit connection.
08/04/2026
Aprilโs Friday Dance Session welcomes DJ Scotty Nyams back to the decks!
Join us in the studio and garden for 90 minutes of release, replenishment and pure embodied freedom.
This is your invitation ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ.
๐๏ธ Friday 17 April
โฐ 5:30โ7:00 pm SHARP
๐ฃ R200, or bring a friend and pay R150 each
๐๐ป Dress to theme: a little, a lot, or not at all
๐ Wild Yoga Africa
โ Bookings open via DM
06/04/2026
Hi everyone
Here is our April schedule at the studio.
A few notes for the month ahead:
โข Morning classes on public holidays will have a slightly later start time (08:30).
โข The Seniors/Recovery class is now officially 90 minutes.
โข Catherineโs Friday Vinyasa/Budokon-inspired class will now start at 10:00 rather than 10:30 โ weโll be trialling this new time for April.
โข Kimโs sound sessions will be announced spontaneously.
Happy travels if youโre away during the holidays, and we look forward to seeing those whoโll be here.
Yin yoga offers an opportunity to attune to โ and tend to โ the bodyโs feedback, with plenty of time to rest and nest.
Weโll hold shapes for longer than usual, using props and support to find the most appropriate expression for your body, and soften toward a sense of ease.
Weโll close with a short meditation โ an invitation to get comfortable, choose a point of focus and simply sit quietly together.
๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐:
โ This practice offers a chance to settle your nervous system and drop into a deeper state of relaxation.
โ Youโre welcome, regardless of your yoga or movement experience.
โ Payment secures your booking.
โ Bring a yoga mat and a light blanket.
NB: 8 participants max. DM to book.
๐๐๐ง๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฉ๐๐ซ () is an integrative somatic facilitator (300-hour trauma-informed training), yoga teacher and writer/poet with a special interest in intuitive body wisdom and a passion for dance. Renata prioritises nourishing, whole-body movement and encourages you to be yourself and follow your curiosity. She feels most at home in wild places and offers a unique movement experience inspired by the South African bushveld.
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04/03/2026
What I most love about poetry is that, like life, it can sit as one long question.
This poem was inspired by Saturdayโs Womenโs Circle, where the theme was ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐บ โ not as appearance, but as ๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ, ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง and ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐.
During the exercise, I wandered away from the group to give them space, trusting we would find each other again.
I found myself standing in front of a scraggly skeleton tree, with a feeling of wanting to step forward, and be comforted.
The ending of this poem (โyes / and on other days tooโ) is actually where the poem began. Itโs what I first heard, and the rest formed around it โ in an interplay between ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ, ๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ.
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scraggly perfect skeleton tree
your curling spine rising
into the bones of me
if I stepped forward
would you reach out
encircle me in your arms
let me rest
against the smoother parts of you
slip into your softer spaces
โข Kim is back for two sound sessions, as well as her (previously postponed) essential oils workshop.
โข Sabrina will be back later in the month, and her class will be subbed until then.
โข Catherine is back - please note the time change for her Friday morning class.
โข Patricia will be taking the Thursday 9 am class for March.
โข Friday will return to being a rotating, playful Friday Flow, including Shake the Dust every third Friday of the month. Keep an eye on the poll for these classes.
โข Weโre also starting a yoga class for men, due to requests. Weโll see how it goes this month and take it from there.
More info about other events and workshops will follow later this week.
With love,
Renata and the Wild Yoga Africa team
24/02/2026
A few days ago, someone I adore (my sister, Danielle) read this poem and sent me her reflection on it. I was so moved.
She said: โI realised Iโm often trying to find another place in the world โ somewhere else to be. And my body is just here, grounded and always there for me. My body is much more open to the place Iโm in actually being ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ.โ
Curious, I went back to the poem. I noticed how much I used to stagger my lines. Short, sharp breaks. Fragmented breath. There was something raw and necessary about that then.
But as I sat with this piece again, I realised some of the breaks interrupted rather than amplified. As Iโve grown more boundaried in my life, it seems my lines have too. ๐๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ง ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ. They donโt have to fracture to be intense. So Iโve reworked this poem to reflect that. ๐
This poem feels like it comes from the same place my embodiment work comes from: grounded, sensual, unapologetically earthy. It also quietly critiques transcendence culture.
Transcendence is nearly always described as linear and upward. Rise above. Be better. Move higher. ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฆ๐น๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆ๐จ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ. ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ. ๐๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ด๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ.
I am the body.
The ground.
Both the comfort and the discomfort.
The sweat.
The entanglement.
The poem is saying:
You can reach.
I will remain.
You can chase light.
I am right here.
โโ
i am the digging,
the rootstock and the rotting.
i am the burrowing
and the dank dark to be furrowed.
i am the big lungs
the bright eyesโ
i am the soft thighs,
the in-between
sighs.
i am the sweat that makes you
so uncomfortable,
and the scent of it too.
i am the arch of the spine,
of the foot,
and the press that keeps us planted.
i am ground to your sky,
roots to your reachingโ
i am home to your leaving.
i am pain too, sometimes.
i am your (sorry) sufferingโ
the entanglement you need to loosen.
i am part of the way you know,
if only youโd stay.
you go transcend.
move up in the world,
be dazzled by the light
and the promise of something, someone better.
while i hunker down
into the sweet assurance
that this could be it.
Join us in the studio and garden for 90 minutes of release, replenishment and pure embodied freedom.
This is your invitation to ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ.
๐๏ธ Friday 27 February
โฐ 5:30โ7:00 pm SHARP
๐ฃ R200, or bring a friend and pay R150 each
๐๐ป Dress to theme: a little, a lot, or not at all
๐ Wild Yoga Africa
โ Bookings open via DM
11/02/2026
๐ Essential Oils for You
Youโre invited to join Kim Tucker for an essential oils workshop at Wild Yoga Africa. โจ
Weโll explore what essential oils are, how to use them safely, and cover a selection of specific oils and their benefits.
Youโll then create your own bespoke roller with oils to support your needs. ๐ฅฐ
WA Kim on +44 7802 48942, or Renata on 073 963 4663, to book your spot.
11/02/2026
๐ฃ Itโs back.
No tents. No technology. No fixed campsites.
Just sky, earth, walkingโฆ and the quiet intelligence of the wild.
This Yoga Primitive Trail returns to the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve in collaboration with . This is a self-sufficient walking safari where we carry what we need, sleep under the stars, and let the land shape our movement.
Through walking, meditation, breathwork and responsive yoga, we explore what it means to feel at home in our bodiesโwithin a living ecosystem.
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Iโm Renata, the founder of Wild Yoga Africa and a certified yoga teacher with a passion for the African bushveld (savannah). Iโm the bushveld yogi. :)
Working steadfastly at my laptop from home, I have often found myself experiencing what environmental writer George Monbiot describes as โecological boredomโ. I crave wildness. And though the entire natural world is my muse, and Iโm blessed to be based in nature-rich Cape Town, South Africa, itโs the bushveld that calls to me loudest. (If youโre a convert too, I know you know what I mean.)
Wild Yoga Africa was born out of a simple desire to spend more time in the bush, in a way that feels true to me. I see now that itโs a weaving together of the threads of my life: years of reading extensively about the natural world and writing about it for magazines... pursuing a field guiding certification (FGASA 1) with my husband (our honeymoon)... spending time on Big 5 trails with experienced wilderness guides and mentors... resigning from a contract that was making me very unhappy to do a yoga teacher training that has made me very happy... my ever-present wish to do right by the planet.
I love how a friend responded when I tried to explain my dream: โAh, youโre bringing yoga home to South Africa.โ Yes, to home as I best appreciate it: through the lens of its wild nature.
Wild Yoga Africa is also an expression of my lighter side, and a desire to be myself while teaching and practising yoga. Like other primates, I love to have fun, be cheeky, play.
Thanks to my training with Jim Harrington and Toni Westaway, my approach is rooted in sound fundamentals, and informed by the principles of Yoga Synergy. I focus on nourishing, exploratory and functional movement. I also encourage you to be yourself, to follow your curiosity, to find the right approach for you. When weโre out in the bush together, we practise responsive yoga based on our energy levels, on our needs, and on cues from the natural world, like the terrain or temperature (or whoโs checking us out!). We also experiment during creative movement sessions that integrate what we see, hear or sense around us.
By offering yoga trails and retreats in spectacularly wild places, with partner guides who are connected to the land, and by running nature-inspired yoga workshops in my urban life, I get to share two of my greatest passions with you. Nature, of course, is the original yoga shala...
