A room on Keira Street, open since 2011

Most people arrive here carrying something — stress, tiredness, tension or the feeling that life has become a little too much. That doesn’t mean something is wrong with you. After 15 years at the Wellness Centre, we’ve learned that sometimes people simply need an appropriate kind of support.

Come in, lie down, and let’s see what’s actually here.

ABOUT US

There isn't a ladder

Most wellness places will show you a path: you are here, wellness is over there, and enough classes will get you across. It’s a tidy story and it sells well. We don’t think it’s true.

What people actually report, after a while, is stranger and simpler. Nothing new arrived. Something they’d been carrying got put down, and what was underneath had been there the whole time — steadier than they expected, and not something they built.

So we’re not offering to get you somewhere. We’re offering a warm room, teachers who know what they’re doing, and a couple of hours a week where nothing is required of you. What you find in that is yours, and it was already yours.

You don’t have to believe any of this to come to a class.

What's in the building

Movement, stillness and hands-on work, in one place, from people who talk to each other about you.

Yoga: hatha vinyasa, yin, restorative. Pilates, mat and reformer. Barre. And iRest Yoga Nidra meditation, Mondays and Wednesdays at seven.

Remedial, pregnancy and lymphatic drainage massage. Reiki and Pranic Healing.

Private sessions in most of it — Pilates, yoga, meditation, coaching & EFT tapping in small groups or one to one— if a room full of people isn’t where you want to start.

Prenatal Pilates, a postnatal programme, and pregnancy-friendly options across the timetable.

Beginners courses in yoga and Pilates, iRest Fundamentals Meditation and Pranic Healing topics & Certification levels.

You don’t have to work out which one you need. That’s our job, and it’s the first thing we’ll ask you about.

What we don't do

WHAT’S DIFFERENT HERE

Teachers who expect beginners

Nobody here assumes you’ve done this before, or that you should have.

Nothing is measured

No leaderboard, no tracking, nobody checking whether you came this week.

The room is mixed

Mostly people between their forties and their seventies. We teach like it: a body at fifty isn’t a body at twenty-five with less commitment.

Here since 2011

Same street, same doors. Long enough that people bring their friends and their family.

What we’re aiming at

We’d like to be the least impressive wellness centre in Wollongong. No transformations on offer, no levels to climb, no one at the front of the room who has got somewhere you haven’t.

Just a room that’s open, teachers and therapists who know what they’re doing, and fifteen more years of being here when someone needs it.

Welcoming entrance stairs up to the Wellness Centre Wollongong

Come and see

We’re not offering you a better you. There’s a class on Monday at seven.

Or ring us on 02 4226 3777 if you’d rather ask a person first.