Nuku Yoga

🌞 our next Self-Practice Support workshop with Dan Fanthorpe is Saturday Sept 12th!

this monthly session is to empower your self-practice, to explore and get curious with āsana, for inspiration and support, taught with Dan’s love of keeping yoga simple.

We had so much fun last month, I was lucky to have my parents visiting, and they came along to Dan’s session. Neither of them has a regular yoga practice, but by the end of the session, they were both trying handstands and forearm stands!

Not because it was easy, but because Dan built the class in layers, foundational strength first, then the next shape, then the next,

So by the time you reach something that once felt out of your comfort zone, you’re ready to give it a try. A non-judgemental, safe space to try something new 🤸🏽‍♀️

That’s what this workshop offers, not showing up already capable, but leaving feeling more confident to try something you weren’t two hours before 🤎

Sat Sept 12th, 10am-12pm, sliding scale $25-35. book online at nukuyoga.nz/courses-workshops 🌞🌞

SOMATIC ASHTANGA · Tuesdays 5.30pm 🤎

Luli’s classes blend two schools of yoga that don’t usually sit together, the Ashtanga primary series and Terra Soma Awakening Arts.

When I found out about Luli’s teaching and training background, I was so inspired by such a beautifully juxtaposed practice. Schools of teaching that I see as opposing ends of the yoga spectrum.

Luli first trained as an Ashtanga teacher in Uruguay, a highly disciplined, linear practice, the same sequence every day, where you traditionally don’t move to the next posture until you’ve mastered the one before it.

Later she trained with Juliette McConachy in Golden Bay, who developed Terra Soma Awakening Arts. This is an exploratory, intuitive practice blending yoga with eco-somatics, felt sensation, and movement based on whatever’s alive in your body in each moment.

Two very different worlds, structure/ spontaneity, discipline/ deep listening, mastery of form/ felt sensation over perfection.

Luli’s class holds both beautifully. Anchored by the Ashtanga primary series, but with the focus shifted toward sensation rather than reaching a perfect shape, softened by space to feel and explore within it.

A really warm invitation to come and try this class for yourself 🧡🧡🧡

SEPTEMBERRRRR 🌞🌞🌞 spring is springing and we are heading into month two!!

Thank you so so blooming much to everyone who has joined us in our first month 🤎 It seriously means the world each time you choose to book a class, each time you to choose to show up and practise in our space 🤎 none of this would be possible without all of you !!

It has been such a joy to warm this space together, filling it with movement, sound, strength, kōrero, silliness, and laughter 💛

September’s timetable is almost identical, just a few tweaks to Mane with reo Māori flow @ 12.15pm and all-levels Vinyasa @ 4.15pm 🤎

hei te pūāio!!!

simplicity 💛
it seems to be in winter that I find myself looping back to this word, obsessing over what it holds and what it doesn’t.

I read it and feel a full-body exhale, an invitation not to over-complicate.

most of what I share here is an articulation of what I know I need to hear, and what’s often hardest to actually hear.

as humans we love to tinker, to let curiosity overflow in a hundred different directions. Spending time in this space is creative and fun and energising, and life is this beautiful balance of time spent in both states.

sometimes choosing simplicity is a practise in itself, there are seasons in life where it flows easefully, and others where boundaries are needed to bring ourselves back to somewhere simple enough to rest,

winter feels like one of those seasons to me, asking for moments that feel like an exhale.

that’s what I’ve been trying to build in class, elongated exhales through prāṇāyāma, mantra, and a bit of silliness with playful movement. my hope is that it ripples out past the mat, and we all get to spend a little more time somewhere light, silly, and simple 🤎

MEET JESS 🤎 Our kaiako for Slow Flow Sundays, 5:30pm, with Luli joining on the last Sunday of each month 🌞

Jess will be sharing her beautiful trauma-informed practice with us on Sundays. Expect a slow and accessible vinyasa flow 🤎

Some of you may already know Jess, she’s been a regular yogi at the surf club on Saturdays for the past year, and has recently shared a few of her own classes there. Others might know her from her lunchtime classes at Olympus gym 🌞

She holds a beautifully compassionate space, a calm and welcoming energy that makes anyone in the room feel safe.

Jess is also a māmā to two boys, navigating full-time work alongside teaching, and we feel lucky she’s chosen to share this practice with us three Sundays a month.

We are so excited to welcome Jess for her first studio class this Sunday, hope to see you there 💛

🌞 our first Self-Practice Support workshop facilitated by Dan Fanthorpe is this Saturday!

some of you may already know Dan from Body Logic, where he works as an Osteopath and hosts weekly stretch clinics.

prior to this, Dan was travelling the world studying and teaching Ashtanga Yoga, including (for the yoga history geeks) years studying under renowned teachers of Ashtanga Yoga, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Jois, in India.

this monthly session is to empower your self-practice, to explore and get curious with āsana, for inspiration and support and taught with Dan’s love of keeping yoga simple, weaving traditional philosophy and āsana together to help students better understand, appreciate and apply yoga in everyday life.

as you can tell, we are so excited to share this workshop with you (and to experience it ourselves!)

this Sat Aug 8th (and then the 1st Saturday of every month), 10am-12pm, sliding scale $25-35. book online at nukuyoga.nz/courses-workshops 🤎