We welcome new students
If you’re not currently a student at our studio, you’re welcome to come and see if our style of yoga practice and teaching works for you.
If you’re new to astanga yoga, we recommend starting with a beginners course.
You can also drop in to any class. For new students we recommend coming early on your first visit (at the start of class) so we can give you a bit more attention.
If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch.
Meet some of our students:
Michele
Michele: "I started yoga with the unforgettable Gwendoline Hunt sometime in the 1990s.The breathing of Astanga is good for many aspects of each day. I live up about 165 steps and breathing the Astanga way makes the ascent a bit of a breeze. When I am not doing yoga and clambering up and down steps I am being a flax weaver and a teacher of English to refugees and migrants to NZ. I enjoy both a lot.I have worked at many different things, from menial jobs when I was young to grape picking, mural painting, house painting and living in communities overseas, being a rousie in shearing gangs here, to office work and teaching. I found I often preferred the outdoor jobs. I also like to paint, read and work in the garden as well as spend time with friends and my mother, who is over 90, at Raumati South. When I was young I liked to travel to exotic places overseas.. I often go to stay with a friend in Golden Bay and like to go to different places in NZ. Now that I am no longer young, some of my old injuries [ eg broken shoulder] have developed arthritis, so sometimes I have to adapt my practice a little to accommodate the situation. I still love yoga and appreciate Mike saying not to put pressure on the sore parts of your body."