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Nuku Yoga, Upstairs at 13 Brougham Street, New Plymouth (2026)

08/08/2026

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 💛

04/08/2026

🌞 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 🤎

03/08/2026

tuatahi rā, i have found my words 🌞 a vision and space that feels collective and touched my so many special humans 🧡🧡🧡

walls painted by beautiful friends who travelled here to share in the joy of a dream manifesting, billowing ceiling fabric sewn and hung by one of our wonderful teachers and her partner, yoga mat shelves handmade by one of our beautiful student’s Dad, old decorations from my parent’s house, crystal light catchers from Glenn’s wife, secondhand mats and props from a generous local teacher, and more beautiful creations on the way from some lovely yogi artists 🌞

for the about page on our website, I wrote:

I’m sure many of you can relate to the way Nuku began, from the heart of someone whose home compass had recently shifted and was wanting to feel a sense of belonging in a new place. I wanted to share the practice I love, and hoped in doing so, to find my people.

I have continuously been blown away and immensely grateful for what has grown in return. Nuku began as something I was creating, but it quickly became a shared creation. All of you who showed up, class after class, shaped Nuku alongside me. And I suppose that’s what makes Nuku unique, it grew not from someone hoping to open a yoga studio, but from someone hoping to form connection, community and belonging.

This studio is as much yours, as it is ours 💛

every time I step inside I can feel this, the collective energy, the beautiful sense of community, everything and so much more I could have ever hoped for.

🌞 in all our posts I keep using the reo Māori plural, tātou (we, us, all of us). I adore how Māori allows us to distinguish which “us” the speaker means, and I intentionally do mean, all of us 💛

thank you all so much for being here, I cannot wait to see you soon in our studio !!!!

Whakawhetai me arohānui, sam 🤎

30/07/2026

🌞 deciding on pricing for our studio was hands down the hardest decision made throughout this whole process, one that I asked for a lot of feedback and advice around. I am so grateful to those who gave their input 🤎

a core value for me with saying yes to Nuku opening as a studio was being able to maintain accessibility and affordability. for the most part, as soon as you have a lease, that ideal becomes difficult. so I am forever grateful that the way Nuku will operate, sharing a space with Tui Architecture, enables us to carry out this pricing value 🤎

our pricing will run on a scale, we believe yoga should be accessible to everyone in our community, and hope this sliding scale is a step in that direction. the lower end of each range keeps our doors open and our teachers paid fairly. anything above that helps create space for someone else.

there’s no need to explain where you land. simply choose what feels right for you, today 🤎

I hope this scale serves most of you, though the kaupapa of Nuku is that it’s genuinely for everyone. if this scale still feels like a push and you want to access yoga, please just reach out and we will do what we can 🤎

Tahi (studio drop-in): $18-22
Tahi (surf club drop-in): $15-20
Tekau (10-class pass, studio & surf club): $150-180

this is a living commitment, one we’ve done a lot of thinking (and math, lots of math) to make sure is genuinely sustainable, for us and for you.

lastly, to echo my commitment from our initial announcement, a class at Nuku will always cost less than one hour’s minimum wage, that’s not negotiable. if the studio ever makes that impossible, everything goes back to the surf club 🤎

30/07/2026

AUGUST TIMETABLE TAKE TWOOO 💛💛💛 slight change to Fridays with workshop vinyasa @ 9:15am and beginners vinyasa @ 11am

15/07/2026

Yoga for You (+ or - bubs) with Ria Simmons from yogaclubnz 🤎

📍 8 weeks · Wednesdays 10am · August 5th - September 23rd
📍 sliding scale $100-120

Ria has designed this course to make yoga more accessible for parents, whether you bring a little one along or come by yourself.

A warm, relaxed space to move, breathe and reset, class will be adapted as needed, with sweet interruptions always welcome. Ria’s classes offer an immersive flow experience, woven with mindfulness, intention and yogic philosophy.

Many of you will already know Ria from her beautiful offering Yoga Club NZ, which she founded after relocating to New Plymouth.

Yoga Club is a welcoming space for community, movement and connection through yoga, currently held at the Tasman Club 🌞 Ria has hosted classes and welcomed a diverse range of teachers in the Yoga Club for eight years and has recently had a pause to welcome her youngest son into the world 🤎

Now a mother to two boys and returning from maternity leave, Ria is delighted to share this practice with the Nuku community, in a class shaped around exactly what it’s like to be a parent trying to carve out a little time for yourself.

Acknowledging the dynamics of carving out time as a mother herself, Ria has noted this course needs 10 registrations to go ahead. If you’ve been considering it, your enrolment genuinely helps make this space possible 🤎

14/07/2026

MEET GLENN (& introducing our first course!) 🌞

📍 Iyengar Yoga Beginners Course · 6 weeks · Thursdays 7:15pm · starts August 6th
📍 Glenn’s weekly classes are already running: Mondays 9am & Thursdays 5:30pm

Glenn is co-founder of our studio, an architectural designer and Iyengar yoga teacher.

Most of you will have heard me talk about how Nuku growing into a studio would not be at all possible without Glenn. His practice, Tui Architecture, shares the studio space. Glenn signed the lease a few months ago with a vision to turn 13 Brougham Street into a yoga studio while holding space for Tui Architecture.

Glenn teaches Iyengar Yoga, a practice distinguished by its commitment to precision, intelligent sequencing and the use of props.

Where many styles prioritise flow, Iyengar invites you to slow down and find the full expression of each shape, focusing on alignment with care and detail.

Props like blocks, belts and blankets are used as tools that make the practice more accessible for every body.

I first tried Glenn’s Iyengar class last year and left feeling inspired by the way it contrasted my own practice. I have adored popping into Glenn’s classes to break down āsana, exploring new techniques to find comfort in familiar shapes, or new ways to access familiar shapes.

Glenn has so much wisdom around how different bodies can access yoga āsana. Accessibility is a huge part of Iyengar. This practice is a lot of fun and a beautiful standalone for those who don’t love flowing yoga, or a complement to your already existing practice. I notice a huge difference in the way I hold shapes after just one Iyengar class!

If you’re curious and have been wanting to try Iyengar, or build a foundation and familiarity with yoga before stepping into a general class, the beginners course is the perfect place to start 🤎

12/07/2026

Only three more weeks until we open, August 3rd!! 🤭🤭 The last few weeks and months have been such an exciting whirlwind. I have been continually blown away by our beautiful community who have been helping bring our vision to life!

As we finalise offerings, there is a lot to start sharing, we have been working away on our timetable, pricing structure, courses & workshops and welcoming new teachers to Nuku 🤎🤎

I often find Instagram to be an overwhelming and loud space, and sharing on here whilst wanting to uphold yogic philosophy can feel a wee bit contradictory!

So I will try to slowly share our updates over the next couple of weeks, and I apologise in advance if things feel a bit louder here than usual, thank you so much for being part of this adventure!! 🌞

06/07/2026

MEET LULI!!! 🌞🌞🌞

Tuesdays 5:30pm • classes at Brougham St Studio from July 14th

Luli shares a practice rooted in Terra Soma Awakening Arts and inspired by Ashtanga yoga.

Her classes feel like a beautiful juxtaposition between a traditional strong Ashtanga practice and somatic movement. Terra Soma works with the wisdom of the body, inviting you to move from sensation and presence rather than form alone.

Luli draws her classes from the rhythms of everyday life. Her classes are gentle while being challenging, moving through flowing sequences and balance work with moments of meditation and pranayama woven throughout.

Luli has been teaching Tuesday nights the last few weeks at Fitzroy SLSC, and from July 14th, her classes will shift over to the studio!

🌞🌞🌞where else to find Luli • Mondays 6pm at Dawn Cafe · Wednesdays 6:45pm at PEEPS DIY

17/04/2026

🌺🌺🌺FRIDAY PHILOSOPHY CLUB

Satya (truthfulness) is the second of the five yamas (ethical guidelines) in Patanjali’s eight limbs of yoga. Satya guides us to think, speak, and act with integrity and alignment.

The word sat means “that which exists, that which is.” Satya, therefore, is seeing and communicating things as they actually are, not as we wish them to be.

In movement, this looks like honestly meeting our body where it is - letting go of expectation and moving with acknowledgement and respect for where our own body is. This can be empowering and challenging — socially, we are often driven to move with a sense of competition or maximum effort. Satya asks us to strip those layers back and move in alignment of where our body is. In yoga, this can look like practicing in away that looks different to those around you, staying in the first option given, choosing a shape that hasn’t been offered because you know it feels good in your body, or — my favourite — knowing when your voice is louder than the teachers. Movement lets us strengthen our connection to satya, the truth of our body, the truth of our experience - to strengthen our ability to listen and then act in alignment with that truth 🌀

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