West Coast Yoga

West Coast Yoga West Coast Yoga - an Iyengar yoga school at Piha, NZ. We teach weekly group classes and privates. West Coast Yoga classes began in 2019.

West Coast Yoga is the Piha-based yoga school, led by Kylie Bailey. Kylie was born and raised in this coastal community, which is just 45 minutes from Auckland's CBD. She has been practicing Iyengar yoga for more than a decade and is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. In fact, it was a first-ever yoga class in the local hall at the age of 15 that first sparked her fascination with yoga. Kylie teaches weekly group yoga classes both online and in the old Piha schoolhouse and hosts yoga workshops and healthy events. Also a well-known health journalist and science communicator in New Zealand, Kylie is the co-founder of online health and happiness hub, Good For You. She believes in using her practice, teaching and writing to support, collaborate and spread the word about how to live your healthiest life and be part of a more connected world.

There is no Sunday 9.30am class this week… 🧘🏾‍♀️ I’m at the convention with Abhijata Iyengar. Looking forward to bringi...
13/02/2026

There is no Sunday 9.30am class this week… 🧘🏾‍♀️

I’m at the convention with Abhijata Iyengar. Looking forward to bringing her teachings back into our little yoga school, west of everywhere.

Waitangi weekend restorative yoga…9.30-11amSunday 8 Feb📍 Piha Schoolhouse
06/02/2026

Waitangi weekend restorative yoga…

9.30-11am
Sunday 8 Feb

📍 Piha Schoolhouse

06/02/2026

Nigella Lawson has been officially announced as the new judge of The Great British Bake Off. in an interview with , she talks about over the years, exercise has helped the 66-year-old maintain her health and wellbeing. ‘I do yoga three times a week,’ she told Good Housekeeping. ‘I have to do something I enjoy, otherwise I wouldn’t do it. The older I get, the more I realise I have got to do lots of stretching. So even if I’m not doing yoga, I make myself do lots of stretching.’

Nigella favours Iyengar yoga, that highlights precision and correct positioning when performing postures, often using props like blocks and belts as support. For her, fitness is as much about overall wellbeing as it is about physical results.

‘As you get on in life, you value feeling well as opposed to looking well,’ she’s said

“Yoga certainly makes you feel great, and you want to carry on feeling great.”

James Gourley//Getty Images

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/fitness/yoga/a70152660/nigella-lawson-66-fitness/

You can do yoga whatever the weather! ☔️ Join me for a class this long weekend.👉🏾 Sunday, 9.30-11am📍 The Old Piha School...
24/01/2026

You can do yoga whatever the weather! ☔️

Join me for a class this long weekend.

👉🏾 Sunday, 9.30-11am
📍 The Old Piha Schoolhouse

Investment: $25 for casuals.

Living at Piha? Our 2026 midweek classes kick off at 6.30-8pm on Tuesday 27 January at the Old Piha Schoolhouse.

Why not make this the year you start yoga?

If you’re not sure if our classes are for you, give Kylie a call on 0278 082 383 to chat about options.

It’s time for a new year of yoga practice! 🧘🏾‍♀️ Our 2026 timetable kicks off this week with our first class on Sunday 1...
14/01/2026

It’s time for a new year of yoga practice! 🧘🏾‍♀️

Our 2026 timetable kicks off this week with our first class on Sunday 18 January.

A new weeknight evening class will begin on Tuesday 27 January.

Join me for Iyengar yoga:

🗓️ Sundays - 9.30-11am

🗓️ Tuesdays - 6.30-8pm

📍 The Old Piha Schoolhouse

Note, Sunday classes will take place during Anniversary and Waitangi weekends also.

As we live in a small community, our classes are designed for people new to yoga or with mobility issues, as well as experienced practitioners.

Make this the year that you start your yoga journey!

If you have any questions or want to chat about whether this community is right for you, give Kylie a call on 0278 082 383.

The pōhutukawa are blooming, meaning the end of the year is almost here! 🌺 Join me for the last class of 2025 on Sunday ...
17/12/2025

The pōhutukawa are blooming, meaning the end of the year is almost here! 🌺

Join me for the last class of 2025 on Sunday from 9.30 - 11am.

Arrive a little earlier for Christmas cookies and chai - serving from 9am.

📍 Piha Schoolhouse

14/12/2025

“Yoga is meant for everyone. Nobody is excluded from it. Whether they are men, women or children, elderly or aged people, diseased or disabled, the path of yoga is open to everyone. However, you have to practise according to your physical, mental and spiritual capacity. Yoga is meant to give us a way to discover or rediscover ourselves. It teaches us how to find the great margin of maximum capacity that we have inside us so that we are able to expose ourselves to ourselves and find out what we really are. When I say that you have to adapt according to your capacity, I mean that you have to find out the potentiality, or the potential energy, that you all have inside and how to bring it to the surface in order to utilise it properly. Yoga exposes inner hidden potentialities. In fact, there is nothing in yoga which dictates who has to do what. Yoga is universal in this sense. It is inappropriate to say, “Do and do not do”. We do not say that this is not to be done or that is to be done. To make such differentiation there has to be some cause. Patañjali says that we have to find out what stage we are at and what our level is. We need to know what our energy is, what our po-
tency is, what we can do and so on. As we proceed further, we have to see that we achieve every step gradually.

In other words, there is no barrier, there is no restriction, no demarcation as such. The words Patañjali uses like potentialities or capacities, are certainly very meaningful, since not everyone has the same energy levels, not everyone can put in the same amount of effort. The power to grasp is not the same in everyone. The practitioner has to understand subjectively the potentialities he or she has and try to expose them to the yogic path rather than exploit them.”

~ Geeta Iyengar
(7 Dec 1944 - 16 Dec 2018)

Prāņāyāma for hormones series…The way we breathe has an effect on how our hormones. One of the major benefits of a yogic...
17/11/2025

Prāņāyāma for hormones series…

The way we breathe has an effect on how our hormones. One of the major benefits of a yogic breathwork practice is the way it supports us during those times in our life when our hormones are changing (think perimenopause, menopause and post-menopause).

Āsanas prepare us to be able to practice this breathwork with more ease.

In this three workshop, bi-monthly series at , you will learn how to practice postures and breathing that support the hormones. These are ideal practices if you’re experiencing perimenopause or menopause
symptoms.

The second workshop takes place on:

🗓️ Wednesday 19 November

⏰ 6.30 - 8.30pm

📍

Investment: $30.

To participate, you need to have practiced yoga for six months.

Head to to book.

There is no Sunday class apōpō. Kylie is in Peter Thomson’s Tāmaki workshop at .winds.yoga.Our regular 9.30am Sunday cla...
07/11/2025

There is no Sunday class apōpō. Kylie is in Peter Thomson’s Tāmaki workshop at .winds.yoga.

Our regular 9.30am Sunday class resumes from 16 November. 💫

Utthita Trikonāsana…This lateral standing posture elongates the leg muscles and aids with improving mobility in the hips...
01/11/2025

Utthita Trikonāsana…

This lateral standing posture elongates the leg muscles and aids with improving mobility in the hips.

Join me for Iyengar Yoga:

Sundays
9.30-11am

📍 Piha Schoolhouse

No class this Sunday. 🌅 Enjoy the long weekend!
25/10/2025

No class this Sunday. 🌅

Enjoy the long weekend!

Pets love practice! 🐶 Join me for Iyengar Yoga:Sundays9.30-11am📍 Piha Schoolhouse
11/10/2025

Pets love practice! 🐶

Join me for Iyengar Yoga:

Sundays
9.30-11am

📍 Piha Schoolhouse

Address

Seaview Road, Piha
Auckland
0772

Opening Hours

Wednesday 9:30am - 11am
Thursday 9:30am - 11am
Sunday 9:30am - 11am

Telephone

+64278082383

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West Coast Yoga is the Piha-based studio and school, led by Kylie Bailey, who is training to be a certified Iyengar yoga teacher under Suzi Carson at Four Winds Yoga in Ponsonby. Kylie is also a well-known health journalist and science communicator, who specialises in health, yoga, housing and energy. She teaches classes from the Piha studio and also at Four Winds Yoga in the Ponsonby Community Centre. Kylie believes in using her creativity, writing, practice and teaching to support and collaborate with others who want to live in long-term sustainable health and are committed to building a healthier world.