The Yoga Space Hastings

30/10/2025

In addition to our regular classes, we're excited to announce our special events for November, a bit ahead of the beginning of the month based on your feedback.

Here's what's in the studio 📅
6-8 Nov - Ayurvedic Clinic,
8 Nov - Mantra Chanting, Kirtan, Cacao with Radha and Hawke's Bay Kirtan Collective
9 Nov - Pregnancy Yoga 5-week series begins
14 Nov - Tuning In and Yoga Nidra with Rachel and Erica
16 Nov - Soundbath with Silke M.

Check out the website for full details and how to book.

28/10/2025

Meet the teacher - Erleen Oldham
Erleen teaches on a Wednesday at 4.30pm with Do What You Can Yoga and on a Thursday at 5.30 with her Slow Flow.
Erleen completed her 200hr teacher training with Jayayoga in 2021.
Her experience as a soft tissue therapist, personal trainer and holistic health coach has lead her to focus on safe, sustainable practices that balance mental and physical strength. Her teaching integrates trauma and mental health awareness to create a supportive and holistic experience with a focus on how to make yoga accessible for those who experience difficulty in their body.

Erleen Oldham, focuses on safe, sustainable practices that balance mental and physical strength. Her teaching integrates trauma and mental health awareness to create a supportive and holistic experience.

28/10/2025

We hope that you are feeling nourished and rested after the weekend?
We have spaces in all of our classes this week:
Tuesday 5.30 Gentle Hatha with Silke W
Wednesday 4.30pm Do What You Can Yoga with Erleen
Wednesday 6pm Hatha Yoga - Move, Breath Meditate with Rachel
Thursday 5.30 Slow Flow With Erleen
Saturday 8.30 Rise and Shine with Ariane

Does this mat have your name on it? We would love to see you.

23/10/2025

Yoga Classes this weekend Hawke's Bay Anniversary and Labour Weekend

Fri 24th October - no classes
Sat 25th October 8.30am Rise and Shine with Silke M
Mon 27th October - no classes

Normal class schedule resumes for the week on Tuesday 28th. Wishing you a restful and nourishing weekend ahead.

The Yoga Space

23/10/2025

Meet The Teacher - Mary Brooker.
Mary teaches as part of our Saturday yoga teaching rotation at 8.30am for Rise and Shine Yoga.

Mary has attended various yoga classes for more than 12 years. To advance her own practice she undertook level 1 Purna Yoga Teacher training in Byron Bay in 2019. Purna means ‘complete’ in Sanskrit, so the training included aspects of all the 8 limbs of yoga. For Mary, teacher training has been a life changing experience facilitating daily self-practice. Teaching and sharing this knowledge feels like the natural progression. As a health practitioner she understands the importance of maintaining fitness, flexibility and strength as we get older, and that in today’s hectic life, the skills to focus inwardly and relax are invaluable.

01/10/2025

Meet the teachers – Rachel Chapman
Rachel is currently the co-guardian of The Yoga Space Hastings with Silke Moenchmeier. Her and Silke have chosen to continue to run The Yoga Space as a collective of amazing yoga teachers helping people of all ages and abilities to move better, feel calmer, and reconnect with themselves.
Rachel is a seasoned yoga practitioner and meditation teacher with nearly 20 years of experience of sharing the ancient practices of yoga in a holistic way that offers a whole being journey to support movement, strength, energy and stillness. Her teaching takes a student led approach.
Rachel Chapman is a Level 4 registered yoga teacher (1000 hour training, teaching for 10 years, and 1000 hours of teaching) with Yoga New Zealand. Over the last 10 years, Rachel has been a facilitator for IYTA Aotearoa on their 18-month Yoga Teaching Diploma, she has facilitated on this course 4 times over that 10-year period. For the last 2 years Rachel has committed to studying yoga therapy and is about to complete a 300hours yoga therapy course with Svastha Yoga under the incredible guidance of the Mohan family. She has done specialised study in both Women’s Wellbeing Yoga and Yoga Nidra through the Yoga Nidra Network in the UK. 17 years ago, she studied in London with a holistic midwife and yoga wise women in the most amazing yoga for pregnancy and the post-natal course to support women as they transition into motherhood.
Her invitation to you is to tune into your own inner landscape and wisdom while you explore the practices to strengthen and optimise the body and to work at mastery of the mind.
She teaches a regular weekly class at 6pm on Wednesday. She teaches several specialised yoga therapy classes in private settings across Hawke’s Bay.

29/09/2025

Over the next week or two, we will be introducing our incredible teaching team at the Yoga Space. We are so lucky to have so many gifted guides sharing from such a broad range of life and yoga experiences.
First up, introducing our two yoga teachers called Silke. There is a bit of confusion between these two teachers, I guess an easy mistake to make.
Silke Whittaker guides gentle Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga and plays Tibetan Singing Bowls. She originally established and ran the The Yoga Space when it first opened, when it was called Heartspace.
There is also Silke Moenchmeier, also German, who more recently moved to Hawke's Bay. Silke guides Vinyasa Yoga and plays a set of Crystal Singing Bowls. She and Rachel Chapman have recently taken on the running of The Yoga Space when Radha left.
Their classes are marked either Silke W or Silke M so please check carefully on the timetable or class schedule as to which one of them is teaching the class.

15/09/2025

Hoping that you had a restful weekend. Our regular class schedule this week includes:

Tues 16th @ 5.30pm - Yin Yoga with Silke W
Wed 17th @4.30pm - Do What You Can Yoga with Erleen
Wed 17th - Hatha Yoga with Rachel
Thur 18th @ 5.30pm - Slow Flow with Erleen
Thur 18th @ 7pm - Restore with Jenny
Fri 19th @12.15 Lunchtime Yoga with Jenny
Frid19th @ 6pm - Yin Yoga and Soundhealing with Silke W
Sat 20th @8.30am Rise and Shine Yoga with Silke M (please note Blossom Parade is on with street closures in place)
Sunday 21st @6.15pm- Soundbath for the new moon with Silke M

02/09/2025

It is a delight to host .hunter.nz who will deliver 3 wonderful interactive workshops this coming weekend. All events can be booked via https://events.humanitix.com/host/karen-hunter

Fri 5th Sept 6-8pm Free Your Voice and Your Heart Will Follow
We will open with a vocal warm-up followed by a group singing circle. We will sing bass lines, drum beats, keyboard beds, and melodies together to create some spontaneous synergy. Come and have some fun vibrating our voices in sound together. This is an all ages workshop and Beat Boxers are welcome! This will be an participatory workshop with embodied activities suitable for all ages and levels of experience.

Fri 6th Sept 1-4.30pm Interactive Astrology
Kāren Hunter's interactive workshops are a lively and fun exploration of Astrology in relation to our lives and the world around us.
This will be a participatory workshop with a combination of information and embodied activities suitable for all ages and levels of experience.
Everyone will have a chance to share knowledge and ask questions. Beginners will find a solid introduction to some fundamental concepts while more experienced Astrologers will be encouraged to contribute and engage as much as possible.

Sat 6th Sept 6-7.30pm Immersive Sound Journey
An Immersive Sound Journey with Kāren Hunter is a restorative experience that offers you a 'moment out of time' to drop into a deeply meditative healing space and be nurtured with medicine songs, sacred poetry, myth based story telling and healing music.
You will experience exquisite music played on guitar, voice, mandolin, flute, chimes, medicine drum, singing bowls, jaw harp and bells.

10/08/2025

Love this quote from Judith Hanson Lasater, she is such a wise teacher.
What is yoga helping in your life? We would love to see you on the mat to hold space for whatever you need to move through in your practice.

“We don’t practice yoga to get better at yoga. We practice yoga to get better at life—especially as it changes.” -JHL

What is YOUR reason for practicing? Drop it in the comments👇

07/08/2025

"In an age of speed, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still" Pico Iyer

We would love to invite you to join Rachel and Jenny for an deeply nourishing Friday evening of Yoga Nidra with Cacao, spaces still available for this evening at 6pm.

The evening will begin in awareness with a cup of medicinal Cacao. This will be followed by Yoga Nidra, a place of deep rest. Deep rest is an essential part of the healing process. If we are under stress, the body can feel exhausted so allowing ourselves the time and space to recover is invaluable.

When life is busy downtime is limited, which means no time to reflect, rest and restore. Building in regular practices, such as as Yoga Nidra, can help support the nervous system and increase your resilience to daily stresses.

For bookings: https://www.theyogaspacehastings.com/event-details/yoga-nidra-with-cacao

03/08/2025

Our timetable will run as scheduled this week with a few minor additions/edits. Silke Whittaker is now back from Germany and will return to her regular Tuesday evening slot with a 7 week yin yoga series. Jenny Allan is now also offering a regular weekly class at 7pm on a Thursday, her restorative classes are delicious.
Our Friday night special offer this week is Yoga Nidra with Cacao from