Nuku Yoga

Nuku Yoga NUKU - (verb) to move, shift, extend
🌞Light-hearted community yoga classes by the ocean.
🌞Weekly Hatha & Vinyasa flow classes.
📍Fitzroy Surf Life Saving Club

Beginner’s curiosity has been our theme for this week and it has been such a fun one to teach!New beginnings and residin...
13/03/2026

Beginner’s curiosity has been our theme for this week and it has been such a fun one to teach!
New beginnings and residing in beginner’s curiosity have felt abundant in my life recently. I’ve been reminded of the growth that happens here, when we embrace our current state of not knowing, when we let ourselves fully embody beginning — there is such little space for ego and it feels freeing.
I’ve had so much fun both in yoga and in life, experimenting with how comfortable, loudly, and light-heartedly we can embrace our beginnerisms.
In class this week we’ve been exploring forearm and shoulder strength, leading toward pincha mayurāsana (forearm stand) — an āsana I am entirely wobbling through myself, if my feet are lucky enough to leave the ground!
It has been so fun to let go of the idea that self-mastery is a requirement to teach and share, and instead embrace the imperfect process of learning together. I’ve loved sharing in the joy of everyone’s experimentation and the celebration of strength.
In yogic philosophy we talk about abhyāsa — steady, ongoing practice. Not perfection. Not mastery. Just the willingness to keep returning and learning.
Sometimes that return needs us to leave our egos behind, so we can show up with all the goofiness required to be a beginner.
Wherever we are in our practice, however experienced we are, there is always room to return to this beginner’s curiosity.

🌞🌞🌞 RITUAL STUDIO x NUKU YOGAMonday March 9th & 16th10:30-11:30am & 6:15-7:15pm$20 casual | 10 spots per classThese are ...
05/03/2026

🌞🌞🌞 RITUAL STUDIO x NUKU YOGA

Monday March 9th & 16th
10:30-11:30am & 6:15-7:15pm
$20 casual | 10 spots per class

These are “taster” sessions — a chance to experience the practice and Core Club's new RITUAL STUDIO space, with the intention of building into something lasting.

All welcome —no memberships needed. Link to book below. Hope to see you there! 🤎

https://nukuyoga.as.me/RITUALSTUDIO

🌀🌀🌀 Easing into 2026 has felt slow, maybe even touched by a little uncertainty. I’ve spent time reflecting on how I want...
13/02/2026

🌀🌀🌀 Easing into 2026 has felt slow, maybe even touched by a little uncertainty. I’ve spent time reflecting on how I want the year ahead to look — for Nuku, and for me. That feeling often lives at the start of a new year: an awareness of intention paired with uncertainty about direction. As in life, direction rarely arrives all at once. It unfolds slowly, often unexpectedly, and our role is simply to meet it — with intention.

Intention can feel exciting and overwhelming — how do we funnel it? One clear intention for me has been to bring more yogic philosophy into classes. Philosophy adds a beautiful layer to practice, allowing yoga to be more than just movement and gently reflecting the rhythms of life. Sharing this layer has come with a little apprehension — will it resonate? Do I know enough to share? There’s an element of finding a voice here; yogic philosophy mirrors life, and sharing it honestly carries a touch of vulnerability. Yet, as in life, these doubts are sidelined to create space for what feels right.

I’ve loved continuing to learn how te ao Māori can be woven respectfully into yoga, while remaining anchored in yoga’s Sanskrit roots. Choosing to share a culturally rich practice carries responsibility — to honour its roots. These teachings sit at the heart of yoga, offering guidance both on and off the mat. As with all layers of practice: if it resonates, carry it; if it doesn’t, set it aside.

This week, class explores ahimsa — non-harming — through the lens of self-love, and more specifically, self-love as a practice of boundary awareness. Knowing our limits. Our capacity. Noticing what creates expansion, and what quietly dulls or drains it. Self-love — especially around Valentine’s Day — is often framed as something we add. This week, I’ve been exploring what we might subtract in order to create space. Sometimes life knows better than we do and shifts things for us; other times, we have to meet it with our own awareness.

If you’ve read this far, thank you 🤎 I’ve been wondering what 2026 will hold — for me, and for Nuku — and I’m slowly curating a clearer sense of direction. Meeting it with intention, that direction feels a little louder.

A reminder of no class i tēnei Rāpare me Rāhoroi — hei tērā wiki 🤎🤎🤎
02/02/2026

A reminder of no class i tēnei Rāpare me Rāhoroi — hei tērā wiki 🤎🤎🤎

🌞 2026 timetable • Weekly classes at Fitzroy SLSC •Over the break, I spent time reflecting on how Nuku takes up space on...
20/01/2026

🌞 2026 timetable • Weekly classes at Fitzroy SLSC •

Over the break, I spent time reflecting on how Nuku takes up space online. Yoga is a practice that supports presence and inward connection — time spent away from external noise.

I noticed where frequent weekly reminders can add to that noise. This year, I’m choosing to let Nuku move more softly online. I’ll continue sharing important schedule changes here, and you can trust the booking website to stay up to date.

We’re lucky to have this established community, and I don’t want to add to the noise — these classes are intended as a space for steadiness, presence, and inward connection 🤎

💛💛💛 LOGGING OFF & THANK YOU // As Nuku began earlier this year I wrote about hoping to create a non-judgemental space wh...
15/12/2025

💛💛💛 LOGGING OFF & THANK YOU // As Nuku began earlier this year I wrote about hoping to create a non-judgemental space where laughter and wobbles are welcome, a space where perfection is not the goal but movement is, a space where movement can be both celebrated and enjoyed. Thanks to this beautifully down and earth and fun community, Nuku has had the privelige of being all these things and more. I could not be more grateful for the energy that you all bring.
In January when Nuku began, I had been in Taranaki only a few months and alongside wanting to share the practise of yoga, I also wanted to feel a sense of community in a new home. I could not be more grateful to all of you for your practise, your presence in class, your tautoko and your sense of community. He mihi nui ki a koutou, mō tō tautoko i tēnei tau 🤎
Wishing you all a beautiful festive season. Notice where amidst the festivity and sunshine you find a sense of calm and lightheartedness. See you all in the new year, Sam 🫶🏼🌞

Two more weeks of class hapori 🤎🤎🤎Our last class of the year is Saturday Dec 13th - lets celebrate with a little communi...
30/11/2025

Two more weeks of class hapori 🤎🤎🤎
Our last class of the year is Saturday Dec 13th - lets celebrate with a little community gathering 🌞🌞 For anyone who would like to join, I will bring along some baking for an end of year kai & kōrero after class Sat Dec 13th, you’re welcome to bring something to share if that resonates but your presence is more than enough 🌀🌀 hope to see you there!

We’re doing one more before the year ends!!🐚🐚 RAUMATI YOGA & SAUNA SESSION // Weds Dec 10th 5:45pm - 8pm // Link in bio ...
25/11/2025

We’re doing one more before the year ends!!
🐚🐚 RAUMATI YOGA & SAUNA SESSION // Weds Dec 10th 5:45pm - 8pm // Link in bio to book 🐚🐚
our last two sauna sessions have embraced yin energies reflective of the seasons in which we were practising, this time around we will embrace the warmth and sunshine of raumati with a vinyasa sequence to build heat, strength and mobility before settling into the sauna 🌞🌞

This concept shared by has had such a beautiful impact on me this morning🌀🌀 We want to create a village, be in a villag...
20/11/2025

This concept shared by has had such a beautiful impact on me this morning
🌀🌀 We want to create a village, be in a village, but do we want to be villagers? Do you practise, so that you can be more present with others?🌀🌀
I was lucky enough to experience being a villager in our community last night, being guided through a beautiful yoga practise with .whare.wairua and the timing of reading these words couldn’t be better timed 🤎🤎🤎
Creation of villages and communities is so special but it can be easy to forget how important it is to also be a villager, that participation is just as necessary as creation 🌞
A beautiful reminder that our practise helps us show up in our hapori/ community, helps us show up for ourselves so we can show up for others

🌀🌀🌀 Thursday Nov 20th 5:30pm END SLSCBree will be back to share her te ao Māori yoga class with us // Book online as us...
14/11/2025

🌀🌀🌀 Thursday Nov 20th 5:30pm END SLSC
Bree will be back to share her te ao Māori yoga class with us // Book online as usual, casually or with your class pass 🤎
If you haven’t experienced a class with Bree yet, I 1000% recommend coming along, such a beautifully guided practise weaving ao Māori and reo Māori with yoga 🤎
🌀🌀🌀 If you can’t make Thursday night, find Bree on the mat Sunday 23rd 9am

END Timetable till the end of the year // Last class will be Rāhoroi Dec 12th 🫶🏼🌀🌀 Simplicity guiding the decision to r...
03/11/2025

END Timetable till the end of the year // Last class will be Rāhoroi Dec 12th 🫶🏼

🌀🌀 Simplicity guiding the decision to remove yin from the scehdule for now - maybe reintroducing next year. Thank you to everyone who came along to a yin class, it was my first time sharing this slower and more restorative practise and your tautoko means alot 🤎🤎

03/11/2025

SIMPLICITY 🌀🌀
As a teacher, I often find myself getting caught up with wanting each class to be different and unique. Wanting each class to offer something new. While this is really fun and creative, I’ve recently noticed where it can pull away from the heart of yoga - using movement to guide inner noticing.
Simplicity and repitition can be beautiful tools to encourage this inward practise. As much as I love sharing creative sequences, I realise where accessing that movement inward might be better supported by simplicity and repitition.
Yesterday I practised with a local Iyengar teacher and left feeling INSPIRED. The practise was slow and strong, we practised maybe 12 asana. I left feeling embodied and like I had accessed that inner awareness yoga seeks to create. I left feeling inspired to share a more stripped back and simplified practise with you all (And will absolutely be going back to Iyengar yoga!)

In a world that is so busy, a world full of distractions and multitasking, a world full of content to consume // SIMPLICITY feels really powerful, it feels rebellious in our busy world - and I am so inspired to share this with you all over the coming weeks.

// ka nui te mihi for reading if you made it this far 😂🫶🏼

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