Basecamp Yoga

A sweet afternoon spent unpacking these beautiful pieces of earth from the very talented Louise McKee 🤎
Mugs, cacao cups, incense holders and little vases, each one shaped by hand and carrying its own small imperfections and beauty.
Things to hold your tea, your cacao, a flower, a little smoke.
Things that quietly become part of the rituals of home.
I love the way handmade objects invite us to slow down and notice the ordinary a little more.

She’s back. 🤍
After a few weeks away, Lisa returns to HUM, bringing her beautiful presence back to the mat and to our community.
If you’ve had the pleasure of practicing with Lisa, you’ll know there is something special about the way she holds a room.
Her classes are thoughtfully sequenced, spacious and deeply nourishing, a journey into the body that invites you to soften, explore, breathe and feel.
Like each of our teachers, Lisa brings her own unique flavour to practice. Her offering is grounded in warmth, care and a genuine love for the people who walk through our doors.
There is kindness in her teaching, curiosity in her guidance, and a gentle way of creating space for students to arrive exactly as they are.

Join her on the mat this week and experience the warmth of her classes for yourself.
Friday 9:30am flow, 12:30pm Strength, 5pm Yin Yang. Saturday 9:30am 75 min Flow

BREATHWORK JOURNEY WITH MANU GALLO
Sunday 27 September · 7pm
Join Manu Gallo for an immersive Breathwork Journey weaving conscious connected breathing with light, sound and deep inner exploration.
Manu guides each journey with a carefully curated soundscape of piano and electronic music mixing elements live throughout the experience. The music is an integral part of the journey — creating an immersive landscape for the breath to move through.
Together, breath and sound become a doorway inward.
This isn’t about forcing a release or pushing yourself towards a particular experience. Manu’s approach is gentle and spacious, inviting you to explore at your own pace — going as deep as feels right for you.
Just an invitation to breathe, listen, soften and see what unfolds.
75 minutes · Breath · Music · Light · Inner exploration
Sunday 27 September · 7pm
HUM Yoga
Bookings through Humyoga.co.nz

Bhakti Flow

Flow into Belonging
Saturday September 12th · 12pm · with Kirsty van de Geer

What if belonging is not something we have to find?

What if, beneath all the ways we separate ourselves
our stories, our identities, our defences, our sense of being me and you
there is already a deeper belonging?

Bhakti is a remembering of this.

A softening back into the recognition that we are not separate from the life that moves through us, or from one another.

In this special Bhakti Flow, we’ll move, chant and open the heart through three beloved expressions of the Divine Feminine.

Saraswati, the flow of wisdom, creativity and authentic expression.
The courage to let what wants to move through us, move.

Durga, fierce compassion, courage and protection.
The strength to soften the armour and allow ourselves to be truly seen.

Lakshmi, the beauty of abundance, generosity and receiving.
The recognition that life is always moving through a sacred dance of giving and receiving.

Through movement, mantra and shared practice, we’ll explore devotion not as something we direct towards the Divine, but as a way of recognising the Divine here, in the body, in the breath, in the person beside us, in the space between us.

A remembering that perhaps we were never separate to begin with.

Come with your voice.
Come with your heart.
Come as you are.

And let us move together, sing together,
and flow back into belonging.

Saturday September 12th · 12pm
With Kirsty van de Geer · HUM Yoga

After a wee hiatus, we’re so happy to welcome back one of HUM’s much-loved yoga and meditation teachers, Maryam Al-Roubaiai 🤍
Born in Canada with Syrian and Iraqi heritage, Maryam brings a beautiful tapestry of experience, warmth and wisdom to her teaching. With over 500 hours of training across Latin America, Canada and Aotearoa, her work weaves together yoga, meditation, somatics, Reiki, sound and deep reverence for the power of connection.
Maryam has a rare gift for creating spaces that feel safe, nourishing and deeply human — inviting you to soften, listen inward and reconnect with yourself.
We’re delighted to have her back in the HUM space.
✨ Mondays at 9:30am — Heated Flow
A warm, embodied practice to move, breathe and come home to yourself.
🕯️ Thursday nights — Candlelit Yin
A slower, quieter practice for turning inward, releasing tension and resting deeply.
Come practice with Maryam and experience her beautiful way of holding space.
Welcome home, Maryam. We’ve missed you. 🤍

TURN YINWARD + SOUND JOURNEY 🌿
Welcoming Spring with Fiona Liu & Mary Notton

Spring arrives as an invitation to begin again.

After the inward stillness of winter, the natural world starts to soften, stretch and reach outward. There is movement, possibility and new growth.

In Chinese medicine, spring is associated with the Wood element, and the Liver and Gallbladder meridians — a time to clear stagnation, create space and reconnect with a sense of vitality and direction.

Join Fiona Liu and Mary Notton for a special evening of Turn YINward + Sound Journey, weaving nourishing Yin Yoga with the healing resonance of crystal bowls and sound.

Through a slow, spacious practice, you’ll be invited to:

Release tension through the hips, inner thighs and side body
Encourage a sense of flow and spaciousness
Explore flexibility in body, mind and perspective
Drop deeply into stillness, supported by the vibrations of sound

As you settle into your practice, Mary will create a gentle soundscape with crystal bowls and other instruments, allowing the sounds to move through the room and support you in softening, listening and letting go.

A space to turn inward before moving outward.

To release what has become stagnant.
To make room for what wants to grow.
To listen for the quiet beginnings of something new.

Come welcome spring from the inside out.

Friday 18 September · 6:30–8:30pm
$58

There are so many ways we can mindfully move our bodies, and each modality has its gifts. But Yin offers something quite different.

It asks us to slow down. To pause. To listen.

In a world that is constantly speeding up, Yin reminds us of an ancient rhythm our bodies already recognise, one of rest, regulation, presence and renewal.

And something happens when we feel safe enough to slow down. We become more available to sensation, creativity, connection and feeling. Creativity doesn’t always come from pressure and productivity. Sometimes it needs space.

There is also something profoundly moving about witnessing an entire room rest together. A class breathing, softening and regulating in community. It feels ancient.

This is why I love teaching Yin.

And why I love sharing the practice with teachers.

My October 30-hour Yin Training — Whispers of the Body: The Art of Yin is an invitation to explore Yin beyond simply learning a collection of poses.

We’ll explore:
→ the nervous system
→ the Koshas
→ functional anatomy & skeletal variation
→ how to adapt poses for different bodies
→ the art of holding space and guiding embodied experience

Deepen your understanding of Yin, develop confidence in teaching it, and most importantly, experience the practice for yourself.

The deepest teaching doesn’t come from memorising information.

It comes from practice.
From listening.
From feeling.

October 16–18.
30 hours
HUM Yoga

SOUND BATH TONIGHT ✨

Come and settle into the quiet tonight with a deeply nourishing Sound Bath with Esmeralda

Working with the vibrational tones of clear crystal quartz singing bowls, this is an invitation to slow down, soften and reconnect, creating space for the body, mind and spirit to come back into balance.

Rooted in a deep connection to holistic wellbeing and the Māori understanding of mauri ora — the life force that moves through us,Esme weaves together sound, energy and intentional space to support rest, presence and renewal.

No experience needed. Just come as you are, get comfortable, close your eyes and let the sound do the work.

Sound Bath • Tonight at HUM
✨ Come rest. Receive. Reconnect.

WHISPERS OF THE BODY — THE ART OF YIN 🌙

Step into the quiet, poetic world of Yin with Whispers of the Body: The Art of Yin a 30-hour immersion into the art, science and felt experience of Yin Yoga.

Over three days, we’ll slow down, listen deeply and explore what happens when we stop trying to make the body fit a shape, and instead learn to understand and honour the body we actually have.

Together we’ll explore:

— Functional anatomy, bone variation & fascia
— The energetics of Yin & the subtle body
— The Koshas and the layers of our experience
— Intelligent sequencing, creative prop use & pose variations
— Nervous-system-informed and trauma-aware teaching
— Meditation, journaling, self-inquiry & embodied awareness
— The art of creating Yin spaces that feel safe, spacious and deeply supportive

This training is for yoga teachers wanting to deepen their teaching and dedicated students who feel called to understand Yin on a deeper level.

But more than anything, it’s an invitation to turn inward.

To become curious about your own body.
To listen rather than force.
To soften the places where you’ve been holding.
To discover the intelligence that lives beneath the surface.

OCTOBER 16 • 17 • 18
30 HOURS with Kirsty van de Geer
HUM Yoga, Grey Lynn

Bookings are open via humyoga.co.nz