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About Us
The Yoga Space Hastings is a cosy yoga studio in a great central location,
offering a rich variety of daily yoga classes and wellness event.
It is run as a collaborative of a few locally based
yoga and meditation teachers and body workers, all bringing in their unique flavour of teaching.
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The Yoga Space was born with the aspiration that the principles of Yoga, meaning Union, can serve and nourish all your unique needs of body, mind and spirit.
Join our "sangha", or yoga community, for a regular practice or for one of our special events,
we would love to be your guides into the world of Yoga.
NAMASTE
practice - connection - love
OUR TEACHERS
Radha Iveta
Radha is an experienced yoga teacher who completed a 500h+ teacher training in the Hridaya yoga and meditation school in Mexico, where she lived immersed in yogic philosophy and lifestyle for several years.
Since 2014 she has taught internationally and has now made beautiful Hawke's Bay her home base.
Radha has a great passion for the traditional teachings of Yoga and the healing science of Ayurveda and sees the potential they hold to benefit and enrich the life of modern people.
Above all, Radha's personal practice and style of teaching is focused on meditation as a tool of connection to one's self and the Heart of being.
She offers meditative traditional hatha, yin, meditation courses and silent meditation retreats.
Jenny Allan
Jenny completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training in 2021 and from there, naturally found her
passion teaching yin, restorative and yoga nidra.
Having been a massage therapist for over 20 years, Jenny’s major focus has always been bringing her
clients to a place of relaxation, in which profound healing can take place. This remains her focus
through her yoga classes.
Also a practitioner of myofascial release, Jenny knows that yin and restorative yoga can both help
release fascia. A healthy myofascial system means the body has to effort less to function in this
world and this in turn creates more energy. Yin and restorative yoga will leave people feeling both
rested and energised, well-equipped to embrace all of life.
Erleen Oldham
Erleen has been practicing yoga for over 12 years. Wanting to share the benefits she has gained from a regular practice she completed her 200hr yoga teacher training through Jayayoga in 2021, followed by a four month mentorship to complete a year of training and become a Yoga NZ registered teacher.
Erleens focus is on a safe sustainable practice, balancing building strength and flexibility both in the mind and body, on and off the mat. Combining breath, body and the more subtle elements of yoga with knowledge and training in trauma and mental health awareness Erleen aims to offer a complete practice that may offer elements of challenge but is also sensitive to the nervous system.
Mary Brooker
Mary has attended various yoga classes for more than 10 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 todays hectic life, the skills to focus inwardly and relax are invaluable.
Gemma Holloway
Gemma has completed a 200h Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Teacher training with Akasha Yoga Academy
in 2023.
Yoga has been a huge influence on Gemma's life the past couple of years and she loves being able to hold space for others to come to a place of inner peace and stillness, by incorporating breath with movement.
She loves to theme her classes around the cycles of nature, as well as clearing and balancing the Chakras. In Gemma's classes you can expect to practice postures that improve flexibility, as well as moving with the breath to stabilise the mind and bring inner peace and calm.
Silke Whittaker
Silke is a qualified 200 hr Yoga teacher. Her favourite yoga styles are Yin & slow Hatha flows in combination with her set of 13 Tibetan Singing Bowls.
Silke has been practicing yoga for 15 years and been a qualified teacher for 6 years. She is also a trained Reiki Master, Sound Healer and has studied aromatherapy with teachers overseas.
Silke's teaching style is gentle, slow & mostly hands off, guiding her students verbally to connect with their own bodies and needs. Silke likes to empower her students to intuitively know what is right for them, for their bodies, their energy levels & individual skeletal structures in a safe class environment.
The Yoga Space Hastings
208 Heretaunga St East, Hastings, Hawke's Bay
Email: yogaspace.hastings@gmail.com