Nuku Yoga is a community yoga studio upstairs at 13 Brougham Street in New Plymouth Central. The website describes it as a wonderfully imperfect space, where people are welcome as they are and where classes are non-judgemental and supportive. Casual classes are also held at Fitzroy Surf Life Saving Club. The studio began with classes by the ocean, and the website says it grew through the people who came to them. The name nuku speaks to a shift from one state or place to another.
The studio shares its building with Tui Architecture, and its founder works alongside Glenn McBeth, a local architectural designer and Iyengar yoga teacher, who previously ran his own yoga school in New Plymouth. Other teachers bring their own styles and lineages. The website says te reo Māori and te ao Māori are woven through the practice. Our pick in New Plymouth for a relaxed, welcoming yoga class.