Sam

VINYASA • REO MĀORI FLOW • SURF CLUB CLASSES

Yoga for me is like a common thread in a story — one that moves with us through life’s many chapters. Sometimes showing up as a creative outlet, a discipline, a refuge, and often, pure joy. A practice that gives way to embodiment, to presence. 

Vinyasa and trauma-informed yoga shape the way I teach — I am interested not just in how the body moves, but in how it holds, what it holds. For me, much of that release, the stilling of the mind, comes through a strong practice. Movement as the path inward. 

Te reo Māori and yogic philosophy are woven gently through my classes — both living lineages I am still learning, still growing into. I share them not as an authority but as a fellow student, with humility and care. 

I still wobble in balancing āsana. I forget my left and right. I believe in a wonderfully imperfect, curious practice — one where movement facilitates presence, not performance, and where showing up as you are is genuinely enough.