STUDIO RED WELLNESS - Key Persons
Abby is a natural creative who is trained in art and graphic design. She later explored her passion for Yoga and Pilates after it created a positive shift in her life path 8 years ago. Abby is trained in HIIT Pilates, sharing her love for movement medicine full time at a selection of Auckland's best studios. Yoga has been a complement to Abby's wellness and fitness journey, which lead her to complete her 200hr Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh, India 2019 and will complete her second 200hr YTT in July 2021.
Abby's specialty lies in her mindfully created HIIT Pilates classes. Designed to push your inner boundaries and encourage you to connect with yourself whilst working up a sweat. Using the power of music, breath, light weights and resistance bands, combined with tabata style training to keep you moving quickly through each exercise. Naturally, you'll find yourself feeling motivated, energised and empowered after her full-body workouts.
Abby has a passion for holding space and constantly explores different avenues to share her passions, with the likes of pop-up events and wellness retreats. Off the mat, Abby is inspired by the outdoors and immersing herself in all things nature. You'll often find her camping, hiking, exploring, at the beach or walking her dog Cusco.
Role: Operations Manager
As our operations manager, Ainsley is the main point of contact for our clients and customers and handles the day-to-day running of Studio Red Wellness Tea. She deals with a wide range of aspects from customer orders to product design and manufacturing. Ainsley brings with her a wealth of experience from working in London, she also has a love of creativity and design which she shares with us through her time as an experienced florist. Ainsley is a natural fit and necessity to the coordination and smooth running of things here at Studio Red Wellness.
Celine has been traveling the world teaching yoga for the last 15 years and is a registered Ayurvedic Practitioner and Yoga Therapist. She has studied at Ayurvedic University Gujarat University in India, combined with being a 2000hr certified Yoga Therapist, that prides herself on incorporating her background in Ayurveda into her yogic practice to create a dynamic and nervous system regulating practice tailored to individuals of different doshic imbalances. She has also trained and held teacher trainings in Bali, India, and LA and loves the opportunity to help others learn more about themselves.
Celine also owns Sattva Soul, meaning Balanced Soul in Sanskrit, an Ayurvedic Supplement company backed by women's retreats based in NZ and the US that promotes self-health ownership with a wellness model that empowers us to take ownership of our well-being by understanding your Ayurvedic mind/body constitution to create balance and alignment in your daily life. When she is not teaching, she works one-on-one in her Ayurvedic practice with her private clients and is available for Ayurvedic consultations in person or via Zoom.
Dani finished her first yoga teacher training in Melbourne in 2008. She studied Somachi, a mix of vinyasa, tai chi and dance intertwined with Buddhist and yogic teachings. The mix appealed to her sense of wanderlust and, at the same time, helped ground her.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Studio Director: Holly Cook
- Studio Red 's Studio Director
Role: Studio Director
As Studio Red's Studio Director, Holly leads business development and is passionate about sharing wellness practices with our clients.
Holly brings to Studio Red more than a decade of experience working in corporate and marketing communications. Spending the last five years of her career specialising in media relations and crisis management, Holly understands first-hand the power of conscious practices to navigate the corporate world.
As Studio Red's Studio Director, Holly leads business development and is always looking for ways to innovate and enhance the experience of contemporary yoga and wellness for our clients.
Kirsty has had a love of movement from her early years as a gymnast and dancer. Her creative passion led her into a twenty-year-long career in the art department of the film and television industry. Throughout this time Kirsty discovered yoga as a means to keep her body supple for the gruelling days on set and quickly fell in love with the practice for the benefits and peace it brought her.
After her second child was born, Kirsty took a new direction and began teaching yoga. She has since completed more than 500 hours of teacher training in both the practices of Yin and Vinyasa. Kirsty has trained extensively under the tutoring of Paul Grilley's assistant, Yin yoga teacher Jo Phee.
Kirsty's understanding of bone variation and fascial tension allows her to skilfully guide all body types into a practice that supports the unique shape, history and injury that students may bring to their mats. Her Yin classes are deeply nourishing and offer students an opportunity for contemplation in a supportive environment.
Her dynamic yoga classes will often blend elements of free movement, QiGong and classic yoga for her students to explore the various pathways to opening up the body and its energetic channels, and to build a deeper body awareness for greater ease and grace.
Meg was initially drawn to yoga as a form of physical movement, but soon discovered the mind-body connection and subsequent quiet clarity that keeps so many of us returning to our mats.
After moving to Sydney in 2017 and continuing her love affair with yoga, Meg completed her 200 hour teaching training with Power Living. Since then, while teaching across studios and corporate environments in Sydney, Meg has gone on to complete another 150 hours of training with a number of teachers, including Duncan Peak, Tiffany Cruickshank (Yoga Medicine), and Jo Phee.
Meg aims to offer classes which are accessible to all, and which provide a safe space for students to come home to themselves, through their body and breath.
Mibella is a registered yoga and pilates teacher hailing from California. She has been teaching yoga since 2013 and comes from a background in psychology and gymnastics. Teaching yoga is her way of merging the two worlds while inviting each one of her students to express themselves creatively through the mind and body.
Monica started practicing yoga when she was sixteen and in 2018 completed her first 200hr Vinyasa and Yin yoga teacher training, during which she found her passion for teaching and sharing yoga. Since then Monica has completed an Embodied Flow training as well as assisted and completed another 200hr Vinyasa Yoga teacher training in 2020. When teaching Monica accesses her flow state where she is deeply connected to herself and her students. She is passionate about strong, fluid practices that give space and options for students to refine the practice to suit their own needs. Monica guides her students to explore their bodies and minds from a place of curiosity, truth and freedom.
Monica is the owner of Wonderment - an online store specialising in crystals. She offers specialist crystal workshops and yoga practices enhanced by crystals to promote understanding of their potential to enhance our lives and environments.
Nathan's yoga journey started when he was 18 purely out of curiosity, searching for something that would help with mental and physical wellbeing. After a few years of an on and off yoga practice, he truly fell in love with yin yoga and vinyasa. The stars aligned in 2017 for him to do a Yin training in Auckland with Jo Phee, and after some mentoring he started teaching yin.
With a passion for mental health, he provides a class that is nurturing, slow paced, quiet and reflective. Finding space within the physical body while being prompted to draw fully into the experience giving the mind a much needed respite from life off the mat.
Originally from Ireland, Niamh (pronounced Neeve; meaning bright) aims to provide a safe space to help you to illuminate your inner radiance through breath and movement.
For Niamh yoga has always been about coming home within yourself by slowing down in order to understand how our habits off the mat are shaping our reality. Coming from a fast paced, competitive, corporate world, this yogi had a few painful truths to come to terms with on her journey on the mat. Empowered by these realisations, Niamh is now dedicated to helping others shape their journey through their yoga practice. Living by her mantra "a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step", she invites you to take a step on the mat with her.
Originally from Ireland, Niamh aims to provide a safe space to help you to illuminate your inner radiance through breath and movement.
Niamh aims to provide a safe space to help you to illuminate your inner radiance through breath and movement. For Niamh yoga has always been about coming home within yourself by slowing down in order to understand how our habits off the mat are shaping our reality.
Samantha's love of yoga stems from a place of seeking movement that is both mindful, stimulating, expressive and allows space for growth both physically and energetically.
She incorporates elements of yogic philosophy whilst integrating that of her own Māori culture within the depths of her classes to create a fusion of ancient indigenous knowledge, combined with the art of asana.
Samantha believes the mat is a place that we all arrive on for different reasons, but often stay to deepen the connection to the inner self - a notion she hopes to support and forage a deeper connection to for anyone who arrives in a space with her.
Samantha is trained in HIIT Pilates and found that introducing it into her personal wellness routine has enhanced both strength and stability in a mindful way. For Samantha, the combination of teaching both Yoga and Pilates provides an all-encompassing wellness experience where they complement each other to help strengthen and grow each practice. She is excited to share this with you.
Sarah has had a lifelong passion for health and wellness; from her early days as a high performance athlete and student of Physical Education at Otago University, to discovering yoga and holistic healing in her 20's. As she faced some of her greatest challenges - addiction, depression, death of both parents, becoming a mother - she found strength and solace in a deepening connection to inner work and self healing practices.
It was during a Womens retreat in Kauai in 2018 that she had her first Breathwork Journey and began a quest to learn as much as possible about the art, the science, the ritual and magic of conscious breathing. She studied and became an Alchemy of Breath Facilitator in 2020 (800HR), just as the global pandemic hit and Breathwork exploded around the world as a way to manage the stress and uncertainty. Sarah recently qualified as NZ's first Alchemy of Breath Practitioner and has spent the last few years honing her skills as a guide.
Sophie is passionate about making movement and stress management techniques accessible to people and using her experience and modalities to help people live happier and healthier lives.
Sophie worked as a lawyer, a consultant and then in senior management of an Australasian firm. She knows first-hand how difficult it can be to balance work life, motherhood and well-being and how necessary holistic practices are to nurture our nervous systems and access deeper feelings of self love.
Sophie began teaching and launched her own wellness business in 2009 while at University. Since she has acquired a diverse skill set in yoga, Pilates, meditation, mindfulness and sound healing.
In 2019 Sophie left the corporate world to focus wholeheartedly on her business CrossingxPaths. Sophie has woven together her skills and experience to develop online classes, workshops, corporate wellness programmes and events that are accessible for people of all abilities and lifestyles.
Role: Tea Sommelier & Founder, Studio Red Wellness
Vicky's motivation behind founding Studio Red Wellness was to share wellness modalities in a beautiful studio that offered the very best teachers.
From the inception of Studio Red Wellness Vicky's goal was to create a world class wellness experience. To do that day in and day out requires a wholehearted commitment to doing our very best work. For our clients it's about delivering an experience that, from the moment they enter the studio to the second they leave, is as excellent as it possibly can be. The teaching is at the heart of Studio Red Wellness, but the surroundings and the amenities are all important to the experience.
In 2015, Vicky established Studio Red Wellness, an award winning wellness studio in Central Auckland. It was important to her that the Studio was founded on both the quality of the teaching and the elegance of the space, making Studio Red what it is today.