SALA AKL

Words of wisdom from the 🌀

It’s always like this in the final sprint: adrenaline wanes, and anxiety takes its place. What if I’ve misjudged the community? What if this isn’t what they want? What if no one shows up? Have I taken too many risks this time, pushed too far, and risked it all falling apart? With so many decisions still to make, teachers to onboard, and structures to finalise, it’s overwhelming. But here we are, all my dice are in the game. I just hope you love this new era of Sala.

Fitness, but make it wellness.

Wisdom from the collective 🌀

Good is the most widely abused drug. Exercise is the most underutilised antidepressant. 🤯

If you remember life isn’t fluid, you’ll never feel stuck. Nothing is your only option. When something ends it’s your time to start something new. It doesn’t matter how often doors close if you’re always curious about opening new ones. The more you keep moving, the more you realise everything is always changing. 🌀

Pebbling 4 U

Final sprint towards the finish line, with a weekend of floor painting. Please use the back door/ old entrance at 56 brown street as we transition ourselves to more spaciousness. 🌀

Who’s ready for a new SALA era? July is going to be wild 🌱🌱🌱

A joy to connect with talking all things community, movement and poetry. Available now. 👁️

Find your energy at Sala.

Whether it’s a Monday morning 6.30am strength to set the energy of your week, or a Sunday evening sound bath to close the loop of your week, Sala is here to support a life lived well.

Self care isn’t just for weekends, it’s about habitual changes and creating space to appreciate yourself daily. Prioritising YOU isn’t selfish and it isn’t a treat.

Our intention at Sala was to create your everyday studio. A place to feel at home, to support you finding the greatest home of all, the one inside of yourself.

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Feels so much like home, it’s easy to forget how cool it is we get to hangout here together. 🥰

Diversity is the spice of life.
Join us up to 100 times a week in
🌶️ barre
🌶️ reformer Pilates
🌶️ dynamic yoga
🌶️ strength
🌶️sound healing
🌶️ hiit Pilates
🌶️yin yoga

And soon 🌱🌱🌱 treadmill and weight station classes 🌱🌱🌱🌱

One membership for it all 🥹

Tag us in your reels and get a free sauna session when we reshare. 🌶️

Sunset feels

A little appreciation post for the home of our barre and hiit Pilates classes. The Sunset Room features a large sun installation, reflecting the warmth cultivated by the classes that take place within it. Blackened mirrors offer a non-confrontational reflection. We designed this room to embody the introspective quality of sweaty classes. It’s just you and yourself, strengthening that tender mind body connection that makes life so sweet x

What’s the purpose of SALA? It’s very simple really. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow. 🌱

Save the date - our only sale of the year 29-31st March. 72 hours only. 20% off class packs (including sauna and contrast) up to 40% off annual memberships and most store items.
Goes live March 29th.
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Everyone is welcome here.

Monday mantras

✨ Brand new to moving your body? Try reformer basics Wednesday evenings or Thursday mornings, the perfect opportunity to get to know your body and the machine.

✨ Building confidence? Try reformer flow. A sequential flow which ignites the whole body.

✨ What to get your heart rate up? Try hiit Pilates or reformer strength, using dumbbells and extra resistance to build strength and stability.

Valentines thoughts 💌

It’s hard to believe we’ve only been open five years when you consider we’ve already been through three iterations. 2024 is our most ambitious year yet with our biggest expansion in the works. Think multiple new spaces and community led wellness experiences. Cannot wait to launch this for you!

Is this just mood right now or what 🫠🫠🫠

It’s that time again 🦭

Just some motivational content from your local gym 🫠

A couple of weeks we actually (silently) celebrated five years of SALA. Like many of you, we feel as though we’re crawling to the finish line of the year, and we just didn’t feel we had the capacity to even vocalise this milestone. We have learnt the hard way that you cannot make up for ‘lost time’ and if 2023 has taught us anything it is that you can do anything, but you cannot do everything.

My new year’s intentions will be to slow down and enjoy the community that SALA has cultivated. This will involved systemising and automatising more so that the studio feels more sustainable and I as owner have more space to be emotionally present, both in the studio and at home.

2024 will see some exciting expansions for us as a studio. The saunas and contrast therapy will be open for booking from Monday 8th January and our timetable will expand to 100 classes a week which is a huge milestone for us.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support. For continuously showing up for yourself and us. We look forward to another year with you!! Until happy holidays and love you to the moon and back,

Sarah, Joshua and Ophelia xx

As if running SALA and being a toddler mom wasn’t enough to keep me occupied, my hearts appetite for creativity is always hungry.

I’m currently working on something very close to my heart, a poetry book, Mother Made Me which will be available 2024.

I am so excited to share this next chapter with you ♥️

Love you always and forever, sarah xo

I have a vision of people everywhere having the courage to live a life true to themselves instead of the life others expect of them.

I have a vision of starting a conversation that becomes a movement.

I have a vision of creating a space where movement fuels social action; where each of us feels responsible for the awakening of both ourselves and one another.

I have a vision that we are free.

I love this community. I feel so proud to have created a safe place for us to move and experience our bodies. The studio has grown so much in the five years it’s been open it’s hard to remember it’s just me running the show.

To maintain a sustainable space I have implemented a lot of automated processes, which I do not have capacity to waiver or manage on a case by case basis. I understand you’re sick, work ran over, your tire exploded on the motorway, I understand that this was out of your control and that you want me to waiver your $5 late cancellation fee. However if I start choosing to spend time manually reversing these processes I won’t have the time I need to do the work that helps build, improve and grow the studio (as well as trying to be a toddler mom, teacher and student.)

I hope you can continue your respect and honour these boundires so we can cocreate a harmonious and loving space for us all to grow.

Your friend, always

Sarah

Love you boo

Find your energy at SALA.

A private hiit class with for .and.arrow 🎯

SALA forever

Find your energy at SALA.

An epic private hiit Pilates class held by Lisa for bowl and arrow.

Book in your next event at SALA, chose from yoga, Pilates, sound healing or barre followed by refreshments and good vibes in our new communal reception space.

Find your energy at sala

A fun hiit Pilates class with for a private event .and.arrow 🎯

The artist speaks.
And she speaks not to create something which is new, but to capture for a moment what is, and what will never be. It sits there, words on a page, paint on a canvas, proteins in blood; the story which aches to be told, breathing itself into reality one intrusive thought at a time, until the artist surrenders to it.

The story which is not bound by the constraints of time, but instead acts both as a reflection of reality and an echo of what never was. What we wanted it to be. Sometimes a lie, told so many times we believe it to be true. And if life is a projection of a far away star then each day demonstrates even the singular minds ability to daydream within the vacuum of to do lists and bills to be paid. But art doesn’t exist to pay bills, it exists despite of them.

A sweet capturing of community vibe bringer .queen by reimagined by .birchall accompanied words by

I am so grateful for this growing community. I do everything I can to continue the harmonious studio river flowing, but I am only one person. Yep. One. I do emails, social media, teach, scheduling etc. to enable a sustainable SALA plan, I have created some automated boundaries to create space for all my million roles. 😂

One of which is members booking and canceling their own classes. Although it’s frustrating losing a class to a late cancel, on the flip side, imagine how nice it is to make it into a full class onto a waitlist because someone else cancelled in time. Let’s keep our river flowing and consciously Participate. Love you all sarah # # #

Forever obsessed with these abstract experiments in spiritual investigation. ⭕️
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Hilma af Klint ‘Buddhas Standpoint’ 1920

Circannual rhythms are seasonal cycles which inform all living things how to respond and thrive based on our environments. It informs birds when to migrate and bears when to hibernate. Through the complexity of modern living humans have dissociated with the natural world, considering it something outside of ourselves, rather than ourselves as apart of it.
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As the days draw cooler we’re looking at ways of supporting restful practices, attuning ourself to earths cues. Would you like an additional weekly sound healing with Jess? Would you prefer Monday mornings before work 7am or lunch time Friday to prepare for the weekend? Let us know below by comment either pre work or lunchtime. X

Circannual rhythms are seasonal cycles which inform all living things how to respond and thrive based on our environments. It informs birds when to migrate and bears when to hibernate. Through the complexity of modern living humans have dissociated with the natural world, considering it something outside of ourselves, rather than ourselves as apart of it.
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As the days draw cooler we’re looking at ways of supporting restful practices, attuning ourself to earths cues. Would you like an additional weekly sound healing with Jess? Would you prefer Monday mornings before work 7am or lunch time Friday to prepare for the weekend? Let us know below by comment either pre work or lunchtime. X

SALA by night 🌚

Thank you Lucy for sharing your view