Hañsa Wellness

Vincent Bolletta

Founder of Hañsa, Vincent Bolletta has been teaching, and practicing yoga since 1990 and since then has become New Zealand’s foremost yoga instructor and teacher trainer with a wealth of knowledge in biomechanics, yoga therapy, movement therapy, and postural analysis.

Founder

Cecilia Li

Cecilia has worked in Beijing’s main yoga studios and has been featured in TimeOut Magazine, Lululemon, Yoga Journal, and Keep Yoga for her teaching. Cecilia has done therapy workshops for many companies such as Microsoft and Lenovo. She also created a project combining Yoga Therapy to Change Management to help individuals to grow. Cecilia is a translator and interpreter specialising in yoga therapy and has translated in many international conferences.

Manager of Hañsa China

Liana Yew

Liana likes her teaching to be playful and to remind her students that yoga can be fun. Liana is one of Vincent Bolletta’s earliest students and has been continuously deepening her study in hañsa.

Hañsa Flow Instructor

Melanie Morris

Mel describes Hañsa flow principles with simple yet deeper philosophy as a game changer to understanding her own developmental patterns and finds the meditational movement of Hañsa flow graceful as well as enhancing stability, mobility with strength.

Hañsa Flow Instructor

Jay Garman

Jay’s approach to yoga is simple – practice regularly, feel better, live happy. His teaching enables students to investigate the habits, stories and patterns that make up their mind-body frameworks, which when expressed through movement, opens the door to transformation.

Hañsa Flow Instructor

Meta Vashti

Meta was introduced to Yoga in her late teenage years and since then Yoga had gotten her through some of her difficult times in college and professional career. Despite the occasional dabbling with Yoga, she only started practicing regularly around 2013, when she fell in love with the meditative aspect of the practice. Meta started teaching in 2016 and started immersing in the practice of hañsa in 2017, when she met Vincent Bolletta.

Manager of Operations Hañsa International & Manager of Hañsa Indonesia

Mike Huffam

Mike is the founder and chief instructor of Master Kettlebell Academy (MKA) which specialises in kettlebell therapy and rehabilitation, MKA is accredited in New Zealand by the REPs organisation. Mike’s international kettlebell qualifications are as an RKC (Russian Kettlebell Certified Instructor) and IKFF (International Kettlebell Fitness Federation).

Mike is an internationally recognised functional fitness educator, trainer and presenter - specialising in Kettlebells, CrossFit and Olympic lifting, and has been a certified Personal Trainer since 1998.

Master Kettlebell Academy Founder - Hañsa Presenter

Dr Vicki Connop

Originally from the UK, Vicki completed her clinical training at the University of East London and worked in public mental health services in London for 5 years before emigrating to New Zealand in 2006. She has worked in both adolescent and adult community mental health services in Auckland and currently has a private practice in Grey Lynn.

Vicki specialises in mindfulness and compassion-based therapies, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). She also offers a therapeutic modality called EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming), which is an evidence-based therapy that helps people to process distressing or traumatic memories and release strong emotion which may be held in the body or mind.

Wise Minds Psychology, Mindfulness, Yoga - Hañsa Presenter

Katherine Geary

Katherine is a degree-qualified naturopath based in Dunedin, New Zealand. With 3 young children, she knows it can be tricky to find balance in our busy lives, and often this causes us to neglect our own health. Katherine is passionate about working with people to remove any wellness-related obstacles preventing them from becoming their very best. From simple lifestyle changes to more complex health concerns, Katherine can help you achieve a greater level of vitality and vibrancy.

Naturopath - Hañsa Presenter