HUM Yoga (formerly Basecamp).

The studio at 5b/18 Westmoreland Street West has had two lives. First as Basecamp Power Yoga, founded by Cat Thompson as Auckland’s first Baptiste-style heated power yoga studio in 2018, designed by Studio 11:11 and awarded the 2020 Interior Awards prize for Health and Wellness Space, plus a Bronze at the Best Awards and an INDE Awards shortlist. Then, recently, listed for sale on kakapobusiness.co.nz under “SOLD: Basecamp Power Yoga.” The space is now operating as HUM Yoga, with the same award-winning interior and new ownership anchored by Kirsty van de Geer of Sundar Yoga. Same building. New brand. Honest about the transition.

The building (still extraordinary)

The Scrap Yard is a creative-precinct redevelopment of an old warehouse complex in Grey Lynn, restored by Cheshire Architects in 2018. Studio 11:11’s interior won the 2020 Interior Awards Health and Wellness Space prize, with a Bronze at the Best Awards Healthcare and Wellbeing category and an INDE Awards shortlist. The photographs by Nicholas Wilkins are widely published. The design choices are still in the building:

• Natural cork tiles on the main studio floor (zero-VOC)
• Raw exposed concrete throughout
• Refined timber joinery
• A prominent staircase from reception up to the studio — designed to reduce heated air volume and to act as a mental threshold between the street and the practice

When you walk in, the design tells you immediately what kind of place this is.

The brand transition

Basecamp’s founder Cat Thompson built the studio as Auckland’s first Baptiste-style power yoga room. A later operator, Sandey (thirty-plus years in wellness, with a somatic trauma certification in 2021), led the studio for a period. The business was then listed for sale, sold, and rebranded.

HUM Yoga is now anchored by Kirsty van de Geer of Sundar Yoga (yin specialist and two-hundred-hour trainer). The exact rebrand date is not publicly published. The cult Basecamp classes — Thursday Yin and Nidra, Friday post-work Reiki Restore — are not findable on the HUM Yoga timetable as recurring slots; treat those references as historical rather than current.

The classes (HUM Yoga)

Per the current HUM website:

• HUM Flow — dynamic vinyasa
• HUM Active — strength-leaning
• HUM Yin Yang — combined
• Yoga Nidra — guided relaxation
• Hot classes — heated practice (temperature not published)
• Sound bath
• On-demand library — online classes

The full live timetable lives behind HUM’s booking platform; specifics on density, weekly slots and named cult classes were not extractable from the indexable pages.

Pricing (HUM Yoga)

• Drop-in: $28
• Two-week intro: $55 unlimited
• HUM Mini: $100 a month for five classes
• HUM Unlimited: $150 a month
• 5-class pack: $110
• 10-class pack: $199
• 6-month unlimited: $799
• 12-month unlimited: $1,499
• On-demand library: $25 a month

On ClassPass.

What people say (mostly historical)

ClassPass studio pages returned 403 for the live HUM listing in my searches; aggregated mentions of Basecamp Power Yoga emphasised “wonderfully zen,” “amazing way to slow down,” challenging full-spectrum heated vinyasa, music-led. The new HUM Yoga’s review profile is still building — there is not yet enough public review volume to draw a confident picture. Worth visiting and forming your own opinion.

Honest criticisms

Recurring notes around the rebrand. The studio is genuinely mid-transition: long-standing 4.9-star reviews belong to Cat Thompson’s old Basecamp Power Yoga, while the new HUM identity under Kirsty van de Geer is still gathering its own feedback. Regulars flag that the rebrand was abrupt, that some familiar teachers haven’t carried across, and that the cult Thursday Yin and Nidra and Friday Reiki Restore slots aren’t on the leaner HUM timetable. The Mindbody-to-Momence booking switch caused some class-pack and login friction. The $150 monthly unlimited reads as steep against HIYOGA’s offer. Whether sound bath and restorative add-ons remain included under the new structure is unclear to some.

Practical

The Scrap Yard precinct on Westmoreland Street West, off Great North Road. On-street parking. Great North Road and Williamson Avenue bus corridors are nearby. No dedicated lot confirmed.

Who it’s for

People who care about a designed environment as part of the practice — the cork floor and the concrete walls genuinely affect how you feel in the room. Locals who have followed the Scrap Yard precinct’s creative redevelopment and want to support its tenants. Anyone curious about how a small power-yoga studio is rebuilt under new ownership.

It is less the right pick if you want a long-established brand with predictable teachers, a stable schedule and a clear identity right now — try Kenkō Studios for that, or The Yoga Ground if you prefer Grey Lynn.

Contact

• Address: 5b/18 Westmoreland Street West, The Scrap Yard, Grey Lynn
• Phone: +64 27 441 1251
• Email: info@humyoga.co.nz
• Website: humyoga.co.nz (the older basecampyoga.co.nz redirects here)
• ClassPass: yes
• Heritage: Interior Awards 2020 winner — Health and Wellness Space, designed by Studio 11:11