TAUTOKO
Holding Space
Supporting Wellbeing
Cultivating Community
Our Vision
Tautoko is more than a wellness center. It’s a living, breathing invitation to come home to yourself, your body, and your community.
Rooted in the heart of Motueka, we offer a blend of movement, mindfulness, nourishment, and restoration into one cohesive experience. A vibrant cafe. Two beautiful yoga studios. Quiet treatment rooms. Maybe a cold plunge or a rooftop perch under the stars. Each offering distinct experiences, yet all working in harmony.
We are not trying to be everything to everyone. We are creating the kind of place we ourselves want to go. Where it’s just as natural to sit quietly with a tea after a yoga class or massage as it is to laugh over lunch with friends. A place to recalibrate and reconnect. To drop in and be met.
Our Values
Wholeness Through Simplicity
We aim to do a few things well. From the way food is prepared to how classes are offered, we remove excess and elevate the essentials. What remains is intentional, honest, nourishing.
The Nervous System Comes First
Everything begins with safety and regulation: physically, emotionally, energetically. Whether you’re on a mat, at a table, in a treatment room, or in a conversation, our environment is designed to downshift, soften, and open.
Beauty as an Act of Care
Our spaces are cozy but uncluttered. Nature is invited in. Music is curated. Lighting matters. Textures communicate. Beauty is not indulgent. We believe it is regulating, humanizing, and sacred.
Individual Agency Within Collective Rhythm
Whether you come for a restorative massage session, a shared meal, a yoga class, or to sip a cappuccino while quietly watching life unfold, your pace is honored. But this is also a place with pulse and presence. We're stronger when attuned to the people and patterns around us and when they meet where we are
Real Community, Lightly Held
We welcome deep conversations and warm greetings, but also silent coffees and solo journaling. Belonging isn’t forced here, it’s felt, in the heart, in the body.
Life Moves in Five Acts
Life is a living process, unfolding through continual cycles of becoming and unbecoming. At Tautoko, we hold space for each of these phases. New ideas and offerings emerge. Some are nurtured and maintained. Others dissolve naturally when their time has passed. At times, truth is concealed only to later be revealed with clarity. This rhythm guides how we build, how we serve, and how we grow. We don’t rush the process. We listen. We adapt. We allow.
The Tautoko Experience
You arrive for a mid-morning yoga class. The kid’s space is open, and your child rushes in, already laughing with friends. The class grounds you. Afterward, you linger with a warm chai, the hum of quiet conversation surrounding you.
A friend mentions the weekend immersion: a journey into creative embodiment, aligning body, breath, heart, and mind. Another emerges from massage: flushed, softened, eyes bright.
You book the sauna and cold plunge suite for Sunday, when you’ll return from tramping in Kahurangi.
A rhythm is forming. You’re not rushing off this time. You belong here.
Our Mantra
Om Saha nāvavatu
Saha nau bhunaktu
Saha vīryam karavāvahai
Tejasvi nāvadhītamastu
Mā vidviṣāvahai
Om Shāntiḥ, Shāntiḥ, Shāntiḥ
Om, May we all be protected
May we all be nourished
May we work together with great energy
May our study be enlightening
Let there be no animosity amongst us
Om, peace, peace, peace
At Tautoko, the Shanti Mantra - a vibration and intention - shapes the way we work, serve, and relate.
This mantra reflects the cooperative, reciprocal, and compassionate foundation of all we do. Whether it's a teacher and student, a therapist and client, or two people sharing tea, Tautoko exists as a space of mutuality, respect, and shared growth.
It reminds us that the real work is relational. That peace is the precondition for transformation. That nourishment, strength, and clarity are not solitary pursuits, but collective ones.