Our world-class teachers

Kelly Ruiterman is one of the founders of Wild Wellbeing. Kelly was diagnosed with Osteo-arthritis in her early forties and found Pilates through her rehabilitation.  She was so passionate about the benefits, that she trained to be a teacher.  Kelly is passionate about well-being and through her own well-being journey wanted to bring something to Kapiti to help others on their journey.

Kasia Wallis is one of the founders of Wild Wellbeing. She discovered yoga and Pilates 20 years ago – she was hooked! Since then she has completed Yoga, Pilates & Barre training at Essence of Living. Kasia loves to create fun, fast, booty burning Pilates & Barre classes.

Helen has been teaching since 2006 when she trained in a power flow practice and has since added other modules to her yoga pack. Yoga remains a strong part of Helen’s life as the benefits from working with the breath, moving the body and self-enquiry create a strong sense of balance to every day.

First drawn to stretch through chinese martial arts, Ed has trained in and taught organic horticulture, Pilates, Yin Yoga, and whilst based in Dharmshala in India, Ashtanga and multiform Yoga. 

Committed to life long learning whilst continuing to develop his practice, Ed has recently undertaken another Yin and Qigong course, the fruits of which he is excited to bring to Kapiti. Ed is also continuing to deepen his yoga knowledge with ongoing courses through the Oxford College of Hindu Studies.

Yoga has been part of my life on and off for years. Through kids & injuries I have rediscovered my body. Yoga has given me strength, not just in a physical sense but a strength of self.

This is something I hope to inspire and invite students to embrace, learning to love and honour their bodies and their individual yoga journey and find joy in simply being with themselves.

Brianna has been dancing her whole life and went off to train as a professional dancer gaining a Bachelor of Applied performing Arts Majoring in Commercial Dance. Brianna found her true passion through teaching, she has over 10 years of dance teaching experience and won’t look back.

Brianna has also became a qualified personal trainer, and gained group fitness experience taking a variety of classes from TRX, Spin, Barre, HITT… to go on to find her own style of group fitness which combines dance and fitness into one. She believes dance gives you so much joy and is the best thing for our mental and physical wellbeing. She is excited to share her passion at Wild Wellbeing.

Namaste, I am Rosie, originally from the UK – After seeing some amazing sights around the world, I decided to put down my roots in NZ.

I first came across Yoga when I was around 15 years old in India. I have been practicing yoga for around 16 years and I have recently qualified as a Yoga Teacher!

I am extremely passionate about teaching people how to slow down in a fast paced world – guiding and teaching how to calm the mind and body.

Lauren Appleton has spent the last 20 years practising many different styles of yoga, and brings these influences into her own teachings. She trained at the renowned Byron Yoga Centre in Australia and has evolved her own Hatha-fusion style which she teaches with a focus on alignment and breath. Based on the Kapiti Coast, she is a mother of two young children, and knows all too well that amongst the hustle and bustle of a busy life we all need to carve out a little space for ourselves.
Lauren believes that yoga really can be for everyone, and that creating a little space in our lives to regularly refocus on our breath and body can be hugely beneficial for our overall wellbeing.