What is Human.Kind?
Human.Kind is a centre for interconnection and care.
We support your health through movement, therapies, education, and community.
On the daily level, this looks like physical practices including yoga, pilates, guided relaxation, and strength training. We facilitate world-class courses, training, and retreats that foster ongoing spaces for learning and transformation within a supportive, inclusive community.
Our allied health practitioners range from specialised physiotherapists to mental health professionals. All committed to empowering people to create lives of meaning and contribute to human flourishing.
But true health is interpersonal. As we collectively build these skills in care, we foster a more thriving and compassionate society. Our work fluxes from the internal to the external. Like the breath. We inhale to resource and gather ourselves, we exhale to offer support and share what we can.
We offer in person and online hubs for learning, practice, and connection. From unceded Kaurna Land in South Australia, we nurture two studio communities in Adelaide City and Glenelg, an online network that spans the globe, and a patch of land in Myponga, Fleurieu Peninsula, that we care for together (plus its flock of black cockatoos).
Our modalities lie at the intersection of contemplative traditions and evidence-based practice. We work on a spectrum from individual wellbeing, to cultural innovation, to systems change.
Learn more about what interconnection and care mean to us.
Being of benefit.
We are proud to be a certified B-Corp since 2022. We join an international network of organisations leading global systems change by using business as a force for good. This emerging field of changemakers are shifting the ‘business as usual’ paradigm towards more regenerative and sustainable economic models. We aim to model leadership towards a ‘business unusual’ that prioritises care for all people and our world. We are the first B-Corp within the fitness and wellness sector in Australia. All B-Corps (Benefit Corporations) support the collective vision of an inclusive, equitable, and just society. Benefitting all people, communities, and the planet.
B-Corp Certification is a public and legal commitment of accountability enshrined in our business constitution. Since 2022 we’ve been annually measuring our social and environmental impact. Read our latest Impact Statement here, and an interview of our journey to B-Corp here.
Our story
Human.Kind is founded and owned by Tessa Leon and Triton Tunis-Mitchell. Two Adelaide locals who are partners in both business and love. Driven by purpose and a desire for contribution, we opened the Adelaide City Studio in 2016, then under the brand of Power Living Yoga. After building a thriving community over several years, popular demand led to a second studio in Glenelg, which opened in 2020. Over the tumultuous years of the pandemic we supported the community online and evolved to offer livestream classes. Our crew spread around the world and we’ve now got members in every continent (yep, even someone at the Casey Research station in Antarctica)!
As we witnessed the changing state of the climate and social upheaval, we wanted to create a business that did more than personal work. We wanted to widen our circles of care and stretch our impact as far as possible. In 2021, we renamed the business Human.Kind and began to focus on the intersectional work of not only individual, but also social, and environmental transformation.
We’re incredibly proud of our initiatives that span these interconnected ecosystems of health. Check out The Ripple Effect, our Impact Fund, and our equitable membership models. The Myponga landcare and retreat project is the pinnacle of this, which we hope to share custodianship in commons for the next decades of our lives.
Our Values
1. We believe healthy humans can help others.
This is our theory of change. We help people flourish. Physically, mental, and emotionally. So that with these resources, they have more capacity to support others. This model is a distributive economy of health. Give what you can and take what you need.
2. Connected communities are resilient communities.
The more connections a system has, the stronger it becomes. Inspired by underground mycelium networks, we cultivate thriving and sustainable ecosystems of people, places, and ideas. We pursue depth and diversity.
3. We care for the environment like our lives depend on it.
We train in fierce compassion. In the face of uncertainty, we stay engaged with the difficulties and opportunities of our time. We expand our circles of care to all life on this planet, present and future. We de-center human superiority (colonial mentality) to temper greed or apathy with the deeper fulfilment of contribution.
4. We hold space for the chaos and beauty within ourselves and the world.
Because life gets messy and none of us are perfect. Things are complex and we may never see the whole story. So we meet each other where we’re at. Take a broad perspective. We offer gentle doorways to healing, peace, and inner refuge. We courageously remember our shared humanity.
Our Logo
“I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may never complete the last one
but I give myself to it.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
