Fit Wāhine Aotearoa started from humble beginnings, but Covid-19 changed everything when the $2 classes moved online during lockdown last year.
People from across the globe now join in weekly to the bilingual hub with a focus on hauora and learning te reo Māori.
It is part of a language revitalisation vision for founder Puawai Winterburn, and she is planning for some classes to soon be reo Māori anake, completely in Māori.
The fitness classes are modelled after Te Whare Tapa Whā and include a holistic approach to an individual's health and wellbeing.
"We value the Māori holistic health view by Dr Mason Durie," Winterburn said. "We really encourage in our classes our wāhine to show up and give aroha to their tinana, their physical health, their taha tinana, their mental health, their taha hinengaro, their emotional health, their spiritual health, te taha wairua and te taha whānau as well, and we do that as a community."