Jo Allen, founder, explains more in this video. The Humble Heart will be launching in March 2025 at 18 Silchester Road. You can visit the Humble Collective at https://www.thehumblehub.co.uk/
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00:00The Humble Heart is on Silchester Road, number 18, and it's the whole building, so it's going
00:08to be a wellness centre, starting with the Humble Hangout, I've got to have Humble in
00:13front of everything now, it's the brand, so the Humble Hangout will be on the ground floor,
00:18and then you move up to the studio space, and then we go up into the therapy rooms,
00:24and then the top floor will be the Browsy Beauty Salon, so it's going to be a really
00:29kind of vibrant building where lots are going on, we've also got a lovely garden space that
00:34we're going to be able to utilise for outside, I guess like a chill out area, but also some
00:39ceremonies, so we can do our full moon ceremonies outside with a lovely fire pit, so that's
00:44going to be another space that we can use. Yeah, and it's really exciting, it's coming
00:51together, we've already got lots of interest in using the space, because it's still a space
00:55to hire, so it's the same as the Humble Hub concept, where I didn't want to create a studio,
01:02you know, and kind of employ people, I think it's really about these entrepreneurs that
01:06have their own business, and they come in and they create the magic, I'm just kind of
01:12here going, wow, I love what you do, and I love, you know, it's really good.
01:16Hi, I'm Gabriella Mendy, I am Jo's studio coordinator, and how I came about with this
01:25position is, I'm a yoga teacher myself, I actually came down from London two years ago,
01:32and I was working in these great yoga studios, and I came down here, and there wasn't many
01:38spaces, and I was like, what? There's no yoga studio? There's nothing? How is this possible?
01:44I mean, there's a few, but you have to rent the spaces out, so it's very much you having
01:49to do everything, which is something that I wasn't used to doing, coming from London,
01:55so I came about the Humble Hub, and I actually was going to teach there, I didn't book my
02:00slot properly, and then I lost my position, and I was like, what? There's no space left?
02:05And I was like, I was on at Jo, and I was like, are you going to, are there any slots
02:10left? And then I was like, do you need any help with your space? Just because, for myself,
02:17coming from London to here, I lost my whole community, I didn't have, I didn't know many
02:24people at all, and I wanted to get involved, and I saw like really great things happening,
02:29so now I'm involved, which is amazing, and I'm in the know now, and I'm getting to meet
02:37wonderful teachers, Jo's amazing, she's so thoughtful, wants everyone to do great, she's
02:44very mindful also in terms of not stepping on other people's toes, like, oh, they're
02:50doing that, oh, I'm not going to do that, so there's, she's really caring and thoughtful
02:55about that, she wants everyone to succeed, so, and that's what I love about working with
03:02Jo and The Hub, and now The Humble Heart, which is going to be epic, so it's very exciting.
03:08I hadn't ever planned to open a studio, that was never, never the plan, or, I don't even
03:15think it was in anything I thought I'd ever do, but when I, I just found a need when I
03:20moved over this way, to this part of the world, I used to live in London, I used to work in
03:24fashion, big story about, you know, how my journey into kind of wellness and teaching,
03:31but in terms of moving down to this South Coast area, I realised in this particular
03:38area there just wasn't any spaces for teaching, there were no dedicated spaces, I should say,
03:44so the teachers around here are amazing, they're so entrepreneurial, they've found all these
03:48places, so, you know, suites in hotels, shops that are closed in the evening that they open
03:54up for, you know, to do their yoga and different practices, and it just felt wrong that there
04:01was no dedicated spaces, and it didn't feel a lovely experience for the students either,
04:08and the Humble, the building that The Humble Hub is in came about, and we were looking
04:15for somewhere to live as well, and it was just, it was used as a kind of private art
04:19studio, so it was just this big space, and yeah, it seemed perfect, because my partner
04:26Chris, who has helped me with the whole build and is part of The Humble Collective himself,
04:31he said well that would be perfect for a studio, and the idea I suppose was that I would use
04:35it because I knew that I had no space for my sound healing, for example, because I need
04:40it to be quite quiet, I need the floors to be, you know, warm, I need it to be a warm
04:44space so people can really relax into the experience, and I was finding it really difficult,
04:50so I created a space that was perfect for me, essentially, so that I could do my work
04:56really, so I could do my sound healing, teach the movement, sort of yoga classes that I
05:00do, I also do energy healing, and I create circles for women, for example, moon ceremonies,
05:08so I really wanted a space for that that felt nurturing, so I just went to town on this
05:13space that I wanted to look beautiful, wasn't really even thinking about it commercially,
05:19it was just, yeah, my perfect space, and then I put it out into the community and said if
05:24anyone wants to hire a space, here it is, and I am honestly blown away with how many
05:31people are now using it, it's kind of more than 40 teachers, and so I wanted to take
05:37it a step further with The Humble Hearts, so I want this to be, I mean A, there is also
05:42a need for the treatment rooms, because again, I was being asked a lot for that, and another
05:48studio space, because people were, I can't find space in my own thing now, so I'm just
05:56like, right, we need another space for that, and maybe a more cosy space, because The Humble
06:02Hub is big and spacious, but this is, yeah, this is going to be for more, yeah, more cosy
06:08sessions, I think, it's still big, but it's, yeah, it's a different vibe, I think, a different
06:13feeling, and I really want to tap into this healing element of what we need in the world
06:19right now, we need, we're going into an age of awakening, I won't go into it too much,
06:25the age of Aquarius, there's people kind of opening up to these holistic practices, there's
06:31a real need, and I think the more we can bring to people, and the people that are now gravitating
06:36towards this project, is incredible, it's, there's practices that I've never even heard
06:41of before, that, yeah, just beautiful, things like cranial sacrotherapy, human design, Akashic
06:48records, look those up, they'll be coming, but it's, yeah, there's just, there's a lot
06:55of esoteric practices that, again, people can't find, or they just don't know about
06:59them, so to put a spotlight on them is really important, I think, and St. Leonard's itself
07:06feels like a centre of something that's happening, something really important, it's evolving,
07:13there are so many practitioners coming down from different places, and different parts
07:18of the world, actually, everyone I speak to, something's happened to bring them here, so
07:24some sort of life change, a calling, whatever it is, people are kind of gathering here,
07:30and I think it's going to be quite an important place for people to kind of have these spiritual
07:36awakenings and holistic experiences, and I've discovered recently that moving down, just
07:42at the end of this road, we're on quite an important ley line, so just, and it runs through
07:47two churches at the end of this road, really, which is why I think this has felt like the
07:51right place, and these things are kind of coming into existence, because there's more
07:56things opening now, which is amazing, I honestly think St. Leonard's, and sort of Hastings
08:01as well, in the broader sense, is going to be quite a big epicentre for this kind of
08:05wellbeing, so yeah, it's very exciting, and I'm sort of happy to be facilitating that,
08:12and part of my role, as well as using the space for my own practices, is to help others,
08:19so I really feel that I want to support people with awareness, you know, kind of, so we do
08:25as much as we can in terms of social media, the local, you know, press, or whatever we
08:30can get out there, is, you know, I see it as a kind of, like an incubator, we're here
08:37to kind of help people grow, so yeah, that's a really important part of what we do, and
08:42then when we have the Humble Hangout, which is the cafe that's going to be eventually
08:46sort of the bottom level of the Humble Heart, again, that's going to be a space for people
08:50to collaborate, to meet, and I'm really excited about that, I think it's, collaboration for
08:56me is key, community is key, especially when we've come out of this kind of era of the
09:02pandemic, there's, you know, so much happening in the world that needs us to kind of gather
09:08together and create strength through community, so that is going to be really important, and
09:14we've got some initiatives happening around that as well, in terms of women's communities,
09:19and that sort of thing.