The Yoga Studio in South Beach Worth the Hype
HANU WELLNESS transformed from Green Monkey into a 4,200 sq ft sanctuary offering yoga, cold plunge therapy, and meditation, wellness without price inflation.
Somewhere between our third adapogenic latte and second infrared sauna session of the week, Miami Beach's wellness scene achieved what can only be described as "a lot." But HANU WELLNESS—the 4,200-square-foot sanctuary that recently evolved from Green Monkey yoga studio—might be the rare spot that earns its square footage.
Walk into 736 6th Street in South Beach and you'll find what happens when a yoga studio stops trying to be just a yoga studio. There's the requisite gorgeous space—aqua interiors, LED-lit mirrors that make you look slightly more enlightened than you feel—but also a private cold plunge room, breathwork sessions, meditation classes, and enough yoga style variations to satisfy everyone from the Vinyasa devotee to the Yin curious.
The Cold Plunge Situation
Here's where HANU WELLNESS gets interesting beyond the standard luxury studio playbook: they've installed a dedicated cold plunge room. At $40 per session, it falls into that rare category of luxury wellness that doesn't require explaining to your accountant.
What makes the cold plunge worth discussing isn't just that it exists—it's that it's genuinely difficult to find in Miami Beach outside of DIY setups or facilities that require initiation fees comparable to country club memberships. HANU WELLNESS has made a hard-to-access modality actually accessible.
Beyond the Ice: The Actual Yoga Part
The studio offers the full spectrum of yoga styles—Vinyasa for when you need to move, Yin for when you need to stop moving, everything in between for when you can't decide. There's breathwork and meditation programming, which addresses the somewhat obvious fact that wellness involves more than physical postures.
What distinguishes HANU WELLNESS from the proliferation of beautiful-but-interchangeable studios isn't revolutionary programming—it's the combination of comprehensiveness and genuine community focus. This is a space designed for people who want multiple modalities under one roof without the wellness-industrial-complex markup.
The Verdict
HANU WELLNESS has created what the Miami Beach wellness scene has needed but rarely delivered: a comprehensive practice space that doesn't require trust fund resources or treating wellness like a full-time job. The cold plunge access alone differentiates it from standard studio offerings, but the real value proposition is integration—multiple evidence-based modalities, genuinely trained instructors, and a community focused on sustainable practice rather than performative wellness.
HANU WELLNESS is located at 736 6th Street, Miami Beach. First-timers should consider experiencing both a yoga class and cold plunge session to understand the full scope of offerings.