My Secret Garden

08/10/2025

Chair Yoga with Olivia Cooper 10.30-11.30am Thursdays at My Secret Garden 🌹

Join us for a fun and welcoming yoga class. Chair yoga is perfect for anyone wanting to gain all the benefits of yoga - strength, flexibility, balance and mediation - without getting up and down from the floor.

08/10/2025

Come join Olivia Cooper for Chair Yoga Thursdays (tomorrow) 10.30-11.30am at My Secret Garden (or pass this on to someone who may currently need a more accessible Yoga). 🌹

Hi, I'm Olivia Cooper 🙂 I take the Chair Yoga Classes. Yoga is my love and my greatest love is Chair Yoga, the most accessible and fun yoga! Come and join our friendly classes. Gain flexibility, muscle, peace of mind and balance and have a good laugh.

06/10/2025

🌿 Hatha Yoga with Nino 🌿

• Tuesdays 7-8pm - Hatha Yoga
• Saturdays 9-10am - Gentle Hatha Yoga

Join the beautiful Nino of True Essence at My Secret Garden each week for grounding, heart centred yoga:

Nino is a truly beautiful teacher, guiding with warmth, presence and care. Whether you’re looking to build strength and balance, or to slow down and soften, her classes offer the perfect space to reconnect with your body, breath, and inner calm.

My Secret Garden, 43 Wakefield Street, Onekawa 🌹

06/10/2025

Tuesday's | 1pm | 14 Oct - 2 Dec 2025

Carly Phillips Wholeness Aotearoa will be facilitating another 8 week block of Trauma Centre -Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) at My Secret Garden alongside Kelly Forrest (psychotherapist).

This ACC funded yoga is available for those with an "accepted" mental injury, most commonly PTSD as a result of sexualised violence or physical injury.

The TCTSY methodology is based on central components of the Hatha style of yoga where participants engage in a series of physical forms and movements. Elements are modified to maximize experiences of empowerment and to cultivate a more positive relationship to one's body.

Unlike non TCTSY yoga classes, TCTSY does not use physical hands-on adjustments to influence a participant's physical form. Rather, TCTSY presents opportunities for participants to be in charge of themselves based on a felt sense of their own body.

All shapes are invitational - this non-coercive approach dismantles some of the power dynamics between facilitator and participant with the hope of making the space safe enough for participants to explore their internal selves
(interoception).

06/10/2025

Ecstatic Disco Night with Ra ~

Friday nights at .secret.garden.nz are pure magic when Ra holds space for Ecstatic Disco Night. The music, the movement, the freedom - it’s honestly one of my favourite ways to release and reconnect!

I LOVE to dance. To move without thought, to feel the rhythm and shake loose. There’s something so beautiful and liberating about letting the body lead - the laughter, the sweat, the wildness, the stillness that follows........BLISS!

If you’ve never experienced one of Ra’s classes..........come! You’ll leave lighter, freer, and glowing from the inside out. 🌹

*Next Ecstatic Dance nights date announced soon!

05/10/2025

🌿 Wild Foraging Magic 🌿

Here's 3 (of many) potions I have brewing currently.......

🍃 Nettle Oxymel

Fresh nettle leaves ~ loosely fill jar ¾ full (gloves on!). Or dried nettle ~ fill jar ½ full

Pour in 2 parts raw apple cider vinegar + 1 part mānuka or raw honey

Stir gently until honey dissolves ~ seal and steep 4-6 weeks ~ strain into dark glass bottle

Benefits ~ minerals ~ energy ~ blood cleanse ~ skin ~ hair ~ allergy relief ~ gentle daily tonic

🌸 Elderflower Cordial

Steep aprox 20 Elderflower heads + 1 sliced lemon in 1 litre of boiled water overnight

Strain out the flowers and lemon ~ stir in 200g of Mānuka honey

Bottle + refrigerate ~ keeps 1–2 weeks or freeze in cubes

Benefits ~ immunity ~ colds + flu ~ cooling ~ soothing ~ uplifting spirit

🌱 Fizzy cleavers

Combine 2 cups of chopped fresh cleavers (sticky w***y) in 1 litre of room temp water, the juice of 1 lemon, 4 tbsp of mānuka honey and small piece of grated ginger in a jar or bottle

Stir well + cover loosely to let gases escape ~ leave for aprox 4 days at room temp stiring twice daily (until bubbly)

Strain + refrigerate ~ enjoy chilled and fizzy

Benefits ~ lymph cleanse ~ detox ~ cooling ~ energising ~ skin support

Nature provides everything we need ~ when we gather with care + gratitude! 🌹

03/10/2025

I feel brave posting this!

✨ Noku Mana by Curawaka ✨

Sung in Hatxa Kui, the ancestral language of the Huni Kuin people of the Amazon, this is a sacred medicine song. Its words call in the spirits of the Earth, Wind, Forest, Stars, Sun, Moon, Water and Consciousness ~ reminding us that we are these elements, and that their healing power is here with us now.

Medicine songs are prayers carried through melody, sung to realign, to heal, to connect us back to the living web of spirit.

I love this song! ~ it lights me up every time I sing it..........it is also the sound of my morning alarm! I really do LOVE this song!

As an English woman, giving voice to words not of my own tongue feels like a blessing ~ a way to honour another culture’s prayer and let spirit move freely through me.

May this song carry medicine to whoever listens. 🌹

02/10/2025

Ok it's Friday........I should have posted this Monday.........but there is a reason I'm posting now .......... scroll to the bottom to read why!

Classes this week were/are........

Monday 29/9/25 - 9-10.30am 26&2 Hot Yoga at Yippie Yopi Yoga Studio

Monday 29/9/25 - 7.30-8.30pm Koha Yoga Nidra at My Secret Garden

Wednesday 1/10/25 - 12-12.45pm 26&2 Hot Yoga at Yippie Yopi Yoga Studio

Wednesday 1/10/25 - 5.15-6-15pm 26&2 Hot Yoga at Yippie Yopi Yoga Studio

Thursday 2/10/25 - 6.30-7.15pm 26&2 Hot Yoga at Yippie Yopi Yoga Studio

Friday 3/10/25 - 9-10 30am 26&2 Hot Yoga at Yippie Yopi Yoga Studio

Saturday 4/10/25 - 9.15-10.15am 26&2 Hot Yoga at Yippie Yopi Yoga Studio

Sunday. 5/10/25 - 6-7pm Yin Yoga at Yippie Yopi Yoga Studio

Sunday 5/10/25 - 8-9pm Koha Silent 26&2 Hot Yoga at Yippie Yopi Yoga Studio

So I want to tell you about the silent 90 minute 26&2 I'm teaching on Sunday 8-9pm.......this class is for those of you who already know the Asanas in the 26&2 sequence and want to experience the peace of a silent class. So what happens is. .......the lighting is low, I will practice with you, all I say is the Asana/posture name in English and then I say "change" when we come out/into the next Asana........ no other Instructions.
It's a beautiful peaceful class - the silence and darkness helps with focusing your breath and quieting the mind.
AND ITS KOHA EXCHANGE!!!!
So pay what you can and come try it........it's a great way to end the week. ###

30/09/2025

🌿 Hatha Yoga with Nino 🌿

Join the beautiful Nino of True Essence at My Secret Garden each week for grounding, heart centred yoga:

• Tuesdays 7-8pm - Hatha Yoga
• Saturdays 9-10am - Gentle Hatha Yoga

Nino is a truly beautiful teacher, guiding with warmth, presence and care. Whether you’re looking to build strength and balance, or to slow down and soften, her classes offer the perfect space to reconnect with your body, breath, and inner calm.

My Secret Garden, 43 Wakefield Street, Onekawa 🌹

Hatha Yoga is not only a physical journey.

Traditionally, it prepares us for inner stillness and deeper awareness.

A journey that begins in the body… and slowly opens the heart 💜

🌸A thought to carry to your next practice 🌸

30/09/2025

🪑 Chair Yoga at My Secret Garden 🪑

Every Thursday 10:30-11:30am join the lovely Olivia Cooper () at My Secret Garden for a gentle yet powerful practice designed to support your body and calm your mind.

Chair Yoga is a wonderfully accessible way to experience the many benefits of yoga without the need to get up and down from the floor.
Each class includes:

• Mindfulness + meditation

• Gentle stretching + mobility

• Strengthening with resistance bands

• Balance work for stability

• And always a few laughs along the way!

Perfect for seniors, but open to all bodies and all ages who would love a supportive and welcoming space.

My Secret Garden, 43 Wakefield Street, Onekawa
Just $10 per person
Thursdays 10:30-11:30am

Come along........or invite someone you know who might benefit from a more accessible way to enjoy yoga. 🌹