Upcoming workshops & retreats
At Bali Garden we love hosting workshops and retreats for the body, mind and soul. See below for all our upcoming events.
If you would like to host a workshop or retreat please contact us here.
6-Week Beginner Meditation Course With Alex Davids
Friday 1st August - 5th September 2025
12pm - 1pm
$130
Starting out on your meditation journey? Come along and learn the basics, with practice times building across the length of the course. Find deeper patience, a steadier mind and a more consistent calm energy in your life.
Learn about physical elements such as posture, proper breath, as well as how to find and stay in present moment awareness, how to develop the length of your sitting times and address any of the mindset barriers we put in the way of our practice. We'll also discuss how we practically fit in a meditation practice and what the real benefits of a consistent practice can be. Open to anyone wishing to learn.
An Evening of Yoga Nidra With Rebecca Leaker
Friday 1st August
6pm - 7.30pm
$30
Unwind, rest and reconnect with yourself through the practice of Yoga Nidra. Also known as “yogic sleep,” this guided relaxation takes you into a deeply relaxed state between wakefulness and sleep, where healing and transformation can occur.
Whether you seek stress relief, better sleep, inner clarity, or quality time for yourself, this evening offers a powerful reset for the mind and body. No prior experience is necessary, every body is welcome, all equipment is provided and we will finish with a sweet treat.
Simply come as you are and let the practice guide you into a restful, tranquil state.
Radiance Awakening and Healing Retreat with Tanya Stanyeva
Saturday 9th August 2025
10am - 4.30pm
$200
Join us for a rejuvenating all-day retreat at Bali Garden, Matakana — a peaceful, lush sanctuary that feels like stepping into Bali without leaving Aotearoa.
This special retreat is designed to help you:
Activate your body with Qigong or Yoga (we’ll choose the practice that best supports your highest outcome)
Release stress through unique movement practices
Raise your vibration with love practice, stillness practice, Sathu Nails Board, and gratitude meditation
Awaken your soul through powerful soul-to-soul connections, guided meditations, and energy work that reconnects you to your true essence
You’ll also experience deeply restorative healing, including:
Reiki healing
Sound meditation with crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, gong, rain pillar, singing pyramids, and more
Our healing team includes: Alex (Meditation Instructor & Reiki Practitioner), Tanya (Multidimensional Healer & Reiki Master), Marina Bloom (our guest and singer who has healing power in her voice)
A nourishing vegan lunch is included, enjoyed outdoors (weather permitting), along with nature-based Qigong or yoga and a walking meditation through our stunning gardens.
We provide yoga mats, cushions, blankets — and a small gift for everyone.
It’s the full Bali retreat experience — right here in Auckland.
A Day Of Yin - Exploring the Yiniverse With Wendy Douglas
Sunday 10th August 2025
12pm - 5pm
$175
Join Wendy Douglas for a nurturing and spacious day of Yin Yoga in the tranquil surrounds of Bali Garden. This slow, soulful practice invites you to pause, release, and reconnect—with your body, breath, and inner landscape. Whether you’re new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, this retreat offers a deep dive into the powerful stillness of Yin.
The day is designed to help you drop fully into the Yiniverse, a realm where surrender is the path, and stillness is the teacher. You’ll leave feeling grounded, open, and deeply chilled.
What to Expect
An Introduction to Yin
● What is Yin and how is it different from other styles
● Brief history of Yin Yoga
● The role of fascia, meridians, and the chakras in the Yin practice
Learning & Integration
● A look at key Yin postures and their benefits
● How Yin supports the nervous system, joints, and energetic body
● Plenty of time to experience the practice through your own body
Nourishment
A delicious plant-based lunch will be served. Take into the peaceful garden setting, journal, rest, or connect with others.
Yin Practice
The after lunch session invites you into deeper stillness, guided breath, and restorative presence - an immersion in the quieter rhythms of being.
Wendy Douglas is a devoted guide of the slow path - a yoga teacher, coach, event curator, and DJ who honours the quiet power of stillness alongside the vitality of yang practices. Yin yoga has deeply transformed areas of her life, inviting softness, patience, and balance.
Her classes are spacious, sometimes silent, grounding, and soulfully attuned, encouraging you to soften, surrender, and listen within. Sometimes she weaves in music, singing bowls, and chimes to deepen release and rebalancing.
Women’s Moon Circle With Georgia Roberts
Sunday 10th August 2025
6.30pm -8.30pm
$65
When women come together in community real magic happens. If you’re looking for a place where you can have some breathing room and get to heal in a space without judgement.
Join us for our women’s circles. In this space we use transformational breathing to open up our bodies and move any stuck energy that might be keeping us from moving forward and attaining our goals
Music & Meditation With Olivia Maguire
Friday 15th August 2025
6.00pm - 8.00pm
$50
Olivia has spent the past 20 years supporting others through yoga, massage, and healing practices, and in recent years, her path has gently opened into the world of music and mantra. Singing and songwriting have become a powerful extension of her work, offering both personal healing and a way to hold space for others. “The songs I share often begin as small offerings—written for friends, for myself, or for moments of growth and challenge. Each one is rooted in a simple truth, a mantra, or a message to guide us back to ourselves.”
This Music and Meditation evening is an invitation to experience these songs live. Music created with the intention to soothe, uplift, and gently remind us of our own inner wisdom.
Simply listen, journal, or rest in stillness. Warm tea, cushions, blankets and bolsters provided.
Sound Bath with Ema Frost
Sunday 17th August 2025
9.45am-10.45am
$45
Come along to this beautiful, healing and calming 'Sound Bath by Frost' Workshop at the magical Bali Garden at Point Wells, Matakana.
You are invited to this unique 50 minute sound bath experience to slow down, rest, and receive healing vibrations while immersed in these beautiful singing bowls, which are quartz crystal from Nepal all tuned to specific tones/notes which correspond to each chakra. Crystal singing bowls are ancient Eastern medicine. Each bowl emit a powerful, healing resonant sound with the tone lasting longer, simply because of the size specific tuning and amount of pure crystal.
You will not actually be in a bath. This event is water free, Sound Bath is the name for singing bowl immersion. Letting your body feel the full experience from the vibrations and healing properties. Just to name a few of the benefits….
+ Reduced blood pressure
+ Increase in immune system function
+ Enhanced sleep and memory
+ Mood regulation
+ Reduced stress and anxiety
+ Improved circulation and blood flow
+ Promoted happiness and sense of well-being
+ Relaxation and pain relief
+ Increased aura (people may notice this)
NB: You will be laying down on your back for this session so you can enjoy the full experience.
Kintsugi Workshop with Ema Frost
Sunday 17th August 2025
11.30am-1.30pm
$175
Come along and have a beautiful zen day with this Kintsugi Workshop at the magical Bali Garden at Point Wells.
Learn the magical art of Kintsugi with Artist Ema Frost in this new Workshop. You can bring along a piece of your own pottery to restore in this beautiful style. (I'll also have a few as back up if you don't have your own piece) (All Levels).
Ema Frost is a very clever Kiwi Artist, who has been teaching Kintsugi for 5+ years and regularly travels to Japan to study and learn new techniques. Ema's illustrations and ceramic works sit in many of our countries best galleries, and whose products and merchandise sell in the most stylish design stores and gallery shops. Her style is enchanting - quirky, feminine and colourful, and clearly influenced by her travels throughout the world, usually off the beaten track.
Have you ever wanted to try Kintsugi.... It's an ancient Japanese art form where you fix broken pottery with gold - making its imperfections its beauty. - A truly wonderful philosophy to live by. Nothing is ever really broken but new life and meaning is brought back making your piece a work of art and truly something special. You can also apply this technique on various materials like glass, wood, greenstone and shells.
What you will take away:
A finished artwork piece
A understanding of Kintsugi
Knowledge and History of this beautiful art form.
Flow For Performance Workshop With Christina McGrath
Saturday 23rd August 2025
10.00am-2.00pm
$150
Join high performance coach and yoga teacher Christina McGrath for a one-day experience designed to reconnect you with your strength, mobility, clarity and calm. This is your chance to step away from the hustle, get back into your body, and walk away feeling stronger, clearer, and more aligned with the way you want to move through life.
This workshop blends everything Christina brings to the table — movement, mindset, recovery, and nutrition — in a way that’s structured, fun, and completely accessible for athletes, weekend warriors, and wellness seekers alike.
What the Day Includes:
Flow Yoga – Start the day with breath-led movement to build energy and focus
Strength & Balance Poses – Learn how to build functional strength and stability through smart sequencing
Mobility for Real Life – Simple tools and sequences to counter long days, hard training, and modern living
Mindset Hacks – Practical tips from sports psychology to rewire your energy and boost resilience.
Nutrition Tips for Energy – Understand what really fuels performance, recovery, and mental clarity Space to Reflect + Reboot – Guided journaling + discussion to leave feeling aligned + empowered
Tea + Treats – Of course. Always. You’ll be nourished inside and out.
Who It's For:
If you love to move, and want to create more balance in your active life — this is for you. Runners, lifters, yogis, surfers, cyclists, adventurers, high-performers, or anyone craving a reset with purpose.
No experience needed — just bring an open mind, a yoga mat, and a willingness to move.
About Christina:
Christina McGrath is a qualified psychology graduate, certified high performance coach, yoga teacher, and nutrition coach with over a decade of experience helping individuals perform at their best — physically, mentally, and emotionally.
The Recharge Retreat With Lauren Filer
Sunday 24th August 2025
10.30am-4.30pm
$250
A sanctuary for rest, renewal, and realignment.
Pause. Reconnect. Recharge.
When was the last time you gave yourself permission to truly rest.
In a world that constantly demands more, it’s easy to pour from an empty cup. This retreat is your chance to step away from the busyness of life and intentionally invest in yourself.
Welcome to Recharge Day Retreat, where the focus is on filling your cup, restoring your energy, and nurturing your mind, body, and soul.
Song & Sound Medicine With Lauren Ryburn
Friday 29th August 2025
6.30pm-8.30pm
$40, or two class credits using membership.
Join Lauren for an evening of vocal expression, singing and sound healing.
This is an intentional vibrational healing container where we will explore, release and express through a range of intuitive vocal practices and collective singing. Finishing off with bathing in a soothing instrumental and soul song transmission from Lauren.
We will activate our own innate healing vibration through vocal sounding, chanting and toning to recalibrate our energy body and soothe our soul. When will come together to sing - as our ancestors once did, to evoke and reignite joy, play, heart-expansion, soul healing and the remembrance of our innate connection to earth mother, the divine and the collective.
Lauren Ryburn is an Intuitive Healer and Holistic Therapist with over 19 years experience of working and weaving with energy.
She weaves vibrational sound healing and song into her healing practices, 1-1 sessions and group circles and has found it to be profoundly healing on many levels.
“I have been on a journey of reclamation and self healing through vocal expression and singing over the last several years and it has brought me back home to myself on so many levels. I am excited to bring this forward to share with others in a playful and nurturing container.”
Winter Ayurveda Day Retreat With Ayurveda NZ
Sunday 31st August 2025
10am-4pm
$349
This will be an authentic experience of Ayurvedic food, treatments, cleansing practices, educational talks and Yoga in a tranquil setting just a 50 minutes north of Auckland.
Escape for the day and immerse yourself in the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda. Learn about its history, philosophy, basic principles, and daily rituals. The program will include a traditional Hatha Yoga class, morning tea and lunch with nourishing Ayurvedic food, an 'Introduction to Ayurveda' talk, a workshop with demonstrations of Ayurvedic cleansing techniques and a relaxing Yoga Nidra session.
Each participant will receive an Ayurvedic treatment called Shiro Abhyanga while listening to the educational talks sitting on a conformable massage chair. Shiro Abhyanga involves massaging the scalp, neck, and shoulders with warm medicated herbal oils. Based on a preliminary questionnaire and a physical assessment we will determine your
dosha (body-mind constitution) to select a suitable medicated oil for your Shiro Abhyanga massage.
Benediction Moon - Kirtan With Samaan & Friends
Friday 26th September 2025
6pm - 8pm
KOHA donation
Benediction Moon, a kirtan band from New Zealand, create a distinct and serene musical experience infused with the transformative essence of mantra meditation. Rooted in their personal pursuit of peace through kirtan, the members come together to share not only their love for the practice but also their musical abilities. Join Benediction Moon as they create a unique and peaceful kirtan journey, inviting others to partake in a spiritual happiness that they themselves find within mantra meditation.
Come for a relaxing evening of guided heartfelt kirtan!
The program includes kirtan, breathwork and a simple tea & supper. This event is suitable for everyone, whether you regularly engage in meditation, or this is your first time.
Kirtan is mantra meditation accompanied by music. Some of the Benefits include:
~ Purify your consciousness
~ Cultivate mindfulness
~ Experience spiritual happiness
~ Wash away worries and fears
Contact Samaan to book below or call 020 4019 2073
Warm the Heart - Winter Day Retreat with Claire Goad & Frankie Cole
Sunday 28th September 2025
10.30am - 4.30pm
$250
Come and spend the day with Claire & Frankie - a beautiful collaboration combining the medicine of Cacao and the Blue Lotus flower.
What you will receive ;
● A divine Cacao Ceremony.
● Oracle card reading and Journaling - an opportunity to give thanks to mother earth, connecting with her and in turn allowing a deeper connection with yourself.
● Guided meditations - to allow for stillness and reflection.
● Mindfulness Practices - bringing gratitude into your daily lives.
● Blue lotus flower ritual - Frankie will introduce us to the mystical Blue Lotus - sharing its ancient origins, heart-opening properties, and sacred uses. We’ll then be guided through a gentle ritual: holding the flower, breathing in its essence, and stirring our personal intentions into a warm cup of tea.
● Sound Bath Journey, with the use of drums, crystal bowls and chimes.
● Delicious lunch, morning tea and refreshments provided
Hosted by Claire Goad from She Rose (Hand to Heart) and Frankie Cole from Lotus Yogi.
A gorgeous day - a day completely for YOU!
Positive Birth Prep Retreat - With Helen Bartrom
Saturday 1st November 2025
10.30am-4.30pm
$455 per couple, 8 hours of tuition (6 hours on the retreat and 2 hours of follow-up online live sessions), The Positive Births in NZ book, set of affirmation cards, workbook, 10 downloadable audio tracks to practise and ongoing support.
The Positive Birth Prep Retreat is designed especially for pregnant couples due between August - December.
Enjoy guided meditation, deep relaxation, breath work, empowering education and mental preparation for a positive birth journey.
The day retreat is part of the Positive Births course empowering couples to feel calm, confident and fully prepared for their birth regardless of what circumstances occur along the way.
New Moon Retreat With Lauren Filer
Sunday 23rd November 2025
10.30am-4.30pm
$250
Release. Realign. Refocus
Do you feel ready to release what no longer serves you and make space for what truly matters? The end of the year is a powerful time to pause, reflect, and set intentions for the season ahead.
The New Moon Day Retreat invites you to reconnect with your inner self, let go of the past, and align with your true desires. Under the magic of the New Moon, we’ll create space for clarity, healing, and a fresh start.
Life can often leave us feeling depleted—giving so much of our energy that we lose sight of our direction. This retreat is designed to fill your cup and guide you toward abundance, so you can move into the new year feeling calm, centered, and recharged.