Aro Ha Podcast
From the internationally lauded Aro Ha Wellness Retreat, this is a place where we pirouette on the cutting edge of wellness. Founder Damian Chaparro goes beyond the cover with experts in movement, mindfulness, nutrition, and lifestyle optimization. These conscious conversations will take you into the minds and personal stories of those who are illuminating a path toward living exceptionally well. Welcome to the Adventures in Wellbeing Podcast.
If you've ever been interested in fasting but unsure why and how it's done, this is the episode for you. Ben Dessard, the main guide on our 5-day online fasting-mimicking cleanse, the Seasonal Renew, and Integrative Health Practitioner breaks down the science and sheds light on a topic with so many benefits that it seems too good to be true.
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In this episode, we speak to the talented and grounded Wellington, New Zealand-based architect Hugh Tennent. If you’re interested in design, if you’ve ever felt there was something special in the spaces here at Aro Ha Wellness Retreat, or if you’re in the process of designing something yourself, then this is your episode.
These days it's easy to feel fear, frustration, or fatigue when it comes to COVID-19. In this episode, Damian speaks with Professor Grant Schofield to synthesise a refreshing perspective that helps us relax and steer ourselves through these transitional times. Expect to learn what you can do to elevate your immune response, while appropriately assessing risk.
Prepare to discover an ability to turn the scariest parts of your life into the most valuable learning opportunities. Speaking with Damian is the powerful speaker, breathe work teacher, meditation facilitator, and leadership coach, Scott Schwenk. If you’ve ever been curious about your potential to shift, this is the episode for you.
Using her experience with food as medicine is Auckland, New Zealand’s Little Bird Organics founder, Megan May. She takes us back to the start of her journey into plant-based eating, gives a message to omnivores, and offers some advice on how to create your personal diet through investigating your most important values.
Damian speaks with the multi-talented Dustin Brown, who we like to call the yoga-ninja-surfer. They delve into navigating the world of yoga as a man and how yoga can support us optimising this human experience.
A conversation with Ben Warren, talking all things from the connection between nutrition and mental health to cultivating our spiritual landscape.
Damian speaks with the neural-hacking, belief busting, featured educator, Dr. Amanda Foo-Ryland. Tune in as Amanda shares insight into her most powerful neural coding tools.
Aotearoa, New Zealand, has within it an incredible depth of Maori practice, language, and culture. To explore this depth, we talk with the eloquent Makuini Tai and the skillful Atarangi Muru.
In this episode, Damian speaks with one of the shimmering lights of American wellness culture, Catharina Hedberg. You won’t want to miss this chat with a legend.
If you want to elevate your immune function while still enjoying a wine or a coffee this is the episode for you. Michele shares her story from corporate box-ticking to becoming an ambassador for nutritional transformation.
Holistic Nutritionist and whole foods chef, Lee Holmes, is a powerhouse who is shining light on the path. Amongst many great insights, she’ll be sharing with us about her self-healing journey through Fibromyalgia and Crohn’s disease and tips and tricks for improving immune function, minimizing stress, and striking a better work-life balance.