Upcoming events at Āio Wīra
Visit our Calendar page for weekly Yoga sessions
On this page you will find Āio Wīra run events as well as offerings from other organisations. Details on the differences between Āio Wīra Juice Fasts and 3 Day Wellness Retreats are below. Our Juice Fasts are mostly 5 Days, with one 7 Day and one 10 Day retreat offered each year.
Juice Fasts (5, 7 or 10 Days)
For centuries, fasting has been used as a way to heal the body, mind and spirit, restoring balance and clarity. A Juice Fast at Āio Wīra offers you the space to step away from everyday life and take time for deep rest, renewal and reconnection.
You will be nourished with organic fruit and vegetable juices, along with a warming vegetable potassium broth in the evening.
Our experienced facilitators will guide you through the process, sharing the principles and benefits of fasting in a supportive and caring environment. Daily yoga and meditation sessions are complemented by a variety of guest-led workshops, such as Qi Gong and Reflexology. Massages and bodywork therapy are available as an optional extra.
In your free time, enjoy the peace of our tranquil sanctuary, there are bushwalks to enjoy, spa and sauna, or a refreshing swim in the river. Famous Te Henga (Bethalls) beach is a 10 minute drive away.
Investment is $725 for 5 Days, $965 for 7 Days, $1,295 for 10 Days. Payment plans are available. See upcoming dates below.
3 Day Wellness Retreats (Fri 9am to Sun 1pm)
These retreats are a 2-night, 3-day program designed to offer a deeply restful and nourishing reset. You will be gently supported with organic fruit and vegetable juices, nutritionally enhanced smoothies, and a warming blended soup each evening.
The weekend includes daily yoga and meditation, access to the spa and sauna, inspiring presenter-led workshops, and optional body therapy. The program is thoughtfully paced, allowing generous 'you time', to walk, read, reflect, or simply rest.
Led by qualified facilitators, the retreat offers high-quality nourishment, gentle guidance, and unhurried space to reset. Set within the tranquil surroundings of Āio Wīra, the experience supports meaningful and lasting lifestyle shifts, from healthier eating and movement habits to reduced stress and renewed motivation.
Investment is $495, payment plans are available. See upcoming dates below.
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Āio Wīra 5 Day Juice Fast with Barry
Contact us with any questions or to book your place.
Barry is warm and caring with many years of experience fasting and facilitating at Āio Wīra. Fasters enjoy his relaxed and friendly approach. He has trained as a Naturopath and specialised in body therapies, having taught massage, anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, and Bowen technique for over 24 years.
“Āio Wīira is a spiritual home for me and I’m always excited to bring my life long skills for the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual upliftment to attendees of the fasting and retreat programs at Āio Wīira.”
Investment is $725, payment plans are available.
Mother Wild Women's Retreat
Mar 27th - 29th (Fri- Sun)
https://motherwild.com/newzealand2
Join Karryn Miller & Carmela Fleury for a weekend retreat at Aio Wira. Relax, re-energize, and re-emerge a slightly sparklier version of yourself. You’ll enjoy yoga practices from vinyasa to yin, workshops for all the feel good mental and physical stretches, breathwork, meditation, vision boarding, lots of giggles, good conversation, and delicious plant-based meals. Karryn has been teaching yoga all over the world for nearly two decades. She has completed multiple Hatha and Vinyasa yoga teacher trainings, is a certified Reiki practitioner, and Yoga Nidra teacher. Carmela is a Wayfinder Master Coach, a Certified Holistic Health Coach, a Yin Yoga teacher, and a Psychosomatic facilitator-in-training. She loves leading retreats worldwide. This, along with avoiding laundry, has been her specialty since 2011. They have been running retreats together since 2019.
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Wisdom and Hormones: Embracing Change
Understanding, Empowering, and Celebrating Change With Marie Tamatea
Book here "Let’s honour and celebrate the hormonal changes we experience, embracing the wisdom they bring”
What to expect
Daily yoga, workshops including breath-work, essential oils, as well as a women’s health workshop run by registered nurse and registered naturopath who has been involved in healthcare for nearly 30 years. Diving into the science to gain a deeper understanding of our hormones, we can release fear and negativity surrounding this life transition.
Together, we’ll learn how to embrace these changes with confidence, balance, and vitality as we step into the next chapter of life.
This is an all inclusive retreat, with beautiful vegetarian meals, herbal teas, coffee provided *can cater for all dietary requirements (dietary requests on booking).
Apr 23rd - 29th (Thu-Wed)
In this retreat we will be exploring self-observation in depth - what it is and what it isn’t. Some of the topics we’ll explore include attention vs intention, relational awareness and insight, cultivating qi, opening the body and stabilising attention.
Body opening and partner practices enable a visceral (felt) experience of your nervous system, giving you increasing governance over how you react to the world and aids in bringing insight into the biology. We’ll be freeing up the fascia, liberating and accumulating qi in the body and doing mind strengthening practices to cultivate Will, determination and stability of mind.
A 6-day retreat is transformative and will enrich your life significantly. With very little distraction and a peaceful setting we can explore the mind-body-spirit relationship in depth. People who have attended long retreats, have found them to be particularly valuable, not only for the significant deepening of their practice, but also the community and support that develops amongst attendees.
If you really want to transform your mind and body, make this retreat a priority this year. It’s deeply replenishing, fascinating, educational and fun…and the food is great.
More info here - https://www.grahammead.com/events or email office@grahammmead.com
Āio Wīra 5 Day Easter Juice Fast with Di
Contact us with any questions or to book your place.
Di was the matriarch of Āio Wīra for many years. She lived at the cottage onsite and ran the centre for 31 years. Now living locally in a co-housing community, Di continues to run four retreats a year and is a popular choice with fasters. Qualified as a nurse and a naturapath, she has a loyal following who enjoy her lighthearted, practical and humorous approach. Many laughs and stories will be shared.
Investment is $725, payment plans are available.
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Double Holotropic Breathwork Residential Retreat
May 1st - 3rd (Fri - Sun)
To secure your place, email jirihan@gmail.com and send a deposit of $300 to Account: 01-0297-0417877-46 (account name: Jiri Hanus). Please include your name and "Auckland Retreat" as a reference. Please note that the deposit becomes non-refundable two weeks prior to the event's start date.
Join us for a transformational retreat at the serene Aio Wira center, nestled in lush native forest 30min from Auckland. This retreat offers a great opportunity to use Holotropic Breathing® for deep personal exploration and growth, featuring two breathwork sessions, integration techniques and group exercises. Guided by Jiri Hanus, a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner from the Czech Republic, living and leading Holotropic Breathwork circles in New Zealand, and Veronika Rybova, certified mental health practitioner and therapist.
On Saturday and Sunday, we'll have two Holotropic Breathwork sessions each day, allowing each participant to breathe twice over the weekend. Followed by sharing circles. We will conclude the retreat around 8 pm on Sunday.
Our retreat offers two breathwork sessions, group sharing, mandala drawing, and various methods of integration. This practice is beneficial to anyone interested in self-exploration, self-healing, and spiritual growth. Participants may experience emotional release, creative inspiration, inner guidance, support during transitions or grieving, and a renewed spiritual connection.
From Friday's dinner through Sunday evening, the retreat will be fully catered, featuring delicious and healthy meals.
Āio Wīra 3 Day Wellness with Jill
May 8th -10th (Fri - Sun)
Contact us with any questions or to book your place.
Jill's passion is food and nutrition. She believes a healthy, organic and fresh food diet enhances our lifestyle and longevity. "Food is the best medicine!". She has a Diploma of Nutrition and studied at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies.
Fasters love Jill's warm and approachable style. She is kind and insightful and with her many years of experience running retreats at Āio Wīra, she has extensive knowledge to share.
Investment is $495, payment plans are available.
Spiritual Awakening Retreat with Kim Robertson
May 15th -17th (Fri - Sun)
ARE YOU READY FOR A LIFE CHANGING WEEKEND?
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Meet your Spirit Guides and learn to work with them.
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Feel the connection, love and guidance from your Spirit Team, Angels and Guardians.
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Enjoy guided meditations for deep relaxation.
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Balance your energy with Crystals.
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Tarot and Oracle card reading.
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Crystal grid making for manifestation.
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Understand how you are creating and directing your future.
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Gain a deeper knowledge of who you are and what your purpose is.
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Āio Wīra 3 Day Winter Wellness with Di
June 12th - 14th (Fri - Sun)
Contact us with any questions or to book your place.
Di was the matriarch of Āio Wīra for many years. She lived at the cottage onsite and ran the centre for 31 years. Now living locally in a co-housing community, Di continues to run four retreats a year and is a popular choice with fasters. Qualified as a nurse and a naturapath, she has a loyal following who enjoy her lighthearted, practical and humorous approach. Many laughs and stories will be shared.
Investment $495. Payment plans are available
Winter Soul Soothe, Womens' Retreat with Wild Stillness Retreats
June 25-28 (Thu - Sun)
For more info and to book: www.wildstillnessretreats.co.nz/soulsoothe
or email us at wildstillnessretreats@gmail.com
Over 4 days and 3 nights, we cultivate a deeply grounding, nurturing and vibrantly connected space. Every element of our retreat is carefully curated to create a spacious and flowing experience, guiding you towards a deeper connection with yourself, the world around you and other like-minded women.
Join us as we explore our connection to the breath and body through breathwork, yoga, dance, music and meditation. Through creative workshops we generate a curiosity for our feminine nature, embracing intuition, self-expression and our relationship to nature. Take home practices that will serve you long into the future, giving in to the opportunity to celebrate who you are. Nourish your body inside and out with our absolutely delicious organic vegetarian food, cooked with love by our incredible retreat chef Toni, from Ubuntu Kai .
Start each day with a flowing yoga class, followed by inspiring workshops, deep relaxation techniques and ample opportunity to wander the beautiful surroundings of our gorgeous retreat space. We limit this retreat to 14 women, creating a safe environment to slow-down, be yourself and feel truly comfortable together.
Beth and Vanessa are your welcoming retreat guides at Wild Stillness Retreats. Together they have decades of experience as teachers and facilitators, in yoga, meditation, workshops, music, ecology and creative expression. Their aim is to create a truly authentic space to be free, honest, deep and joyful.
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Transglobal Matariki Residency - hosted by Arts Connections Oceania (ACO)
July 3rd - 9th (Mon-Thu)
email: ethnonewzealand@gmail.com
This residency is both a music gathering and an educational space - a place to grow skills in intercultural music-sharing, facilitation, and inclusive practice.
Drawing on Ethno-inspired pedagogy, developed over the past 35 years, and ACO’s experience in intercultural arts-making, the residency combines:
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Workshops led by facilitators in expertise across intercultural music making and facilitation, global arts management and human rights-based community practice
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Collaborative music-making
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Practical tools for working with diverse groups
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Peer learning and reflection
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Shared meals, jamming, community and land connection
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This is a space for learning with each other through music, participation, and relationship as we gather in the season of Matariki.
Who is it for?
This residency is open to musicians from all backgrounds, and is especially great for:
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Music educators
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Community musicians and ensemble leaders
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Facilitators working in group settings
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Professional and emerging musicians wanting new tools and inspiration
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People wanting to grow confidence in inclusive, welcoming music spaces
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Musicians from diverse communities in the Aotearoa music scene
You do not need to be an expert to join - just bring your instrument/voice, curiosity, and willingness to learn in community.
We know everyone comes with different goals - this residency is designed to support both personal growth and professional learning.