What a wonderful host that is Aarya! What a safe and welcoming place this is! What delicious food that she cooked! What an amazing hike it was - barefoot and silence - I loved it! What a fun and healing time I had at the beach! Everything I experienced was so amazing healing and nourishing. I mean the first night I slept like 12 hours! - 12 hours! - I haven't slept like that long since I was 18, Lol. Her vegan cooking was so nourishing and fulfilling, yet so simple. It actually inspired me to think more about becoming vegan, which I feel like this retreat validated me. Aarya's generosity and compassion literally radiates through her eyes and face! I can see it and it makes me want to be like that. I am sure that all those years of practicing spirituality and raising her daughters made her to be this wonderful being. Thank you very much Aarya, for everything! I feel like I experienced a great one on one host who showed me her generosity and compassion at work on everyday situation. From simple things like asking how was the sleep, to how I would like to do things like art and meditation. I truly enjoyed my stay. I also learned to like the jungle noise - frogs and pigs - Haha! Much Love and Gratitude

The experience with Aarya was absolutely amazing. I loved how the retreat was centered around what I was needing in the moment. We talked about areas that I need support with such as more self-reflection, removal of outside distractions (cellphone!), and just living in the moment. We walked through the most beautiful trail that led to a private beach. We watched the sunset in silence while sitting on lava rocks. One night she did a sound bath and my spirit felt so cleansed afterwards. The food was AMAZING, filling, and aided in some digestion issues I was experiencing. I will definitely be back. Thank you Aarya for helping bring out the inner peace that was already within me the whole time. Until next time.

My heart is Full! My work is in the rat race of the business world and I am a mom to two beautiful kids who are constantly needing to get from one place to the next. My inner light had burned so low in recent years, and I knew I had to do something to start the healing process and to start living differently. Aarya gave me the space, kindness, guidance and pure love that I needed. I did not expect to be transformed overnight, but I entered with an open heart, and practically overnight I have been filled to the brim. I am also taking practices home with me so I can keep my own flame lit so I can best share that light with others. In an extremely short time, Aarya helped me rejuvenate my body, mind and soul. I am forever in gratitude for this experience and for Aarya. Pure Love and Mahalo!

“What a “Profound Experience” I had during my one on one retreat with Aarya! And I am continuing to reap the benefits weeks later. She was so gracious, giving us the opportunity to dialogue and do quite a bit of the planning of our program by phone before I arrived. This offering was oh so helpful. She was very accommodating in so many ways throughout our retreat. On the afternoon I arrived, she met me in the driveway wearing a beautiful welcoming smile. Of course, she helped me unpack and get settled into my room. The room was very cozy with all the basic and tastefully chosen furniture. Two of our three mornings we began our day by chanting and meditation before sunrise, accompanied by her passionate playing of her harmonium. What a blessing! One day she shared a very powerful Falun Gong Practice with me on the lava flow by her lovely home during sunrise. My favorite healing experience was her gift of using the toning bowls and crystal bowls during the sunset time. Before arriving I had requested to have alone time and of course she was so gracious in allowing that to happen. And it feels important to mention that the environment surrounding her home was so blissful and peaceful with an abundance of nature spirits, birds and fruit trees. She has the incredible gift of validating you exactly where you are on your path and giving you a big dose of permission and encouragement to go to the next place of claiming your divine truth and expressing that divine truth in an even more powerful way. At the end of my stay, three days, I recognized that I had given myself an incredible gift and I plan to do it again.

This place is a palace of nature and Pure Love. Aarya is one of the most unique and wonderful and beautiful persons I ever met. I am leaving after 6 days full of totally new magical energy and with a strong feeling that I will be back!

The solo retreat with Aarya was everything and more! Words, pictures and reviews from previous guests were enough to paint the picture of what to expect. But being here present in Aarya's love, support and hospitality was simply unexplainable!. I was looking for an opportunity to completely unplug and disconnect from the modern world as we know it, whilst also searching for my passion and purpose through deep healing and solitude. Aarya provides the space, tools and experience to do this. We hiked, meditated, swam and through it all I learned a bit more about myself through the process. The space is comfortable, clean, calm and completely Zen. The amazing ocean view from the veranda made me embrace each day here more and more. This trip and experience has inspired me to continue my journey of spiritual development + solo travels are a must for the future. If something about Aarya's retreat calls and speaks to you, don't think twice! You will not regret it. This experience has been completely transformational physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

Aloha. At a time when my life was unfolding into a downward spiral, I was trying to seek out help. Aarya Joy's website came on. Her passion for earth, pure love, and just being in silence was something that I needed. I arrived on the island on my birthday. And Aarya greeted me with such a lovely smile and a huge hug that just made me release anything that no longer served me. Throughout the whole journey of healing, she has been a big, big inspiration and a standing stone for me. She's really helped me lift up from something that I felt so little. And every moment I have with her, I can feel her joy, her pure love, her playfulness, and her nourishing, loving motherly love for everyone and anything. She inspires me with just her poetic lifestyle. Everyone she greets with a huge smile and you can just feel the glow , so I take that back with me and also just being such a strong woman that she is. She's gone through a lot too and it's just okay. It's okay to enjoy life and have no guilt about anything.

When I came across Aarya's retreat, I knew instantly that this was exactly what I was looking for. I was feeling very burnt out and just lethargic in every way. As I read through the details of the retreat - it just felt meant to be!. I had been wanting to go to Hawai'i for quite sometime now, but had never travelled alone as an adult. She took the stress of planning rides and meals out of the equation. I have also been working on myself for the past few years in terms of my spiritual, emotional and mental growth and this intuitively felt like the way to get the clarification that I have been seeking. The nature immersion / hikes and whole body detox aligned with everything that I enjoy and love! As soon as I landed, I knew that my intuition was not wrong. Aarya is a beautiful ray of light and her home what she stands for. Her hospitality all comes from Pure Love. She is an amazing host and person with genuine care for people. She meets you exactly were you are, and guides you based solely on how you are feeling and what you are needing. She is an absolute Angel and I am overjoyed that our paths have crossed. And YES!... I received all the answers that I was seeking :)

Cant' Put into Words I cant even put it all into words. I felt SO SO leveled while I was with Aarya, it was incredible to bounce ideas and thoughts when I was on a journey through a tumultuous time in my life. A simple way of articulating how the trip was, was very centering. I will forever remember the simplicity that the 4 days held for me and pushed me in the right direction for finding my groove in my emotional journey that has been so sought after. Spiritual is an understatement

My five days with Aarya were so special. From the very first moment at airport pickup, I witnessed the intention she brings to her life - she greeted me with fruit, anticipating my needs before I even knew them myself, and I was so appreciative. There is devotion woven into every meal she prepared, fruit or otherwise - a particular kind of love that cannot be manufactured, only offered, and I tasted it in everything she made. What moved me most profoundly was the sense of groundedness that settled into me over those days - a rootedness I had not felt in a long time. I arrived with plantar fasciitis, real and persistent pain in my feet, the very part of me meant to connect with the earth. I still carry the pain today, but Aarya guided me toward an entirely different relationship with it. She taught me to meet my pain with tenderness rather than resistance, with love rather than frustration - a shift that is quietly transforming how I inhabit my own body. Among the many gifts of the retreat was an unplanned opportunity to witness a volcanic episode at Kīlauea. We (she!) drove three hours - at night - to witness it. This was a heavy lift for her and definitely altered the course of our week, but she was flexible and generous, open to the moment, and lived it with me fully. We stood before that ancient, living force and felt how small and sacred our presence can be. It was a series of moments I will never forget - the connection I felt to the land, and to her, was so powerful. Aarya holds space with such intuitive grace, whether for silent contemplation, a shared meal, or the raw majesty of creation itself unfolding before us. I left transformed - lighter in spirit, more at peace with my body, pain included - and profoundly grateful for the journey with her.