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🌿BOTANICAL CLEANSING | RESTOCKED🌿

By popular request, our botanical cleansing collection has been restocked at Aroha. 💚

🌿 Mugwort / Black Sage
💙 Blue Sage / Grandmother Sage
🌳 Beautiful Palo Santo sticks

Botanical burnables have long been used as sacred tools for cleansing and creating a sense of peace, clarity and renewal within our environments and ourselves.

At Aroha, we always keep a little sacred space cleansing toolkit close by — and take it wherever we go. You never know when you may feel the need to refresh a space and clear away what feels heavy or energetically unsettled.

If a space feels “not quite right” — or sometimes really wrong — cleansing can be a beautiful ritual for restoring a sense of balance, lightness and harmony.

Before using botanicals and their smoke, we recommend giving your space a good physical clean too — open the windows, let fresh air flow through, clean the surfaces and windows, and create a fresh foundation for your cleansing ritual.

Then light your botanical with intention, allowing the fragrant smoke to gently move through your space. 🌿

Clear the old. Refresh the space. Invite in the light. 🤍

Explore our Botanical Cleansing Collection:
Shop Botanical Cleansing at Aroha Love

Available for New Zealand customers. 🌿🇳🇿

🤍 A LITTLE SPACE TO REST & RESET 🤍

Feeling like you need to exhale?
Join Rosanna and Jen this Monday for a deeply nurturing Gong Yoga Nidra under the energy of Lion’s Gate 🦁 — a beautiful evening of breath, gentle movement, guided relaxation, and soothing sound.
Lie back, get cosy and let the gongs + chimes carry you into a place of deep rest and restoration. ✨
And afterwards… a warm cup of kaputī chai to gently bring you back. ☕️

🌿 Monday 10 August
🕕 6.00–7.15pm
📍 Aroha
✨ Bookings are open online

Give yourself permission to pause.
You deserve the rest. 🤍

Book your Gong Yoga Nidra session

✨ Cleanse, restore and reconnect with your feminine essence. 🌿

Our Aroha Healing v-steam is a deeply nurturing ritual designed to encourage relaxation, stillness and self-care in a peaceful sanctuary.

Rosanna first learnt this beautiful healing practice in the jungles of Belize, where she experienced the sacred tradition of herbal steaming and its connection to women’s wellbeing. Inspired by this experience, each Aroha V-Steam combines carefully selected organic herbal blends, blessed water, Rongoā Māori, and heartfelt healing intentions to create a truly restorative experience.

Whether you’re taking time to reconnect with yourself, honour your body, or simply pause from the busyness of life, this gentle ritual invites you to slow down, breathe deeply, and embrace the healing wisdom of nature. 🍃💚

✨ Leave feeling grounded, nurtured and renewed.
Book your Aroha Healing V-Steam today:
https://www.arohalove.co.nz/pages/healing-v-steam

✨ Mānawatia a Matariki ✨

There is a quiet invitation woven into Matariki.

An invitation to slow down, to lift our eyes to the stars, and to remember that life moves in seasons—each one carrying its own wisdom.

This is a time to honour those who have walked before us, to gather with whānau and friends, and to give thanks for the blessings that surround us, however simple they may seem.

The warmth of shared kai.
The laughter around the table.
The stories that keep our loved ones close.
The stillness of the early morning sky.
The hope held within a single intention for the year ahead.

Perhaps the true gift of Matariki is not found in doing more, but in being more present.

Present with those beside us.

Present with those we carry in our hearts.

Present with ourselves.

As the stars rise once more, may they remind us that even after the longest nights, light returns. That remembrance and gratitude walk hand in hand. And that every new season offers us the opportunity to begin again—with hope, with purpose, and with aroha.

Mānawatia a Matariki. ⭐️

✨ Matariki Candle — Sacred Renewal ✨

As the Matariki stars rise, they invite us to pause, reflect, remember those who have gone before, and set heartfelt intentions for the year ahead.
Our Matariki Candle is lovingly handcrafted with Kawakawa, Vanilla, Lavender, and Wild Mint, and adorned with a Rose Quartz or Lapis Lazuli crystal star—a beautiful taonga symbolising hope, guidance, and new beginnings.
Infused with Karakia, Reiki, and Aroha, this candle is more than a beautiful fragrance—it’s a ritual of gratitude, connection, and renewal.
May its gentle light remind you that every ending creates space for a new beginning. ✨
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🍂 As Autumn deepens and the colder months draw near, now is the perfect time to clear, reset, and restore your space and energy.

Seasonal change is a powerful time for Whakawātea — releasing stagnant energy and creating room for peace, clarity, and renewal before winter arrives.

Our Whakawātea Candle has been lovingly created with karakia to support energetic cleansing and grounding within your home. Light it with intention to shift the energy of your space, uplift the atmosphere, and create a sanctuary of warmth and calm for the season ahead.

A beautiful ritual for slowing down, letting go, and preparing for a season of rest and restoration. ✨

Taking time this morning to remember them 🌷

More than just a massage, the Aroha Love experience is a deeply restorative journey for mind, body, and soul.
Drawing on the wisdom of Māori healing arts alongside Hawaiian Ka Huna bodywork, Reiki energy healing, Mayan shamanic practices, and chakra balancing, this unique fusion brings together powerful traditions known for their holistic benefits.
Our Aroha Signature Massage weaves together mirimiri, Ka Huna, Reiki, Mayan healing, and chakra balancing to support healing, deep relaxation, and energetic alignment.
This nurturing experience helps you feel grounded, lighter, and more connected within yourself—supporting clarity of mind, emotional balance, and a sense of inner harmony.
Aroha Bodywork invites you to slow down, reconnect, and leave feeling nourished from the inside out.
Book your healing appointment now at [email protected]

✨ April 2 | Full Super Moon in Libra Ceremony 🌕

Step into Easter weekend feeling grounded, open, and vibrant.

Are you ready to release, reset, and reconnect with yourself on a deeper level? This April, join Rosanna for a soulful evening of cacao, connection, and sound healing — a space to soften, restore, and realign.

Allow the nurturing energy of cacao to gently open your heart, while the grounding resonance of earth, heart, and harp gongs moves through your body — clearing, soothing, and rebalancing your entire being. Under the illuminating Libra Full Moon, we gather in intention, reflection, and shared presence.

This is your invitation to let go of what no longer serves, to welcome clarity and balance, and to step into a new cycle feeling supported, centred, and renewed.

💫 Spaces are limited — only 3 remaining

📅 Thursday 2nd April
🕕 6:00 – 8:00pm
💫 $50 per person
🧘‍♀️ Bring your yoga mat (optional) + your intention

Gift yourself this moment to pause, heal, and shine.

✨ The Sacred Art of Incense at Aroha ✨

At Aroha, we take the burning of incense, resins, and white sage seriously. These sacred aromatics are more than fragrance — they are an ancient way of shifting energy, creating sacred space, and inviting stillness into our lives.

For thousands of years, cultures around the world have used natural incense for cleansing, meditation, ceremony, and wellbeing. The incense we carry is artisan, natural, and deeply grounded in these traditions.

One of the inspirations behind our incense offerings comes from the beautiful philosophy known as the Ten Virtues of Koh — wisdom recorded by Japanese monks in the 16th century and lovingly preserved by the historic incense house Shoyeido, a family business crafting incense in Kyoto for over 300 years.

The Ten Virtues remind us of the quiet power of incense:

• It brings communication with the transcendent
• It refreshes mind and body
• It removes impurity
• It brings alertness
• It is a companion in solitude
• In the midst of busy affairs, it brings a moment of peace
• When it is plentiful, one never tires of it
• When there is little, still one is satisfied
• Age does not change its efficacy
• Used every day, it does no harm

Lighting incense is a simple ritual that invites presence. The gentle rising smoke can transform a room, mark the beginning of meditation, cleanse a space, or simply offer a moment to pause and breathe.

At Aroha we offer traditional Central and South American blends for cleansing and grounding, alongside pure Japanese incense from a family that has been perfecting their craft for centuries.

Step into the ritual.
Light the incense.
Let the moment arrive.