Osa Peninsula

My name's John Ainsworth, and today's guest is Yogi Aaron.

Now, Aaron's been practicing and teaching yoga for over 30 years, and he's the co-owner of Blue Osa Yoga Retreat and Spa on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, where he is now.

He runs teacher training immersions year-round, and he first became known worldwide in the early 2000s as the creator of hot nude yoga.

But the turning point came later.

But most underrated destination in Costa Rica for you?

For me, it's the Osa Peninsula.

Uh-

Good answer

I would invest...

And I've been saying this for, for years, actually.

I would invest in ready to build, uh, land within 45 minutes of the, uh, soon to be Palmar Sur International Airport in the Osa Peninsula.

Okay.

Found a real nice spot in Costa Rica, bought some land there.

And so we actually would homestead, like, during winters, and I'd do homeschool, uh, on the Osa Peninsula, which is b- like, right by just pure jungle.

Oh.

Uh, go and surf and all, all winter long.

They had a local partner, and the place we were staying was a regenerative farm actually.

So it was on the Osa Peninsula-

Mm-hmm

... and it was a farm that we got to stay on and learn about different farming practices.

So I was very fortunate and we talked about it when we did our little bio episode a few episodes back.

But I got to go to Costa Rica and by far, hands down, like the most incredible experience there was getting to go to the Osa Peninsula and see like the truly wild populations of scarlets because Costa Rica has a lot of initiatives to do like... structured release programs where the parrots are a little bit more accustomed to people.

There's feeding stations.

But these populations in that southeastern part of this country are truly wild.

And we'll be sampling the food and the laid-back beach culture of the Caribbean coast.

trekking through the pure, untouched nature of the Osa Peninsula, and so much more.

Joining host Aramilla today are three guests.

Travel writer Alex Althwaite, fresh back from her own trip to Costa Rica's Caribbean coast.

And the first time I went there...

I kind of went to a lot of the big sites, the big hitters up in Guanacaste and the Monteverde Cloud Forest and all these beautiful areas and had an amazing time.

But the second time I went back and I went to a few areas that, you know, maybe are a little bit less visited down to the Osa Peninsula and Drake's Bay and that kind of whole area there.

So I had a lot of fun doing that too.

Well, some- sometimes I, sometimes I say to families, like, if, if I were in your shoes, I would go long biodiversity.

And what I mean by that is go and find like places like the Osa Peninsula, where you still have tremendous wildlife corridors that are unbroken and, you know, huge amounts of biodiversity.

And to be able to even just to purchase large amounts of land like that and, and even to sit on it for one generation, because these questions are still unanswered, right? But they won't be unanswered forever.

And then what land do you wanna have in your hands as a family? I would say the most biodiverse land possible, and just to hold it as a land bank.

I always, I'm saying, as I was a child, I always to be like, you know, I'm always for looking for people.

How are you? How are you? Can I help you with something? And this idea of being a, because I love to be Costa Rican, you know, Arenal, Monteverde, La Fortuna, Osa Peninsula.

I think Costa Rica, it's amazing place.

So to be honest with you, Mr. Jason, I saw an opportunity.