Healing in Hawaii

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A 7-day Wellness Retreat

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Dates

Oct. 20 – 26, 2022

Private Room

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$3497

Two-person Private Room

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$3247

Shared Room

$2997

Payment Plans available for a 10% fee

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Live on Island Time

“Be careful what you wish for,” said our local guide. The Hawaiian islands are a vortex of energy. Your thoughts and intentions manifest into reality faster than on the mainland.

Our journey will culminate with a New Moon ceremony. It’s a great time for letting go and shedding what you no longer need, and setting new intentions for the coming lunar cycle. That theme, with the energetic power of the Big Island, gives you an extra powerful healing retreat!

Throw in swimming with dolphins, whale-watching, surfing, hiking through the lush Hawaiian jungle, and relaxing in natural hot springs, and you’ll create memories to last you a lifetime.

This seven-day all-inclusive wellness retreat is a Bucket List journey – at least for us.

Limited to 24 guests

Elements of Wellness

TOUCH: Massage

RELAXATION: Qigong

MOVEMENT: Yoga + Hiking + Snorkeling + Swimming with Dolphins + Surfing

SILENCE: Meditation

NATURE: Jungle + Ocean + Beach

DIET: Seasonal + Local + Organic

HYDRATION: That’s on you!

SLEEP: Orchid Isle Manor

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INCLUDED:

Lodging
All meals
Unlimited Coffee & Tea
Water & Fruit
90-minute massage
Yoga, Qigong, & Meditation Instruction
Surfing lessons
Dolphin Tour
Snorkel Rentals
Rainbow Falls Hike National Park entrance Fee
Uncle Robert’s Night Market entrance fee
All transportation

NOT INCLUDED:

Flight to/from Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole
Additional Massages
Souvenirs
Alcoholic Beverages
Gratuities for therapists, guides, & teachers

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DAILY SUMMARY

Day 1: Arrival + Orientation

Plan to arrive to the Kailua-Kona International Airport (KOA) by 3pm, so we have plenty of time to unpack, settle in, explore the grounds before starting to get to know each other that evening with our first activities.

Day 2: Grounding

Our first full day on the island will be focused on relaxing and unwinding. We’ll begin the day with an invigorating yoga class to help us ground into our bodies and get over any minor jet lag we may have from the time change. There’s a hot tub you can relax in as well, to connect more deeply to the earth and your body. The afternoon will be spent in massage treatments to further help us iron out any kinks from travel.

Day 3: Surfing!

(Pending Ocean Conditions)

After our morning practice, we’ll head to Kahaluu Bay (Hawaiians invented surfing here) for some surfing lessons! Whether you are brand new to surfing or a practiced hand, you’ll learn to hang ten…or at least hang seven 😛 The afternoon is yours to explore the town, do some souvenir shopping, or continue your surfing adventure! If waves are too big or the ocean conditions are not right to surf, we’ll know ahead of time and instead, we’ll explore the Aina (earth) with an epic 2.5-mile hike to Papakolea (Green Sands Beach).

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Day 4: Island Adventure

The middle day of our stay will be spent exploring other parts of the island. We’ll leave early to drive to Hilo and see 2, that’s right 2 amazing waterfalls. Rainbow falls is our first waterfall ~ Photo op in the biggest Banyan tree you will ever see. We will explore downtown Hilo and have lunch at Pineapples grill. After lunch, we will drive to Akaka Falls and walk the paths. Then we are going to the Jungle Baby! Off to Pahoa and hang out in some warm ponds, naturally heated by Goddess Pele herself. We’ll finish our evening at Uncle Robert’s Night Market, a local farmer’s market and artisan fair, before heading back home for the evening.

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Day 5: Snorkeling!

After waking up our bodies with our morning movement practice, we’ll get more beach time, heading to Honaunau National Park to have an epic snorkel adventure at 2 step…so named because you take two steps into the ocean and you’re in some of the most amazing snorkeling territory on the island! We’ll have a beach picnic this day and just continue to lounge.

Day 6: Dolphin Tour

The capstone of our island adventure is a boat tour of the island. As we sail down the Kona Coast, enjoy a tropical-style breakfast while you keep an eye out for Humpback Whales and Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins. After a morning of snorkeling adventures, we’ll have the afternoon to relax before a final farewell dinner.

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Day 7: Farewell

Enjoy one more movement practice as a group before packing up and heading to the airport. Be sure to book your flights no earlier than 1pm.

*Itinerary subject to change

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FOOD

You’ll be nourished by a local chef, using fresh, seasonal, and organic ingredients.

Breakfasts and lunches will be vegan or vegetarian, and omnivores will have the option to include meat at dinner.

We’ll also enjoy a few raw meals throughout the retreat, to get a taste of how delicious eating raw can be, and to feel its effects in our bodies, minds, and spirits.

LODGING

Your home for the weekend is Orchid Isle Manor, a unique 5-acre estate nestled at the base of Hualalai Mountain.

Surrounded by lush forest, the manor and cottages feel magical and cut off from the rest of the world. It boasts plenty of communal space for gathering, while also providing private living spaces, each with its own personality.

There’s a hot tub on the land, and Mother Nature offers her abundance with guava, surinam cherry & peach snacks along a path through the property.

It’s a literal retreat after your islandwide adventures!

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LEADERS

Emily Polonus

Yoga Teacher/Retreat Leader

Emily is a compassionate teacher steeped in knowledge of the healing arts and sciences. A professional Geographer turned healing artist she weaves a unique blend of intuition and logic into her work as a yoga teacher, bodyworker, transformational coach, essential oils specialist, and business mentor with doTERRA Essential Oils.

A gifted educator, she has been helping heart-centered humans use essential oils to positively impact health, mindset and energy since 2015, teaching yoga since 2012, and practicing massage since 2006.

She is an alum of Integral Travel’s 10-week Thai Massage Certification that took place in Thailand and Bali in 2014. She is thrilled to return to the Thai jungle for another immersion into one of the most magical places on earth.

With a unique set of tools, understanding of the mind/body/spirit connection, and an adventurous and loving spirit, you will be in competent and loving hands on this trip of a lifetime with her as one of your guides.

She resides in Savannah GA but knows home is in an internal space within that she carries with her wherever she goes.

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Kendall Beene

Yoga Teacher/Retreat Leader

Kendall Beene is a beloved yoga teacher, lead teacher trainer, and the owner of New Yoga Now in Savannah, GA. She has been studying yoga for nearly 30 years and teaching for almost 20. A scientist at heart, Kendall’s years studying and teaching geology are a major influence in her practice and teaching, which focus strongly on curiosity, process, and digging deep to visualize what is happening beneath the surface! Kendall is one of the low country’s most sought-after private yoga teachers and considers working with individuals over the past 15 years to be the greatest honor and education she has received as a teacher. This work has gifted her with the ability to truly see and listen to her students. Kendall’s intuitive, soulful teaching style embodies a balance of compassion, strength and grace.

Kendall teaches Vinyasa and Yin yoga and is also certified to teach prenatal. She is grateful for her most influential teachers: Ulla Lundgren, Asha Wolf, Ranjani Cobo, David Swenson, Stephanie Keach, and Jason Crandell. Currently, she is deepening her education in Yoga Anatomy in the 300-hour program with Tiffany Cruickshank of Yoga Medicine.

Kendall is most inspired by being in nature, getting back to traveling the world, discovering the many places where the scientific and mystical worlds collide and watching her two teenage daughters grow into their most authentic selves.

Jessica Van Antwerp

Integral Travel Owner/Retreat Leader

Recently profiled in Inc. Magazine as a leader in the health/wellness industry in Boulder, CO, Jessica has been studying and working with the human mind, body, and spirit for almost twenty years. Her studies of both Western and Eastern philosophies, religious traditions, and Chinese medical theory give her many lenses through which to help others bring into focus the big picture of their lives. The practical studies of massage, shiatsu, yoga, and qigong were the natural branches of her intellectual pursuits and she has been sharing all of this knowledge through teaching for almost ten years. Integral Travel gives her the opportunity to bring it all together in the context of travel. She believes that removing yourself from your day-to-day environment opens the mind and heart to new things and combining inner exploration with outer exploration anywhere in the world will actually bring you home…to yourself, to heal your heart, and to cultivate optimal health and happiness to create positive changes in the world around you.