Tap the creative mana of Maui and give yourself seven days to retreat into nature... surround yourself with ocean, waterfalls, and vast open spaces.
Receive updates about future retreats
Expand into a supportive community where you can explore the edges of your creativity
Walk into the arms of Maui
A retreat designed to feed your heart and nourish your soul...a place where men and women can commune with nature and dance with their muse. As facilitators we blend our experiences as creatrixs in performance, writing, counseling, healing arts and caretaking the land. You will immerse yourself in waterfalls, experience facilitated activities, receive private healing sessions, hike through the jungle, sip on the stars, listen deeply to the earth, restore your natural rhythm.
Connect with the natural rhythms of the land
1:1 sessions: With Erin and Leah: You will have an opportunity to receive an ayurvedic/self care consultation from Erin and an intuitive Soul Story reading from Leah
Massage/Body Work: We are happy to introduce you to talented local healers with whom to schedule a massage, cranio sacral or structural integration session. Your tuition covers a private session with the healer of your choice. You have the option to schedule additional sessions (paid directly to the healers)
Attune to the natural world: Watch the sunrise over the ocean, meditate and practice yoga on the cliff edge, walk quietly along the East Maui coastline, plunge into refreshing waterfalls, sleep under the shimmer of stars….rustle of palms
Listen: To what yearns to be voiced, danced, shared, and honored
Create: Respond to the elemental forces through creative expression; write in the landscape, tell your story around the fire, participate in ritual and movement
Self care rituals: Embody nourishment from the fruits of the land, lymphatic sand scrubs on the beach, outdoor baths on the cliff edge
Yoga and mudra practice: Breathe and stretch with daily yoga classes
Writing/Storytelling: Engage in daily writing exercises and talk story circles in the evening
Explore nature: Participate in group adventures to waterfalls, hikes, and take solo time in the natural world
Tune in: Listen within the stillness
Receive: A one of a kind tool kit created and appllied throughout the duration of the retreat; including movement, mudras, healing sounds, salt scrubs, symbols and more...
Nourish: Eat fresh, organic fruits and veggies harvested from local farms, made with aloha. Let your tongue dance around a miracle berry!
Your days will be filled with…
Activate a heart centered connection to the natural world: walk the earth... listen with your feet... sip with your eyes... touch with your voice...
If Maui is the last Hawaiian place; then Kipahulu is the rare gem, nested in its very heart. Surrounded by Haleakala National Park lands, just south of Hana town, Kipahulu is secluded, pristine and vibrant. The local community holds a deep appreciation for the wild places, taro patches and farmlands that sustain it. Our retreat setting is perched along a verdant coastline, on a beautifully tended property, overlooking the Alenuihaha channel, within walking distance from beaches, waterfalls, and the local fruit stand-coffee house. Here, the sound of the ocean tumbling over beach stones lulls you to sleep at night, and the scent of wild ginger and ylang ylang waft through your dreams.
The Place...
Listen to nature
voice your inner landscape
Wake up with the sounds of nature
7 - 8 Yoga and chanting
8 - 9 Optional nature walk/meditation
8 - 9 Breakfast
9 - 11 Facilitated activity
12 - 1 Locally sourced organic Lunch
1 - 2 Open time
2 –5 Afternoon activity in nature
5 - 6 Private sessions: Self care consultation or Soul Story
6 – 7 Dinner
8 - 9 Optional Evening activitiy
Typical daily schedule
-
7 night/ 7 days of deep, restorative time in beautifully cared for gardens set in a remote location surrounded by national park land
-
Ayurvedic & Soul Story sessions with Erin and Leah
-
Yoga & meditation sessions
-
Facilitated classes
-
Organic naturally sourced delicious meals
-
Nature excursions: waterfalls, ocean, & hiking
-
Bodywork session
What is included
Individual Sessions
You have the opportunity to receive three individual sessions
Bodywork: You have the option to choose a bodywork session with Joerg or Jan. Additional sessions can be scheduled. Sign up is based on first come first serve.
Two 1:1 Sessions with Erin and Leah
Ayurvedic and self-care consultation
With Erin you will receive a self-care consultation; combining Ayurvedic diagnostics, mudras (hand yoga) and sound healing, specific to your individual constitution and needs.
Soul Story
With Leah you will receive a Soul Story session where she will provide an intuitive reading that includes story and song. Mythic symbols and metaphors presented in your story will be explored. Learn more at Soul Stories.
Body Work: Choose One
Joerg Paula LMT, has been a teacher and therapist for over 20 years. His multi faceted approach allows healing and balancing of deep compensation patterns. Some of his tmodalities include, Muscle Energy Technique, Deep Tissue, Viceral and Cranio Sacral Therapy. A unique blend of hands-on therapies and movement re-education routines make his work effective and long lasting.
Jan Murdock HHP LMT, is passionate about her craft. She is well studied in many modalities, and brings eclectic and intuitive elements to her bodywork, focusing in lomi lomi style, integrated structural alignment, lymphatic drainage and cranio sacral therapy.
*Ayurveda: “The complete knowledge for long life”, is an elemental system of traditional medicine originating in India. A form of preventative health, ancient in lineage, it can be adapted and applied to one’s current constitution, lifestyle and environ.
This retreat is for men and women who...
…wish to let their hair blow free in the trade winds, leave behind the rush hour cityscape, plant seeds of dreams, tell their untold stories of myth and re-creation, laugh with new friends, surrender tensions, transform sadness, embody their true nature, listen to the wisdom of trees, watch the sunrise over the ocean, jubilate when the whales frolic, eat delicious, colorful, fresh food from island farms.
Early Bird Special $1370
(plus cottage or bedroom)
(when received by December 31st)
$500 Non refundable after December 31st
$1500 (plus cottage or bedroom)
(after December 31st)
Final payment must be received by January 10th, 2016
Additional Lodging Opportunities:
Housing is available on property $100 per structure/per night + $75 cleaning fee
Additional housing available in the community. Please inquire re: availability.
We are creating a small group experience.
Reserve your spot now.
Your Facilitators...
Erin Lindbergh, C.Y.T.
Yogini, gardener and songbird
Erin has taught yoga for over twenty years. Raised in rural Montana, her practice innately draws upon the rhythms and elemental forces of the natural world. Rooted in the Iyengar tradition, her yoga background emphasizes postural alignment and sequencing, for people in all seasons of life. She has traveled widely, and studied movement, healing arts and ritual performance, which influence her personal style;
Inner Landscape Yoga. Erin encourages a subtle and organic exploration of postures. Breath, sound, and descriptive metaphor become navigational tools for transformation and healing. The student is guided through movement sequences, designed to cultivate inward presence; an awareness of their inner landscape.
Ultimately, this presence, is an embodiment of the natural self, which can be expressed outwardly with compassion and love in the world.
Leah Lamb, MSW
Writer and storyteller
Leah studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC, and with many masters of story in theater, film, and the ancient art of storytelling. She worked with youth at risk for seven years in the wilderness. Her storytelling spans the mediums of launching the emmy award winning television network, Current TV, writing for Fast Company, National Geographic News Watch, Planet Green and Huffington Post. Lamb combines this experience with her studies with many metaphysical practitioners, and a year long training in the 13 moon mystery school. Her stories hold the resonance of connection with the earth, the universe, animals and spirit. She is in the process of completing her first novel, The Whale Dreamer.
Ultimately, her work is about helping people understand the power of story in their life, and reconnecting to the natural world.
"When Leah first shared Soul Stories with me, I understood exactly what she is doing: she is a story oracle. Leah has a rare gift of using the ancient art of story telling as a healing art. With intelligence, depth, and a dash of playfulness she wove a story and created meaning of the metaphor so that I was able to receive a mythical version of myself, revealing some of the deepest truths that were alive in my unconscious. Soul Stories serve as yet another tool to connect to the divine self. It is an opportunity not to be missed!
-Marci Shimoff, Speaker &Author, "Happy for No Reason", "Love For No Reason", and "Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul"
"I am inspired by Erin Lindbergh’s special form of Yoga—as it may have been intended originally—letting breath movement flow naturally through yoga postures. She offers examples of how our natural human nature can meet natural nature. In her classes I sense myself embodied—a state of oneness in body, mind, and spirit—a piece of art. I love the ending of her classes when she adds a personal touch through her poetic voice, chanting, singing. My experience in Erin’s classes prepare me for moving into life outside the yoga room in a lovely way."
-Margot Biestman, Middendorf Breathexperience teacher, artist and author
"Erin unites Yoga with Aloha. Her practice connects people to their inner self, the land, aina and the sky, lani. Her gentle, sweet voice of guidance combined with the singing bowl is nectar to the god of Maui."
-Allen Greenfield, Artist
"Leah lives in story, it resonates in her being – as a teller, as a writer/thinker, as an activist/world changer, as a contemporary artist rooted in the ancient. She knows the alchemy of myth and the miracle of life, and the tangible magic of language performed."
-Joe Lambert, Founder, Center for Digital Storytelling
Your Chef...
Sarabeth Rings is a full time gardener and food lover who lives in rural Maui where fresh food has become a key to her life. Beth utilizes organic local ingredients to prepare nourishing and unique meals, and finds her full expression in growing and sharing food with people. Beth caters retreats in Maui and abroad. For this retreat Beth will be using produce from her gardens and orchards, and neighboring farms.
"The essence of the retreats that I cater must be mirrored in the food, and therefore nourishing the participants. I am truly grateful for the opportunities that this work continues to bring me."
Frequently Asked Questions...
Getting there...
You can fly to the Kahului, Maui airport (OGG). From there, you will need to rent a car and drive the two hours to Kipahulu. There is an option to take a small plane directly to Hana on Mokulele Airlines, but please note that you would need to arrive in Kipahulu by 10am on February 14th. Guests have enjoyed arriving the night before and staying in Hana or Kipahulu.
We are happy to help you car-share with another renter, and provide travel guides to assist your island exploration on the way to and from Kipahulu.
What do you need to bring?
We will provide packing instructions upon registration. Hint: shorts, tshirts, rain gear and journals.
Where do we sleep?
Who wants five stars when you can have a million? Camping on site is available. You are responsble for bringing your own camping gear.
There are three cottages on the property with queen beds. The fee is $100/per night per structure; they can accommodate 2-3 people. There is a $75 cleaning fee. There are other rental options nearby that we can connect you to. Please note: we are in a remote location and booking sooner than later is necessary.
Should I plan to stay on Maui longer than the retreat?
Yes! February is the height of whale season on Maui! We are happy to talk to you about planning adventures on Maui before and after our retreat.
Who do I contact with questions?
Please send us an email:
Can't come? Sign up for our mailing list and receive updates about future retreats.