Aloha ‘āina
WE ARE LISTENING
to the Land
to the Spirit
to One Another
ALOHA 'ĀINA 𖤓
ALOHA 'ĀINA 𖤓
Aloha and Welcome,
We warmly invite you to join us for a transformative gathering on Hawaii's Big Island—where you can choose to stay for one week or extend your journey up to eight weeks.
Each week stands as its own complete experience, thoughtfully designed so you can join for the week that best aligns with your interests and schedule. Whether you're drawn to indigenous wisdom, regenerative design, climate solutions, or personal growth, you'll find a week that speaks to your journey. Many participants choose to stay for multiple weeks, allowing for deeper integration and greater savings through our extended-stay discounts.
As guests on these ancestral lands, we approach this gathering with deep respect and gratitude. We are honored to be guests on Hawaiʻi Island, a place of profound cultural significance and natural beauty. This gathering takes place on ancestral Hawaiian lands.
We welcome families and understand the importance of intergenerational learning. Our facilities support both focused work and peaceful retreat, allowing you to maintain professional commitments while experiencing deep transformation.
This gathering is more than a retreat—it's an invitation to be part of a growing movement of individuals committed to regenerating ourselves and our planet. Through small acts of kindness and larger collaborative efforts, we're creating ripples of positive change that extend far beyond our time together.
Me ke aloha pumehana (With warm aloha),
Marly Benedicto,
Gaia Temple
Join for 1 week or stay for 2 months
Choose Your Perfect Week: February - March 2025
Flexible Stays: Join for 1 week or up to 8 weeks
Special Savings: Increasing discounts for extended stays
Week One
Rebirth & Renewal:
Orgasmic Birthing & Healing Generational Trauma
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Each week follows a journey of personal regeneration, community regeneration, and planetary regeneration.
The first week we regenerate the self by healing ancestral. conception and birth trauma.
This week is for both women and men. For couples and singles. For those who are desiring to conceive children in this life, and for those only interested in furthering their knowledge as a healer, birth doula and family counselor.
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Elena is the founder and Director of Birth Into Being, is a pioneering leader in Conscious Evolution, with over 40 years of experience, including her work in Russia's Conscious Birth Movement, creating birth camps with wild dolphins, leading business management seminars that influenced socioeconomic shifts in the USSR, contributing to Citizen Diplomacy efforts that helped end the Cold War, and being featured in the U.N.-sponsored book A Force Such as the World Has Never Known alongside 30 global women leaders.
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Imagine a world where birth was natural, pleasurable, and even orgasmic. Where human beings entered this planet through bliss, deep security, presence and peace.
Unfortunately, this isn’t commonly the case- we bring laboring mothers into sterile environments with fluorescent lights, abrupt sounds and endless logistics to mentally configure. This prevents women from relaxing into their bodies during labor, creating tension and painful stress.
Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova has been traveling around the world since 1982 teaching women and men how to heal birth trauma and practice orgasmic birthing. She has established dolphin birth camps and served tirelessly as a doula and teacher in this specialized field.
We are incredibly lucky to have Elena guiding us into a 5 day journey, Birth Into Being. Here we will learn everything from conscious conception, to orgasmic birth, to healing birth trauma and ancestral trauma.
We will collectively consider what the world will look like as these practices grow in popularity. As well as how to create spaces for the children born into the world in this miraculous way, amplifying their light.
At the end of the week we will take a field trip hiking into the crater of an active volcano to send our prayers into the steam vents. Afterwards we spend a day at a private property soaking in mineral geothermal spring pools, and luxuriating with papaya body scrubs.
On this private property we will ideate what it would look like to transform the facilities into a natural birthing center. Getting the once in a lifetime opportunity to absorb Elena’s expert opinion and advice on how to hypothetically open the island’s very first birthing center…
Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova
Week Two
Voice Activation:
Clear Communication, Creative Singing & Vibrational Medicine
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The second week you’ll access a sense of total freedom through radical self acceptance, self love and Play! There will be lots of toning, singing, and lessons around how to feel confident communicating your most authentic self.
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Marly Benedicto is an advocate for Earth's voice and a visionary artist, bridging business, healing, and spirituality to catalyze cultural change. Influenced by native water cultures of Bali, Hawaii and Mt. Shasta, she collaborates with artists globally to raise awareness for Water's Voice. Through Gaia Temple, founded in 2020, Marly organizes transformational events worldwide, fostering Earth stewardship and personal growth. She teaches the Harmonize method in these gatherings. Certified in various healing modalities, Marly emphasizes that personal healing is inseparable from planetary healing.
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Each person has a one-of-a-kind perspective uniquely shaped by all their thoughts, all their feelings, and how they were raised and their cultural background.
While each person is totally unique, often groups will conform towards a singular identity. This is rooted in deep survival mechanisms. We need diversity to evolve with equality, this means that your voice matters!
The anecdote is listening to your inner voice and speaking your most authentic truth.
As you open your voice, your creativity blossoms, and this is the key to becoming a conscious cocreator with life! The path towards liberation is allowing life force energy to move freely in your body, expressing itself through and as you.
With simple singing techniques originating from the temples in India, to structured communication formulas- you’ll learn how to harmonize your mind, body and Spirit and use your words as your wand.
As we use these somatic singing techniques to drop deeper into the body, we’ll begin to engage our intuitive abilities and begin practicing the Hawaiian tradition of listening to nature. Ultimately, to also liberate the voice of Gaia through and as us. So that we can speak for the “voiceless.”
Marly Benedicto
Week Three
Building the Future:
Eco-Village Development and Ethics with Land & Locals
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The third week explore a variety of local established land based communities.
Through hands-on workshops, we’l learn how to create self-sustaining communities based on resource-sharing, spiritual balance, and environmental stewardship.
This week offers practical tools for designing or joining intentional eco-communities focused on resilience and regeneration.
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The Big Island is an active volcano, and where the lava is most likely to spill is where the government has invested the least into city development.
For this reason, the communities in Puna have found resourceful and resilient solutions to provide their own basic needs such as solar and hydraulic energy, rain caught water reserves, and resource sharing.
There are many local examples of what regenerative, community living looks like. This is an opportunity to look past the conditioning of what we expect homes and neighborhoods to look like, and to discover a more simple and fulfilling way of living with the earth and with one another. -
Experience the powerful intersection of ecological stewardship, cultural bridge-building, and transformational living.
Through hands-on engagement with conservation projects you'll witness sustainable community development in action.
You'll learn practical approaches to community building and ecological preservation.
This retreat offers a rare opportunity to be part of a living laboratory where sustainable infrastructure, cultural preservation, and personal transformation come together in harmony with nature.
Local Guides & Collaborative Learning
Week Four
Regenerative Solutions
Climate & Regenerative Solutions with a Global View
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This week immerses participants in regenerative climate solutions through field trips to permaculture sites and renewable energy projects. Hands-on workshops will explore the integration of technology and nature, with a focus on regenerative farming, clean energy, and community resilience. Participants will leave equipped with actionable strategies to implement climate solutions in their own lives and communities.
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Chad Frischmann is co-creator of Project Drawdown and the Founder and CEO of Regenerative Intelligence (RegenIntel), a global network of system thinkers focused on building a regenerative economy prioritizing human and planetary well-being. With over 20 years of experience in sustainability and climate strategy, Chad designs and implements solutions that address root causes of global challenges, creating broad, positive impacts for all life.
Mamta Mehra is RegenIntel Co-Founder of RegenIntel & Lead with a focus on Land Use and Oceans. She is a n expert on nature-based solutions, and has served as the Research Director of the Global Council for Science and the Environment, and Sr Fellow at Project Drawdown. RegenIntel is superpowered by a network of world class system thinkers and doers and a virtuous cycle of Regenerative Intelligence. They activate leaders and organizations through consultative services, education & training, and community building to effectively implement the highest impact systems of regenerative and climate solutions for the planet and people at scale. Our shared vision is transitioning from an endless growth economy to a regrowth economy based on abundance and well-being for all life. -
Join Chad and Mamta for an intensive week of regenerative systems thinking and climate solutions. Drawing from their expertise in the Drawdown Solutions Framework, this retreat offers a hands-on immersion into sustainable practices and regenerative approaches.
You'll explore the intersection of ecosystems, economies, and societies while learning practical tools for implementing climate solutions.
Through a combination of systems thinking, case studies, and interactive workshops, you'll gain deep insights into how to create meaningful change in your community and career while connecting with like-minded individuals committed to environmental transformation.
Chad Frischmann & Mamta Mehra
Week Five
Wisdom of the Ancestors:
Indigenous Hawaiian Teachings & Sacred Ceremonies
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Immerse yourself in the profound wisdom of Hawaiian culture through an intimate week of sacred ceremonies, traditional practices, and direct connection with the 'āina (land).
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Joining us for this sacred week are some of Hawai'i's most respected cultural leaders and wisdom keepers. Our guides include a renowned Hawaiian practitioner and cross-cultural facilitator known for promoting social justice and community resilience, officially licensed to perform traditional ceremonies. We are deeply honored to be joined by Indigenous royalty who brings profound knowledge of Hawaiian cultural systems and works tirelessly to preserve and perpetuate Hawaiian traditions through cultural education and advocacy. The teachings will be further enriched by a distinguished Polynesian Ali'i whose work bridges traditional wisdom with modern applications, and a respected cultural practitioner who specializes in integrating Hawaiian stewardship principles into contemporary practices. Together, these esteemed elders and knowledge carriers bring generations of wisdom, ceremonial expertise, and deep understanding of Hawaiian cultural protocols and place-based practices to create a truly authentic and transformative experience.
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Join us for a sacred week of Hawaiian cultural immersion where you'll participate in traditional ceremonies, visit ancient sacred sites, and learn from respected cultural practitioners.
Each day includes traditional protocols, hands-on learning of Indigenous practices, and deep discussions about Hawaiian wisdom traditions. You'll engage in ceremonies that honor the land, learn traditional ways of understanding natural systems, and experience first-hand the Hawaiian approach to environmental stewardship.
Through a combination of practical teachings, spiritual practices, and cultural immersion, you'll develop a deeper understanding of how ancient wisdom can inform modern approaches to sustainability and community building.
Hawaiian Cultural Practitioners & Priests
Week Six
Sacred Altaring:
Bana Kuma: African Dancing, Singing and Drumming
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Bana Kuma Literally translates to Sacred Altering. It is your innate creative ability to take thought and turn it into reality. It has been taught in over 30 countries!
Chris Berry, based on the Big Island of Hawaii, will guide you into the sacred altering through traditional song, dance and drumming inspired by his time living in Zimbabwe.
Over a ten year journey to Africa, Chris found himself living in the ghettos and villages of Zimbabwe where he sought to study the music of the Shona people. Chris was initiated by the village elders into their heritage, where he learned to speak their language fluently, play their music- mastering the MBIRA, and found his singing voice in the all night polyrhythmic ceremonies.
He brings you into the Spirit and Essence of Africa through this dancing, singing and drumming Sacred Altaring.
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Chris Berry is a Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist known for mastering African music, particularly the mbira and ngoma drums. Over two decades, he fused traditional African rhythms with modern genres through his band Panjea, which achieved platinum success in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Berry, who spent eight years in Zimbabwe studying Shona music, has performed globally, including at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and collaborated with artists like Eminem and Bill Kreutzmann. He has taught at prestigious institutions like Berklee College of Music and Stanford University and founded the Bana Kuma music retreat in Hawaii, emphasizing music as a tool for healing and cultural connection
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This week will focus on the healing power of rhythm and movement, with workshops on African drumming and elemental storytelling hosted by Chris Berry and the Bana Kuma.
You will learn how to use music and dance as tools to communicate with the elements and Spirits of the earth.
The week culminates in a live performance, where we bring community from across the island to dance, sing and celebrate with us.
Grammy Award Winning, Chris Berry
Week Seven
UPGames:
Visionary Time Travel
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Journey with us for 5 transformative days exploring the elements of Hawaii's Big Island, culminating in a powerful Spring Equinox gathering atop Mauna Kea. We'll blend adventure, visionary play, and ecological innovation while honoring each element.
Due to the amount of extravagant facilitated adventures and offsite meals, there is an additional $1,000 cost to join the offsite activities and second retreat center.
You may opt-out of the hard cost activities and stay within the regular retreat container this week- and take the personal time to ground in your professional and passion projects at the Eco Center.
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Lucian Tarnowski is a visionary systems change designer and the Founding Creator of United Planet and the UP Game. The UP Game is an innovative, time-traveling immersive reality experience that enables participants to create strategies and narratives for a thriving future.
He is recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and, with a background in building online communities, Lucian's work focuses on unifying planetary narratives to address the global crises of meaning and trust.
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Through adventure-based activities, participants will explore the island’s natural wonders while engaging in visionary games designed to inspire magical living. We’ll trek through the jungle, swim in hidden waterfalls, and participate in challenges that foster creativity and collaboration. This week of exploration will help participants reverse engineer new ideas for building regenerative futures through playful, team-oriented experiences. It is the Spring Equinox this week in the Northern Hemisphere, making it a fruitful time to cleanse, reset and reimagine both your internal and external worlds.
Lucian Tarnowski
Week Eight
World Peace:
A New Manifesto for the Earth
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A New Manifesto for the Earth represents our collective commitment to reimagine humanity's relationship with our planet. From atop Mauna Kea, where heaven meets Earth at the world's tallest mountain (sea to peak), we gather at the Spring Equinox to declare our dedication to planetary healing, regenerative practices, and harmonious coexistence with all life forms. This manifesto serves as both a vision and a practical framework for how humans can shift from exploiting to honoring Earth's systems and one another.
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This week will be facilitated within the regular daily framework- but there will not be one singular Guide. Instead, decentralized leadership and contribution will naturally emerge.
You’re invited to bring what you have previously researched and created yourself to compile, refine as we collectively create A New Manifesto for the Earth. -
Everyone is invited to bring their wisdoms and materials. Here are transformational works and communities we will likely draw upon:
Visionary Leaders & Systems:
Richard Rudd's Gene Keys (Living Library of Transformation)
Ra Uru Hu's Human Design System
Barbara Marx Hubbard's Conscious Evolution
Buckminster Fuller's Whole Systems Approach
Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy
Pioneering Communities:
Findhorn Foundation (Scotland) - Nature Intelligence
Damanhur (Italy) - Sacred Art & Architecture
Tamera (Portugal) - Peace Research
Esalen Institute (USA) - Human Potential
Auroville (India) - Human Unity
Hummingbird Community (USA) - Regenerative Living
Indigenous Wisdom:
Hawaiian Kapu System
Native American Earth Ethics
African Traditional Knowledge
Aboriginal Dreamtime Wisdom
Andean Cosmovision
The Emerging
Map the Emerging Energetic Grid Points
Map the Emerging New World Grid Communities
Map Alliances
Guided by Everyone Present
MultiGenerational
Keiki & Kupuna
Why Multigenerational Matters:
Children learn through observation and direct experience
Elders find purpose in sharing wisdom
Parents are supported by the village
Young adults bridge traditional and modern worlds
Every age group has something to teach and learn
Natural mentorship emerges
Real community reflects all life stages
Healing happens across generational lines
Joy multiplies through diverse perspectives
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There are Kuleana work-trade opportunities, Hawaii Ohana (Locals-Only) reduced rates and scholarships for the Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) community members and the ancestral stewards of this land.
Weekly guides and location are liable to change. All sales are final, there are no refunds.
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