p h e n o m e n a
an embodied retreat
A weeklong retreat for changemakers & community leaders at the edge of transition
you are invited to 7 days, 6 nights in
Pāhoa, Hawai’i, March 4-10 2026
We are calling in
leaders and visionaries,
those whose work ripples outward
join us for a 7-day immersive retreat rooted in somatic practice, earth connection, and regenerative leadership.
PHENOMENA is an application-only,
week-long somatic retreat on the
Big Island of Hawai‘i
held for those who are constantly holding others. This is for the visionaries, social workers, facilitators, creatives, bridge-builders, and cycle-breakers who are doing the slow, necessary work of cultural change. Not to escape it, but to be resourced for it.
This retreat offers land connection, somatic tools, spacious integration, and communal nourishment. It’s not just about rest. It’s about remembering your aliveness. So you can keep going — not from depletion, but from wholeness.
At PHENOMENA, we don’t study from a book.
We study from the body, the elements, and the interconnected web of life—like the roots of the Mother Tree, the ancient forest matriarchs that nourish the entire ecosystem. Research by Suzanne Simard shows that these trees send nutrients, information, and care through underground fungal networks to support surrounding life. What if our leadership functioned the same way?
“Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence. The body is the portal.” - Peter Levine
the
experience
meet
your guides
FAQs
We invite you
to return to relational power
on these sacred lands.
You feel the shift.
Not just in your own life, but in the world.
A call to slow down. To root deeper. To remember something older than strategy.
We are being asked to cross thresholds.
To lead in new ways.
To stop holding it all alone.
PHENOMENA is a space for those who know that change begins in the body, and that leadership must be resourced by the earth, not extracted from it.
PHENOMENA is for you if…
It’s for those who are shifting from performing resilience — and are ready to truly feel it.
Not just for themselves, but for their people.
This is a space to remember.
To resource.
To return.
investment
investment
the investment rages $2700-3500, depending on shared or private room (including lodging, airport transfers, meals, workshops and excursions). Financial assistance is offered for those seeking support.
Does this spark curiosity?
Imagine,
releasing the buzz of our phones and computers and being immersed fully in relationship to land.
Sleeping in screened-in retreat bungalows, feeling the ocean breeze and listening to songs of koki frogs at night.
Our nest
Kirpal Meditation and Ecological Center (KMEC) in Pāhoa, Hawai’i, offers a wonderful spiritual uplifting environment to heal and grow. Located a half mile from the beach, this sanctuary has access to swimming, fresh fruits, thermal ponds and the newest black sand beach in the world created by the 2018 lava flow. We will be fed by this land, by the stewards who take care of them, and we will return the gesture of care.
I’m invested!
This retreat expercience is to step into the new,
Tuning into the phenomena
of yourself, what is possible, what transforms, in the
aliveness within the earth.
This creates a ripple effect
in our personal ecosystem and
our communal ones.
May this space
continue to
teach us for many cycles
after we gather.
see you there.
Much love,
Malia & Kendra
*we want to acknowledge that this experience is on native Hawaiian land. To honor the caretakers of the land and acknowledging the sacredness of this place a portion of the proceeds from this retreat will go towards an organization to support these intentions.