7 Day New Year's Wellness Retreat with Aerial Yoga and Sound Healing in Maui, USA
Yoga and Sound Healing Retreat in USA
Jumpstart your year with a retreat that will help you masterfully seize the opportunity that lies ahead by preparing you with tools of self-mastery. Immerse yourself in a sacred space where you can commune with nature, explore your deepest parts, let go of your limiting beliefs, and embrace the power and gifts you’ve always had within. Connect with like-minded individuals on a transformative journey that empowers you to step into your fullest potential.
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Highlights
- Daily yoga, Aerial yoga play, sound healing classes over 2 hours
- 3 evening programs (EFT, Earth altar ritual, and sound bath)
- Enjoy an NYE special event and ritual
- Optional personal healing and coaching sessions with Heather and Donny
- Welcoming intention setting and sound healing ceremony
- A complimentary 1:1 integration call is included
- Vegetarian breakfast and lunch daily
- 6 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
Kahului Airport (US$ 75 per person)
Accommodation
Facilities
- Gym
- Hot tub / Jacuzzi
- Sauna
- Spa
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Lounge
- Luggage room / storage
- Meditation garden
- Smoke-free property
- Yoga studio
- Free bicycle
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Library
- Parking lot
- Tour assistance
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor shower
Your safe haven
Located on a majestic, lush tropical north shore of Maui, the bohemian temple sanctuary features gorgeous statuary, rose gardens, tropical flowers, fruit, and vegetable gardens, as well as a spa and 10-in copper meditation pyramid that is available for unlimited leisurely use.
Savor yourself in the tranquility and peace offered by the island, beaches, and waterfalls along the famous Road to Hana just a few minutes away from the temple.
Black Swan Temple has simple yet beautifully appointed Balinese cabins as well as a suite with a private bathroom. These cozy cabins are nestled in the tropical garden, creating privacy for each. These cabins are somewhat rustic and have a shared bathroom and an outdoor shower. There is a lovely suite also available with its private bathroom.
They have internet, but no televisions or air conditioning. There is a communal kitchen, office space, and a far infrared sauna, hot tub, and mini gym that are also available for the guests. Classes and workshops take place in the beautiful sanctuary.
Small Hibiscus cabin
- Small cabin
- Double bed
- Shared bath
- Outdoor shower
Small Temple cabin
- Small cabin
- Double bed
- Shared bath
- Outdoor shower
Large Quan Yin cabin
- Queen bed
- Shared bath
- Outdoor shower
Treehouse Suite
- Apartment with a queen bed (loft)
- Double bed
- Private or shared bath
Program
This New Year’s retreat provides an opportunity for people to awaken, harness their innate gifts, and gain clarity about the path of their true north. At the Black Swan Temple, participants are invited to reconnect with a sense of play, listen to the quiet wisdom within, and acquire tools for self-mastery, empowering them to fulfill their highest calling and life’s mission.
This retreat is not just a simple vacation or quick escape from reality; rather, it offers a powerful initiation that can quickly move individuals forward.
During the course of the retreat, you will:
- Step into a sacred space for ritual, renewal, and reflection
- Enjoy the comfort and spa amenities of the beautiful Black Swan Temple & Farm on the lush tropical north shore of Maui
- Immerse in pristine nature and experience a nature walk to a local waterfall
- Review and reflect on growth and challenges met over the past year
- Be nourished with healthy foods, clear emotional and energetic blockages, activate life force, and connect with Nature
- Visit the giant sea turtles that rest on the shores
- Discover a fun and empowering yoga swing practice to break through and go beyond oneself
- Experience the healing power of sacred sound with experienced guides and professional musicians
- Learn powerful practices to quickly release negativity and transform habits
- Be attuned through sacred Chakra Journey with sound, Egyptian Aromatherapy, and Crystals
- Open up to receive divine inspiration, wisdom, and guidance
- Heighten intuitive abilities and level of self-love and acceptance
- Journey to the top of the Haleakala Crater for Sunset on New Year's Eve
- Welcome the New Year with a powerful Earth Altar ritual
- Engage in a manifestation practice to activate smart, attainable goals for the coming year
- Gain practical knowledge and spiritual tools to succeed in the future
- Dissolve emotional and energetic blockages and limitations, and gain clarity about the Universe’s highest path for 2025
- Rise out of the ashes of the old self and emerge as the divine self
- Swim in the ocean and watch whales breaching from the beach
By the end of the retreat, you will have learned practical tools and strategies that will help you live a spiritually fulfilling life while utilizing your worldly strengths and achievements.
This retreat is for you if you are
- Intrigued by profound topics relating to spirituality such as awakening, consciousness, inner child work, shadow work, meditation, ritual, plant-based diet, alternative healing, and sustainable living
- Feeling stuck and frustrated with the same old patterns and outside definitions that have directed you away from the real you
- In a life transition and seeking time for self-reflection to gain clarity, tools, and empowerment for personal growth as an open holistic being
- Believing a fulfilling life is more than material wealth, status quo, and ego-centered power, and craving something nourishing and aligned with your inner soul's needs and purpose
- Spiritual values and beliefs are not aligned with everyday reality
- Wanting to be nourished with healthy foods, clear energetic blockages, activate life force, and connect with Nature
- Desiring to connect with a compassionate community that supports growth and understands otherworldly visions and aspirations
- Ready to rise out of the ashes of the old self and emerge as the divine self
- Prepared to receive abundance and prosperity for 2023 with tools of spiritual self-mastery
Morning Practice
Your day begins with a 45-minute Hatha/Kundalini Yoga warm-up to the ground, connect with your breath, and release tension from the spine. This will be followed by a fun, therapeutic style of aerial yoga that brings in your inner child, promotes empowerment, and instills inspiration. The morning activity is capped off with a 30 to 45-minute sacred sound healing journey with 432 Hz frequency Crystal Singing bowls and Donny's live music and soundscapes. Your sacred sound meditations include Ho'oponopono ceremony, releasing blockages, balancing chakras, Hawaiian Huna energy bodies, timeline therapy, abundance and manifestation, and more.
Retreat Schedule
The 7-day retreat program is a great way to welcome 2026 with a renewed sense of purpose. Here’s what your journey of transformation is like:
Day 1 - Intention
Set your intention and embark on a process of metamorphosis where you enter a sacred and healing chrysalis of infinite possibility
Day 2 - Molt
Practice powerful releasing processes including Ho’oponopono, a traditional Hawaiian ritual for forgiveness and releasing personal and ancestral woundings, and inviting collective healing
Day 3 - Dissolve
Lighten your path with healing practices and rituals that break the cycles of generational trauma, unhealthy habits, thought patterns, belief systems, and karmic patterns.
Day 4 - Evolve
Activate, reclaim, and integrate all parts of your psyche's energy, wisdom, and gifts and discover your highest next steps and path.
Day 5 - Vision
Set your intentions for the short term and longer term, personal as well for the world.
Day 6 - Anchor
Embody the transformational energy that invites growth, abundance, and prosperity in all aspects of your life.
Day 7 - Emerge
Navigate life with your new skills, wisdom,m and an understanding that will support you in your continued expansion and growth. Receive a complimentary integration call that you can schedule after your retreat.
Day of Arrival Schedule
- 15:00 - 17:00 Check-in
- 18:00 Vegetarian supper
- 19:00 Welcoming sound healing and intention-setting ceremony
Regular Daily Schedule and Meal Plan
- 07:30 - 08:15 Breakfast
- 09:00 - 11:00 yoga, Aerial yoga and sound healing class
- 12:00 Healthy vegetarian lunch
- Afternoons Free to go sightseeing, schedule personal sessions, relax, etc!
- 20:00 (3) Evening Earth Altar Rituals, with EFT tapping and sound healing
December 29
- 19:00 Welcoming ceremony
December 30
- 20:00 Earth altar ritual + sound bath
December 31
- Special Event - Excursion to Haleakala for Sunset Ceremony
January 1
- 20:00 Earth altar ritual + sound bath
January 2
- 20:00 Earth altar ritual + sound bath
Day of Check-Out Schedule
- 07:30 - 08:15 Breakfast
- 09:00 Closing Ceremony
- 11:00 Check-out
Instructors
Heather Salmon
Heather Regal Salmon, Black Swan Temple co-founder, renowned priestess, author, sound healer yogini, mystic, cultural creative, visionary multimedia, and recording artist. Residing in Maui, Hawaii, with her husband Donny Regalmuto, she is an innovative pioneer in the field of ritual, sound healing, sacred activism, transformation, and prayerformance for over 25 years. She is an ordained High Priestess in the Essene and Temple of Isis lineages and shares the teachings of the Sevenfold Path of Peace, as well as, feminine mysteries.
Donny Regal
Donny is the visionary creator of the Black Swan Temple Sanctuary. He works with music as a spiritual source of inspiration, healing, and spiritual awakening. He has provided musical support for spiritual events, ceremonies, dances, and Tantric pujas for the last 25 years, and has worked with Sophia and other spiritual recording artist, as a producer and musician, to create many spiritual and new age albums.
Retreat location
Reconnect with nature at the lush tropical, mostly off-grid earth temple, which is surrounded by majestic waterfalls. Situated in a very sacred part of the island known as the home of the owl and a place where once upon a time Hawaiian royalty initiated their training, this hidden gem draws you in for a state of deep spiritual attunement.
Your mornings are welcomed with the ineffable beauty of sunrises and cheerful sounds of nature. The 2.5-acre sanctuary breathes life with growing coconuts, pineapples, papayas, bananas, avocados, starfruit, oranges, lemons, lime trees, and a garden full of organic greens, herbs, flowers, and passion fruit. Guests are also greeted by two temple cats, giant bamboo, exotic tropical flowers, and gardens
Feel cozy and comfortable with the Black Swan Temple’s rustic setting that relies on lush green nature and trade winds as the primary ventilation source.
They have good cell service. The internet is accessible on limited parts of the property, as well as hot spots in certain areas. For the best experience, they recommended that you commit to unplugging and taking a digital detox during your retreat program.
Unique features
Activities
- Gym
- Hot tub / Jacuzzi
- Sauna
General
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Lounge
- Luggage room / storage
- Meditation garden
- Smoke-free property
- Yoga studio
Services
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Library
- Parking lot
- Tour assistance
- Wireless internet
This Yoga Retreat is vegetarian-friendly
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Food
Maui Mystical Alchemy Retreats offers amazing world-fusion plant-based gourmet cuisine that will satisfy every traveler’s palate! They use the finest organic and as locally sourced as possible ingredients.
The program arranges an exquisite vegetarian meal plan for you, starting with supper on the night of your arrival, followed by breakfast and a hearty lunch daily.
Guests love to explore the island in the afternoons and get some local food for dinner. Arrangements can be made for dinners on-site at an additional fee. Please let them know in advance if you have any special dietary needs.
Additionally, you can recreate this rich and diverse food experience in the comfort of your kitchen with the "World Fusion Plant-Based Recipe Book" written by Heather and Donny.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Other dietary requirements on request
Things to do (optional)
- Extra compassionate communication coaching sessions and mystical alchemy sessions with Donny (75 USD per hour)
- Recording studio sessions with Donny (75 USD per hour)
- Transformational healing sessions with Heather (150 USD per session)
- Access Energetic Facelift with Heather (150 USD), which includes a personalized mp3 with affirmations to deepen the process
Access Energetic Facelift with Heather
The Access Energetic Facelift is a wonderful way to rejuvenate the face reverse the appearance of aging on the face and create similar effects throughout the body.
Working with the energy that you and your body have access to through gentle, soothing touch to your face and neck, the Access Facelift™ works with your body’s cells to restore, enliven, and rejuvenate.
What's included
- Daily 2+ hour yoga, Aerial Yoga play, and sound healing classes
- Welcoming intention setting and sound healing ceremony
- 3 evening programs - EFT, Earth Altar Ritual + Sound Bath
- New Year's Eve special event and ritual
- 6 nights accommodation
- Daily vegetarian breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Illustrated interactive retreat journal
- On-site far infrared sauna
- Nevalite Crystal Clay Hot Tub
- Swim spa treated with living clay
- Cold plunge treated with ozone
- Outdoor and indoor fire pits
- Precor machine, Total Gym, and ZAAZ
- Optional access bars/healing session with Heather
- Optional compassionate communication or life coaching sessions with Donny
- Access to the online retreat portal
- Retreat recipe book club
- Complimentary 1-on-1 integration call
What's not included
- Airfare
- Airport transfers (However, they can arrange them for 75 USD each way if within the normal arrival and departure times)
- Gratuities (not required but are appreciated by the staff if you feel you have received excellent service)
- Optional excursions
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Kahului Airport
21 km
Transfer not provided
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to Kahului Airport (OGG) on Maui. The venue is a 40-minute drive from the airport. You can book an airport transfer for an additional cost of 75 USD per trip.
It's highly recommended renting a car if you are interested in going sightseeing and getting to beaches, etc. The venue is 40 minutes from the airport and the nearest town and beach is Paia a 20-minute drive away. There are no shops or restaurants within walking distance.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 16% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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