Treat Yourself to a one-of-a-kind “Feel Good” Gentle Cleansing Retreat
March 10-18, 2025 – SOLD OUT
Reserve your space for our next retreat
June 13 to 21, 2025
Spend eight peaceful, health-filled days with Dr. Connie and Dr. Marcel on the Big Island of Hawaii. Rejuvenate your body, mind, and spirit in the beauty of the Hamakua Coast. Feel your heart expand as you immerse in Aloha consciousness.
Join us with a mindset and an expectation that you’ll be nourished on all levels of your being.
You’ll spend most of your time on the retreat property – away from the busyness of daily life, we’ll encourage you to discover the world of inner and outer stillness and peace that the vibrations of the retreat property encourage.
You’ll feel very far removed from your normal daily obligations. We encourage you to spend enjoyable time reading, writing, journaling, reflecting, walking, and relaxing on the view benches.
We encourage you to limit electronic device time as much you can comfortably manage. Please, don’t come for a “working vacation” – but with a hope and mindset of physical and mental renewal and spiritual transformation.
Body
Your retreat time will help you rest and rejuvenate your physical self, as you nourish your body with our lovingly prepared, rich variety of organic fruit, vegetables, and legumes. You’ll enjoy delicious meals, dairy-free and gluten-free, mostly prepared in the Mediterranean style.
You’ll be provided with medically helpful foods rich in nutrients that facilitate bodily cleansing Detoxifying homeopathic formulas will also be provided.
You’ll have virtually unlimited access to the retreat’s onsite FIR sauna, hot tub, and cold plunge, available only for retreat guests.
If you desire further cleansing, Dr. Marcel will help you jump-start your journey with a constitutional hydrotherapy treatment for instant relaxation!
You’ll be caressed by sea breezes and revitalized by clean air that touches our property across thousands of miles of ocean. You can literally almost smell the pure oxygen!
If you desire, we’ll be happy to help you book massages with experienced local bodywork practitioners. The massage therapists will come to the retreat.
Mind
Your retreat hosts, Drs. Connie and Marcel, are dedicated to help create a perfect healing atmosphere to help quiet your mind. You may wish to plan ahead and think about carefully curated mental nourishment to bring along – perhaps you won’t need a computer or cell phone during your healing time on the retreat property. (We have internet access, of course, as well as a landline phone.) Perhaps you don’t need to be unsettled by reading the news.
We invite you to rest, refresh, and re-set your mind, embraced by the gentle climate, the staggeringly beautiful variety of colors, and the intensely alive fragrances of the vegetation that surrounds and enriches the retreat. Breath is life! As you deeply inhale the pure sea air you will experience a gradually deepening relaxation at all levels of being.
You might consider bringing some bucket-list books, watercolors, journals, knitting, or other quiet non-electronic pursuits appropriate for your restful time away in paradise.
Remember: Inner peace is your spiritual birthright.
Spirit
Spirit is the ultimate source and foundation of health in body and mind. The atmosphere of the retreat – and of Hawaii generally – encourages us to touch-in with Spirit in countless ways. One is through early morning spiritual practices led by Drs. Connie and Marcel which include Energization Exercises, chanting, meditation, healing prayers, and healing affirmations.
You will have plenty of private time for silence, introspection, and contemplation. We encourage you to take quiet nature walks. We also offer group discussion on the role of body, mind, and Spirit in health maintenance and healing.
We have dedicated the healing retreat center to our teacher, Paramahansa Yogananda.
As naturopathic doctors, we have found the master’s teaching on health and vitality perfectly aligned with naturopathic principles. In our personal and professional lives, we draw deeply from Yogananda’s teachings and our naturopathic training, which as we have discovered over the years, are equally rooted in unchanging eternal wisdom.
As part of your inspirational Hawaii healing journey, we’ll invite you to join us on excursions to the Big Island’s lovely tropical gardens and sacred Hawaiian sites.
Location and Details
The retreat center is situated in a quiet rural area, four miles from the small town of Honokaa on the Big Island of Hawaii. We are on three acres, with views overlooking the Pacific. The property has a tropical fruit orchard, a grassy field, and a small forest.
- Except for wifi on the property, EMFs are negligible – cellular reception is sketchy, but you can use your phone to access the internet. There’s a landline phone in the View House.
- Our retreat water is double-filtered and pleasant-tasting, much more enjoyable than municipal or bottled water!
- The seven-night retreat includes:
- A brief (15-30 minute) incoming and exit general consultation with either Dr. Connie or Dr. Marcel. (These are not your first inquiry calls to our office. If you would like an in-depth consultation, please book ahead of your stay; it is also possible to order relevant advance lab work.)
- Daily 60-minute group Q&A sessions with either or both of the docs.
- Cleansing nutrients.
- Organic gourmet vegetarian meals.
- Near-unlimited 24-hour access to FIR sauna, hot tub, and cold plunge.
- One constitutional hydrotherapy treatment with Dr. Marcel.
- One flower essence consultation with Dr. Connie.
- A changing slate of optional daily activities that include energization, morning chanting and meditation, gentle exercise and stretching sessions, uplifting movie nights, nature walks, cooking lessons, and excursions to beaches, the volcano, botanical gardens, and other places of interest.
- Add-ons need to be booked in advance and prices vary. Add-ons include massages by local practitioners, additional private sessions with Drs. Connie and Marcel, intravenous therapy sessions. Comprehensive laboratory wellness panels (if you are coming from California) must be completed before travel to Hawaii.
- Your first meal will be served the evening before the retreat begins, with a short introduction to the program. The program begins the following day. A bag lunch will be offered on the morning of your departure, after the program ends.
- Guests are welcome to help cook, especially if they are interested in learning some of our delicious recipes.
- Accommodations will be allocated on a first-come basis.
- The View House Master Bedroom (one queen bed) may be occupied by one or two people. Ocean view!
- The View House Second Bedroom (two twin beds) is shared by two people. Garden view!
The View House has a shared bathroom, shower, soaking tub, full kitchen, and living room with spectacular views of the property. The great room and kitchen in the View House are shared with other retreat guests. Spa facilities are on the ground floor, where there is a second bathroom, shower and two small bedrooms.
- The Gatekeeper’s Quarters. A bedroom is available in the building at the entry to the property, off the driveway, with a double bed for one or two people. It has a private bathroom, but the shower and spa are located in the breezeway on the spa deck, about 30 steps away.
- The mermaid room. A simple first floor bedroom with a sweet view through the citrus and macadamia orchard to the ocean. Breezy with large windows. Toilet and shower are right outside the bedroom door in the breezeway. Just steps from the sauna and hot tub.
- The first-floor apartment in the Main Residence (Dr. Connie and Dr. Marcel’s house) has a king bed for one or two people. Separate entryway, bathroom, and shower. Overlooks lovely landscaping and a small meditation pond.
A Typical Day*
- 6:45 – 7:30 a.m. Group chanting, meditation, healing prayers (Main Residence Meditation Room)
- 7:45 –* 10:00 a.m. Breakfast and individual sessions (Main Residence), private time, spa time (View House).
- 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Classes, group discussion with Dr. Connie and Dr. Marcel, orchard walks (Main Residence living room).
- 11:30 – Noon. Energization exercises, (Spa Deck)
- 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch, private time (Main Residence or View House)
- 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Rest, spa time, walks, individual add-on sessions with Dr. Connie or Dr. Marcel, massage, IV therapy.
- 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Guided walks on the property, horseshoe tournaments, etc.
- 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Private time
- 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Dinner (Main Residence or View House)
- 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Movies, discussion, dramatic readings, sing alongs.
- 9:00 p.m. Quiet time
Transportation
- Airfare to Hilo or Kona is on your own. The facility is roughly 80 minutes by car from either airport.
- You have two options for getting from the airport to the retreat center. We will pick you up if you arrive in a group at Kona airport on flight we recommend, or arrive on a different flight at similar time. The same for departure in terms of flight and time. The second option is to rent your own car or take an Uber.
- You’ll be on the property most of the time, except when visiting the beach, botanical gardens, the volcano, or other island attractions, so the car will see occasional use, unless you plan to arrive on the island early or extend your stay upon completion of the program (talk to us about this). All group excursions off the property will be as a group in a van.
- In terms of airlines, Alaska Airlines offers direct flights from San Jose to Kona for reasonable prices. Alaska Airlines has merged with Hawaiian Airlines offering other reasonable options. Southwest Airlines offers economical flights to both Kona and Hilo.
- Retreat cost per person: $3500 double occupancy. $4200 single occupancy. $500 non-refundable deposit required to book your space. First-come basis. Your deposit will be returned if a party on our waiting list takes your spot.
- Non-refundable balance of payment will be due 3o days before retreat begins. Your full payment, including deposit, will be returned if a party on the waiting list takes your spot.
Please contact DrMarcel@DrsHernandez.com or DrConnie@DrsHernandez.com for more information.