Cass Phelps teaches an innovative body of work that is simple, potentiating and revelatory - a gifted, clear, calming Presence whose guidance assists one into true Self-Knowing. Cass specializes in movement meditation healing work while honoring as major influences: 7 years of teaching Continuum Movement, Structural Integration, Reiki and A Course In Miracles. He's a Reiki master, life time musician and sound healing therapist. He offers workshops globally and tele-dives focused on Eros & Inspiration as well as deep internal cleansing programs in conjunction with movement and wise nutritional guidance and support. He also holds a private practice in LA working with clients with complex neurological disorders. His unique approach to sound, breath and movement unifies the creative and healing arts as ONE.
Commuter fee: $600 Kama’aina (includes daily onsite Kalani pass, retreat experience, no meals or lodging)
$300 deposit confirms your space. Deposit is non-refundable.
Price includes the retreat experience, 7 nights accommodations, 3 organic meals served daily and use of Kalani’s facilities including pool, hot tub and sauna. Airport is Hilo.
Come celebrate Thanksgiving and get profoundly unwound!
Get your gratitude on and have some fun while deepening your CranioSacral Unwinding techniques and skills.
About the Facilitator(s)
Gary B. Strauss is a Master Practitioner and world-famous Polarity Therapy and Cranial Sacral Unwinding Instructor. He is the founder and director of Life Energy Institute and Polarity Healing Arts of California. Gary has helped thousands of people find greater health and well-being with his work and mentoring. His educational programs have uplifted many students to greater levels of skill, self-awareness, empowerment and deep understanding of the Principals of Life Energy. To experience Gary's unique perspective on healing, energy and "holding space" is profound. His compassion and devotion to helping people through his work is deeply touching and with over 30 years experience in the Energy Medicine field, his expertise, techniques and skills in the Energetic Healing Arts are unmatched.
Tracy Griffiths is the Program Director and senior instructor for the Life Energy Institute and Polarity Healing Arts and has been practicing in the healing arts since 1988. Tracy utilizes and weaves her training in the martial arts, massage therapy, yoga, psychic tools and essential oils into her classes, offering a diverse, integrative and practical approach to this work. Tracy is greatly devoted to sharing her knowledge with others for the purpose of personal deepening and connection to their own inner wisdom. She is dedicated to bringing this work out into the world and provides the environment to assist others in their quest for growth and healing. Tracy also serves as Certified Dream Coach™ and Certified Soul Coach™.
Enter into the realm of lomilomi, the traditional Hawaiian approach to bodywork.
Lomilomi holds the premise that body, mind and spirit (trinity) participate in its evolution-healing.
The work creates a temple...a sacred space...a connecting space...a safe space for the body's consciousness (the emotional body).
About the Facilitator(s)
Harry Uhane Jim and Sila Lehua Jim
Harry Uhane and Sila Lehua Jim come from a lineage of Hawaiian Healers. Harry was trained by practioners who were well known but from the deeply secret world of Native Hawaiian Healers known as Kahuna. Harry and Sila’s gatherings convey authenticity and are known for unveiling profound ancient truths with wit and laughter. Harry evokes the Hawaiian experience of healing by showing you how to raise the vibration of the space creating a healing time. You can learn more at www.harryjimlomilomi.com.
Healing Dance is a synthesis of Watsu, Trager Work, Waterdance, and pure movement. It combines the freedom, scope and 3 dimensions of Waterdance with the safety and nurture of Watsu. The approach is based on the healing power of movement and how the body naturally moves in water. The movements are hydrodynamic and spacious, featuring many different undulating wave movements that integrate the body and release blocked energies.
About the Facilitator(s)
Inika has been an aquatic body worker since 1996, working at Harbin Hot Springs as a Watsu, WaterDance and Healing Dance Practitioner. Her classes are informed by her extensive work as a therapist and bring a grounded and practical aspect to her teaching. She has over 2800 hours of training and over 4500 hours teaching aquatic bodywork. Inika has been teaching Watsu and Healing Dance since 1999. She brings grace to the water and conveys that grace to her students through her knowledge of movement and experience in yoga, tai chi, dance, meditation. Aquatic bodywork is her passion.
Kalani is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charity. Your stay here supports our educational mission, preservation of ancient Hawaiian cultural sites, and the development of a model sustainable community.
Tuition-only price: $650. Discounts are available if taking multiple bodywork courses.
To register and/or book accomodations and meals, contact Kalani Reservations Desk. Prices subject to change without notice.
Healing Dance is a synthesis of Watsu, Trager Work, Waterdance, and pure movement. It combines the freedom, scope and 3 dimensions of Waterdance with the safety and nurture of Watsu. The approach is based on the healing power of movement and how the body naturally moves in water. The movements are hydrodynamic and spacious, featuring many different undulating wave movements that integrate the body and release blocked energies.
About the Facilitator(s)
Inika has been an aquatic body worker since 1996, working at Harbin Hot Springs as a Watsu, WaterDance and Healing Dance Practitioner. Her classes are informed by her extensive work as a therapist and bring a grounded and practical aspect to her teaching. She has over 2800 hours of training and over 4500 hours teaching aquatic bodywork. Inika has been teaching Watsu and Healing Dance since 1999. She brings grace to the water and conveys that grace to her students through her knowledge of movement and experience in yoga, tai chi, dance, meditation. Aquatic bodywork is her passion.
Kalani is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charity. Your stay here supports our educational mission, preservation of ancient Hawaiian cultural sites, and the development of a model sustainable community.
Tuition-only price: $650. Discounts are available if taking multiple bodywork courses.
To register and/or book accomodations and meals, contact Kalani Reservations Desk. Prices subject to change without notice.
Watsu is a form of bodywork which is performed while floating in body-temperature water. The receipient of a Watsu treatment is supported by floats as well as the therapist, while the therapist gently stretches the body. The nature of performing bodywork in the water allows for the body to be stretched and manipulated in unique ways, that may not be possible on land.
About the Facilitator(s)
Alexis Lee has been an Aquatic Bodyworker since 1996, working in Watsu, Healing Dance, Waterdance and Jahara. Alexis has taught Watsu since 2000 under the tutelage of Harold Dull, the founder of Watsu®.
Her passion for Watsu stems from the heart-centered connection she feel with each person who floats in her arms. Alexis encourages Watsu practitioners to come from a place of 'being', rather than 'doing', without agenda, thereby allowing each client's body to 'tell' them what it needs.
As a therapist, Alexis' experience in Shiatsu, Cranial Sacral, Swedish, Deep Tissue, Lomilomi and Yogassage therapies enhance her water work.
Kalani is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charity. Your stay here supports our educational mission, preservation of ancient Hawaiian cultural sites, and the development of a model sustainable community.
Tuition-only price: $650. Discounts are available if taking multiple bodywork courses.
To register and/or book accomodations and meals, contact Kalani Reservations Desk. Prices subject to change without notice.
Enter into the realm of lomilomi, the traditional Hawaiian approach to bodywork.
Lomilomi holds the premise that body, mind and spirit (trinity) participate in its evolution-healing.
The work creates a temple...a sacred space...a connecting space...a safe space for the body's consciousness (the emotional body).
About the Facilitator(s)
Harry Uhane Jim and Sila Lehua Jim
Harry Uhane and Sila Lehua Jim come from a lineage of Hawaiian Healers. Harry was trained by practioners who were well known but from the deeply secret world of Native Hawaiian Healers known as Kahuna. Harry and Sila’s gatherings convey authenticity and are known for unveiling profound ancient truths with wit and laughter. Harry evokes the Hawaiian experience of healing by showing you how to raise the vibration of the space creating a healing time. You can learn more at www.harryjimlomilomi.com.
Click Here for the full list of workshops offered during this Kalani Bodywork Training Intensive.
Traditional Thai Massage developed out of Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Yoga, and Buddhist Philosophies of Mindfulness and Loving Kindness and is said to be over 2,500 years old.
About the Facilitator(s)
Michael Ceraso
Michael Ceraso began his journey as a bodyworker through receiving a wide range of excellent bodywork. After receiving reiki attunements and practicing for a year he traveled to Thailand where he studied Reflexology at Wat Po in Bangkok and Traditional Thai Massage at ITM in Chiang Mai.
Upon returning to Hawaii he continued to explore healing work through intensive studies of Cranial-Sacral Therapy and Polarity. These studies laid the foundation upon which he has added Swedish Massage and Barefoot Shiatsu. In 2006 he spent another two months in Thailand where he studied with 3 different teachers, learning new techniques and deepening his practice. Currently he is completing a Masters program in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
He has been the Wellness Director at Kalani since 2004 and orchestrated the Kalani Bodywork Training Intensive for the last 9 years as well as teaching its Traditional Thai Massage course.
Click Here for the full list of workshops offered during this Kalani Bodywork Training Intensive.
About the Facilitator(s)
Christy Ceraso
Christy has been studying and practicing holisitic healing arts for over 20 years. She began her personal healing journey and professional training with Humanistic, Jungian and Transpersonal Psychology, then re-discovered her wise, wild body through nature, dance, yoga, many styles of bodywork, gardening, painting, meditation, relationship, movement and performance art. She went on to study Process Oriented Psychology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Non-Violent Communication, and The TARA Approach. She has a BA. degree in Human Development with an emphasis in Somatic Psychology.
Christy’s specialty is emotional healing and trauma resolution with a somatically based orientation. She is passionate about the integration of soma-psyche-spirit. She has been on the staff of healers at Kalani for 10 years and licensed in Hawaii for 11 years. She is constantly incorporating new information into her work, and loves to teach other bodyworkers what has best served her clients and own healing process.
She has been on the staff of healers at Kalani for 9 years and licensed in Hawaii for 10 years. She is constantly incorporating new information into her work.
Click Here for the full list of workshops offered during this Kalani Bodywork Training Intensive.
About the Facilitator(s)
Daniel Albers
Daniel Albers, LMT has practiced massage on the Big Island of Hawaii since 1993. He currently serves on the massage staff at Kalani Oceanside Retreat and maintains a private practice in Hilo, HI. His practice focuses on Lomilomi, deep tissue, structural release and aromatherapy. He has been conducting Lomilomi massage workshops for the past 14 years at schools and retreat centers on the Big Island and in California, Washington State and Canada. His teaching style strives to incorporate a balance of humor and intensity. The classes are fast-paced and geared toward intermediate to advanced level students/therapists. Please join us if you wish to enhance your current practice or strive to expand your "traditional" concepts of massage.
Cass Phelps teaches an innovative body of work that is simple, potentiating and revelatory - a gifted, clear, calming Presence whose guidance assists one into true Self-Knowing. Cass specializes in movement meditation healing work while honoring as major influences: 7 years of teaching Continuum Movement, Structural Integration, Reiki and A Course In Miracles. He's a Reiki master, life time musician and sound healing therapist. He offers workshops globally and tele-dives focused on Eros & Inspiration as well as deep internal cleansing programs in conjunction with movement and wise nutritional guidance and support. He also holds a private practice in LA working with clients with complex neurological disorders. His unique approach to sound, breath and movement unifies the creative and healing arts as ONE.
Gary B. Strauss is a Master Practitioner and world-famous Polarity Therapy and Cranial Sacral Unwinding Instructor. He is the founder and director of Life Energy Institute and Polarity Healing Arts of California. Gary has helped thousands of people find greater health and well-being with his work and mentoring. His educational programs have uplifted many students to greater levels of skill, self-awareness, empowerment and deep understanding of the Principals of Life Energy. To experience Gary's unique perspective on healing, energy and "holding space" is profound. His compassion and devotion to helping people through his work is deeply touching and with over 30 years experience in the Energy Medicine field, his expertise, techniques and skills in the Energetic Healing Arts are unmatched.
Tracy Griffiths is the Program Director and senior instructor for the Life Energy Institute and Polarity Healing Arts and has been practicing in the healing arts since 1988. Tracy utilizes and weaves her training in the martial arts, massage therapy, yoga, psychic tools and essential oils into her classes, offering a diverse, integrative and practical approach to this work. Tracy is greatly devoted to sharing her knowledge with others for the purpose of personal deepening and connection to their own inner wisdom. She is dedicated to bringing this work out into the world and provides the environment to assist others in their quest for growth and healing. Tracy also serves as Certified Dream Coach™ and Certified Soul Coach™.
Enter into the realm of lomilomi, the traditional Hawaiian approach to bodywork. 
Harry Uhane and Sila Lehua Jim come from a lineage of Hawaiian Healers. Harry was trained by practioners who were well known but from the deeply secret world of Native Hawaiian Healers known as Kahuna. Harry and Sila’s gatherings convey authenticity and are known for unveiling profound ancient truths with wit and laughter. Harry evokes the Hawaiian experience of healing by showing you how to raise the vibration of the space creating a healing time. You can learn more at 
Healing Dance is a synthesis of Watsu, Trager Work, Waterdance, and pure movement. It combines the freedom, scope and 3 dimensions of Waterdance with the safety and nurture of Watsu. The approach is based on the healing power of movement and how the body naturally moves in water. The movements are hydrodynamic and spacious, featuring many different undulating wave movements that integrate the body and release blocked energies.
Inika has been an aquatic body worker since 1996, working at Harbin Hot Springs as a Watsu, WaterDance and Healing Dance Practitioner. Her classes are informed by her extensive work as a therapist and bring a grounded and practical aspect to her teaching. She has over 2800 hours of training and over 4500 hours teaching aquatic bodywork. Inika has been teaching Watsu and Healing Dance since 1999. She brings grace to the water and conveys that grace to her students through her knowledge of movement and experience in yoga, tai chi, dance, meditation. Aquatic bodywork is her passion.
Watsu is a form of bodywork which is performed while floating in body-temperature water. The receipient of a Watsu treatment is supported by floats as well as the therapist, while the therapist gently stretches the body. The nature of performing bodywork in the water allows for the body to be stretched and manipulated in unique ways, that may not be possible on land.
Alexis Lee has been an Aquatic Bodyworker since 1996, working in Watsu, Healing Dance, Waterdance and Jahara. Alexis has taught Watsu since 2000 under the tutelage of Harold Dull, the founder of Watsu®. 
