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JANUARY 10-16, 2009YOGA AND MEDITATION Valery Petrich #211 - 5403 Crowchild Tr. N.W. Calgary, Alberta (403) 270-9691 Website: yogastudiocalgary.com Email: yogalady@telus.net This is the fifth yoga retreat held at the Hui by the Yoga Studio of Calgary. Join Valery Petrich for yoga and meditation on this island paradise. Yoga is practiced in the Iyengar tradition, honoring the pace and beauty that the island of Molokai invites. This is a time when individual needs are met through a caring, supportive and nurturing environment. Yoga classes are in the morning, Satsang at night, leaving time for beach, sun, swimming, hula dancing and more! Valery Petrich is Director of The Yoga Studio of Calgary and the Yoga Studio College of Canada. She has been teaching yoga for 28 years. She is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher, a certified Psychosynthesis facilitator and an initiate in the Himalayan yoga tradition. 6 days 
JANUARY 24-30, 2009YOGA RETREAT Sue Brantley 4511 NE 31st Avenue Portland, Oregon 97211 503 407-9677 Web site: Sue Brantley email: suebrantley@comcast.net Join Sue Brantley for a week of yoga, chi kung, pranayama and meditation. Each morning there will be a 3 hour active asana class, which includes some Pilates. There will also be 4 evening sessions of gentle asana, chi kung, pranayama and meditation. That leaves plenty of time to explore the beautiful and unspoiled island. Sue structures retreats to include meaningful yoga work combined with the feel of a true vacation. Her clear, supportive instruction and joyful demeanor result in a relaxed yet deep experience. Sue Brantley is a certified yoga and Pilates instructor. She comes from a diverse movement background that includes many styles of yoga, therapeutic yoga and Pilates, many forms of dance, tai chi, and chi kung. Sue began practicing yoga in 1985, and has studied with Rodney Yee, Judith Lasatar, and Elise Miller. Sue brings an eclectic approach to her retreats and workshops. 6 days 
FEBRUARY 5-15, 2009GREAT FULLNESS CAMP Hui Ho'olana Staff PO Box 280, Kualapuu, HI 96757 (808) 567-6430 email: hui@aloha.net This week of community building, education and family fun is dedicated to enjoying each other's company as we playfully work, learn and mindfully create together. There will be carpentry, planting and maintenance projects as well as cooking opportunities. We will divide into teams and make a schedule (working about 4 hours in the morning and 3 in the afternoon) with a day and a half off for beach and play. This reunion fills quickly, so please register soon. It is open to friends, family and people who have participated in a workshop here in the past. We look forward to music and singing so please bring musical instruments! Call, write or email for an application to attend. 10 days  FEBRUARY 21-27, 2009 WAKING UP IN PARADISE Mary O'Malley 908-3rd Street Kirkland, WA 98033 (425) 889-5937 Web site: Mary O'Malley email: awaken@maryomalley.com It is a priceless gift to set aside time to reconnect with ourselves and with life. As we do, we discover that there is a big difference between being in our lives and being lost in thoughts about our lives. The framework of the retreat is silence, but there will be times throughout each day when we explore ideas and skills that invite us back into the wonder, joy and creativity of life. We will share our wisdom as well as the challenge of learning to quiet our minds and open our hearts to ourselves. Mary O'Malley is a speaker, author and counselor who focuses on curiosity, compassion, trust, and the ability to creatively engage with whatever is showing up in our lives. For over 25 years, Mary has been speaking, leading retreats, and offering ongoing groups where people come together to experience the miracle of waking up to life. ?Her strength lies in her ability to be fully present in each moment, integrating information and insight. 6 days  MARCH 7 - 17, 2009 12th Annual INVITATIONAL PAINTING INTENSIVE The Painting Experience Stewart Cubley PO Box 309 Fairfax, CA 94978-0309 Phone: 888-639-8569 Toll Free Web site: Process Arts email: info@processarts.com Ten days of in-depth painting with a small community in the pristine setting of Hui Hošolana provides the opportunity to make a lasting investment in yourself and your life. This program is for continuing participants who want to deepen the personal inquiry begun in prior workshops. The foundation of this intensive is personal attentionin the painting process, in the nurturing environment, in small group interactions and in private meetings with Stewart. This is Stewartšs longest and most personalized group program. It has proven to be a powerful catalyst for change by all whošve experienced it. Prerequisite: One Painting Experience workshop with Stewart. 10 days  MARCH 28 - APRIL 3, 2009 FIRST ANNUAL YOGA & COOKING RETREAT Sue Brantley, Dianne West, Moreka Jolar 4511 NE 31st Avenue Portland, OR 97211 503 407-9677 Web site: Sue Brantley email: suebrantley@comcast.net Join Sue, Dianne and Moreka for an inspiring week of yoga practice and cooking lessons. The "Hui" has a beautiful organic garden where we will harvest much of our produce and edible flowers for the week. There will be yoga each day, along with instruction for 3 exquisite, freshly harvested (mostly vegetarian) dinners and a creative picnic lunch. The cooking classes will focus on learning new skills to provide a foundation from which to explore and play with your own 'fooding' ideas. Sue Brantley is a certified yoga and Pilates instructor. She comes from a diverse movement background that includes many styles of yoga, therapeutic yoga and Pilates, many forms of dance, tai chi, and chi kung. Sue began practicing yoga in 1985, and has studied with Rodney Yee, Judith Lasatar, and Elise Miller. She brings an eclectic approach to her retreats while teaching students of varying levels and abilities. Dianne West has been cooking professionally for 25 years specializing in gourmet vegetarian food. She has cooked at Hollyhock and Channel Rock, retreat centers as well as at the Hui. Dianne is an intuitive cook whose passion is working with fresh, local, organic ingredients to create healthy and sumptuous meals to nourish both body and soul. Our food (and gorgeous edible flowers) will come from the Hui's own organic garden. Moreka Jolar has been cooking professionally for 12 years. With a focus on healthful vegetarian food, she has cooked at Hollyhock retreat centre on Cortes Island, BC and the Hui. Most recently she was head cook at Hollyhock and is co-author of Hollyhock Cooks, Food to Nourish Body, Mind and Soil. Her laughter and passion for healthy food is infectious while her teaching style is supportive and informal. 7 days  APRIL 11-18, 2009 REKINDLING THE CREATIVE SPIRIT A fundraiser for the Hui Rik Cooke, Theresa Airey, Dewitt Jones, Jonathan Kingston PO Box 280, Kualapuu, HI 96757 (808) 567-6430 email: hui@aloha.net websites: Rikki Cooke - Dewitt Jones - Johnathan Kingston This workshop is a collaboration between authors and photographers Rik Cooke, Theresa Airey, Dewitt Jones, motivational speaker/photographer, and photographer Jonathan Kingston. Rik will take students on photographic excursions discovering the unlimited beauty of Molokai and exploring the creative process. Theresa and Jonathan will help you turn your files into unique images through Photoshop and third party softwares. Dewitt will lecture on creativity and 'the inner self'; Rikki speaks about 'seeing simply'; Theresa teaches about 'interpreting the subject creatively'; and Jonathan will help us to polish our digital techniques. Together they will show you new possibilities in the art of photography. There will be time to reflect, relax and rejuvenate your inner spirit in the calming lovely atmosphere surrounding the Hui. Prerequisites: The workshop is intended for intermediate to advanced digital photographers. You must have a good working knowledge of Photoshop. Bring a digital or film camera you know well and come with a laptop computer that you are proficient in your navigational skills. This workshop is primarily for MacIntosh users. If you are bringing a PC, we will not be able to answer your computer navigation questions. Theresa Airey, author of Beginner's Guide to Digital Photo Art, Creative Digital Printmaking and Digital Photo Art is an international fine art photographer. Both Rik and Dewitt have shot extensively for National Geographic Magazine and their book division. Jonathan Kingston is a documentary photographer and competent teacher with high technical skills. See their websites above for more information. For information on the daily schedule, see last years blog info by Jonathan Kingston Proceeds from this workshop go to Ho'olana's native plant and photographic projects. 7 days  APRIL 25 - MAY 1, 2009 THIS MOMENT THE ONLY TEACHER A Buddhist Informed Meditation and Practice Retreat Flint Sparks and Richard Heckler Richie in San Francisco: (707) 935-8755 email: raheckler@comcast.net website: sfhakomi.org Flint in Austin: (512) 458-2900 email: flint@flintsparks.com website: Flint Sparks The present moment is considered by many to be the only teacher - the doorway to clarity and peace. When entered with open curiosity and without self-concern, the luminous qualities of loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity emerge as the simple truth of one's true nature. The capacity to become fully present with ourselves and to connect most intimately with others is fairly easily taught - the experience of freedom is close at hand. This retreat is a gentle invitation to awaken from the trance of everyday life and to be refreshed by the richness and aliveness that is available by connecting body and spirit with the healing earth of "Mother Molokai." Through meditation, mindful movement, spiritual inquiry and small group experiments drawn from the Hakomi Method, we will teach restorative practices that connect us deeply to our bodies, the spacious mind beyond hope and fear, to the earth and the wisdom of our ancestral lineages. We will work with all of these energy streams in an organic, restful and playful manner in order to deepen our relationship to the present moment and with each other. Flint Sparks is a psychologist and certified Hakomi teacher in Austin, Texas. Flint has taken ordination in the Zen lineage of Suzuki Roshi. He teaches and leads retreats emphasizing the interface between psychology and spiritual practices in personal transformation. Richard A. Heckler, PhD is a clinician with over 30 years of experience. Teacher of the Hakomi Method throughout the U.S., and author of the critically acclaimed, Waking Up Alive, Richard is the Director and Founder of the Hakomi Institute of San Francisco. 7 days 
MAY 9 - 15, 2009SOULFUL POWER Christian de la Huerta Revolutionary Wisdom, 145 Park Street San Rafael, CA 95901 415-460-1177 website: Revolutionary Wisdom.Us email: molokai@revolutionarywisdom.us Christian de la Huerta is a seminar leader, group facilitator, master breathwork practitioner, and inspirational speaker to religious communities and on college campuses. He is author of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed Coming Out Spiritually. 6 days 
MAY 24 - 30, 2009THE HEALER WITHIN Lee Lipsenthal, MD / Nita Gage, MA 415-482-9529 email: lipsenthal@aol.com Lee & Nita developed this program for healthcare practitioners to help them to reconnect with their sense of purpose in serving those that they care for. This workshop is an open invitation for concerned individuals to take time-out and reconnect with their core values. The program will provide tools to evaluate and understand the issues of emotions in work and at home. We will combine discussions and experiential exercises to rejuvenate mind, body and soul. You will leave with an understanding of your unique stresses and practical methods for changing the balance of your life and the lives of those you care for. This weeklong retreat is designed as a learning & healing vacation for singles and couples, both healthcare professionals and lay people alike. There will be ample time to relax and enjoy the beauty of Hui Ho'olana and the exquisite island of Molokai. "This was the best seminar experience of my professional career of 30 years plus." - Juan B, MD Nita Gage, MA has over 25 years experience and training in health care, behavioral health, in hospitals, clinics, and health care corporations. She works in residential and inpatient settings with addiction, mental illness and with people in states of extreme spiritual emergency. Nita lives and works in Maui and travels throughout the US to facilitate transformational workshops. She is currently working on a book about women's transformational passages in midlife, titled Women in Storage. Lee Lipsenthal, MD, ABHM is a Board-certified internist with postgraduate training in cholesterol disorders and cardiac rehabilitation. He is the former Medical Director of The Preventive Medicine Research Institute with Dr. Dean Ornish and the Past President of The American Board of Holistic Medicine. He also serves on the American Medical Association Physician Wellness Planning Committee and on the Board of Directors of The Institute of Noetic Sciences. He travels the world as a lecturer and consultant to hospitals and physicians groups. "Before this program I had to justify every minute I spent not doing something for someone else." - Tish H., MD 6 days 
JUNE 6-12, 2009LEGACY OF THE HEART A Life-Changing Retreat Gloria J. Burgess, Ph.D C/O Jazz inc., PO Box 777 1102 12th Ave. North Edmonds WA 98020 206-954-0732 website: www.gloriaburgess.com email: huiworkshop@gloriaburgess.com One of the best gifts we can give is to be conscious and intentional not only about what we do, but also about who we are. Gloria Burgess, master facilitator and teacher, will be your ally and guide as you embark on the most exciting journey of your life, a legacy of the heart. In our fast-paced lives, we can become disconnected from our true selves and the beauty within and all around us. Legacy of the Heart is about reconnecting with your inner beauty and calling, and reigniting your soul's desire. When we do, we can be of greater service and light the way for others to do the same. Through insightful teaching, dialogue, movement, meditation, creative arts, and time in nature, you will explore practical tools to align your values and actions, tools you can use anytime and anywhere. You will leave restored, recommitted, and rejoicing about living your legacy, now. Gloria Burgess has taught and led retreats for over 30 years. Author of Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside and Legacy Living, she is an award winning author and poet. Gloria holds a Ph.D., MBA, and MA in organizational and individual effectiveness and is known for her commitment to honoring and uplifting the human spirit. 6 days 
JUNE 20-26, 2009THE HEART OF MEDITATION Flint Sparks & Donna Martin Flint - (512) 458-2900 - Texas website: Flint Sparks email Flint: flint@flintsparks.com Donna - (250) 374-2514 - BC, Canada website: Donna Martin email Donna: hakomiway@gmail.com Enter the very heart of meditation. To create an integrated experience, we'll offer a variety of practices including mindfulness, yoga, zazen, silence, and the Hakomi Practice of Loving Presence. Amid the peaceful beauty of Molokai, the island known as the "heart" of Hawaii, we'll weave these practices into the tapestry of our lives. Flint Sparks is a psychologist and certified Hakomi teacher with a private practice in Austin, Texas. Flint has taken ordination in the Zen lineage of Suzuki Roshi. He teaches and leads retreats throughout the U.S. with an emphasis on the interface between psychology and spiritual practices in personal transformation. Donna Martin has been a student and teacher of yoga and meditation for thirty-five years. An international Hakomi trainer, Donna teaches Hakomi and the Practice of Loving Presence (psychotherapy as spiritual practice) at various centers internationally. Together, Donna and Flint offer an integral approach combining physical, emotional, and spiritual health practices 6 days
SEPTEMBER 26 - OCTOBER 3, 2009GREAT FULLNESS CAMP Hui Ho'olana Staff PO Box 280, Kualapuu, HI 96757 (808) 567-6430 email: hui@aloha.net website: Great Fullness Camp Opening camp is a sweet treat for returning friends and family who come to help us prepare for the workshop season. This is a smaller camp than the one next February, a time dedicated to enjoying each other's company as we playfully work and mindfully create together. There will be carpentry, planting and maintenance projects as well as cooking opportunities as we open the Hui. We will divide into teams and make a schedule (working about 4 hours in the morning and 3 in the afternoon) with a day off for beach and play. This retreat fills quickly, so please register soon. The camp is open to people who have participated in a workshop here in the past. We look forward to music and singing so please bring musical instruments! Call, write or email for an application to attend. 7 days 
OCTOBER 10-16, 2009SPEAKINGQUEST Journey to Your Authentic Self Katherine Mapes Resnik, MFT Doreen Hamilton, Ph.D. 1700 Solano Ave. Suite F Berkeley, CA 94707 415.454.2674 or 510.524.4055 website: speakingquest.com email Donna: DoreenandKatherine@SpeakingQuest.com Discover the confidence to be your authentic self. When you know how to listen and speak from your heart, the anxiety that blocks your inner voice will be transformed. You will speak without fear, create and deepen intimate connections with others, engage in fulfilling work, and have more compassionate, loving, and supportive communications in all areas of your life. The program includes daily Speaking CirclesŽ, art, creative writing, storytelling, ancient Huna teachings, and Questguides designed to lead you toward authentic living. With time for relaxation and reflection, these activities enliven inner presence, nurture self-acceptance, and awaken personal passion. Katherine Mapes Resnik, MFT is a psychotherapist, artist, and a Certified Speaking Circle Facilitator. She is a playful and engaging teacher who facilitates workshops on authentic self-expression. Doreen Hamilton, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Training Director of Speaking Circles International, and author of Essential Speaking: The 7-Step Guide to Finding Your Real Voice. She is a warm and compassionate teacher who leads seminars worldwide. 6 days 
OCTOBER 24 - 30, 2009SEEING THE LIGHT - CAPTURING THE LIGHT Jonathan Kingston & Paul Liebhardt 805.708.6042 email: jonathan@kingstonimages.com web site: Kingston Images The Art of Photography is the art of seeing, and the path of the photographer is a personal one where every photograph is a step of self-discovery and personal expression. Join us as we explore what it means to be a photographer, and what it means to see, as we develop an eye for photography. Your eyes will be opened to the unseen possibilities of your photography in one of the most compelling places in the world. In addition to workshops at the Hui, we will experience Hawaii as it existed ages ago with its rare flora and fauna and rich biodiversity. You will see beauty here that few are permitted to see, and exists nowhere else. Paul Liebhardt will be your guide into the art of visual thinking, and delving into the soul of photography. It is the "Why" of photography that is overlooked when we focus too much on the "How" of Photography. Paul has been a photographer and an educator for over 30 years and is currently teaching in the master of fine arts program at the renowned Brooks Institute of Photography; he has traveled to over 40 countries, and has published three books of photographs. More important than his ability to make great photographs, he has an amazing ability to teach you to make great photographs. Jonathan Kingston will be your digital guru. The computer has replaced the darkroom as the final step in our creative process. It is here where Photographs truly come alive. Jonathan will teach you the methods that will enhance your vision. Jonathan not only is one of the best emerging photographers in the country, but he is also a highly sought out digital consultant. Some of the most established names in photography have relied on Jonathan for his expertise while making the transition to digital. His great love of photography is matched by his great knowledge, and he will share both with you during the week. Rikki Cooke will be our guest lecturer and our island guide. Rikki has shot extensively for National Geographic Magazine, and has taught at many photographic workshops over the last 20 years. He is a resident of Molokai, and will lead us to places far beyond the snapshot spots, he will lead us to the hidden places the tourists never see. 6 days NOVEMBER 7-13, 2009 PHOTOSHOP FOR THE SOUL Jack Davis, with Dewitt Jones and Rik Cooke email: rrobertis@mac.com or JHDDesign@aol.com This year Jack Davis will once again be teaching a digital photography and Photoshop workshop with Hawaii Kama'aina (locals) Dewitt Jones and Rik Cooke. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study, shoot, create and just "live" with three world-renouned experts on photography. Jackšs latest book, "Passion, Permission & Pixels: Igniting your Creative Photography," will be a "catalyst" for the week's creative explorations. Learn how the latest Photoshop and Lightroom can be used as tools to complement, extend, and automate both creativity and production, giving you creative options that you may never have had the opportunity to dive into before. Students will gain invaluable insights and techniques focused on helping them translate, craft and fine-tune their "captures" into a personal story. On our fieldtrip/shoots, we will provide essential insights and assistance on the technical side of photography. We will all take part in the evening slide shows and attendees can plan on some dedicated one-on-one Q&A time. Jack Davis is best known as the coauthor of the award-winning and best-selling guide to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow! Book. For over 20 years Jack has been an internationally recognized creative spokesperson on digital imagery and has led numerous hands-on workshops around the US and abroad. His latest book, "How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography," showcases his addiction with photography and the process of going beyond what was captured to what was experienced. Jack routinely teaches as part of the "Dream Team" at the National Association of Photoshop Professionals Photoshop World Conferences, where he was recently inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame for his life time contributions in the field of education and digital imagery. Rikki Cooke will be our guest lecturer and our island guide. He has shot extensively for National Geographic Magazine, and has taught at many photographic workshops over the last 20 years. His latest article on Hawaii is in the December 2002 edition of National Geographic Magazine. His experience touches the full spectrum of photography, from lighting pyramids to photographing polar bears in the Arctic as well as national advertising campaigns for commercial clients. He and his wife Bronwyn are the authors of the award-winning book, Molokai, an Island in Time. Dewitt Jones is a National Geographic photographer of many years. He and Rik have taught together for 15 years. Dewitt has done five books, which include, What the Road passes By, Canyon Country and Visions of Wilderness. He is also known for his commercial photographs for Deweršs Scotch, United Airlines and Canon Cameras. In recent years he is most noted for his talks on creativity that have inspired many corporations and large audiences. He brings the gifts of humor, insight and celebration of being alive to our time together. 6 days 
NOVEMBER 21-27,2009GENTLE YOGA Beth McCann 10534-30 Avenue Edmonton, AB T6J2Y2 Canada (780) 434-0741 Web site: yogabybeth.com email: bmccann@telus.net Rejuvenate yourself! Experience yoga in a relaxing and mindful way, taking time to integrate the poses and learn more about yourself in the process. Through gentle yoga postures, supportive breath work, and integrative meditation techniques you will be encouraged to awaken your unique being and experience the joy of sharing with others on the same path. Open to beginners and advanced students. Beth McCann has been a certified yoga instructor for twenty-eight years. She has her own yoga studio, Yoga Connection and teaches for the Outreach program in Alberta training new yoga instructors. Beth feels that yoga is a journey of self-discovery and encourages her students to take the exciting journey and go within. 6 days 
DECEMBER 5-11, 2009UKULELE Experience the Joy! Kimo Hussey 46-426 Hulupala Place Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744 (808) 561-3192 Web site: PMF Hawaii email: kimo@pmfhawaii.com Let time-away and the secluded, serene beauty of Molokai facilitate a total and comprehensive experience in ukulele music and training. Sessions will address music theory as it applies (very simply) to ukulele familiarization, left and right hand techniques, suggestions for effective instruction, performance parameters, program building, effective practice strategies, song selection, choosing and caring for the instrument, historical perspectives, networking and any other facet of ukulele you'd like addressed. Kimo Hussey, Executive Director of the Pacific Music Foundation, has 30+ years' experience in training as well as facilitating workshops in various disciplines. He is degreed in music (choral conducting), published, recorded and experienced in vocal and instrumental performance worldwide. This program for novice to advanced is unmatched in detail, continuity and practicality. Let's kanikapila! 6 days  Hands-on Therapy Hui Ho'olana offers opportunities for massage and bodywork. Introduce A Teacher Hui Ho'olana enjoys sponsoring new and innovative teachers, especially from Hawaii. If you know of a teacher you would like to have us support, please have them contact us. Introduce A Friend Do you have a friend who might be interested in our teaching and reforestation projects? Give us their name and address and we will gladly place them on our mailing list for a catalog. |
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