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Earth Spirit Adventure Travel Retreats
with Erica Sofrina

Part of my passion is to take people to sacred energy vortexes on the planet that create an environment for spiritual transformation and renewal to take place. Powerful indigenous teachers and healers of the area take us into deep experiences of the land, the elements and the traditions of the people who inhabit it. I have been taking groups to the Big Island of Hawaii for several years on my Five Elements Immersion Retreat

(Next Program June 22 - July 1 2012 Our experiences swimming with wild Dolphins is just one of the many life-changing experiences I shall never forget. If you are interested in opening to your deep earth connection, I invite you to join me for these powerful, transformational adventures!

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A Magical Earth-Spirit Immersion in one of the Most Powerful
Energy Vortexes on the Planet!

From the moment you arrive, you will experience the magnificent rejuvenating power and energy of the Islands. Come and experience 10 days and 9 nights of an unforgettable earth-spirit journey into the heart of the Big Island Hawaii!

Learn about, and immerse yourself in the powerful five elements at the heart of Feng Shui and many healing modalities.You will lean how to access Fire, Water, Earth, Wood and Metal in an experiental way that will transform the way that you see the world.

	Surrender to the healing properties of Water as you swim with Wild Dolphins, our great teachers of joyousness, love and connection
	Dance the Earth’s Wisdom in the Ancient Volcanic Caves of Pele
	Experience the transformational properties of Fire in the flowing Lava Fields at the heart of the Po’s ‘Oyo Volcano. Experience a fire blessings and Initiation from our beloved Kumu Leina'ala, Kahuna high priestess in the Laka Order; descendants of the brother of TuTu Pele & Hi'iakaikapole'opele
	Listen to the voices of the Ancestors deep in the Ancient Rainforest and learn how to communicate with the plant kingdom as you experience the deva's that protect and nurture them.

	Open to the teachings of the Metal Element as you bake on hot rocks after swimming in pristine tropical waterfalls. We will tour some of the most spectacular waterfalls of Hawaii!
	Sink into a blissful Hawaiian Hot Stone massage and enjoy the many forms of massage available to you at the Kalani Retreat Center Awaken to the mystic within, learn to connect to your spirit guides and tune into your body's intuitive healing powers.

Experience daily adventures and nightly inspirational seminars presented by Master Teachers and Healers from the Islands, and beyond. We will stay at the beautiful Kalani Oceanside Retreat Center on the Big Island of Hawaii located deep within the ancient rain forests of true Hawaii.

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This Comprehensive price of $2400 includes all lodging (double occupancy, shared bath) all meals, all seminars and teachers, transportation to and from all adventures and one massage of choice. Airport transportation to and from the Kalani Retreat center not included but can be arranged with them directly.

If participants would like a private room without a shared bath, they can pay an additional $450. Cottage rooms are also available for an additional price. Please e mail us with questions at erica@ericasofrina.com
Payments: $500 deposit due upon enrollment. Remainder due on May 22-

Fire … our connection to passion.

The Fire Element is active and pulsating and is bright like the hot mid day sun and reminiscent of the peak of activity. It is our spirit and spark and our zest for life represented in our passion and creativity. Fire is intimately connected with the Earth element for its ashes become Earth, and it is nourished by Wood.

Our Fire Adventure:

Our group will go to Volcanoes national park where we will view the newly active Kilauea volcano at the crater’s rim. Erupting for the first time since 1982, an ash-laden plume rises dramatically from the new crater at the summit of Kilauea.

As we stand on the rim of the crater of the newly active volcano, our revered teacher Kumu L'eina'ala will lead us in a sacred ceremony to honor Pele, the Hawaiian Goddess of Fire. We will have prepaired offerings which will be ceremonially thrown off the crater into the fires of Pele as Kumu invokes the elements and Pele's blessing. We continue on to a Temple to receive a blessing from Kumu of Pele Ashes of Ola Healing and the Gift of the Celestial Ointment. A profound experience that will connect you to the essence of fire itself.

Kumu is a Kahuna high priestess in the Laka Order; descendants of the brother of TuTu Pele & Hi'iakaikapole'opele. Before Kumu was born, her Great-Grandmother, TuTu Ono, a revered Kahuna High Priestess, predicted her destiny. Throughout her childhood she was kept hidden and was trained by her great-great grandmother the wisdom of the healing arts .She was groomed from a young age to be a healer using the ancestral knowledge in the healing tradition of HawaiianLapa'au Wisdom and Medicine.

Kumu is a revered Hawaiian teacher and one of the most powerful workshop facilitatiors I have every experienced. As we stood at the rim of the crater overlooking the volcano, Kumu sang, danced and beckoned the rainbow to move from the bottom of the crater over our heads (see picture). When I asked her how she did it, she replied with a sparkle in her eyes 'I know how to control the elements'. Your experience with Kumu is guaranteed to be a transformational experience!

Water...our connection to Spirit

The Water Element is represented by the spirit realm. It is the energy of floating and stillness. It is from the depths that we often receive our most profound insights. It represents mysticism, the soul, the depts of nature, meditation, flowing, trusting in a higher order, synchroniscity and the ability to surrender to faith in the universal flow.

During our entire stay we will have multiple opportunities to experience guided meditations in and around the Water Element. You will have an opportunity to luxuriate in a Watsu water massage, a healing experience that will transform every cell of your body. With our snorkeling gear we will swim in fabulous tide pool with colorful tropical fish. We will go to the other side of the island where we will meet our boat and swim with wild (free) Hawaiian Spinner dolphins, our great teachers of joyousness, love and spontaneity.

Roberta Goodman worked for many years with Dr. John Lily, the famed researcher and explorer who did cutting-edge experiments with dolphins that showed their profound intelligence and sophistocation. Roberta designed and performed communication experiments with the dolphins at his Human Dolphin Foundation lab at Marine World/Africa USA in Redwood City, California. She co-founded Cetacean Nation with Dr. John Lilly. This is a movement to recognize the rights of whales and dolphins as sentient beings. With her truly visionary understanding of the role of dolphins in human evolution, Roberta is the most loving, exciting, and inspirational dolphin guide.  Roberta will prepare us to swim with dolphins in the wild. She is considered to be one of the Island's foremost "Dolphin Whisperers'" and truly cares that we humans have a most amazing contact with the cetaceans in the wild.

Metal is a product of the earth and is represented by products of the earth such as stones and the natural metals that grow out of the earth. Metal is a symbol of endurance and strength, and is intrinsically connected to the Earth Element.It also holds the energy for the water element.   For our Metal Adventure we will take a Waterfall tour giving us a resplendent view of the countryside and the plentiful waterfalls found at the north end of the Big Island of Hawaii. We will experience the deep connection between water and metal as we view and swim in some of these magnificent falls. We will also have a number of opportunities to meditate on the stones and learn how to access their ancient wisdom.

Our Presenter for the Metal Element will be Erica Sofrina our Retreat organizer & guide.

Tree is the ultimate expression of the wood element the movement of the energy of a tree is upward and outward. It is about the ability to receive inner guidance, expansiveness, new growth, and open mindedness. It is associated with new beginnings, the rising energy of a new day, the springtime and the sunrise.

For our wood adventure we will experience the wisdom and teachings of the tropical forests and plants that so richly grace the Hawaiian landscapes. You will be taken on a guided meditation deep in the Rainforest's to meet the plant devas and elementals that protect and nurture them. We will be lead into a meditation where we will axcess the spirit of tree energy by our Teacher Rich Raffals as he plays the didgeridoo in beautiful and mysterious Lava Tree National park. We will also tour the magnificent Hawaiian Tropical Gardens and marvel at the incredible variety of unusual plants and flowers that grace this beautiful landscape. 
Our presenters for the wood adventure are Gertraud Mondel, Rich Raffals and Erica Sofrina. At various times throught our retreat our guides will be leading us to a place where you can experience your deep connection to the tree and plant kingdom and teach you how to access earth energies by demonstrating how to connect with earth Devas', Elementals and Plant Guardian's who allow us to unlock the secrets of our planet.

Gertraud Mondel is an International teacher, seminar leader and Reiki Master with a large following based in Vienna, Austria. She is a Feng Shui Coach and one of the Founders of the Energetic-City and Energetic Castle, which she and her husband Johannes Mondel created as a showcase and symposium for Energyworkers and Healers throughout the world. She is a sought-after teacher and workshop facilitator leading healing meditations for groups throughout Europe. Gertraud's special connection with spirit, nature and intuition sets her apart as an inspiring teacher and leader for our earth-spirit retreat.

Erica Sofrina is the Founder of Earth Spirit Adventure Travel . As our guide, she axcesses her life long journey of learning the teachings of shamanism, the Kabala and other ancient mystery traditions. She sets up a sacred space for participants to open to their deep connection to mother earth and the richness of her elements of fire, earth, wood, metal and water. She will guide participants in meditations and rituals to experience first-hand what these life-sustaining elements mean as they discover their own relationships to the Plant Devas and Elementsals; the gardeners and caretakers of the earth. She is an Internationally recognized speaker, teacher and author as well as a spiritual life-coach and Feng Shui and Green Living Consultant. She is also the Green Living editor for Care2.com, an on-line community of over 18 million members. She is the founder of the

The Earth Element has to do with the physical material world . The rich and nurturing energy of the goddess with her thriving and life-giving groundedness. It is about fertility, practicality, sensuality, stability and being present in the moment and grounded in the body.

The Earth and Fire Elements are intricately connected. Fire creates Earth when it disintegrates into ashes. For Our Earth Adventure, our Hawaiian Guide Kimo will lead us in a sacred Hawaiian offering on the cliffs before we enter the Goddess Cave for our Earth ritual. On another day we will visit Volcano National park and explore the ancient and dramatic Thurston Lava Tube. We will have many more opportunities to open to the Earth and all of her teachings at this retreat.

Our Earth Element Guides will be Rich Raffals and Kimo, the Cultural Director of Kalani, Hula teacher and ceremonialist

Rich Raffals is a sought-after sound healer, spiritual life-coach and healing touch practitioner. He also leads a men's group centered around emotional healing/liberation and community, and has 12 years experience as an emotional counselor. His diverse and rich training has taken him to more than 20 countries, studying with a myriad of teachers, healers and shamans in the Amazon jungle, Ecuadorian Andes, Palawan Rainforest, India, Hawaii and across the U.S. He also counts the incarcerated youths of San Mateo County among his teachers, as he feels he learned much from them in his 6+ years teaching yoga, meditation, communication skills, and leadership in the juvenile halls. Specific trees, plants and dolphins have also been teachers and guides for him. While meditating on a cliff in Hawaii, he was called by a wild dolphin to swim alone with their pod for hours, a transformational relationship which continued to deepen nearly every day for the 3 weeks that followed.

In his sound-healing concerts and one-on-one healing sessions, Rich creates a sacred space for participants to open to a profound healing experience using the Australian didgeridoo, African and Latin Drums, Ecuadorian Rattles, Tibetan Chimes, voice and aromatherapy. He facilities journeys into the timeless realm (described as "Dreamtime" by the Australian Aborigines) where the primal vibrations heal and make meditative brainwave states of theta and delta quickly attainable. This re-engages the mind-body connection, facilitating one's highest potential for physical, emotional, spiritual and energetic healing and rejuvenation. He's committed to sound healing replacing surgery and medicine, and is experimenting with new synergies between the latest findings in quantum physics, advanced spiritual teachings, and creating sonic/vibrational templates that match his clients' highest visions for themselves and their lives.

Using sound and meditation modalities, Rich will take us into an experience of Wood and Earth that will awaken a profound and magical connection to Mother Earth and the plant/tree kingdom.

Kalani Oceanside Retreat Center
12-6860 Kalapana-Kapoho Beach Road
Pahoa, HI 96778

For more than 30 years Kalani Oceanside Retreat has taken its inspiration from the spirit of Aloha, a sense of care, respect, and hospitality to guests and locals alike. Located on the lush, tropical southeast coast of Hawaii, the Aloha State’s “Big Island,” Kalani celebrates nature, culture, and wellness with adventures, wellness treatments, workshops, delicious healthful cuisine and comfortable accommodations.
There are comfortable accommodations for up to 132 guests (lodges, cottages, tree houses). The communal dining lanai serves healthy, delicious cuisine in an atmosphere that encourages the sharing of aloha among guests, volunteers and staff.
Kalani is more than just a retreat, it is a vibrant ohana (family community) of guests, volunteers who live at Kalani for one to three months, staff, and people on the Puna Coast.

To learn more about Kalani, visit www.kalani.com, A magnificent retreat facility you won’t want to miss… come and share the aloha at Kalani!

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