New Year’s Eve 2025 Celebration with the Hestia Community

Special Winter Sabbatical

DEC 28, 2024 - JaN 2, 2025 | Big Island, Hawaii

with guest healer, Dr. Paul Wang plus breakfast and special dinners with Chef Peter

Space is limited to 15 people.

• $2,700 per person for single occupancy ticket

• $2,200 per person for double occupancy ticket

WHAT SEEDS DO YOU WISH TO INCUBATE THIS WINTER?

Join us on the Big Island of Hawaii, home of Mauna Kea and sacred Kealakekua Bay, for a special winter sabbatical week to receive the restful, introspective medicine of winter. Together, we will slow down to rest and root deeply into our winter visions with the support of the community and the silence and stillness of the land. Our group cultivation guide and guest healer for this sacred journey is Dr. Paul C. Wang, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM).

This is the perfect opportunity to transition into a new season and calendar year, if you desire:

• Greater alignment between your lifestyle and nature’s rhythms

• More slowness and quiet time in wintering

• Guided support to navigate this darker time of the year

• Sacred space to go deeper into your resting, visioning and dreaming states
  

“The guidance shared at the beginning of my sabbatical helped me to follow my heart and body throughout my time there. I came to deeply value the solitude and connection I felt on the land, and the beauty of my surroundings.

My return home is full of deeper clarity and rootedness as a result of my time at Hestia. As I navigate the void during this period of time, I am grounded in the lessons from Hestia and knowing that abundance and prosperity are near.”

~ JANINE PEÑAFORT

Solstice amplifies our vision, fuels our fire, enhances our sensitivity to possibilities beyond our old stories and stale identities. We feel into the new who we want to be. We ignite the process of embodying our future self in this moment. We illuminate both our intentions and blockages to create our most meaningful life. We commune our wholeness within to heal our relationships.

Dr. Wang will share his integration of martial, medical, and mystical paths as our collective story of mythic mastery — a process which actualizes our full potential. Through practical principles and meaningful flows, he will orchestrate a series of three 2-hour morning activation sessions throughout the sabbatical week to harmonize our mind, heart, body with soul, spirit, source. 

Join our Special Winter Sabbatical and New Year celebration at Hestia’s newest sister site to:

• Ensoul universal principles through meditation, movement, memetic practices

• Enrich your mind, body, heart, spirit with the eternal elements

• Encounter fellow lovers of solitude, plentitude, gratitude

• Enter a reality the celebrates the introspective depth, stillness and silence of this season

• Enact insights into your daily lifeways

OUR Winter SEASOn FLOW:

DAY 1: SAT, DEC 28 >>  GROUND & SETTLE IN

• Be greeted by your hosts and settle into your sweet home and resting space for the week

• At 6:30 pm, enjoy a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared sunset dinner by Chef Peter to welcome you to the space & receive an overview of our winter sabbatical journey

DAY 2: SUN, DEC 29 >> ANCHOR YOUR INTENTIONS WITH THE MAJESTY OF LAND & SEA

• From 8:30 - 9:30 am, enjoy a nourishing breakfast buffet before our group sessions

• From 10 am - 12 pm, enjoy our first group morning activation session with Dr. Paul C. Wang to deepen into the Chinese Medicine themes of winter represented by the water element and sleeping practices for deep rest

• Use the self-guided sabbatical journaling tools and connect with abundance of the land and the ocean to support the expansion of your visions

• Receive a custom curated itinerary for places to harvest the medicine of the island aligned with your personal intentions

• At 6:30 pm, nourish with a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared dinner by Chef Peter

DAY 3: MON, DEC 30 >>  HARVEST THE POTENT ENERGY OF WINTER WITH THE WHALES

• From 8:30 - 9:30 am, enjoy a nourishing breakfast buffet before our group sessions

• Enjoy a private new moon boat tour led by Hestia’s resident whale and dolphin spirit teachers to internalize the water element through the whale migration

• At 6:30 pm, nourish with a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared dinner by Chef Peter

• Apply Dr. Paul’s winter sleeping practices to help us enter into a state of deep, restorative rest.

DAY 4: TUES, DEC 31 >>  DEEPEN, NOURISH & FERTILIZE YOUR WINTER INTENTIONS

• From 8:30 - 9:30 am, kick off the day with a nourishing breakfast buffet

• From 10 am - 12 pm, enjoy a follow-up group morning activation session with Dr. Paul C. Wang at Paleaku Peace Gardens to deepen our personal and collective intentions

• At 5 pm, alchemize the energy of the winter water element with an evening water ceremony to release what no longer serves you and make space for the shifts you want to catalyze in your life

• At 6:30 pm, nourish with a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared dinner by Chef Peter

• Celebrate the turning of the new year with music and dance!

DAY 5: WED, JAN 1 >>  HONORING NEW BEGINNINGS!

• From 8:30 - 9:30 am, kick off the day with a nourishing breakfast buffet

• Take a morning journey to Volcano National Park to connect to Goddess Pele and offer our prayers and blessings

• Create a verbal/visual reminder to integrate our insights and solidify the seeds we wish to root and incubate this winter

• From 4-6 pm, enjoy a closing group cultivation session with Dr. Paul C. Wang to deepen into inner resonance and outer balance, working with the extremes of solstice energy and the medicine of winter

• At 6:30 pm, celebrate the new year with a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared dinner by Chef Peter

DAYS 6 & 7: THURS, JAN 2 & FRI, JAN 3 >> OPTIONAL INTEGRATION DAYS

• From 8:30 - 9:30 am, kick off the day with a nourishing breakfast buffet

• Extra days to integrate the practices and reflect on your vision for the new year

• Optional nature excursions to Isaac Hale Park (hot pools), Green Sand Beach at South Point, sacred Waipio Valley

WHAT’S INCLUDED

• Online community call on winter solstice to prepare to root yinward for the winter season

• Private Whale watching boat tour with local whale and dolphin guides

• Entrances to 3 sacred sites: Volcano National Park, Place of Refuge and Paleaku Peace Gardens

• Winter yin cultivation practices to help you rest deeply and get the best sleep of your life!

• Three 2-hour guided group sessions with Dr. Paul Wang

• Comfortable lodging (single & double occupancy options) for 5 nights

• 5 brunches and 5 farm to table dinners by Chef Peter

• Sabbatical toolkit and special wellness gifts made by local artisans

• Access to private meditation spots, yoga studio and ocean views

• Guided meditative walk to connect with the healing power spots near our sister site (i.e., Place of Refuge, Paleaku Peace Gardens & sacred Kealakekua Bay)

• S P A C I O U S N E S S !

• Releasing water ritual to let go of what no longer serves you

EXTRA SERVICES

• Extended lodging beyond the 5 nights provided in the program

• Massage, acupuncture, energy work and other wellness services

• Private dance, movement, yoga classes

• Guided tours to our favorite sacred sites around Big Island

• 1:1 post-sabbatical integration sessions to support your transition back

BOOK YOUR SPOT TODAY!

• $2,700 per person for single occupancy ticket

• $2,200 per person for double occupancy ticket