Summer Solstice 2025

JUNE 16-22, 2025 | Big Island, Hawaii

with guest healer, Dr. Paul Wang plus breakfast and special dinners with Hamsa Fae, kitchen creatrix & herbalist

Space is limited to 15 people.

Summer Solstice Special Sabbatical Week
with Belinda Liu (Hestia Co-founder) & Dr. Paul Wang (Guest Healer)

Includes:
• 6 Brunches & 6 dinners plus 6 nights of comfortable lodging
• Sacred sites tours around our sister site & bonus private group equine
• Sabbatical Kit
• 3 Two-hour Morning Group Sessions with Dr. Paul Wang

What aspects of your life are ready for full blossom this summer?

Join us on the Big Island of Hawaii, home of Mauna Kea and sacred Kealakekua Bay, for a radiant 2025 Summer Solstice week as we bask in the warming energies of Pele’s fertile lands and majestic seas to expand our connection to nature, community and being.


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.


Summer unfolds an expansion of our energies, both healthy and unhealthy, beautiful and messy, light and dark. Clarity allows us to see ourselves fully. Compassion helps us choose expression of our inherent goodness. Courage warms our heart to melt old hurts for our inner self to blossom.


These themes are related to the alchemical element of Fire. Join us for our special summer solstice sabbatical week to cultivate the fiery joy and aliveness of Pele’s lands on Big Island, Hawaii.


Our group cultivation guide and guest healer for this sacred journey is Dr. Paul C. Wang, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM). 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 annual Summer Solstice sabbatical week 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 more awe, joy, play

  • Enact insights into your daily lifeways

OUR SUMMER SOLSTICE FLOW

DAY 1: MON, JUNE 16 >>  GROUND & SETTLE IN

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

  • Enjoy a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared welcome dinner by Kitchen Creatrix, Hamsa Fae and receive an overview of our weeklong journey

DAY 2: TUES, JUNE 17 >> ANCHOR YOUR INTENTIONS WITH THE MAJESTY OF LAND & SEA

  • From 8 - 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 Wang to deepen into the Chinese Medicine themes of summer and refine our personal intentions for this season

  • 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 5 pm, enjoy an afternoon sunset excursion at the Place of Refuge (sacred site close to us) to connect with Hawaii culture, history and mythology

  • At 7:30 pm, nourish with a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared dinner by Kitchen Creatrix, Hamsa Fae

DAYS 3 & 4: WED, JUNE 18 & THURS, JUNE 19 >>  HARVEST THE POTENT ENERGY OF SUMMER

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

  • From 10 am - 12 pm, enjoy follow-up group morning activation sessions with Dr. Paul C. Wang to deepen into inner resonance and outer balance

  • Book optional wellness sessions to help you heal, rejuvenate and harmonize with your body, mind, spirit

  • Practice embodying and living your intentions while you’re here by consciously choosing how you want to spend your time and energy

  • At 6:30 pm, nourish with a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared dinner by Kitchen Creatrix, Hamsa Fae

DAY 5: FRI, JUNE 20 >>  DEEPEN, NOURISH & FERTILIZE YOUR INTENTIONS

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

  • Integrate the medicine of the island with an optional morning excursion to Paleaku Peace Gardens

  • At 6:30 pm, nourish with a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared dinner by Kitchen Creatrix, Hamsa Fae

  • Co-create a summer solstice gratitude altar and alchemize the energy of the fire element with an evening fire ceremony to release what no longer serves you and make space for the shifts you want to catalyze in your life

DAY 6: SAT, JUNE 21 >> RELEASING RITUAL

  • Kick off the day with a nourishing breakfast buffet

  • Early morning journey to Volcano National Park to connect to work with the energy of fire & deepen our connection to Goddess Pele with our prayers and offerings

  • Enjoy dinner out in Hilo

  • Visit Mauna Kea and give offerings to the sacred mountain

  • Create a verbal/visual reminder to facilitate a smooth transition back

DAY 7: SUN, JUNE 22 >> GIVE GRATITUDE & PREPARE TO TRANSITION

  • Visit the spots that you felt a special connection to on the land and give gratitude before you leave

  • Enjoy a final group breakfast and closing dinner prepared by Kitchen Creatrix, Hamsa Fae


WHAT’S INCLUDED

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

  • Comfortable lodging (single & double occupancy options)

  • 6 brunches and 6 farm to table dinners by Kitchen Creatrix, Hamsa Fae

  • Sabbatical toolkit and special wellness gifts made by local artisans

  • Self-guided journaling tools to keep track of your experience and insights along the way

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

  • Guided group rituals and curated ceremonies to sacred sites aligned to our personal and group intentions (i.e., Place of Refuge, Paleaku Peace Gardens & sacred Kealakekua Bay)

  • S P A C I O U S N E S S !

  • Group releasing ritual to let go of what no longer serves you

  • Custom curated excursions aligned with your personal intentions


EXTRA SERVICES

  • Entrance to Volcano National Park

  • 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!


 

About Dr. Paul C. Wang, DACM, LAc, founder of The Dao Center in Berkeley:

I am a Memetic Healer and Cultural Acupuncturist who specializes in Clinical Cosmology and Mythic Engineering. I prescribe potent memes to shift physical burnout, emotional constipation, mental diarrhea, spiritual amnesia, and natural deficit. My main tools are Dao Alchemy (Self-Cultivation), Dao Acupuncture (Self-Healing), Dao Astrology (Self-Awareness):

  • Doctorate of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine 

  • Masters of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine

  • Bachelors of Science in Integrative Biology

  • Instructor of Balance Method Acupuncture

  • Transmitter of Daology (Dao De Gong Fa)

  • Sifu of WingChun