Personal Retreats
Aloha & Welcome to Midife Personal Retreats!
Our retreats are one on one and tailored specifically to meet your needs. We have developed a graceful system that expands out your retreat to be a complete experience. We will help you walk through and develop your own retreat. During the retreat, our attention means the actual retreat evolves as you learn. Afterwards, we are still accessible, to guide you as you apply the lessons smoothly into your life. Our retreats flow as a life-changing process and are far more than just taking one week off from your life. We are here to help you connect fully into a more complete and graceful life.
Personal Retreat Programs
Your Hosts and Teachers
Our Retreats Offer
- Personal Development
- Relationship Work
- Midlife Growth & Healing
- Meditation Training
- Qi Gong & Exercise sessions
- Taoist Teachings
- Shamanic Teachings
- Herbal Counseling
- Organic Meals
A retreat is a major investment in your life. We recognize you are at an important point in life, and we are here to make your process as smooth as possible. You can choose the teachings that matter most to you. We’ll make sure the experience matches your personality and requirements in a manner you can never achieve in a larger group setting.
Personal Retreat Activities
Some of the activities you may enjoy during your personal retreat stay include: exploring spiritual practices, breaking out of routine, a massage or bodywork session, meditation, movement classes including yoga and dance, Qi Gong, walking through tropical gardens, visiting waterfalls, going to see the active volcano, soaking in natural hot springs, swimming around turtles or walking along a beautiful white sand beach.
Our personalized service sets us apart from other retreat centers. With a personal One River Retreat, you can explore your own development in depth, at your own pace and without getting lost in the crowd.
Create your own personal retreat and discover what so many others have found. A complete teaching & healing experience that opens up new possibilities for your next steps in life.
Costs
Contact us directly to ask about costs and to arrange your retreat.
Retreat Location
We offer retreats to match your location. We can also arrange to meet up with you in prearranged locations such as the Big Island of Hawaii.
Retreat Duration
Generally, people come for three and five-day personal retreats and also add in a few days for a personal vacation to enjoy their life. We also offer partial day options.
Expanding Your Retreat
A retreat is an amazingly powerful experience, but keeping the peace of mind and centering after a retreat can be a challenge. The learning process doesn’t have to end when you leave our retreat. You are going back into the world and applying the lessons learned from working with us. This isn’t as simple as many people think. You can continue to work with us over the phone / Internet to help to balance out your experience as you evolve.
First Time Retreats
This represents a powerful moment of your life. If you are considering your first retreat, the process of sorting out all the possible options and finding the right options can be overwhelming. To make our retreats accessible right away, we offer the additional option to work with you directly before the retreat. We can work with you over the phone or Internet. In this manner, you can get to know us personally and begin learning right away. Additionally, since we get to know you before you come here, we can fine tune and customize your time here precisely to your needs. This allows Julie and Casey to make each retreat an amazing experience for everyone.
A personal retreat gives you the opportunity to take care of yourself while learning more about life.
We craft personal retreats to match your needs precisely. Julie and Casey are here to teach and assist you throughout the entire retreat. During your personal retreat, you can also take time off to simply relax and be present in your life.
Personal Transformation
At times, a person just needs to get away and start over. We reach key moments in our life where we need to pause and find better options. A midlife retreat is a graceful option for transformation and a fresh start. A midlife crisis breaks you down, but our retreat will help you find the space and tools to turn it all around into a transformation that serves you. This is an opportunity to get active personal guidance to help sort out life.
Midlife Retreat Options
A personal retreat is a time to find freedom and fulfill oneself. The process is about “fulfillment” & “embodiment”… words that capture the true essence of our retreat process.
You might initially experience a feeling of hesitation because this is the moment to tackle the harder challenges that have been hindering your life up to now. We take this into account. Before the midlife retreat starts, we will talk together to help you move through complicated challenges more gracefully.
At midlife, you might be driven by the need to explore, run, or by a mixture of conflicting emotions. So the word “retreat” can appropriately capture the initial “feeling” for the action required to start the process of change. We will help you move ahead without running away from your life.
This retreat will guide you around the questions you can’t quite answer and that persistently nag at you. During the retreat, you will peel away judgments holding you back from a full life. Visit us with this expectation: finding a wholesome path out of a midlife crisis and into a life of your choosing. Every retreat always goes far beyond what a person will imagine can happen. It’s an amazing process of finding new ground to explore.
Your Transformation Guide
Casey has spent 20 years exploring and understanding the nature of the midlife crisis. Our midlife crisis retreats are optimized to help provide insightful perspectives and guidance that transforms confusion into direction and anxiety into clarity.
Midlife Crisis is an ever-shifting process. It’s a time of great change. Midlife Crisis can shake up any person to their very core. It doesn’t make a difference who you are, how organized or spiritual you are. Casey will turn the more painful aspects of this current crisis into positive growth. Our retreat will show you how to minimize hurting yourself and those you love within this time of transformation.
Remote (Virtual) Retreat Option
Not everyone has the resources for a tropical Hawaiian retreat. So in 2010, we developed a new option called a remote retreat. We can help you arrange a personal retreat closer to where you live. Take a vacation or break someplace close that has always called to you or to that special place you go naturally for personal recharging. We would then work with you over the phone / Internet for several hours each day, teaching what you need most while you enjoy that special location nearer to you.
Remote personal retreats are very affordable since you are now using our teaching over the phone/internet rate. This is a popular option for many of our students. We perform many remote personal retreats every year to best match our student’s needs in life. If you want to attend a retreat with us and cannot afford the more expensive flying-around-the-world option, contact us, and we will help you create a remote personal retreat!
Arranging Personal Retreats
The first step is to talk with you directly and review your full situation. In this initial step, we begin to teach right away to help in your life. Because of this, we can begin to pre-teach many concepts and work with retreat clients long before they even come to the retreat in Hawaii. This makes the actual attendance of the personal retreat far more powerful: since we will have already started you moving in the direction needed and you will get to know us long before the personal retreat begins.
Many people can be fearful before starting a personal retreat. This process permits us to dispel all fears and get everyone to a stronger place before the retreat even begins.
So the first step would be to schedule an initial talk and start the process moving.
Learn more about our Couples Retreats
Contact Us to schedule an initial session and let us know what days and activities you like to arrange.
Arrange your family or group retreat today!Casey and Julie are your personal retreat guides. Unlike a mass-market retreat geared as a commercial and generic experience, here you get to be inspired and follow your process as it unfolds in the retreat.
We share our Taoist temple with others, the temple being our lives and stories we create by living vibrantly. This sharing opens up the opportunity to explore many practices and activities. In this manner, we ensure unique and fulfilling personal retreats.
It’s quite hard to describe in words how Casey has impacted my life. One of the things he’s taught me is the futility of trying to verbalize deeper concepts. So I’ll just focus on the outcomes. I was utterly lost when I first started working with Casey. Personally and professionally. In working with him, I’ve been able to take what has been a real crisis and turn it into a fundamental transformation. Casey teaches concepts by illuminating them within your own life experience. The lesson is crystal clear when you can learn against your own situations. He teaches us to view things within the core concepts of kindness, grace, non-judgment, and modesty. The amount I’ve learned in just a year is astounding.
When I first started working with Casey, I was ready to find my teacher. And there he was. For that, I’m grateful and excited for what lies ahead.
If any of you have the opportunity to do a retreat with Casey and Julie, DO IT! They are gracious hosts, fantastic teachers, and good friends. It was very special to be able to ease into the next phase of my life in Hilo. And the scenery is pretty good too.
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