Unbridled: Letting Go of the Reins Retreat

General Itinerary
Day 1 - Arrive & Exhale
Your journey brings you to the intimate charm of Hilo Airport, and with your adventurous spirit, you’ve arrived. Our ranch, nestled about an hour away adjacent to the Malama Ki Forest Reserve in Lower Puna, awaits. On the way, you can pause at a local market to pick up any personal essentials. Otherwise, indulge in fresh island fruit, eggs, and cheese waiting in your hale. Tonight, we will come together for a beautifully catered dinner. After, you are free to wander the ranch, enjoy the magnificent trade winds, stunning panoramic ocean views, stargaze under the vast sky, visit the horses, or curl up inside and reflect in the journal that awaits you.
- Welcome (all meals keto lite and locally harvested, unless otherwise requested)

Day 2 - Horses, Healing Waters & Kava Ceremony
Take time this morning to enjoy breakfast at your leisure before gathering at the barn for a day of horsemanship. Horses have been our companions since the dawn of civilization, guiding us not just in movement, but in spirit. Today, you will step into a sacred rhythm with your horse - a dance that mirrors the heartbeat of the earth. As we move together, feel the deep wisdom they carry - healing old wounds, awakening courage, and inviting you into a state of presence and grace. Today, you will learn to be highly accountable for your body and breath, noticing how this situation awareness is the key to peaceful connection to all living things.

This afternoon we share a catered lunch at the barn with sweeping views of the ocean, munching alongside the horses in the open air.

This afternoon is at your own pace. A short 20-minute walk - or a quick drive - through our magical, protected mango grove will bring you to Isaac Hale Beach, where you can experience a variety of natural thermal hot soaks created by Madam Pele in 2018. Soaking in the thermal waters is a beautiful way to unwind the nervous system, restore the body, and absorb the ground energy of the island.

This evening, after our curated dinner, we will gather beneath the open sky and before the ocean around the fire for a kava and meditation ceremony. Traditionally used throughout Hawaii, kava is known to promote relaxation, calm the nervous system, ease anxiety, and encourage a deep sense of connection, presence and inner peace. Sweet dreams.
- 4-hr Intro to Horse Communication, Medicine & Riding
- Optional Thermal Soak
- Kava Fire Ceremony

Day 3 - Embodied Healing
After breakfast, we gather in the horse pasture for a magical Yoga and Reiki practice. This two-hour experience is a deeply restorative session designed to calm the nervous system, open the body and reconnect you to presence. Give thanks for what no longer serves, envision what is in your highest and greatest good and set those new intentions alongside each other and the horses. As you move through gentle breathwork, guided yoga, and hands-on Reiki, the horses naturally mirror and amplify the energy of the space - offering a quiet, grounding sense of connection and awareness. Time is plentiful to spend further with the horses, as Samantha translates and explains their subtleties, allowing for quiet connection, observation, and integration of the morning’s experience.

Lunch is served in the quiet and openness of the horse pasture, a new and comfortable setting with the horses, chickens and other farm animals. The afternoon is at your leisure. You may choose to journal, take a walk, or simply rest and integrate. This is your time to slow down and settle into the rhythm of our off-grid sanctuary.

This evening, we gather once again for a shared dinner, a space to reflect, share thoughts, and speak any blessings or intentions that have arisen throughout the day. Tonight, as we come together at the barn, we relax on our mats and settle into a powerful sound bath healing. Sound uses vibration and frequency to support deep relaxation and restoration. The benefits may include calming the nervous system, reducing stress and anxiety, improving sleep quality, easing emotional tension, and supporting a meditate state of awareness. The sound waves can help guide the body and mind into a deeply restful state, where integration, release, and inner clarity naturally arise. Sleep well.
- 2-hr Yoga, Reiki & Horse Medicine
- Optional Lomi Lomi Massage
- Sound Bath Healing & Meditation

Day 4 - Farewell. You Are Everything You Need:)
As you awaken for your final morning at our Hawaiian retreat, take a moment to fully arrive in the experience. Giving thanks in quiet reflection of all that you have moved through over the past few days - feeling more balanced and grounded, and remembering that you already carry everything you need within you. And so it is.

Aloha,

Welcome to our off-grid family horse ranch, established in 2015. We are located in Lower Puna on Big Island, enjoying sweeping ocean views and breezy trade winds.

This retreat has been shaped over years of listening to our guests - what they needed, what they found here, and what kept calling them back. Set on land shaped by the 2018 Kilauea eruption, this is an off-grid sanctuary where the raw power of the earth meets the steady, grounding presence of horses.

Life here is closely intertwined with nature. As the sun rises over the ocean, our power is renewed. Peacocks call in the distances, birds sing and horses shift quietly as we all ease into the new day together. Time unfolds at a more intentional and slower pace - guided by the sun, the trade winds, the moon, and the animals. As night settles in, the steady chorus of coqui frogs fills the air, the evening rains replenish our drinking water and all of us peacefully sleep under the Hawaiian sky.

Since 2020, we have been sharing this life with guests who come seeking something deeper - whether that’s a stronger connection to themselves or a desire to grow in their riding. Time and again, people leave feeling more balanced, more capable and more centered - both in the saddle and within themselves.

So, we listened - and brought all of those elements together into one curated stay:
- Horsemanship to ground you through connection with the horse
- Yoga to move, open and awaken the body
- Reiki to shift and balance inner energy
- Massage to release deep layers of tension
- Sound Bath to recalibrate the nervous system
- Hot Thermal Water Soak to soften the body and deepen integration
- Ceremonial Fire Meal Sharing to gather and anchor together
- Drumming circle to connect through rhythm, presence and shared energy
- Intentional Kava sipping to open the heart and set intention

This retreat is Easy.

Simply leave the noise behind and arrive inside the rhythm of horse, the Hawaiian land and reconnect with what matters most…you.

And so it is.
_ Samantha

Where Horses Heal