This 3-night retreat has been curated so that you can easily unplug.

Aloha - Welcome to our family horse ranch where we have been sharing the power of the 2018 Kilauea volcano and the horses with guests since 2020. During this time, our airbnb guests have consistently relished in our life here. It has been said that we should offer a retreat, and so we are!

My five children and I moved to this land in 2015. We lived in tents and carved a life out of the jungle for ourselves, our dogs and our horses and our riding school. Before we could finish the main house, all was covered by lava. We evacuated for 2 years before returning in 2020 this time, building our life from the lava. All the while, the horses saving our lives in innumerous ways, making us better humans and….

We are located right in the middle of the 2018 Kileaua volcano, a powerful place of transformation. The horses have been guiding and teaching us and everyone who visits alongside us. We are completely off-grid; enjoying water from the sky, power from the sun, reminding us to notice the rain, the trade winds, and the sunrise and moonrise. We invite you into our life where a licked finger in the wind, a pause to notice the sky is how we check for weather.

A regular day here for us has its chores, most predictable, many not. But moreso it is the rythymn of living close to nature. Geckos are ancient residents of Hawaii. They are busy in the houses with us, catching bugs or licking the lid of some of our local honey. The yellow lovebirds have returned and made nests in some of the roof peaks, waking us up to the best meditation music. Life has returned. The chickens and turkeys sing in harmony in the morning, laying their daily eggs, and again at night clucking as they find just the right place to roost. The days are focused on the weather. We feel the directional changes of the tradewinds, look out to the ocean’s distant gaze and moderate subtle shifts in temperature to with incredible accuracy, predict the every-changing Hawaiian weather. We sit and take another 20 photos of the last rainbow and we listen to the call of the peacocks, always looking out for their pea hen. The dogs are busy with big jobs making sure everyone is eagerly greeted and that all other animals stay in their pens and pastures. Baby chicks chirp away, foals are born, life is in full cycle. The trees, some recovering from the volcano, others newly planted perk up with every rain storm and we give thanks for the growing abundance of fruit, one bit at a time. And the horses, our partners, our life-teachers, our family. They have saved our sanity and made us into better, more thoughtful, aware and grounded humans. We are accutately of aware of each whinney and what it means. We know when quiet is too quiet and we know when a mare is in heat. In the evenings, the dark can be so dark and the moon can be so bright, we often plan driving, fishing and outdoor ceremonial fires around it. And then at night, when the dogs are quiet, the birds long asleep and the horses waiting to lay down, it’s time to sleep to the sound of cocqui frogs, a symphony rivaling any plug in sound device. We shower and do laundry when there is sun, keenly aware of how many daylight hours are left. We weave in times to turn on all lights and times to turn on one, all dictated by nature.

This is the natural life we live. There is a lot of journaling, a lot of gathering and a lot of quiet time. The rythym is balanced and has naturally developed our nervous system into a….

_ Samantha