Whale Retreat Mo'orea
Swim with the Ancient Humpbacks
a Life-Changing Frequency Upgrade
Receive a Transmission Only the Whales Can Give
2 Retreats: October 19th-25th / October 26th-November 1st, 2025
✨ Last-Minute Opening ~ Intimate Pod ~ 6 people in the Water ✨
The Whales Are Calling . . . . . Do You Feel It?
Answer The Call
The Whale Council: An Invitation
There is a lineage of listening woven into the waters of the Earth — ancient, resonant, vaster than language. The humpbacks sing in frequencies that awaken memory in the bones, soften the edges of old stories, and re-tune the human heart to the rhythm of oneness.
This retreat is a ceremony where you are guided to reconnect with nature's profound healing powers. This is not a tourist trip, rather a divinely led transformation. A rare passage into a field where we meet the whale's soul-to-soul, beyond words —
in silence, song and remembrance. By grace of new regulations, only six may enter the water at once. Six beings. Six hearts. Crossing the threshold where the whales themselves open. If you feel the call, know this: you are not signing up for sightseeing. You are stepping into initiation.
✨ Expect Depth: cellular clearing, activation codes, and frequency shifts that harmonize your nervous system with your soul’s path.
✨ Expect Play: sound, movement, laughter, and childlike wonder — the gateways where the miraculous becomes ordinary.
✨ Expect Integration: embodied practices, sound codes, and guided sessions to weave the transmission back into your daily life, blessing your loved ones, your community, and the wider collective.
Trust the call. If this is for you, the way will open. The whales are teachers of surrender — inviting us to rest in the knowing that all is unfolding in perfect time. Their current carries this retreat: those meant to be here, will be here. Trust is the first step of initiation. This is how we learn to receive what has always been waiting for us.
Whale Medicine
Every encounter with the whales carries medicine. What began with honoring a mother and calf became play with an adolescent weaving among dolphins. Hours of deep eye-gazing with young males turned into transmissions — one participant chest-bumped into new awareness, another held in a pec-fin embrace.
Sometimes the medicine comes as release. When a mother and baby swam beneath two participants, energy surged through them at once: he vomited, she burped — a spontaneous purge that dissolved old trauma and left them transformed.
The magic cannot be planned. It is always precise, always greater than us — divinely orchestrated, miraculous, and humbling.
Original photos: past retreat participants
& Lauren Strelau Photography
Activities
Practicing Animal Communication
Enter the field of communion with whales through intention and deep listening. Attune your energy, receive guidance, and strengthen intuition and presence.
Sound Healing
In resonance with the whales and Malia Sonic Alchemist, integrate frequencies that awaken the heart and activate your fullest expression.
Sacred Hikes & Ceremony
Walk Mo’orea’s sacred heartlands, visiting ancient sites in prayer and reflection. Ground with practices that honor the island’s culture and spirit.
Embodiment & Play
Through song, dance, rhythm, and playful trust, Malia opens pathways for receiving. Safe, joyful movement and voice helps anchor what the whales transmit.
Star Gazing
Bask in Mo’orea’s pristine night sky, free of light. Under the stars, reflect, expand, and remember your place in the vast cosmos.
Optional
Visit Coral Gardeners
Participate in marine conservation by helping restore coral reefs. Connect with the ocean while supporting local environmental efforts.
Vocal Empowerment
Vocal Empowerment or Vocal Alchemy Sessions. Explore your voice through sound practices and improvisational music.
1:1 or group facilitation.
1:1 Water Healing Session
Sessions of Watsu-like water dance and channeled sound - in the pool or ocean. To integrate, create space, and awaken creativity.
Mo'orea - French Polynesia
In the crystal-clear turquoise waters of the South Pacific’s French Polynesia, a beautiful heart-shaped island named Moʻorea rises a short ferry ride from Tahiti. Moʻo means lizard and reʻa means yellow — she is also known as the Golden Dragon ✨🐉✨
On the other side of the Earth from Egypt’s sacred temples, where stone holds memory, Moʻorea rises as water’s counterpart —
a feminine temple alive with song, flow, and remembrance.
Declared a Marine Mammal Sanctuary in 2002, this year Moʻorea enacted stronger protections for this precious ecosystem.
Half the captains licenses and boats, 3 boats on a whale, 6 people in the water. It remains one of the few places in the world where you
can legally swim with humpback whales — making it a truly special year, and a sacred place for preciously intimate and
transformative encounters with these ancient beings.
“MOOREA ISLAND 4K – French Polynesia”, was created by Moorea Ocean Adventures. We’re sharing it temporarily to give an overview of Moorea Island. Full credit goes to the original creator.
Be the first to know
Our retreats are supported by extraordinary whale beings. Nagwal, born in Tonga in 2015, first connected with us through animal communication and has been guiding our work since 2022. More recently, Mahina, a rare albino female also birthed in Tonga last year, has brought her powerful, loving presence to help guide and expand this sacred journey. Stay connected with us to read more stories about our whales, healing, vocal practices and retreats.
Accommodations
October 19th - 25th, 2025
This October, our retreat will be hosted in a lush inland sanctuary of Mo’orea, specifically chosen for its potent and replenishing energy. There is something specific to this land - and Malia will be there for the week before your arrival to be in the listening and service of this magical calling. After our transformative swims with whales on the water, we will return to our bungalows nestled in the vibrant heart of the jungle — a powerful setting to ground, rest, and integrate the frequencies we’ll be receiving.
Bungalow Rooms
Each two-bedroom bungalow offers a full kitchen and private bathroom with shower, providing both comfort and nourishing serenity. For those desiring more privacy, limited private bungalow upgrades are available.
Property
Surrounded by the lush jungle, this transformational and potent energy is the what directed us to choose this location. The property also features a tranquil pool, perfect for relaxation as well as optional mini-sessions of water dance and sound channeling.
Pricing
Special Pricing due to last-minute availability.
This experience is carefully curated to fit individual needs.
Because of current travel expenses and flights, we are offering customized tiered packages.
Due to new regulations this year, only 5 participants and the retreat leader can be in the water at a time.
To allow partners or friends to share the experience, we’re offering two additional pricing options. Please note,
to maintain the intimate and sacred container, space is limited—only 1 or 2 additional participants can be accommodated for this retreat.
Our Prices include:
Accommodations
6 nights/7 days at Village Temanoha in Paopao.
Private bungalows for double occupancy. The third bed may accommodate additional
Transportation
Transportation on the Island
Transportation to/from the ferry, when you travel with other group members
Boat excursions
Boat: Has a ladder and shade
4-5 days of 5 hr Whale Boat excursions: Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, Optional Saturday
Excursions
Journey to ancient indigenous temples for land ceremony
Group excursions to places of interest
Support
Pre and post retreat support
Pre and post online group gatherings
Meals
3 catered meals from an organic local chef: vegan, veggie, or pescatarian (will need your preference)
Not Included:
Airfare, Possible overnight stay in Papeete, Taxi from airport to ferry ($20)
Ferry round-trip from Papeete to Mo’orea ($30)
Most meals and snacks, Any additional personal transportation,
Gratuity or tips
Optional add-on trip with the Coral Gardeners
Personal additional sessions with Malia
Please let us know you're interested by booking a call.
Itinerary
Arrival — The Crossing
Your journey begins with a flight to Papeete, Tahiti (PPT). Most participants begin travel on October 18th and arrive either that evening or the morning of the 19th.
If you arrive at night, an overnight stay in a nearby hotel or Airbnb is recommended. The next morning, you’ll board the ferry to Moʻorea — a short yet potent passage across the sea into the heart of this sacred journey. Ferries run multiple times daily, with departures from around 6am-5:30pm, depending on ferry (see FAQ for details).
Day 1 - Invocation
(Sunday Oct 19th)
Ferry ride to Moʻorea and meeting the other retreat participants. Group pickup from the ferry, with a stop for groceries on the way to our lush jungle sanctuary.
We’ll settle into the bungalows, then enjoy a gentle orientation swim to connect with the water and our equipment.
The evening closes with a catered dinner and a sacred opening ceremony to cast our container for the days ahead.
Day 2 - Frequency Alignment
We begin with morning practices to prepare body and spirit, followed by orientation and preparation for our first afternoon whale encounter. After dinner, we gather for an integrating sound healing session to anchor what’s begun.
Day 3 - Anchoring the Codes
Your morning open for practice to deepen and integrate the transmissions received so far.
After a nourishing catered brunch and group session, we set out for an afternoon whale excursion — another opportunity to meet these ancient beings in their natural rhythm.
A group dinner and shared reflections may follow, with the evening free for rest or personal integration.
(subject to shifts guided by weather, whales, and spirit)
Day 4 - Ceremony of Earth and Water
We begin with brunch and a land excursion to sacred sites in Moʻorea’s heart, where we’ll offer prayers and conduct a water ceremony in the mountains. Bring an offering — a gesture of reciprocity to the island and its spirits.
Optional hikes, cultural exploration, coral restoration visits, or pearl experiences are available in the afternoon.
The evening is open for a group or solo dinner and, perhaps, a local cultural show. We let the day reveal its own magic.
Day 5 - Expansion
We set out for a morning whale swim before enjoying open time to rest, integrate and embody the transmissions. In the afternoon, we come together for a group session, then share dinner at a local restaurant.
Day 6 - The Great Remembering
After a final morning on the water, the afternoon is open for reflection and rest before we close our sacred container with a celebration ceremony — weaving together the codes, connections, and transformations received throughout the journey.
Day 7 - Return
We share a final morning and breakfast together, with the option for one last swim and farewell connection with the whales.
We will close our sacred container together.
Afterward, you’ll be transported to the ferry for your return to Papeete and onward flights — or you may choose to stay longer on Moʻorea and let the magic continue to unfold.
Meet your Facilitator
Malia Kulp - Sonic Alchemist
Malia Sonic Alchemist is an electrifying singer, vocal empowerment and transformational coach, sound and energy healer, and retreat leader. Born on the lush shores of Kaua‘i and raised amid the vibrant pulse of New York City, she carries the full spectrum of these contrasting resonances — dancing through earth and water, stillness and motion, structure and improvisation in her sound work.
Her journey began with the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus and evolved into roles as a Carnegie Hall Teaching Artist, festival vocalist, and community builder. She helped midwife the Ecstatic Dance movement on Big Island, performed at festivals in projects blending mantra and electronic music, and has spent over a decade immersed in Bobby McFerrin’s improvisational vocal community, where voice is both prayer and play. Along the way, she deepened into Reiki, sonic healing, and communication with the natural world.
Radiant as the sun, she lights up those around her with a sparkling presence. Through sound, ceremony, and community, she empowers others to reclaim their authentic voice and align with their unique frequency. Her mission is simple yet vast: to awaken the remembrance that we are each a note in the greater song of creation — amplifying joy, nurturing growth, and living in service to the collective awakening.
Malia guided us on a life-changing journey to Moorea, French Polynesia, combining meditation, sound healing, and singing to wild humpback whales. Experiencing the whales respond and swim alongside us was profoundly transformative. Through Malia’s guidance, I opened parts of myself I hadn’t realized were closed, and the entire group felt deeply changed. Her unique ability to weave music, spirit, and whale frequencies into every moment created sacred spaces for self-discovery and healing. By the end, I felt renewed, connected, and profoundly grateful. If you ever have the chance to join Malia for a workshop or guided trip, take it. The experience will stay with you forever.
Jayel Draco
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