Muaisa Hale Pule
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💬 Guests Say
- Profound Healing: Retreat.guru (5/5 rating) notes guests felt “transformed,” with the plant medicine ceremony revealing deep personal insights, though some found the experience hard to articulate.
- Loving Facilitators: Quora praises Jack and Dr. ZZ’s “beautiful souls,” with guests feeling supported during sacred plant ceremonies, but a review on a retreat platform alleges Jack pressured a guest into sexual acts, claiming it was for “kundalini awakening.”
- Serene Location: Best Retreats highlights the Kona Coast setting, with guests on retreat.guru appreciating the 1600 ft elevation, ocean views, and dolphin sightings at Kealakekua Bay, though some noted the lack of on-site lodging.
🚩 Incident Report
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Theft: No reports on Reddit, Quora, Tripadvisor, or Google mention stolen items at Muaisa Hale Pule.
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Sexual Misconduct: A 2020 review on a retreat platform alleges shaman Jack pressured a guest into sexual acts (e.g., grinding against a wall in a shed) under the guise of “kundalini awakening,” exploiting their trust as a mentor. The guest felt unsafe but was naive and unsure how to respond. Muaisa Hale Pule claims this review violates a restraining order against a former volunteer, alleging it’s part of a harassment campaign by a “revengeful, emotionally-unstable” individual, but this remains unverified without legal resolution.
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Crime: No police reports or violent incidents tied to Muaisa Hale Pule were found in Google News, Hawaiian media, or retreat forums, though the center notes enforcement challenges across state lines for their restraining order.
🔍 Critical Notes
SUNDAY EVE
“HAWAIAKA”
CEREMONY
Shamanic practice holds that living in accordance with nature is medicine, and that people are capable of accessing their own inner wisdom, healing and knowledge through working in symbiotic relationship with the earth, plants and the elements. In keeping with this tradition, the Curanderos of the Amazon have a long history of using Ayahuasca in ceremonial practice; in the Andes Mountains of South America, the priests use San Pedro, and in Mexico and the Southwestern United States, shamanic practice often centers around the use of peyote and psilocybin mushrooms.
Here in Hawai’i, we find it healing to partake of the ancient, psychotropic plant teachers of the Islands in their original habitat — in the middle of the world’s largest ocean, the ocean (“Pacific”) named after “Peace.”
“Every time I’ve done Ayahuasca,
I wondered if it would ever end.
With this brew, I wished
it would last forever.”
— Jason Mamoa’s Cousin. HI
Although our plants are in the same family as South American Ayahuasca, our ceremonies are not to imitate those of Peru. The HAWAIAKA BREW is a safe, more blissful and less anxiety-producing ceremonial opportunity for people to experience the Master Plant teachers of Hawaii and this part of the world. Much like the “Aloha Spirit, “Ha” (breath of life) “Wai” (mana/life force) “Aka” (shadow) is an experience that takes place within you and remains with you as you go back out into the world.
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION THRESHOLDS:
• $375 per person/per ceremony
• $750 per person for 2-day (ceremony + private, 1-on-1, individually-delivered SHAMANIC “DEEP DIVE.”
• Donate + $225 and receive a complimentary 90-minute HANDS-ON ENERGY WORK SESSION.
“Sacred plant ceremony and private session, it’s a game changer.
Don’t even think about taking
only one of them. Only together,
only true experience to real self.”
Viktor, Kazakhastan,
a verified Guest Review at:
https://retreat.guru/centers/893-1/muaisa-hale-pule#reviews
“The most intimate eye-opening experience — 4 eva transformed!” — 1st Timer
SAFE – GENTLE – POWERFUL
With the assistance of Hawaiian and Pacific Island psychoactive, psychotropic, entheogenic plants that teach, people can receive insights about themselves and their Divine nature. This is the Within Self, which is otherwise often perceived as being separate and external as “other.”
We offer our sacred, indigenous, organically-grown HAWAIAKA in small, intimate, Sunday evening group ceremonies to open the opportunity for healing, personal growth, and the experience of sacred plant interaction in an accessible, nurturing, well-groomed, upcountry Hawaiian setting.
2-DAY = CEREMONY + DEEP DIVE :
Sacred Plants aren’t a quick fix or a magical cure and won’t, in and of themselves, solve your problems or transform your life. Rather, they open the opportunity for you to experience an altered state of consciousness, in which you may perceive and address your issues from a different perspective.
By accessing a super conscious state, with the enhancement of these entheogens (literally, “becoming one with divine”), participants generally experience heart-openings and shifts in consciousness that take place via visions of the energetic world, inner knowledge and wisdom — in other words, the ability to “know oneself.”
Choose to combine Sunday ceremony with a 2.5 HR PRIVATE, INDIVIDUALLY-DELIVERED, ONE-ON-ONE, DEEP DIVE WITH CHIEF ‘GOLDEN FEATHER on any weekday (Mon through Thurs) either before or afterwards. This substance-free session is designed to assist you in exploring more deeply the 3-D illusion and your own personal imagery; so that you may awaken from sleep and seriousness and free yourself from your unique, self-defeating symbolism and blind spots.
“As a retired psychotherapist, having maintained a private practice on both Maui and Hawaii Island back in the 90’s, I can tell you this:
“While I was in practice, I did not take insurance, and I had a thriving clientele because I was known to be fast and effective. Rather than keep folks in therapy week-after-week for years, I was known to get them up and out of my office within in a month to six weeks. My reputation was stellar, and people used to abandon their therapists of 14+ years to come to see me and get on with their lives.
“As fast and effective as I was — and I could tell you stories — when I met Shaman, he was like lightning in comparison. As phenomenal as it may sound, for many who come here for the 2-day Ceremony + “Deep Dive,” the results are comparable to years of traditional therapy.”
— Dr. ZZ, Muaisa Hale Pule
CEREMONY SCHEDULE
Ceremonies take place at dusk till approximately midnight on NEW YEAR’S EVE and on EVERY SUNDAY EVENING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR whenever 2 or more participants gather to join us. The maximum number of spots available per ceremony is 8 (though we once stretched to 11 for a birthday party). The average size is 3 or 4 along with our shaman. All guests are required to submit in advance an APPLICATION FORM, SIGNED WAIVER FORM, a copy of a photo ID, and a colored, in the moment, head-and-shoulders ‘selfie.’ For those who care to go deeper and to acquire the tools for sustained change and transformation, we offer a 2-DAY PROGRAM (which includes ceremony + a private, individually-delivered, 2.5-hour, substance-free SHAMANIC DEEP DIVE ), and a 3-DAY PROGRAM (which includes ceremony + private 2.5- hour SHAMANIC DEEP DIVE + a 90-minute HANDS-ON ENERGY WORK SESSION — or — ceremony + private 2.5- hour SHAMANIC DEEP DIVE + an all-day ECO-ADVENTURE / MYSTIC TOUR).
All events and services are offered solely for the intangible, spiritual benefit they provide. In exchange for meeting certain charitable contribution thresholds, donors are granted participation in our programs and ceremonies, none of which are sold in commercial transactions outside the donative context. ADVANCED PLANNING IS REQUIRED FOR ALL PLACEMENTS AS SPACE TENDS TO FILL SUDDENLY, AND THERE CAN BE NO LAST-MINUTE ADD-ONS.