Ancients Awake Immersion
6 days and 6 nights on Moorea Island,
French Polynesia
October 9-14, 2026
Group Immersion
Private immersions available upon request
Aloha & Ia Ora Na Ancient one,
This is your invitation for a life changing, deep soul immersive experience in the frequencies of the ancient ways.
The Southern Hemisphere Humpback Whales have requested your presence for a transformational activation.
Come and remember what and who you are.
The ancient lineage of the humpback whales have much to share and are calling to the ones who will receive their transmissions,
the original codes.
You will be transformed while swimming with these majestic beings in their electromagnetic (auric) field and receive vibrations within your cellular body from their sonic frequencies, as they sing their ancient songs through the teal and sapphire waters of Mo’orea. This is the most potent sonic ceremony available on the planet.
The humpback whales are the first mammal beings to birth in these sacred waters. The original ancestors. French Polynesia is one of five locations on the planet where you can swim with whales legally.
Mo’orea island is known as the Heart shaped island in French Polynesia.
We will journey sea and land. The salt and fresh waters as well as sacred sites within and around the mountains.
We will share 9 days and 9 nights together in an intimate pod of 6.
We will be guided by local leaders within the community that support and continue to strengthen their cultural values to sustain and mālama (take care of) the legacy of this heart inspired island. From Mountains to Moana (ocean), You will feel what has been preserved and revered by the people of heart when you arrive. This environment is very supportive to locate your ancient memories.
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Boat
We will InJoy 4 boat excursions.
Teoni will be our guide out on and in the ocean to be with the Humpback Whales and other ocean family in the deep waters and the lagoon. We will injoy cooled fresh coconuts and local in season fruit for refreshments.
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Land
We will journey to sacred sites and explore mountain views. We will weave with the culture and community. We will be introduced to the ancestral language and traditions implemented daily on this island.
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Vision
We will be guided on a journey into the heart of Mo’orea for a Natural photo session. Local Professional Photographer and Visionary Temoana Poole will capture and highlight the magikal expression of your essence remembered in these ancient lands. Group and Individual shots. You will receive personal and group images to remember and share this unique experience.
A lei po’o (flower crown) and a lei (floral necklace) will be provided for you.
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Rest & Nourishment
Accomadations are on a private gated property. Individual or shared bungalows available. There is a salt water swimming pool, cooling tub and lush floral gardens to injoy. Each bungalow is artistically detailed and decorated with art pieces collected from all over the world.
Fresh Organic Local food will be provided for this experience by a local mother and son who share their passion for nourishing people with vibrant life force energy through food and drink. Breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
A special Lunch date will be had together at one of my favorite local spots.
There will be open time for rest and integration between boat trips and group gatherings.
Sample Schedule
Day 1
Arrival Day
Settling In
Opening Ceremony
Beach/Snorkel
Opening Group Dinner
Day 2
Boat Day #1
Lunch
Integration
Dinner
Meditation & Sound
Day 3
Land Day/Breakfast
Cultural Experiences
Lunch - Local Restaurant
Sacred Sites
Dinner
Meditation & Sound
Day 4
Breakfast
Boat Trip #2
Integration
Dinner
Meditation & Sound
Day 5
Land Day
POOL & PEARLS
Leisure and Integration day by the pool while creating pearl Jewelery, made and provided by a local pearl magician, Tamatoa.
All meals provided
Day 6
Boat Trip #3
Breakfast & Lunch on boat
Integration
Dinner
Closing Ceremony
Check out by 10am following day Oct. 15th
One of the Fare’s (Bungalows) and pool area. Sample of our accommodations. This is the SeaShell Fare and the only Full Private Experience Available.
Relaxation
Meet Your Facilitators
Aloha, my name is Kelly Kulalā.
Home is on the island of Moku ‘O Keawe (Hawai’i Island) for fifteen years now, originally a 6th generation North Bay California Native. Transitioning to Moku ‘O Keawe was the first time I had listened to Soul Guidance, and following that instruction has led me to who and what I am today, in service to community, creating deep transformational experiences to guide others to attune to their Divine Magik and live their highest potenital.
Everything I share is born from direct personal experience. From the age of five I was already doing this work by counseling the adults in my life, tracking subtle psychic frequencies and translating them into what was playing out in their physical reality. This is not a skill I developed or learned, it is one I was born with.
Those who know me call me a Frequency Translator. Through this ancient gift I have remained deeply attuned to the sentient realms of animals, nature, and water, receiving transmissions of advanced consciousness through channels most have forgotten how to access.
When I moved to Kona in 2010, I was offered a position as a dolphin and manta ray swim guide on a spiritual boat. Having grown up on lakes and already carrying the qualities of spiritual guidance, it was an easy yes, and what I did not know at the time was that this was the beginning of a fifteen year career of bringing people into the ocean to have life-changing experiences connecting with the beings of the sea, from tiny fish, turtles, dolphins, mantas, sharks, and whales.
This era was a highlight of my life. Through daily immersion with these beings and the skillset I carried, I received transmissions that revealed the highest levels of intelligence available to us as sentient beings when we truly innerstand who and what we are. Through these exchanges I healed past traumas and initiated the deepest relationship with myself, learning to honor the way of the organic and the beauty it offers us when we choose to fully inhabit the magical world we live in. I am grateful to have been immersed and surrendered to the magik that was waiting for me to remember it had always been here.
Alongside these ocean integrations, I deepened through apprenticeships in multiple ancient lineage traditions, including Mū Culture (Aloha Mā/ʻUlu), shamanic practices, goddess and star lineages, plant allies and puaʻaehuehu, ceremonial and ritual facilitation, universal energies, light language, reiki, holistic health education, massage therapy, and western life sciences and psychology. This twenty year culmination is what I call Bio-Energetic Alignment, the bridging of frequency to physical, the unseen to the seen, and the care, presence, nourishment and balance required for the IN-JOYment and sustainability of organic life expressing at its highest potential.
photos in Mo’orea, French Polynesia
Demetra Penner is a Sound Artist, Vocal Alchemist, and Frequency Keeper whose work lives at the intersection of voice, plant medicine and the living intelligence of the natural world. Based between Canada and wherever the whales are calling, she travels the world singing with cetaceans in the wild, recording their responses and weaving their songs into the immersive sound journeys she creates using her voice, crystal singing bowls she designs herself, crystalline harps and planetary frequencies.
Her practice of Vocal Alchemy is a precise and deeply intuitive art that weaves her voice with sound frequencies inviting the nervous system into deep rest, presence and inner connection, dissolving the layers of noise that keep us from hearing what we have always known. She does not perform sound. She conducts it, holding space for the frequencies that have always been present to become audible again.
Demetra's path to the whales began with the Beluga whales, playing and singing with them in their waters until the South Pacific called her forward and the Humpback whales opened an entirely new dimension of her work and her remembrance. When she discovered that her sun sign according to Living Sky astrology is in Cetus, the Whale, what had always felt like destiny became cosmologically confirmed. She is not simply drawn to the whales. She is of them.
She is the founder of Soulstar Sound Sanctuary and Sweet Spirit Apothecary, through which she creates botanical offerings, herbal remedies and goddess adornments that carry the same frequency intention as her sound work, because beauty, medicine and remembrance are not separate, they are one current moving through different forms.
In Ancients Awake, Demetra brings the full spectrum of her gifts into the container, weaving sound sessions and vocal transmissions into the immersion in a way that deepens and integrates everything the whales activate.
Together
What brought Kelly and Demetra together is the same thing that brings you here, the whales. When two women discover that their Living Sky astrology charts both carry Cetus the Whale, Demetra with her Sun in Cetus representing the core of who she is and the light she is here to shine in this lifetime, and Kelly with her Midheaven in Cetus representing the work she was born to bring into the world, it becomes clear that this collaboration was woven into the cosmological fabric of their shared purpose long before they found each other.
Both carry the codes of Lemuria/Mū, both have been called to the South Pacific by something older than memory, and both have been fundamentally reorganized by their time in the water with the Humpback whales. In Ancients Awake they weave their medicines together, Kelly's bio-energetic precision and ceremonial holding weaving with Demetra's vocal alchemy and sound transmissions, creating a container that goes deeper than either could hold alone.
We are two women answering our Cetus calling and bringing you with us: inviting you home to the frequency that has always lived within you.
Why Mo’orea and the Whales
Brief Story Time and insights (from Kelly Kulalā):
In the spring of 2023 I was loudly called by the whales. I was led to Moʻorea and discovered you can swim with the humpback whales legally. On the 7/7 Sirīan Stargate portal I watched a whale video on Instagram and spoke aloud that I wanted to swim with the whales for my 40th birthday, a long held dream that in that moment became the clearest desire I have ever felt. My birthday was less than two months away and by all appearances I was not in a position to make a grand international journey. My passport was expired, my finances were low and none of the pieces were in place.
I share this because the moment I said YES to the whales, I watched my life change. Everything came with ease, as if the universe was working its magik to get me there, even as I moved through resistance and disbelief that it could happen. That was the key. I was not making anything happen. The whales were. I ended up in Moʻorea twice within two months, spending four weeks immersed with the whales, the land and the people.
There is a frequency my soul knows on this ancient land. When locals would ask if it was my first time on the island, the response that came through me was "yes, in this body," which caught even me by surprise.
Through these experiences I realized the alchemy of divine energetic union. The moment I entered the field of Moʻorea, the Divine Masculine Presence was the first sensation I noticed. My heart softened and opened. The mountains and the whales captured my full attention and through what followed I was united with the memory of the pure divine feminine.
The ancient feminine ways are alive and active. The island and the whales are calling many of us to remember the uncorrupted feminine, the divine feminine blueprint. It is time to be activated and to remember on a visceral level what the true feminine frequency is. These two energies weaving together will allow you access to the codes required to advance into living your highest potential.
The whales are the largest physical bodies on this planet and have been here since ancient times. The Mea Neʻe, the plasmic beings, are the original ancestors according to the Mū lineage of Māhat, as translated by contemporary descendant Keʻoni Hanalei of Māui. The plasma held within the bodies of the whales is the largest known collection. It was shown to me that being in physical space and sharing electromagnetic fields, especially within the salty ocean as conductor, is the ultimate transmission of ancient connection. Add to this the sonic frequencies of their song and the result is a clearing of distortions and an activation of your cosmic ancient cellular memory at a level unlike anything else. Being near a humpback whale has the ability to shift your brain out of beta, open you to a deeply receptive state and calibrate your entire being.
As you come face to face with this union, with the whales and the frequencies of this island, you will be gifted and reflected everything you need to alchemize and move forward in life in right relationship with your inner world and your outer world.
The whales showed me through inner vision to create a structure doing what I do best, helping people feel safe in their bodies for divine wisdom expansion and SOuL INbody-ment. The whales will do what they do, inviting you in for the transformation of your life and transmitting sonic codes to calibrate all your systems and activate your ancient memory.
The whales are asking for your presence. You know who you are.
“I Swim with Giants”.
~ Kulalā
Ancient’s Reflections
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“My experience on the Ancient's Awake Retreat cracked my heart open wide. Synchronicity, grace, pleasure and homecoming were big themes. Kulalā is a gracious host with a lion's heart. She cultivated an immersive experience with the land (fenua), people, water (wai) and whales (tohora). We explored the magical island of Mo'orea with reverence, respect, openness and curiosity. Engaging in a language lesson opened us to greater reciprocity with the people. Offering prayer (pule) to the water and the whales opened us to remember our deep connection with our Ancestors. Walking slowly through the rain forest, touching and communing with large buttressed trees, brought us deeper into our humble human bodies. Every aspect of this retreat was a celebration and honoring of connection, relationship and life. The accommodations were spectacular with lush gardens and a salt water pool to enjoy. Nightly integration offerings invited us inward to merge with the activations of the day. I am forever changed by Mo'orea, the whales, and the Ancients Awake Retreat. It is a catalytic invitation into the remembrance of self and one's place in the ocean of consciousness. Mahalo nui loa Kulalā and ALOHA MĀ!!"
Erin McVey
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“There are truly no words that can fully capture the experience I had in Tahiti and Mo’orea. It was a profound initiation, one that cracked me open and softened me all at once. As someone who’s carried a lifelong fear of the deep blue sea, of leaping into the abyss of the unknown, this journey was an act of courageous surrender. And somehow, deep down, I knew I would be held. Safe. Guided. Supported. Sister Kelly and the beautiful locals who cared for us offered all that and more. To swim in the ocean with the plasmic mea ne’e giants… to feel the vibration of their songs ripple through my body like sacred currencies, it was beyond what I ever imagined. We swam with stingrays, turtles, sharks, colorful fishes and whales. The light dancing along the ocean floor felt like ancient codes of remembrance, permeating directly into my cells. I felt them—our Southern whale ancestors—their breath, their presence, their remembering… within me and all around me. The island adventures was pure magic. A beautiful harmony of land and sea, anchored by nourishing meals you could taste the love in. There was space to integrate, to connect, to be still, and to share—through sound bowls, tarot cards, laughter, and mo’olelo (stories). Sister Kelly held the container with such grace and power, guiding us with humility and wisdom. Everywhere we went became a ceremony. She also introduced us to incredible locals who opened their hearts, language, culture, and aloha ‘āina to us. To feel immersed in the culture, that was my favorite part! And I must say… you would have never guessed I once feared the deep blue. After the first day, I felt completely safe in the water, beside Kelly, our guide, and my beloved. That kind of safety allowed me to soften, to be fully present, and to receive the beauty and the transmissions of it all. If I had one wish, it would be for better water pressure in the shower and tub at our fare. At times, the water trickled between scalding hot and freezing cold. But even that couldn’t dim the light of this experience. I wholeheartedly recommend this retreat to anyone who feels the call. But then again the whales will call out to you too, and you will know! Because this isn’t just a trip. It’s an activation. An initiation. A remembering. And your soul will be pulled there! Trust in the guidance and the synchronisties that will lead you! I will carry this experience in my ‘iwi (bones), in my hā (breath), and my pu’uwai (heart) for the rest of my life. And I know that anyone who answers the call will feel the same. It’s the kind of journey that leaves an imprint on your soul, that forever shifts the way you move through the world. Mahalo nui loa to Sister Kelly, for your aloha, your radiant passion, and the sacred way you guide. You hold space with such grace, and it is because of you that this portal of transformation was opened! This was more than a retreat—it was a sacred huaka‘i, a soul’s journey back to the piko of remembrance. It was a revelation of aloha that lives in the deep, in song of the koholā. The great unfurling, calling us to remember the divinity within all of us from the land and sea!! Aloha mā
Kapuahīnanokauikala’i Coelho
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“”On the sacred 6/6 portal of 2024, a whisper of destiny echoed through my soul. My dear friend unveiled her whale retreat, and with each word, a wave of chills washed over me. I felt an undeniable pull, a celestial alignment whispering that this journey would coincide with my birthday. October 18th, a date with the ocean’s gentle giants, was written in the stars. My rebirth within my aquatic nature, activating my inner water being so gracefully in the turquoise waters of Mo’orea. In the embrace of Tahiti’s ancient echoes, I sailed into Mo’orea’s heart-shaped haven. The island’s pulse, a symphony of magic, authenticity, and simplicity, resonated deep within my soul. With my friend’s loving guidance, we(pod) explored sacred waters and lush lands. A local guide unveiled the cultural tapestry, embodying love’s essence in every connection. She chose a perfect retreat space, beautiful in every way, though the shower’s pressure, drainage and tease of the bath not working left room for improvement. With locally sourced feasts from ‘āina and sea, we nourished our bodies and spirits magnificently. Each moment, a sacred activation, woven with sound healing and shared rituals, reminded me of the whale family’s eternal presence, returning us to our true way of being. Now, as the magic of that journey integrates, I feel its push toward my true purpose: learning Watsu. This September, I will anchor this water massage and add it to my toolkit, learning the Dolphin Dance Watsu choreography and fully committing to this calling that has long resonated within me. I’m deeply grateful to my friend for listening to her true calling, facilitating this transformative experience, and guiding us all toward our own ancient remembrance.
Lehuanani Tabadero
FAQs
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You will need a passport to enter French Polynesia from any location outside of this territory. It may not expire within 6 months of entry. Please check your expiration date and make corrections if necessary.
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You will fly to Papeete (PPT) French Polynesia, at Fa'a'ā International Airport on T'ahiti island.
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After you have flown into Fa'a'ā International Airport you have a couple options depending on the day and time you fly in. There is potential for inter-island flights. My recommendation is to ferry from Papeete to Mo'orea. There are many ferries that run daily. I wil offer you specific information once you have registered for the retreat.
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If you are traveling from Hawai'i there is a direct flight available on Hawaiian airlines. This flight is in and out only on Saturdays. You must plan to stay for the duration of two weeks if you choose this option. Fly in on Saturday prior to your retreat date and fly out on the following Saturday upon completion of your retreat. (unless you choose to stay until the following Saturday). You will have to stay on T'ahiti island the night you arrive as there are no night time ferries to mo'orea island. I can offer you further guidance if this is you. There are options to fly through the mainland or cook islands if you need different dates to arrive and depart.
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For the duration of the retreat you will not need a rental car unless you prefer to have one. 2 cars may be used to travel us to and from the boat, land excursions, and scheduled group meals. There are taxi's available should you need one.
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It is highly recommended to have open ocean swimming experience. This is something we can discuss. If you have not had open ocean experience I am highly trained to support you in your integration. I will Strongly recommend once you commit to this experience to go to your local water source (natural or pool) to practice swimming as often as you can to ENHANCE and support your experience)
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It is recommended that you have spiritual and grounding practices in place to support you in the activations of this experience. I will be available to guide and support you. However, we are a group pod experience, and I cannot be required to hold a solo processing experience for the entire duration of the retreat that pulls my presence consistently away from the pod. This is a topic we can discuss in further detail.
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Yes. There is a minimum deposit that will hold your experience. (Only 5 spaces available). Payment plans will be discussed and set up through Stripe until completion. All payments will need to be completed 1 week prior to this experience.
