From August 9 2025, we’re flying to Hawaii: organized by Voyagesilluminations and Association of Non-therapy, a retreat led by Selene Calloni Williams. The return journey will begin on October 11 and end the following day.
A retreat where, in addition to practicing various extraordinary Hawaiian rituals, we will cook together, learn the fundamentals of “imaginal cooking,” and follow the 9-day detoxifying journey of the “Pythagorean Diet.”
Participants will receive a comprehensive manual before departure with instructions for the Pythagorean diet (exclusively for participants, not to be requested before completing registration).
During the experience, Selene will give the Lightning and Diamond Initiations of Mantra Madre, exclusively for Hawaii travelers.
Strictly limited number of participants. The fee includes EVERYTHING (meals, accommodation, and seminar. Flights and extra expenses are the participant’s responsibility. See section at bottom of page “What’s included” and “What’s not included”).
Register before May 25, 2025, for a significant discount!
For any additional questions, please contact our Back Office at scw@selenecalloniwilliams.com
From March 23, Selene Calloni Williams and anthropologist Michelangelo Chini will lead a series of ten live sessions dedicated to Polynesian shamanism. The meetings will be held on Saturday or Sunday live on Instagram. Here you can find the first live session dedicated to MANA.
Registration Process
Interested participants can pay a registration fee of 100 euros to access the introductory interview and learn other payment details. Further information on these details will only be provided upon actual registration.
A Dream Event in a Dream Location
Makahiki is the Hawaiian ritual of fertility, abundance, and prosperity. Understanding what prosperity truly is, engaging in deep dialogue with it, and raising its presence in the lineage while defeating its enemies, is a life-changing experience. It improves sleep quality; slows aging processes; prevents diseases; triggers spontaneous healing processes; gives access to material and spiritual abundance, economic, emotional, relational, creative, health and well-being, with which the Divine wants you in this world.
“Kali’i, literally ‘becoming king,’ the Hawaiian ritual I wish I had known since childhood but it’s never too late to learn, the spiritual practice that, I believe, everyone should know to reclaim power over things and cease being unhappy travelers in a dark world.”
– SCW –
What do the Eleusinian, Orphic, Dionysian, Pythagorean Mysteries and Hawaiian Shamanism called Ho’omana or Huna have in common?
A great deal, but among all there is a very revealing event: the journey to the underworld. And this is what we must know very well to make through eating a shamanic journey through which it’s possible to reach a higher degree of freedom. The shamanic journey allows us “soul retrieval,” recovering the soul, allows us to remember forgotten gifts, talents, or removed possibilities, plunges us into our unreachables to transform them into pure possibilities. The soul can be seen as a complex reality where the whole is in the part and the part is in the whole. A life even partially against nature, as is the life of modern individuals, makes us lose soul fragments. Losing a fragment is like losing the whole. The soul is lost and recovered in increasing degrees of intensity. The great ritual of eating is a shamanic journey of soul recovery.
Like every shamanic journey, the great ritual of eating must begin with the narration of myth.
Every shaman from any world tradition indeed uses myth for their magical ceremony, “shamanization.” Depending on the ethnic and cultural tradition they belong to, a shaman will use one mythic cycle rather than another. For example, the kahuna, Hawaiian men and women of knowledge, refer to Hawaiian mythology, which is considered a variant of Polynesian mythology; Turkish-Mongolian shamans from Mongolia, Siberia, Tibet use myths connected to the epic cycle of King Gesar. Andean shamans resort to Pachamama myths, Burmese shamans to Nat myths, the forest spirits, and we, who are of Western imaginal tradition, resort to Greek myth.
Myth tells us about the origin of things, that is, how they came into being. Indeed, we are narration, and if we don’t narrate ourselves, we don’t exist. The same applies to our world. Myth doesn’t serve to describe a given reality; myth brings reality into being.
In this retreat, we will immerse ourselves in Hawaiian myth and ritual, seeing its surprising analogy with Greek mystery traditions.
We Will Follow a Mind and Body Detoxifying Diet
After nine days of practice, you will be detoxified in body and mind from doubt and mental heaviness; you will be capable of making happy discoveries because you will see what was previously covered by the fog of mental judgment. You will be able to make small or large fortunate discoveries happen, then you can make increasingly larger and more important ones happen. This is the condition called “serendipity,” a term that indicates the ability to make unexpected and happy discoveries, a condition that Hawaiian kahuna prepare for through an ecstatic and en-static ritual that we will perform together by the ocean.
Program
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- Day 0 – Flight and hotel transfer
- Day 1 – Half day retreat. Meeting with Selene, opening of the shamanic circle Day 2 (October 4) – Full day retreat, entire day dedicated to retreat practices
- Day 3 – Full day retreat, entire day dedicated to retreat practices
- Day 4 – Full day retreat, entire day dedicated to retreat practices
- Day 5 – Half day retreat, half day for retreat practices and half day for various sports or recreational activities. This second part of the day will not be coordinated, will be free, so you’ll have the opportunity to join other group participants and deepen their acquaintance
- Day 6 – Half day retreat, half day for retreat practices and half day for various sports or recreational activities. This second part of the day will not be coordinated, will be free, so you’ll have the opportunity to join other group participants and deepen their acquaintance
- Day 7 – Free for visits, discoveries, adventures, with meal coordination by Selene
- Day 8 – Full day retreat, entire day dedicated to retreat practices
- Day 9 – Half day retreat, half day dedicated to retreat practices and start of return journey
- Day 10 – End of return journey
We organize in-person seminars investing considerable time, attention to detail, and passion. For reasons beyond our control, even at the last moment, we reserve the right to modify the program in line with changes in general conditions, expressing the will of the Spirits.
What’s Included
- Seminar
- Meals
- Accommodation
What’s Not Included
- Travel expenses
- Extras during free days
- Any other expenses not mentioned in the program
PARTICIPATION TERMS
Participation in the journey is limited and subject to a preliminary interview. All those who register before March 25 will receive a reduction in the registration fee. The fee may vary based on changed conditions of local costs. The need to rent local transportation for internal transfers is noted.
PAYMENT TERMS
To guarantee participation in the journey, it is necessary to pay 50% of the entire fee at registration; the balance must be paid no later than 8/13/2025.
PARTICIPANT CANCELLATION POLICY
For cancellations received up to 8/13/2025, 25% of the entire paid fee will be retained; For cancellations received from 8/14/2025 to 8/28/2025, 50% of the entire paid fee will be retained; For cancellations received after 8/29/2025, inclusive, the entire paid fee will be retained
NOTICE
The course is conducted for the purpose of inner research, problem-solving, and personal growth. It does not treat or aim to resolve pathologies and symptoms of strict medical/health relevance. It is for all free spirits, for those who can see opportunities for growth in difficulties, for those who believe that happiness is of this world, for those who know how to cry sometimes and laugh a lot, and are willing to love unconditionally. The services provided by the Association of Non-therapy do not replace, even partially, the work of doctors and psychologists. In case of pathology, it is necessary to consult a doctor.
