Kalani is an educational nonprofit organization that celebrates Hawaii, nature, culture and wellness. Kalani is located on Hawaii Island, commonly known as the Big Island, and is bordered by tropical jungle and the Pacific Ocean.
We offer vacations and workshops that provide our guests with fun and transformative experiences, and the tools they need to promote their higher selves.
Our experienced staff, assisted by resident volunteers, dedicate time, energy and care to our guests. We offer healthy vegetarian-friendly cuisine, comfortable accommodations for every budget, rejuvenating bodywork treatments, recreational facilities, and educational adventures.
Kalani's recipe for a transformative vacation:
Keep your spirit high
Awaken to new ways of living
Let yourself relax and rejuvenate
Attune with creative energy
Nurture your body and soul
Indulge in natural splendor
Kalani Honua means harmony of heaven and earth, and this is what we aspire to. We welcome all in the spirit of aloha and are guided by the Hawai'ian tradition of `ohana (extended family), respecting our diversity yet sharing in unity. We invite you to open your heart to the Big Island of Hawaii at Kalani.
Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat is a complete health and wellness destination to help you rest and re-focus on health.
This stunning Ecotourism certified Gold Coast location has the largest land space of any spa retreat in Australasia. Set arrival dates create an exclusive environment for guests with an innovative range of fully inclusive wellness packages from a two night Wellness Weekend through to the popular seven night Gwinganna Detox.
Relax and explore over 200 hectares of pristine bushland abundant with native animals and birds including wallabies and koalas.
The extensive facilities include two infinity edge swimming pools, indoor studios and pavilions, wellness education complex, an Iyengar yoga studio and the stunning Spa Sanctuary, the largest spa in the Southern Hemisphere. The spa has 33 treatment rooms and the menu offers unique treatments exclusive to Gwinganna, treatments using the award winning Subtle Energies Ayurveda Aromatherapy range and Australian made Vanessa Megan Naturaceuticals, equine therapies working with our horses and a diverse rage of wellness and stress management options.
Gwinganna’s wellness cuisine centres around seasonal, local, organic wholefoods with much of the produce harvested daily from the extensive onsite gardens. Menus vary with each program and are designed in conjunction with the nutritionist using organic produce.
With a focus on evidence based wellness education, the aim is to inspire guests toward optimum health and wellbeing using principles that will stand the test of time.
We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1984 by Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc, Ayurvedic Physician. We provide authentic Ayurvedic education in a supportive environment that encourages the daily integration of Ayurveda by individuals and health care professionals into their clinical practices.
Our intention is to integrate Ayurveda with modern medicine, yoga, Jyotish (Vedic astrology), other healing disciplines, and the individual Self to bring about total health, awareness, and harmony.
Our learning options include free online videos, seminars, webinars, intensives, certificate practitioner training programs, training in India, and more. Many of our programs offer continuing education credits.