Culinary Adventure
Big Island of Hawai’i
Cooking + Yoga + Ocean

Gather your friends, tribe, colleagues or family for a Culinary Adventure on The Big Island of Hawai’i.
As a private event scheduled for your specific travel dates, your guests will cook nourishing meals + practice yoga + play in the ocean to bring healthful harmony into your life.
Take a glimpse at the example Schedule from our Feb 2022 event to browse the options of elements that can be designed into your group’s custom Culinary Adventure.
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Featuring locally grown, beyond organic ingredient, meals will be a hands-on culinary experience of nourishing recipes.
Take a glimpse at one of our Culinary Class + Menu examples. As a private event, you will create with Chef Kristina a unique lineup of recipes and cooking classes that will please the palates of your guests.
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Your Adventure will integrate a series of all-levels yoga classes designed to bring forth the fluidity and strength of your body, welcoming guests to find a revitalized flow to their existing yogic rhythms.
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The clear blue, warm waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands offers powerful rejuvenation. Daily ocean excursions will include your choice of swimming, snorkeling, diving, kayaking, surfing or just mellowing on the beach.
Your guests will also have the exciting experience of visiting with majestic Manta Rays on our private sailing canoe excursion!!

nourishment
Featuring locally grown, beyond organic ingredients, dinner meals will be a hands-on culinary adventure of plant-based recipes. Breakfast of tropical fruit and whole grains will be served to give your day a delectable, satisfying start.
Browse the Culinary Classes + Menus lineup from one of our recent events.
During her visits to the Big Island over the past few years, Chef Kristina has discovered the plethora of regenerative farms that thrive on this unique island. The ingredients for your Culinary Adventure meals will be directly sourced from these local gems!
Bringing those stellar, locally sourced ingredients into the kitchen will allow guests to progress beyond just cooking delicious food, they will truly connect with where their food comes from and the revitalizing, living energy those ingredients provide from the mana of the Hawaiian land.

Big Island
The tranquil, warm waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands offer powerful rejuvenation. Daily ocean excursions will include your choice of swimming, snorkeling, kayaking, surfing or just mellowing on the beach.
Kristina will guide our guests to some of her favorite beach and lava rock shore-lined spots where the waters are gentle and inviting. Our selection of ocean excursions will be the perfect opportunity to meet the local residents including sea turtles, dolphins, monk seals, manta rays and even beach-dwelling goats.
The migratory paths and breeding season of many whale species bring those graceful creatures right along the Kona coastline, December thru March being the prime time of the year to catch sight of their magical presence!

Ocean adventure
A short boat ride up the Kona coast from our Sanctuary accommodations is a renown location for swimming with Manta Rays.
In the experienced hands of Eka Canoe Adventures, our Adventure guests will board a recreated, historically accurate, Hawaiian sailing canoe for this ocean adventure. We will snorkel and swim in the late day sunshine in clear blue waters, then watch the sun do its graceful dance into the ocean’s horizon.
Once the sky is dark we will slip into the ocean in warming wetsuits for a safely guided and lighted swim to meet the local manta rays.

Yoga & Bodywork
Our Adventure schedule will integrate a series of all-levels yoga classes designed to bring forth the fluidity and strength of your body, welcoming guests to find a revitalized flow to their existing yogic rhythms.
For guests who are new to a yoga practice, this series of classes will gently welcome you into the expansive healing and fun that can be found in a community of yogis.
Take a glimpse at the example Schedule from our Feb 2022 event to browse the options of cooking + yoga + ocean elements that can be designed into your group’s custom Culinary Adventure schedule.

Farm Tour
Regenerative Farming is abundant in Kona on the west side of the Big Island. The rich, volcanic soil and generous rainfall in this particular part of the island produces not just the stellar ingredients we will be cooking with but also the Kona Coast is renown for growing delicate, vibrant coffee beans and richly flavored macadamia nuts – two ingredients that Chef Kristina adamantly believes will simply make your entire life more enjoyable!
Our guests will be visiting Kula Mana Farms, a historic coffee and macadamia nut farm located in the town of Captain Cook, in the southern Kona area over looking the Kealakekua Bay. This private tour will be a walking exploration of permaculture farming practices and a sampling of the delectable gems produced on this sacred land.
Kula Mana Farm is a historic Japanese coffee and macadamia nut farm, nestled on the western slopes of Mauna Loa in the Kona coffee growing region of Hawai’i. Farmed since 1919, the steep slopes resist mechanization, but reward the hand labor of our guests.

Guests are encouraged to join us for all the cooking, yoga and ocean events we have planned!!
Yet we respect that each individual has their unique rhythms….so join us for all, some or even just one of the elements offered. We encourage you to explore on your own or simply take time to rest as desired.
We want guests to discover what is their individual recipe for Feeding Their Soul.

Connect with Chef Kristina to plan the location for your Culinary Adventure in coordination with your chosen accommodations. If the ideal spot on the island is not yet selected, guidance and referrals for lodging or house rentals can be provided to best suit your group’s needs.
Pricing will be based on how many cooking classes, meals and days your event will include.
Send an email with your travel dates and event interests to create your unique experience!!