Love Warrior Retreat
February 10 - 15, 2025
The Big Island, Hawaii
Yoga, Dance, Voice, Art, Music, Gardening, Building, Healing, Ceremony
Join the Love Warrior Retreat on the Big Island of Hawaii! 🌴🔥
This February, you’re invited to come on an extraordinary journey at Fantuzzi’s Aloha Rainforest Sanctuary paradise on the Big Island of Hawaii. For five unforgettable days, immerse yourself in the healing energy of the Big Island as we lean into healthy practices of caring for the land and each other.
✨ Fantuzzi’s vision is now a reality—a sanctuary for seekers of purpose and passion. This is your invitation to grow, learn, and connect in workshops designed to expand your mind, nourish your soul, and ignite your inner strength.
What’s in store?
✨ Workshops
Led by world-class guides and creatives:
Drum, Voice, Yoga, Prayerformance coaching, and Calisthenics with Fantuzzi
Mentorship and Coaching with Satyen Raja
African Dance & Holistic Health with Dr. Unity Nguyen
Satsang with Hope Johnson
Yoga, Breathwork and Ceremony with Neera Salven
Organic & Inspirational Farming with “Plant the Planet” Rob Petricci
✨ This isn’t just a retreat—it’s a movement. A chance to become the love warrior you’re meant to be. 🌟
A Retreat for Emerging Leaders
Love Warrior Retreat isn’t just for participants; it’s a unique opportunity for emerging workshop leaders and creatives. If you have experience in creative, wellness, or sustainable practices such as yoga, dance, farming, building, art, or music, this retreat is your chance to deepen your leadership and facilitation skills in an empowering community.
As a Seva Facilitator, you’ll have the opportunity to:
Lead yoga, meditation, or creative practice sessions
Share your unique workshops
Collaborate and grow alongside other emerging facilitators
This is a call to action for those ready to step into their power as leaders and creators while engaging in meaningful service.
✨Even more, you will have the sacred opportunity to receive guidance, inspiration, heartfelt coaching, and so much more from the one and only Fantuzzi. His gifts touch the soul, awaken the spirit, and transform the lives of everyone he connects with. As a mentor to emerging creatives, mystics, and leaders, Fantuzzi offers profound guidance through tailored coaching in singing, prayerformance, drumming, and ecstatic movement. With his intuitive methods and heartfelt dedication, he empowers individuals to embrace authenticity, freedom, and the full expression of their gifts, creating a ripple effect of transformation in the world.
✨ Dive deep into self-discovery, cultivate wisdom, and embrace strength to serve the world more fully. Together, we’ll explore both the external wonders of Hawaii and the infinite inner world within ourselves.
Spaces are limited—don’t miss your chance to join this magical experience.
Will you answer the call? 💫
Firepit Evenings
In the evenings we will gather around the enormous firepit and share music, poetry, stories and inspiration from all corners of the globe. This is a space where facilitators and participants alike are invited to step into the magic of prayerformance—to play music, share poetry, offer dance and ceremony, and express ourselves authentically in a sacred circle. Each night, we’ll be blessed with intimate performances by Fantuzzi—one of the most beloved and experienced singer-songwriters, musicians, and bandleaders of our time. Fantuzzi will infuse the sacred circle with his soulful music and heartfelt storytelling, and inspire, guide and hold space for our shared contributions—creating an intimate and supportive environment where everyone can express, connect, and co-create in harmony.
Aloha ʻĀina
Central to the wholehearted yoga, movement, music and meditation offerings, Fantuzzi’s LoveWarrior Retreat is about hands-on Loving Service. We will Malama da ʻĀina, a Hawaiian expression meaning Care for the Land. We will learn how to live life fully, how to listen to nature, and connect with nature in a profound way. There will be hands-on gardening and landscaping, building and construction, mural painting, and caring for the sanctuary. In deep loving service, we will be helping Fantuzzi and our community to continue to build and care for the Rainforest Aloha Rainforest Sanctuary.
Goddess Temple Meditation Space
This space was recently lovingly completed by Fantuzzi to honor the Divine Feminine. Are you a Goddess who longs to dance, connect, or meditate in a verdant, beautiful space surrounded by lush rainforest? Come join us!
Love Warrior Retreat - Pricing and Accomodations
This eco-conscious, off-grid paradise features lush rainforest, sustainable living systems, and spaces for community and learning, including the Lavender Palace, the Goddess Temple, shared kitchen, and covered outdoor yoga, workshop, prayerformance and sacred fire areas. Through decades of seva planting trees and lovingly caring for the land, we enjoy dozens of fruiting trees bearing exquisite tropical fruits.
Retreat Includes: 5 days of workshops, caring for the land, and community building with Fantuzzi at his Aloha Rainforest Sanctuary. Vegetarian meals provided.
$700 : includes Full Retreat Tuition: 5 days of workshops, All Vegetarian Retreat Meals, and dormitory accommodations in Lavender Palace
$500 : includes Full Retreat Tuition: 5 days of workshops, All Vegetarian Retreat Meals, and camping accommodations
$400 Retreat Only : includes Full Retreat Tuition and All Vegetarian Retreat Meals. (Inquire about Offsite AirBnB accommodations available nearby with Fantuzzi's Friends)
$250 Seva : includes Full Retreat Tuition, all Vegetarian Retreat Meals and camping accommodations. Seva participants lead morning yoga, creative practice, seva projects, and/ or workshops, as well as seva before or after retreat
$250 Kamaʻāina rate for our local friends
Seva participants are asked to arrive by February 8
Your experience includes an inspiring purposeful retreat with vegetarian meals and camping accommodation. In addition to being of service within the environs of the Sanctuary, Seva participants are expected to help with some or all of the following;
morning yoga, creative practices, land projects, workshop facilitation.
If you live very close by and would rather attend on a daily basis, please advise on booking so we can arrange a special rate for you.
Maha Seva opportunities available for extended service - please contact us to discuss.
E komo mai - Welcome Home
The Aloha Rainforest Sanctuary is a truly special place that supports growing; where we find out who we really are, become better living beings, and enjoy the peace and beauty of mother nature and the high vibration of the ʻĀina
Help us continue to build the sanctuary that is here to serve and welcome a greater community.
The land will give you her blessings as you enjoy the magnificent tropical fruits, colorful flowers, and songs of the birds. Coconuts are always available in abundance, courtesy of our resident CocoWizard, Rory.
Advice on what to bring:
Appropriate warm weather clothing.
Warm clothes for cool nights in the mountains of Hawaii.
Rain cape/umbrella – helps when the downpour happens just when you’re least expecting.
Toiletries etc.
Insect Repellent. (Loose, long-sleeved lightweight shirts can be useful.)
Sunscreen for those of fair skin.
Head lamp & batteries/rechargeable lamp.
Yoga mat, if possible.
Your musical instrument if you play.
Full camping gear for camping
Personal bedding for dormitory stays
Delicious vegetarian recipes to share
An open mind and heart!
Workshop Leaders and Facilitators
Fantuzzi
Fantuzzi is a globally celebrated musician and leader whose life’s work is rooted in inspiring creativity, joy, and connection. With African-Caribbean roots and decades of international experience, his unique blend of music, mysticism, and movement uplifts hearts and ignites transformation. Known for his electrifying presence, Fantuzzi embodies a dynamic fusion of Afro-Caribbean rhythms, heart songs, ecstatic dance and spiritual wisdom.
Dr. Unity Nguyen, MD, LAc
Dr. Unity is a passionate teacher of African dance, blending movement, music, and holistic wellness. A vibrant leader of the Band of Angels, she shares spirit songs from around the world, including her native Vietnam, and offers excellent, structured classes that make African dance accessible to all. With a mission to help others make the rest of their lives the best of their lives, Dr. Unity integrates her medical trainig from UC San Francisco, expertise in Chinese functional medicine, and decades of experience in transformative health protocols. Her approach focuses on regenerating the body’s systems holistically, and empowering participants to shine their light and thrive.
Hope Johnson
Hope Johnson is a mystic and spiritual guide, known on the Big Island for her profound wisdom and inspiring Satsangs (spiritual talks).
For the first four decades of her life, Hope struggled with discontent, believing that blaming external factors—her personality, her relationships, and circumstances—was the way to cope with her unhappiness. As a mother, wife, and business partner, she felt trapped and disconnected from the joyful, carefree person she once knew herself to be, often overwhelmed by confusion, depression, and physical ailments. In 2009, Hope began seeking a better way, and after years of research, spiritual practice, and self-exploration, she experienced a breakthrough in 2014. This moment of clarity revealed the root cause of her unhappiness and showed her how to transform those feelings.
By applying her newfound wisdom, Hope began resolving deep emotional triggers and rediscovering her childlike joy. In 2018, when a volcanic eruption destroyed her home, business, and belongings, she realized that the happiness she had cultivated was no longer dependent on external circumstances. Today, Hope continues to embrace any negative feelings as opportunities for healing, and this practice brings her the highest sense of fulfillment. Along her journey, she also developed a passion for plant-based medicines and essential oils, which she now shares alongside her spiritual teachings, using both as tools for healing and well-being.
Satyen Raja
Satyen Raja is a world-renowned Teacher, Mentor, and Guide deemed the ‘CEO Oracle’ for his extraordinary ability to move companies beyond the old business model of struggle – into a new paradigm of passion, purpose, freedom, and the magic of the flow.
Satyen has been building and scaling businesses for over 30 years, founding a multitude of companies and launching them to the apex of success. His Transcendent Leadership programs feature exclusive coaching, private mentorship, group trainings and intensives, retreats and Spiritual Adventure Tours, designed to bring CEOs, Founders, and entrepreneurs into deeper work-life balance, self-realization, and illumination of their soul’s mission and purpose. His trainings guide leaders into their peak success, peak potential, and ultimately their Peak Existence.
Neera Salven
Neera is a passionate student of Earth, a yoga teacher, mantra singer, and Emotional Release practitioner. She loves guiding heart-centered events, including breathwork journeys, cacao ceremonies, song circles, yoga and sound healing. She works with plant medicines in conjunction with guided meditations as therapeutic tools to help others address buried traumas. She believes that spiritual growth is the only path to solving the environmental issues plaguing the Earth today, and sees ceremonies of all kinds as vehicles to help us connect more fully to our hearts.
The Lavender Palace
We have camping space available onsite - bring your own gear.
We have two large rooms that sleep 3 people each in our newly constructed “Lavender Palace” (Subject to availability if not occupied on a long-term rental. Want to stay for a while? Drop us a line to see what’s available.)
This photo shows the Lavender Palace while under construction!
Fantuzzi
Musician, Songwriter, Singer, Spiritual Leader, Activist
Our mythical legend and retreat leader Fantuzzi will be guiding drum, voice, yoga and calisthenics workshops.
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Fantuzzi Welcomes You
The Aloha Rainforest Sanctuary is Fantuzzi’s gift to those who pursue a similar path. He is all about community, love, sharing, caring, teaching, growing.
You are welcome to visit the Aloha Rainforest Sanctuary when Fantuzzi is on the island…and visits may often be arranged even when he is busy touring to spread the Fantuzzical magic around the world!
If you want to spend a few days with Fantuzzi in the magical paradise of the Big Island’s Rainforest, with music, dance, awesome organic food, community and opportunities to stretch beyond your current boundaries in growth and accomplishments, then contact us with the form below.