Whale Connection Journey Mo’orea 2025
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Whale Connection Journey Retreats
✨ Emerge into the Infinite Blue with the Humpback Whales of Mystical Mo’orea ✨
Two delightful offerings for 2025:
September 24 - 30, 2025 🌙 New Moon
October 6 - 12, 2025 🌝 Full Moon
You are invited to join us on a magical journey on Mo’orea, French Polynesia to connect with the Humpback Whales. Swim and play with these majestic beings in sacred communion in the deep blue waters, then merge into the turquoise lagoons that wrap the tiny serene island of Mo’orea. Snorkel with healthy, vibrant reefs of purple and pink corals, dancing anemones, and wondrous creatures of rainbow colors. Glide in the silky waters with sharks, rays, turtles, dolphins & fish. Feel a renewal on a deep cellular level as you float in the warm, jewel-like waters. Gaze upon the mystical green mountains of Mo’orea, with their towers, pyramids & crags.
Feel, and hold forever, the ecstasy and exhilaration that comes with experiencing these close encounters with our cetacean beloveds! After the ocean journeys relax luxuriously at our oceanfront home, with a private lagoon just steps from your door for more ocean delight. Nourish your body temple with delightful, fresh and local plant-based meals made with pure love by our amazing private chef. With the intention of connection and integration with our divinely orchestrated group, we will share daily circles that will include meditations to connect with the Whales and our own inner wisdom, crystal bowl sound healings, and a bobinsana medicine ceremony. You are invited to join our pod and immerse yourself in this transformative ocean journey. This retreat is life-changing!
🐋🩵 What is included:
🤲🏼 Intimate Pod:
•Each retreat will have an intimate group of 7 participants, or pod-members, plus Darby & our Chef, Terry.
•This gives each pod member more spaciousness on the boat, and more attention from our guides.
•Within this intimate group we will build life-long connections and community, and grow, laugh & learn together on our marvelous journey.
🛖 Accommodations:
•6 nights in our private oceanfront property in shared villas on a calm, turquoise lagoon, perfect for snorkeling and kayaking. We have an abundance of private space for reflection with our own garden & beach.
⛵️ Whale Boat Journeys:
•4 journeys into the deep blue sea to connect with humpback whales. These life-changing encounters often include potent sound baths from singing whales, mother and baby darshan, witnessing activity like breeching or tail slaps and so much more!
•Guided by local Tahitian experts, including our captain who pioneered whale swimming in Mo’orea over 20 years ago.
•Support and guidance from Darby, midwifing you in the sea with song, breath, and ceremony.
•Enjoy fresh local fruit and teas onboard.
🪸 Underwater Adventures:
•Snorkel with friendly reef sharks, stingrays, sea turtles and much more in the calm, turquoise lagoon.
•Experience the healthiest coral reefs in the world, snorkeling the vibrant coral gardens of Mo’orea.
👨🏾🍳 Culinary Delights:
•Nourish your body temple with delectable, fresh meals prepared with love by our private chef Terry Ford, specializing in anti-inflammatory, gut-health-supporting and plant-based dishes.
🧜🏼♀️ Special Ceremonies:
•Opening Water Blessing Ceremony with the receiving of a Hiva-Oa: Tahitian flower crown.
•Bobinsana Medicine Ceremony with honey-based medicine handmade by Teresa Carnicelli.
•Crystal Bowl Sound Healing with Kelly Kulalā.
🧘🏽♀️ Daily Practices:
•Whale Connection Meditations and Integration Circles with your pod.
•Nutritive Herbal Tea Ceremonies featuring freshly gathered Hawaiian herbs.
💎 Cultural & Conservation Highlights:
•Choose your own Tahitian pearls and design your personal jewelry with a local artisan.
•Tour the Sea Turtle Care Center, a shelter & clinic for green & hawksbill sea turtles.
•A portion of our profits is donated to Coral Gardeners, a revolutionary Tahitian organization dedicated to restoring coral reefs.
🏊♀️ Swimming with Whales, Strength, Fitness & Gear:
•We will be swimming as a pod in the open ocean, sometimes the length of a football field (300 feet) to connect with the whales. We respect their space by keeping the boat at a distance as to do not disturb them. You will receive support & guidance. We flow in utmost respect for the whales in the ocean, always welcoming connections that are initiated by the whales.
•Whale Connection Journey is for people who are strong & fit. No open ocean swimming experience necessary.
•A high quality, well-fitting mask & snorkel, fins & wetsuit is required for your optimal ease & comfort of the experience.
✈️ Travel Info:
•Hold a Valid Passport.
•Travel to airport: Papette: PPT in Tahiti. There are direct flights from Honolulu, San Francisco, LAX, Seattle. When you arrive Tahiti, take the Ferry to Mo’orea. It is a 30-45 minute ferry ride. As ferries don’t travel in the evening, if you arrive after 5 pm you will stay at a hotel near PPT airport that night & take the ferry the next morning. When you arrive Mo’orea you will take a $20 taxi to our retreat house. You can also choose to rent a car, it is recommended to do so at PPT airport.
•All the info & support needed to travel to the island Mo’orea is available from Darby.
•Extra Nights at our Accommodations for a discounted fee of $111: October Full Moon Retreat: staying at the retreat house the extra night of October 5th is available. For September New Moon retreat staying the extra night of September 30th is available.
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(Does not include: Airfare to and from Tahiti, ferry to Mo’orea and other personal travel expenses.)
🐋🩵 About your guide and retreat leader: Darby is a mermaid and a midwife. She is an experienced retreat leader, licensed midwife, holistic women’s healthcare practitioner, ceremonialist and practicing herbalist. She specializes in water birth, dolphin and nature-assisted birth and yoni steam ceremonies. Darby has been a lover of the ocean and a strong swimmer her whole life. Some of her earliest memories are exploring the beach, and holding her breath to swim as a young child. One of her greatest passions is being in the ocean connecting with the cetaceans, the whales and dolphins, and the sharks, manta rays and many other ocean creatures, swimming, snorkeling, freediving, and scuba diving. She has been blessed to enjoy this bliss for over 20 years and especially since her arrival to live on the island of Hawai’i in 2013. Darby organized and led Whale Connection Journeys in Kona, Hawai’i for eight years. When she is in the water with the humpback whales, she feels as though she has truly come home, and connected once again to our ancient Lemurian home. Mo’orea’s pure turquoise waters are in her meditations daily. 2025 will be Darby’s third journey to Mo’orea. In the Autumn of 2023 Darby traveled solo to Mo’orea and delighted in the beauty and magic of French Polynesia and her heart bust with joy with the precious whale connections. In 2024 Darby enjoyed the successful and magical maiden voyage of the Whale Connection Journey Retreat. Darby is excited and honored to midwife you during the life-changing, rare and amazing experiences of heart to heart, eye to eye, close encounters with the humpback whales.
🐋🩵 About your chef: Terry is on a mission to provide vibrant, tasty, nourishing meals to bring the retreat enjoyment to an even greater level. Love and joy are key components in his alchemy of fresh and local ingredients to create a soul-satisfying culinary experience for you! Terry is an accomplished chef and he enriches the groups he serves with his bright smile, warm heart and wisdom. He is also passionate about travel, meditation, permaculture, nutrition and herbalism. Terry calls Hawai’i home. He is currently traveling the world, with plans to experience South America and Bali in 2025.
🐋🩵 About your captain and guide: Heifara Dutertre was born and raised in French Polynesia. He pioneered Whale Swimming on Mo’orea over 20 years ago and was the original provider of this amazing experience! He has spent his life in the sea, surfing, swimming, diving and leading folks in the ocean to experience the whales. He has a calm, easeful presence in the water, an incredible eye to find the cetacean friends of the sea and vast knowledge of their behavior. I am so grateful to have the blessing of Heifara leading us on our whale connection journeys for 2025.
Pricing:
🏝️ Early Bird Special: $3777 (until 4/1/25) a $222 Discount!
🏝️ Regular Price: $3999 (after 4/1/25)
Payment Plans Available
We are so very excited for this marvelous adventure and opportunity with you!
Email or call Darby at [email protected] 808-313-2428 to register and for more information.
Whale Connection Journey Retreats
✨ Emerge into the Infinite Blue with the Humpback Whales of Mystical Mo’orea ✨
Two delightful offerings for 2025:
September 24 - 30, 2025 🌙 New Moon
October 6 - 12, 2025 🌝 Full Moon
You are invited to join us on a magical journey on Mo’orea, French Polynesia to connect with the Humpback Whales. Swim and play with these majestic beings in sacred communion in the deep blue waters, then merge into the turquoise lagoons that wrap the tiny serene island of Mo’orea. Snorkel with healthy, vibrant reefs of purple and pink corals, dancing anemones, and wondrous creatures of rainbow colors. Glide in the silky waters with sharks, rays, turtles, dolphins & fish. Feel a renewal on a deep cellular level as you float in the warm, jewel-like waters. Gaze upon the mystical green mountains of Mo’orea, with their towers, pyramids & crags.
Feel, and hold forever, the ecstasy and exhilaration that comes with experiencing these close encounters with our cetacean beloveds! After the ocean journeys relax luxuriously at our oceanfront home, with a private lagoon just steps from your door for more ocean delight. Nourish your body temple with delightful, fresh and local plant-based meals made with pure love by our amazing private chef. With the intention of connection and integration with our divinely orchestrated group, we will share daily circles that will include meditations to connect with the Whales and our own inner wisdom, crystal bowl sound healings, and a bobinsana medicine ceremony. You are invited to join our pod and immerse yourself in this transformative ocean journey. This retreat is life-changing!
🐋🩵 What is included:
🤲🏼 Intimate Pod:
•Each retreat will have an intimate group of 7 participants, or pod-members, plus Darby & our Chef, Terry.
•This gives each pod member more spaciousness on the boat, and more attention from our guides.
•Within this intimate group we will build life-long connections and community, and grow, laugh & learn together on our marvelous journey.
🛖 Accommodations:
•6 nights in our private oceanfront property in shared villas on a calm, turquoise lagoon, perfect for snorkeling and kayaking. We have an abundance of private space for reflection with our own garden & beach.
⛵️ Whale Boat Journeys:
•4 journeys into the deep blue sea to connect with humpback whales. These life-changing encounters often include potent sound baths from singing whales, mother and baby darshan, witnessing activity like breeching or tail slaps and so much more!
•Guided by local Tahitian experts, including our captain who pioneered whale swimming in Mo’orea over 20 years ago.
•Support and guidance from Darby, midwifing you in the sea with song, breath, and ceremony.
•Enjoy fresh local fruit and teas onboard.
🪸 Underwater Adventures:
•Snorkel with friendly reef sharks, stingrays, sea turtles and much more in the calm, turquoise lagoon.
•Experience the healthiest coral reefs in the world, snorkeling the vibrant coral gardens of Mo’orea.
👨🏾🍳 Culinary Delights:
•Nourish your body temple with delectable, fresh meals prepared with love by our private chef Terry Ford, specializing in anti-inflammatory, gut-health-supporting and plant-based dishes.
🧜🏼♀️ Special Ceremonies:
•Opening Water Blessing Ceremony with the receiving of a Hiva-Oa: Tahitian flower crown.
•Bobinsana Medicine Ceremony with honey-based medicine handmade by Teresa Carnicelli.
•Crystal Bowl Sound Healing with Kelly Kulalā.
🧘🏽♀️ Daily Practices:
•Whale Connection Meditations and Integration Circles with your pod.
•Nutritive Herbal Tea Ceremonies featuring freshly gathered Hawaiian herbs.
💎 Cultural & Conservation Highlights:
•Choose your own Tahitian pearls and design your personal jewelry with a local artisan.
•Tour the Sea Turtle Care Center, a shelter & clinic for green & hawksbill sea turtles.
•A portion of our profits is donated to Coral Gardeners, a revolutionary Tahitian organization dedicated to restoring coral reefs.
🏊♀️ Swimming with Whales, Strength, Fitness & Gear:
•We will be swimming as a pod in the open ocean, sometimes the length of a football field (300 feet) to connect with the whales. We respect their space by keeping the boat at a distance as to do not disturb them. You will receive support & guidance. We flow in utmost respect for the whales in the ocean, always welcoming connections that are initiated by the whales.
•Whale Connection Journey is for people who are strong & fit. No open ocean swimming experience necessary.
•A high quality, well-fitting mask & snorkel, fins & wetsuit is required for your optimal ease & comfort of the experience.
✈️ Travel Info:
•Hold a Valid Passport.
•Travel to airport: Papette: PPT in Tahiti. There are direct flights from Honolulu, San Francisco, LAX, Seattle. When you arrive Tahiti, take the Ferry to Mo’orea. It is a 30-45 minute ferry ride. As ferries don’t travel in the evening, if you arrive after 5 pm you will stay at a hotel near PPT airport that night & take the ferry the next morning. When you arrive Mo’orea you will take a $20 taxi to our retreat house. You can also choose to rent a car, it is recommended to do so at PPT airport.
•All the info & support needed to travel to the island Mo’orea is available from Darby.
•Extra Nights at our Accommodations for a discounted fee of $111: October Full Moon Retreat: staying at the retreat house the extra night of October 5th is available. For September New Moon retreat staying the extra night of September 30th is available.
✨🐋✨🐋✨🐋✨🐋✨
(Does not include: Airfare to and from Tahiti, ferry to Mo’orea and other personal travel expenses.)
🐋🩵 About your guide and retreat leader: Darby is a mermaid and a midwife. She is an experienced retreat leader, licensed midwife, holistic women’s healthcare practitioner, ceremonialist and practicing herbalist. She specializes in water birth, dolphin and nature-assisted birth and yoni steam ceremonies. Darby has been a lover of the ocean and a strong swimmer her whole life. Some of her earliest memories are exploring the beach, and holding her breath to swim as a young child. One of her greatest passions is being in the ocean connecting with the cetaceans, the whales and dolphins, and the sharks, manta rays and many other ocean creatures, swimming, snorkeling, freediving, and scuba diving. She has been blessed to enjoy this bliss for over 20 years and especially since her arrival to live on the island of Hawai’i in 2013. Darby organized and led Whale Connection Journeys in Kona, Hawai’i for eight years. When she is in the water with the humpback whales, she feels as though she has truly come home, and connected once again to our ancient Lemurian home. Mo’orea’s pure turquoise waters are in her meditations daily. 2025 will be Darby’s third journey to Mo’orea. In the Autumn of 2023 Darby traveled solo to Mo’orea and delighted in the beauty and magic of French Polynesia and her heart bust with joy with the precious whale connections. In 2024 Darby enjoyed the successful and magical maiden voyage of the Whale Connection Journey Retreat. Darby is excited and honored to midwife you during the life-changing, rare and amazing experiences of heart to heart, eye to eye, close encounters with the humpback whales.
🐋🩵 About your chef: Terry is on a mission to provide vibrant, tasty, nourishing meals to bring the retreat enjoyment to an even greater level. Love and joy are key components in his alchemy of fresh and local ingredients to create a soul-satisfying culinary experience for you! Terry is an accomplished chef and he enriches the groups he serves with his bright smile, warm heart and wisdom. He is also passionate about travel, meditation, permaculture, nutrition and herbalism. Terry calls Hawai’i home. He is currently traveling the world, with plans to experience South America and Bali in 2025.
🐋🩵 About your captain and guide: Heifara Dutertre was born and raised in French Polynesia. He pioneered Whale Swimming on Mo’orea over 20 years ago and was the original provider of this amazing experience! He has spent his life in the sea, surfing, swimming, diving and leading folks in the ocean to experience the whales. He has a calm, easeful presence in the water, an incredible eye to find the cetacean friends of the sea and vast knowledge of their behavior. I am so grateful to have the blessing of Heifara leading us on our whale connection journeys for 2025.
Pricing:
🏝️ Early Bird Special: $3777 (until 4/1/25) a $222 Discount!
🏝️ Regular Price: $3999 (after 4/1/25)
Payment Plans Available
We are so very excited for this marvelous adventure and opportunity with you!
Email or call Darby at [email protected] 808-313-2428 to register and for more information.
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Photos of our Ocean-front Accommodations: coming soon
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Team Whale Connection Journey
Maruuru Tohora, Mahalo Koholā, Thank You Humpback Whales
Darby Partner CPM LM Hawaii Holistic Midwifery 808.313.2428 [email protected] Kona, Big Island, Hawaii