Join Dr. Bonnie Bright and Dr. Christophe Morin for our next retreat in the My Soul’s Journey™ series, Walking Between Worlds, a transformational intensive program based on Neurospirituality; on Soul-Centered Psychologies including Jungian, Transpersonal, Archetypal, and Depth; and on indigenous perspectives and ancient wisdom traditions.

Walking Between Worlds invites you into an alchemy of neurospiritual science (Based on Dr. Morin’s new books OPEN and OPEN UP) and soul-centered perspectives, including somatic, symbolic, and shamanic (Dr. Bonnie Bright).

In a time of global upheaval—from wars and political fragmentation to personal uncertainty—we’ll learn to stand grounded in the world of form: its messiness, its patterns. And from there, we’ll step into the limitless realm of soul and imagination, accessing inner wisdom, soul medicine, and creative soul-life. This is a journey of integration—bringing light, clarity, and embodied presence to both worlds.

The Program includes four online individual soul-centered coaching or group process sessions, plus an immersive 5-day/4-night in-person gathering on the Big Island of Hawaii with lectures and activities.

NOTE: An application and online conversation with Dr. Bright and/or Dr. Morin is required for this advanced retreat. Serious inquiries only, please. Space is limited to no more than 10 participants.

2025 Dates
Nov 2-6, 2025

About the PROGRAM

Walking Between Worlds — My Soul’s Journey Series

Walking Between Worlds is the newest transformational program in the My Soul’s Journey series, tailored especially to support those on a path toward more consciousness and spiritual awakening.

It consists of one live, in-person gathering on the Big Island of Hawaii, PLUS four additional online sessions—one individual coaching session and one group process session in weeks leading up to the retreat, and one individual coaching session and one group process session in the weeks following the retreat.

At Manta Soul™, the ritual of mask-making becomes a sacred act of self-discovery. In the liminal space “between worlds,” creating a mask allows us to give form to the unseen forces within us—the archetypes, the protectors, and the hidden parts we rarely show. This creative process invites dialogue between the persona we wear in the world of form and the soul that whispers from within.

Through shaping, painting, and embodying the mask, participants step into a transformational threshold: exploring what is ready to be revealed, healed, or integrated. The mask becomes both mirror and metaphor—a tool to witness the stories we carry and a channel for new ones to emerge.

This process allows participants to move beyond roles and expectations and tap into the heart of what has been in shadow and what authentically wants to come to light and be seen in all it’s beauty.

The live in-person gathering takes place in a magical jungle setting in South Kona, Big Island of Hawai’i, where each individual can embark on a personal journey into their biographical and transpersonal stories.

Educational lectures, guided meditations, and experiential soul-centered modalities will help participants remove the obstacles that hinder their path to fulfillment.

Reveal Your True Self

Throughout this program, you will be introduced to various Somatic, Symbolic, and Shamanic techniques and practices to access more profound meaning in life and unlock new realms of freedom, creativity, and joy.

From engaging in heart-opening discussions to practicing mindfulness and self-expression through breathwork, shamanic journeying, and creative arts, each day is structured to facilitate personal breakthroughs and a deeper connection with your soul.

By the end of the program, you will have gained valuable tools and experiences that empower you to navigate life’s complexities with greater ease and a renewed sense of direction, enabling a life lived with intention and authenticity.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE

My Soul's Journey™ Intensives are for you if you are....

PREPARING FOR YOUR SOUL'S JOURNEY: WHAT TO EXPECT BEFORE THE GATHERING

The MY SOUL’S JOURNEY™ series begins with answering the call. If you find yourself drawn by this
opportunity to further your path to awakening to the true nature of your being, apply now. (NOTE: Space is limited)

Readings and Multimedia: The curriculum begins as soon as your application is accepted and you make payment for your retreat. You will be given some carefully curated introductory materials to read, watch, or listen to that will help you get your bearings as you put your foot on the path. This preliminary material will give you an overview of our unique, soul-centered approach and proven process to help you awaken to new truths about who you really are.

One-on-One online Personal Coaching Session with Dr. Bright and/or Dr. Morin to help identify where you are from a psycho-spiritual perspective, where you want to go, and what tools and resources are available to you to help you transform.

Online Group Gathering and Process: In the weeks before the retreat, you will have the opportunity to attend an online session with other retreat participants to start sharing insights and discovering tools that are emerging for your journey.

Personality and Plasticity Assessment Tools: Receive a customized report on your core personality traits, coping mechanisms, and plasticity habits, including an assessment to determine (or maybe confirm!) your Enneagram type.

The Enneagram offers a psycho-spiritual blueprint that allows us to see the coping mechanisms we each were forced to develop in order to adapt to the conditioning we faced in childhood—and, it also enables us to see our inherent gifts so we can live into our sacred calling in this lifetime.

WHAT TO EXPECT DURING THE GATHERING*

LECTURES steeped in neuroscience; depth, transpersonal, and other soul-centered psychologies; personality models including the Enneagram and Big Five; consciousness; neuroplasticity, quantum physics; mystical traditions; shamanism; and other psycho-spiritual themes.

EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITIES such as sound bath, dreamwork, breathwork, forest bathing, cacao ceremony, shamanic journeying, ancestral connection, ritual, meditative processes, writing, and creative arts, all designed to help you access powerful insights and awakening.

SOUL-CENTERED COACHING and group process grounded in ancient and modern psychological and scientific perspectives.

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THIS ON-SITE EVENT
—Transportation to and from KOA airport within 1 day of start/end (upon request)
—All food and sleeping arrangements during the event
—All lectures and on-site activities
—One off-site excursion/vision quest (circumstances permitting)
—Coffee, tea, water, snacks, and your very own Manta Soul™ eyemask and journal

WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED
—Airfare to KOA (Kona) airport}
—Extra nights at Manta Soul™ before or after the retreat (as available)

PROPOSED AGENDA

DAY 1: Diving In: Arrival and Entering your Soulscape
(Begins at 3pm: If flying in the same day, please book your flight to arrive no later than 12:30 pm)

DAY 2: Storienting™: Revealing your Soul’s Code Through the Stories that Shape You
Focus: Identifying and Decoding Biographical, Perinatal, Ancestral, Archetypal, and Transpersonal stories

DAY 3: SoulScrying™: Using your Soul’s Code as Blueprint and Mapping your Path to Greater Consciousness
Focus: Finding insights through Somatic, Symbolic, and Shamanic techniques

DAY 4: Stepping into the Fire: Re-Kindling Your Connection to Soul and Re-Programming your Life
Focus: Turning toward the Infinite Alchemical Possibilities of your Soul’s Journey for Consciousness, Creativity, and Transformation
Excursion: Honoring the Hawaiian Goddess, Pele: Nature Vision Quest (weather and circumstances permitting)

DAY 5: Celebrating the Journey
Focus: Sharing, Integration, and Preparing for your Return
(includes lunch; ends by 2pm)

Experiential Modalities: Dreamwork, Cacao Ceremony, Shamanic Soul Retrieval Journey, Breathwork, Ancestral work, Working with Archetypes and Transpersonal perspectives, Guided Visualizations, Soul Collage, Working with Altars, Creative Arts and Expression

Optional Evening Activities: Sound Bath, Manta Ray Snorkel/Dive or Viewing with the Group (weather and circumstances permitting), Soul-Fire Chat/Hangout at the Firepit, Documentary Film

Ready to Heal Old Wounds and Limiting Patterns and Beliefs

to Access Greater Freedom, Joy, and Creativity in Life?

about the facilitators

Dr. Bonnie Bright holds M.A. degrees in Psychology from Sonoma State University, and in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she also completed her doctorate degree.

She is a certified Archetypal Pattern Analyst™, a certified Transpersonal Soul-Centered Coach, and a Consciousness Researcher. Drawing on archetypal and shamanic perspectives, she helps clients navigate spiritual awakening; integrate breathwork, meditative, psychedelic, or other non-ordinary experiences; overcome creative blockages; and open their lives to joy and transcendence.

Bonnie is accredited through IACTM—the International Association of Coaches, Therapists, & Mentors. She has trained extensively in dreamwork; in Holotropic Breathwork, a process developed by transpersonal pioneers, Stan and Christina Grof; and in the Enneagram, a psycho-spiritual personality map for transformation. Bonnie also completed a 2-year training in Indigenous African Spiritual Technologies with initiated African elder, Malidoma Somé, traveling to Somé’s native Burkina Faso in Africa where she studied ritual medicine with the Dagara people. She has also spent time with members of the Shipibo tribe in the jungles of Peru, and with other honored elders and shamans on four continents.

Bonnie created and served as the Executive Editor of Depth Insights™ scholarly journal for six years, and is the Founder and Director Emerita of Depth Psychology Alliance™, an online organization with nearly 6,000 members. She has conducted over 100 audio and video interview/podcasts on depth psychology, and is the editor of Earth, Climate, Dreams: Dialogues with Depth Psychologists in the Age of the Anthropocene (2019), and Depth Psychology and the Digital Age(2016).

Bonnie’s path to soul began with a life-changing spontaneous mystical experience in 2006, and she continues her quest for awakening each day with a sense of joy, freedom, and gratitude at the magic afoot in the world. She seeks to live into her gift and calling by helping others find their path to soul, and to learn to do the same for others.

Dr. Christophe Morin holds a Ph.D. in Media Psychology with a concentration in Neuropsychology (non-clinical), making him a pioneer in connecting the science of the mind with emotional resilience, spiritual growth, and personal transformation.

Dr. Morin serves as an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches neuroscience and artificial intelligence, bridging cutting-edge research with practical applications that empower individuals to understand and harness the brain’s potential for change.

Dr. Morin is the author of the acclaimed books OPEN: The Neurospiritual Guide to Living a Life of Flow (2025), OPEN UP: The Neurospiritual Guide to Your Enneagram Type (2025) and The Serenity Code: A Neuroscientific Approach to Overcoming Stress, Anxiety, and Trauma (2021), The Persuasion Code (2018), Neuromarketing (2007)

In his most recent work, OPEN and OPEN UP, Dr. Morin explores the powerful interplay between neuroplasticity, personality neuroscience and spirituality, offering a roadmap for raising consciousness, rewriting personal narratives, and cultivating rituals that foster resilience and joy. These groundbreaking books reflect his decades of research and his commitment to helping others achieve greater fulfillment.

With international experience leading thousands of transformative retreats and workshops, Dr. Morin combines his academic expertise with his extensive learnings from travels to more than 40 countries. His work draws from neuroscience, spiritual traditions, and personal growth methodologies to create deeply impactful experiences.

Dr. Morin provides retreat participants with cutting-edge assessment tools he developped to explore their inner worlds, let go of limiting beliefs, and embrace transformative change in safe and inspiring settings. As a retreat leader, educator, and author, Dr. Morin’s mission is to empower individuals to unlock their highest potential and live a life of flow, balance, and joy, leaving a lasting impact on those seeking deeper self-awareness and transformation.

about the LOCATION

MANTA SOUL
Mauli Ola O Ka Hāhālua

(Transient Tax ID: (TA-154-746-2656-01)

Set on the slopes of an ancient volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii on sacred land long inhabited by native Hawaiians, Manta Soul™ offers a restful jungle retreat to renew and restore deep connections with nature and self.

Decades ago, the verdant vegetation was cultivated as a macadamia nut farm, and a variety of animals and tropical plants still thrive in the current ecosystem, including lots of birds, mongoose, rabbits, chickens, and wild pigs. Coqui frogs, though new to the island in recent decades, offer you your own personal symphony every night as the sun drops below the horizon into the clear blue Pacific.

Our affinity for the stunning, otherworldly creatures we know as manta rays provides a powerful metaphor for personal growth and transformation, the mission and vision of Manta Soul retreats. The capacity to dive into the depths of one’s psyche—while also being able to transcend the surface of one’s reality and leap into a different dimension—allows for new perspectives. In the Hawaiian language, Manta Soul can be translated as Mauli Ola O Ka Hāhālua, meaning “breath of life and powerful healing of the manta ray.”

Manta Soul is owned and operated by Dr. Bonnie Bright and Dr. Christophe Morin, who honor the land as sacred, and who have tirelessly poured themselves into the project to reclaim the land from wildly invasive flora and jungle overgrowth and to coax it back to its inherent beauty and soul.

CAPTAIN COOK | KEALAKEKUA | BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII

Less than two miles as the crow flies, magical Kealakekua Bay awaits, home to pods of spinner dolphins that thrive in its warm protected waters. Kealakekua means “path of the gods.” Art galleries, restaurants, and shops dot the main road, just 15 minutes from Kona, an old harbor town with tons of charm. The world-famous Captain Cook trail is just a few minutes walking distance from Manta Soul™. It’s magnificent views and crystalline waters at the bottom of the trail, accessible only by boat or on foot, make every moment a memorable and inspiring experience.

The Big Island is also one of a tiny handful of locations in the world where you can snorkel or scuba dive with manta rays—which can have up to 24-foot wingspan!— incredible otherworldly creatures that represent such soulful freedom and inspire incredible awe.

Whether you prefer to kayak, swim, scuba dive, or surf; to hike, explore art galleries, or visit one of the world’s only live volcanos less than 2 hours away; or whether you opt to stay close to the land—working, writing, making art, or delving into the depths of yourself in your own private space in a natural setting—a multitude of options for recreation and relaxation are available both in and outside of the retreat.

Contact us for more information on booking your PERSONAL retreat at Manta Soul™if this option resonates more strongly. We can arrange for all meals to be provided so you can be in solitude and reflective contemplation. Prices vary depending on lodging, preferences, and length of time.

PRICING, REGISTRATION & cancellation policy

General registration is $3,999 for public retreats, or $2,999 for all students and grads in good standing with the Institute for Soul-Centered Psychology and Coaching™. 50% due at booking, 50% 30 days before the retreat. Cancellation policy: 100% refund 60 days before, 50% refund 30 days before. No refund within 30 days.

All of our retreats may be offered as private experiences for 1-4 people. Rates depend on the number of people and length of retreat.

If you are longing to dive into this work but are financially challenged, some partial scholarships may be available

NOTE: All retreats are subject to change or cancellation one month before the start date. Assumes a minimum of 6 registrants, and a maximum of 10.

UPCOMING RETREATS IN 2025

September 14-18, 2025: Find Your Soul On The Island of Hawaii*

September 28-October 2, 2025: AI and Your Soul*

October 24-28, 2025: Walking Between Worlds* [THIS ONE[

These programs are produced by the
Institute for SoulCentered Psychology and Coaching™.
Themes, activities, and pricing may vary for each program.

2025 DatesNov 2-6, 2025