Lokahi: Cultivating Mindful Harmony Within and Out
Maui, Hawaii
September 27th - 28th, 2025
mindfulness practice, somatic movement, meditation, breathwork, gentle yoga, ho'oponopono, and more
A Mindfulness Workshop for Inner and Outer Balance
Join us for a unique and transformative experience where therapeutic insight meets embodied practice. Lokahi, the Hawaiian concept of unity and harmony, inspires this workshop designed to reconnect you with your inner wisdom and restore balance in your life.
Led by a licensed mental health therapist and a somatic movement/yoga guide, this workshop weaves together:
- Supportive mental health education
- Mindfulness-based personal and interpersonal therapeutic practices
- Somatic movement and embodied awareness
- Meditation practices in positive psychology and wellness
- Breathwork and nervous system regulation
- Gentle yoga for all levels
- The healing practice of Ho’oponopono (Hawaiian reconciliation and forgiveness)
- Reflective journaling
- Opportunities to connect, both with yourself and others
Whether you’re seeking emotional clarity, deeper self-connection, insight into interpersonal experiences, or mindfulness tools for everyday stress, this workshop offers a supportive space to slow down, reflect, and realign.
Come as you are! Leave feeling grounded, open, and whole.
Date & Time:
Saturday, September 27th from 11am-3pm
Sunday, September 28th from 9:30am-1:30pm
Cost:
$495 for both days, includes light refreshments.
Location:
Hotel Wailea, 555 Kaukahi St., Wailea, HI
Promotional Room Rates available upon registration.
Private add-on sessions are available upon request.
Meet the Facilitators
Michelle Kane
LMFT (CA, HI, IL, OR)
Michelle Kane, LMFT (CA, HI, IL, OR) is an integrative therapist, coach, and consultant with 28+ years of experience across clinical and business settings. She supports clients through a broad, systems-based lens, blending expertise in evidence-based therapies (ACT, DBT, CBT, FAP, MBSR) with business coaching and organizational development rooted in Conscious Capitalism.
Michelle’s background includes national business development, team coaching, and specialization in high-growth healthcare and tech environments. Clinically, she integrates mindfulness and systemic psychotherapy, and was awarded the first Clinical Fellowship in Mindfulness and Behavioral Therapies at The Family Institute at Northwestern University.
She holds an M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy (Northwestern) and a B.S. in Business Administration (University of Arizona), along with certifications in global negotiation and coaching. Outside of work, she enjoys travel, photography, music, and the outdoors with family and friends.
Andrea "Dre" Fors
Owner Uplift Maui, MSW, E-RYT 500 YACEP
Andrea Fors (aka ‘Dre’) is the founder and owner of Uplift Maui. She discovered her love for aerial dance in 1998, while attending the University of Georgia. There, she apprenticed under the directorship of Susan Murphy, one of the first people to develop the art of dance-trapeze, and there, she found a love for how physical strength and art/emotion collide.
She went on to help open one of the first dedicated aerial dance studios in the country, Canopy Studio, and became a member of Canopy’s first Aerial Dance Repertoire Company from 2000-2005. During this time, she spent countless hours training on various equipment including silks, duo trap, lyra, and harness with Elsie and Serenity Smith, who performed for Cirque du Soleil, and currently own the New England Center for Circus Arts.
In 2006, Andrea moved back to Atlanta to help aerial dance partner, Nicole Mermans, conceptualize and found the D’AIR Project, a non-profit, teen-centered, aerial dance studio. There, she taught aerial for the kid, teen, and adult classes, and developed the aerial fitness and aerial yoga classes. In 2007, Andrea and Nicole founded, performed, and co-directed D’AIR’s professional Aerial Dance Theatre Company from 2007-2013. The company became well-known in Atlanta and the Southeast, and produced many highly acclaimed shows that received national press. In addition, Andrea founded and performed for Aethereal Productions, a professional aerial dance company, for corporate events, fundraisers, and nightclubs, and has traveled internationally and performed for major corporations, events, resorts, and celebrity functions.
Andrea has been teaching aerial dance/fitness, pilates , personal training, and yoga for 20 years, but it wasn’t until personal and health issues overcame her that she found her true journey. Battling back to health and alignment took many years, but after enduring through it with yoga and other modalities of healing, she is dedicated to helping others find their own path back to wholeness and health through movement, energy work, and proper lifestyle and nutritional choices. Part of that journey was moving to Maui, where she felt called to be.
She is dedicated to helping the community of Maui and those who visit our beautiful island to connect back to themselves and to those around them, and the community. Uplift Maui is founded on the premises that “we rise by lifting others” (Robert Ingersoll). A play on words for literally lifting people into the air as well as in so many other ways…physically, nutritionally, emotionally, and spiritually…to name a few.
