Blue Dragon Hot Yoga is located on the grounds of Sanctuary of the Blue Dragon: a  Rebirthing Center on the Big Island of Hawaii offering preparation and support for the transformation of a lifetime!  Cleanse, strengthen, and stretch your physical body as you prepare to birth the highest version of you. 

 

We offer daily Hot Yoga classes ranging from the Beginner to Advanced Bikram Yoga series.  For those wishing to immerse in the “yoga bubble”and dive deeper into their practice, we offer a Yoga Immersion program for 1-4 weeks.  During this time, guests may attend daily yoga classes and weekly private sessions tailored to expand and evolve their personal yoga practice.  We host yearly retreats on the Winter Solstice and Autumn Equinox, which begin with a 30 day cleanse and culminate with a Gratitude Ceremony on the Summit of Mauna Kea.

 

As a retreat space, it is of utmost priority to keep the energy on the land pure and clear.  Therefore, there is no smoking, vaping, alcohol consumption, or taking of plant medicine while staying on site.   We ask that you show up with your full presence, without the influence of any other energies.  We have quiet hours before 7:30 am and after 7:30 pm to honor the retreat atmosphere.  Wi-Fi hours are from 7 am to 8 pm; we encourage you to leave your devices off as much as possible to receive from the healing frequency of the Earth!

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Here is the Blue Dragon's birth story, as told by Founder & Dragon Mama, Simona Alladio:

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Upon arriving to the property in June 2020, I immediately began to connect with the 'aina.  It was COVID times, so during our 10 day quarantine I hand-cleared invasive trees and began shaping garden beds.  After putting my children to bed at night, I would sit on the roof of my car under the moonlight, listening to subtle messages of the earth.  Within four months, She had given me the blueprint-- I knew where the pond and the house and the Red Tent and the community center all would be.  By the time school rolled around, masks were being mandated in all the schools, stores, and doctors offices.  I decided then and there that my family was taking the year off.  There was enough stress in society to add any more with school.  Instead, we dove deep into the land and began creating our sanctuary-- a place where the children could run barefoot and mask-free, a place where I could bleed freely onto the earth, a place where we could start to unwind all the trauma that a lifetime on the mainland had accumulated.

 

The following summer, a space was needed for the neighborhood kids' summer camp.  A brand-new shipping container had come with the land, and I swiftly added a carport to the front and tacked down a weed mat to the black cinder-covered earth, and voila!  A make-shift kids camp was created.  Within 6 months, the first workshop was held by our dear Alaskan elder Tarika Lea, who guided a handful of islanders in making their first medicine drums.  In the spring of 2021, the carport was taken down and a two-story structure was erected.  A month later, we hosted our first retreat!  The next year was filled with healing classes and workshops including yoga, ecstatic dance, contact improv, kirtan, song circle, Reiki sessions, and crystal bowl sound healing.  The Sanctuary of the Blue Dragon became an incubator for new offerings to the community.  

 

In the summer of 2022, I journeyed down to Peru and received a vision of the next incarnation of the Blue Dragon.  I saw a beautiful temple to Pachamama-- gardens filled with flowers, stone pathways, honeybees, and butterflies.  I saw people coming from all over the world to be still and receive from a deep connection to the Earth Mother.  I had been out of my Bikram Yoga practice for 4-5 years and was guided to immediately reactivate my practice.  Right there in Peru, I received the download of a retreat called Pu'Wai Reunion-- a 14 day immersion featuring Hot Yoga, cleansing the body, and Hawaiian culture and ceremony.  I returned to Hawaii inspired and on a mission.  

 

On Christmas 2022, I drew a design for the Hot Yoga studio and put it on my altar.  By May 2023, the studio was complete, save for one important piece-- the HEAT!  Every month I sat at my altar, praying for someone who could properly install the infrared sauna panels I had so intentionally chosen to heat the yoga studio.  On October 20, 2023, we celebrated my 42nd birthday and the birth of Blue Dragon Hot Yoga.  Our beloved Hawaiian elder, Kalikolehua Kanaele, led a blessing ceremony and I taught my first (unheated) Bikram Yoga class to the community.  On Christmas 2023--a year to the day later-- the heat was finally TURNED ON and I burned that design in a beautiful gratitude fire ceremony.  In January 2024, we began offering daily hot yoga classes and the Blue Dragon community began to grow.  A few weeks later, following Manafest, we began hosting a Red Tent Moonlodge every month for wombyn to come and learn how to nurture themselves during the time of their bleed.  The Red Tent soon became an integral part of the Blue Dragon's offerings, where facilitators from the community would share their wisdom regarding herbs, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and indigenous practices to cleanse, heal, and revitalize the womb.

 

Blue Dragon Hot Yoga took a sacred pause for the summer of 2024, as I journeyed again down to the land of Peru to study midwifery and commune deeply with Pachamama.  I have returned back to the Big Island even more grateful than before to call this beautiful 'aina (land) my home, and for the ability to share with you all.  

 

Aloha, Mahalo, Malama Pono, and a Hui Hou!  

Con Mucho Amor, Simona