The Private Fasting Retreat That Resets Your Longevity
The 5-Day Longevity Vision Quest. One-on-one. Off-grid on Hawaii's Big Island.
See if you're one of the five →Founding rate $6,000 for 5 days, 1-on-1 · standing rate $12,500 · first 5 only
Is this executive fasting retreat right for your body?
Five founding seats. One Warrior at a time. Two minutes below tells you honestly whether to come now, or build a base first.
What's Your Vision Quest Readiness Score?
Ten questions. No wrong answers — just an honest read on your metabolic baseline, altitude readiness, and transition clarity. Your score climbs from sea level to the summit.
Get your full Readiness Report by email
Your score, what it means, the starter protocol to run before you arrive, and Benedick's personal number to take the next step. Straight from Benedick, not an autoresponder voice.
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What's really missing from your transition plan
Exit strategy? Your lawyers handled it. Financial plan? Your advisor has you covered. Travel list? China is already booked for spring.
Here's what's probably not in the plan: the metabolic reset that makes all of it worth doing.
Most executives spend months engineering their exit and zero days engineering the biology that has to carry them through everything after it. The sick-care system will happily wait until something breaks, then medicate the signal. This retreat does the opposite. It resets your voltage and shows you what's possible when you stop optimizing companies and start optimizing the one system you can't sell, delegate, or replace.
"Can I figure out what's next? And will my body hold up for the adventures I'm planning?"
You've spent thirty years executing at the highest level. You deliver under pressure. You think in systems. But nobody warns you about the real difficulty of a legacy transition. It isn't leaving the title. It's discovering what you're building toward, not just what you're walking away from.
You can't think your way to that answer. You have to metabolically reset your way there.
One Warrior at a time
A fasting clinic medicates the process. A luxury resort pads it. A group retreat splits the guide's attention fifteen ways. None of them put you on volcanic land, deep in pristine rainforest, in a fasted state, with the person who built the method next to you the whole time.
A billionaire-tier longevity resort in Hawaii runs about $3,000 a night, and you never once sit alone with the founder. Here, you get nothing like that.
What the five days are built from
- Training toward the volcanic peaks, scaled to the body that shows up
- A fast calibrated to your history, from OMAD to a 24–72 hour fast
- Off-grid living in a secluded rainforest tiny home
- SCENAR for voltage, fasting-energy support, and any knee or hip that flares
- DreamWeaver musical-massage sessions, built into your Longevity Blueprint
- Yoga scaled to you, from Ashtanga to breath and grounding
- Mediterranean-style food I prepare myself, and hydrogen-enriched water
- Whatever the island offers: a beach, the farmers market, and if she's active, Kīlauea
The arc of the five days
The old way to sell a retreat is a rigid hour-by-hour grid. I won't pretend to one, because it would be a lie. This is one-on-one, and the sequence bends to you. What follows is the arc every retreat moves through. Yours is built in real time.
You settle into the tiny home at the bottom of the land. OMAD begins. No WiFi, just rainforest, doves, coqui. The corporate noise starts to fade.
We build your legs on the road. First SCENAR session, you feel the voltage work. First private yoga, scaled to you. The performance identity starts loosening.
Your fast begins, calibrated to your history. The DreamWeaver loosens the armoring. Sessions timed to fortify energy through the low points. Evenings of silence.
Autophagy is fully active. We break the fast gently, and build the thing you take home: your Longevity Blueprint. You leave a different person.
Your Longevity Blueprint
Most retreats send you off with a good feeling that fades by the second week back. You leave here with a document.
Across the week I record and transcribe your DreamWeaver sessions and our conversations, and feed them into an AI process that builds them into a structured report. It turns wordless, altered-state insight into something an engineer's mind can use: a written framework for the year ahead.
- Your transition structure, in your own words
- A fasting protocol calibrated to your response
- Voltage practices to sustain at home
- Exercise you'll actually keep doing
- Starting points for tracking your biomarkers
Why there are no testimonials on this page
Let me be straight with you, because you'd see through anything else.
This program is new. I don't have a wall of five-star reviews for the retreat, and I won't borrow, invent, or manufacture them to look established. What I have is four decades of clients coached and trained one-on-one through my bioelectric and sound work. You've built companies. You know exactly what manufactured proof looks like, and what it's worth.
So here's the honest deal instead. I'm taking the first five people at a founding rate: $6,000 for the five days, one-on-one. That's $1,200 a day for undivided access to four decades of work. Once those five seats are gone, the program moves to its standing rate of $12,500.
The gap isn't a gimmick. It's the honest cost of going first. All I ask in return: if the work delivers, tell the truth about it afterward. No script, no obligation to flatter, just the truth, whatever it is.
Five founding seats — take the readiness quiz →Why five days at altitude resets your voltage
Your mitochondria, the power plants in every cell, operate in an electrical field on the order of 30 million volts per meter. Weight your 37 trillion cells by their mitochondrial density and the body holds an estimated 10 quadrillion of them, each one a tiny generator. When that voltage drops through chronic stress, poor metabolic signaling, and age, everything gets harder.
Autophagy
After 24 hours fasted, cells recycle damaged proteins and spent mitochondria. Factory reset for your biology.
Mitochondrial biogenesis
Fasting + altitude + exercise signals the body to build new mitochondria. More voltage, more rejuvenation.
Voltage restoration
SCENAR works the bioelectrical field along the vertebra. DreamWeaver entrains the whole body through coherent vibration.
Hormetic adaptation
Controlled discomfort triggers the body's oldest resilience pathways. You come out more robust, not less.
The sanctuary: where you'll actually stay
Nothing fancy. This is not a resort, and I won't dress it up as one. Comfort is the thing you're detoxing from. A secluded tiny home at the bottom of the land, 500 feet from where I live. Two-piece bath inside, outdoor kitchenette and hot-and-cold shower, cacao and avocado around you, a putting green out front for barefoot grounding.
The training ground
Here's the honest truth about the hikes: not everyone summits MaunaKea at 13,803 feet, and you don't have to. The real training happens on the gravel-and-lava road here at 1,000 feet. The surface is uneven on purpose, ideal preparation for the far more uneven trails higher up. About 250 feet of climb over two miles, run or hiked, as many times as your body earns.
From there we go up as far as your body is ready. Some reach the summit region. Everyone trains meaningfully. The volcano is the ceiling, not the entry fee.
And if a knee or hip flares, the SCENAR is right there to support recovery. A group retreat can't stop and do that. This one can, because it's only you.
The table
Your meals aren't catered in. I prepare and cook them. I'm a genuinely good cook, and across your five days I prepare food tuned to your protocol: exclusively organic, vegetarian optional, with local fish or island-grown beef, Mediterranean style, when your body calls for it, and my home-grown raw cacao and greens.
The water matters too. Carbon-filtered, hydrogen-enriched to support energy and detox as your body does the deeper work of the fast. Small physics, real difference.
You live it alongside me
Twice a week I come out of the rainforest, and you're welcome along. Thursday I have my ukulele class in Hilo. Friday I play our community farmers market, come meet the locals, or I'll drop you at a beach while I play. Once a month I host a Saturday-night open mic here on the land. I'm not teaching a longevity lifestyle from a slide deck. I'm living it at 75, and for five days you live it too.
And if Kīlauea is awake during your week, everything else pauses. She erupts in 1,000-foot lava fountains, sometimes only a couple of weeks apart, 25 minutes away in the opposite direction from the airport. There is nothing on Earth like watching the planet's own voltage from a safe vantage. Nature's own vision quest.
Someone who is longevity, not who read about it
I'm not a wellness influencer after a quick buck. I'm a 75-year-old former GE development engineer who jogs, practices Ashtanga, builds off-grid structures with my hands, fasts routinely, and lives off-grid on land I cleared mostly by hand in the Big Island rainforest.
Mining Engineering at Leeds, then Development Engineer at Canadian General Electric. In 1977 I was granted the deep-sea fishing Otterboard patent. After a series of prophetic dreams I left the corporate world, spent most of a year in sixteen African countries, then homeopathy and sound. In 1987 I took over Dr. Randal Baer's Starcrest Academy, which led me to invent the DreamWeaver. I trained to master practitioner level in SCENAR microcurrent therapy.
You're not learning longevity from someone who read about it. You're learning it from someone who is it.
Is this for you?
This is for you if
- You're in transition and want to start the next phase with real energy and clarity
- You're tired of advice from people who've never run anything significant
- You want the reset that works, not the trend of the month
- You're ready to be strategically uncomfortable in service of a breakthrough
- You can go offline for five days, and know that's the point
This is not for you if
- You want a spa vacation (the Four Seasons is lovely)
- You're in the David Sinclair or Peter Attia camp — the focus here is natural, non-invasive longevity, not a pharmaceutical-and-supplement stack
- You want to be told it's easy, it's catalyst work
- You won't put the devices down for five days
- You want concepts without discomfort
- You're not ready to meet who you are when nobody's watching
What it costs, and what it's worth
Most executives spend $50,000 and more on advisors to optimize the retirement portfolio, and nothing on the biology that decides whether they'll enjoy it. A billionaire-tier longevity resort runs about $3,000 a night with no founder access. A three-day group mastermind seat runs $12,500, shared with a room. This is five days, one-on-one, with the person who built the method.
What's included
- Five days off-grid in the rainforest tiny-home sanctuary
- All meals prepared by me, Mediterranean style, tuned to your protocol, plus hydrogen-enriched water
- Daily one-on-one work with Benedick, start to finish
- Yoga and training toward the volcanic peaks, both scaled to you
- DreamWeaver session work recorded into your Blueprint
- SCENAR sessions: voltage, fasting-energy support, recovery
- Your written Longevity Blueprint
- Ageless Warrior Alliance + Sunday Briefing (first 3 months, then $45/month)
Train toward the volcano. Master the fast. Leave with the Blueprint.
This isn't a vacation. It isn't a seminar. It's the five-day catalyst that resets your voltage and hands you the map for what's next.
See if you're one of the five →Before you decide
I'm not outdoorsy. Is this too extreme?
How is the fast structured?
Do I have to summit the volcano?
Where do I stay?
What do I take home?
What if Kīlauea erupts?
Preparing for your Vision Quest
Physical readiness
Arrive able to walk three to five miles comfortably and handle stairs without excessive fatigue. Optional pre-retreat prep: two to three weeks of daily walking or light jogging.
The sanctuary sits at 1,000 feet. The road climbs 250 feet over two miles. The summit region reaches 13,803 feet, where temperatures drop 30 to 40°F.
What to pack
Hiking
- Broken-in boots or trail shoes (not new, blisters end adventures)
- Moisture-wicking socks
- Layers for altitude, rain jacket
- Daypack, 32oz+ water bottle
- Hat, headlamp
Daily
- Comfortable yoga clothes
- Loose breathable clothing for off-grid living
- A light sweater for cool evenings
- Sandals, swimsuit
Off-grid
- Personal medications (full supply plus extra)
- Biodegradable toiletries, natural insect repellent
- Journal and pen
- Quick-dry towel (bed linen and towels are provided)
- Earplugs if you're sensitive to a loud rainforest and the coqui chirping
Leave behind
- Laptop and work devices (you're offline)
- Expectations of luxury
Medical
Consult your physician before the retreat, especially with any chronic condition. Tell me in advance about injuries, limitations, or altitude concerns, so the week is built around them.
The most important thing to pack is willingness.
Integration and the Ageless Warrior Alliance
The five days are the catalyst. The thirty after decide whether it holds.
Week one
The energy is still high. The pull to snap back to normal is strong. Resist it. Run your Blueprint daily: fasting protocol, exercise, voltage practice.
Weeks two to three
Reality reasserts. Energy may dip. This is where most people lose the gains. Double down. Lean on the Alliance.
Week four
The new habits set. You notice when you skip them. Assess what's working, decide whether you're ready for deeper work.
The Ageless Warrior Alliance
Your ongoing community. First 3 months included, then $45/month.
- Weekly "Aloha Monday Warriors" Facebook lives with Benedick
- Weekly Sunday Briefing newsletter
You didn't build your career alone. You won't build your longevity alone either.
Investment and cancellation policy
Included
- Five days off-grid
- All meals prepared by Benedick, hydrogen-enriched water
- Daily one-on-one coaching
- Yoga scaled to you
- Training toward the volcanic peaks
- DreamWeaver session work recorded into your Longevity Blueprint
- SCENAR sessions
- Sustainability overview
- Your written Blueprint
- Alliance membership (first 3 months)
Cancellation and refund
- 60+ days before start: 100% refund ($6,000 returned), or free transfer to a future date
- 30 to 59 days: 50% refund ($3,000 returned), transfer available with a $500 fee
- 0 to 29 days: no refund, no transfer
- No-shows: full payment forfeited
Transfer and rescheduling
60+ days: free one-time transfer. 30 to 59 days: $500 fee. 0 to 29 days: not available. Rescheduled retreats are subject to current pricing and must be rebooked within twelve months.
Force majeure
If I cancel for weather, volcanic activity, or natural disaster: 100% refund or free transfer, your choice. If you cancel over weather concerns, standard policy applies. Travel insurance strongly recommended (5 to 8% of trip cost).
Contact
Questions about booking, payment, or policy: text my private number in the Welcome email.
Medical & ethical disclaimer
The 5-Day Longevity Vision Quest, DreamWeaver sessions, SCENAR sessions, and all related services and materials are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. They are not a substitute for appropriate medical, psychological, or psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition, symptoms, or concerns. By booking, you acknowledge that you are responsible for your own health decisions and outcomes.
Core value: do no harm, so love can blossom.