Trauma Recovery Center
Empowering trauma victims. Helping families heal & thrive.
Help victims heal
Your tax-deductible contributions help support programs that heal those wounded by traumatic violence and human trafficking. There is so much gratitude for your generosity and compassion.
You are not alone.
Lotus Island Oasis
Our healing programs are based in art, agriculture & adventure. Immersed in the natural beauty of Hawaii, we create strategies for individuals and families severely impacted by trauma to help restore physical & mental health: Turning pain into power.
Lotus Island Oasis
Heal body, mind and soul
Therapeutic Agriculture Programs
Therapeutic Agriculture Programs
Building new neural pathways can help heal brains that have been altered due to trauma. Our programs are designed specifically to do that.
Therapeutic Agriculture Programs
Therapeutic Agriculture Programs
Therapeutic Agriculture Programs
The trauma recovery center has an organic garden (with a certied organic gardener) and healing orchards to provide food for our guests and for those in need on the island. Gardening and farm work directly provides grounding for victims who tend to disassociate due to trauma.
Immerse in nature
Therapeutic Agriculture Programs
Immerse in nature
Forest therapy, and exercise have been shown to be as effective as Prozac, with no side-effects. We have abundant options at Lotus Island Oasis Trauma Recovery Center. Our programs include multiple forms of therapy because each person responds to specific therapeutic programs differently.
Lotus Island Oasis
Cultivate Joy and create positive memories.
Cultivate Joy and create positive memories.
Cultivate Joy and create positive memories.
Forge a new path
Cultivate Joy and create positive memories.
Cultivate Joy and create positive memories.
Positive reinforcement creates new pathways in the brain, and can help release some of the stress cortisol that can becomes the default response in trauma victims.
Experience therapy animals
Experience therapy animals
Experience therapy animals
Non-Judgmental love comes in all forms.
Diverse, Nutritious meals
Experience therapy animals
Experience therapy animals
All of the logistics are covered. Participants don't have to deal with daily details and can focus on healing. All of the meals and snacks have been carefully planned to ensure optimal nutrition, and particularly to restore nutrients that are depleted from chronic stress.
Lotus Island Oasis
Building resilience
Building resilience
Building resilience
Letting go of judgment. Creating new patterns.
Music Therapy
Building resilience
Building resilience
So many options for healing self-expression are available (*individual shown is a model and not a victim--we strictly protect our client's privacy!)
The healing sea
Building resilience
The healing sea
Immersed in the warm, healing ocean, our clients often find a medatative sense of peace. We have a trained marine biologist, SUP and snorkeling instructor on staff at LIO Trauma Recovery Center.
Pet therapy
Pet therapy
The healing sea
*models shown are not clients, but represent our clients who include: child rape survivors, kidnapping victims, human trafficking victims, children who have witnessed the violent death of a family member, those who have had to testify in court against a family member, those subjected to long term abuse and torture. We include family units and individuals in our programs. We strictly protect client privacy
Art Therapy
Pet therapy
Art Therapy
Art can express what may not be possible to put into words. This can help trauma victims release the pain. Creating art can be empowering, freeing and often helps instill a sense of pride where there may have been unwarranted shame.
Trauma-informed staff
After sexual or domestic violence, especially when compounded by the court system, families are often left with jagged emotions, a sense of despair, health issues and difficulty moving forward in a positive way. Lotus Island Oasis Trauma Recovery Center is a program that helps individuals heal, helps family units heal, and helps contribute to a safer and healthier community.
Come to Lotus Island Oasis to reclaim your life.
Compassionate, Capable Guides
Our trauma-informed staff support trauma/torture victims on a healing journey. At Lotus Island Oasis Trauma Recovery Center, (LIO) families are encouraged to address and process both individual and family trauma, empowering victims to become survivors. We strive to create safe, positive experiences. Focusing on joy helps build new pathways in the brain, and can create happier, healthier individuals and supportive families. This can prevent unprocessed trauma and resentment from perpetuating sabotaging behaviors, prevent transference and intergenerational abuse, and replace self-medication to numb the trauma with more effective strategies. Healed people help people.
What we offer, and how we hope to expand
The Big Island of Hawaii has been a healing center for thousands of years. In the gentle climate of LIO Trauma Recovery Center, clients are immersed in nature: organic gardens, orchards and animal therapy. Clients who have been victims of kidnapping, human trafficking, sexual or domestic assault and other ongoing trauma have the option to participate in so many therapeutic programs including: EMDR, CBT, Tapping (EFT); excercise therapy, Art & Music therapy.
We help release the trauma stored in the body(somatic healing.)
Clients can swim and snorkel in the ocean, sometimes seeing turtles, dolphins or whales. Others may opt to undertake expertly guided, trauma-informed yoga and hikes. SUP, (Stand up Paddle board) Kayak. Ride bikes, or ride horses. Clients can enjoy the gardens. Hike on volcanoes and through ancient tropical rain forests.
In the midst of resiliency-building adventures, there are plenty of expertly structured programs, designed by licensed clinical psychologists and trauma therapists to guide individuals and familes through a healing process. This allows those who have been subjected to torture to gain an empowered perspective, and to move forward with a sense of balance. LIO is an effective antidote to the trauma which impacts the family.
Come to Lotus Island Oasis to reclaim your life.
Your donations are tax deductible.
We have an IRS 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt determination.
Employer ID Number 84-4989034
DLN: 26053488010071
Our organization has a "Certificate of Good Standing" with the State of Hawaii.
We also welcome donations of specific materials in "good as new" condition--For example, we are currently seeking a pottery wheel and kiln, a trampoline with a safety net, a piano and other instruments, and we always welcome feed and cross fencing for the animals, vehicles, and a number of other items.
Please email us at: lotusislandoasis@gmail.com
Help Support this mission
Your support and contributions enable us to serve victims. You can make a general donation or direct donations to a particular program of the Trauma Center. Your generous donation will be tax deductible,(EIN listed below) and you will receive a thank you gift. A single person may donate $12,500 tax exempt and a couple can donate $25,000 per year. These donations can put you in a lower tax bracket, while helping those who have been tortured.
Mahalo (thank you) gifts for your donations
We appreciate your contributions!
We appreciate your contributions!
We appreciate your contributions!
Contributions of $25 will receive a "mahalo gift" of greeting cards.
Monthly contribution of 25$-100$
We appreciate your contributions!
We appreciate your contributions!
Montly donors who contribute between $25 and $100/m can choose a "Lotus Island Oasis" high quality shirt or hoodie or a Lotus Island Oasis yoga mat as a "thank you."
CONTRIBUTIONS OF$1500 or more
We appreciate your contributions!
CONTRIBUTIONS OF$1500 or more
Donors who contribute $1500-$5000 annually may choose a complimentary dinner at Roys, Merrimans, the Fairmont Orchid, or a Hawaiian spa treatment.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF $5k or more
CONTRIBUTIONS OF $10k or more
CONTRIBUTIONS OF$1500 or more
Donors have the option to receive their choice of a private whale-watching expedition, dinner at one of the finest restaurants on the big island and/or, 4 exotic tropical floral arrangments delivered anywhere in the US, Japan, Australia, Korea or Europe.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF $10k or more
CONTRIBUTIONS OF $10k or more
CONTRIBUTIONS OF $10k or more
Donors who contribute $10k or more can choose a beautiful hand-made koa wood mirror and brush set, gourmet dinner at Roys, Merrimens or the Fairmont Orchid, a private whale watching expedition and 3 nights at the Waikola Beach Resort or Hawaii Island Retreat.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF $25k or more
CONTRIBUTIONS OF $10k or more
CONTRIBUTIONS OF $10k or more
Donors who contribute $25k or more can choose from:3 nights at Hawaii Island Retreat; 3 nights at Kona Village Resort; or 3 nights lodging at the 4 Seasons Resort in Hualalai, West Hawaii, in addition to an exotic tropical floral arrangement, shirt and yoga mat.