Dr. Berne’s Travel Adventure–Part 1

The Berne Podcast with Dr. Sam Berne

Keywords

Hawaii, travel, Maui, Molokai, adventure, nature, functional vision, wellness, retreats, exploration

Summary

In this episode, Sam Berne introduces his practitioners training program and membership offerings before transitioning into a personal narrative about his travels to Hawaii. He shares his experiences exploring the islands, particularly Maui and Molokai, highlighting the natural beauty, cultural significance, and personal connections he made during his adventures. The conversation emphasizes the importance of travel and exploration in personal growth and wellness.

Takeaways

The practitioners training program is open to non-eye doctors.
Traveling can provide a sense of spiritual home.
Hawaii offers diverse experiences from ocean to lava.
Maui is known for its breathtaking landscapes and waterfalls.
Molokai has a rich history and is less commercialized.
Camping and hiking in Hawaii can be transformative experiences.
Exploring different cultures enhances personal growth.
Traveling allows for a deeper connection with nature.
The importance of sharing personal stories and experiences.
Creating a library of knowledge can benefit others.

Sound Bites

“I want to talk a little bit about travel.”
“Hawaii felt like home to me.”
“Molokai is a very interesting Island.”
Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Program Announcements
02:23 Exploring the Beauty of Hawaii
03:12 Adventures in Maui and Molokai

Sam Berne (00:00)
Hey everyone, welcome to the program today. So before we get into the main part, I want to make a few announcements. First of all, I am offering a practitioners training program and these are for non eye doctors. This is a program which is called functional vision integrative body and it’s a one-year program where I teach you the methods that I have developed.

in physical therapy, educating your clients on how to improve their vision, their brain health, their body health from a physical, emotional and spiritual perspective. So if you’re interested in this program, and by the way, you don’t need to be an eye doctor. The way I’ve set up this program is you could be a massage therapist, a teacher, an occupational therapist, a psychologist, whatever. And

program is geared as an educational coaching program so you won’t get in any trouble from any licensing boards but the information will be very effective in working with your clients. So if you’re interested you can go to my website DrSanBurn.com you can email me appointments at DrSanBurn.com and we can have a conversation and see if it’s right for you.

The other thing is is I want to tell you about my membership program. We’re on year number three. I have got so much exclusive content in there. I’ve got different courses that I’ve taught and different ideas that I don’t want to put on social media a little too controversial but in the membership program or protected with confidentiality. Also, I’m now putting up some of my written blogs that I’ve done over the years. It’s really good stuff.

stuff and I post three or four times a week just on the membership. So it’s 20 bucks a month. You have a seven-day free trial period. If you want to sign up, you can go to my homepage, dr. Sanburn.com under the word vision. You’ll see join membership and you can join for free and check it out and see if it’s for you. All right. So in today’s show, I’m not going to talk about eyes.

In fact, you know what was interesting? I was having breakfast with a friend the other day and at the end of our conversation, she said, you know, I have a friend who’s got this condition called macular pucker. Have you ever heard of it? And I said, well, yes, I’ve worked with it a lot.

And if you go to my YouTube channel and you type in macular pucker, Dr. Byrne, you’re probably going to get several free video blogs on macular pucker. He’s like, my goodness, you are the best, you know, that you have created this library, this archive.

of eye conditions and you know I can’t say that I’ve created a video for every single eye condition but over the last seven years I have put together so many

content pieces both in podcast form audio video written that it’s time for me to Broaden out a little bit and talk about some of my other interests and this may or may not be interesting to you but I want to talk a little bit about travel because I love travel and Some of the other things that I also am into I may do a podcast on it. So today I want to talk about Traveling to Hawaii. I don’t know how many people out there it

in my community have been to Hawaii. know many of you have come to my dolphin swim retreats, my other retreats in Hawaii. So I want to talk a little bit about why I like Hawaii, some of the tips you can do if you travel there. My first entree in going to Hawaii was back in January of 1990, a few years ago. And I’d sold my Pennsylvania practice. I put all my stuff in my car, which wasn’t very much. I had an old Toyota Corolla

barely could get across the country. I have a lot of money. And so I dropped my stuff off at this apartment that I rented in Santa Fe and I had signed up to meet a group out in Hawaii. I’d never been to Hawaii. In fact, I had hardly ever been to the West Coast and it was a month long.

backpacking trip. I had never done backpacking throughout all the islands of Hawaii. Now, this is back in 1990 before there’s been this tourist explosion where it’s kind of become Disneyland in a lot of ways these big resorts and you know, these big groups and so on. So I landed I remember landing in Maui and my tour leader who’s a woman very nice lady.

She picked me up and I had all my, you know, my camping stuff and my backpack and I met up with the group and we drove up to Holly Ocola. Holly Ocola is this big crater in Maui and you can actually, you can camp up at the top and you can watch the sunrise. So you’re actually above the clouds and it was such an amazing experience. I mean, coming from

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, the East Coast and Hawaii felt like home to me. I mean, so did Santa Fe, but Hawaii in a different way felt home. It’s kind of like a spiritual home. Well, anyways, the next day we we packed up our stuff and they had a van and they took our van like 14 miles away. We walked through the crater of Haleakala, which I highly recommend even if you just walk down in it in Maui. It’s kind of an otherworldly type of place.

But we did this 14 mile hike and we went through these lava tubes and which is another amazing thing like like caves. I mean, there’s just so many different ways to experience Hawaii from the ocean to the lava to the Hawaiian culture and so many other things. So in Maui, we we spent time at Haleakala. Then we went to a small town where we took this winding

road to a place called Hana. And Hana is a small town. I don’t know if it is anymore. And there’s a wonderful hike there that you can do and go to waterfalls. So synonymous with Hawaii is waterfalls, know, just so many of them. And so we spent about 10 days in Maui and we had a great time. And then we took a plane and we went to Molokai.

Molokai is a very interesting Island again at the time. It was very uninhabited. Now. I understand there’s a lot of eco tourism there and we went to the Father Damien Church. was a settlement in Molokai where people suffered leprosy and so they were all in this community and I remember we were

top of this Vista and we had to do this really long switchback hike down into the settlement area and there are still people living there who had had leprosy and we took up this school bus through the lava fields and we got to the church that Father Damien led for these people.

So in visiting Father Damien’s church in the backyard, the backside of the church outside, you could look out to the ocean. Then there was this big stone rock in the middle of the ocean and there were white caps out there and it was so serene and peaceful to be there. Now, Malachi is, you know, it’s it’s a fairly uninhabited Island again today. It has definitely been discovered, but it’s still worth going to because

is it’s pretty old Hawaiian in a lot of ways and we just had the greatest time camping and hiking in Malachi because it was pretty rough and tumble.

Well, that’s our show for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in and until next time everyone take good care.