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To Papa Henry & Mona Kahele: kumu and kupuna ... and
to all my Hawaiian teachers
Auf Deutsch .
Po Polsku .
Hrvatski . Hawaiian Spirituality
. Hawaiian Shamanism
'Oi kau ka lau, e hana i ola honua
Live your life while the sun still shines
Let's start with a Hawaiian perspective that
illness reflects a lack of balance between pono (living right) and
mana (life energy). Imbalances between pono and mana can result from unjust
acts, limiting beliefs, displeasing your living and dead ancestors, obsessions, etc. Disease
reflects unhealthy relationships
and true healing requires healthy relationships and healthy food.
Aunty Mona Kahele was the grand-daughter
of a Hawaiian kahuna and grew up near Kealakekua Bay on Hawaii. She was cousin to
Aunty Margaret Machado, from whom I learned Hawaiian lomilomi massage, and
hanai mother to my friends Chet and Suzanne Kamaluhia Woolley.
(Chet and Suzanne operate the Hale Ho'ola
health spa near Hawaii Volcanoes Park.)
Aunty Mona lived a very active life as a social
worker, and was honored by the governor of Hawaii for her work. (She gave me the
task and pleasure of
integrating many of her comments and handwritten notes about
ho'oponopono into a useful document for her students.)
Aunty Mona helped me develop my knowledge of
ho'oponopono gained from other teachers, and
guided me as I integrated hooponopono with the information about working
with dead spirits from Uncle John Kaimikaua of
Moloka'i, with the angel work (awaiku) of Aunty Miriam
Baker and with the methods of couple coaching and family therapy that I had
learned from family therapist
Annegret Hallanzy in
Germany. This strange brew became a basis for my Soulwork systemic coaching.
Aunty Mona wrote the book
Clouds of Memories,
a personal account of life in South Kona from the 1930s to the 1990s. Her
hanai (adopted) daughter Suzanne Kamaluhia Woolley continues Aunty Mona's
healing traditions at the
Hale Ho'õla
health spa in Ka'u.
What is Hawaiian Healing?
He loli 'ole ke alo a'e, he paio koho -
(Change is
inevitable, struggle is optional)
Huna is a Hawaiian word for hidden or tiny thing,
a word popularized by
Max Freedom Long to refer to the philosophy and skills used by pre-Christian
Hawaiians, particularly the mystics and healers, although no accepted Hawaiian
sources refer to the word huna as any tradition of esoteric learning.
Max Long wrote that he derived huna from the word
kahuna, a priest or master craftsman, although kahu
means keeper and na means balance. An older Hawaiian word for magic is
ho'omanamana, literally "creating life force".
'Ohana - Community
'Ohana is a Hawaiian word for community,
which were often remote villages. The old Hawaiians developed healing
techniques and their rituals for the health and harmony
of 'ohana. Here I attempt to describe 'ohana life. But first ...
slow down ... relax, take a deep breath ... imagine an older time ...
on a tropical island ... back in time ... to a small Hawaiian village ...
... where we
live together in a small community surrounded by a mysterious world and an
endless sea. We have known each other since birth, and most of us are
related. We believe we are descended from the same gods. We know the best
qualities of every person in our 'ohana, and we know their problems.
Our
highest goal is that we live in harmony. Our basic wisdom includes aloha,
pono and kala. Aloha literally means, "we share breath" - and we share most
things. Aloha is our guiding principle for living together in harmony. Aloha
includes that we accept and acknowledge each person in our community. Pono
(living right) and forgiveness (kala) are also important parts of our daily life.
We recognize and thank our ancestors (kupuna),
our gods (akua) and our guardian spirits (aumakua) for all
that we enjoy. We each have a guardian spirit and each personal spirit is
part of our 'ohana guardian spirit (po'e
aumakua) that guides our community. Sometimes we ask our ancestors or
guardian spirits for help, and they often visit us in dreams.
Our wise elders (kupuna) and experts (kahuna)
help and guide us. We want harmony amongst ourselves, with nature, with other
tribes and with the strange spirit worlds. Our chiefs (ali'i)
are our wisest and bravest warriors; they provide stability and order
within the daily life of our 'ohana.
Our
daily life is our religion; and we use many rituals to guide and help
ourselves. We are careful not to offend spirits; instead we try to please
them. Our elders help us by telling us what is right and what is forbidden
(kapu). We need life-energy (mana)
for all our actions. We create this life-energy (ho'omana) by living right.
We use old rituals to create our highest energy (ho'omanamana)
for special tasks of healing and power, with the guidance of our kupuna elders
and kahuna experts.
We respect our elders as the keepers of our wisdom and
as the teachers of our children. Our elders teach us the songs and chants
(mele) of our wisdom, and we must carefully learn them. Our elders
may choose children with special talents to be trained to become kahuna
- experts.
We
make our essentials, or we trade for them, and we build canoes and buildings
together. We often hunt and work together, and we can communicate well
without words. We are sensitive to details and know who has been in a
place, or whether strangers have passed by. Our navigator-kahunas
know every star and every current. On cloudy nights, away from land, they
can navigate by tasting the seawater!
Disease shows imbalance in our ohana.
Perhaps the diseased person has offended a family member, or an ancestor,
or a spirit. We call illnesses caused by relationships mawaho
while diseases caused by body imbalances are maloko. Mawaho
illnesses require
ho'oponopono with the living and the
dead, while maloko disease require herbal remedies (la’au
lapa’au) and massage (lomilomi). Both
may need the huna knowledge (ho'omanamana and
awaiku) of our healer-experts.
Our
chants teach us our traditions. We chant to the goddess (Pele)
in the volcano, and her lover (Kamapua’a) in the forests. Pele’s
sisters, Hi’iaka teach us to dance (hula) and to heal
many diseases. The high god (Kane) lives in the clouds, with wild Ku,
civilized Lono and the god of the underworld (Kanaloa). There
are four hundred thousand gods, we are told, all created by the first god,
I’o.
We believe that Lono left and our kahuna-experts say
that he will return, on a floating island with white trees. We await this eagerly,
as Lono will bring us gifts. We thought that he returned once, but
that was a haole man who died at Kealakekua Bay, near the
village now called Captain Cook. We wait for Lono the god.
We need to be accepted and respected by other 'ohana members. If
we invite you into our 'ohana, we have simple rules: Do not insult anybody - instead,
respect our traditions. Do not violate our taboos - instead join us in our
rituals. Do not make the ancestors or nature spirits angry - instead work with
us in harmony, to keep balance with our ancestors, with local spirits, with
nature and with each other.
You are so civilized, and to you we may be ignorant savages.
You might call our traditions witchcraft. However, we
can show you how to live in peace with yourself, how to live in harmony with each
other and how to find your place in this world. We can teach you how to connect
to nature and the universe.
There are few of us left; most of us have been lost to
the diseases of mind, body and spirit that you call civilization. We are
exhausted - and we are nearly extinct. This is
sad, because our planet needs our love and our respect.
Do you believe that your life purpose is to save us from our
ignorance of your ways? We who yet remain struggle to
survive in remote places that you do not want ... yet. And when we are gone - we
will be gone forever. Can you help us come back?
Our heritage is harmony and balance. Your heritage is
technology and information. Will you help us work with you, to make a
technology that reflects a love of life, and information that helps us love
this living planet? We can learn how to live together
and create a global 'ohana. Too soon it will be too late.
Mahalo a nui loa (great thanks) for your great
gift of attention. A hui hou!
'Amama ua noa lele wale
The taboo is over, may my words fly free
Hawaiian Spirituality
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Ho'oponopono .
Healing and Ohana .
Kumulipo .
Soulwork
Will you join us under the trees by
Kealakekua Bay? Will you walk with us into the craters in Volcano Park? Or will
you bring us to you? We teach Hawaiian shamanism under the name of Huna Kalani ...
and we integrated parts of it into our systemic coaching.
Consider joining us in Hawaii. Our classrooms are the
beaches, forests and volcanoes - bring strong walking shoes. We can help you
make Hawaii a budget journey of a lifetime. Come stay in South Kona and
visit the most beautiful, most sacred (and most haunted) places on Big Island.
Awaiku .
Hale Ho'õla
. Hawaiian Shamanism
We offer experiential introductions to Hawaiian shamanism. Experience
its beauty and power in our workshops that can expand your perception of reality. Hawaiian magic
refers to a technology that few understand. Within this old magic are some
of the roots of the systemic magic of Soulwork coaching.
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Bringing Down the Sun: Ho'oponopono
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Elements of Nature: Honua, Ha, Ahi & Wai |
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Dreamtime: Ho'omoe, Moe Uhane & Expanded Consciousness |
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