Ho'omana Lomilomi Training

Legends are often rooted in true events. In South Africa, a Zulu elder once told me: "We know Maui. We call him Mauwela the one who crosses over to ocean.

He came from Libya — a great warrior and navigator who pulled the islands from the sea." It's a story told across Polynesia — and it's really about wayfinding.

Look up at night and you'll see Manaiakalani, the fishhook-shaped constellation (Scorpius).

Voyaging by the stars, the first thing you'd see approaching land is the tip of a mountain rising from the horizon — that's the legend, in real life.

Hoʻomana is a living classroom — ancient healing, sacred sites, ho'oponopono passed down through oral tradition. Storytelling is how we remember. ✨

Our Fall Mastership starts October 16. Comment "MAUI" and we'll send you the info. 🐟🪝

You are responsible for your Bowl of Light.

There comes a moment when we remember that we don’t have to live according to the judgement of others.

When we are aligned with our true spirit — with what feels pure, true and pono for us — we can choose to step forward.

Beyond the fear.
Beyond the overwhelm.
Beyond worrying about what others might think.

And sometimes, when we do, a whole new world opens in front of us — one we simply couldn’t see while everything was clouded by fear and judgement.

This is part of the wisdom within the parable of the Bowl of Light.

Your bowl is yours to tend.

No matter what has happened or what has been placed within it along the way, you have the responsibility — and the power — to care for it, tend to it and clear what no longer belongs.

So that your light can shine through again.

✨ What stones are you carrying in your Bowl of Light right now and are ready to release?

Let us know in the comments.
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Ho'omana Lomi Lomi Comes to the Mainland

Have you been wanting to learn lomi lomi?

Maybe it's been on your dreamboard since a short course in massage school. Maybe you saw that flowing, forearm stroke on YouTube and pictured yourself becoming part of this ancient rhythm. Maybe you've always wanted to learn Hawaiian culture and practice, but haven't had the time or resources to travel all the way across the Pacific.

I have good news for you.

This December, I'm bringing lomi lomi to the mainland. December 6–12, I'll be in Utah to share Hawaiian lomi lomi fundamentals and lomi ʻiliʻili — hot stone therapy.

You'll learn a full-body technique. The history of lomi lomi, and the lineage of elders who carried this work forward before us. Hoʻoponopono for healers. And how to administer a full lomi lomi sequence using heated lava stones — to melt tension, address injury, and restore circulation to the body.

Why hot stones? They transform and transmute energy. The heat penetrates into the tissue and lets you go deeper than a client could normally tolerate — offering a different pathway to interrupt the pain cycle keeping those muscles in spasm. The stone becomes an extension of your hands. And because our bodies carry the same mineral substance as the earth, people often feel safer receiving from a stone than they do from hands alone — it opens the door for them to release what they've been carrying.

Come learn with us. Join us in Utah. 🌺🔥

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Where your thoughts go, your energy flows.

How often do we give our mana to the very thing we don’t want?

We replay the hurt.
We repeat the story.
We tell ourselves what went wrong, what was done to us, why we can’t move forward.

And each time we return to that story, we give it more of our attention. More of our energy. More of our mana.

As Auntie Mahi taught:

Where your thoughts go, energy flows.

This isn’t about denying what happened or pretending difficult experiences don’t matter.

It’s about remembering that your pain is not the entirety of who you are.

There is also your light.
Your strength.
Your possibility.
Your power.

And when you reconnect with that, you get to choose where your mana flows next.

✨ What are you ready to stop feeding with your energy?

Let us know in the comments

What are you carrying that is keeping you from moving forward?

In this teaching, Kumu Jeana shares a practice of looking into your Bowl of Light and noticing what is still there — past experiences, unresolved emotions, old stories, or even burdens we have picked up for the people we love.

Sometimes, in our desire to help, we take on someone else’s “stone.” But carrying their suffering doesn’t necessarily lighten their load. Now there are simply two people carrying the weight.

And the more we retell a painful story, give it our energy and connect others to it, the heavier that stone can become.

Through the Hawaiian practice of Hoʻoponopono ʻAi, we are invited to look honestly at what we are carrying and ask:

✨ Does this still belong in my Bowl of Light?
✨ Does it resonate with who I am becoming?
✨ Is it mine to carry at all?
✨ What am I ready to release?

With the support of Spirit, the elements, our guides and ancestors, we can begin to lift those stones from the bowl — creating space for our own light to expand again.

As the weight leaves, the light has somewhere to go.

And that light can begin illuminating the path ahead.

What you may be ready to release? Let us know in the comments