The Healing Garden - A Cultural Wellness Center

The Healing Garden - A Cultural Wellness Center

' Iwalani E. R. Wahinekapu Walsh Tseu Kumu Hula of ' Iwalani ' s School of Dance and creator of the ' Iwalani Breast Cancer Foundation celebrated the 34th Anniversary Ho ' ike of ' Iwalanis School of Dance and Wrath of the newly formed Prayer and Healing Garden at Honouliuli, Ewa, along with Kumu Hula Aloha Kekoolani Simmons of Makakilo, Kapolei. Both Kumu Hula are sociable all to acquire satisfaction in the prayer and healing garden. They are teaching health and wellness through Hawaiian arts and cultural healing through tune, song, and dance. Their belief that hula is healthy and hula is healing is a allowance that they pass on to their students daily.
Their long - standing sisterhood of 25 years is the basis for their emergence together and joining forces for this worthy generate. Kumu Hula ' Iwalani is a cultural scientific teaching the fine art of hula and dedicating her time and solid work to educating the women of Hawai ' i about breast cancer. Wench is a single mother and a two - time cancer survivor approach out to others pained with this ghastly disease that knows no boundaries. Statistics administer evidence that breast cancer is highest amongst Hawaiian and Filipino women in Hawai ' i. Her foundation is committed to increasing the quality of life for those in Hawai ' i and for the rest of the world by raising breast cancer awareness. Representative Sharon Har of Kapolei recently awarded and acknowledged Kumu Hula ' Iwalani Walsh Tseu at the Capitol of the State of Hawai ' i for her important achievements with her educational resources through community outreach to " Malama E Ke Kino, " take care of the body and persevere the soul.
Kumu Hula Aloha is a cultural practitioner and preacher of Hawaiian - Peacemaking Island studies who shares her understanding via workshops, classes, peak ceremonies, and guest words services. Her school of wisdom is entitled, Ka Healthy o Na Alii o Ke Kapu Ahi - The Keepers of the Spiritual Fire. She instructs her classes with the useful values, observation, and ethics which stem from Kau and Waipio Valley on the island of Hawaii. In 1998, missy produced the first Hawaiian utterance and hula instructional hula video entitled, Na Mea Hula Hawaii, which was mentored under the care of Kumu John Keola Reservoir. Many considerate na kupuna ( Hawaiian ancestors ) and na kumu ( elders and teachers ) from the whole Hawaiian Islands have common their education with her. Wench earned her B. A. In Hawaiian Art in 1997 and M. A. In Appeasing Island Studies in 2004 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her graduate research, Naau Poi: Spiritual Food for Cultural Enlightenment, efficient naau, an ancient Hawaiian conception of the unity of body, mind, and spirit that serves as ones dispatch talent.
Naau Poi shares effective tools and skills to promote life, health, and prosperity among Hawaiians and other peoples. Kumu Aloha has held academic positions at various public and private institutions in Hawaii teaching grades kindergarten through twelve, including Kapolei High School, and the UH Community Colleges.
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