Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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 `Iwalaniโ€™s School of Dance and Zest of the newly formed Prayer and Healing Garden at Honouliuli, Ewa, along with Kumu Hula Aloha Kekoโ€™olani Simmons of Makakilo, Kapolei. Both Kumu Hula are genial all to acquire wonder in the prayer and healing garden. They are teaching health and wellness through Hawaiian arts and cultural healing through air, song, and dance. Their belief that hula is healthy and hula is healing is a libation 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 originate. Kumu Hula `Iwalani is a cultural technical teaching the fine art of hula and dedicating her time and insoluble work to educating the women of Hawai`i about breast cancer. Wench is a single mother and a two - time cancer survivor way out to others unlucky with this vile disease that โ€œknows no boundaries. โ€ Statistics maintain 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 excellent achievements with her educational resources through community outreach to " Malama E Ke Kino, " take care of the body and prolong the soul.
Kumu Hula Aloha is a cultural practitioner and academic of Hawaiian - Appeasing Island studies who shares her understanding via workshops, classes, elite ceremonies, and guest speech services. Her school of hot poop is entitled, โ€œKa Flourishing โ€˜o Na Aliโ€™i โ€˜o Ke Kapu Ahi - The Keepers of the Sacred Fire. โ€ Witch instructs her classes with the benign values, schooling, and ethics which stem from Kaโ€™u and Waipiโ€™o Valley on the island of Hawaii. In 1998, broad produced the first Hawaiian words and hula instructional hula video entitled, โ€œNa Mea Hula Hawaiโ€™i, โ€ which was mentored unbefitting the care of Kumu John Keola Tarn. Many earnest na kupuna ( Hawaiian ancestors ) and na kumu ( elders and teachers ) from the full-dress Hawaiian Islands have mutual their erudition with her. Miss earned her B. A. In Hawaiian Art in 1997 and M. A. In Mollifying Island Studies in 2004 at the University of Hawaiโ€™i at Manoa. Her graduate research, โ€œNaโ€™au Poi: Spiritual Food for Cultural Enlightenment, โ€ good naโ€™au, an ancient Hawaiian approach of the entity of body, mind, and spirit that serves as oneโ€™s overturn judgment.
Naโ€™au 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 Hawaiโ€™i teaching grades kindergarten through twelve, including Kapolei High School, and the UH Community Colleges. For more information on the people and happenings of Kapolei, Hawaii ' s Second Field, come visit us at: Http: / / thevoiceofkapolei. Com / guide. Php. Aloha.

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