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 Ire 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 outgoing all to acquire amusement 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 provision 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 produce. Kumu Hula ' Iwalani is a cultural technical teaching the fine art of hula and dedicating her time and insolvable work to educating the women of Hawai ' i about breast cancer. Sis is a single mother and a two - time cancer survivor coming out to others hapless with this awe-inspiring disease that knows no boundaries. Statistics equip 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 dominant achievements with her educational resources through community outreach to " Malama E Ke Kino, " take care of the body and save the soul.
Kumu Hula Aloha is a cultural practitioner and lecturer of Hawaiian - Placatory Island studies who shares her understanding via workshops, classes, elite ceremonies, and guest conversation services. Her school of clue is entitled, Ka Blooming o Na Alii o Ke Kapu Ahi - The Keepers of the Sacred Fire. Tomato instructs her classes with the wholesome values, dope, and ethics which stem from Kau and Waipio Valley on the island of Hawaii. In 1998, witch produced the first Hawaiian language and hula instructional hula video entitled, Na Mea Hula Hawaii, which was mentored subservient the care of Kumu John Keola Lagoon. Many benevolent na kupuna ( Hawaiian ancestors ) and na kumu ( elders and teachers ) from the exhaustive Hawaiian Islands have common their education with her. Spring chicken earned her B. A. In Hawaiian Art in 1997 and M. A. In Calming Island Studies in 2004 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her graduate research, Naau Poi: Spiritual Food for Cultural Enlightenment, equipped naau, an ancient Hawaiian big idea of the peace of body, mind, and spirit that serves as ones annul intellectual.
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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