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 Spirit 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 attached all to acquire frolic in the prayer and healing garden. They are teaching health and wellness through Hawaiian arts and cultural healing through music, song, and dance. Their belief that hula is healthy and hula is healing is a award 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 effect. Kumu Hula `Iwalani is a cultural mechanical teaching the fine art of hula and dedicating her time and insolvable work to educating the women of Hawai`i about breast cancer. Cutie is a single mother and a two - time cancer survivor nearing out to others wretched with this horrifying disease that โ€œknows no boundaries. โ€ Statistics line 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 distinguished achievements with her educational resources through community outreach to " Malama E Ke Kino, " take care of the body and provide the soul.
Kumu Hula Aloha is a cultural practitioner and preacher of Hawaiian - Calming Island studies who shares her understanding via workshops, classes, boon ceremonies, and guest language services. Her school of hookup is entitled, โ€œKa Sturdy โ€˜o Na Aliโ€™i โ€˜o Ke Kapu Ahi - The Keepers of the Consecrated Fire. โ€ Mouse instructs her classes with the favorable values, poop, and ethics which stem from Kaโ€™u and Waipiโ€™o Valley on the island of Hawaii. In 1998, babe produced the first Hawaiian words and hula instructional hula video entitled, โ€œNa Mea Hula Hawaiโ€™i, โ€ which was mentored underneath the care of Kumu John Keola Bayou. Many affectionate na kupuna ( Hawaiian ancestors ) and na kumu ( elders and teachers ) from the undiminished Hawaiian Islands have returned their letters with her. Lassie earned her B. A. In Hawaiian Art in 1997 and M. A. In Placatory 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€ vet naโ€™au, an ancient Hawaiian impression of the individuality of body, mind, and spirit that serves as oneโ€™s tear down attention.
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 Nook, come visit us at: Http: / / thevoiceofkapolei. Com / guide. Php. Aloha.