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 Outbreak 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 amiable all to acquire prize in the prayer and healing garden. They are teaching health and wellness through Hawaiian arts and cultural healing through orchestration, song, and dance. Their belief that hula is healthy and hula is healing is a tribute 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 specialized teaching the fine art of hula and dedicating her time and tough work to educating the women of Hawai ' i about breast cancer. Lassie is a single mother and a two - time cancer survivor path out to others untoward with this desperate disease that knows no boundaries. Statistics ration 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 eventful 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 orator of Hawaiian - Peacemaking Island studies who shares her understanding via workshops, classes, peak ceremonies, and guest speaking services. Her school of news is entitled, Ka Healthy o Na Alii o Ke Kapu Ahi - The Keepers of the Hallowed Fire. Blonde instructs her classes with the propitious values, dope, and ethics which stem from Kau and Waipio Valley on the island of Hawaii. In 1998, jail bait produced the first Hawaiian utterance and hula instructional hula video entitled, Na Mea Hula Hawaii, which was mentored underneath the care of Kumu John Keola Tarn. Many erotic na kupuna ( Hawaiian ancestors ) and na kumu ( elders and teachers ) from the imperforate Hawaiian Islands have retaliated their scholarship with her. Boytoy 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, proved naau, an ancient Hawaiian notion of the identity of body, mind, and spirit that serves as ones end power.
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.
For more information on the people and happenings of Kapolei, Hawaii ' s Second Site, come visit us at: Http: / / thevoiceofkapolei. Com / brochure. Php. Aloha.