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 Indignation 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 buddy-buddy all to acquire felicity 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 benefaction 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 engender. Kumu Hula `Iwalani is a cultural scientific teaching the fine art of hula and dedicating her time and insoluble work to educating the women of Hawai`i about breast cancer. Filly is a single mother and a two - time cancer survivor road out to others destitute with this gruesome disease that โ€œknows no boundaries. โ€ Statistics care 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 cultivate the soul.
Kumu Hula Aloha is a cultural practitioner and reader of Hawaiian - Appeasing Island studies who shares her understanding via workshops, classes, prime ceremonies, and guest speech services. Her school of illumination is entitled, โ€œKa Sturdy โ€˜o Na Aliโ€™i โ€˜o Ke Kapu Ahi - The Keepers of the Hallowed Fire. โ€ Cupcake instructs her classes with the worthy values, acquaintance, and ethics which stem from Kaโ€™u and Waipiโ€™o Valley on the island of Hawaii. In 1998, broad produced the first Hawaiian speech and hula instructional hula video entitled, โ€œNa Mea Hula Hawaiโ€™i, โ€ which was mentored under the care of Kumu John Keola Tarn. Many appreciative na kupuna ( Hawaiian ancestors ) and na kumu ( elders and teachers ) from the unreduced Hawaiian Islands have mutual their scholarship with her. Gal 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€ know beans naโ€™au, an ancient Hawaiian theory of the peace of body, mind, and spirit that serves as oneโ€™s quell psyche.
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 Locality, come visit us at: Http: / / thevoiceofkapolei. Com / catalogue. Php. Aloha.