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Hui Lanakila O Ka Hana Pono
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- My Conscious Art:
- Through the years, I experienced and continue to experience different types of work, play and learning situations in pursuit of refining more effective ways of expressing my voice and my spirit.
When I am not at work, I run my healing church, Hui Lanakila O Ka Hana Pono, and teach energy working modalities like Reiki, Hawaiian homeopathic herbology and crystalwork. My ministry propagates the Hawaiian spiritual paradigm called Ka Hana Pono, a philosophy that is the daily practice of maintaining balance through compassionate living. I go out into my community daily and aid people unbalanced and “dis-eased” by depression and self-image issues through counseling and alternative therapies. As an ordained minister, I also perform many ministerial duties, such as house blessings, commitment ceremonies, weddings and burial rites.
When I have an hour or two of quiet time in the early or late evenings, weather permitting, I enjoy sitting outside on my lanai playing ki ho’alu (Hawaiian slack key) tunes on my guitar. The acoustics created between my house and the neighbor’s tall trees become the relaxing backdrop for a wonderfully rejuvenating, soulful experience, especially when there are gentle trade winds blowing through our hillside. Those are the moments I am filled with gratitude for the things I have accomplished thus far in life.
I always believed I could be a great storyteller. I got a second glance at writing when I took up live-action improvisational roleplay gaming as a hobby. Actually, it was an activity that allowed me to hone my creative writing ability as well as my extemporaneous speech, because scene development and character dialogue could be continued via email between live performances. The character interactions I wrote about entertained and inspired my storytellers and fellow players so much that they eventually made me a storyteller. I found the activity satisfied my need to write and, best of all, I enjoyed it immensely. Now, I am at a point in my life where I have the time to fit in more opportunities for nurturing creativity in my life. I want to make the most of this moment. Wela ka hao … strike while the iron’s hot!
I hope to be able to write a series of children’s short stories centered around each of the 50 key aspects of Ka Hana Pono as a way of introducing the Hawaiian spiritual paradigm that is the Aloha Spirit to American children as a cross-culturally enriching experience. I also hope to someday write a series of children’s magazine articles about the various aspects of the Aloha Spirit, which includes the definition of aloha. I believe writing children’s stories will compliment my vocational plans, my teaching goals and assist me to obtain a degree of financial security. It would be lovely to finally pay off my student loans and maybe even relocate home to Hawai’i. In these ways, I fulfill my goal to propagate the beautiful oral history of the Hawaiian people and their spiritual connection to the land that sustained them, Hawai’i nei, through the retelling of all the stories my Ohana and my teachers told me so many years ago. I want all these dreams to become my real-time island of paradise.
I hope you enjoyed reading about some of my "flights" as a Hawaiian sea tern flying over the waters of life. I am excited about this new space and look forward to growing with you. Ho’omakaukau. I am ready. So, as we say in da Islands, until the next time, or …
A hui hou,
Lana
- My Main Website:
- http://www.nuimana.com
- My Favorite Conscious Artists (Here or Elsewhere):
- His Holiness, the XIV Dalai Lama of the Exiled Country of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso; Na Kupuna o Halau Ho'ola of the Big Island of Hawai'i; Hi'iakaikapoliopele e Pelehonuamea.
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