User:Makana Chai

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Aloha kakou.

I'm in Hawai'i and passionate about Hawaiian culture and traditions. I edited two books on lomilomi, one of oral histories from native healers from 1779 to now. Published by the Bishop Museum it's called Na Mo'olelo Lomilomi: The Traditions of Hawaiian Massage & Healing. The second is Hawaiian Massage Lomilomi: sacred touch of aloha and is a gift book with pictures of lomi kumu and inspirational quotes. I also co-wrote a chapter on lomilomi in a book due out soon, Massage Modalities by Elsevier Press.

Right now I am finishing up two books. One is in review, The Truth about Huna: How Much is Hawaiian? The other I'm still researching on the origins of ho'oponopono. (Guess what - we can't find any evidence of the word ho'oponopono as family conference of forgiveness before 1863. Research continues.)

After that, I have promised myself to write a book on what I speak on to conventions that come to Hawai'i, Hawaiian Ways of Life Balance.

I have a lomilomi blog here [1] but post more to WP than I do to my own blog.

I see my kuleana or responsibility as trolling WP Hawaiiana looking for what Zora used to call the woo-woo stuff and getting it out of here. I miss Zora!

Makana