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Aloha kakou (greetings all!),
Welcome especially to all the new people who have just joined. I've been "away" from Tribe lately, and so am far behind!
I just got back from a very busy, very fruitful visit to Honolulu. I went for a conference on teen sexuality, and to do some research at the Bishop Museum. I also swam every day, saw Sonny Ching's halau perform, ate at a homeless shelter, went to a Native Hawaiian poetry reading, and visited some of the more obscure sacred and/or cultural sites around the Nu'uanu area. I also had an encounter with the oddest baby crustacean I've ever imagined. It was almost like an "aumakua" encounter. The thing looked like a cranberry with eyes, and had little tail, claws, feet that folded into itself.
As part of my research -- purely by chance, I found that the gesture I am making in my new icon (from a student hula performance I did) -- with the hands tipped almost like a roof line -- was actually the gesture that used to be made to create a "temple" when there was no time to build one of stones. It's rather interesting to me that I felt the need last month to focus on this gesture, along with creating a new Tribe name.
I think that what is really moving many of us right now is this notion of creating sacred space where we can come together.
So experiment with this gesture, energetically. What happens when you make it? What do you feel inside? Can you bring a conscious feeling of sacredness to your life, in that moment, when you do it? I'm going to try this anyhow, and see what happens!
In addition, I picked up a new book on Ho'oponopono. It's called "Ho'oponopono -- Traditional Ways of Healing to Make Thngs Right Again" by Malcom Naea Chun, as part of the Ka Wana Series from the Curriculum Research & Development Group, University of Hawai'i.
I got it at the Bishop Museum, but Native Books Hawai'i probably has it, or you may be able to order from the Bishop Museum. Try see!
There is a lot of "buzz" out there, right now, about this process and I'd like to help bring clarity and share thoughts on this topic, for whoever is interested.
Warm aloha,
Amy Waihili aka Hunakai
Welcome especially to all the new people who have just joined. I've been "away" from Tribe lately, and so am far behind!
I just got back from a very busy, very fruitful visit to Honolulu. I went for a conference on teen sexuality, and to do some research at the Bishop Museum. I also swam every day, saw Sonny Ching's halau perform, ate at a homeless shelter, went to a Native Hawaiian poetry reading, and visited some of the more obscure sacred and/or cultural sites around the Nu'uanu area. I also had an encounter with the oddest baby crustacean I've ever imagined. It was almost like an "aumakua" encounter. The thing looked like a cranberry with eyes, and had little tail, claws, feet that folded into itself.
As part of my research -- purely by chance, I found that the gesture I am making in my new icon (from a student hula performance I did) -- with the hands tipped almost like a roof line -- was actually the gesture that used to be made to create a "temple" when there was no time to build one of stones. It's rather interesting to me that I felt the need last month to focus on this gesture, along with creating a new Tribe name.
I think that what is really moving many of us right now is this notion of creating sacred space where we can come together.
So experiment with this gesture, energetically. What happens when you make it? What do you feel inside? Can you bring a conscious feeling of sacredness to your life, in that moment, when you do it? I'm going to try this anyhow, and see what happens!
In addition, I picked up a new book on Ho'oponopono. It's called "Ho'oponopono -- Traditional Ways of Healing to Make Thngs Right Again" by Malcom Naea Chun, as part of the Ka Wana Series from the Curriculum Research & Development Group, University of Hawai'i.
I got it at the Bishop Museum, but Native Books Hawai'i probably has it, or you may be able to order from the Bishop Museum. Try see!
There is a lot of "buzz" out there, right now, about this process and I'd like to help bring clarity and share thoughts on this topic, for whoever is interested.
Warm aloha,
Amy Waihili aka Hunakai
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