Here you’ll find a form for letting go the tightness that comes with tackling life and training at your endeavors as runners, paddlers, parents, people, go getters, and givers.    This is a style for surfers, yogis, executives, guards, medics, teachers, technicians, tradesmen, students, presidents,…all people.  Everyone needs a getaway, a recalibration, a time out for self and some real inspiration.

No matter how stoic, stable, strong or separate you may be…Never ever underestimate the precious renewing power of  genuine caring touch.  The involvement of a balanced, bright, trusted other person holding strong and present while you let go what you no longer need to hold onto is Gold in your hands and priceless as paradise lands.

This is how you move happy into more for you immediately.

The Hawaiian Islands have the sun shining down on them and the heat of lava that they lay on…vivacious volcanic activity, fragrant flowers, white sandy surrendering beaches, passionate waters and aloha spirit flows in abundance all around Hawaii.  The ancient arts of hawaiian bodywork whispers all these words to you so your body and mind sink with soothing respite into a natural bliss of being.  Lomilomi massage whisks you away on the winds to warm islands and unwinds tiredness, aches, over thinking, tension and too much worry.

You may sigh, this just sounds like Spa sweet talk..well try this long time traditional bodywork for yourself.  Hawaiian Lomilomi by it’s very nature embodies Hawaii and is born of it’s essence.  Lomilomi simply means massage in hawaiian and it’s whole body long lovely luxurious strokes perhaps make it stand out from other styles such as Swedish or Thai.  The body is soothed silky with oil, typically, so that the massaging movements may dance with and along the body.  The rhythms of the Ocean and her healing motion of lulling and enveloping circularity are the opening expansiveness of tropical ocean energized movement and so makes this massage powerful, peaceful, and delightful.

As I began my career as a bodyworker in dance professional training and performance, I came to understand and integrate the teachings of my Kumus (those who hold and share the ancestral knowledge of the hawaiian healing arts) as a dancer does.

I aim to expressly become the song of Hawaii in my work.

I study the traditional techniques of Lomilomi along with understanding the hawaiian healing system, hawaiian language, and the holistic sacred art that is the heart of this aloha medicine tradition.   I am trained in Kahu Abraham Kawai’i Kahuna’s Lomi Ka’elele or Temple Style Lomi lineage as well as “Big Island Lomi”: a lineage passed through Auntie Margaret to Kahuna Harry Uhane Jim containing his current teachings of Ho’oponopono and po’o.  I work respectfully with the ancestral knowledge that is shared with me.  I have deep and growing reverence of hawaiian kahunas and I of course bring my poet Celtic healing arts ancestry  and my westcoast Canadiana Diana into the roots and life of everything I am today.

You needn’t be shy to try this new massage style and experience a relaxation and nurturance that is cellular deep and pure with all due respect to a physical therapy clinical approach.  This is like Yoga is to stretching.  The peaceful atmosphere, the breath engaged for true tension release and the reminders that you are heart and soul as well as mind and body.  Would you shy away if offered a trip to Hawaii?!..all comforts included, your hand held as you leave cold, damp, windy winter greys and go to the warmth and colour, fragrance and generosity of Hawaiian islands?  Why settle for a so-so day if you can feel fantastic hey?

Come experience a lomilomi and let go to a lighter body that is re-aligned and at balanced peace, thus energized.