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In
April 2006, Dr. Maka 'ala
Yates
DC. came
to Heartspire to lead us on our first 4 day Hawaiian Salt Water
Fast/Cleanse. Maka'ala's encouragement to do seasonal fasts has
allowed us to complete 6 fasts since then. I have benefited
deeply in my health and well-being through this restful
cleansing process of attending to my body and soul.
Cleansing, exercise, nutritious food, and mindful portion size
has assisted me to maintain my weight release for a year now.
Wow, I feel great! We will be opening our fasts to more
people in December 2007. We hope you'll consider trying
one.
Congratulations will be due to Barbara Helynn Heard, LMP in
November when she graduates into teaching Level One Clinical
Lomilomi through Dr. Maka'ala Yates D.C., Hawaiian Healing
Academy HHA. Look for her first class in December at
Ashmead campus in Seattle. She has
one spot open in this class; she'll offer it again in 2008.
Barbara
has created a new two day Ho'oponopono workshop. We will be
hosting it at Heartspire in
Olympia, and she'll be
teaching it in
Seattle as well.
We are thrilled at Barbara's hard work and success in stepping
out on her own under the umbrella of Heartspire and HHA.
February 14 - 21, 2008, Leonie Wolff RN, LMP and Julia Van
Paepeghem BA, RC's are offering - The Kauai Retreat -
Embracing Women's Wisdom. They have asked me to come and
be a part of the experience by offering lomilomi massage to the
participants. This week long workshop offers 8.5 contact
hours to nurses, 16 CEU's to LMP's, and the opportunity to
do SoulCollage* for everyone else. For more info. see
www.embracingwisdom.com or
call (360)269-3050.
I
hope this newsletter finds all of you well and happy on your
journeys. Please consider joining us for one or more of
our upcoming offering and bless us with your presence in the
year ahead. Enjoy our Fall Newsletter.
Malama pono (take good care),
Kim Hartley
HIGHLIGHTED HEARTSPIRE STUDENT: Jeni Suess
We first met Jeni about ten years ago when, shortly
after graduating from
Seattle Massage School she took one of the
first lomilomi classes we offered at our Heartspire location in
Olympia. Since
then Jeni has sought out every opportunity to continue studying
with us. Several years ago she arranged for us to teach
lomilomi to the massage staff at the Washington Athletic Club
where she worked.
Jeni delights us by steadily developing her lomilomi
skills, as well as by sharing with us her blossoming inner joy
and self confidence. Two special gifts Jeni brings to our
classes and to our lives are her smile and her drawings which
express with childlike exuberance the essence of joy and love.
Studying at Heartspire is helping Jeni to fine tune her ability
to 'listen to the tissue' and strengthen her ability to help
people heal in specific ways. We also appreciate how
Jeni weaves the spiritual gifts of prayer, love, gratitude and
forgiveness into her massage as she opens for Spirit to flow
through her. Jeni has also been a teacher for us:
she helps us to develop both our program and our teaching skills
by her faithful, long term participation in our classes.
Jeni has participated in many of our weekend workshops,
our Ka 'Imi Pono class, a cleanse, and has even come for a
series of private tutoring sessions. She is currently
participating in the Overview of Lomilomi class, a class for
beginning massage students we are teaching as part of the
licensing program at the Northwest School of Massage.
Jeni's joining this particular class is remarkable for the way
it demonstrates not only her commitment and determination to
learning lomilomi, but also her humility. Our first
lomilomi teacher, Shawn LaSala Kimmel, reminded us to approach
each workshop with the open mind of a beginner, regardless of
our previous experience. Jeni does just this.
Here is a message to us all from Jeni: "Lomi Lomi
for me is about love, joy, ease and breath. Loving myself
and my clients. Finding joy in my gifts and helping others
through my touch. Choosing ease in my mind, body and
spirit. Always coming back to "I choose ease" when I find
myself in situations where I am far from it. And of course
breath. Being aware of my breathing in everything I do.
These are all lessons that I've learned form my wonderful
teachers at Heartspire. Mahalo to Kim, Jim and Barbara
Helynn for their gifts and their continued love and support."
A HAWAIIAN
VALUE: HA'AHA'A
Humility: respect for self and others,
giving and receiving with the heart
Ha'aha'a, the value of humility, teaches us to be humble,
modest, and open-minded and also to be willing to let go, to
change, to allow the outcome to be different from expectation.
When we are humble, our confidence in ourselves allows us to
accept others. Being humble allows us to continue to learn and
improve.
Stand
beside the ocean and feel the rhythm of the waves. Listen
to sounds of quiet in the forest. Taste the sweetness of a
fresh, ripe mango. Look into skies on a dark, starlit
night. Do you feel wonder? What an amazingly vast and mysterious
universe we live in. When we both realize that we are surrounded
by forces much greater than ourselves, and also recognize
ourselves as one part of the whole of divine creation, we begin
to embody the concept of ha'aha'a.
Lomilomi is a prayerful work, connecting us with our clients and
with the Source of all Life. We are merely instruments of
the healing process, channels for mana. Studying lomilomi
is a humbling experience. The more knowledge and
experience we acquire, the more we realize how much there is to
know, and how little of that we can ever learn. Deep study
clearly instills ha'aha'a.
`A`ohe pau ka `ike i ka hâlau ho`okâhi.
All knowledge is not taught in one school.
One learns from many sources
HO'OPONOPONO WORKSHOP PRESENTED BY MAKA'ALA YATES
Notes by Barbara Helynn Heard
In
opening this workshop on Ho'oponopono, Maka'ala told us that his
goals are to help others wake up and to teach people how to
fish. While he doesn't have all the answers, he does offer
tools and possibilities, and self help is our key. When we
change ourselves, others will change, and our world will
change.
Practicing ho'oponopono can bring peace, love and harmony into
our world. Once we have formed a critical mass of people who
choose peace and harmony in our lives, together we can shift the
energy of our global community. Our earth, water and air nourish
our blood, our bones, and all aspects of our beings. We in
turn are responsible for attending to Nature. Healing
ourselves heals our planet, and healing our planet heals us
all.
We can focus on our
desired outcome by seeing our world harmonious and conflict
free. The more we free ourselves from conflict, the more
awake and receptive we become. I am inspired to follow Maka'ala
in making living conflict free my priority.
.
Being angry uses more
energy than being happy. Anger debits our energetic bank
account and once our energetic bank account is empty, we die.
Our planet is now in a very critical stage and our choices will
determine our outcome, should our planet split. If we
return to our Source in darkness, we forget everything. If we
return to our Source in Light, we remember everything.
Living healthy and
conflict free requires effort. We can move ahead by learning to
cut our cords to ill-feelings and wrongdoings related to events
of our own time as well as those which occurred in previous
generations. We can refuse victim consciousness and adopt
instead the consciousness of health, harmony, and love.
Previous negative experiences need not prevent us from
experiencing goodness.
Rather than 'dealing with
anger', we can work to bring peace and understanding into
situations. We always have the option of transforming fear and
anger into love. When our emotions run hot, we might choose to
wait before confronting another, since expressing ourselves in
fear and anger often causes us to loose our grace. Anger
dims our light, true happiness brightens it.
Being open is vital. When
the other person is closed, we can reflect on our own thoughts
and feelings. We might consider whether our well being is
more important than our anger. We can choose engaged detachment
by staying heart connected while letting go of our attachment to
specific results.
The
time has come for us to take action and to let go of the entire
onion we might now be peeling layer by layer, and of everything
else which no longer serves us. 'Processing' is over with.
The more we let go, the more easily we can move on, and the more
we open our minds and hearts, the more possibilities exist. We
can start small and build our experience and confidence.
As an example, Maka'ala once heard Aunty Margaret Machado say to
her husband Uncle Dan, "You hurt me to the marrow of my bones.
Come over here and let's pray."
The key
to ho'oponopono is ho'okuano'o, meditation. We can tame our
minds using meditation, visualization and affirmations.
Meditation helps our soul to reunite with Kumupa'a or Spirit.
The soul manifests its consciousness and mana through our piko
(chakras or energy centers). Within the bodily prism of
our human cerebrospinal columns, our soul consciousness and our
life force became identified with physical limitations.
Meditation centers our soul consciousness in our seven piko
within our cerebrospinal column through various progressive
states of inner peace and joy. Through meditation, all our
questions can be answered, our troubles resolved.
Everything we need in our
material life is available to us. Let's not waste time on
finances and attracting useless things. Whatever our needs
may be, we can magnetize them, and in so doing be provided for.
The
time has come for us to reclaim our personal and spiritual
sovereignty, to know our lineage, to watch what we eat, to
cleanse, and to 'get over it'. The time has come for us to
heal our emotions and to live in grace. When we relate in aloha
with others - with wisdom, harmony, gentle strength, humility
and patience - our aloha will always return to us.
Pono means to be in alignment with our highest good, and to be
in right relationship with our earth and all living things.
We can all practice ho'oponopono in some form everyday by doing
whatever it takes to be pono.
HO'OPONOPONO QUERIES
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What makes my light shine?
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What positive things am I doing for myself, others
and our earth?
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Am I supporting darkness, or light?
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Who am I? How can I describe myself in one
sentence?
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What am I on this planet to do?
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What do I choose to do with my life?
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'Pehea ka La?' How are you? How is your light
shining?
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'Pehea kou piko?' How is your whole family?
"GET BODY SMART": an easy way to study anatomy
Recommendation by Barbara Helynn Heard
Get Body Smart,
www.getbodysmart.com is a
fully animated and interactive eBook about human anatomy and
physiology currently being construction by Scott Sheffield of
Portland,
Oregon. Scott is a
retired teacher - he taught for 21 years at the University level
- and Get Body Smart is now his full-time hobby. He is
doing all of the animations, writing, and programming himself
and he says he expects to continue working on this fabulous
software for many years to come.
While this software is under construction, Scott invites all
interested teachers, students, healthcare professions, and
others to use the free tutorials and quizzes in GetBodySmart to
help explain the body's complex physiological interactions and
illustrate its important anatomical landmarks.
I found Get Body Smart recently
browsing the net, and I immediately found it to be very easy to
use. For me, it is far better than anatomy books.
Although there are many screens yet to be developed, there are
also many which are already complete. Check it out !
MAHALO
We are glad to share good village life with you, our
lomilomi community. We are each given light and wisdom to
carry, care for, and share. In community we help
each other shine brightly. Much mahalo to you all for
helping us shine and for allowing us to help you shine.
Me ke aloha ha'aha'a, with humble love,
Kim & Jim Hartley,
Barbara Helynn Heard
Michael Brokaw
Donna Hammers
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