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Birth Lesson

Although I often feel/see/experience ho'ailona that my kupuna are by my side, the closest that I have really felt my kupuna has been in the process of giving birth. With my first and second children Piilani and Kawaiola, I choose to homebirth. Piilan

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You Ever Feel? Na`au sense...

You ever feel like where you are, you aren't really there? Or something is pulling you to places and you don't know why or who is doing the pulling? Or you can see a place that you've never seen before but can describe it clearly and even interact wi

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Visits by ʻaumākua

I start with an excerpt from a blog entry on pueo: In my training as a chanter, my teacher, Kumu John Keolamaka'ainana Lake told stories of his pueo 'aumakua, so an experience I had on Kaho'olawe was particularly significant. I was participating in

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Calling `io

Aloha, Has anyone ever had the experience of being able to call the `io? Well, it has been an awesome experience for me. My sister an I were up in the kuahiwi about ten years ago. She was picking coffee and I was keeping her company taking a break f

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