A Cultural Wellness Center

Iwalani E. R. Wahinekapu Walsh Tseu Kumu Hula of `Iwalani's School of Dance and creator in the `Iwalani Cancers of the breast Foundation celebrated the 34th Anniversary Ho`ike of `Iwalani's School of Dance and Dedication with the recently formed Prayer and Healing Garden at Honouliuli, Ewa, along with Kumu Hula Aloha Keko'olani Simmons of Makakilo, Kapolei. Both Kumu Hula are welcoming all to accumulate solace within the prayer and healing garden. There're teaching health and wellness through Hawaiian arts and cultural healing through music, song, and dance. Their belief that hula in perfect shape and hula is healing can be a legacy them to pass around thus to their students daily. Their long-standing sisterhood of two-and-a-half decades could be the basis for his or her emergence together and joining forces with this worthy cause. Kumu Hula `Iwalani is really a cultural specialist teaching the fine art of hula and dedicating her time and working hard to educating the women of Hawai`i about breast cancers. She is just one mother as well as a two-time cancer survivor contacting others afflicted with this terrible disease that -knows no boundaries.- Statistics provide evidence cancer of the breast is highest amongst Hawaiian and Filipino women in Hawai`i. Her foundation is dedicated to increasing the total well being for the people in Hawai`i as well as the remaining world by raising cancer of the breast awareness. Representative Sharon Har of Kapolei recently awarded and acknowledged Kumu Hula `Iwalani Walsh Tseu in the Capitol with the State of Hawai`i on her outstanding achievements with her educational resources through community outreach to "Malama E Ke Kino," take care of the body and nurture the soul. Kumu Hula Aloha is a cultural practitioner and instructor of Hawaiian-Pacific Island studies who shares her understanding via workshops, classes, blessing ceremonies, and guest speaking services. Her school of learning is entitled, Ka Hale o Na Ali'i o Ke Kapu Ahi - The Keepers of the Sacred Fire.- She instructs her classes using the constructive values, principles, and ethics which stem from Ka'u and Waipi'o Valley around the island of Hawaii. In 1998, she produced the primary Hawaiian language and hula instructional hula video entitled, Na Mea Hula Hawai'i,- that has been mentored within the good care of Kumu John Keola Lake. Many loving na kupuna (Hawaiian ancestors) and na kumu (elders and teachers) from your entire Hawaiian Islands have shared their knowledge along with her. She earned her B.A. In Hawaiian Art in 1997 and M.A. In Pacific Island Studies in 2004 in the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her graduate research, Na'au Poi: Spiritual Food for Cultural Enlightenment,- examined na'au, a traditional Hawaiian conceptualization from the unification of body, mind, and spirit that functions as one's gut instinct. Na'au Poi shares effective tools and skills to promote life, health, and prosperity among Hawaiians along with people. Kumu Aloha has held academic positions at various private and public institutions in Hawai'i teaching grades kindergarten through twelve, including Kapolei High school graduation, plus the UH Community Colleges. More resources for the folks and happenings of Kapolei, Hawaii's Second City, come go to: . Aloha.

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