Kumu (Teachers)
Karen Pualalea Reifinger
Retreat Facilitator, LomiLomi Temple Style Bodywork
Karen Pualalea Reifinger is a practitioner, instructor and recognized expert in the field of Hawaiian healing and spiritual development. Her skills and experience include a spectrum of traditional and non-traditional approaches to restore physical integrity and inner harmony to the mind, body and soul. She is a personal guide for seekers of deeper empowerment, spirituality and higher initiation.
As founder and director of Huna Mua Wellness in Philadelphia, PA, Karen blends the revered healing arts of Hawaii with state-of-the-art quantum energy technology. She is dedicated to saving and changing the lives of all people as well as the planet. She offers a variety of workshops, retreats, massage and other bodywork programs at massage schools, universities and private locations.
Karen is an approved continuing education provider for the NCBTMB. She is Kahuna Kahu Lapa'au, initiate in the Hawaiian Order of Ku, specializing in four lineages of Hawaiian Touch Medicine. She is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner, Certified Massage Therapist, Reverend Minister. She is a World Massage Festival 2010 Hall of Fame Inductee for her dedication and promotion of Hawaiian Healing Arts.
Harry Uhane Jim
Traditional Hawaiian Touch Medicine
Harry Uhane Jim is Kahuna, healer, teacher and author of WISE SECRETS OF ALOHA. He was born and raised on Kauai, Hawaii. He has been doing the work for many years, and has been trained in the traditional apprentice style by the best known native Kahuna of the last 7 decades - most gone now. His presentations carry authenticity and are known for unveiling profound ancient truths with wit and laughter.
Harry is the father of five, and teaches, works and lives with his wife Sila in Puna on the Big Island of Hawaii. For the last six years he and his family have been living in Clarence, New York. He lectured for Kamehameha Schools, Buffalo State College,Trocare College, Windemere Institute of Healing ( Decorah, Iowa), Lilydale Assembly, Buffalo Psychiatric as well as many bodywork and healing organizations throughout the United States and Canada.
Phil Kihonua Young & Morag Kuhea Campbell
Retreat Chefs: Inspirational Vegetarian Meals for Mind, Body & Spirit
Phil Kihonua Young and Morag Kuoha Campbell began their journey into the exploration of the human energy system as internal martial artists back in the early 80's. Their understanding was enhanced by a series of powerful psycho-spiritual episodes that allowed them to delve more deeply into the more ancient esoteric teachings of healing with energy. At the same time they came across Polarity Therapy and began a healing practice that was to lead to a continued study of the work of Dr. Randolph Stone and early Western approaches to healing.
Phil and Morag have done extensive work in the area of Hawaiian philosophy and healing traditions. As initiates in the Hawaiian Order of Ku, they practice and teach the powerful healing arts of Kauai. In 1999, Kupuna Aunty Angeline Loocey of Kauai said about Phil, "I have no doubt my ancestors speak through him."
Kahu Leilani Kaleiohi
Opening Ceremony, Chant, Talk Story
For nearly 11 years Kahu (Rev.) Leilani Kaleiohi has provided ceremonies from the heart of her native culture on the island of Kaua`i to locals and visitors. She is an ordained nondenominational Minister with a Bachelor of Divinity degree. She previously served as a board member of the Kaua`i Wedding Professionals Association, American Cancer Society, and Kauai Hospice.
In addition to her ministerial and community services, she continues to perpetuate her family's Native Hawaiian lineage as a cultural practitioner, storyteller, lecturer and educator. She serves as a Hawaiian Studies Resource Kumu (teacher) in Hawai`i's DOE/Hawaiian Language and Culture program. She practices the art of her great great grandmother, Kawahinehelekeoulilani Milika`a Pa-Kaho`ohanohano, who was a Master Chanter from the Kalalau Valley and whose lineage extends into 400-600 A.D. in the Napali Coast of Kaua`i. Her "Tutu Wahine's" chants can be found in the archives of the Bishop Museum.
Sandra Rose Michael
Huna Kane
Sandra Rose Michael, the founder of Huna Kane, Body of Light, creator of the Higher Self Alignment, Body mapping, High Altering and The Alchemy of Ecstasy is an internationally recognized Kahuna, Shaman and Healer to the Elite. She has applied more than 30 years of knowledge in spiritual science, in all its myriads of facets, along with the collaborative efforts of the world's top scientists, doctors, authorities and leaders to develop the Energy Enhancement System, the nexus of Spiritual Science with Modern Science, now being incorporated worldwide for its natural healing and therapeutic potential.
Dr. Michael serves on PBS' Advisory Board for Alternative Medicine, is an Ambassador for the World Organization of Natural Medicine, is on faculty for the federally and internationally accredited Institute of Energy Wellness Studies, Canada, and serves as guest faculty for Quantic Medicine, University of Panama Medical School. Dr. Michael has been featured on CNN, Discovery Networks and an upcoming PBS special is currently planned. For her service to humanity, Dr. Michael was awarded knighthood by The Sovereign Order of the Orthodox Knights Hospitaller of Saint John of Jerusalem.
Dane Silva
'Awa Ceremony
Dane Kaohelani Silva has been licensed as a professional massage therapist since 1986. A retired doctor of chiropractic, he is known as a kumulomi or instructor of Hawaiian lomilomi massage. Experienced in the use of la'au lapa'au or Hawaiian medicine, Kumu Kaohe provides both educational and healing services. Certified in acupuncture and acupressure, Kumu Kaohe offers integrative wellness services and courses.
A graduate of the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Kumu Kaohe focused his undergraduate and post-graduate studies on Biomedical Science, Biology, and research. Kumu Kaohe is a skilled practitioner and instructor of Long Life Chi Gong, Oriental and Hawaiian martial arts.
Brenda Ignacio
Special Guest
Brenda Mohalapua Ignacio is a Kumu Lomilomi and Kahu (Hawaii Minister) and Licensed Instructor of Hawaiian Healing Arts. She has appeared in several films on Hawaiian Healing with other beloved island kumu and has been featured in magazines and books on Lomilomi Massage.
Gloria Coppola-Gaber
Special Guest
Gloria Coppola-Gaber has been a healing arts practitioner and massage therapist for over 22 years. The former owner of her own massage school, she has also traveled nationally to help other massage schools with their curriculum and to offer CE trainings. Her studies include many modalities, including advanced cranio sacral therapy, chakra healing, reiki, myofascial release, medical massage, lomilomi, neuromuscular therapy, foot reflexology, thai massage, hot stone massage, raindrop therapy and more!
She has had the honor to train with many of the well renowned healers and spiritual leaders in our profession and under the lineage of Kahu Abraham on the island of Kauai in Hawaiian lomi lomi.
Diane Larkin
Retreat Assistant
Diane Larkin has been a certified massage therapist since 1998. Her interest in the healing arts has led her to explore the healing techniques of the Shaman of Peru, which she has been studying for 12 years, Native American culture, and ultimately LomiLomi Hawaiian Temple massage.
The owner of her own practice, her passion has been focused on learning more about LomiLomi techniques. For the past 6 years, Diane has been studying under Karen Reifinger, and assisting Karen in her teachings.
As well as LomiLomi, she has also been practicing hot stone massage, myofacial release, and Reiki. Diane weaves her cross-cultural studies to individualize each healing session.
