Touching the Body with a Loving Touch
"If your hands are gentle and loving, your patient will feel the sincerity of your heart. His soul will reach out to yours and the Lord's healing will flow through you both. Remember, Hawai'ian LomiLomi is a praying work."
- Aunty Margaret Machado
Aloha. Hawai'ian LomiLomi massage is an art, ancient in history and profound in effect. In Hawai'i of old, health was a state of unity between body, mind and spirit. Disease could not effect one so aligned. In modern times we are distracted from this state, leaving us vulnerable to suffering.
The health of the individual was recognized as directly connected to the health of the community. When sickness or injury affected a person, an art of healing addressing the whole person was required. These principles were applied as flowing sequences upon the body, bringing alignment, and with it, health to the recipient.
Rich in Sacred History, Lomilomi was traditionally taught on temple grounds for centuries by Master Kahunas. So profound were the transformative effects of this art that the application of this bodywork was not only used as a method to aid physical healing but could celebrate the attainment of adulthood, acts of initiation, rites of passage and the ceremonial ascension of Kings.
Metaphorically, LomiLomi means "to return to the Source", to remember ones true nature and our purpose for being.
Abby Cicirelli, LMP |