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Hawaiian Lomilomi: Big Island Massage

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Author: Nancy S Kahalewai
Publisher: IM Publishing
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

6 reviews
Sales Rank: 637025

Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6

ISBN: 0967725321
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.82209969
EAN: 9780967725321
ASIN: 0967725321

Publication Date: June 1, 2005
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This extraordinary overview of traditional and contemporary lomi-lomi massage offers a unique opportunity for readers to discover the value and wisdom of Hawaiian cultural healing practices. Richly illustrated, this book provides an intimate and easy to digest portrait of lomi-lomi from the perspective of the Hawaiian people. This new second edition is the only comprehensive source in print today on this unique Hawaiian art.

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Highly Recommend August 18, 2009
Ms. M. J. Nielsen (Victoria, Australia)
Sorry for late response. Delivery and state of product was perfect - thank you!

Kind regards,
Melissa

2 out of 5 stars

her New Age section is misleading and wrong January 13, 2007
MK (Hilo, Hawaii)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful

The main part is well written and helpful to understand the Hawaiian culture. But what the author should have done is just to leave it solely on what she knows. Writing about other teachers or Kahuna and judging them in her very narrow perspective is definetly not what aloha spirit is about. It significes that she apparently do not understand true meaning of aloha or the universal law and therefore what she rights on this book about other people is critical. Hawaiian tradition has been not to write but only passed on through the voice. Now I really know how dangerous books could be to mislead people with wrong ideas.

I am a student of Abraham Kahu who taught so called temple style lomi which she put into New Age. If this kahuna work is New Agew work most of Kahuna work should be on New Age becasue Kahunas are always most advanced . It is more likey that she had not even met him and just wrote through rumors she had heard from people and did not have any respect to go to meet him to see and hear for herself. Kahu is the most highly trained Kahuna and his awareness and understanding of universal laws and knowledge is no doubt a true Hawaiian Kahuna. At his level "Hawaiian" doesnt really mean so much since we are all one. So not that he cares but hate to see people beleive this book.
All I can say is that she does not understand what a really great Kahuna can do.

5 out of 5 stars

The only "how-to" lomilomi book August 15, 2006
Makana Risser Chai (Kailua, O'ahu, Hawai'i)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

Nancy's book is the only "how-to" book on lomilomi. It contains pictures and a step-by-step protocol to follow for a complete treatment. The book is also valuable in providing pictures and biographies of many of the kupuna (elders) active in the latter part of the 20th century. There is a lot of information about lomilomi in the larger context of Hawaiian healing. As the editor of Na Mo'olelo Lomilomi: The Traditions of Hawaiian Massage and Healing, I quoted from Nancy's book extensively and found it an invaluable guide to lomilomi as practiced today.

5 out of 5 stars

Thank You September 21, 2005
Scott Riggins (Wuerzburg, Germany)
The book was as described, and securely packaged. Quick delivery as well.

4 out of 5 stars

The only book on Lomilomi (Lomi Lomi) from hawaiian sources March 31, 2003
Christian Herold (Zürich, Schweiz)
22 out of 23 found this review helpful

Hawaiian Lomilomi, Big Island Massage, by Nancy S. Kahalewai

This book is currently the only book about Lomilomi (Lomi Lomi) based on Hawaiian sources. Lomilomi is one of the methods the traditional Hawaiian healers use for restoring health. What makes this book especially valuable is that the author acts as mediator between Hawaiian tradition and modern bodywork.

The reader gets a chance to understand how this bodywork is a part of the sacred Hawaiian healing arts and not just a massage which tries to deal with muscle tension from the outside. The author includes chapters on Hawaiian herbal medicine and on the role the Kahunas (experts / priests of healing arts) still play in Hawai'i.

Healing is very closely connected with life and Nancy Kahalewai helps understand the most important Hawaiian concepts of life. Understanding the love and respect, the Aloha Spirit, which is such a wonderful experience when visiting the Hawaiian islands, and how Ho'oponopono (right thought / forgiveness) has been part of daily life in the Hawaiian nation enables us to understand how it must be to receive a lomilomi massage.

Important for masseurs are the chapters on strokes and techniques give some insight on how Aloha Spirit translates into massage movements and the "hands on" chapter gives a good idea of a basic routine, opening up to the great variation of massage techniques and routines used in Hawai'i. Of course it is advisable to learn the art of Hawaiian healing from a qualified teacher.

The author's great respect towards the Hawaiian people and their rich culture makes it possible to include modern medical information, which is so important for modern massage therapists and clients in a world full of regulations.

However, I personally rate what is in "additions" of the physiology chapter as the greatest value of Lomilomi: clients come back because they feel totally nurtured and supported. After the two hours massage many express that they feel like being born again.

This bodywork enables clients to regain their Self as an entity of body, mind and spirit, giving them strength and the focus to act from within in this crazy world. I hope this book will reach many massage therapists and theat they will learn to touch people the Hawaiian way and spread unconditional love and respect all over the world.

Christian Herold, Lomilomi practitioner, Zurich, Switzerland []

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