There is a new and unique travel experience that has just become available on the Big Island of Hawaii. For the first time as a visitor to the island, you can now connect for private, soul-shifting healing experiences with kahuna, the wise and powerful teachers and masters of Hawaiian culture and healing who typically keep only to themselves and their local community.
Among the indigenous people who have begun to make themselves available to the traveling public is Haelaka Iolani Pule Dooley, the kahuna also known as Aunty Aka, who is part of a family that has been caretaking the same Hawaiian temple for the past forty-five generations. She travels the world on behalf of the United Nations on missions of peace. When the President of the United States was to receive a native Hawaiian Blessing to clarify the professional and personal path before him, Aunty Aka was chosen by Hawaiians to do it.
Your own typical personal travel experience with Aunty Aka would be to meet her early in the day near that temple at the shores of Kealakekua Bay. She will likely greet you very warmly, not just with smiles but with honi, the traditional Hawaiian greeting where the foreheads are touched and the breath shared.
Breath is the sacred foundation at the core of Hawaiian spirituality, and it can be very moving to honi. You then spend the day alone with the kahuna as you travel to various sacred spaces on the island.
For example, you might begin your journey nearby, starting with the City of Refuge, Pu'uhonua o' Honaunau.The kahuna might begin with a history of the land and people and the traditions of the temple area, and then the area all around South Kona. Even her casual conversation will reveal she has traversed far and wide and to every corner of the huge island and that the roots of her knowledge and wisdom seem to stretch forever.The kahuna might take you to an ancient Hawaiian healing village on the Kohala Coast with its sapphire waters, where you can stand on the rocks at the ocean in the sun and the wind and feel the rain blowing down on you from Mauna Kea. She may even take you to some of her own secret places where sea turtles swim peacefully in the shallows.
Every place you go, she will make an offering and sing a chant to the island spirits.And then just as seamlessly she may very well begin telling you very directly about choices you need to make, how to find your personal power, what the ancestors, both yours and on the island, expect from you. What you expect from yourself as a soul. And which directions you should go in life to go to look for answers, personally and professionally.If you desire a trip to the Volcano, try kahuna Nahoku and Kalei Kamakavivoole, priests of the Goddess Pele, who can actually channel her words and speak directly from the wisdom of her heart.
For a typical experience, they will meet you at Volcanoes National Park and lead you to the Kilauea caldera. Once there, after a ceremonial walk to the crater, active with its white plume rising into the azure sky, they will chant and prepare sacred bundles for sacrifice.
And then they will help you communicate directly with the energy of Pele herself.If you wish for the power of an ancient blessing from the time of Mu, let Keahi Hanakahi meet you at a private cliff-side overlooking sacred Waipi'o Valley where he can chant his powerful ancient Hawaiian tones to shift you into a place where you can easily receive his psychic-spiritual blessing.Each of these kahuna offers a whole new and unique level of gifted Hawaiian insight not previously available to island visitors. Intuitive wellness experiences are difficult to accurately describe. When truly gifted people speak directly into your heart, you are the only one who knows and feels the truth of what they say.
The Big Island itself is known even to Hawaiians as The Healing Island. Mauna Kea is the world's tallest peak as measured from base beneath waves to summit, the combination of the sea water and the active lava flows together to create a very powerful energy and the island as a whole, home to eleven of the world's thirteen climate zones, is abundant with a variety of vibrant flora and fauna.For any of the above experiences, the combination of the person and the place can very easily make these the most powerful personal transformational experiences you can ever have as a traveler. Hawaii is not Mexico or the Caribbean; it is much more than a sun-and-sand destination. These are the kinds of people and experiences that reveal the heart of the hidden Hawaii.
