About Us

is an empath who loves watching people heal. Her passion is joy, finding it within her own life, and helping individuals and groups discover their own. It is a journey that often begins with physical health, but always it reaches deeper, into heart, mind and soul. The interconnectedness and brilliance of human life never cease to amaze her, and it is this appreciation she hopes to communicate and awaken in her work.

She has been blessed with remarkable teachers, some of whom include Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Donna Eden, Richard Gordon, Bert Hellinger, and Dr. Ann Wigmore. She has trained in numerous healing techniques, including Usui Reiki, Karuna Reiki, Quantum-Touch® energy healing, Huna and Ho'oponopono, N.E.T., Meridian Systems, Family Constellation Systems, Chinese energetics, and Tibetan, Daoist and shamanic healing practices.

She has also studied nutritional healing (raw foods and macrobiotics), and various forms of movement, including mime, yoga, and the internal martial arts of bagua zhang, qi gong, and Kunlun gong fu. Her teachers in these arts include Sifu Christopher Matsuo, Sifu Max Christensen (Lama Dorje), Marcel Marceau, Nelly Natcheva, Erika Batdorf, and Sensei Hidetoshi Mitsuoka.

She is a certified Quantum-Touch® healing practitioner and instructor, Reiki Master (Usui Shiki Reiki Ryoho, Tenchi Shiki Reiki Ryoho, and Karuna™ Shiki Ryoho), retreat facilitator, and stress management consultant in Honolulu. She created EnergyALIVE Seminars®, founded Healing Heart Retreats®, and teaches healing in Japan, South Korea, Hawaii and the U.S. mainland.

She is based in Honolulu and has a private practice and healing office in the Kaheka Professional Building, 1481 S. King Street, Suite 339, Honolulu, HI 96814.

was groomed from birth to carry love of the hula and traditional Hawaiian culture into the world. She comes from a long line of teachers and practitioners of Hawaiian spiritual arts. They were the priests and priestesses, dancers and in-structors of their time, and the gifts of their knowing, the ha (breath) was passed down to her. She was given the title of Kahu hula pa, which means caretaker of the hula for her family, and this was passed to her from the eldest kahuna in her family.

As a professional performer, she has traveled all over the world. She has taught Hawaiian culture as a Native Hawaiian resource teacher with the Depart-ment of Education for sixteen years and currently works with the University of Hawaii and Hawaii Pacific University as a Resource teacher for Koa 'Ike Native Hawaiian Education. She works with Sumo Ozeki Konishiki in creating Piko Hawaii Cultural Tours in Japan, and is Kumu Hula for Halau Hula O Ku'upuailimanoheaikeala Olaua'eOmakana. She has studied under 17 master teachers of Hawaiian culture, and is authorized to teach Oli (chanting), Hula Kahiko, Hula Auana, implement hula, costume and craft making, implement making, Tahitian and Maori dance.