Huna Happenings Archive
HUNA HAPPENINGS
Around the World
updated on the first of January, March, May, July, September and November
Huna Happenings is a forum in which you can share your Huna-related activities. Please let us know what you've been up to! Email huna@huna.org
From Alakai Fern Kealalani Merle-Jones:
The Kauai Huna community is well and thriving. We have been having our weekly Huna Circle on Thursday nights at 7pm, which combines our Healing work and any other topics or sharing that comes our way. The group is open to whoever is in need of a healing or wants to participate in any way. We have experimented with several different types of healing work including contacting the angels of different parts and systems of the body such as the "blood angel" or the "stomach angel" to get feedback on what is best at different levels for people who come to us either in person, by phone or through e-mail healing requests. The group is a great support to us all.
Our Hula Halau, Na Lei Kupua O Kauai, has also been very active. Classes have been at the Church of the Pacific in Princeville for a year now and our attendance has been good and our ongoing group is enthusiastic about this new year. We have been performing at Shaka Taco in Kapa'a and have been invited to perform at several other venues including a Martin Luther King Celebration on Jan. 21st. Hula class for visitors & beginning students is at 7pm on Tuesday nights. We call this group our Liko Lehua Class- Liko Lehua is the first budding leaves on the Lehua tree ( considered sacred)- used traditionally in head and neck leis, they are beautiful pink and light green bud clusters. Our performing class follows at 8pm and we call this our 'Olapa class. 'Olapa is the name given to performing dancers and is also a native tree with big leaves that look something like rounded hearts. Recently,we have been approached by a few musicians who are interested in playing for us...that would be great. Jeane (Kapoli) & I (Kealalani) have started taking Ukelele class- that is very exciting but it will be awhile before we can play for our dancers and anyway, we both like to dance too much to just play! We have also been taking Hawaiian language classes and this has really assisted in the Hula teaching and knowledge. Once again, if you find yourself on Kauai, feel free to come and join in the dance!
I finally created an Avatar in Second Life-- Huna Village at Pali Uli. Getting through the entry was a little like going through Purgatory for me- strange beings flying around trying to figure out how to get clothes, get grounded,fly, find their way- It was an adventure of challenge. Arriving at the Huna Village and becoming part of the Huna fellowship there was a thrill and the site is so peaceful and loving. My second time at Pali Uli found Serge ( Kahili Writer) there and so he took me around and showed me the different sections including Alaka'i Island which is an amazing healing place. I had alot of resistance to Second Life as it seemed "out of the point" and not pertinent to my life, time consuming etc... but it wasn't that time consuming to set it up and now I can see the great potential for meeting with others from around the Huna world and having classes, meeting etc. It's definitely a "good thing". I remember when e-mail seemed to be a strange and cumbersome way to communicate. I also remember Serge teaching me how to "cut" & "paste" on a computer so many years ago at the Hawaiian Museum in Kilauea..... How things have changed.
I am hoping to keep more in touch with the rest of the Huna community through regular updates on the News here on Kauai. Life is full but it really feels good to reach out and communicate.
From Alakai Peggy Kemp:
I know that some folks aren't interested in Second Life, or don't have the computing capability to enjoy it. But this is really a friendship tale, so you might still enjoy it.
I wanted to share the story of a couple of hours in Second Life. I wandered around, found a free store and got a bunch of new clothes, changed my identity about 10 times, tried on all the new clothes. Fun! Went to the Help Island, which wasn't very helpful. Went back to Lois' article on the huna.org website and figured out how to look at things in my inventory, which was what I wanted to know and did that for a while.
Then I decided to wander over to the Huna Village to see what was new. One of the special things I did was to plant 2 "red heart" trees, one near the healing hut. Happy Valentine's Day! May your life be filled with aloha. I was really tickled to see that Mieko was offering free counseling in the service hut.
Then "Kahu Akina", or Graeme Urlich, from New Zealand, messaged me and we began a conversation. I invited him to come over to the hot tub on Pali Uli and join me there in a relaxing tub. We had a long conversation and it was really neat! I can't get over how immediate the whole experience is. I know more about Graeme than I did before and felt a real kinship with him. And how relaxed I felt afterward.... I wish I'd snapped a photo of the 2 of us there.
We are all connected, all in community - even if you don't have Second Life - I've been going to our inner garden, the garden of Aloha International. Let's meet there when you have the time.
From Alakai Jutta Hahr:
Today I was sending out mails to my clients about a musical event my sister is organizing, and got back quite a few mails from former clients talking about how much their life changed after working with me. So I want to pass that on to you: Isn«t that something that you have been such a big part in other people«s lifes that they took a new direction? So did I, and I want to thank you for your friendship, patience, teachings, and everything else I don't think about now in the middle of the night.
In all those years I have known Serge - and this is more than 14 years - my feeling towards all this teaching has grown stronger, the truth about it, it's serenity, truthfulness, and reliability were a true support to me. I give my very best to pass this knowledge on and give back in exchange for what I received.
From Alakai Candidate Barbara Schmid:
Aloha to you and all others of the healing circle. I want to thank to all of you and specially Peggy who is organising healing circles. I feel very much connected. By working in my profession as MD and psychiatrist I often felt lonely - now I just connect within me with the healing circle and I feel connected to you in difficult situations.
Being an alakai candidate for almost a year now helped me a lot in the following ways: Before this year I felt I had to do it all by myself, being strong and normally after some time getting exhausted. Now I plug in with the healing forces of the universe - the healing circle is the plug in. I don't mean that it's easier, I still use all my tools, but there is more energy behind it. There were several incidents this year which sounded in a way like a miracle for the clients, and which are from my point of few timewise connected clearly to huna and the healing circle. I would have to write you every day for healing requests for my clients, because of this I chose to do it in this way and I feel very grateful to all of you. The second thing is, that I feel like family with you. Hawaii, specially Big Island is family and home for me already a long time, now I really feel the aka strings connecting me most of the time. Second Life helps with that, too. I love the pool, and usually I go to fly around the island before sleeping and end up in the pool. So this is my follow up from the last year. I look forward to seeing you at talk story in the SL Huna Village.
Recently a dear Kauai friend, Karuna Thai, passed away and our Hula Halau danced at her memorial. Apparently Karuna's spirit enjoyed it so much that she joined in. Below are two photos of the dance, both untouched except for resizing, one without Karuna and one with her taken shortly after.
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