Author Archives: Kumu Lisa

For their last academic session, students visited a unique hospital in Waimea: North Hawai’i Community Hospital. The hospital not only integrates many complementary healing practices with traditional medicine, the building was designed to enhance the healing environment.     The hospital includes aromatherapy in their patient care, and also offers aromatherapy to all their staff. Oshibori is … Continue reading »

We met for our last class session on Monday morning, with each pair of students sharing information about the complementary or alternative modality (CAM) they researched and observed for the class. The session went beyond the planned time due to many questions and great discussion. A fantastic way to end our class sessions!       … Continue reading »

Due to its size, the video cannot be viewed on the blog. Follow the link below to see it on youtube. The transcript of the chant is below, and also in youtube. Hana Chant, May Term 2014 Hana Chant Ha‘aheo ‘O Hana la, Ha‘aheo ‘O Hana la Pride of Hana, Pride of Hana Ea ea … Continue reading »

Sarah, Laura, and Jessica led the class presentation and discussion on Filipino culture on Friday afternoon. We had the class in the shared space in the hostel; we were all quite warm in the space and probably won’t do that again. One of the class readings was about discrimination and stereotypes, so the leaders started … Continue reading »

Ashley, Kacie, and Nicolette led our class discussion on Wednesday. It was a divided session, starting before our Lahaina tour and concluding after lunch. As usual, the students leading the session did a great job fostering discussion among their peers. The session highlighted the difficulty we can experience as health care providers in helping patients express their … Continue reading »

Wednesday morning we met our guide from Maui Nei, Maile (rhymes with “smiley”), for a walking tour of Lahaina’s historical sites.  I’ve captioned each picture below, which represent only a fraction of what we learned.                       Some places we stopped were the Old Lahaina Courthouse, Pōhaku Hauola … Continue reading »

On our way back to the hotel yesterday, several of us noted that we had food in our refrigerators that we would not be able to use before we left tomorrow morning. So we gathered together last night for a spaghetti dinner and this morning for french toast and papaya. Kumu Noel is a whiz … Continue reading »

Today we took  a fabulous trip  on the Pride of Maui to visit Molokini and “Turtle Town.” We gathered before 0700 for the drive to the harbor and had breakfast on the boat on our way to our first snorkeling stop: Molokini.   Molokini is a partially submerged crater of an extinct volcano. It was once used … Continue reading »

At the midpoint of the trip, Kumu Noel wisely schedules two days without class activities. Students (and faculty) are free to explore the Island of Maui as they wish. Kumu Noel and I took one day to travel to the top of Haleakala, which several students also did the next day–but much earlier in the … Continue reading »

After a visit to Pearl Harbor this morning, we traveled to the “windward” side of the island & visited the overlook at Nuuanu Pali State Park.  We thought it would be a great place for a group photo & took three versions.   #1: Traditional : ‘ #2 With IWU  Ws  #3 With shakas: