Daily Archives: May 30, 2014

There have been many highlights throughout our travels for this course, but I think if you asked the students (or me and Kumu Lisa), we had our most impressive excursion yesterday (our last full day in the islands). We loaded into two, 4-wheel drive mini-buses for the drive up to the summit Mauna Kea (“White … Continue reading »

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 »

Early in the morning on Tuesday, May 27th, we loaded our bags onto our Roberts coach and started off for the “dry” side of the Big Island… and our last setting for the course.  We had a full-day of site-seeing before arriving in our destination – the city of Kona (coffee anyone?!). First stop: The … Continue reading »