A great way to recover from the
stress strain of day to day living and to revitalize before the hectic Holiday 2009 Season is to visit the Hawai’i Healing Garden Festival November 21 2009 at the McCoy Pavilion at Ala Moana Beach Park. A day of healthy fun with workshops, a health fair, educational programs, entertainment, cultural as well as spiritual enrichment, this is an event for all ages, all stages of development. The Hawai’i Healing Garden Festival is a celebration of the multi-cultural healing arts of Hawai’i, Polynesia, Ayurvedic, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, others, an opportunity for cultural practitioners and ethno botanists to share their knowledge of Hawai’i’s botanical treasures and cultural ways.
The Hawai’i Healing Garden Festival has already been a “wow” on Maui and Kauai, traveling on to the Big Island of Hawai’i December 19 2009. The Festival opens on O’ahu at 10AM Saturday November 21 2009 with a Hawai’i’an Pule Prayer. Among the festival highlights: Wiggly Worm Farming, Little Green Thumbs Children’s Program, Chinese Tea & Qi, Coconut Bowling Contest, an Edible Lei Contest and a “Healthy Hawai’i Expo Health (featuring) Wellness services, natural products, organic goods, and book and plant sale. A non-profit section will feature community groups & educational presenters. This will be open mid morning and support the festival and entertainment. Silent Auction: Benefits the Hawaii Health Guide annual Health and Wellness Scholarship.”
Throughout the event there will be music & entertainment, healing arts & crafts, from 10AM to 6PM, and activities & games, as well as main stage presentations from 10AM to 5PM. The entertainment line up is impressive: “10:00 – Chi Gong & Yoga,10:30 – MUVE Dancers,11:00 – Kapili Hawaiian Music, 12:00 – Okinowan Dance w/ Frances Nakachi Sensei of Tamagusuku Try Senjukai, 1:00 – Taiko Drumming w/ Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko Hawaii with Akemi Martin Sensei,2:00 – Fire Tribe Hawaii, 3:00 – Hula & Hawaiian Music with Kaleo Phillips,4:00 – Slam Poetry – with Kealoha & Travis, 5:00 – Brian Von Awesome & Special guests!”
Equally exciting, the Auditorium presentations: “10:30 – Essential Oils for Health & Healing: Kaleo Phillips, 11:00 – Healing Plants of the Phillipines - Patria Agullana RN, 12:00 - Hawaiian Healing – La’au, Lomi & Ho’oponopono with Kumu Alva Andrews, 1;00 – Medicine at Your Feet - David Bruce Leonard L.Ac, 2:00 – Plants & Adatopgenics – Dr. Michael Ancharski, 3:00 – Immune System Health - with Richard Diehl L.Ac, 4:00 – Anti-oxidants & Anti-Aging - Joe Sugarman, 5:00 – Noni Facts & Fiction - Steve Frailey founder of Hawaiian Health Ohana Kitchen: Cooking Demos: 12:00 – Undress your salad with Dodilicous, 1:00 – Chocolate Mousse with Chef Susan Teton, 2:00 – Healthy Cooking with Brandi”
Be certain to check out the “Healing Gardens: physical healing arts; Lomilomi, massage, acupuncture, naturopathy, Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, yoga, etc.” As well as “The Mystic Garden: meta-physical healing arts; hands-on healers, reiki, sound healing, etc.” And The ‘Taste of the Tea Garden’ which will feature items that are as local and as organic as possible.
Advance tickets for this event are $5, or $7 at the Door, though children twelve & under ‘sneak’ in for free (and there will be plenty of activities for the Keiki!). Much more information is available via http://www.hawaiihealthguide.com/ and http://www.hawaiihealthguide.com/healthtalk/display.htm?id=755 . An added plus, The Hawai’i Healing Gardens opens up several days of healthy fun activities at various place around O’ahu, so check out their website for mo’ info or Contact Hawaii Health Guide PO Box 562, Haleiwa HI 96712, Phone: 808-638-0888events@hawaiihealthguide.com.
Tags: Ala Moana Beach Park, Festivals, Healing, health, Honolulu, Massage, McCoy Pavilion, Oahu
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