Some frequently asked questions with detailed answers.

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Q: Do I need any qualifications to be able to start the course?

A: No. Our workshops are open to all levels.

Q: How much do the courses cost?

A: See our general fees page. Contact us to work out a plan for your individual financial situation. It is possible to pay your fees by trimester, monthly or by subject, to build up towards your qualification in your own time. Our monthly payment plan is very attractive for people who have to work while they study.

Q: I cannot pay the full course fee straight away. Can I still start training?

A: You can pay an initial deposit and then apply for a payment plan.  Fees must be paid in full prior to the workshop commencing.

Q: Do I have to stay for the whole workshop?

A: Yes. The workshops are carefully designed to the individual group situation, gradually building up the energy, taking you through heights and depths of existence, to your grand performance at the end of each workshop, your assessment.

Although the workshop trainings have regular hours for exercise, bodywork practice, meal, rest, clean up and social times, the training starts to get integrated into everyday life, as you start moving and acting by ancient Principle, in all life situations.

The venue is prepared geomantically to contribute to your training.

Your teacher’s training has been in the Kahuna’s house in Hawai’i over many years, and your training is leaning much on these experiences. The training here in Australia is already condensed. Shortcuts in the practical training are not possible.

Q: I have heard about the benefits of the exercises and feel a workshop retreat could help me to deal with stress and difficulties in my life. Can I just do a workshop without wanting a formal qualification?

A: Yes, you can register for any of the workshop retreats. Everybody can benefit from relaxing and gaining a wider perspective on life. The retreats are full of Ka’alele au, the ancient exercises to assist you to discover more of yourself. A wonderful way to rejuvenate and get your body into shape.

Q: I have learned Kahuna massage somewhere else, does that count?

Yes, it can be of benefit to already have some aspects of Kahuna Bodywork under your belt but be aware that many schools are not Kahuna endorsed and may not have teachers trained to a certificate level or Kahuna standard, and what you have learned may not be Kahuna skills and applying the Kahuna Principles.

Always make sure you enquire where and by whom your teacher was trained, if there is a lineage to Kahuna Source. If your teacher states having been trained in Hawaii, it may have been in a form of lomilomi, not Kahuna Bodywork. There are only two teachers in Australia trained and teacher endorsed by the Kahuna himself.

Kahuna Bodywork can be called Romi Kaparere or Lomi Ka’alele, never lomilomi.

We do not engage in other schools’ politics or competition. but we are there whenever you are ready to get to the core of Kahuna training, no matter where you have learned before.

You are welcome to register for just one workshop to see and feel the difference. It is profound.

Q: I paid so much money for a Kahuna course, who is responsible if I end up without a valid certificate and association back-up?

A: The Australian College of Kahuna Sciences is not responsible for misleading advertising practices of other schools. If you were made to believe you would come out of a course as a recognised complementary health practitioner or a Kahuna Bodyworker, contact the department of education in your state.

Q: I don't live in Australia. How can I qualify in Kahuna Bodywork?

A:  You can come to Australia on a normal tourist or working holiday visa to attend our workshops.

Q: How can I learn Kahuna Bodywork?

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A: Kahuna Bodywork training is a complex matter. Not only does it require learning to use real, yet dormant intuition and perfect rhythmic pitch, but you also have to be able to work in the modern health industry environment, following the rules for alternative therapists.

Kahuna Bodywork: Once all your attributes come together in one individual performance, the unexpected and magical can happen. The performer, client, and/or group align in perfectly pitched motion, in rhythm with the environment, where every cell is eager to participate and contribute.

The normally linear consciousness opens up into multi dimensional parallel Universes. Here in this space, energy patterned into our current way of being, performing and contributing or not, can flow and rearrange itself into a harmonic state of coexistence with itself and all else there is.

This you cannot plan for, nor see nor speak about, other than in the instant moment it happens. For the performer there is nothing to hold onto, or stand upon, or techniques to rely on in that moment, other than the knowing of Self; the Self flowing with All there is.

Only with compassionate humbleness and dignity can you awaken your dormant intuitive skills. Our teacher gave us the perfect medium, Ka’alele, the Kahuna Navigator exercises.

This exercise vehicle is called ‘flying’. You fly on instinctive automatic pilot, while the conscious mind in the background observes your path and maintains its position/connection to the current framework of understanding – until instinct takes over within agreed boundaries of movement, to catapult you into that rhythmically pulsating space without boundary and need to explain.

This moment was never spoken about out of respect for the greatness of creation. ‘I am the Centre of the Universe. Before me there is no one. After me there is only I. I am the Centre.’

There is no argument, nor is there any doubt.

Accredited courses extend to advanced diploma level, and were developed under guidance of Kahu Abraham Kawai’i, Kahuna (Kanaka Maoli), maintaining the Kahuna style of training, incorporating the Family Principle while complying with Australian qualification standards.

These Kahuna Bodywork qualifications are stand-alone and authentically qualify you to perform Kahuna Bodywork. Another massage qualification is not needed.

More background info on Kahuna Source

Workshop dates

2024 Workshop dates:

  • Open level 18 - 25 Jan 2024

  • Student clinic - 26 - 28 Jan 2024
  • Open level intensive 14 - 21 June 2024
  • Student clinic - 22 - 23 June 2024

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