Fequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q: Do I need any qualifications to
be able to start the course?
A: No. We also provide you
with the required First Aid training as part of the course.
Q: Where can I work with the qualifications
that I gain?
A: After completion of
Certificate IV in Kahuna Bodywork you are well qualified
to work in any existing Health Care or Massage practice. You
are also able to join the Kahuna Training Guild or another professional
association and get professional insurance at discounted
rates.
Other massage associations cannot legally
list you as a Kahuna practitioner without a valid certificate
through a registered Training organisation.
The Diploma of Kahuna
Bodywork equips you with the skills to open and run
your own practice, and to provide Kahuna Bodywork at therapeutic
level. You can take part in academic Kahuna Sciences research
projects run by the Australian College of Kahuna Sciences.
The Advanced Diploma
of Kahuna Sciences enables you to facilitate Ka’alele au classes and
assist in Kahuna Training workshops. Your skills in Kahuna Evolution
Bodywork will increase by teaching Ka’alele au,
providing you with more understanding of human movement, use
of Ki energy, sensitivity, and communication through movement.
Q: Why don't you teach lomilomi
and Kahuna massage together?
A: Lomilomi and Kahuna
Bodywork have one thing in common: both come from Hawai'i.
The training for each modality is very different, it would
be of no advantage to be taught in the same class. Lomilomi
is the traditional Hawaiian family style of massage. Kahuna
Bodywork applies ancient universal Kahuna Principles to promote
evolution within your and your clients' genetic line.
Kahuna Bodywork does contain elements of massage and lomi,
and these elements are used according to Kahuna Principle.
We are the
only RTO in Australia specialised purely in authentic Kahuna
Sciences, Bodywork and Training. A mixing of modalities would
only water down the depth and multi level effect of the training.
Please note: Kahuna Bodywork is NOT lomilomi.
More background
Kahuna info here: Kahuna Source
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. Austudy
assistance generally covers the training fees.
Q: I cannot pay the
full course fee straight away. Can I still start training?
A: You can pay the initial enrolment fee
and then pay by trimester or monthly. You can work in a part
time or casual job during the training, as long as you get
time off for the workshops. You can contact us for ab/austudy
information.
Q: How long do the courses take
to complete?
A: For
the academic part of the training, eg. anatomy & physiology,
this depends on your commitment to study, and how you schedule
your home studies.
The Kahuna Sciences subjects are mainly practical and experiential
training. These require personal physical application to Kahuna
Exercises and Bodywork practice. These subjects are taught in
residential workshops and at student clinic.
If you think you are ready for your assessment in any subject,
you can ask for an assessment before it is scheduled.
Generally the Certificate IV in Kahuna Sciences is estimated
to take 12-15 months, the Diploma and Advanced Diploma take another
9-12 months each, but with good study habits you can easily half
that time.
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: Why
does the training have so many nominal hours?
A: Kahuna Bodywork
is a new modality in the complementary Health Industry in the
Western World. Not many people have as yet experienced the far
reaching effects of the original Kahuna Bodywork, or indeed the
training. Australia
is the first country in the World to have an accredited course
in Kahuna Bodywork, as it was initiated by the Source.
Kahuna Bodyworkers go through much more training
compared to a remedial massage therapist. The work requires a
lot of practice and experience, that is then transformed into
'techniques' created new for each client and situation.
A Kahuna Bodyworker is expected to provide Bodywork to highest
standards, with a high level of
health psychology understanding, and knowledge of other modalities.
Most nominal hours are spent practicing the Kahuna exercises
and the Bodywork. Performers, trainers,
and students of the Bodywork are the ones creating our reputation,
promoting the benefits of Kahuna Bodywork as nothing less but
excellent.
Q: I have heard about the benefits
of the exercises and feel a workshop retreat could help me
to deal with stress and dificulties 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: Do I get a headstart
if I want to study for other qualifications at other schools
later?
A: Other RTOs have to give
you straight credit transfer for all the Health Training Package
units taught as part of the Kahuna Bodywork qualifications.
Q: I have a recent massage certificate.
Do I have to do anatomy again?
A: No. You will get credit
transfer for all health science subjects and only have to do
the practical training. For certIV in Kahuna Bodywork you would
have to do 22 workshop days and 1 student clinic. Same for the diploma.
Q:
I have learned Kahuna massage somewhere else. Can I apply for
RPL (recognition of prior learning) for the Kahuna bodywork subjects?
A1: Yes, you can.
Be aware though, that many schools are not Kahuna endorsed or
have teachers trained to a certificate level or Kahuna standard,
and what you have learned is all about aloha, not Kahuna skills.
We recommend
you enrol for one workshop to update/upgrade your
skills, and if you have successfully passed
the workbook assessments and student clinic, you have done everything
for your cert IV in Kahuna Bodywork.
A2: Before applying for RPL,
please consider:
1. Can you perform at least 5 forms of Ka'aleleau in rhythm with
any given situation? If not, you should not apply for RPL.
2. How do you change frequency in motion, what does it do?
3.
Can
you perform Kahuna Bodywork without intent?
'Non intent'
is foundational, very difficult to learn, and is only accessible
via Ka'aleleau.
The college takes no responsibility
in any way for trainings and invalid certificates qualifying
people as Kahuna Bodywork/massage therapists. There are Nationally
accredited courses leading to certificates and the diploma of Kahuna
Bodywork. It is up to you to verify authenticity and enrol where
it leads to your anticipated goal in terms of skills and
spiritual growth, and ultimately to your qualification.
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 2 teachers in Australia trained and teacher endorsed by
the Kahuna himself.
Kahuna Bodywork can be called Romi Kaparere or Lomi Ka'alele, never
lomilomi. You certainly cannot view it on uTube or anywhere on
the internet. No Kahuna trained
person would publish this sacred work which is intensely private,
confidential, and entirely different each session.
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 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.
Just make sure you end up with a valid certificate such as the
cert IV in Kahuna Bodywork.
You do not need a massage certificate for this qualification.
Q: I don't live in Australia. How
can I qualify in Kahuna Bodywork?
A: The Australian
College of Kahuna Sciences is registered
on CRICOS (code 02787K). This enables overseas students to apply
for an Australian student visa for the duration of the courses.
Another possibility is to become and off-shore student, taking advantage of our flexible learning
option by doing part of the course via home study in your country. You would come to Australia on a normal tourist visa to attend the practical
workshops.
Q: How can I learn Kahuna Bodywork?
©1999, Ki'a'i Ho'okahi Weber
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.
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