History of the Australian College of Kahuna
Sciences
The College
commenced teaching in 1992, when Ki’a’i Weber gained
permission by (Kahu) Abraham Kawai’i to
teach Ka’alele
au, the
foundational Kahuna Exercises.
The Australian College of Applied Kahuna Principles was created.
Kahu
started teaching Kahuna Principles and the bodywork all over
the world in the late 1960s. The training of non Hawaiian
people
was still in its early evolution and constantly being adapted
to the Western psyche and interpretation of Ancient Principles.
Ki’a’i
Ho’okahi Weber, after many years
of training in Hawaii, with all her immediate family members
also accepted
as students into the Kahuna’s house, became the First
Kahuna Bodywork instructor with Masters Certification
by Na Pua ‘Olohe,
the First Guardian of the Clan, Ki’a’i.
The college
name was changed to Australian College of Kahuna Sciences,
incorporating Kahuna Sciences (namely Huli Honua,
Kuhikuhipueoneone, Ho’omanamana, Hui Kalo ‘O
Ku, Mai Pono, ‘Oluli,
Ke Ala Hoku, Mo’oko Manao) in the training and performance
of Kahuna Bodywork.
Kahuna Sciences have many applications,
and a student will over time incorporate these naturally
in all life, work
and family situations.
Kahuna Sciences Bodywork became
a highly dignified modality, with its evolution promoting
effects reaching far beyond
the therapeutic.
The next step was to develop a Kahuna
Sciences course for accreditation in Australia.
Kahu gave
his expertise, knowledge and experience of decades of teaching
and Ki’a’i incorporated these into courses
of study according to the standards of the Australian
Qualifications Framework.
This challenging task, to maintain
the original training while complying with Australian standards,
could
not have been finished
without the encouragement and aid of Ki’a’i’s
family, the Weber Clan.
2004: Certificate III in Kahuna Sciences to Diploma
of Kahuna Sciences are accredited and nationally recognised qualifications.
2005: The Australian
College of Kahuna Sciences
gained RTO status (RTO: Registered Training
Organisation) with the NTIS
number 31263.
2006: The college was registered on CRICOS, the
Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas
Students. CRICOS code: 02787K.
2006: The college added to its scope and is teaching
Cert IV in Massage and Diploma of Remedial Massage.
2007: Kahuna Bodywork courses are upgraded and
reaccredited. New are the Certificate IV in Kahuna Bodywork,
Diploma of Kahuna Bodywork and Advanced Diploma of Kahuna Sciences.
The college is now delivering highest standard training towards
six nationally recognised qualifications.
2008: Apart from delivering training
in Kahuna Sciences, the college is committed to future research
to bring Kahuna
Bodywork
to the consciousness of the medical community,
as a healing modality
using a ‘backdoor’ approach via
the physical body, bypassing the subconscious
guardians that may have patterned the
body, the mind,
and the spirit.
2009: The workshops
have outgrown the old classroom, so we have built a new schoolhouse,
Halau Nuholani. The schoolhouse is built from mudbricks and
timber from the old Mountain University's land with the help
of many students. It has been blessed and dedicated to the
teachings of Kahu Abraham Kawai'i by Kahu's student Kumu
Keli'i Tau'a, life time student Ki'a'i Ho'okahi Weber and
Aboriginal Bunjalung Elder Lewis Walker. The halau is connected
in spirit to the Wisdom of the Elders and one feels this
connection on permission to enter.
2009: The college is now registered with the National
body NARA (previously QLD), because we deliver training in
several states. Current students are from all over Australia,
European countries and Canada.
2009: A new office (NSW campus for local students) and student
run bodywork clinic has been opened in Mullumbimby.
2010: The college passed the 5 year audit flying colours and is re-registered for the next 5 years.
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