Marta Rogel

Lomi is a profound and spiritual transformation both for a client and a practitioner. And hula is simply love and joy of life: a beautiful way to contact, with your own body, heaven and earth. This is what I am sharing because I have experienced myself that love is the best healer.

Aloha means love, but I like the definition of 7 year old Makana: “Aloha is when there is a room with a million strangers, and then they say “aloha”, and then they are not strangers anymore.

So to you, I say, "Aloha, hoapili", which in Hawaiian means "a friend".

I remember my first meeting with Susan Pa`iniu Floyd. At the time I was very much into psychology and different forms of psychotherapy. I was also taking the Dynamind course with Serge Kahili King. I was very rational and lived in my head. But when I saw Susan...! I was sitting too far from the stage to hear what she was saying. I could only see her, and what struck me most was the harmony of her movements, her voice, her body.

She WAS harmony.

I am not a fast decision maker, but all I thought at that moment was, " I have to be with her, whatever she does. She could play trumpet of all I care. I just have to see how she does it!"

One week later, surprise! I found myself in her Hawaiian body work course!

For the next 4 years I was taking courses with her every 6 months, learning lomi lomi, huna and hula. I finished my Hawaiian education in Hawaii where Susan lives and works. While there, I met and studied with a great Kumu hula, Kawaikapuokalani Hewett – the living treasure of Hawaii.

Huna and kinomana – Hawaiian body work - are, for me, a constant discovery of new possibilities, a journey that never ends. After many years of studying various techniques and therapies, simple and practical huna is a real treat.