Hawaiian Huna Kane Massage for Body, Mind, and Spirit

Huna Kane (pronounced 'hoonah kahnay'), the "inner knowing of the Higher Self," is grounded in ancient Hawaiian Huna wisdom.

It is a preventative, restorative, profoundly powerful, clothes-on, body massage that assists in physical and emotional healing: like getting a massage and a counseling session at the same time.

This ancient healing process allows an individual to clear emotional baggage while receiving the benefits of massage.

Because all life is energy, any disruptions to energy flow can result in pain or discomfort, be it physical or emotional. Negative thoughts and emotional trauma, when repressed, cause body pain, burnout and disease. This can then be addressed and healed to increase flexibility, enjoyment and energy. Huna Kane allows for the release of physical and emotional pain, while receiving personal wisdom from the experience.

The Huna Kane practitioner, while massaging the body, speaks to the client's unconscious mind, and invites the client to release limiting beliefs. The massage feels like a gentle rocking while spirals of energy move into the client's body, breaking up painful patterns in the muscles, detoxifying the body and activating the body's immune system while the person breathes deeply. As the body clears, new concepts are offered to the client as a more appropriate way for the body to feel. These suggestions help establish rapport between the mind and heart. The client can now resolve specific issues passively, in the privacy of their own mind as they receive the session. This, ultimately, creates more balance, peace and harmony in body, mind and spirit. Sandra Michael has developed a Body Map©, which shows just where specific emotions are held in the body. Using the map as a guide, the practitioner creates a dialogue that is designed to address emotional issues, and suggests that the body might like to feel a different way. For example, control issues are generally held in the shoulder area. During the massage of the shoulder area, the practitioner would invite the client to release the issue of control being held in the body, and replace it with an ability to go with the flow. This is how the limiting beliefs are addressed and the client is able to make changes in life. New feelings based on love for self and others enable the client to begin to relax, and detoxify the body. All the while, the client is breathing using the Ha breath, in through the nose, and out through the mouth with a Ha or a sigh. On a physical level, this oxygenates the body. On an emotional level, the client is encouraged to imagine the out-breath sending back to God, Creator, the Source of All That Is, all those things that are no longer needed and no longer serving a useful purpose in the life. Having released that, the void created by the release can now be filled with the healing, loving light that comes from that same Higher Power.

A Huna Kane practitioner is highly skilled in the art of the profession. Huna Kane itself is more a way of living and being than a technique. Practitioners study not only the techniques of massage, but also develop the intuition in order to give the client that which is needed. The intention is to be 'present with love' for the client. Practitioners adhere to the Principles of Hawaiian Huna Kane, which can be simply stated as, "Think and act with love always."

WHAT HAPPENS IN SESSIONS?

Practitioners share three processes with clients. On a first visit, BodyMapping of the back of the body is likely. On subsequent visits, the massage of the back or the front of the body may occur, dependent on the issues that the client is dealing with at the time. These processes are shared through the clothing. High Altaring or Temple massage is a massage using oils.

The back bodymapping session deals with the past issues held there as well as in the legs and feet. The past must first be cleared and the lessons learned before going forward differently. The right side expresses how we have reacted to others and the left deals with how we have taken things personally. When the session is shared on the front of the body, its purpose is to release ideas that have stopped you from going forward. By understanding the purpose of going forward in a new way, these new ideas and feelings begin to affect the functioning of the organs and glands.

As clients receive more sessions, more specific issues are able to resolve. The body becomes free of pain and more limber. Illnesses process through to resolution. With more serious conditions, you will be more open to getting the help you need or to make the changes in diet or habits that are more appropriate for you as a mature, wise person. Your life will begin to reflect that inner harmony. More happiness, a better attitude and a positive outlook come naturally. Troublesome relationships resolve or dissolve. Your ultimate potential will become reachable. The inner voice of truth is heard since it is no longer muffled by the crying of an inner child. The wounded inner child can heal, grow up, mature and blend back into the personality as wisdom.

High Altaring or Temple massage was originally shared only with Hawaiian royalty prior to their coronation. At the time, it may have lasted for several days, today the session lasts approximately one and one-half hours. This process accelerates the movement of energy in the body and opens the auras and chakras to love and light.

At the end of every session, the practitioner shares an alignment with the client. This is a head, neck and shoulders massage on a physical level. Energetically, it balances the right and left sides of the brain, which results in feeling energetic and very refreshed.

Huna Kane healing sessions restore physical integrity, allowing every part of the body to exonerate itself from the past, releasing negative thoughts and emotions and bringing about self-forgiveness.

Huna Kane Body Mapping and High Altaring are therapeutic adjustments of the entire physique which escort toxic emotion and negative beliefs, often expressed by depression and pain, out and away. Huna Kane sessions pacify senses, calm feelings, and clarify thoughts, thereby creating a state of receptivity to higher consciousness. Huna Kane restores balance and abolishes the illusion of separateness and limitation.

Clients had this to say about their Huna Kane experience: "Huna Kane has played a tremendous part in my emotional growth spurt." —Wendy P.

"The treatments of Huna Kane have increased my awareness in all aspects of life, be it business matters or personal life. The treatment results are always relaxing, yet uplifting. I look forward to every session." —Anette M.

"I like the positive changes I see in myself after … my massages … I always felt so invincible after the massages, that I could achieve anything. Not to mention the amazing stress reduction, or the positive feelings and self-confidence." —Tomas B.

References: Nicki Farnworth et al, Sandra Michael re Body of Light Principles© and History of Huna Kane I would like to gratefully acknowledge all my teachers, especially, Nicki Farnworth, as well as her teacher, Sandra Michael for all the blessings they have bestowed upon me.

By Monique L. Dorge