Week 1
Kaona Kuleana ʻAnoʻano
Your reason for being — the state you intend to be in when you put the body down.
You were given four sentences. This is the whole practice.
Taught by a Hawaiian kahu who can name every teacher in her line.
If you are stuck
You have said it ten thousand times.
I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.
And the same argument is still waiting for you at three in the morning.
The call you don't make. The room you don't enter.
You were not doing it wrong. You were given four lines of a practice that has twelve.
A fact worth checking
The four sentences were written after she died.
Morrnah Nālamakū Simeona — named a Living Treasure of Hawaiʻi in 1983 — passed in 1992. The mantra the internet now calls hoʻoponopono was assembled after that. It isn't what she taught.
What has been missing from your practice is the other ninety percent.
Kept in one family
A protocol, not a phrase.
Twelve movements. Mihi and kala — the repenting, and the releasing.
The guide, when you are ready
Kahu Kāhealani
She was taught hoʻoponopono before she could read — by her mother, and by her kupuna of Molokaʻi. It wasn't a course. It was how the family settled what needed settling.
Later she studied under Morrnah Simeona herself. One week before he died, Kahuna Papa K Kepilino gave her the Breath of Hā.
Moʻokūʻauhau
Three generations. One shoreline.
Her daughter and her granddaughter are in these photographs. The line is not ending.
A line you can actually name.
Anyone can claim an ancient lineage. Very few can list it — and say what was handed over at each step.
Her kupuna
Tūtūwahine Kawaiolamanaloapaʻakaula
Of Molokaʻi. The island practice, given at home, in Hawaiian.
Her mother
Auntie Kuʻualohaemaliakalawaianui
Who taught her the protocol as a child — the ordinary way a family sets things right.
Her teacher
Kahuna Morrnah Nālamakū Simeona
Living Treasure of Hawaiʻi. Kāhealani studied under her directly — not from a book about her.
Her initiator
Kahuna Papa K Kepilino
Seven generations from Kamehameha I. He gave her the Breath of Hā one week before he died.
Now
Kāhealani — and the two behind her
Her daughter. Her granddaughter. And, if you are called, you.
The whole curriculum, before you pay anything
Twelve protocols. Twelve weeks.
Everyone else says learn hoʻoponopono. Here is the actual architecture, in her words, from the manual her family kept.
Week 2
Kaona Kōkua Kuleana
What you do in the world with what you've become. Beingness first, then doingness.
Week 3
Kuʻu Manaʻo o ke Akua
What you believe about God, life and self — in your own words, not borrowed.
Week 4
Kānāwai Iwi Ola
Your standards. The truths you'll hold when you're tried. You don't learn to shoot in the middle of the battle.
Week 5
Hui Kala Hoʻoponopono
Monitoring your state, one to ten. At six or below you don't trust your own thinking — and you don't make the call.
Week 6
Paʻao Pilikia Manaʻo
The unwelcomed guests. Naming every recurring thought that steals your mana.
Week 7
Poʻe ʻAumākua
The welcomed guests. Who you're deliberately inviting into the kingdom instead.
Week 8
Nā Maka o ke Akua
Naming the film of your last week honestly — and titling the next one before it starts.
Week 9
ʻŌlelo i ka Lei Aloha
There is life in the words and death in the words. Auditing your vocabulary.
Week 10
Mahalo Nui Loa
Victories and thanksgiving. Every time you chose differently, counted and honoured.
Week 11
E Kala Mai Iaʻu
Forgiveness. Mihi and kala. The week most people come for — placed eleventh for a reason.
Week 12
Kapua Haumana
Demonstrations. The fruits you can point to and say: that happened because I did this differently.
"When we meet in love, we shall be whole."
Aloha ia oʻkoa paʻulo
Three ways in
Where you begin depends on what's asking.
Twelve weeks · September
The Bowl of Light course
The complete protocol, live with Kahu each week. A small hui, so she knows your name.
$3,333or three payments of $1,111
The curriculumOne to one
Private sessions
An hour with Kahu on what's actually happening — the estrangement, the decision, the grief that hasn't moved.
$300per hour · free 20-minute first talk
How sessions workBy invitation
Teacher certification
For those called to carry it forward. The course is the prerequisite; certification is conferred, not purchased.
Applicationopens to graduates of the hui
What it requiresFrom people who did the work
For years I knew the patterns that kept me from the life I longed for, and had no idea how to break free. Her teachings were the missing piece.Rebecca Kent · Owner, Maui Scalar Room
The initiation I received has been one of the most significant experiences of my life. At that very moment a rainbow appeared right in front of us.Victor Argüelles · CEO, Holos888
Her teachings inspired me as a minister — to weave forgiveness, grief healing and clearing family trauma out of the lineage into my mission.Christina Litman · Agape Soul Center of the Pacific
I've been a healer for a decade. Even the coach needs a coach. Kahu took me to a level of awareness I never imagined possible.Certified Health Coach · Mainland USA
She is in her seventies.
There's no countdown on this page. Only the arithmetic of a woman taught by people who are gone, who would rather the protocol outlive her than go quiet with her.