Storyteller and teacher Mokihana Calizar and her husband Pete Little open the door to The Safety Pin Cafe, where story is at the heart of service in a fragrance-free and chemical-free setting. Building from that heart of story, the tables welcome their community in a journey based on na waiwai Hawaii, Hawaiian values. With the poi bowl readied, the 'aumakua (ancestors seen and unseen) welcomed with 'oli (chant), and the families of this Whidbey Island community seated and welcomed, we ask for permission to share/teach and learn what we need to learn.
HOW DO I REGISTER?
After you have read the pages of this blog and have had a chance to digest the mana'o (offerings/expression) here, please contact Mokihana. It is important for us to have personal communication before classes begin. To begin "making island", let's have a conversation.
Email: mokihanacalizar@gmail.com
Phone: 808-398-6654
Beginning in July, 2015 small groups meet once a week and focus on the value of MALAMA (caring for ... land, sky, sea, and beings). August's focus is 'OLELO (Hawaiian vocabulary, and poetry). September's focus is KILO KULEANA (observe your responsibility) as our Whidbey Island community links up with a Pacific-wide Lunar Conference held on O'ahu, Hawaii. Later in the year we focus on ULU (thriving and growing). This session will take place sometime during the Makahiki Season (usually late October/early November - February)
M.O.K.U. is an acroynm for Malama, 'Olelo, Kilo, Ulu, the simple 'ike kupuna powerful ancestral building blocks or alaula, rays of light, which are the foundation for HO'OMOKU. Ho'omoku in Hawaiian means 'to cause island'; making island, making a home, surrounded by water. Every time we gather, we 'make island' and employ the 'ike kupuna to build for the long haul -- over time! The name Ho'o (the act of ...) MOKU embeds the meaning, the kaona (the layers of knowledge, and application).
HO'OMOKU is a vision made solid, just as a coral reef becomes solid, one polyp one step at a time. A coral reef grows into an island. The words of our kupuna tell us that, "He puko 'a kani 'aina." A person beginning in a small way gains steadily until he becomes firmly established. With the values of Hawaii in tact from head to toe, Mokihana grows Hawaii where she is today on Whidbey Island.
Starting with a desire to grow a community curious, and passsionate about Hawaiian values and how these values contribute to our Island Earth, the Ancestors of these places, feed me with their stories. HO'OMOKU is a place for Indigenous Practices, those from the sands of my birth, and, the values of the people who were here first, and remain here today. This teacher still has much to learn, and is grateful for the lessons of the second-half of life -- the lessons of interdependencies, and surrendering. "The need to be at war, is over," lessons of the North Node of the moon.
HO'OMOKU will respectfully weave the wisdom of Indigenous Practices, Lawe i ka ma'alea a ku'ono'ono. Take wisdom and make it deep, and live and teach the practice of Aloha.
Starting with a desire to grow a community curious, and passsionate about Hawaiian values and how these values contribute to our Island Earth, the Ancestors of these places, feed me with their stories. HO'OMOKU is a place for Indigenous Practices, those from the sands of my birth, and, the values of the people who were here first, and remain here today. This teacher still has much to learn, and is grateful for the lessons of the second-half of life -- the lessons of interdependencies, and surrendering. "The need to be at war, is over," lessons of the North Node of the moon.
HO'OMOKU will respectfully weave the wisdom of Indigenous Practices, Lawe i ka ma'alea a ku'ono'ono. Take wisdom and make it deep, and live and teach the practice of Aloha.
This 2015 summer series of classes are for adults. Though much of the content is suitable for children, these initial gatherings are designed for makua, adults. Your children are welcome to come. The South Whidbey Tilth grounds where we plan to meet are a very family-friendly world with lots of open space and places to play. In Hawaiian fashion, the 'ohana is encouraged to participate and be included. Children hear, and learn by watching us. Just let us know if your keiki (children) are coming when you talk with us about enrolling so we can have food for them too. We will serve a freshly-made crockpot of soup or other hot entree each Friday. Bring a potluck to share. We will have water, coffee and an assortment of teas.
HO'OMOKU begins with weekly lunch-time gatherings we are calling "Ninety Minute Noon".
HOW DO I REGISTER?
After you have read the pages of this blog and have had a chance to digest the mana'o (offerings/expression) here, please contact Mokihana. It is important for us to have personal communication before classes begin. To begin "making island", let's have a conversation.
Email: mokihanacalizar@gmail.com
Phone: 808-398-6654
WHAT WILL WE DO?
You must arrive for Ho'omoku fragrance-free. Please do not wear essential oils, perfumes, scented hair or body product, clothes washed in scented laundry products or dried using dryer sheets. Mokihana lives with MCS (multiple chemical sensitivities). Both she and her husband Pete are fragrance and chemical sensitive. If you have any questions or are hesitant about this requirement, please call Mokihana.
WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING?
-A notebook/journal to record the lunar phases of the Hawaiian Moon Calendar
-The Hawaiian Dictionary, by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert. We will use this resource extensively! I have checked with the Sno-Isle Library catalog and see they have five copies of this book available. You can reserve it prior to our first class.
To Purchase:
Powell's Books on-line has copies of Hawaiian Dictionary for $15.50 plus shipping.
Amazon has used copies at various prices
Better Books et. al (mostly new) at various prices
New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary
Session One (Fridays ... July 10, 17, 24, 31)
"MALAMA"
NOON - 1:30 P.M.
South Whidbey Tilth
-**learn the protocol and practice of arriving Fragrance-free for each gathering. If you can not be close, I will be unable to share the teaching**
-asking and calling on the ancestors for permission; asking what we need to know and giving thanks
-the 9 basic tools of the Makua o'o (elder in training) will be introduced and weave throughout all Ho'omoku study
You must arrive for Ho'omoku fragrance-free. Please do not wear essential oils, perfumes, scented hair or body product, clothes washed in scented laundry products or dried using dryer sheets. Mokihana lives with MCS (multiple chemical sensitivities). Both she and her husband Pete are fragrance and chemical sensitive. If you have any questions or are hesitant about this requirement, please call Mokihana.
WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING?
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| A notebook, The Hawaiian Dictionary, and the Hawaiian crossword game HULO! ... three of the basics in Ho'omoku sessions |
-The Hawaiian Dictionary, by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert. We will use this resource extensively! I have checked with the Sno-Isle Library catalog and see they have five copies of this book available. You can reserve it prior to our first class.
To Purchase:
Powell's Books on-line has copies of Hawaiian Dictionary for $15.50 plus shipping.
Amazon has used copies at various prices
Better Books et. al (mostly new) at various prices
New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary
Session One (Fridays ... July 10, 17, 24, 31)
"MALAMA"
NOON - 1:30 P.M.
South Whidbey Tilth
 |
-asking and calling on the ancestors for permission; asking what we need to know and giving thanks
-the 9 basic tools of the Makua o'o (elder in training) will be introduced and weave throughout all Ho'omoku study
- grow your Hawaiian vocabulary (whether it be 5 words or a 500) using Hawaiian crossword game HUOLO! & the Hawaiian Dictionary by Pukui & Elbert
- name and learn the phases of the Hawaiian Moon Calendar by learning a children's rhyming game
- connect with other lunar indigenous practices and begin your own journal of lunar phases and observations
- get excited about the upcoming Pacific-wide Lunar Conference 'AIMALAMA September 25-27, 2015
Cost: $ 10 per class
Session Two (Fridays ... August 7, 14, 21, 28)
August 7th's class and gatherings begin with a Sunrise Chant of E Ala E on the shore of Penn Cove in Coopeville. (Contact Mokihana for directions )
The remaining August classes will be held at the 'Prairie Front' (South Whidbey Tilth) at various times. (Email Mokihana for specifics)
-build upon the basics of protocol, grow your vocabulary, practice counting and naming the phases of the moon, and the practice of Makua o'o. We dig deep 'Eli'eli kau mai
-we integrate the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
-share personal moon phase journaling experiences
-grow a Mahina Garden using the Kaulana Mahina (Hawaiian Moon Calendar) as our guide
Cost: $10 per class
Session Three KILO KULEANA
The September Session KILO KULEANA which means 'observe your interconnected responsibility' is four consecutive days. We connect as a HUB, an interactive webinar with Pacific-wide lunar practitioners gathering for 'AIMALAMA, September 25-27 on the island of O'ahu at the East-West Center on the University of Hawaii Manoa Campus. This webinar venue connects us via the technology of the internet. Amazing and adaptive to the reality of life today, we join other kilo practitioners and notice how it feels to be building that 'coral reef across the cyber sea; connecting our kuleana our responsibility to everything.
More details and the cost for the conference will be available soon. Stay tuned.
Session Four ULU
This fourth session will happen sometime during the Makahiki Season, the Hawaiian New Year (usually between November and February) when communities gathered to celebrate the abundance and thriving harvests.
Cost: $ 10 per class
Session Two (Fridays ... August 7, 14, 21, 28)
*REVISED AGENDA*
FEET IN THE WATER,
HANDS IN THE DIRT, EYES ON THE MOON
The remaining August classes will be held at the 'Prairie Front' (South Whidbey Tilth) at various times. (Email Mokihana for specifics)
-build upon the basics of protocol, grow your vocabulary, practice counting and naming the phases of the moon, and the practice of Makua o'o. We dig deep 'Eli'eli kau mai
-we integrate the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
-share personal moon phase journaling experiences
-grow a Mahina Garden using the Kaulana Mahina (Hawaiian Moon Calendar) as our guide
Cost: $10 per class
Session Three KILO KULEANA
The September Session KILO KULEANA which means 'observe your interconnected responsibility' is four consecutive days. We connect as a HUB, an interactive webinar with Pacific-wide lunar practitioners gathering for 'AIMALAMA, September 25-27 on the island of O'ahu at the East-West Center on the University of Hawaii Manoa Campus. This webinar venue connects us via the technology of the internet. Amazing and adaptive to the reality of life today, we join other kilo practitioners and notice how it feels to be building that 'coral reef across the cyber sea; connecting our kuleana our responsibility to everything.
More details and the cost for the conference will be available soon. Stay tuned.
Session Four ULU
This fourth session will happen sometime during the Makahiki Season, the Hawaiian New Year (usually between November and February) when communities gathered to celebrate the abundance and thriving harvests.
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