Travel day home

I stayed in a hotel in Vancouver the final night so I can make it for my 0620 flight the next day....uugghh. Well, I woke up at 0320 with Patti singing to Aumakua (in my head) so I knew I was going to have a good travelling day. I flew from Yvr to Lax, I was in a 3 seat row by myself..seat 27A (I chose it to mean Aloha)! I flew from LAX to ORD in a 3 seat row with a space between me and the other person..woo hoo!...and I was in seat 15A (Aloha)! I made it home at a reasonable time to see my wife Denise...YEA! Over all I would say it was an excellent weekend with a great location, teacher and friends...MAHALO! to everybody, especially Brenda for being there for me both weekends :)

Last day of Lomi training Monday 2/27/12

Same as before, morning meditation, breakfast, skype with Wayne!  We had a treat today...Patti performed a Hula for us...she was great, I felt honored! Well, this is our final day we each have to give...and get a 3 hour Lomi Lomi massage...phew! We picked partners with pulling slips of paper with names on them...I am working with Chris! I performed Lomi Lomi on Chris first, I feel really good and I don't think I forgot anything. I concentrated on the massage and not the sequence. It was long but when I was finished I felt really good about it, I think Chris enjoyed it too. We only had 45 minutes to go shower, eat lunch and come back for the second session so we did not all eat together. Brenda and I went out to eat together...yep it was good!
After lunch it was my turn to receive and Chris gave me a DEEP but enjoyable Lomi session. After that we received our certificates of completion! Woo Hoo!

3rd day of Training Sunday 2/26/12

Morning meditation...Breakfast...skype with Wayne. We are learning some pretty cool Lomi Lomi moves for the front of the body. It was a really busy day, we did not get out of there until about 8:00 pm. We went to dinner and I headed off to bed...I AM TIRED!
At lunch we (me, Brenda, Patti, Dawne) went to a secret beach. The views were beautiful and the beach was made of rocks...really really cool looking rocks...round, egg shaped, round, flat. It was nice.

2nd day of training Sat 2/25/12

Morning meditation...aahh...so relaxing. After meditation we eat breakfast then we skype with Wayne from Hawaii. Today we learn some arm rotations to go with our leg rotations. After lunch we come back to a house with no power...hhmm. Some neighbors said they heard a pop so we are assuming a transformer blew, also the neighborhood is powerless. We continue as long as we can before dark. After we were finished we went for dinner at a Greek restaurant ( it was a long strange day so only me Brenda and Lincoln go out for dinner). It was in a different neighborhood so it had power...phew...UNTIL..we ordered, they put most of our food down on the table and...yep...power went off. So now we are eating by the emergency lights, which isn't so bad, it is also pretty quiet with no background noise. After dinner they come around to collect for our dinner and yep, they can't accept anything but cash..(I have been charging everything), when she comes by to say they can't accept credit cards...Bing...power came back on...woo yoo! Another day down.

Well, this is our first day of our second session of Lomi Lomi training. As usual we started with some morning meditation. We spoke to Wayne from Hawaii on skype. Then we gave each other a 2 hour massage from what we learned last month...eek...my memory is not what it use to be but hopefully I was better at the massage since that is what I was concentrating on this time. Between our massages we went to lunch (yes good food) we came back and the people that received their massage now gave a massage. Afterward we went out to dinner (yep, i'm not going to say it anymore). I really enjoy coming here, it is beautiful and relaxing and the people are great!

2nd Lomi Lomi training session 2/23/12 to 2/28/12

Wow, February flew past quick. Before I knew it it was time to travel back to Gibsons B.C. I looking forward to it since it has been a crazy busy month. My flight was pretty uneventful (Yea), I met my friend Brenda on Marine Drive (Thanks Brenda...I appreciate everything you have done for me!). Brenda and I went to a Japanese restaurant for lunch, it was great (oh by the way, I have NOT had a bad meal in Canada at all!). After stopping at her apartment for a little while she drove us to the ferry but stopped off at a lookout to take in the sights. I took several pics and we headed to the ferry. We made it to Gibsons and all of us that were there already went out to dinner. It was nice but we heard that one of the intructors was unable to join us for the weekend....bummer! Lincoln did not make it in at that time so he missed the dinner. I will try and post a pic of us. I did it, this is our class, I am on the left, Brenda is in front of me, Chris is next to me, Lincoln is next to Chris, Dawne is in brown and our Kumu is in purple with her cat...Wisdom (wissy).

Well as you can see, not only am I new to blogging but I'm not really punctual at updating it. I already went back to Gibsons B.C. for my follow up training for Lomi Lomi so I think I will fast forward to this training. The next 3 days of my January training we learned Lomi massage in the prone (face down) position and incorporated several deep rotations with the legs. On the last day we gave each other a 2 hour Lomi massage, which was great and nerve racking all in one. I was trying to get the sequence down and was not concentrating on performing the massage. I guess it is to be expected since I have never performed Lomi and I was new at it..(I know...excuses..haha). I can not wait to go back in February to perform supine (face up) Lomi Lomi which will complete the 80 hour course. On the way home I was stuck in the middle seat from DFW to ORD with people on both sides...but...I made it home! cya next month!