Lomi Lomi Massage Self-paced Online Home Study

Course overview

This Hawaiian massage class teaches mostly the Ancient Temple Style Lomi, with strokes from heel to head and back. The majority of the class is hands-on practice time with extra emphasis on using forearms, oil and long strokes. A solid review of Hawaiin history with lomi theory of practice is offered, including reviewing Ahupuaa, Hooponopono, chanting, gaining your own Sovereignty and the Hawaiian Heiau. There is instructor demonstration which students are encouraged to watch, then there will be practice time provided where students can practice along with the instructor on their own model. We will use bolsters, the face cradle and top/bottom sheets draping is with full sheets instead of a towel. Genitalia and breast tissue are covered with draping at all times; however, in prone position, 1/2 the body is exposed from head to heel for long body stroking no gluteal cleveage or genitalia are exposed. The lomi strokes taught in this class include: Prone: Short & Long Back Strokes Prone: Hand & Forearm Strokes Heel to Head and back Prone: Sole of Foot Forearm Stroking Prone: Heel to Wrist Stroking and back Supine: Face Work with Forearms Supine: Wrist to Waste Stroking Supine: Simultaneous Chest & Back Strokes Supine: Abdominal Work, optional Supine: Simultaneous Anterior & Posterior Leg Strokes Supine: Foot Work with Forearms This Lomi massage class was written and taught by CE Institute LLC Founder, Selena Belisle. Selena has been practicing massage therapy for 30 years. She started with sports massage in 1989, and later sought formal full body massage therapy training in a 1,000+ hour program at the Massage Institute of New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was at the Massage Institute in 1995 where Selena met and trained with a student of Kahuna Abraham KawaiI. Selenas instructor Christine, taught Selena her first strokes in Ancient Temple Style Lomi Massage and other authentic Hawaiian cultural practices. Selena became hooked in Hawaiian history and healing practices when she learned about the ahupuaa system in the 1990s. Selenas practice of Ancient Temple Style Lomi Massage and learning of ancient Hawaiian culture and practice spans 25 years. She has trained and practiced in both Ancient Temple Style and Auntie Margaret/Big Island style Lomi Massage. In more recent years, Selena completed an intensive week-long Lomi Lomi workshop by Harry Uhuane & Sila Jim in: Creating Space, Bone Washing, Poo, Lomi HA, Kalae, and Laulima. The course was taught created and taught by Halau Uhane Lomilomi Lapaau, School for Sacred Soul Teaching and Healing through Native Hawaiian Culture Traditions in 2018. In 2017, Selena studied Lomi Massage in Maui and Big Island Hawaii. This included a month-long trip to multiple heiaus, a sacred-sites tour by a Hawaiian native Lomi Brother, another 3-day Lomi Massage course in Pahoa from Kalani Honua Inc., working with half a dozen other native lomi massage practitioners, participating in several different special practices amongst the Hawaiian people and visiting even more ancient and revered Hawaiian places and settings. Selena has also completed the Sacred Lomi Hawaiian Temple Bodywork workshop and several more lomi massage trainings with other various Lomi instructors, some being authentic and some not. Selena invites her lomi students to join her Hawaiian trips and explorations, as means to spread the word of our Hawaiian culture. This includes her geology studies of volcanic basalt and minerals for hot stone massage plus her aromatherapy studies of indigenous Hawaiian plants , many of which are used for medicinal purposes. Selenas experience with true Hawaiians is that they are a giving people who share and share alike, which is what Selena achieves amongst her students in her authentic lomi massage classes.