Learn Lomi
People meet Lomi Lomi in different ways. For some, it’s discovering a few beautiful, fluid techniques. For others — like myself — it becomes a life-transforming journey that can gradually change your relationship with your body, others and how you meet the world.
After teaching for over a decade, I can say this clearly: what I teach is less about adding another healing modality, and more about learning three essentials:
- how to be present in your body
- how to slow down
- how to embody safety.
These foundations deepen your quality of life and the quality of your relationships — no matter your background or profession.
Learning Lomi Lohi with me – the slow form of Lomi Lomi (lohi simply means “slow” in Hawaiian) – is ultimately learning how to downregulate your own nervous system so that co-regulation for the recipient happens naturally and effortlessly. It’s a genuine win-win-win: good for the giver, good for the receiver, and quietly good for the world.
If you feel drawn to learn with us, here’s a little hint that might save you a few years of exploring deeper layers of the process: instead of asking what you can do with Lomi Lomi, ask what Lomi Lomi might do with you.
Whether you take the in-person basic course or the online basic course, by the end you’ll be able to offer a full 2-hour Lomi Lomi session that often leaves recipients deeply moved — and the less bodywork experience you start with, the more surprising this impact tends to be. This is because the courses involve both techniques and unlearning: shedding tension, old patterns and automatic movements, while remembering something deeply human. We’re wired for this. Reconnecting to it is simple, natural, and genuinely enjoyable.
Why learn Lomi?
From the point of view of the meaning, the expression “lomilomi” in Hawaiian simply means “massage”.
For centuries, it did not mean one specific massage modality as it does for us, now, amongst many other modalities like Shiatzu, Thai, Ayurvedic or deep tissue massage.
Before cultures encountered and merged Lomi Lomi was “the” massage on the Hawaiian islands and it simply meant all the various forms of therapeutical or spiritual bodywork modalities: pregnancy massage, deep tissue massage, energy healing or rites of passage – it was all “just” lomilomi.
From a broader point of view, though, there is something quite unique in Lomi Lomi – it evokes a certain quality of focused, loving attention that goes far beyond the notions we hold about giving or receiving a massage.
So funnily enough, despite its name, this “massage” – is not just a massage.
Lomi Lomi is an invitation – for practitioners and clients alike – to be present… and to be present… and to be present.