Learn about Lomilomi from the kupuna ...

Makana Risser Chai's first book, Na Mo'olelo Lomilomi: The Traditions of Hawaiian Massage and Healing is published by the Bishop Museum Press. The book publishes the wisdom found in archived oral histories of native kahuna (priest doctors), kumu (teachers) and kupuna (elders) who lived in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. It also reprints virtually every published reference to lomilomi from 1779 to present.

Native authors quoted are David Malo, Samuel Kamakau, John Papa 'I'i, Kepelino, Mary Kawena Pukui and Emma Akana Olmstead. Included are the kahuna of 1867, translated by Malcolm Naea Chun, as well as contemporary kumu such as Auntie Margaret Machado, Auntie Mary Fragas, and Dane Kaohelani Silva. Na Mo'olelo Lomilomi
Price: $16.95

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"Makana Risser Chai has done a great service for those of us who have dedicated our lives to the preservation of the Hawaiian people, healing arts and culture. ... The publication of this book will be one of the landmark events of the modern history of c ultural massage therapy. Numerous haumana (students) and na kumu (teachers) across the country and the globe will have access to hitherto unknown gems of wisdom which sparkle across the history of Hawaiian medicine. This publication brings forth information which had been previously inaccessible to the general public. In a special way, this book represents the moment when another kapu has been removed."
- Dane Kaohelani Silva, kumu lomi