Kahuna Bodywork By Liz Dunkley

05/10/2025

30/07/2025

Discover the deeply restorative and transformational power of Kahuna Bodywork – a unique massage-like therapy developed by Kahu Abraham Kawai’i, a native Hawaiian Kahuna. Using flowing, dance-like movements performed to music, this dynamic bodywork helps release tension, restore balance and awaken your body’s natural wisdom.

For a limited time, you can experience the magic of Kahuna Bodywork at our Student Clinic. Under the expert guidance of Ki’a’i Ho’okahi Weber - a Certified Master of Kahuna Bodywork who studied directly with Kahu Abraham Kawai’i - along with skilled instructors from the Australian College of Kahuna Sciences, dedicated students will offer sessions at a special clinic price of just $50.

Location close to Mullumbimby in Upper Main Arm, full details will be provided on booking.

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05/12/2024

Did you know I stock Fisiocrem?

This is an all natural product I have been using with my clients and on myself for years. I find it is more beneficial than other options like deep heat or rapijel and it definitely smells more pleasant.

Next time you’re in for an appointment you can purchase a tube to take home with you.

05/12/2024

I often get asked how I became a therapist.

As some of you know I used to be a shearer. I grew up in the sheds and worked in them for 20+ years.

I completed my first massage certificate in 2005 through Armidale TAFE back when they had weekend courses. I accrued my free 200 clinical hours massaging some of the shearers and shed staff I worked with after we knocked off for the day. This helped me understand the cause and effect of hard work on the musculature system.

Over the years I also completed a few other courses including trigger points, common sports injuries and how to treat them with massage & tendon releases.

Currently I am finishing off a Diploma in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy - which I have a certificate in.

My first paid position massaging was at Gwydir Chiropractic and Physiotherapy when I was still living out west.

I do miss shearing & the sheds on occasion. However, because of working in physically hard jobs the majority of my life. I believe it helps me to understand what my clients put their body’s through on a daily basis.

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Why Kahuna Bodywork is not massage

What’s different about Kahuna Bodywork?
Why do we call it bodywork and not massage?

We get asked these questions a lot.
The key to answering is in understanding what sits underneath Kahuna Bodywork as a modality. The principles that are fundamental to its performance and the teachings that are unique to this practice.

In Kahuna Bodywork there are no techniques to learn, but principles to be understood and applied. These principles are taught to students primarily through Ka’alele’au or “flying”.

Kahu Abraham Kawai’i, the creator of Kahuna Bodywork, called it “a physiologically based, psycho-spiritual transformation”. It is more than a massage - a practice based mostly in the physical - because it incorporates the movement of energy, the releasing of emotional imprints and the facilitation of an understanding of the Self. This is achieved through the practitioner having a deep knowledge of their own selves, and from that an understanding of what is within others. When you understand something, you can become it, and when you can become it you can move with it - transforming it into something that is more positively contributing to the whole. These are the skills of the Kahuna.

The most important principle that we work with in Kahuna Bodywork is that of family. We recognise all our emotions and parts of ourselves as our family members and understand that they all have a role to play. It’s from this principle of family that we also understand that it is not our role to fix or heal anything for a client - we can only do that for ourselves. Instead it’s our role only to bring awareness to what is held in the body and to take it with us as we express the script of the client’s body in flight. The intention to heal is removed and therefore change becomes possible.

02/06/2024

Open level intensive + student clincKahuna Bodywork workshop 14 – 21 June 2024 Student clinic 22 – 23 June 2024 What you will learn in this intensive workshop Our workshop program has been authentically designed according to the teachings of (Kahu) Abraham Kawai’i, a native Hawaiian Kahuna and...

02/06/2024