Lomi Lomi Nui Hawaiian Healing Arts Academy

03/03/2026

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In my previous post, I wrote about my dream in the context of the principle of Kala. But the fulfillment of my dream to travel to South America did not begin at an ATM or with a date marked in the calendar. It began much earlier — in my attention.

Every day, as I thought about this journey, I nourished the dream with my presence. I read books, listened to music, talked to people, imagined the scent of the air, the colors of the streets, the sounds of an unfamiliar language. Curiosity, enthusiasm, and excitement followed my visualization. It was energy.
According to Hawaiians, energy flows where attention goes — this is the principle of 🤎Makia.
Within it lies a profound truth about the human mind, emotions, and the way we shape our reality. It carries a powerful creative force and a meaning rooted in the freedom of choice.

When I began to consciously choose my thoughts, the language I used with myself changed, my decisions changed, my relationships changed. Even the direction of my life shifted. Not because the world suddenly became perfect, but because my energy stopped being scattered.
People, opportunities, and solutions began to appear — as if the world were responding to the direction of my focus.

With my decision, I helped my dreams grow.

Of course, there were also times when I attracted something I wasn’t ready for — a relationship that came too soon, or a job that was supposed to be “the one,” yet did not soothe my heart. This usually happened when I focused on something from fear, pressure, or a sense of lack.

Makia has taught me — and continues to teach me — responsibility for my own thoughts.
I know that not everything depends on me. But the direction of my attention does.

There were moments in my life filled with pain, illness, and crisis — mine or my loved ones’. In those times, my attention naturally returned to fear. The philosophy of Huna does not expect perfection, only awareness. Even in suffering, we can find small points of light: a moment of silence, the support of another person, a small step forward.

Makia does not remove difficulties, but it gives us a tool so we do not allow them to consume all of our energy.

Modern psychology confirms that changing the direction of our thinking alters our emotional responses and behavior. The mechanism of selective attention causes the brain to filter information according to what we are looking for. If someone believes they are unloved, they notice coldness in others’ gestures. If they believe in their abilities, they see opportunities to act.

In relationships, Makia taught me to look for the good in another person. When I saw only flaws, the relationship shrank. When I noticed potential, it grew.
When I focus on fear, hurt, or problems, my mind amplifies those experiences. It does not rest — it searches for more evidence to confirm what I fear. But when I direct my attention toward solutions, gratitude, and growth, I begin to see possibilities I could not see before.

This does not mean I ignore difficulties or pretend that problems do not exist. It means I am aware that my focus determines whether a problem becomes the center of my world or simply one element of it.

Small habits matter deeply. A few minutes of gratitude each day. Consciously stopping the spiral of negative thoughts. Focusing on the breath. These are simple ways to redirect energy.

So I pause and ask myself:

– Where am I directing my thoughts?
– What am I focusing on right now?
– Is this building me up or weakening me?
– Am I replaying old wounds in my mind, or creating new plans?
– Am I focusing on what I lack, or on what I can do?

When I give massage and see the person shift their attention to the breath and warmth of touch, the body begins to open.

For me, Makia is a daily practice.
Because I now know that my attention is a seed.
And it is up to me whether it grows into fear — or fulfillment.

with gratitude for each my conscious thought

Magdalena

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01/03/2026

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It is 1999. My dream is a journey to South America.
I stand in front of an ATM and wonder, What am I doing?
But something inside me says, Type the amount. I decide to do it.
The machine gives me money I do not have in my bank account.
I think to myself: the universe has given me something that seems impossible.
The next day, I am already where I dreamed of being.
That was my first true meeting with KALA – trust greater than fear - The fact that: there are no limits.

Long before I discovered the philosophy of Huna, I believed that my limitations were me.
I felt them deep in my tense body and in the thoughts that kept repeating:
“I can’t do it, I’m not good enough, I’m too old, I don’t have money, It’s not the right time.”
I treated them as truth. As facts. I didn’t understand they were only boundaries in my mind.
I also didn’t understand why I sometimes felt angry, and I reacted with aggression or silence.

Only through Lomi massage and Hawaiian wisdom I see that beneath anger there was fear.
Fear that if I resisted, I would be punished.
Fear of hurting someone.
Fear that I was too weak.
From that place it is easy to look at myself through other people’s eyes. I moved away from myself, from my freedom, from my worth.
And yet I remember myself as a child – I believed everything was possible.

Meeting Lomi massage and the philosophy of Huna helped me understand that we create our own limitations, and fear guards doors that are already open.
Sometimes all we need is to let go.
To release the belief that something must be “this way.”
Because when something doesn’t work and I stubbornly try to force it, my body closes.
My breath becomes shallow. My thoughts become chaotic. My life flows against the current.
When I give my power to others – their opinions and expectations – I lose access to my creativity and joy.
But when I let go, suddenly lightness appears.
Small steps helps me return to myself.
When fear and uncertainty try to take control, I remind myself some situations that seemed impossible but became possible, the successes I achieved, the things I managed to change..

Through bodywork, I learn freedom every day.
I place my hands on my heart.
I breathe, whisper, “I see you.”
I allow anger without violence.
I allow sadness without shame.
I allow joy to spread through my whole body.
Because it’s not about destroying “negative” emotions.
It’s about letting them guide us toward change.

My body responds immediately.
Shoulders drop, jaw softens, breath deepens.
I feel myself coming home.

When I open to the wisdom of Source and to my intuition, I regain my power.
The universe is infinite. My heart knows which way to go.
When I trust myself, my energy field opens.
Fear softens.
My mind sees new solutions.
That is freedom.
Not the absence of fear,
but movement despite fear.

KALA invites me to look for power within, not in other people’s beliefs.
To trust my body as the map of my soul.
To return to the little girl who knew everything was possible.
Today, when I feel tension, I lie down in silence.
I breathe.
I let emotions flow.
And every time I choose trust instead of fear, I feel expansion in my body – as if doors open that were never truly closed.
This is my KALA.
My freedom.
My path through life, emotions, and touch.

with love

Magdalena

27/02/2026

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For a long time, I believed that my emotions were a simple reaction to what happened to me. Someone said something – it hurt. Someone ignored me – I felt fear. Something went wrong – shame or sadness appeared. It seemed to me that the world was simply like that: difficult, judgmental, unsafe.
Only later did I begin to understand that between an event and my emotion there is something else – my thought. My interpretation. My inner commentary.
This is what 🌿IKE means to me – the world is as I think it is.
When someone didn’t reply, I thought: “I’m not important.”
And I felt a tightness in my stomach.
When someone was distant, I thought: “I did something wrong.” And tension appeared in my body.
When I had to speak in public, a voice in my head said: “I will definitely make a mistake.” And my body reacted as if there were real danger.
Nothing had even happened yet – and I was already afraid.
I understood that my nervous system does not react only to facts. It reacts to what I believe.

I am a sensitive person. My system reacts quickly and deeply. One thought can trigger a wave of emotions in me – tension in my neck, faster breathing, sometimes even freeze. If I think, “I am in danger,” my body defends itself. If I think, “I am safe,” my breathing slowly calms down.
I began asking myself questions:
Is what I’m thinking a fact?
Or only my interpretation?
It was difficult, because many of my thoughts had roots in the past. I grew up in an environment where I was often corrected, where I had to adapt. I learned to think that I must be careful, that I might do something wrong, that I had better watch myself. Those beliefs stayed with me for years.
Today I know that the world I saw was largely a reflection of those early experiences.
Working with my body helped me a lot. I understood that emotions do not live only in the mind. They are stored in the shoulders, in the stomach, in the way we breathe. Sometimes my body reacted faster than my mind.
During a Lomi Lomi massage, for the first time I felt what it is like when touch is truly safe. Flowing movements, a rhythm like waves – something inside me began to soften.
Sometimes memories came back during the massage.
Situations I had once interpreted as “my fault.”
When I changed that interpretation to “I did the best I could then,” the tension in my body released. As if my body had been waiting for a new sentence, a new truth – because my thoughts stopped being a prison and became a choice.
As a Lomi practitioner, when a client asks me how to change chaos and a difficult outer reality, IKE gives a clear answer: healing is work with thoughts, the body, gentle touch, and presence in the NOW.
Then I understood the meaning of IKE more deeply.
When I think, “People want to hurt me,” I live in tension.
But when I look at the same situation not through the lens of my past beliefs, the perspective changes: “Some people are imperfect, but that doesn’t mean I am in danger.” And I feel more calm.

And what about sensitivity? In the past, when I thought about it, I felt shame. Now, when I shine light of love and acceptance on that thought, tenderness toward myself appears. “My sensitivity is a gift that needs protection.”

The world around me has not completely changed. Difficult situations still happen, misunderstandings, tensions. But my inner dialogue has changed. And with it, my experience has changed.

Today I know that fear is often born from the picture I create in my mind. When I brighten that picture, when I add kindness and realism to it, my body stops fighting.

I used to think I wasn’t smart enough to achieve something, to realize my dreams. But when I understood that my mind is afraid of difficult questions and will always try to question them, I stopped punishing myself with other people’s words. Questions became an important part of my life, and through them I reached the source.
Because would I be in this beautiful place I am today if I were truly inadequate, foolish, or incapable?

IKE became for me not a theory, but a practice. A daily choice to check my thoughts. Not to believe them unconditionally. To speak to myself more gently.
I discovered that the world I carry inside truly affects how I feel in the outer world. And when I begin to think about myself with love, the world becomes less threatening and more human.
Then I feel that I really have influence – not over everything that happens, but over how I interpret it and how I allow my body to experience it. 🌿
IKE is freedom, because we have choice, influence, agency. Just as I can create my reality, I can also change it.

IKE does not mean naive optimism or denying pain. It means awareness that we influence how we interpret our experiences – and that interpretation can heal or harm.

The outer world may stay the same, but the inner world can become calmer. And then we truly understand that the world is as we think it is – and we can learn to think about ourselves with love.🌿
Magdalena

08/02/2026

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What does it mean to be ready?

Readiness is not, for me, about pushing forward.
It is about sensing when to pause.
I know moments of discomfort.
Moments when it feels like too much —
not intense, just overwhelming.

Readiness means being able to stop,
to take one step back,
and to take a breath that invites rather than commands.

My body remembers times when life moved too fast, too much.
It learned that stillness can be protective.

This memory lives in the tissues,
in the breath,
in the nervous system.
That is why I move slowly. - In Lomi Lomi, wave-like movement softens what has frozen —
not through effort,
but through continuity.
Micro-movements create space to listen.
They allow old pain to be met gently,
without flooding the system.
Healing comes to me through repetition,
not through breakthrough.
Small experiences matter: warmth,
softening,
spontaneous movement,
emotion felt without overwhelm.

Readiness develops in relationship.
With another person.
With touch.
With the body itself.
A frozen system cannot do this alone.
Co-regulation comes before self-regulation.
What truly supports this is simple and human:

🤍 the presence of a regulated nervous system
🤍steady attention,
🤍 warmth without demand

💟The nervous system responds to what is felt, not to explanations.

Safety is communicated through cues:
💛 slow, rhythmic touch
💛 soft or averted eye contact,
💛 a calm voice,
💛 a consistent pace

The body keeps asking a quiet question:

Am I safe now?

When safety is sensed,
the system moves toward the bridge state — ventral vagal.
Not high energy.
Not activation.

💜 But grounded.
💜 Connected.
💜 Present.

Alive, without being overwhelmed.
This is where Lomi Lomi works most deeply.
Through 💚continuous contact.
Through 💚rhythm and flow.
Through 💚transitions that are gradual and respectful.
Through 💚relational presence.
The nervous system does not jump.
It moves in waves.
Freeze collapses time.
Readiness gently restores it:

You are here.
This is now.
That was then.
Not as analysis,
but as anchoring.

A body cannot be pulled out of freeze.
It can only be invited back.

The invitation comes through: choice,
attunement,
non-intrusion,
respect.

This is not technique.

It is relationship.
This is readiness —
in Lomi Lomi,
in the body,
and in life.

Mag

With gratitude for my body🩷

01/02/2026

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07/07/2025

We are excited for upcoming time with Lomi Spirit!

24/06/2025

Lomi Lomi NUI - Hawaiian bodywork training/ retreat 23-30.08.2025
Lead by Hawaiian Art of Healing Academy in Central Portugal.

🌺No massage experience needed
🌺Two dedicated teachers
🌺 Huna International certified

Join us this summer for a unforgettable experience!

Asgeir and Magdalena

24/06/2025

The body is a temple for your soul. Through bodywork you can activate the trapped memories, and encourage your mind to create a new chapter so you will be able to flow freely in your life in alignment with your true self.
Would you like to try the most heart connected bodywork?
Join us, practice with us!

Asgeir and Magdalena

24/06/2025

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18/06/2025

We are holding a space for Lomi Lomi Nui training this summer.
The space is holding our presence, connecting and communicating, -In enchanting surrounding of Portuguese mountains, near the crystal lake you will have this opportunity to learn the healing power of Aloha and Lomi massage.

Join us!

* The experience as a massage practitioner no needed.
* You will be guided by a two dedicated teachers

During the course you will gain the knowledge and experience to start your own practice offering the art of ancient bodywork privately and professionally.

You will receive Huna International Certificate of participation.

Link to the event in a comment below

Asgeir and Magdalena

02/06/2025

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Aloha! 🌺
The role of the teacher ( Kumu) is to help you strengthen your sense of responsibility. The role of the student ( Haumana ) is to try to relieve the teacher ( like helping to your granddad🙂) because he helps you develop in accordance with your highest potential.

Our teaching is based on Hawaiian spirituality grounded in harmony and balance ( Lokahi) towards other beings and nature in our thoughts, hearts, and deeds. We implement this spiritual power to help increase your Mana ( internal divine power) in each of you so you can be responsible - serve, benefit, and care for others.

Thanks to increase of your Mana, and once you are ready to activate it, you will recognize the consequences of Kuleana ( responsibility) and you will be prepared to face the challenges!

We support you by identify and nurture each skill or talent endowed in each of you, which have been inherited from your ancestors (Ke Akua, Na Aumakua).
It is for your spiritual growth, to fulfill your life with joy and happiness!

If you would like to learn Lomi bodywork in Aloha spirit we have upcoming training this August 23-30 in Portugal.
The link to the training attached in bio.

Trust your intuition, trust the source!

Mahalo Nui ( great thanks)

A Hui Hou! ( Until we see you)

Asgeir and Magdalena