Our Mission

In a time of financial, personal, emotional, and spiritual change and difficulty, many in the world are seeking a simpler way.  They are seeking a way to feel more connected with life and less in conflict with the world around them.  They are seeking a way of finding internal stability and peace, regardless of how unstable the outside world becomes.

This calling to return to the gentler ways of old time teachings is happening across the planet and is touching the souls of those who hear it.  Whether Native American, Tibetan, Aboriginal, Mayan, Druidic, or Hawaiian, among many others, the inner spirit of nature is re-awakening in humanity.  The drive to move back to a life in harmony with the Heavens, with Humanity, and with the Earth is like a beacon light illuminating the way.

Ke Ala Kahiko Hawaiian Foundation is dedicated to bringing the sacred knowledge of old Hawaii into modern context.  All sacred traditions must evolve to meet modern day life and to stay relevant.  In this way, the sacred trust that has been passed to us will find a strong home in this and the next generation.

Ke Ala Kahiko is a name with many meanings.  It can mean "the ancient path", "the old ways", or even "the rising up of the ancients". 

As Keali'i Rachel sang, "Every step into our future is a step into our past."  We move forward on our mission to preserve and advance these traditions, and we walk with the ancients and listen to their song.  Through that song, we find the ways to better live in aloha every single day.

Our Personal Story

After many years of studying the Hawaiian healing and shamanic traditions in the Lineage of Ku and the family practices of Kahu Nelita Kapa Aloha Anderson and Kahu Ed Kaleolani Spencer, Connie and I were invited to branch out our with our studies to begin our training with Kahu Lanakila Brandt, a Kahuna Pule in the Order of Lono and a highy respected Kahuna La'au Kahea. 

One day, while sitting together after performing Ho'ola, or Hawaiian Spiritual Healing for Kahu Lanakila, he paused to look deep into my eyes, and he told me, "You are the one I have been waiting for." 

In 2004, Connie and I accepted the responsibility of creating an organization dedicated to preserving the healing, cultural, spiritual, and language traditions of old Hawaii.  We keep alive this wisdom and this way of being in three ways.

• We embrace this way of being as our own way of life.

• We actively teach the traditions of healing and spirituality privately, as part of group trainings, and through public programs, lectures, and talks. 

• We provide spiritual healing services using the methods of old Hawaii. 

Kahu Lanakila made this requirement of us as we began moving forward with this vision, "The Hawaiian to whose memory was committed the keeping of old time teachings, regarded it as a sacred trust, to be transmitted in its integrity; and he was inclined to look upon every different and contradictory version of that knowledge as, in a sense, an infringement of his preserve, a desecration of that sacred thing which had been entrusted to him."

That is our commitment: to keep the integrity of these teachings by living them every day.  For those who come seeking this knowledge for the betterment of their own lives by reconnecting with that natural and instinctual part of themselves, we share this knowledge as a celebration of the heavens, humanity, and the land and the Po'ohuna, the Divine Mysteries, that bond them together through eternity.

I Ke Kea Kahi,

Kumu Rick Pono'uhane Ho'okuakua Vrenios

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