KU MAI
February 13 - March 5, 2024
From reaction to refinement
From disassociation to discipline
From paranoid to purposeful
From confusion to clarity
Widen your connection to Ku (the stimulator) & realize the world of solutions
Ku Mai:
A ceremony to welcome the return of the sun AND an establishment of Ku
Ku mai is designed to increase our literacy of the elemental shift of season.
Ku mai is a community experience where the practice of chant will be resourced to construct a functional and relevant relationship to the elements of Ku.
It is time we reframe the fear factor of Ku with function and approachability!
Join this dynamic duo, sovereign chanters in their own rights, Kaleinohea and Lanakila, in this 4 session online activation.
Ku Mai is for you if
you don’t know who is Ku
if you’re ready to know Ku beyond the fear based narratives
you want to be solution oriented
you want to build relationship with ceremony
if you want to work WITH the earth
you care to cultivate a confident chant communication with the earth and her cycles
you’ve ever felt estranged from the earth or her cultures
The structure
LIVE calls Tuesdays 6:00pm-8:00pm HST, 2/13-3/5, recordings made available post LIVE calls
Ku mai enhances our ability to create results.
By way of somatic, movement and vocal practices, to activate the ku in you.
MOHAI
Finding the safety and sacred of sacrifice.
KAUKOE
Like the ihe, find a direct course. “Kaukoe mau i ke ala”
KU MAI
Stimulate. Wake up, engage with your life force. What lights you up? How will you contribute to the collective? “I Ku Mau Mau”
KANAENAE
Thoughtful utterance. The intentional first steps.
We find ourselves at yet another shift of season. As Lono, our winter rains and winds, return to Kahiki, we ready to welcome Ku.
Ku is the rising and the return of the sun to the northern hemisphere.
Ku invites us into action, Ku is a do-er, a producer, a manifestor a strategist and a stimulator.
When we learn how to work with the energy of Ku, our world widens and realizes in mind blowing ways!
Let’s Ku!
Why would you Ku Mai?
Your guides
Kaleinohea grew up on the sands of Keone’awa in Ko’olaupoko. She was raised in a multigenerational home with her maternal grandmother from Honu’apo, Ka’u. Kaleinohea was reared in the traditions of hula, brought up by archaeologist parents passionate about preserving Hawai’i’s past for hers and the future generations.
“But what about the experience of Hawai’i, now?” From this rearing steeped in a “preservation of the past” Kaleinohea’s personal passions developed around the touch and feel culture of Hawaii now.
She wrote books about Hawaii in gradeschool and began her study of Olelo Hawai’i at her alma mater Punahou School. Upon graduation, she went on to Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke’elikolani to continue her study of the language at UH Hilo. At this time, she also dedicated a decade of her life to the ‘aiha’a hula traditions of the Kanaka’ole family at Halau o Kekuhi.
Her journey in environmental and hawaiian activism, began at the 2009 Public Hearing for the proposed TMT project on Mauna Kea. This led her to another decade of dedicated ceremony for the health and protection of Mauna Kea.
Kaleinohea was initiated into the Hale o Papa by her late mentor, Meleana e Kala, who also taught her the traditons of Ho’omana.
During this time, she taught Hawaiian Language and culture in the DOE system until becoming a mother. At which point Kaleinohea pivoted out of mainstream systems and has since been creating spaces of ea, founding Ealaea, a ceremony as life movement.
Kaleinohea offers spaces for the chant and practices of Hawai'i to be a vehicle for humans to connect to the sacred, within themselves, within relationships and with the environment. She is here to nurture right relations with Hawai'i and honua(earth) at large.
Lanakila grew up in the forests of ʻĀhualoa and down in Waipi‘o Valley. He was raised by and able to learn from a wide range of Hawaiian practitioners.
After graduating from Kanu O Ka ʻĀina NCPCS in 2004, he went on to teach in the DOE system, and continues to do so nearly two decades later. Upon founding The Hawaiian Cultural Center of Hāmākua (2016), newly renamed, HŌ'Ā (Ignite), he has expanded his reach of cultural education locally, nationally, and internationally. A lifelong student of Hula and ritual, Lanakila received the title of Kumu Hula through the ceremonial right of uniki under Kekuhi Kanahele and Taupouri Tangaro.
He is best known for his activism and leadership in the movement to protect Maunakea and has served on the official Hawaiʻi State appointed Maunakea Working Group charged with the creation of a new management body for wahi kapu. He has since also been appointed by the Governor of Hawai'i to serve on the newly formed Maunakea Authority Board as an expert in Hawaiian Cultural Practices. Dedicated to activism but also solution creation, Lanakila was proud to co-author the revolutionary economic reform document: ʻĀina Aloha Economic Futures.
Lanakila lets the aina lead in all of his activism, politics and community participation. His full name is somewhat of a prophecy, Lanakilaokaainaikapono, championing the justice and life of the natural world.
What the lahui is saying
Learning the chants has not only helped me get more in my body but also has helped me process the difficult emotions that come up around grief and pain. ~BA
This practice of Hawaiian chanting is helping me understand Western modern arts much deeper. I hope to use this old practice in such a way as to evolve and inspire a better practice in these modern days. ~RT
Even though we are not in the same room, I can feel your mana so much. ~RI
The potency that comes from your souls is so palpable. I am so grateful to be gifted the magic that is within the many ancestors of your heart. ~AT
the divine union of your magic with Lankaila is fire. Learning with you both was like learning with ohana - except not boring ;) Everything we needed you gave and more. Most importantly you gave us heart and lots of giggles. ~PA
Your course has fully changed me and helped me tap into the deep roots of our culture, which I have so desperately longed for my whole life. It has been a catalyst for so much change and I’m eternally grateful. ~BD
I’ve been longing for YEARS to FEEL Hawaiian. You’re teaching me that to BE Hawaiian is to be a CONTRIBUTOR of Hawai’i. I want to learn and absorb and then give back and give back more! You and Lanakila are PILLARS to my movement ~MS
This self- assessment tool is the perfect ribbon to the most beautiful and empowering gift you both have shared and unlocked within us all to guide us on our Earth walks. Eternal Gratitude for your leadership and compassion, and the full feeling FUNctional intimacy you re-ignited within us all to carry into our lives and most importantly to help us with nurturing our relationship with our internal and external landscapes , Aloha Nui !!! ~CP
This lāhui is how we change it all. By far this is one of the BEST classes I have been apart of because of the soulful purpose. ~AP
Your course has impacted my life in the most profound ways! Like across time, space, cosmos kine things. ~ WA
Inside Ku Mai you will receive
4 two hour recorded sessions of instruction and experience with Kaleinohea and Lanakila for the entirety of this new season.
Two chants for your practice, pleasure and protocol to welcome in KU.
Words and translations on each chant.
Investment
Ku mai is a community experience where the practice of chant will be resourced to construct a functional and relevant relationship to the elements of Ku.
It is time we reframe the fear factor of Ku with function and approachability!
Join this dynamic duo, sovereign chanters in their own rights, Kaleinohea and Lanakila, in this 4 session online activation.One Time Payment
KU MAI
Payment plans are made available upon request, please inquire here.
(or email us direct: info@ealaea.co)
FAQs
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For the entire KU season, through October 2023.
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No! Aloha is a vibration. Chant is a vibrational practice that is foundational within most cultures on Earth. As a species, we have always communed with nature in reverent and respectful ways. This course is designed to instill a sense of responsibility, refinement and right relation of the human presence and communication in and with our environment. This course is for all who feel called to remember and reignite the ritual of seasonal change overs.
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Know that you already are. Your presence is all that is required. But if you desire more guidance with the foundations of chant before we start, we recommend adding the foundations mini course offering at checkout.
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4 two hour LIVE calls of ceremonial nature, orchestrated to attune you to the wisdom, the vibration, the empowerment that is KU
Two chants, their recordings, words & translations
Access to all course material for the entirety of Ku season, through October 2023