Heartspire School of Hawaiian Massage

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9212 Waddell Creek Road SW Olympia, Washington 98512

Heartspire School of Hawaiian Massage provides education in Hawaiian Massage Techniques. In the Hawaiian healing arts tradition, lomilomi uses massage with prayer and intention tofacilitate physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

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Our philosophy
In the Hawaiian healing arts tradition, lomilomi uses massage with prayer and intention tofacilitate physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Lomilomi massage helps increase circulation, restore motion, and eliminate or ease physical as well as emotional pain. By observing, listening, palpating, and intuiting, lomilomi practitioners strive to touch the human story stored deep in our clients’ tissues. Lomilomi practitioners also practice internal clearing so that we can be used as healing channels.

In HEARTSPIRE lomilomi classes, participants engage on all levels - heart, mind, body and spirit, for the health and well being of all: clients, students and teachers. Together we invoke spiritual guidance, touch with love and palpate with sensitivity while we apply specific Hawaiian bodywork techniques to support movement and healing. By opening our hearts and minds in the spirit of aloha, we cultivate a compassionate, supportive, and cooperative class environment.

The lomilomi we teach draws from ours studies with over a dozen teachers of lomilomi and Hawaiian spirituality. Our work reflects both Kona format traditional lomilomi and Temple style lomilomi. We feel deep gratitude and respect for all of our teachers and for all the Hawaiian healing arts practitioners who have contributed to making lomilomi what it is today.

We have studied lomilomi since 1990, and began teaching in 1993. We teach our Olympia workshops at our wooded 9 acre home, in a retreat-like setting complete with meditation trail, view of Mt. Rainier , workshop room for 12 students, hot tub and animals to cuddle – dogs, cats, and chickens. Around potlucks we create an ‘ohana (family) experience of personal sharing and support. We welcome students wishing to enrich and deepen their workshop experience to stay for the evening potluck and even the night at no extra cost, and to join in sharing our stories, music, poetry, dance, walks in the woods and other pleasant and bonding activities.

We support students in their efforts to find as much inner healing as possible and to develop spiritually sensitive bodywork skills. We build and nurture community. We work to create peace, health, and harmony in our personal and professional lives, and from there, throughout our world.

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Instructor Bios: Kim Hartley, LMP began her study of the Hawaiian healing art of Lomilomi massage shortly after her 1990 graduation from Brian Utting School of Massage's 600 hour program. She has studied over 1200 hours of continuing education with Shawn LaSala Kimmel, Aupuni Iwi Ula, Auntie Margaret Machado, Mark LaMore, Daniel Albers, Mahealani Henry, Dr. Maka'ala Yates, Dougie McKeague, Wayne Powell, and Nancy Kahalewai from 1991 to 2006.

Kim began teaching lomilomi in 1994 when her classmate from Calgary, Alberta in Canada hosted her. Thus began a yearly sojourn for the beginning of her lomilomi teaching career. She began teaching in Olympia, Washington in 1996 and formed Heartspire School of Hawaiian Massage with her husband Jim in 1999.

Kim’s teaching style is heart centered and she embodies the Aloha Spirit. Kim naturally supports and nurtures the gifts each student has to share. Through her love and enthusiasm of lomilomi, she guides her students to incorporate pule (prayer), intention, and loving touch into their bodywork practice. Kim also creates an 'Ohana (family) environment for students, allowing an unfolding and safety for a deep body/mind/heart/spirit connection to come forward.

Jim Hartley, LMP, BS is a lomilomi practitioner, reiki master and high touch jin shinpractitioner. He is the co-owner and administrator of Heartspire School of Hawaiian Massage and helps Kim with the teaching. Jim is a mineralogist, gemologist and fine jeweler and is studying the metaphysical properties of minerals and crystals

Barbara Helynn Heard, LMP, of Seattle, Washington teaches lomilomi for The Heartspire School of Hawaiian Massage and for The Hawaiian Healing Academy where she is certified to teach Mana Lomi®. She specializes in traditional, clinical, structural lomilomi. Since 1996 Barbara Helynn has studied Hawaiian spirituality and both traditional and Temple-like Lomi with seasoned lomi instructors Shawn Lasalla Kimmell, Aupuni Iwi’ula, Kim Hartley and Maka’ala Yates, D.C.. She has been most heavily influenced by Maka’ala. Barbara Helynn graduated from Brian Utting School of Massage in 1996.

Barbara Helynn works in private practice in Seattle at Awareness Massage. She dances hula at Halau Hula o Napualani, and studies Hawaiian language and history. In class Barbara Helynn shares Hawaiian culture by telling stories, teaching songs and chants, and sharing hula, history and Hawaiian quilting. She enjoys networking with other lomilomi teachers and students. Barbara Helynn lives with her husband who works as a chemical addictions counselor. She loves cats and gardening and has two grown children.

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