Navigating the way
Our guides
Kumu Ramsay Taum
Mentored and trained by respected kūpuna (elders), Ramsay is a practitioner and instructor of several Native Hawaiian practices: Hoʻoponopono (stress release and mediation), Lomi Haha (body alignment), and Kaihewalu Lua (Hawaiian combat/battle art).
Ramsay Taum is also a recognized cultural resource, sought-after keynote speaker, lecturer, trainer, and facilitator. He is especially effective working with Hawai‘i’s travel, leisure, and retail industry where he integrates Native Hawaiian cultural values and principles into contemporary business.
He is the founder and president of the Hawai'i-based Life Enhancement Institute (LEI) of the Pacific LLC, Director of the Pacific Islands Leadership Institute (PILI) at Hawaii Pacific University, and Cultural Sustainability Planner at PBR HAWAII & Associates.
Papali’i Dr. Tusi Avegalio
Papalii Dr. Tusi Avegalio is the former Director of the Pacific Business Center Program (PBCP) at the Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii. Under his direction, PBCP received seven national awards for innovation, creativity, and effectiveness. Tusi is also the former Executive Director of the Honolulu Minority Enterprise Business Development Center, and was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” for the U.S. Western Region in 2009. Tusi has consulted throughout the Pacific for the ruling chiefs of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia, and for traditional village councils, community organizations, governments, colleges and universities, multinational corporations, and local businesses. His work seeks to reconcile the perspectives of traditional wisdom and Western knowledge. Tusi is a Polynesian Alii and holds the traditional honorific of Papalii, as he is heir to the Malietoa line of Samoa. His genealogical link to Hawaii can be traced in King Kalakaua’s publications on Hawaiian Legends and Myths, which map the movement of the Pili of Samoa to Hawaii in 1100 A.D.
Kahu Kalani Souza
Kahu Kalani is a gifted storyteller, musician, film director and producer, poet, philosopher, facilitator, mediator, and educator. A renowned Hawaiian practitioner and cross-cultural facilitator, he has experience in promoting social justice through conflict resolution. Kahu Kalani is a recognized traditional practitioner of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island culture and licensed to practice traditional religion and ceremonies. He currently serves as a cultural advisor to Department of Commerce's NOAA Pacific Services Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, as a board member of the Ala Kahakai Trail Association in Hawaii County, and as community outreach specialist at the University of Hawaii National Disaster Preparedness Training Center. He is the founding executive director of Olohana, Inc., a nonprofit operating as the Olohana Foundation, that works with coastal and indigenous communities to build capacity around food, energy, water, and knowledge systems.
Keahi Tajon
Keahi Tajon is a 7th generation descendant of an Umauma ʻohana. Born and raised in Pepeʻekeo, Keahi grew up playing in the dirt and streams of Hilo palikū, and in the forests on the slopes of Maunakea. He is a local farmer, gatherer, an active conservationist, and Land and Water restoration advocate. A decade of work restoring his family ʻāina has led Keahi to become highly experienced and knowledgeable in working with local species of plants and soils while developing a Hawaiian-based synergy of mahi ʻai kahiko, or traditional Hawaiian cultural farming practices and blending them with more modern approaches such as Permaculture, Agroforestry, Korean Natural Farming, Biodynamic farming, Electroculture, harmonizing it all with mahi ʻai philosophy and ʻahupuaʻa-style land management. Keahi shares these practices with his clients at Hui Mālama Ola Nā ʻŌiwi Org. He is the Special Projects Coordinator for the Olohana Foundation, as well as the treasurer for the Hawaiian Reforestation Program.
Barbara Rose Eden
Born in Brazil with European, Native South American, South East Asian and North African bloodlines, Barbara’s ancestries speak through the diverse realms of study she has devoted herself to for the last 26 years. Initiated as an energy medicine practitioner in the Japanese lineage of Johrei since the age of 8, Barbara has traveled the world studying Eastern and Western practices of self refinement. With a Masters in Intuition Medicine®, a certified Integrative Nutritional Coach, avid meditator, community builder, trained Doula, advanced student of Biogeometry, Damanhurian Alchemy, The Way of Tea, Hermetic Kabbalah, and indigenous based practices - Barbara has lead events, retreats, pilgrimages, educational programming, art and music festivals around the world for the last 10 years in partnership with master educators, indigenous leaders and distinguished artists in service to building a more resilient, regenerative and compassionate society.
Julie Kai Stowell
Lomilomi teacher, Hawaiian healing practitioner. Julie was haumana (apprentice) to renown Lomilomi Kumu Aunty Margaret Machado since 1989 and has continued in the tradition of service, health and regeneration till today. Julie is offering personal Lomilomi Massage Sessions; 60 or 90 minutes, on or before September 20th - prior to opening circle at 3pm + on or after September 25th, after our closing circle is complete. To schedule this opportunity for renewal, relaxation and healing contact: thewayofthewarriorpriest@gmail.com