Kahuna Healing

Hawaiian Bodywork, Lomi Lomi, Energy Healing, & Somatic Trauma Release

Kahuna Healing Sessions

  • 1.5 Hours

    The minimum recommended duration for the Kahuna / Lomi Lomi Techniques. Relaxing flow or Deep Tissue.

  • 2 Hours

    Relaxing Kahuna Flow, Deep Tissue, or Trauma Release. This is recommended for deeper clearing work!

  • 3 Hours

    Kahuna Flow for Emotional or Trauma Release, Deep Spiritual Healing, and Rites of Passage (Transformation Periods).

About Kahuna


Kahuna Massage originates in the ancient healing practices of Hawaii. “Ka” means the breath of life or life force and “Huna” means esoteric knowledge. Hawaiian Kahunas are the healers, wisdom keepers, high priests/priestesses, and shamans of their people. Each Kahuna specializes in a unique aspect of healing, from energetic work to naturopathy to shamanism to bodywork, and they work together on cross-functional healing teams.

Kahuna Massage was typically practiced during the rites of passage ceremonies in the royal temples, making it an especially amazing therapy for big life transitions. Kahuna Massage is a holistic bodywork modality that eliminates energetic blockages in the body, mind, and spirit, freeing up life force which is the source of all healing and bliss.

Kahuna Massage uses long, flowing, rhythmic strokes of the forearms to stimulate the energy flow throughout the clients body. Organic coconut oil is used to allow the arms to glide along the skin and activate transformation on a cellular layer. Kahuna clears out the lymphatic system, aids the circulatory and respiratory system, and soothes the nervous system.

Besides relaxation and physical alignment, benefits also include trauma and emotional release, mental clarity, increased vitality, and enhanced feelings of love and joy. The Kahuna Practitioner applies the 7 Principles of Huna in the entirety of the massage.

Huna Hawaiian Spiritual Philosophy

  • "This is massage is more than just a massage. I cannot recommend Lauren enough! I’m very into bodywork and all healing modalities. I have received bodywork/cupping, Thai massage, shiatsu and energy work, etc and this felt like it incorporated all of it plus way more. It’s hard to put into words what you experience with Lauren. She puts all her heart into healing, and creates such a loving and safe space to be as you are mentally, emotionally, and physically when you walk into the room. She worked deep into some really tight spots of tension on me and helped me breath though it. Her guidance helped so much. Much much love!"

    -Nicole N.

  • "Love love Lauren!!! I can’t say enough about how amazing she is with the Kahuna technique. I have never had a Kahuna Bodywork Session until meeting Lauren and it is unbelievably the best I have ever had. Hands down Lauren is the best Somatic therapist I have ever been to!"

    -Denise N.

  • "I had the honor of receiving an abdominal and womb healing massage from lauren. She is truly a gift and a powerful alchemist. It felt like lifetimes of trauma released from my hips and womb space. She provided such a safe space for me to feel it all. She doesn't rush, and is always led by her intuition. The care, love and energy she brings is remarkable. It is rare to find this kind of healing body work that penetrates on all the levels. She walks the healing path herself and it shows. Working with her has been a remembrance; a deeping of self love. It has helped me unlock parts of myself I had buried. We are worth not carrying pain around in our bodies. I am so grateful she's helped me release so much of my own. I truly can't recommend her enough."

    -Katie A.

  • "Such a great experience. Although I had met Lauren briefly before I can still feel apprehensive about being touched by strangers. I've only had about 4 massages in my lifetime and only when I am in dire need. Everything about Lauren and her space was calming and comfortable as soon as I arrived and she helped me breathe through the very tight and sore areas she was working. She was also very insightful and knowledgeable about the way our bodies store harsh energy and stress. I would 100% book with her again."

    -Mack S.

  • "My experience with Lauren and the kahuna massage were top notch. I had not received this style of massage before, therefore I did not have any expectations. I felt comfortable sharing my personal things with Lauren prior to the massage and I feel like she wholeheartedly listened to me and used that knowledge during the massage. The massage itself was a constant flow. I felt like Lauren was moving energy out of stuck places the whole time I was on the table. She breathed with me and that helped remind me to breathe and let go when things felt uncomfortable. I have been getting massages for several years and this massage was unlike any one I had received before. Unique, heartfelt, and powerful. Can't wait to schedule another one :)"

    -Marlena J.

  • "Ladies, I had a Kahuna massage with Lauren Elizabeth last night and it was an amazing experience! I chose the 90 minutes but we ended up doing 120 because it was just so phenomenal. She's so talented! Do it as a gift to yourself! So worth it."

    -Jen M.

  • "Best type massage I have ever had! I have never had this type of massage, but it is absolutely incredible. Very therapeutic ! Lauren is a artist with her knowledge of this technique, and her execution is beautiful I highly recommend."

    -Anne W.

Aloha, my hoaloha (heart friend)

Experience the beauty of Kahuna Healing

“The Hawaiian word kahuna is a term that implies “mastery,” and more specifically self-mastery. The term describes those members of the learned classes of old Polynesia who carried a great wisdom tradition that is thousands of years old and that was much like that of the pre-Christian mystery schools of the Egyptians, the Druids, the Gnostics, and the classical Greeks.

In old Hawai‘i, where the flow of primal energies created unparalleled natural beauty, one of the world’s most highly advanced spiritual cultures developed. These Polynesian metaphysical insights still remain largely unknown in the West. The holders of this ancient wisdom tradition, the kahuna, who could be male or female, were taught this mystical knowledge from childhood using a method in which the apprentice underwent many years of arduous training. The wisdom was handed down orally within families who carried particular areas of this knowledge as their kuleana —which in Hawaiian means their rights and responsibilities as well as their rightful property, their jurisdiction, and their estate.

In old Hawai‘i, there were many different kinds of kahuna—each type with its own specialty area. Kahuna mystics who could directly experience the hidden realms of the spirit world often served as high priests, shamans, and ceremonialists, becoming acknowledged as kahuna nui o r kahuna po‘o. And there were also healing kahuna la‘au lapa‘au, who were designated as such because of their great wisdom and high accomplishment as healers and medicine people.”

-The Bowl of Light by Hank Wesselman

Education & Qualifications

  • Kahuna Massage Levels 1-5 & Heartworks Lomi Lomi Levels 1&2

    Mette's Insititute at High Spirits Retreat | Kin Kin, Australia

  • Reiki Energy Healing Levels 1 &2

    Level 1 - 1:1 Initiation with Reiki Master | Kuranda, Australia

    Level 2 - Spirit Earth Reiki | Brisbane, Australia

  • Somatic Trauma Therapy

    Somatic Trauma Therapy - The Embody Lab Certification

    Shaking for Trauma Release - Shaking Medicine Institute

“The word evolution means change, and like it or not, the law of evolution reveals that everything changes—everything, and at every level. As we travel across eternity as souls, experiencing life through the fabric of our countless lives, we change. We grow, and we become more than we were as we ascend the evolutionary stairway toward the luminous horizon of our personal and collective destiny….

The singular, distinguishing feature of the new [paradigm] involves the realization that each of us can acquire spiritual knowledge and power ourselves, making the direct, transpersonal contact with the inner worlds of the sacred realms that defines the mystic, without the need for any priest or religious organization to do it for us.

In this dynamic, each person acquires the freedom to become his or her own teacher, his or her own priest, his or her own prophet, thus receiving his or her own spiritual revelations directly from the highest sources themselves.

As we engage in this ancient human experience, each of us inevitably discovers that our personal consciousness is part of a greater field of consciousness at large, through which everything, everywhere, is connected, a deep insight currently being illuminated and confirmed by science.

This is the direct path of the mystic at its absolute best, one that leads the aspirant into the experience of self-realization and spiritual empowerment.”

-The Bowl of Light by Hank Wesselman - spiritual teachings of Hale Kealohalani Maku