WakaAloha

06/12/2025

Aloha🤙

So good to be back to home, Adelaide!

Thanks to your incredible support, I had another fantastic year followed by the educational trip to Hilo Hawai’i.

I continue to learn Hawaiian healing art so that you can come to Waka Aloha and restore the balance between body, mind and spirit.

Wishing you happy festive season🫶

Wakako

25/11/2025

24/11/2025

Self care: be in touch with nature.

18/11/2025

Lomilomi session will be resumed as from 10th of December. If you have any questions please DM me🙏

I look forward to see you when I come back from Hawai’i🤙

12/11/2025

🌺Restocked🌺

This soap has been taking care of my entire family🥥 Its aroma and texture as well as how skin feels, simply AMAZING.

AND it is sustainably produced by Kaizis Traditional Coconut Oil and Essential Blends QLD🌴

Kaizi's is an Indigenous Torres Strait Island small business initiative. Using the nutrient rich nuts of Far North Queensland, Australia's own organic, unrefined coconut oil😍🌴

10/11/2025

Let’s let go before the sunset and wake up stressfully!

07/11/2025

It’s been 3 years since I last visited Hawai’i. I said farewell to Kumu Dane who is my source of Lomilomi. Time flies…

It is very important to have connection with the island and its people, make effort keeping it alive to be authentic. By doing so you can be in touch with true “ traditional” Hawaiian healing art Lomilomi.
And yes, learning never ends!

28/10/2025

Aloha everyone🤙

WakaAloha will be closed 18/11-7/12. Please plan your maintenance in advance☺️
I will be back fully recharged!

07/09/2025

Lomi stick made in Hawa’i during workshops.
I oiled them today.

02/09/2025

Waka Aloha is now offering sessions at Westbeach!

04/06/2025

01/06/2025

The story behind Hōkūleʻa ( Star of Gladness ).

Mau Piailug wasn’t supposed to exist. Scholars said his art was dead. Then he sailed 2,500 miles—without maps, without instruments, using only stars his ancestors left him.
This was Mau Piailug, a master navigator from the Micronesian island of Satawal. In 1976, he accepted a significant challenge that would echo through history.
He agreed to guide the Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hōkūleʻa, on a landmark journey from Hawaiʻi to Tahiti, a distance of about 2,500 nautical miles.
Piailug navigated without any modern instruments. He relied solely on traditional wayfinding methods passed down through generations but largely discounted by many in the modern world.
He used his profound knowledge of the stars, the patterns of ocean swells, the direction of the winds, and even the flight paths of birds to chart their course across the vast Pacific.
For many decades, these sophisticated Polynesian and Micronesian navigation techniques were considered lost arts, almost erased by colonization and the dominance of Western technology.
Yet, these very skills had enabled Pacific Islanders to explore and settle one of the largest areas of the globe, a testament to their incredible maritime capabilities dating back to around 1300 AD and earlier.
The 1976 voyage of the Hōkūleʻa was far more than just a successful sea journey; it was a powerful act of cultural revival.
It clearly demonstrated to the world that these ancestral navigation systems were not only historically significant but remained remarkably effective and deeply vital to Pacific cultures.
Piailug’s guidance and the Hōkūleʻa’s success ignited a renaissance in traditional voyaging and celestial navigation across Polynesia and beyond, inspiring a new generation