E Ola ka Pu`uwai Aloha (The Healing Heart) of Wailea is a multiphase initiative envisioning a space of recovery, healing, reharmonization and wellbeing for all beings, through ritual, wisdom and practices of our Indigenous Hawaiian ancestors. This space is found in 114 acres of ancestral land, repatriated after 150 years of extractive corporate sugar cane plantations. A pervasive woundedness exists in our communities, in our social-ecologies, in the lands and waters and Peoples of these islands. The pathway to healing is one of recalling and revitalizing our roots through reconnecting with ancestral ways, while evolving and adapting to ever-shifting circumstances of a planet navigating crisis and change.
Living Life Source Foundation offers a pu`uhonua (safe place) where Native Hawaiian education, healing, sustainable lifestyle, and traditional farming intersect. We aim to restore a system of living, integrating rigorous Native Hawaiian cultural practice with contemporary science and all beliefs. Through teaching concepts vital to creating a life of greater meaning and purpose, with reverence for our ‘Āina (land), LLSF educates people of Hawaii to become self-sustainable, and to perpetuate the value of aloha. Reindigenizing regeneration of forest, coastal and watershed ecosystems, traditional fish ponds have offered learning, healing with our communities’ most vulnerable. We have been registered since 2011; established as 501 c3 non-profit in the state of Hawai’i since 2012. We work with schools, youth and families and Kapuna who’ve experienced trauma, institutionalization, and high vulnerability (including homelessness, fiscal poverty, the working poor, those with emotional spiritual psychological or mental health challenges).
We work in and rural, urban and peri-urban spaces and communities.