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Aloha International · The Aloha ProjectCollection I · The Foundations

The reading room of Hawaiian wisdom — in thirty languages, since 1973.

He kīpaepae mua kēia· This is a stepping stone

Aloha International is the teaching ministry founded by Serge Kahili King to preserve and share Huna — the Hawaiian wisdom tradition. The Aloha Project translates over five hundred articles into thirty languages, free and open. This is the reading room.

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The four collections

The reading room is organized into four collections.

Articles, Translations, Talks, Events. They are equal — no collection takes precedence over another. The Project is a teaching archive, not a marketing site; each collection opens its own corner of the library.

I

Articles

Five hundred articles on Huna, healing, manifesting, and the working of mind.

The living core of the archive. Articles authored by Serge Kahili King and a small group of trusted teachers — published continuously since 1996, archived in full, indexed by subject and lineage.

545 articles · IndexedEnter the collection
II

Translations

The Aloha Project — preserving the writing in thirty languages.

Volunteer translators from across thirty language communities carry the foundational writings into their own tongues. ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, English, Español, Français, Deutsch, 日本語, Português, Русский, العربية, हिन्दी, and twenty more.

30 languages · Open accessOpen the Project
III

Talks

Huna Talks — recorded conversations on the teaching.

An archive of recorded talks and conversations on Huna, Hoʻoponopono, and the wider Pacific traditions. Hosted on the Huna Talks YouTube channel; transcripts maintained here for searchability and translation.

84 talks · TranscribedListen and read
IV

Events

Cohort retreats and online classes held by Aloha International.

A small program of in-person retreats — primarily on Hawaiʻi Island — and online classes led by Graeme Kapono Urlich and visiting teachers. Custodial, not commercial. Workshops for purchase live separately at huna.net.

Quarterly · Hawaiʻi + onlineSee the calendar
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The lineage carriers

Fifty years of teaching, carried by named stewards.

Huna · Aloha International was founded by Serge Kahili King, Ph.D., in 1973, after more than fifty years of study under Daddy Bray and other Hawaiian elders. The Aloha Project — the public translation and publishing effort of the ministry — is today stewarded by Graeme Kapono Urlich, who maintains the article library, coordinates the volunteer translators, and leads the online classes. The lineage is named because the lineage is the credential.

Hale o Keawe · Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau
Stewardship of the Lineage
Daddy Bray and other Hawaiian eldersTeaching lineage · pre-1973Hawaiian kupuna who carried the Huna teaching across generations and shared it with Serge Kahili King across more than fifty years of study and apprenticeship.
Serge Kahili King, Ph.D.Founder · 1973 — presentFounder of Aloha International. Author of more than a dozen books on Huna. Widely considered the foremost Western teacher of Huna in the modern era. Continues to write and teach from Hawaiʻi Island.
Graeme Kapono UrlichCurrent steward · 2010s — presentCurrent steward of the Aloha Project. Maintains the article library, coordinates the translation volunteers, and leads online classes and retreats on behalf of Aloha International.
A foundational methodology

Hoʻoponopono

The ancient methodology of reconciliation and pono-making

Hoʻoponopono is the Hawaiian practice of setting things right — a structured working of apology, forgiveness, and gratitude that returns the relationship and the self to pono (balance, alignment, rightness). It is older than its modern reductions. It is not a four-word mantra; it is a practice held within a relationship — to another person, to the land, to oneself. We teach it as the elders teach it.

01MihiRepentance · the honest acknowledgment of what is wrong
02KalaForgiveness · the letting go that frees both parties
03MahaloGratitude · the orientation of the heart that holds the work
04AlohaLove · the ground on which the practice rests
On Hawaiʻi Island · Sacred-site retreats

The teaching meets the ground it descends from.

Aloha International leads three small, in-person retreats each year — at the sacred sites of Hawaiʻi Island that the practice itself was shaped by. Cohorts cap at twelve so the work stays close to the elder voice. Travel and lodging are handled by the Project; tuition is on a koha (gift) basis.

I

Hoʻoponopono Sanctuary

He puʻuhonua nā kāhi a pau · Every shore is a place of refuge

Seven days at the Place of Refuge — the pre-contact sanctuary on the Kona coast where Hawaiians have come for cleansing since the time of the first kings. Daily practice of the four-step protocol: responsibility, forgiveness, reconciliation, release.

Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau · Kona CoastFebruary 14 – 20, 2027Seven days · in person · Limited to twelveReserve a seat →
II

Volcanic Ground · The Pele Cycle

Pele i ke ahi · Pele in the fire

Five days walking the calderas where Pele still works. The Hawaiian relationship to ʻāina (land) and the lineage of creation through destruction. Field instruction at Kīlauea, Halemaʻumaʻu, and the lava-meets-ocean entry. Stays in the village of Volcano.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park · KīlaueaMay 9 – 13, 2027Five days · in person · Limited to twelveReserve a seat →
III

The Lineage Walk

I ka wā mamua, ka wā mahope · The future is in the past

Nine days walking the north Kohala coast — Pololū Valley, Lapakahi, Mookini Heiau, into Waipiʻo. A pilgrimage on foot through the genealogy of the place itself. Carried by the elder voice; closes at the valley floor.

Pololū · Kohala · WaipiʻoJuly 18 – 26, 2027Nine days · on foot · Limited to twelveReserve a seat →
The Aloha Project

Articles in thirty languages, carried by volunteers.

The Aloha Project is the public translation arm of Aloha International — a long-running, volunteer-led effort to carry the foundational writings of Huna into the languages they are spoken. Below: the thirty languages currently published, listed in the form of their own scripts where Unicode allows.

ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
English
Español
Français
Deutsch
Italiano
Português
Nederlands
Polski
Русский
Українська
Türkçe
العربية
हिन्दी
日本語
中文
한국어
Tagalog
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Melayu
Tiếng Việt
Suomi
Norsk
Svenska
Dansk
Magyar
Čeština
Română
Māori
Sāmoa
From the library

A representative pull from the five hundred.

Six articles to begin with. The full library is indexed by subject, by author, and by lineage — and the reading list at the bottom of the grid is the recommended sequence for new readers.

Foundations

The Seven Principles of Huna

The seven working assumptions every student begins with — IKE, KALA, MAKIA, MANAWA, ALOHA, MANA, PONO — and what each one means in practice, in plain language.

Serge Kahili King · Revised 2024Read →
Practice

Hoʻoponopono · Step by Step

A patient walkthrough of the reconciliation practice as the elders teach it — Mihi, Kala, Mahalo, Aloha — with attention to the misreadings the modern reductions introduce.

Graeme Kapono Urlich · 2023Read →
Lineage

Paʻao and the Tahiti Connection

A long essay on the Tahitian lineage carried into Hawaiʻi by Paʻao, the kahuna whose arrival shifted the religious and political landscape of pre-contact Hawaiian society.

Serge Kahili King · 1998 · republished 2020Read →
Healing

Lomilomi and the Working of Touch

On the Hawaiian healing tradition of lomilomi — what it is, what it is not, and the kupuna whose teaching established its modern practice. With references to current practitioners.

Aloha International · 2022Read →
Cultural ground

Aloha ʻĀina · The Land Holds Us

The Hawaiian practice of aloha ʻāina — love of the land — as the cultural ground on which all of Huna rests. Why no working of the mind is separate from relationship to place.

Serge Kahili King · 2019Read →
Reading list

A Reading Order for Huna

Where to begin if you are new to the archive. Five articles, in sequence, that establish the working vocabulary before you turn to the specialized teachings.

The Aloha Project · 2025Read →
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From the elder voice

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

Albert EinsteinThe inspiration carried at the head of huna.org since the project began
Support the work

Your gift funds translation, not subscription.

Aloha International is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The Aloha Project is run by volunteers; donations underwrite translation, hosting, and the small infrastructure that keeps the library open in thirty languages, free, with no advertising. Workshops and books for purchase live separately at huna.net.

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