He aha ka hana? · What is the working?
Hoʻoponopono· To make right — to return to pono
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.
I ka wā mamua, ka wā mahope · The future is in the past
The Hawaiian kupuna who carried Huna across generations and shared it with Serge Kahili King across more than fifty years of study and apprenticeship.
Founder 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.
Current steward of the Aloha Project. Maintains the article library, coordinates the volunteer translators, leads online classes, and convenes the Big-Island retreats on behalf of Aloha International.
He moku he waʻa · The island is a canoe
ʻIke i ka piko · · Know your center
The Hawaiian voyaging tradition is not a relic. It is the living parallel to the teaching: a small group of practitioners reading sky, swell, and lineage with no instrument but attention, crossing four thousand miles of open ocean to a precise destination they have never seen.
Hōkūleʻa, the canoe pictured at left, has carried that tradition since 1976. The Aloha Project regards the voyaging science and the inner science as siblings — both ask the practitioner to know where they are coming from, where they are going, and what carries them between.
He aliʻi ka ʻāina · The land is chief
ʻAʻole pau ka ʻike i ka hālau hoʻokahi · One school does not contain all knowing
The Aloha Project holds five hundred and forty-five published articles by Serge Kahili King and a small group of trusted teachers — every one indexed by subject, lineage, and Hawaiian concept. The volunteer translators carry the foundational writings into the thirty languages they themselves speak.
The pictograph at right — a wa'a (canoe) and its navigator, carved into Big Island pāhoehoe lava — predates the archive by some four hundred years. The teaching is older than its recording. The recording outlives any single teacher.
“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.”