{"id":157597,"date":"2022-04-12T14:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T00:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=157597"},"modified":"2022-04-12T14:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T00:22:56","slug":"hula-webinar-illustrates-healing-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/12\/hula-webinar-illustrates-healing-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Hula webinar illustrates healing benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_50891\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rKJJPsBuUYk?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Hula webinar illustrates healing benefits\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manoa.hawaii.edu\/counseling\/\">Counseling and Student Development Center<\/a> (<abbr>CSDC<\/abbr>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/nhss\/\">Native Hawaiian Student Services<\/a> (<abbr>NHSS<\/abbr>) hosted a webinar on April 4 to share &#699;ike (knowledge) about how the traditional art of hula can help enhance mental health and well being. Award-winning Kumu Hula William Kahakuleilehua <span aria-label=\"Haunuu\">Haunu&#699;u<\/span> Sonny Ching discussed both spiritual and physical aspects and how they interconnect. Throughout the webinar, Ching, who founded H\u0101lau N\u0101 Mamo O <span aria-label=\"Puuanahulu\">Pu&#699;uanahulu<\/span>, featured some of his dancers who demonstrated hula movements and shared personal experiences of how hula has contributed to their wellness and connection to culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle Help<\/strong>, who is a student service specialist at <abbr>NHSS<\/abbr>\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/kuaana\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kuaana\">Kua&#699;ana<\/span> Native Hawaiian Student Development Services<\/a>, was one of the dancers featured at the livestream event. He describes its healing benefits and how mele (songs) whisk him through time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-csdc-hula-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Three people practicing hula\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-157630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-csdc-hula-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-csdc-hula-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-csdc-hula.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don\u2019t know what you call it, bliss, enlightenment, transcending moment,&rdquo; said Help. &ldquo;You are bringing time back to present to other people and when you connect spiritually like that you connect to your k\u016bpuna, you connect to your ancestors. You connect to everything Hawaiian.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>NHSS<\/abbr> and <abbr>CSDC<\/abbr> have partnered to provide resources in connecting holistic practices to Native Hawaiian culture to help address COVID-19-induced stress and anxiety. This month\u2019s webinar was partially funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/diversity\/seedideas\/\">SEED Initiative for Diversity, Equity, Access and Success<\/a> grant awarded to three <abbr>CSDC<\/abbr> doctoral interns in health service psychology.<\/p>\n<p>This event is an example of <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=12\">Becoming a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=20\">Enhancing Student Success<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), two of four goals identified in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf\"><em>2015&#8211;25 Strategic Plan<\/em><\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr>PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancers demonstrated movements and shared personal experiences of how hula has contributed to their well being.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[1146,33,1041,1157,1531,208,9,56],"class_list":["post-157597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-counseling","tag-hawaiian","tag-hula","tag-mental-health","tag-native-hawaiian-student-services","tag-student-equity-excellence-and-diversity","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157634,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157597\/revisions\/157634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}