HULA AND MEDITATION WORKSHOP
Give Yourself a Little Love this Year. All levels Welcome!
Join Kumu June for a Hula and Meditation Workshop that is restful, grounding, and clearing. This builds resilience and renews your body, mind and spirit. The workshop is hybrid (in-person and online) and open to all levels.
Workshop includes:
Zen meditation basic instruction and practice
Gentle warm up exercises to prepare for Hula
Hula lesson
Brief writing practice
Meditation cultivates awareness and a connection to the earth. This allows mind and heart to relax and open. Hula is a gentle embodied practice that cultivates joy in movement. It also generates care for your body. In Zen we say there’s no separation between you and the world, so when you nurture yourself through meditation and dance, you nurture the world!
Kumu June will teach the hula and chant Ka’i Kukulu written by Kumu Hula Pua Case. It is a dance about being a Pillar - strong, courageous and loving, no matter what. To prepare watch this excellent documentary, ‘Aloha ‘Aina, https://emergencemagazine.org/film/aloha-aina/
This Zoom workshop is open to all levels and abilities. Please join us!
Bring a chair for meditation and to use if you want to focus just on hand motions of the hula. You may also bring a cushion if you prefer sitting on the floor for meditation.
Dress comfortably ready for movement.
Bring notebook and pen for brief writing exercise.
Technical Details
Zoom Link to access the program will be sent to online participants by email a few hours prior event
The dance will be recorded and made available to participants
Teacher
June Kaililani Ryushin Tanoue, MPH
June is a Kumu Hula (Master Teacher of Hula). She began studying Hula in 1988 with Kumu Michael Pili Pang and went through a traditional ’uniki ritual graduating as Kumu Hula in June 2000. She began teaching in 2003 and founded Halau i Ka Pono, the Hula School of Chicago in September 2009.
She is also co-founder of Zen Life & Meditation Center, Chicago with her husband, Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse, has been practicing Zen since 1993 and is a fully empowered Zen Teacher (Roshi) and a Zen Buddhist Priest.
Cost: $55, $35 Halau and Zen members.
Scholarships are available. Contact june.tanoue@zlmc.org for more info.
If paying by check, make check payable to Zen Life & Meditation Center and mail to June Tanoue, 46 Lake St. Oak Park, IL 60302.