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Hawaii Healing Garden
Big Island Festival
Friday Nov 2, 2007
• Botanical Symposium & Health Expo!
• Outrigger Keauhou, Kona (maplink)
Saturday Nov 3, 2007
• Festival & Arbor Day Celebration!
• Amy Greenwell Botanical Garden, Captain Cook (maplink)
Sunday, November 4th
• Medicine at your Feet. Two Workshops with David Bruce Leonard L.Ac
• Amy Greenwell Botanical Garden, Captain Cook
- See Full Schedule for Nov 2,3,4
- Big Island - Booth-Vendor Info
The Hawaii Healing Garden and Ethnobotanical Festival is coming to the Big Island Nov 2 & 3 in the third leg of a statewide festival that celebrates Hawaii's heritage of traditional healing and medicinal plants.
The Healing Garden Festival starts at the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort on Friday Nov 2 from 9-5 with a full day of lectures, hands-on presentations, cooking demonstrations, children's programs, and Hawaii Health Guide's sponsored Health Expo featuring botanical products and local health pracittioners.
Speakers from across the state will gather at the Outrigger Keauhou to share information about Ayurvedic healing practices, Traditional Chinese herbal medicine and cooking demonstration, Hawaiian La'au lapa'au and Polynesian traditional healing, and an introduction on the uses of FIlipino medicinal plants that grow in Hawaii.
The Festival and Health Expo are open to the general public and a small fee covers all speakers and events. A special evening performance of " Laka is the Forest" includes hula and chants and illustrates the profound and sacred relationship to Hawaii's upland native forest.
A special healthy lei -making contest with Medicinal, Edible, Recycled and Aromatherapy leis features a $100 first prize. Leis will be sold at a silent auction to benefit the Hawaii Health Guide Health & Wellness Scholarship Fund and benefits students studying Health & Wellness professions in Hawaii.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (updated 10.23.07)
Nov 2 - 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort
Admission $5, 13 and under Free!
8:30 AM - Pule & Opening Ceremony
9:00 AM - Barefoot Doctoring with Jim Berg of Barefoot Doctors
10:00 AM - Chinese Medicinal Plants in Hawaii with David Bruce Leonard L.Ac
11:00 AM - Hawaiian Cultural Presentation by Kumu Kehaulani Kekua
12:00 PM - Health Risks of GMO Foods with Una Greenaway of Hawaii Seed,
1:00 PM - Chinese Dietary Therapy - Cooking demo with Leon Letoto L.Ac
2:00 PM - Aromatherapy Massage - demonstration by Lynn Wind of The Hawaiian Massage School
3:00 PM - Filipino Healing Traditions & Techniques - Virgil J. Mayor Apostol
4:00 PM - La'au Lapa'au: Hawaiian Medicinals with Kumu Uala Lenta of University of Hawaii
5:00 PM - Break
Nov 2 - 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Special Presentation: "Laka is the Forest"
A journey into the native forests of Hawai'i and the sacred art of hula; presentation and lecture by Kumu Kehaulani Kekua, accompanied by dancers Aaron Alapai and Tiana Kaleo Kalani Laramio. Don't miss this!
Admission: $10
Amy Greenwell Arbor Day Celebration & Hawaii Healing Garden Festival
Nov 3 - 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Amy Greenwell Ethno Botanical Garden - Captain Cook
8:30 AM - Pule & Plant Giveaway!
9:00 AM - Feng Shui in the Garden with Clear Englebert author
10:00 AM - Hawaii Plants & Chants with Kumu Kehaulani Kekua
11:00 AM - Go Organic! - Una Greenaway of Hawaii Seed
12:00 PM - Chinese Seasonal Cooking Demonstration - Leon Letoto L.Ac
1:00 PM - Raw Enough Vegan Desert Demo & Tasting with Vegan Chef Todd Dacey
2:00 PM - Awa - Kava Demonstration with Aka Hope & Amrita McKinsey of Kulana Ki'i Farms
3:00 AM - La'au Lapa'au Wala'au with Uala Lenta of UH & Uncle Butch Richards
4:00 PM - Closing & Mahalo's!
Ongoing
8:30 AM - Plant Giveaway & Sale - Amy Greenwell Annual Arbor Day plant giveaway & sale
9:00 AM - Ohe Ha'a: The Breath of Hawaiian Bamboo Nose Flutes with Winston Ka'uhane Morton & Albert Carbonel
Time TBA - Medicine at Your Feet - Chinese Walking Tour with David Bruce Leonard L.Ac
12:00 & 2:00 PM - Composting with Worms with Gardening columnist and organic farmer Dianna Duff of the Kona Outdoor Circle
Don't forget to enter the medicinal, nutritional and recycled lei contest on Nov. 3rd and win great prizes! Lei Contest Info
Just added!
Sunday, November 4th
Amy Greenwell Ethno Botanical Garden - Captain Cook
Medicine at your Feet. Two Workshops with David Bruce Leonard L.Ac
9:30 am -12 pm Medicinal Plant Gathering Workshop - $35
1-3 pm Medicinal Tincture Making Workshop - $35
Schedule subject to change. Updates will be forthcoming.
Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort is a Sponsor and host of the Hawaii Healing Garden Festival is offering excellent Kama'aina rates or visitors and vendors who may require accommodations.
 
$119 Kama'aina Special (MODERATE category)
$129 Kama'aina Breakfast Special (PARTIAL OCEAN VIEW category; $139 in OCEAN VIEW)
The Kama'aina Breakfast Special includes a full Breakfast Buffet in our Kama'aina Terrace restaurant.
Call 808-322-3441 or visit www.outrigger.com
The Healing Garden Festival continues on Saturday November 3 in collaboration with the Amy Greenwell Botanical Garden Arbor Day Celebration and annual Tree Giveaway. The Healing Garden Festival starts at 8:30 am. and features organic gardening tips, native plant sale, feng shui for the garden, botanical tour, traditional uses of Hawaiian Bamboo such as nose flutes, awa (kava) and taro poi pounding and community information booths and family activities.
More info on lei contest, and expo booth registration and speaker bios can go on-line to www.HawaiiHealthGuide.com or call (808) 638-0888.
The Hawaii Healing Garden Festival will conclude its State-wide tour on Maui on Dec 1 at the Maui Community College
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