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6TH ANNUAL KAUAI HEALING GARDEN FESTIVAL 2010
SATURDAY JUNE 19TH 10;00- 6;00PM
KILOHANA PLANTATION PAVILION
CELEBRATING HEALTHY LIVING KAUAI STYLE
For the sixth year in a row, the Hawai`i Healing Garden State wide Festival launches on Kauai
 The Hawaii Healing Garden Festivals have become known state wide for Edible & Medicinal Lei Contests with Mayor's Prize, Health Scholarships, All- Kauai Meal Contest, Eco-Fashion, Great Music, Zero-Waste events, organic gardening, and Ag and energy sustatinabilty, Free KAUAI Bus Service, and best of all the opportunity to meet and study with Renowned Cultural Practitioners, Ethnobotanists, Presenters & Teachers, Chefs at the festival and through continuing Farm Tours, Workshops, Cooking Classes.
What might not be known is that the origin of the Statewide Healing Garden Festival was incubated and seeded right here on Kauai. 6 years ago on Kauai with the support of Hawaii Health Guide and the Kauai County commitment to health and wellness for Kauai's people and visitors and a committed community. The Garden Island continues to lead the way with innovative solutions and and independent can-do approach to creating a sustainable and thriving healthy community.
We are pleased to announce the 2010 Healing Garden Festival launching on Kauai Saturday JUNE 19, 2010 at the Kilohana Plantation. Followed by several days of workshops, tours and classes. The Festival continues on to the Big Island in July, and Oahu in Sept.
More details and full festival schedule: http://www.HawaiiHealingGarden.com
As Hawai`i's only statewide collaborative health and green festival, the event will provide the opportunity for residents and visitors to "enjoy a dynamic series of multicultural events exploring healthy living in Hawai`i," said co-founder Katie Fisher.
Fisher, along with co-founder Michael Saiz, are the backbone behind the online Hawai`i Health Guide, from which the healing festivals were formed. Debuting on Kauai six years ago, the Garden Festival was the result of "finding a common denominator among people of different cultures," Fisher explained. Essentially the co-founders wanted to know what was a collective topic that the people from diverse ethnic backgrounds in Hawai`i talk about. The answer: medicinal plants.
This common thread tied together Hawai`i's Polynesian, Hawaiian, Chinese, Ayurvedic and Filipino cultures, enabling the sharing of the cultural use of medicinal plants and healing arts.
The vision became to share knowledge of Hawaii's rich botanical treasures and cultural traditions through the vehicles of educators, health practitioners, botanists, gardeners, cultural practitioners, health food dietitians and chefs. Fisher and Saiz then swept up local artists, musicians and performers to form an all-encompassing educational health fair.
Standard events of the Garden Festival include cultural healing arts demonstrations, concerts, healthy food, workshops, tours, Hawaiian cultural immersion and cooking classes. Some of the highlights of the festival: herbalists, acupuncture, massage; worm farming; Little Green Thumbs children's' programs; edible lei contest; unique products and plants; a Kauai Fashion show featuring locally made clothing and cultural entertainment.
The seeds of the Healing Garden Festival were planted on Kauai 6 years ago, festival have spread over the years as residents of each island have partnered with festival coordinators to develop specific participatory exhibits, location-based tours and specialized island workshops.
Fisher noted that the festival would not be what it is today without the botanical gardens, organic farms, restaurants, universities, organizations, private residents and businesses from the community. LIke last year, this year's Healing Garden Festival will be held at Kilohana Plantation in Lihue.
"We received a lot of positive feedback, from that location last year " said Fisher, "We had a lot of people come out to the festival, both residents and visitors, even the Mayor came to give awards to the winners of the all local meal contest.
A highlight this year is the Art & Eco Fashion show featuring Kauai inspired fashions.
The Edible, Medicinal or Recycled Lei contest is also a big draw, with a grand prize of $100 offered for the best overall entry.
This year the festival, which will be divided into Saturday's Festival Celebration followed by over 8 Workshops and Tours including herbal hikes, an underwater jujitsu class, Amazon herbs, a women's self defense class, cooking classes, a mantra class for agriculture, an organic farm tour, and will continue through the week will feature opportunities to study a number of topics more in depth with our local and mainland workshop educators.
A highlight of this year's festival will be the "Amazon Medicine Workshop: Healing the Heart of the Jungle," with ethno-botanical researcher Jerome River Black of Amazon Therapeutic Laboratories. Black will teach about the botanical medicines of the Amazon rainforest and Andes Mountains, detailing the healing secrets he's discovered from the region. Black will offer an interactive and informative workshop, touching upon specific modalities and the traditional medicine treatments such as intense immunities for therapeutic support, nourishing tonics and first aid remedies.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to sample and familiarize themselves with herb extracts and formulas from the founder of Herbs America and Maca Magic --- the first group to cultivate and distribute live maca root plants in the United States. [Black's free presentation will take place on Saturday and a half day workshop will take place Monday for $35.
Th $5 entry fee to Saturdays event includes with the Healthy Hawai`i Expo, featuring healthy and green vendors, the All Kauai Art and Eco Fashion show, music and food demos, natural products and organic goods, kids healthy activiites, Van GO and other art projects, and all speaking and educational classes and mini workshops. Nonprofit organizations will display information booths and educational experts will present short lectures.
For Fisher and Saiz, the Garden Festival's focus on the many multicultural traditional uses of medicinal and nutritional plants through personal health and healing is what they hope attendees will take away from the event.
"We hope that Kauai people and visitors alike really gets something out of this," said Fisher who feels the festival will empower the community with positive attitudes and behavior while nurturing a sustainable relationship with the environment. "We really want to convey [the idea] that food and plants are medicine. and to show case what is happening right here on Kauai.
The community is invited to collaborate, support and participate. Presentation and workshop proposals are now being accepted for consideration in the festival programs. Exhibitor booths are available for businesses and non-profit organizations. Volunteers are invited to help with organizing, planning and festival day activities, speaker support and workshops. Booth packets and event expo information is available on-line at http://www.HawaiiHealingGarden.com or by calling 808-638-0888.
The Hawai`i Healing Garden Festivals are presented by Hawai`i Health Guide (HawaiiHealthGuide.com) and supported by the Forward Foundation, Hawai`i Tourism Authority, Bishop Museum, Waimea Valley, National Tropical Botanical Gardens, University of Hawai`i, Malama Kauai, Maui Community College, The Sustainable Living Institute of Maui, Amy Greenwell Ethno-Botanical Garden and many other local businesses and individuals.
For more Information on the Hawai`i Healing Garden Festival, go to http://www.HawaiiHealingGarden.com or (808) 638-0888.The 6th Annual Kauai Healing Garden Festival will be held at the Kilohana Plantation on Saturday June 19th from 10:00-6:00
Followed by a week of workshops, tours and classes.
Special Highlights for Saturday Festival:
Klohana Plantation Pavilion, Puhi
Healthy Expo: 10:00-5:00
SPECIAL SHOWS- Main stage and outside theater
1:00-2:00 Eco-Fashion Show
The Fabulous Kauai Art Eco Fashion Show at the Kauai Healing Garden Festival.
This year's Eco and Art Fashion show focuses and supports on Kauai artists, musicians and models featuring Kauai hand painted clothing and fiber arts made here on Kauai. Unique , original and high quality. Angie of Elle (AL ) Fashion focuses on bamboo and hand painted clothing line. And unveiling new men's line. Denis Tjarks retro hawaiian hand bags. Local painters Maxine Graham and Takuyo Williams use clothing as a canvas to express
Kirk Smart highlights his prize student. Unique head pieces by Amber Spock vintage fibers, silk flowers. Live your dreams, doing what you love and its possible right here on Kauai. MC'd by Angie.
2:00-2:30Purple Striped Honu Theatre - Where is mom?
Ongoing:Art, LIttle Green Thumb Gardening for keiki,
PRESENTERS SCHEDULE
Super-foods in the Prevention of Cancer & Heart Disease with Dr Michael Ancharski on current research that validates the powerful healing properties of specific foods and traditional medicinal plants for protection from toxins, inflammation, and oxidative stress. Highlighted will be the Berry family, turmeric, ginger, mushrooms, broccoli, Kale, cilantro, pomegranate, garlic, olive mil thistle and Rhodiola.
- Dr Michael Ancharski ND is a renowned Naturopathic Physician, Researcher, and lecturer with over 30 years of clinical experience treating disease with nutrition and plant medicines. Hea has studied or worked with most of the top experts in natural medicine. And was a clinical professor at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, and the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Phoenix Arizona. He co-founded the Eclectic Institute, a leader in botanical medicines and research, and practices on Kauai with offices in Kilauea and Lihue since 2001.
10:00 Kauai's Farming Future - with Don Heacock - Sponsored by the Hawaii Farmers Union
12:00 Traditions of Hawaiian Lomi Lomi Massage with Penny Prior
11:00 Hawaiian Herbal Medicine: Where Science Meets Shamanism with David Leonard L.Ac author of Medicine at Your Feet - Healing Plants of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
2:00 Amazonian Plants Medicines: with Jerome River Black, founder of Herbs America, and Amazon Therapeutical
11:00- 1:00 COOKING DEMOS
Healthy food, coconut delights and choca will be among the healthy cooking demos with Chef Dodi Rose of Dodilicious, and Patria Agullana, sharing healthy recipes and tastes of the Philippines.
4:00-6:00 MUSIC: Millicent Cummings, Elijah and Special Guests
Post Festival WORKSHOPS, Classes and Tours Sunday- Tuesday
SUNDAY JUNE 21 2010
10:00-12:30 pm - Underwater Jujitsu Intro Course
Sponsored by Hawaii Zenyo Jujutsu Kai with Prof.Steve McLaughlin 8th
Dan.
YMCA swimming pool- Puhi, $75 or $100 for father/son father's day
special!
$75 limited to 15 (minimum age:16 years old - accompanied by parent)
Pool entry $10
Divers, Swimmers, Water rescue, students welcome.
Arghhh matey.... here's a unique opportunity to learn some
underwater escape sequences based on traditional jujuitsu moves
adapted for under water. Developed from a course requested by NASA and
adapted to the every day needs of dive master, life guards, martial
artists, surfers, scuba divers and anyone involved in water safety and
rescue. Did we mention - it's Perfect for pirates, water film extras?
Take your jujuitsu off the mat and under the waves...
Come on in - the water is fine, we'll have a great time!
Put a little James Bond into your water time.
Prof.Steve McLaughlin 8th Dan. Sponsored by The Hawaii Zenyo
JuJutsu Kai
Put a little James Bond into your water time.
Register: 351-3074
2:00-5:30 pm
Women's Domestic Safety & Self Defense Course
With Prof.Steve McLaughlin 8th Dan, Sponsored by The Hawaii Zenyo
JuJutsu Kai
The HZJK presents Hawaii's #1 Women's Assault Prevention Course. A
single 4 - hour afternoon class of intensive self protection and
assault prevention training.
Ages 10-100, it's easy, instructive and anyone can do it. limited to
20. $50 for Hawaii Healing Garden Festival attendees and $75 for
mother-daughter teams of any age. Pre-registration required:
www.Kupale.org
Location: Lihue TBA
Register: 351-3074
1:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Medicine at Your Feet - Fathers Day Hike - with David Bruce Leonard L.Ac,
author of Medicine at Your Feet - Healng Plants of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Join David and the Hawaii Health Guide crew as we hike through Kauai's rare, common and little known medicnal and nutritional plants, and learn their traditional and modern uses. Bring water, snacks or bag lunch, hat, hiking shoes, rain jacket. A note book & camera are highly recommended. $20.00, and Dad's & Grand Dad's are $10! Call for reservations & location: 808-638-0888
MONDAY June 21, 2010
PARTNER YOGA MINI-WORKSHOP 1:00-3:00pm
Who needs props when you have friends? Meet new people, Stretch out the kinks and rejuvinate using partner yoga techniques.
$15 each or $20 couple.
Kappa location TBA (808) 638-0888 or info@HawaiiHealthGuide.com
Amazon Medicine & Superfoods from the Amazon Rainforest and Andean Mtns, Workshop:Jerome River Black is back from the "Heart of the Jungle" with an exapnded workshop on the top 20 botanicals of the Amazon rainforest and the Andes Mountains of South America. From the upper reaches of the Amazon River basin to small tributaries of Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, we uncover what indigenous people have known for centuries: A veritable green pharmacy of powerful medicinal herbs sequestered away in the steaming realms of the Amazon basin and Andes Mountains. This workshop offers an overview of the herbology and the cosmology of numerous tribes and,details on how to use the most popular botanicals from South America. Botanical drugs first found in the Amazon are now the chemical models for many modern-day treatments. Join us for an interactive and informative education on specific modalities, and the traditional medicine used to treat them--all supported by research. From intensive immunities for therapeutic support, nourishing tonics, to first aid remedies, you will become familiar with the most popular herbal remedies used. You will also sample many of the superfoods of South America with scientific data behind these concentrated foods and herbs. Sample herb extracts and formulations, from Amazon Therapeutic Laboratories.
Presenter: Jerome River Black founder of Herbs America, Amazon Therapuetical Laboratories, Maca Magic, and the non profit Institute of Traditional Amazon & Andean Medicine. Herbs America was the first to cultivate and distribute live maca root plants in the USA and began germplasm collections and cultivar selection of maca in the Peruvian Altiplano in 1994. Jerome is the award winner of the Natural foods institute "best new plants award" and writer of numerous articles about plant exploration. He regularly lectures and teaches others about new and rare foodcrop development.
Time: TBA - Fee: $35 Reservations Recommended. 72-8342
Healthy Business Roundtable: 6:00pm- 8:30pm
Find out what is happening with Health and Wellness business trends across the state. Learn business strategies, marketing tips and share tools and techniques with your peers and learn to keep your business viable on Kauai. Open to community. Hosted by Hawaii Health Guide. Free.
Tuesday - June 22:
Chocolate Farm Tour
Get inspired by this Kauai grown crop.$25
(808) 638-0888 or events@HawaiiHealthGuide.com
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Mantras for Earth Harmony
Sponsored by True Freedom Coaching www.truefreedomcoaching.com Sanskrit mantras have been used for millennia to harmonize with the essence of plants, water, the heavenly bodies… In this 2 hour class and chanting experience with Anandra George, we will explore several Sanskrit mantras that can be used by gardeners, farmers, natural healers, and anyone who wishes to actively, consciously connect with the sacred energy of Earth and her kingdoms. Appropriate for all levels, we’ll focus on direct experience to give you the tools to unwrap the power of mantra in your own life. Anandra teaches mantra & yoga on Kauai, mainland, and Japan.
Fee: $25 Location: Moloaa private residence, RSVP for directions to anandra@hawaiihealthguide.com
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