What is Honohono and why does it work
The first time I encountered Honohono, I was at a breathwork retreat. Someone mentioned traditional Maori body healing and the training they had been diving into, and something in me recognised it immediately with a deep resonance I could feel before I could explain it. The timing was yet to be aligned. I knew that in my body the moment I felt it, so I let it be.
A while later, one of my closest friends came to visit and we started travelling together. We stayed at her place and I spontaneously decided to have a treatment with her. That session ran for over two hours, and it blew me open in ways I had yet to experience, shifting perceptions and perspectives I had been holding onto for a very long time without even realising the weight of them.
That was when I understood what Honohono actually is.
The word itself carries something before you even begin to understand its meaning. When I hear it, I am taken back to traditions and cultural aspects that feel very close to how Maori people live and have always lived. It connects deeply to a Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness, the idea of saying I love you, I am sorry, please forgive me, thank you, of being able to breathe again, to acknowledge yourself, to be present with yourself, and to forgive yourself and everything around you for how things have turned out or have yet to turn out. We are all human, consistently moving through this human experience while also being spiritual beings. Honohono holds space for all of that.
What makes it different from a massage is that there is a great deal of energy work involved. Energy is always flowing and moving, and in a massage that movement happens in the body. In Honohono it happens with intention, with awareness, with the practitioner actively receiving and responding to what is present in the body, following what is alive in the session rather than a predetermined structure.
Before someone even walks through the door, I begin to feel things in my own body. I am very open to energies and sensations, something that most likely developed more in depth through hypervigilance as a child, through my own experiences of trauma. That sensitivity became a gift. When someone arrives, I can feel where to begin, and throughout the session my body releases alongside theirs, through breath, yawning, sound, movement. We are in the process together.
I also work with questions throughout the session. I am here to create space, to offer what is coming through, and to let those questions open a deeper door for the person to walk through themselves, finding their own way to the root of what lives in them. That vulnerability, that willingness to look further than they have looked before, is where the real shifts happen.
The foundation of my treatments are following our feminine energy, the softer and more receptive qualities that so many people have been disconnected from. We have been raised inside a very masculine system, and so much of what people hold has been shaped by that. The feminine touch is one of the gifts that comes through in this offering, and it allows people to see perspectives and perceptions they have yet to have access to before.
Magic is everywhere. And every treatment carries magic and wonder.
If something in this has already moved in you, that is the beginning.
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