HULA AND MEDITATION WORKSHOP
Give Yourself a Little Love this Year. All levels Welcome!
Sunday, February 9, 2025 | Hybrid
Join Kumu June for a Hula and Meditation Workshop that is restful, grounding, and clearing. Excited that Dr. Melanie Jessen joins us to lead gentle yoga. The workshop will build resilience and renew your body, mind and spirit. The workshop is hybrid (in-person and online) and open to all levels.
Workshop includes:
Gentle Yoga
Guided Meditation
Hula: Ka’i Kukulu
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!
Online: 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. In person we have chairs and cushions.
Dress comfortably ready for gentle movement.
Bring notebook and pen for notes and brief writing exercise.
Technical Details
Zoom Link to access the program will be sent to online participants by email a few hours prior event. Please email June.tanoue@zlmc.org if you need the zoom link.
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.
Workshop is FREE for all teenagers!
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.
