Can I just give a shout out to my interval training app? ✔️free ✔️convenient (since it’s on your phone and who even DOESN’T have a phone on them these days?!) ✔️keeps you honest ✔️customizable ✔️tracks your progress ✔️discreet (not that it matters when under stay-at-home orders 😂 😭) ✔️gives you “partial credit” when you do […]

Music To Chill Out To

I have been working on these immersive playlists for Koa House and my lomi lomi sessions. They are sort of these cross genre aural journeys that combine Hawaiian chant, slack key, instrumental guitar, shoegaze, ambient, nature sounds, binaural recordings and more. It came out of sessions I’ve had with clients where I noticed music and […]

An assemblage of aha moments

I feel compelled to write/share. Possibly it’s being stuck at home. Possibly it’s that the baby is now old enough where I have time to have aha moments. Each time I write it feels as though sneaking a message under the nose of my captors. We don’t have long. Because of that, I’m just going […]

martial arts rant pt 2

By the way, one of the most profound things said to me in recent years was by this artist we had the chance of meeting a few years back when picking up a painting. He was finishing his degree and going back to school in his forties. He was reflecting on the students in the […]

martial arts rant

I love exploring martial arts. Love doing it, seeing it, learning about it, reading about it, etc. and then every so often I read comments that make my blood boil. About the utility of Move X or Style Y, etc. I hate it. It takes all the fun out of it for me. I realize […]