West Hawaii Today Lomilomi Healing Arts Festival

A time for healing

By Special To West Hawaii TodaySunday, October 24, 2010 7:18 AM HST

The Lomilomi Healing Arts Festival was held Saturday at the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort.

The event was dedicated to the late "Aunty" Margaret Machado.

Members of Halau o Poahala perform Saturday following
the opening pule; Chad Baybayan discusses "Healing and the Stars;" Emi Burns
samples Ola body lotion.

- Photos By Kirk Shorte Special To West Hawaii Today

Happy Birthday Jane Williams!

Happy Birthday Jane H. J. Williams!

Born Oct. 20, 1930

To my family and friends, lets all pay tribute to Jane this month by celebrating the Janeness in all of us!

Thank you for everything you added to our lives, as mother, teacher, friend, creative force, for all the good stuff and all the hard stuff!

Thanks for the great photo George!

We miss you Jane! Aloha O'e!

Brighton Features Ola Tropical Organics for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

This month Brighton Stores across the country have each chosen a Breast Cancer Awareness project in each of their communities to sponser and promote during the month of October.

Brighton Paseo and Hawaiian Body Products (http://www.hawaiianbodyproducts.com/) team up this month to sponser local artist Devon Williams, One in Eight Photo Project (oneineightphotos.com).

If you are in the neighborhood please stop by Brighton Paseo and add your name to the raffle drawing of a gorgeous Hawaiian Body Products Ola Pono Gift Basket created by artist and photographer Valerie Horner.

Aha Lomilomi Festival 2010

Yesterday Kona was a perfectly gorgeous setting for an outdoor festival!

Hawaiian Body Products partnered up with Kumu Dane Silva and Mariko Sato from Hilo's Hale Lomilomi, and Kamaluhia Wooley from Hale Ho Ola Spa in Volcano at the first annual Big Island Lomi Festival.

The festival was hosted by The Keauhou Beach Resort and presented by Haunani Hopkins of The Hawaii Lomi Association, featuring three days of conferences, presentations and training in the ancient healing art of Lomilomi honoring the late, great Kumu Lomi Auntie Margaret Machado.

The Lomi Conference attendees as well as locals and tourists alike were treated to a day long outdoor celebration in the Keauhou Beach Resort Gardens offers outstanding hula and music presentaions, lomi demonstrations, select vendors and lots of great give aways.

Hawaiian Body Products joined in festivities the spirit of healing by presenting our newly launched and updated Ola Pono Lomi Collection at the festival featuring Kapa style labels and a new invigorating Lemongrass Ginger Scent. Ola Pono is a healing collaboration with Kumu Dane Silva.

The Ola Pono Lomi Collection features six distinct Lomi kits providing an assortment of tools designed to promote the healing power of touch through self care and Ohana (family care). Our kits range from starter kits to Delux Lomi and Delux Foot Care kits and includes a Facial Lomi Kit.

The Ola Pono Lomi Collection offers an assortment of hand carved personal lomi sticks and beach stones for massaging and exfoliating, pure Hawaiian massage oils and lotions, organic herbal spray mist, Hawaiian sea salt soak, coconut wax candles, and an invigorating volcanic foot scrub and mask to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle.

The Ola Pono Lomi Collection is available on line at http://www.hawaiianbodyproducts.com/

Also available at:

-The Fairmont Orchid, Kohala

-Hale Lomilomi in Hilo

-Esemkwu Healing Arts Center in Vancouver BC

-Distributed by Holomua Inc. in Japan

-Aloha Spirit Lomilomi in Switzerland

-Spa Luana at Turtle Bay Resort

-Mandara Spa at the Hilton Hawaiian Village

-Kohala Spa at Hilton Waikaloa

-Nohea Galleries in Hawaii

To name a few.

Hawaiian Body Products Holiday Gift Guide

This Holiday Season go to: http://www.hawaiianbodyproducts.com/

and check out our Holiday Gift selection!

What better way to treat those special people on your holiday gift list than to send them a box of tropical indulgences from Hawaii!

We offer you a wide range of Tropical Body Products and Eco-friendly Candles in a wide range of prices to suit your needs, and are happy to ship them directly to your friends and family complete with a note enclosed from you!

This Delux Holiday Spa Gift Set includes Body Wash, Body Butter, Candle and Tropical Spray Mist in either Coconut Lemongrass or Island Tuberose scents. SRP $85. with FREE SHIPPING.

Chose our "Box of Chocolates" Chocolate Coffee Body Scrub and Body Butter in a chocolate window box for under $50. and get FREE SHIPPING!

See more Tropilicious Holiday Gifts on our website at http://www.hawaiianbodyproducts.com/

Remember to register on our site to receive our monthly newsletter and promotions.

In addition you can save money and double your giving this year by inputting (1in8) at check out. You will not only receive 15% off on your purchases but you will donate 15% of your purchase to

One in Eight Photo Project, a unique and artful Breast Cancer awareness project.

See http://www.oneineightphotos.com/.

Taking Back Beautiful

Taking back 'beautiful'
Pasadena’s ‘ONE in eight’ photography project recasts the image of life after breast cancer
By Joe Piasecki 09/23/2010

Take a moment to read this eloquent and enlightening article in the

Pasadena Weekly reviewing

One in Eight Photography project hosting several events in Southern California throughout October.

Click on the link below to take you right to it.

http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/taking_back_beautiful/9256/

Scent of the Season: Vanilla Ginger

Scent of Autumn: Vanilla Ginger!
Ola Tropical Organics features our "Scent of the Season" Vanilla Ginger. This aromatic fragrance combines the soothing and calming scent of island vanilla with the spicey and stimulating scent of ginger root to create a scent which is both relaxing, calming and strengthening.

Ginger is renouned for it's curative powers. Ginger will detoxify and purify the skin and stimulate circulation. Our Vanilla Ginger Sugar Cane Scrub combines organic ginger with the equally powerful curative organic Olena (Turmeric) to gentley cleanse and exfoliate your skin while moisturizing and hydrating it at the same time. Your skin will feel radiant and soft afterwards. Pair with Ola's gentle and hydrating Vanilla Ginger Body Wash and richly moisturizing Vanilla Ginger Body lotion for a seasonal pick me up that will keep you warm all winter long!

Vanilla Ginger is also the scent of the month for Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Look for these bright PINK labels and do your share to support Breast Cancer Awareness. Purchase anything on our website and enter 1in8 at check out to receive 15% off of your purchase and donating 15% to Pasadena based One In Eight Photography Project.
Check out One in Eight by visiting oneineightphotography.com

Visit Brigton Collectables in Pasadena during the month of October and find Hawaiian Body Products pairing up with Brighton for a great month of support for One in Eight Photography and Breast Cancer Awareness.

Thank you for your support!

Check out today's Youtube review of Ola Tropical Vanilla Ginger products at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B97b_lUxbA