Feng Shui Benefit Workshop
Enhancing Health, Prosperity & Relationships
With World Renowned Grandmaster Hong Saturday February 28, 2015
9:30am Registration
10:00am to 3:00pm Workshop
Happiness Planting (former Qi Center) in Lihue

Please join Grandmaster Hong for a day devoted to making the most of the New Year. This benefit workshop provides practical every-day-tools for enhancing your Health, Finance, Romance and Family all within the context of the Feng Shui tradition. The participants will gain an understanding of the energetic influences to be experienced during 2015, the Year of the Ram.

Feng Shui works with the energy of the environment and how it affects every aspect of life. It is a science that combines mankind's energy with the energy of nature and earth. The Qi (life force energy) that flows through our bodies also flows through our homes and workplaces. With a 4,000 year old history in China, Feng Shui is a science and art form. A home or business needs to have positive Qi surrounding it, as well as within it, in order to have good health, prosperity and relationships. Grandmaster Hong takes the science-based elements of each of the five Feng Shui schools and provides knowledge-based tools to effect improvement in your life for the upcoming 2015 year.

Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Lawai International Center. $200 before 2/15 and $225 thereafter. Lunch is included.

The initial project phase of the Lawai International Center focuses on the restoration of 32 acres in the Lawai Valley that once was the site of the Hawaiian heiau, a Taoist temple, a Shinto shrine, and a Buddhist temple. Today, this property still contains 88 Buddhist shrines, the likes of which are not found outside of Japan.

Upon completion, the Lawai International Center will consist of several phases that will dovetail with the next and will result in a place that honors and remembers the distinctive collective history and spirit of the Valley.

The initial project phase includes purchase of the property, the restoration and reconstruction of the existing shrines, and the building of an information center and Pavilion of Compassion.

The second phase will consist of a gathering pavilion, landscaping and a parking facility. The pavilion will house an educational display on the distinctive historical and religious role of the Lawai Valley. This pavilion will also provide an appropriate environment for educational, musical, artistic, and dramatic activities that will serve to inform, instruct, and inspire residents and visitors alike.

Queen Emma once wrote of the special healing powers of the waters of Lawai. And so it is that something, which not only drew the ancient Hawaiians to this valley but the successive immigrants as well. And something compelled them to make that valley a place of worship as well.

Some people say that the true spirit of Aloha can be found in the smiles of children or in the eyes of the people of Hawai'i. The Lawai Valley stands unequaled as a place of Aloha, where all people were welcomed and gathered for comfort, learning and healing.

Pilahi Paki's translation of the meaning of aloha was the genesis of the Aloha Spirit Bill adopted by the Legislature in 1986. It is as follows: