
Source Codes
Learn to walk the path of Aloha as a sacred source code. Aloha is a living transmission of responsibility, relationality, and reverence. Guided by the esteemed Kahu Kalani Souza and Kumu Ramsay Taum, this journey invites you to embody the infrastructure of Aloha: a system rooted in quantum harmony, ancestral memory, and interbeing with all of life. Here, protection is coherence, strength is alignment and we will remember how to stand as guardians of Earth through the frequency of Aloha itself.
Date: September 18-22 [2025]
Where: Big Island, Hawai’i
“Nānā i ke kumu.” Look to the source.
— Hawaiian proverb
“Mālama kekahi i kekahi.”
Take care of one another.
There is a sacred protocol of relational existence, encoded in the source codes of aloha. It calls us to remember that care is not charity, but a ceremony of entanglement. We are weaved in the threads of shared breath, grief, and resilience that bind us with Earth, with each other, and with time. Aloha, in its deep ancestral wisdom, invites us to move beyond saviorism and separability, into humility, reciprocity, and presence. To mālama is to show up with emotional sobriety, relational maturity, and intergenerational accountability, to let care become resistance, reverence, and remembrance. This is not performance; it is practice. Not transaction, but transformation. E mālama. E aloha. E pili.
Meet Your Guides
In this immersion, you will be guided by two masters, both steeped in the ancient and modern traditions of Hawaii. Together, they will lead you through a transformative journey, exploring the profound philosophies and practices that define their respective paths, the ways of the peaceful warrior, the ways of Aloha, the ways of Spirit.
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Hawaiian cultural guardian
Kumu has been mentored and trained by respected Kūpuna (elders), is a lineage holder, practitioner and instructor of several Native Hawaiian technologies: Ho’oponopono, Lomi Haha, Kaihewalu Lua and Aloha. He is also an internationally recognized cultural resource, keynote speaker, lecturer, trainer and facilitator. Ramsay is the Founder and President of the Hawai’i based Life Enhancement Institute (LEI) of the Pacific, Director of the Pacific Islands Leadership Institute (PILI) at Hawaii Pacific University and Cultural Sustainability Planner at PBR Hawaii & Associates.
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Inter-relational and Interdisciplinary Mastermind, Community Resiliency Architect, Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner
Kahu Kalani Souza is a gifted storyteller, musician, film director and producer, poet, philosopher, facilitator, mediator, and educator. A Hawaiian practitioner and cross-cultural facilitator, he has experience in promoting social justice through conflict resolution. He is a recognized traditional practitioner of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island culture and licensed to practice traditional religion and ceremonies. He is the founding executive director of Olohana Foundation, a nonprofit that works with coastal and indigenous communities to build capacity around food, energy, water, and knowledge systems.
Some of our activities
Talk story with Kalani
Visit to Mauna Kea
Beach time
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior masterclass
Hoʻoponopono Level 1 & 2 with Kumu Ramsay
Community Food Resilience with Olohana Foundation
Ceded Lands or Seeded Lands?
Lomi massage with Benji Rodriguez and Shane Johnson
Workshop: How to attaining peace amidst turbulent times
Exceptional cuisine crafted by Marisa Franco and Keys Le
Supporting team
Ryan (Ra) James Kemp
Benjamin Chapman