I had a dream Sunday night that I was visiting and assisting this amazing Hawaiian shaman. He was BIG and Polynesian looking and wearing this lovely aloha print sarong and beads and flowers in his hair. We were talking in Hawaiian to each other and doing some crazy witch doctor type stuff to this man who had come for healing. Like mixing red clay in spring water and smearing it on his forehead and spitting rum at him and brushing his skin with feathers. It was very odd, but I had a cheerful sort of laugh going on about it.

Maybe the Hawaiian shaman is an ancestor coming to help me take my lomi lomi workshop in May. That'd be fun! Nice to know I have good souls supporting me on this. He was so jolly and kind of menacingly cheerful, but in a tricky, playful sort of coyote/Loki way. figures. ;)

I've always had a fondness for trickster gods.

Strangely enough yesterday I went to the bookshop to pick up my required reading for the workshop, a book called Urban Shaman by Serge Kahlili King, and the subtitle is "A handbook for personal and planetary transformation based on the Hawaiian way of the adventurer."

See, back when I started researching lomi lomi when I was in massage school I knew that I would someday study it and that it would mean a lot, but the time wasn't right yet. Now is the right time. I wanted there to be a workshop, so I tracked down Suzanne Blackburn online, took me a while, and contacted her and she set one up! Then I was researching where to stay in Yarmouth Maine since that's where the workshop is, and my mom's good friend lives in Yarmouth and is putting me up for all four nights for free! It is all falling into place, as it always does when I'm on the right path. And, now I have my guide too. :)

Thank you crazy lovely Hawaiian dream shaman!