OUR STORY
 

    In 2014, our founder Stephanie, was invited on a Hawaiian Immersion journey to Kaua'i. She was introduced to a Hawaiian Kahuna, Ali'i (royal) Line elder, and was asked to assist in his balancing & return to health through lomi lomi (massage). There they began a relationship beyond imagination. Stephanie would travel from the mainland to Kaua'i for 3.5 years before the Kahuna asked her to come live with him in the heiau (sacred Hawaiian temple), to learn from him the sacred knowledge of Spirit, Hawaiian Cultural Protocols, and of plant medicines. While she helped care for him & keep his body well, he taught her how to use energy, and different plants for balancing the human to provide renewed wellbeing. He was a genealogist, and found that Stephanie was his bloodline niece. He then began to share his specific vision for the Noni plant. His family used the leaf of the Noni to treat wounds, relieve muscle aches, bring energy to where it was needed, heal bones, and especially was used for women's health. 

    The leaf was used to heal the mother after she gave birth, both internally & externally. It was used to cleanse past lovers in the energy field, and to bring restoration to the Yoni. His vision was to share the Noni, in all her restorative glory, with the world. He wanted accessible products to be used for both health & beauty purposes. He gave Stephanie a kuleana (responsibility) for when he passed to share the Noni, and the knowledge he embedded to all. 

    He has since graduated into Spirit, and the time to pass the  knowledge has come. Through her grieving process she would share with anyone who would listen, stories of her Kahuna. One of her friends heard her stories, and began planting Noni trees. He felt it was a calling or compulsion to plant the Noni, as if the Noni were talking to him (they do talk you know...). Months later he shared with Stephanie what he had done, and the rest is history.

    In Hawaiian culture the name and genealogy are the foundation of the life trajectory of a person, and the relationship with the land and people. Upon her Kahuna's death he gave Stephanie the name of Stephanie Pi'ikea. Stephanie means: "the crowned one", and Pi'ikea means "to rise up from darkness to light, the life ascends." It is Stephanie's mission and kuleana (responsibility) to live up to her name, to bring the unknown to the known, recognizing systems and making them more efficient, and guiding in ways that will allow the people and the land to heal and ascend.

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