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Wayfinding Towards Holistic Health Series
2025 COMING SOON
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An Uncle shared with Us that Tracking (and Polynesian Wayfinding) tradition share a same spirit. They are systems of awareness/skills that allow one to follow something (the track of an animal, a person, a memory, a concept, process of picking Islands out of vast Oceans, etc) with all of your senses as far as you can. It is a process of bonding your energy with the energy of something or someone that you are following. This can also be metaphorical to one’s Own personal journey to (re)discovering the course you will voyage in Life. The same principles apply to tracking our internal mental/spiritual/emotional conflicts, obstacles to health & wellness, addictions, past traumas, personal sense of purpose or meaning etc.
We believe in the deep power of reconnecting to the natural world and integrating the spirit of the teachings of the canoe and Oceanic Voyaging and Tracking/Wayfinding tradition to give future generations the tools necessary to navigate the future as Stewards for Mother Earth. To heal ourselves is to heal the external non human world that is in direct reciprocity with our suffering as humans.
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Canoe as Peacemaker- The canoe has a spirit that transcends barriers of race, origin, tradition, status. When paddlers come together for the first time, they come to a place where all must be aligned in one mind, heart, breath, to paddle forward successfully and efficiently.
Paddling or Sailing and connecting to a sense of place, honoring our waterways, speaking to spirit, engaging our senses, engaging in physical fitness, we navigate towards effective ways to make peace within ourselves as flawed humans and thus creating community thru recognition of the interconnected-ness of the web of life and honoring our sacred wounds that give us strength to voyage forward.
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We teach/facilitate:
Polynesian paddling traditions/voyaging/sailing, survival/bushcraft, traditional knowledge systems, maritime education, ocean safety, martial arts/movement, Tai Chi (Yang Style) herbal medicine, nutrition for optimal health, outdoor leadership, rites of passage, foraging/wildcrafting, peacemaking and thanksgiving/gratitude practices.
We are also one of first pilot program for Project Wayfinder, a SEL (social emotional learning) curriculum developed at Stanford University and we integrate portions of the Wayfinder toolkit into our programs. (Ages K-12 and Adult SEL)