With the Maui morning sun still low in the sky, I stepped out onto the sand at Sugar Cove. A few locals were fishing and a honu was resting peacefully on the sand. After walking the length of the beach up and down, a small kīpuka (opening) in the thick naupaka bush made itself known to me. Shaded from the sun, and guarded by two kia‘i pōhaku (guardian stones), it felt like the right place to sit down, ground, and root.
The sky was still mostly clear, and the sun was low enough to provide lots of shade to the rest of the beach on this full moon weekend. As I sat there preparing myself for my first session with Genevieve, I could already feel a sense of relief about reaching out to her. This was a foundational step I have wanted to make in my personal healing journey, and the elements seemed aligned and everything felt pono.
Then - she appeared. Perhaps my head was in the clouds (as it always is), but I had not noticed her walking towards me until she was just a few feet away. I stood up to greet her and from the first hug, I felt comfortable with her aura and energy. We exchanged some words about intention as she set up the beach towel and pillows. Then we sat, and she asked me to describe the feeling I’d like to walk away with after we parted ways. After a beat, I said, “Calm.”
She then sat behind me and instructed me to lean back into her. At first, I felt a bit stiff, but the stiffness slowly subsided as we breathed deeply together and I relaxed more into her embrace. There were moments of silence, some long, where I sank into a meditative state as she was easing the stiffness I carry with her gentle touches.
As our session went on, and the sun rose higher, the clouds blanketed the sky just as I was being blanketed with love. I watched the shapes in the clouds change as we shared stories about life, spirituality, language, the heavens and earth. As we were not face to face most of the time, I was gazing into nature as our connection was flowing just from touch and the sound of our voices. After laying like this for an hour, I felt more and more comfortable and time itself just seemed to be no concern for me. It was bliss.
We ended the session in a spooning position, not unlike the end of a yoga class I attend that ends in a fetal pose. There is something about lying this way that is wired into all of us, I think. It feels natural, ancient. As she embraced me, our heads oriented towards the sun, she held my hands, and my heart. And there we were:
Calm. The intention that was set in the beginning reflected all around us. A quiet beach with not many people, a calm sea, a gently breezy sky.
When the time came to part ways, she made sure to ask what my intentions were next, for integrating this connection we made. I decided in that moment I would go to the stream at ‘Īao, which is what I told her, and she mentioned “waiwai” – the wealth of compounding what we just did with a freshwater cleanse. This echoed an earlier conversation we had about pu‘uwai – the heart. She also made sure that I reflect on what happened today, and this is what you’re reading now.
I offer deep, soulful mahalo nui to Genevieve/FreewithG and her soul capacity to hold space for healing the vulnerable and scarred. She tapped into the mana of this place with aloha and we made a special connection today. I would highly recommend her for others looking for a healing touch with a spiritual energy that is rich, grounded, and real.
Aloha vibes always.
-Kaipo