Pulelehua A lifelong Sacred Dancer

Skills

• Contemplative practitioner
• Open heart and optimistic view of the world
• Dancer in all places and circumstance
• Embraces the new and challenging
• Technology aficionado
• Traveler extraordinaire (54 countries and counting)
• Circle dance leader

EDUCATION

• Liturgical Dancer and Coordinator for worship dance pracitices
• Sacred Dancer
• Hula I teach and choreograph as Alakaʻi for Kumu Mālia Helelā – Nā Hula Ola Aloha,
• Brain Dance Teacher Teacher training 2016. 2017, 2018 Ongoing classes 2020-present.
• Commissioned Centering Prayer Presentern Contemplative Outreach Hawai”i 
• Commissioned Welcoming Prayer Presenter Contemplative Outreach Hawai”i 
• Dances of Universal Peace Leader 2020-Present
• Masters in Educational Technology 2008 University of Hawaii at Mānoa
• Masters in Library and information Science 1982 University of Hawaii at Mānoa
• BA Sociology, Communications and K-12 Multi-subject Bilingual teaching credential 1979 University of California,  San Diego

Experience

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  Sacred Dancer : Since 1991. Created, implemented, and managed spiritual and movement workshops and retreats.
• Volunteer in the areas of Social media, technology, Video Conferencing etc.
• Librarian: 30 years management experience head of automated systems and contributor to various programs at the University of Hawaii Libraries
• Librarian: Created, implemented, and managed inclusive staff programs including online and print curriculum, training, evaluation. 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Nā Hula Ola Aloha (Hula NaHoa – Kumu Mālia Helela ))

• Alakaʻi – Teaching and preserving Hula
• Administer Youtube Archives
• WhatsApp Moderator
• Email Lists Moderator and Conversion to support visually impaired for Communication
• Creator of online signups for Hula Events
• Archive Handouts for Ukulele, ʻoli, and Hula kahiko & ʻauwana,

Contemplative Outreach Hawaiʻi (COHI)

• Commissioned Centering Prayer Presenter
• Administer and Lead ,Monthy 1/2 CP workshops on Zoom
• Lead Weekly Welcoming and Centering Prayer group on Zoom
• Zoom Administrator for all online groups for COHI
• Welcoming Prayer  commissioned presenter
• Presenter at Centering Prayer Training sessions 2018-present
• Website co Administrator
• Newsletter Co Editor

 Sacred Dance Guild                                    1999-present

• Served on the Board of directors, as Recording secretary, (1999-2001)
• Co-director of Sacred Dance Festival Dancing Winds of Grace (2001)
  • Responsibilities included developing and supervising Festival Planning Committee, recruiting artistic and spiritual leaders from around the world, creating promotional material (fliers, press releases). Managed registration and housing, organized Festival Schedule including daily worship, workshops and concerts.
• Served on the Board of directors, as Resources co-chair, (2012-2016)
  • Create, maintained  social media presence (fb,twitter,instagram,blog-wordpress)
  • Created online journal presence

Calvary by the Sea, Honolulu, HI                                                        1991-present

• Choir 1992-present
• Sacred Dancer 1991-present
• Hula Halau Na Wahine o Ke Ola 2006-2019
• Hula Halau Na Hula Ola Aloha 2014-present
• Prayer Clusters: a moving prayer  2002-2008
• Council of Deacons
  • Secretary 2001
  • Treasurer 2002-2005
  • President 2005-2008
• Endowment team chair 2014-2017
• Nomination Committee 1998, 2005
• Tribe leader 2008-2018
• Parliamentarian  2016-Jan 2021
• Stewardship team chair 2008-2012
• Constitution/bylaws Team Chair 2018-2020
• Pastor Call Team 2019-2021
• Virtual Retreat Coordinator and presenter 2020
• Virtual Retreat Presenter 2021

Pulelehua a lifetime Sacred Dancer A member of Sacred Dance Guild since 1992.

2016, 2018 Completed the Summer Dance Institute for Teachers at the Creative Dance Center   Seattle, Washington.

She has lead moving meditation workshops with groups including Hospice, Youth groups, women’s groups, church communities and educational groups. We are dancing for healing, dancing for life, dancing for connection to indwelling spirit, dancing to stay grounded and in the body.  Dancing to be the embodiment of the spirit we are intended to be. 

Intention
In 2016 Pulelehua started Kaleidoscoping Hearts
My heart is leading me to share a gift from God via a mom’s broken heart.
My life recently felt like it had fallen apart and that the pieces were put into a kaleidoscope and all shook up.  The world took on an air of shattered pieces being held together with the love and support of friends and a faith in the connection to ALL.  While traveling this year after the crushing event of losing my son, I was gifted with time at anAll Believers ashram in Bali.  It changed me in ways that allow me to see dance and goodness in all faith paths that are based in Love. Love is Love is Love is Love is Love. 

I need a way to move through all that is happening in my life… a physical, emotional and spiritual way to move.  So I have been studying and training and have come to find a moving meditation that combines BrainDance, the Welcoming Prayer, and the Liturgical Score taken from Sunday’s worship

 Kaleidoscoping Hearts
 Our hearts that break into pieces, from  lives lived in pain, are so like a kaleidoscope.  Strong emotional moments, lying near my heart, stay with me as butterflies from the past. And I become overwhelmed when they touch me.  A Shane my sonʻs death Kaleidoscope of grief butterfliesseems to be part of my journey to carry and  help me daily.

What does it look like?
Gentle movements to music and to the sounds of nature combine with  various creative ways to express what we are experiencing.  MindFul BrainDance Hawaii YouTube.