NĀ MANA KAHIKO

The world was never empty.

Our ancestors recognised presence in the ocean, the mountain, the forest and the sky. They understood that human life unfolds among powers greater than ourselves—and within relationships that extend beyond what we can see.

They remembered genealogies. They told stories. They prayed, acknowledged, approached and gave thanks. They passed down ways of living in relationship with those powers.

What did they recognise? What have we forgotten?
And what changes when we begin to recognise those relationships in our own lives?

Nā Mana Kahiko is an invitation to enter deeply into these questions.

Across three live intensives, Kumu Kawika guides an exploration of gods and goddesses, ancestral guardians, and those who came before us. We enter through a distinctly Hawaiian lens, grounded in ancestral teaching, moʻolelo and lived relationship, while opening the exploration to the wider ways these questions touch cultures and peoples throughout the world.

Different traditions carry different names, genealogies and understandings. Each deserves to remain whole. Through that respect, we can explore the profound questions human beings have carried across generations: the nature of power, the presence of spirit, the meaning of guardianship, and our continuing relationship with the ancestors.

Three Days of Live Exploration

These intensives bring together teaching, moʻolelo, guided reflection, questions and conversation. There is room to look deeply, to ask, and to consider these relationships within your own life and ancestral background.

Attend one intensive that calls your attention, or join the complete series and follow the movement from the powers of existence, through ancestral guardianship, into the responsibility of ancestry.

13–15 November 2026 · Live online via Zoom

7–10 pm Sydney time — AEDT
9 am–noon Central European Time — CET

Each intensive runs for three hours, including a break.

To recognise. To acknowledge. To approach correctly. To carry forward.

Join Kumu Kawika for Nā Mana Kahiko.

YOUR GUIDE

Kumu Paʻa Kawika Foster is a traditional Hawaiian cultural practitioner and lineage-trained teacher.

Born on Oʻahu and trained in Hālawa Valley, Molokai, he carries ancestral teachings grounded in prayer, healing and lived practice.

In Nā Mana Kahiko, he guides an exploration of akua, ancestral guardians and ancestors through Hawaiian moʻolelo, genealogy and relationship—opening deeper questions about the powers we live among and the responsibilities we carry.