Starts Sunday November 9th, 2008 at the Hilton Waikaloa Resort at 7 am – led by Chi Gong Master Sha
Go to www.DrSha.com or Call 1-888-988-7333 to register and join the amazing event. This is an serendipidous opportunity, don’t miss it if you are in the Kona area!
xoxo Zhen
A school for the South Kona community
If you’ve got school age children between kindergarden and 4th grade, and you are looking for a better education alternative for your family, do yourself a favor and check out KPPCS. The school recently got some press in the Big Island Weekly, thanks to a wonderful article by my friend Hadley Catalano!
http://www.bigislandweekly.com/articles/2008/10/01/read/news/news04.txt
Read and enjoy 
Bake sale this Sunday, September 21st at 8AM on Ho’omama Street in Pualani Estates
(just mauka of the park and visible from Queen Ka’ahumanu Hwy).
All proceeds will go to “Obama For America”. In addition to baked goods, coffee and tea, we will have
Malama Obama
bumper stickers for sale. The event begins Feel free to spread the word . We welcome more goodies to sell and customers to purchase them. Please call or e-mail if you can donate some yummy baked goods to the cause, and/or help with set up or clean up.
http://www.consciousmamas.com/index.php/2008/09/19/bake-sale-this-sunday/
Linda Morgan has sent me this email about the Hawaii Board of Education Candidates:
Hi friends,
I don’t mean to tell you how to vote on Saturday for our Big Island representative on the Board of Education, but I spent almost 3 hours on Monday searching for info on the 4 candidates running for this office, and it’s really hard to find information, so I want to share what I found.Herb Watanabe has been our rep. for a very long time, and is definitely part of the disfunction of the Board of Ed., so he should only get our votes if we believe we have great schools, and I do not.
Bryant has not filed statements anywhere I could find online, so I assume if he is not competent enough to make his platform available, he cannot adequately represent us.
Walsh made some pretty silly statements about how he would improve education in Hawaii. He seems to be most concerned with “keeping order” in the classroom. The problems go way beyond poor student behavior!
Sanborn will get my vote, although with reservations. He supports decentralization, a good thing in my opinion. He also supports equal funding for charter schools, a pono idea. He sounds qualified and mostly on the right track in his statements. My reservations are about his interest in exploring vouchers.
If you haven’t had time to explore these candidates, I hope this note will help you make your decision.
Aloha,
Linda Morgan
Spread the word, yo!
Free Surf Film Tonight
Aloha Theatre
7:00pm
An Aloha Theatre Rental
QUIKSILVER PRESENTS: CLAY MARZO: JUST ADD WATER
(Huntington Beach, Calif.) August 5, 2008 – Quiksilver is pleased to announce the release of “Clay Marzo: Just Add Water,” an epic film that dives beneath the surface of one of the most gifted and creative surfers in the world, 19 year-old Clay Marzo. The film gives a never-before-seen look at Clay’s mind-blowing skills in the water and the challenges he faces on land as a result of Asperger’s Syndrome.
Like other kids growing up on the island of Maui, Clay lived in the waves. Clay’s pure love of the ocean along with his natural talent allowed him to excel to new heights, pushing the limits again and again. A member of Quiksilver’s elite Young Guns crew, his spontaneous, unpredictable and creative style has earned him three NSSA National surfing titles, a nomination for Maneuver of the Year at the 2007 SURFER Magazine Poll and Video Awards and video spots in the biggest surf movies of this decade. Three-time ASP World Champion Andy Irons calls him, “hands down, the best 19 year-old surfer in the world,” while eight-time world champ Kelly Slater goes even farther saying, “He knows things I don’t know about surfing.”
Sometimes a puzzle to those around him, Clay was only recently diagnosed with Asperger’s. The realities of life as an elite pro surfer, the constant travel and media demands, are not easy for Clay, but he is bravely taking on his difficulties.
“When I first met Clay I noticed that his personality and demeanor completely transformed in the ocean – he literally came alive in the water,” said the film’s director, Jamie Tierney. “It was also clear that Clay was quite misunderstood in the surf world, and the mission of the film was to show the side that only those closest to him could see.”
“This movie will inspire people to live in the moment and to always take the time to look a little deeper. People are amazing and you never know what is behind their eyes,” said Strider Wasilewski, Quiksilver Surf Team Manager and the film’s producer.
The film will be available in stores in October, and a portion of the proceeds will be given to Surfer’s Healing, a foundation for Autism that seeks to enrich the lives of children with autism and the lives of their families by exposing them to the unique experience of surfing.
For more information on the tour and the film and to see more of Clay Marzo, visit www.quiksilver.com/justaddwater
Go! Enjoy.
Make sure you visit Conscious Riddims Records - the new web site is at http://www.consciousriddims.org . Get all the latest news about new reggaue music, concerts and gear. Learn about the family behind the vision made manifest into reality. Sign up to be notified first when anything good is coming your way so you can be ahead of the pack buying tickets, etc.
Don’t forget you can friend CR on Myspace too – http://www.myspace.com/consciousriddims
This isn’t meant to be a commercial either – the CR crew is a vital part of the Big Island community furthering the cause and spreading the much needed positive vibrations of roots reggae. No doubt you will find the best collection of reggae music on the earth inside the walls of their stores. Real roots, rock, reggae, these ones practice what they preach and walk the talk.
BECOME A VOLUNTEER AND/OR DONATE ITEMS NEEDED – 2 Day Festival to Be Held This Labor Day Weekend in Na ‘alehu
This sounds like fun, S.K.Y! Won’t some of you come out and represent? Kau Beach Preservation organization is gearing up for the 2nd Annual Malama Punalu`u Festival to be held this Labor Day Weekend in Na`alehu. They need you help to make it a success.
The two-day festival is FREE to all and is intended for families and children of all ages. It will celebrate the sacredness of Punalu`u Black Sand Beach and will feature over 100 Hawaiian Cultural Practitioners, Artists and Musicians, including GRAMMY WINNER Ledward Kaapana and MULTI NA HOKU HANOHANO AWARD WINNER, Amy Hanaiali`i Gilliom and performances by the Kane Hula Halau I Ka Wekiu, which won BEST OVERALL HALAU at the Merrie Monarch Festival in 2007.
The festival is made possible through donations of time and funding and last year we had over 200 volunteers who made the event a great success (over 5,000 people attended) and had a great time too!
TO VOLUNTEER please email me (jim@kaupreservation.org) or call me at: 808-929-8334.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Please forward to whom it may concern (Please forward to Hadley)
Conscious Riddims Records Presents…….. The return of Heavy Weight reggae greats MIDNITE direct from St. Croix, Virgin Islands
Also opening acts from West Coast Reggae and Hip- Hop sensations Ishence, Biblical, and Sista Cat.
Also… Special Guest, Big Island Artists
All Happening Sat. March 8th at the KONA BOWL… Down Town Kailua-Kona! featuring a New and impoved Stage and Dance floor
Tickets are Limited and Now available @
CD Wizard- Hilo
Big Island Surf- Waimea
A’amas Surf- Kona
Kona Bowl- Kona and
Conscious Riddims- at both Location, up Country and Down Town Ali’i Drive in Kona
This is an all ages event!!! And a concert experience Not to Miss!!!!!!
Doors and Djs start at 7:30 pm
Midnite, Sista Kat, Biblical and Ishence, Saturday march 8th at the Kona Bowl- Down Town KONA
BE THERE!!
For more info. call conscious Riddims 808-322-2628
Breaking Newsflash: Greensong and Kealakekua Bay B & B Team Up to ize=”4″>Bring Biodiesel to the Big Island Community
Have you ever wondered what you could do to make a real difference to the problems of pollution and war? I know it feels overwhelming sometimes, and that overwhelm can lead to paralysis or worse yet complacence. Yet, here I stand now, asking you to re-ignite and re-awaken your passion. I want you to use that passion as a motivating factor to join us for 2 Eco-Inspirational Events happening in the month of December:
Aloha all you Beautiful Darlings out there,
Will you all pray with me today? Pray for those who have been stolen from, for those that lost something important to them (Let’s focus on the material for this session). My good friend had a lot of cash stolen earlier this week.
I affirm that “there is no loss in divine mind…it will be restored or the equivalent or better will be received”.
Let’s also pray for the thief, who has continued a cycle of lack and limitation, rather than the freedom they thought they could steal. My message to the thief: Don’t you know that we are all connected, what we do to another, we do to ourselves? That having a clean conscience is more valuable than all the money in the world? My hope is that a shift will take place and love will open the way for the guilty to step up, do the right thing, and be showered in forgiveness and righteousness (thereby becoming innocent again).
I am a bit sad to know that someone within our South Kona community has the lowliness of integrity to rationalize stealing from another. How does this person look us in the eye without feeling shame? For we are a family and we must take care of each other. The world is a chaotic mess. Can’t we have safety and respite right here, with such a collective of high souls? The Creator sees ALL, do not think you will get away with impure thoughts, words and actions (practice “ahimsa”). When Babylon falls and the Great High Court is convened, your trial will have you pay for everything with interest compounded!
Be spotless in the sight of the One Who Sees All, stand up and be a true Warrior of the Truth, start making a difference within yourself thus making the world a better place. This is the first and most important thing you can do.
And if any of you out there have any clues or leads, be sure to let me know ASAP.
Peace, Love, Flowers, Fairies, and Tickling tradewind Breezes~
Zen
