#54 | Mastering Energetic Androgeny - Ke’oni Hanalei (Pōhala)
“We good men become sensual, and a thousand wars go dark. ”
My guest today Ke’oni Hanalei, founder of Pōhala, purveyor of Esoteric Hawaiian Fern Medicine.
Ke’oni caught my attention through his Instagram, where he shares profound perspectives rooted in the Mū teachings of ancient Hawaii.
In our conversation today, we speak about his own upbringing under the guidance of his grandmother and his rediscovery and cultivation of fern medicine. Ke’oni shares his understanding of gender and right relationship, advocating for the cultivation of intimacy within and without. And finally, he speaks of teachings that have bolstered his courage to participate in this time of great change with authenticity and beauty.
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SHOW NOTES
Awakening from amnesia
Influence of his grandmother’s teachings
Finding the maximum point of trauma
Fern medicine and the codes of human emotions
Becoming spiritually indestructible
Ascension means completion
Right relationship is intimacy
Energetic androgeny
Meditation on internal feminine & masculine
Competition is mutually traumatizing
Truth and comfort
True love is allowing someone to absolutely destroy you, but trusting that they won't.
Masculinity is a verb
Beauty is how we translate experience
Oral transmission
Communication through movement
