I was blessed to study with Auntie and Nerita in 2000. Auntie was there every day, she prayed each morning and evening, she taught us both through lecture and demo, and she put her hands on each of us. She was a light being of love. We had a very annoying individual in the class who drove us all crazy, but Auntie would just laugh. I asked her how she did it. She said, "It's aloha! Just love!"

When we arrived, Nerita warned us not to sleep on the lanai unless we wanted to have dreams that would change our lives. Of course I wanted to sleep there! The last night, I had a dream that led me in the next week to meet a kupuna who hanai (adopted) me, who gave me the name Makana, and who introduced me to her son, who became my husband.

Auntie frequently mentioned two muscle groups. One is the teres muscles which she called the paddler's muscle. A few months after I graduated I worked the Honolulu Marathon. One of my patients was a wheelchair athlete. When I started on his teres he began moaning with pleasure. He said no one had ever massaged that muscle and that was *the* muscle he needed worked on. He wrote down its name to give to his therapist back home.

The other muscle was the gluteus medius, which she called the medius. She talked about it a lot. One day, towards the end of our class, we were giving lomilomi quietly, we all pretty much knew what we were doing. Auntie had been silent for perhaps an hour. All of a sudden she spoke up, "I want to tell you something I never told you before!" We all paused and listened intently. She said, "The gluteus is very important!" We all laughed but you know what - I never forgot it!

She read our faces the first day of class. She said she could tell everything by just looking at our countenances. When she looked into my eyes, I could see eyes of love. When she touched me, I felt her hands of love. And she very sweetly and accurately diagnosed me as being stressed!

I dedicated my first book to her, and every day thank God for letting us spend time with her. She has touched millions of people world wide through the touch of her students and students' students. May we all rededicate ourselves to spreading her aloha.

I feel very priviledged to have met Nerita and Lana at that first World Massage Festival in Pensacola. It was a time in my life that no decision had been made by me to enter the field of Massage but was being pulled in by the Powers that BE. I have not learned Lomi Lomi but want to more than ever now. It will begin for me in June 2010 at the 6th Annual World Massage Festival. I cannot wait. I have learned and read and heard such Wonderful things about Auntie Margaret. May her legacy always live on in all of us.

The EYES Never Lie.

Makana Risser Chai said:

I was blessed to study with Auntie and Nerita in 2000. Auntie was there every day, she prayed each morning and evening, she taught us both through lecture and demo, and she put her hands on each of us. She was a light being of love. We had a very annoying individual in the class who drove us all crazy, but Auntie would just laugh. I asked her how she did it. She said, "It's aloha! Just love!"

When we arrived, Nerita warned us not to sleep on the lanai unless we wanted to have dreams that would change our lives. Of course I wanted to sleep there! The last night, I had a dream that led me in the next week to meet a kupuna who hanai (adopted) me, who gave me the name Makana, and who introduced me to her son, who became my husband.

Auntie frequently mentioned two muscle groups. One is the teres muscles which she called the paddler's muscle. A few months after I graduated I worked the Honolulu Marathon. One of my patients was a wheelchair athlete. When I started on his teres he began moaning with pleasure. He said no one had ever massaged that muscle and that was *the* muscle he needed worked on. He wrote down its name to give to his therapist back home.

The other muscle was the gluteus medius, which she called the medius. She talked about it a lot. One day, towards the end of our class, we were giving lomilomi quietly, we all pretty much knew what we were doing. Auntie had been silent for perhaps an hour. All of a sudden she spoke up, "I want to tell you something I never told you before!" We all paused and listened intently. She said, "The gluteus is very important!" We all laughed but you know what - I never forgot it!

She read our faces the first day of class. She said she could tell everything by just looking at our countenances. When she looked into my eyes, I could see eyes of love. When she touched me, I felt her hands of love. And she very sweetly and accurately diagnosed me as being stressed!

I dedicated my first book to her, and every day thank God for letting us spend time with her. She has touched millions of people world wide through the touch of her students and students' students. May we all rededicate ourselves to spreading her aloha.