Tracey: Welcome to Community Profiles. Thanks so much for taking the time to come in and share with us today. Many of you probably know Elandra. She and her husband, Antion, have been mainstays here on Kauai in the healing arts, Hawaiian music and sacred chanting. Elandra has been practicing and teaching a wide range of healing arts for over 30 years, and we’re just going to start with how you even got involved with the healing arts. Let people know your roots.

Elandra: I got involved as an answer to a lifelong inner search. The roots of my search actually start as early as birth!  I felt I was born knowing it was for a reason, to learn about healing consciousness and so I was always searching for it even as a child, and learning and studying constantly. First it was in my place of birth, Denmark, then in New Zealand from 6-21 years, then London, then California, and Hawaii. The most dramatic learning was about what it was NOT! You know how that can be… In London in those days of wild swinging London of the 60’s someone said, “You should be a movie star,” and I said, “Okay,” and I became it. I worked with Roger Moore, Tony Curtis and many famous people: it was the height of what people seek in terms of desirability of fame and fortune and power, the most excitement you could imagine, yet it was still not what I was searching for. But can you imagine walking away from this? Everyone would think you were truly gone nuts! And that is what happened.

This is relevant to your question, because I was searching for consciousness, a certain kind. So one day I found myself in a yoga class and I fell in love with this yoga teacher, Antion, who is my husband for over 30 years! And before I knew it that was the end of my life as a movie star. I was launched into the healing arts as a yoga teacher, director of an ashram yoga center in San Diego, and mother, childbirth teacher and midwife. But it wasn’t until I had an accident where I broke my ankle that I really was called into the healing field.

The Beginning

T: Tell us about that.

E: I was running down a mountain and fell on a rock. I fainted with the pain, and in that moment, I felt like I was being held in the arms of angels. I was carried down this mountain and after my ankle was x-rayed the doctor said, “This is serious; you must have an operation immediately. 6:30 tomorrow morning and we’re going to put pins through it and that’s it. There’s no alternative, or it’ll be badly deformed.” That was what I was faced with, and very expensive too.

I went home; I lay down on the bed and my foot was very swollen, very painful, and I felt a hand on the foot and there was nobody in the room. And you know, this sounds like, woo-woo foo- foo, stuff but this is the truth. And the swelling and the pain went away and I felt utterly blissful.

Then my chiropractor friend called and she said, “I’m going to come over and look at it because I’m also a radiologist, I saw the x-rays and I spoke to the doctors and they said that there’s no alternative; you’ve got to have this operation.” And I didn’t feel like telling her about this experience right then because it was too extraordinary. And she came over that night and she put her hand on my foot and things started happening.

And all of a sudden, I said, “Hey, I don’t need this operation.” I got up, walked around on it, and I called up the hospital and cancelled this 6:30AM operation.

Then something else happened that was amazing. The body is in shock after such an accident. I wonder now, how did I have the energy in the morning, to resolve to go for more X-rays? Did I want proof? Sure enough, the X-rays were taken and the proof was there; it was perfectly healed.

T: And what did the doctors say? Did they even -?

E: You can imagine another extraordinary thing. It was too much for them and it was like I became invisible. It was like – they didn’t speak to me anymore! The receptionist didn’t say goodbye. I walked out of there as if invisible!

T: Amazing. So then what happened?

E: The chiropractor/healer invited me to join her and work with her and we created this miracle healing clinic. Louise Hay was one of our patients and miracles would happen all the time. Patients with tumors who were scheduled for operation, they were miraculously gone. I got my massage therapy certification, and then kept on taking all these courses and classes, in massage and every form of healing I could. In fact I learned and practiced about thirty modalities in all!

Hawaii

T: How, why, did you leave all that to come to Hawaii?

E: As you know, Tracey, many of us who move here speak of being “called”. Antion and I were visiting, driving around Hawaii and it was like – this Hawaiian music – we were so utterly entranced by the chanting and the music – we had to learn it! It was amazing for Antion, being only into Indian music at that time, having been a rock ‘n roll star, then leaving all that behind to do Indian music, suddenly without looking for it being called to again leave behind his music to move here to embrace yet another!

At that time, 12 years ago, it wasn’t easy to learn Hawaiian chanting, and the Halau (Hula & Hawaiian culture Schools) that were available weren’t readily available either, so I started teaching myself at first. It felt like it was something I had to do.

The next thing that happened was, always I felt like I still didn’t know enough! I had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on spiritual and healing training over a period of some 20 years, and still it was never enough!

And then I heard an inner voice, a message from inside that said, “Elandra, give up your need to know,” and I became aware that I couldn’t figure it out in my mind and my head. I had to let the energy come through, and it was then that it started happening, the magic really started happening.

The Lomi Lomi work, plus all the modalities, particularly the abdominal work from Mantak Chia, called Chi Nei Tsang, started synergizing and synthesizing together, creating a form of healing that was extremely effective.

T: And you’ve been teaching internationally now for how long?

E: For two or three years I have been being invited to teach around the world. What happens is that people – as we know – come to Kauai from all over the world, and somehow they find me like I am on a cosmic internet! One medical doctor was actually sent to me from a psychic who had never heard of me. So they receive a session and then they say, “Wow, this is what I want, this is what I want to learn. I want you to come to Germany, New Zealand, Tibet, and South Africa and so on, and teach.” And so I have been – and on the Mainland, too, various locations there, just allowing myself to do that, to pursue these invitations and teach and it’s just been incredible to spread the aloha vibrations from this wonderful island to these places around the world where there is such a need for them.

T: Definitely. And you’re going to be offering – is this the first time you’re offering this training here on Kauai?

E: It’s not the first time I’m teaching, but it’s the first time that I’m offering the full teachings that I now have developed and created called Lomi Chi Holographic Healing. It is Spirit coming through in such ways that I have been understanding that this can be taught and that the energy can be extremely healing for people, that the energy moves so that perhaps the sources of the physical problem that haven’t really been touched by the medicines and everything that a person may have been doing for let’s say… cancer.

It came to my understanding that in cancer there is, as part of the original source, a disconnection from yourself, a forgetting to love, a forgetting to communicate – the communication between the cells is lost. The body is a community of cells, so it is vital that they commune together, and the work is a way of restoring that. And with regard to healing cancer, I’d love to tell a story.

Lomi Chi Holographic Healing

T: Yes, please do Elandra, I want to hear this.

E: There’s so very much that has been learned in developing this work, Lomi Chi Holographic Healing, and yet in the moment of standing in the energy, it’s all let go of, and it comes from within, so it’s like Spirit moves so that whatever that person needs happens. They come to understandings that are beyond what you could think of in your head, brain, mind, with the support of this “field”. This Field is the field of what I call all-encompassing knowing that the Hawaiians call the “aka” field of fibers, the morphogenetic field that can be held that knows all, and this understanding just will then happen through the field.

So I’m going to tell a little story. This is really one of the most dramatic stories, actually utterly unbelievable. With cancer there is a fear around that, that it’s something that we can die of, and yet because of my experience with my ankle having been healed overnight, I don’t see a physical body in the same way.

I see the body as being pure energy, and in the state of pure energy – (which of course is all there is, as we are shown by the new quantum scientists these days)–there aren’t physical problems! I don’t see physical problems as problems! so it’s actually a joy for me to work with the worst of the worst problem cases.

And in this case, a man came to me who had cancer in every single organ and I thought that perhaps he had come to the island to die because he looked like he was about to. He had no energy, no aura around him, and he was like white and gray –

Healing Music

T: Ghostly looking? –

E: Truly so. I was holding my hands on his abdomen, and all kinds of things started happening. I always play Antion’s CD, called “One in the Goddess”, because the sound current of it is so high. The Hawaiian music, the sounds, the syllables, the meanings, the kaona of them is so powerful; the vibration is so high that it holds the energy. Some of the chants that Kawaikapuokalani Hewitt has taught us are truly extraordinary. So with this music playing, this is what was happening.

Energy started coming into his body and his color changed, his whole body was coming back to life. And two weeks later, I got a call from him and he said, “Elandra, you won’t recognize me.” And so it was, he was a different person, it looked like he had put on about 30 pounds, and suntanned and radiant! All tests, all medical tests showed that every single cancer in all of his organs was totally in remission, gone.

T: Wow; how could that be? Miracle! Absolutely beautiful.

E: It’s exciting to witness such a thing, and this happens with knees and hips and every kind of problem that people come with, gone. And they come back a few years later and tell me it never came back, so this is permanent, and that is significant. Sometimes symptoms go away and then they come back later, perhaps somewhere else.

However, when the original source of the problem is connected with, it doesn’t come back. If it’s treated in various ways, even alternative or complementary, as we call it, wonderful ways of nutrition and acupuncture and such herbals and Lomi Lomi – all kinds of ways, still it’s possible that the problem can come back if the original source is not connected with.

So doing that is the joy of this work. And that’s why I came to call it by the scientific word “holographic,” to convey the Hawaiian all permeating pervasive understanding that all is connected through the aka fibers, including connecting with the original Source, and how to do that, and how the ancient Hawaiians did that, and indeed, it’s surprisingly easy when you learn to allow it.

T: A lot of times, the beautiful thing about mastery is that sometimes it is very simple, as long as you realize it is possible.

E: Yeah; it’s the allowing of it, isn’t it that makes it simple? And it’s hard because the mind doesn’t see it as simple, the mind always wants to know exactly how this and this and this and it won’t – the mind doesn’t want to let go enough to allow the magic. The rational mind wants to be in control, right?

T: Yeah; the monkey mind. So it’s about getting out of the way of the monkey mind.

E: Yes, the ways of allowing that mind to be let go of is part the key.

Step Out of the Way

T: And then of course you mentioned how it’s really important to stay out of the way; that’s one of the things that you talk about in the teaching, in the training, is like really stepping out of the way and letting guidance come through and Spirit come through.

E: Yes, it takes training to be able to do that, it is not so easy, it is the challenge, because we derive our identity from our controlling mind, that so much wants to fix and help in every way. To just be in a place of suspended belief, just utter release, a place of neutrality and compassion that’s beyond that, without judgment, it took a lot for me to get there. But science is proving though experiments that instant healing occurs through being able to do that.            Lynn McTaggert reports in her book “The Field”, that there was a study that resulted in the discovery that the healers from different traditions and forms of healing, shamanic and Christian or wherever it might have been from, or Lomi Lomi, Hawaiian – these people who were being studied and tested all had this in common, this ability to step out of the way and let, what shall we call it? – Spirit or Source flow through.

T: Divinity or whatever works for you.

E: People need to feel this as readily possible, so helping to make this ability available to more people, empowering them to know they too can do this, is a strong motivator for me. And making the teachings available to those who want them and are in need, whether there is money or not, is important to me. Obviously, when we receive something, we have to give; it has to stay in balance, and yet, I feel that the idea that anybody needs treatment and cannot have it because of money is intolerable to me. The importance of community is part of what is so essential for all of us. There must be help available for everybody who needs it, regardless of money.

T: That’s true, and then of course, there are lots of people who have an abundance of money and their health isn’t well, so – you can exchange it that way.

E: To live in pono (inner harmony, balance, integrity) within and without is so important, and community is the beauty of this island, isn’t it? It’s what people are searching for, come here for. And also the body is a community, the body is a community of cells and when you understand that, then any sickness, any illness, any physical problem, or mental/emotional problem is because of community breaking down within the body. So I feel that community is so important on all these different levels and so I offer that in all that I do, making it available to everybody. And that is the true meaning of ohana, family, and aloha.