About Julia Antos

Julia passionately loves Lomi Lomi Massage.

She was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1975 and moved to Portugal in 2007 where she still lives with her husband and three children.

 

After receiving her diploma from the Psychology Faculty of the University of Budapest (ELTE), and from the Center of Integrated Dance and Movement Therapy (CITA, Munich) she worked for several years as a psychologist and Dance and Movement Therapist in Budapest. Her special interest (also the theme of her Thesis and several groups she led) was Eating Disorders.

 

From childhood on dancing has been her hobby. She attended various dance courses and workshops, her favorites were the very intuitive Improvisational and Contact Dance. Developing body awareness and being in contact and creating a dialogue with others through the language of the body - such as dancing or touch - has ever been fascinating for her.

 

Between 2004 and 2006 she learned Ma-uri massage in Budapest, Denmark and New Zealand, on various workshops held by the Ma-uri Institute and started to practice professionally. Ma-uri is a very powerful massage technique, which has its roots in Hawaiian Lomilomi, and was created by Katja and Hemi Fox (coming from New-Zealand and Denmark).

 

Julia is grateful for their teachings, it is through Ma-uri Massage that she established her connection with Polynesia and its healing arts.

Kia ora! Nga mihi nui ki a koe! (Great Gratitude to you!)

 

In 2013 she learned Hawaiian Lomi Lomi Massage from  one of her formal teachers of Ma-uri. Julia received her certificate of Integrated Lomi Lomi Massage in 2014, from Witold Stanislaw Kucharczyk. (Centre for Polynesian Healing Arts, Budapest) 

What is INTEGRATED LOMI LOMI?

Integrated Lomi Lomi is a collection of techniques and a training package put together by my teacher Witold Stanisław Kucharczyk.

It is a collection of knowledge he has learned from all his teachers so far, and is a congruent collection of massage techniques and ritual elements that complement each other.

 

His teachers of Lomi Lomi were: 

  • Susan Pai’niu Floyd who was a student of Kahu Abraham Kawai’i, and teaches this massage as Lomilomi Nui. 
  • Kumu Auntie Maile Napoleon, living together with her family in Hawaii, Witold learned the style of her family and her tribe. Auntie Maile’s teachers were Kahu Lanikila Brandt and Kumu Kalua Pai’ea Kaiahua
  • Witold learned Mana lomi®  from Maka’ala Yates.
  • A great source of inspiration was Auntie Margaret Machado.

 

Integrated Lomilomi contains: 

 

  • Wellness Lomilomi Massage with oil and flowing strokes
  • Lomilomi Nui or Kahuna Massage, a transformative ritual
  • Kahi Loa, the Massage of the Elements, which Serge Kahili King shared with the world
  • Lomi Lomi 'ili 'ili, massage with Hot stones,
  • Side lying massage or Pregnancy Massage
  • Techniques of Body Wash
  • Hawaiian Streching Techniques
  • Massage with Bamboo Sticks
  • Massage with Clay
  • Massage with Salt and Candle Wax
  • Soft Massage and lifting techniques with Pareo (soft cloths)
  • Hawaiian Hula Dance (Teachers: Kumu Hula Loea Kawaikapuokalani Hewett, Hope Keawe and Kumu Raylene Ha’alelea Kawaiae’a)
  • Ho’oponopono studies (Teacher: Haleaka Ioani Pule)

 

I am immensely grateful to all the teachers of Ma-uri and Lomi Lomi for sharing their knowledge  and allowing their wonderful gift to be spread around the world and reach and benefit so many people.

Mahalo!

Some related links

http://www.integratedlomilomi.com

http://hawaiihula.hu/