Lomi Lomi Lvl 1 - 4 Day Facilitator Training with Neikah
- Tue 2 Dec 2025, 08:30AM
- Wed 3 Dec 2025, 08:30AM
- Tue 9 Dec 2025, 08:30AM
- Wed 10 Dec 2025, 08:30AM
Facilitated by Neikah Verlinden
Lomi Lomi 4 Day Facilitator Training
Step into a four-day immersion in Heartworks Lomi Lomi — the ancient Hawaiian healing art of body, mind, and spirit. Guided by Neikah Verlinden of Mette's Institute, this training offers a deeply heart-centered approach to touch, presence, and connection.
Through the gentle, flowing sequences of Heartworks Lomi Lomi, you’ll learn to open the heart, calm the mind, and restore the natural rhythm of body and soul. Each movement is a prayer in motion — hands and fingers flowing continuously, inviting deep relaxation, release, and renewal.
Over four days, you’ll be guided through hands-on learning, meditation, breathwork, and reflection. You’ll not only gain a new skill in healing touch but also experience personal transformation, laughter, connection, and a renewed sense of inner peace.
4 Days over two weeks:
2-3 Dec
9-10 Dec
This Training Is For You If You’re
🪶 New to bodywork and curious to explore intuitive healing through touch
🪶 A practicing therapist or healer seeking to deepen your spiritual and energetic practice
🪶 Wanting to learn techniques that support relaxation, healing, and emotional balance
🪶 A past student wishing to refresh and reconnect with the Heartworks lineage
🪶 Called to experience a nurturing, heart-opening retreat of learning and growth
What You’ll Receive
🪶 Certification of 38-hour Lomi Lomi Training
🪶 Accredited with IICT and Mette's Institute of Bodywork & Personal Development
🪶 In-depth training in Heartworks Lomi Lomi Massage — a Hawaiian healing practice for body, mind, and spirit
🪶 Energetic Healing Integration
🪶 Trauma-informed touch practices
🪶 Skills to support relaxation, circulation, and emotional balance in others
🪶 A pathway to personal empowerment, self-awareness, and presence through touch
🪶 Guidance and mentorship from an experienced, lineage-based facilitator
Why It Matters
At its heart, Heartworks Lomi Lomi is more than a massage technique — it’s a way of being. Rooted in Aloha, this practice reminds us that healing begins with the heart. Each movement, breath, and moment of presence becomes an act of prayer and remembrance — a return to simplicity, softness, and love.
In learning this sacred art, you’re not just developing a new skill — you’re reconnecting to the wisdom of your hands, your intuition, and your ability to bring peace into the world through gentle, embodied service.
Instructor Training & Pathway
Graduates of this Level 1 training are also eligible to continue their learning journey with Level 2 Heartworks Lomi Lomi at Mette’s Institute, where you can deepen your understanding of Hawaiian philosophy, advanced techniques, and the spiritual foundations of this lineage.
For those wishing to share this gift with others, Mette's Institute also offers Instructor Training to teach the Heartworks Lomi Lomi Level 1 technique — guiding students and clients to bring this healing art into homes, workplaces, and communities. This level 1 course is a pre-requisite for the instructor training.
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Before Booking
Please ensure you’ve read the Sacred Agreements and Cancellation Policy listed on the event page before booking.
About the Facilitator
Neikah Verlinden
@neikahverlinden
Aloha! Good to see you!
I’m Neikah: bodyworker, facilitator, mentor, health enthusiast, chocoholic, tea lover, proud G’ma….Passionate Living Woman!
I have a vision of ensuring that Ka Huna Bodywork and Heartworks Lomi Lomi are being used and practiced 150 years from now. I’m on a mission to bring these integrated healing practices to every home, in every city on every continent.
This is my invitation to you. Come join me on the mission….whether you simply come to receive a session or join me and the team in learning these life changing modalities our doors and hearts are open to welcome you.
Sacred Agreements & Participant Care
Age Requirements
Events & 1:1 sessions in the temple space are open to people aged 21 and over, unless stated otherwise.
This is because the work we do may bring forward deep emotional or energetic processes that require a certain level of maturity and self-awareness.
Health, Safety & Contraindications
Please read before attending. Some practices used in our circles may not be suitable for everyone.
We always invite you to honour your body, take full responsibility for your wellbeing, and participate only as feels right.
If any of the below apply to you, please consult with your relevant health or support professionals before attending.
Our facilitators are not medical practitioners, and participation is always by personal choice and responsibility.
Contraindications include:
- Serious cardiovascular conditions, high blood pressure, recent surgery or injury
- Epilepsy or seizure disorders
- Pregnancy (please inform facilitators or practitioners)
- Acute mental health conditions (psychosis, schizophrenia, mania)
- Use of certain medications (MAOIs, SSRIs) if participating in cacao or hape
If unsure, please contact us prior to booking so we can guide you safely.
Mental Health & Emotional Support Clause
Our facilitators are experienced in holding sacred, safe space — but this is not a substitute for therapy or psychiatric care.
These gatherings can sometimes surface buried emotions, memories, or grief. We encourage participants to seek professional support where needed, and to reach out to us for recommendations to integrative or trauma-informed practitioners.
You are never alone in your process — please let us know if you need aftercare or integration guidance.
Code of Conduct / Respectful Space
This is a confidential and judgement-free space.
We ask that you come with an open heart, listen deeply, and respect the stories shared.
Please refrain from using phones, alcohol, or substances before and during the event.
Your full presence is your greatest gift to the circle.
Photography & Media
To protect privacy and sacred space, photography and recording are not permitted during the ceremony.
You may capture a few respectful images before or after the circle, please ask permission to take photos of any people's faces.
If we intend to take our own photos or videos, we will notify you and you may decline to be in them.
Integration & Aftercare
Integration is where the real medicine unfolds.
After the circle, give yourself space to rest, hydrate, and journal any insights. Try not to rush anywhere or put yourself in a high stress environment post session.
You may feel lighter, clearer, or tender — all are natural signs of energetic release.
If you’d like additional support, we can recommend integration practitioners or one-on-one sessions with our facilitators.
Refunds & Cancellations
Group Events & Ceremonies
All Tickets are non-refundable. You can however you can exchange your ticket for another event in the same month with 3 days notice.
You may transfer your ticket to another person up to 4 hours before.
This honours the energy, preparation, and limited spaces of each gathering and your ticket could be the one that allows the event to proceed.
1:1 Sessions & Private Healings
You may reschedule or cancel with 7 days’ notice at no charge.
Within 7 days, we’ll do our best to move your session with the same facilitator if possible or transfer to another person.
Less than 24 hours’ notice or no-shows will be charged in full to honour the facilitator’s time and energy.
Why This Policy?
These sessions and circles are intimate, energetically curated experiences.
When someone cancels last-minute, it not only affects logistics but the energetic container that has already begun forming.
Our facilitators rely on confirmed bookings for their livelihood and preparation — your understanding helps sustain this sacred work.
Location, Accessibility & Logistics
Events are held at our Bricks & Mortar store at 317 King Street, Newtown.
Please let us know of any accessibility needs before the event — we’ll do our best to support you. The shop & temple have wheelchair access & a loading bay a few doors down.
Parking / Transport: We are a 2min walk from Newtown train & bus station. free untimed parking in the area is best found in the residential streets between the Court House Hotel and the Carlisle Hotel. Check the signs for if it is timed.
Doors close at the scheduled start time to protect the energetic integrity of the space. Late entry is not permitted once the ceremony begins so please arrive atleast 10min early.
About All Our Group Offerings
Cacao
Cacao (Theobroma cacao) is a sacred plant medicine from Central and South America, traditionally used in ceremony to open the heart, uplift the spirit, and deepen connection.
Unlike common chocolate, ceremonial cacao is a pure raw food, and retains its natural theobromine content — a gentle cardiovascular stimulant that increases blood flow and releases feel-good neurochemicals.
Cacao is not psychoactive but can create a warm, euphoric, heart-centred state when consumed intentionally.
If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or taking antidepressant medication, please let us know — we can serve you a half dose or herbal alternative.
Hapé (Rapé) — Sacred Tobacco Snuff
Hapé (pronounced ha-PAY) is a sacred shamanic snuff made from finely ground Amazonian tobacco (mapacho) and medicinal herbs.
Traditionally used by Indigenous tribes of Brazil and Peru, it’s a purification medicine that helps to clear the mind, ground the energy, and bring presence to the body.
In our ceremonies, hape is always optional and served in reverence. It can induce a short, grounding experience that may include mild physical effects (tingling, light dizziness, or clearing through the nose/throat).
Not suitable for those who are pregnant, have severe hypertension, or are highly sensitive to tobacco.
Breathwork / Bodywork / Massage
Some events may include breathwork, sound healing, or light touch (massage/bodywork) as part of the journey.
All touch is consensual, trauma-informed, and energetically respectful.
Breathwork can evoke strong physical or emotional releases — please inform facilitators beforehand if you have any physical or mental health concerns such as PTSD, cardiovascular issues, pregnancy, epilepsy, or recent surgery.
Shamanic Drum Journey
A drum journey is an ancient meditative practice used across many cultures to access altered states of awareness through rhythmic drumming.
The steady beat helps the brain shift into theta waves, a state of deep relaxation and intuitive insight.
In this state, you may receive visions, sensations, or symbolic guidance. There is no “right” way to journey — simply lie back, breathe, and let the sound carry you.
Sound Healing
Sound healing uses sacred instruments such as didgeridoo, crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, chimes, and rattles to harmonize the energy body.
These frequencies invite the mind into stillness, allowing the nervous system to recalibrate and the body to release tension.
You may feel vibrations moving through your body, experience warmth, tingling, or emotional release.
There’s no need to “do” anything — simply breathe, receive, and let the sound wash through you.
Accupressure
Acupressure and acupuncture are ancient healing arts that work with the body’s energy meridians to restore flow, relieve tension, and bring balance to the internal organs and emotions.
Gentle pressure (or in some sessions, fine sterile needles) is applied to specific points to release blockages and support the natural self-healing process.
You may feel subtle pulses, warmth, or energy shifts as circulation and chi begin to move.
These sensations are a sign the body is rebalancing — relax and allow the process to unfold.
About All Our 1:1 Treatments
Kahuna Massage
A deeply flowing Hawaiian-style temple bodywork that works on both physical and energetic levels. Long, rhythmic strokes using forearms, breath, and movement help release stored tension, open the heart, and restore balance to body and spirit. Expect a feeling of deep surrender, grounding, and emotional release.
Lomi Lomi Massage
An ancient Polynesian healing art that embodies Aloha — unconditional love. Lomi Lomi uses long, wave-like motions that soothe the nervous system and encourage circulation and relaxation. It’s a nurturing, restorative experience that reconnects you with your body’s natural flow and wisdom.
Acupuncture
A traditional Chinese medicine practice that works with energy meridians (Qi) to bring harmony to the body’s systems. Fine, sterile needles are gently placed to release blockages, improve circulation, and balance organ function. Expect a sense of calm clarity as your body rebalances and energy realigns.
Hypnotherapy + MEMI
A guided therapeutic process that accesses the subconscious mind to gently reframe patterns, beliefs, and emotional imprints. MEMI (Memory Reconsolidation & Integration) blends hypnosis and trauma-informed therapy to dissolve triggers at their root. Expect to leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more in control of your emotional landscape.
Tarot Reading
A sacred conversation between you, the cards, and spirit. Tarot offers clarity, reflection, and guidance, helping you see patterns and possibilities with new awareness. Whether focused on life path, relationships, or purpose, the messages come through with honesty and compassion.
Astrology Reading
Your birth chart is a celestial map of your soul’s blueprint. In this session, we explore your planetary influences, patterns, and current transits to reveal insight into purpose, relationships, and cycles of growth. Expect a deeply validating and empowering reflection of your life’s rhythm and timing.
Drum Journey 1:1
A guided shamanic meditation using rhythmic drumming to enter a trance-like state. The steady beat helps quiet the mind and open the intuitive field, allowing visions, messages, or healing energy to arise. Simply relax, breathe, and let the drum carry you between worlds.
Sound Healing 1:1
An immersive vibrational experience using crystal bowls, didgeridoo, chimes, and voice to harmonize the body’s energy field. Frequencies work through the nervous system and subtle layers of consciousness, dissolving tension and restoring peace. You may feel waves of sound moving through you, leaving you centered and renewed.