Student Spotlight
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Karin Whitney Cooke, MS candidate
The Meaning of Kokolulu
Life energy comes as our birthright. Innately attuned and naturally seeking balance, we are energetically attuned to go with the flow. In other cultures this interconnected higher intelligence is known as chi or prana, qi, or vital force.
It’s a natural fact that life situations have a way of shifting, realigning and sometimes misaligning our energies. But fortunately, says Karin Whitney Cooke, human potential is omnipotent. Her life’s work is to remind clients of our abundant wellspring of energy, cultivated through breath work, movement, food choices and the power of our thoughts—and rooted in our careful stewardship of nature.
Twice, this lifelong knowingness has helped Karin regain balance when her own life–light darkened and things turned shadowy.
Trained as an LPN in the 1970s, the young mother’s allopathic orientation took a terrifying turn when Karin’s husband developed terminal cancer. She later studied to become an RN/medical researcher, while her family continued to embrace organic nutrition, exercise and positive thinking as powerful do–it–yourself healing tools. Unfortunately Karin would later face her own cancer experience, ultimately feeling personally misled by conventional views that were reactive, not preventive.
“It became my calling to help people understand all their options, empowering them first to be their own health protector and advocate.”
During this time Karin felt called to the energy healing modality of Reiki and studied to become a Reiki master. She also met a fellow seeker, Lew Whitney, and together they discovered Qi–gong, a self–empowering modality of energetic reconnection that has changed their lives and has become the basis of their teachings.
Our energetic pathways get blocked by the stresses of environmental toxins, junk food and negative thoughts, she explains. Pronounced “chee’ kung,” this ancient Chinese practice of meditative movement helps individuals release these obstructions as they breathe universal energy into blockages within the body’s energy meridians.
Seven years ago, Karin and Lew moved to the Big Island of Hawaii. On the north coastal tip of North Kohala the newlyweds transformed seven acres of cow pastures into a self–sufficient, holistic nirvana called Kokolulu Farm and Wellness Centre. Here they work with guests who come to heal from a variety of life’s challenges by incorporating intentional and energetic tools such as Qi–gong, Reiki, yoga, meditation, physiological and emotional detoxification.
What does Kokolulu mean? First envisioned as the whimsical union of their nicknames, Karin and Lew were delighted to discover that its Polynesian translation is “calm blood,” which is both the basis of Qi–gong and the intention of their holistic retreat center!
Along with co–founding Kokolulu, Karin is research coordinator at North Hawaii Community Hospital. In both settings she collaborates with energy research guru Jeanne Achterberg, PhD, recently as co–authors of “Evidence for Correlations Between Distant Intentionality and Brain Function in Recipients” a scientific study of non–local or distance healing in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (Volume 11, Number 6, 2005, pp. 967–971).
For more information: www.kokolulu.com.
This article was based on an interview with the student.
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