Hye-sun Yang
Korean-Hawaiian LomiLomi
I tried to express Hawaiian massage lomilomi, which is very famous and beloved around the world, by incorporating it into Korean traditional culture.
Korean-Hawaiian LomiLomi
I tried to express Hawaiian massage lomilomi, which is very famous and beloved around the world, by incorporating it into Korean traditional culture.
I think Koreans have a similar culture to Hawaiian's. Such as they love nature and art, and they have endless longing for God. The most surprising part of them is that they value a person's body very much like precious and they are very careful about dealing with it.
lomilomi Massage has a view of understanding a person as an ‘Integral Being' with a soul, not just the body. I was deeply impressed by the Hawaiian tradition of praying to God for creating a human body and soul first, and praying to their ancestors who let them be there. And then they do massage later.
This was a very friendly and easy-to-understand emotion for me as a Korean. There is a similar culture in Korea. I'll introduce it briefly.
When we play Korean 'Ssireum', which is a power struggling game in Korea, we read a traditional prayers called "Gocheonmun." "Gocheonmun" means "posting in the sky," and is a traditional anonymous Korean prayers that has been handed down to Korea for a long time. The prayers consist of blessing the body.
In the video, the song I sang before massaging was based on the ritual of Ssireum players coming out to dance and singing Gocheonmun before the world's best Ssireum competition. In order to make Gocheonmun my own "Massage Therapy Song," I attached a note in the form of ‘Jeongga’ to Gocheonmun, a traditional Korean vocal music.
Gochenmun
Oh Lord! who becomes the soil, water, fire, and wind for these people!
Please let us gain weight, blood, breath, and muscle strength today.
Please let the stream rise, the well is filled, and the fields of rice paddies are shiny, so that beautiful flowers are in full bloom.
Except for the guitar, all of them are traditional Korean percussion instruments. In Korea, there is also a culture of playing in a large yard, but there is also a culture in which small performances were held in a home room to dance, play musical instruments, and play together.
Especially in the southern Korea, when a big sad thing happens to a family, such as a funeral, the whole village people visit them to play musical instruments, dance, and sing together. Also, they spend a few nights sharing food together. The reason I massaged with various musicians in the room was to portray a Hawaiian massage that combines music and dance as a familiar with Korean's.
We all wore traditional Korean 'Hanbok'. My hair is braided. It is a traditional costume in which women who were not married yet braided their hair and decorated it with ornaments called 'Daengi'. The actor who appeared as a massage customer in the video is an old friend of mine, and I put on the underwear for him that I sewed myself. This is a Korean traditional underwear called "Darisokot" directlry means 'Under Legs'. We don't use this anymore, me neither! Finally, I loved and cared for my customer while massaging with lomilomi's spirit of wishing for the full health and happiness of the massage recipient.
I hope you guys enjoy my video and share all my love and happiness.
Aloha!
