Kumu Ramsay Taum
The art of living in harmony begins with knowing how to restore it when it breaks down.
Discover the Hawaiian art of living pono through Hoʻoponopono practices, reflection, and forgiveness — to cultivate inner peace, restore harmony in your relationships, and strengthen your sense of belonging.
Imagine knowing how to find your way back to harmony, even when life pulls you far from it…
An old hurt that rises when you least expect it. A choice you regret, or words you wish you could take back. Or the feeling that, as life changes, you're longing for a deeper sense of peace, purpose, and belonging.
Hawaiian wisdom offers a beautiful way of understanding and restoring that harmony. It's called living pono — being in balance and right relationship with yourself, others, and all that sustains you.
At its heart is Hoʻoponopono — a traditional Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and making things right, which helps restore harmony through reflection, prayer, forgiveness, cleansing, and release.
Respected Hawaiian cultural wisdom keeper Kumu Ramsay Taum, a practitioner of Indigenous Hawaiian healing arts, has devoted his life to sharing this wisdom through intercultural exchanges, global peace initiatives, and work supporting planetary wellbeing.
In his new 7-week live video course, Kumu Ramsay will guide you in the Hawaiian art of living pono, helping you experience Hoʻoponopono and bring Aloha, the Hawaiian spirit of love, care, and reciprocity, into your relationships and everyday life.
You may already know Hoʻoponopono through the familiar four phrases: “I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.” But there's much more to this ancient Hawaiian practice than its well-known mantra.
In this course, you'll explore the rich philosophy, cultural wisdom, and traditional practices that have made Hoʻoponopono a powerful way to restore balance and harmony across generations.
Kumu Ramsay will guide you through the essential steps of traditional Hoʻoponopono — from preparation and prayer to acknowledgment, cleansing, release, and closure.
You'll apply these teachings to memories and circumstances in your own life, exploring how to make peace with past choices, soften old hurts, and extend forgiveness for yourself and others. You'll also learn a practice you can return to whenever you need to restore harmony within yourself or your relationships.
One of the most revealing discoveries you'll make is how much of what you experience is shaped by what you remember.
Through reflection and exercises in perspective, you'll explore how memories and assumptions influence your reactions, and begin recognizing when an old experience is shaping how you understand something happening today.
You'll also meet the Three Selves: ʻAumakua (the higher self), ʻUhane (the conscious mind), and ʻUnihipili (the subconscious mind), which together form your inner family.
Through guided practice, you'll learn to communicate compassionately with ʻUnihipili, exploring a new way to care for the memories and feelings it holds.
And through a personal relationship-mapping practice, you'll explore the Hawaiian understanding of belonging, reflecting on your connections with family, ancestors, community, and ʻāina (the land that sustains us), and how gratitude and reciprocity can deepen those bonds.
As the course unfolds, you'll discover how to bring these teachings into ordinary moments — from the way you respond to someone who upsets you to the care you offer yourself and the people around you.
Aloha can become something that others feel in your presence, expressed through the kindness, attention, and respect you bring to everyday life.
By the end of the journey, you'll have a personal experience of Hoʻoponopono and practices you can continue making your own, along with a deeper sense of what it means to live pono, restore harmony, and feel at home in the world you belong to.
As you explore the Hawaiian art of living pono, you'll also:
- Recall a moment when you felt genuinely at peace and recognize the qualities of pono you want to cultivate in your own life
- Create your personal pono roadmap to identify your values and explore how to bring them into closer alignment with your everyday choices
- Try the “How Many Squares?” perspective exercise to discover how memories, assumptions, and personal experience influence what you perceive
- Explore “I belong, therefore I AM” as you map your relationships with family, ancestors, community, and ʻāina, deepening your appreciation for the connections that sustain you
- Practice communicating with ʻUnihipili, bringing compassionate attention to the memories and familiar reactions held within your inner family
- Work with kuleana (responsibility) and ʻoki (release) as you explore forgiveness, reconciliation, and your relationship with unresolved experiences
- Experience HĀ, the life-giving breath, and explore mana (spiritual energy) and the Pillar of the Peace of “I” as preparation for Hoʻoponopono
- Learn the preparation, sequence, and purpose of Hoʻoponopono, including acknowledgment, prayer, cleansing, release, and closure — and explore how to apply the practice to your own life
- Create a personalized 30-day practice plan to continue cultivating pono, restoring harmony, and bringing Aloha into your daily relationships and choices
- And much more…
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Kumu Ramsay will guide you through the Hawaiian wisdom of pono and experience the restorative practice of Hoʻoponopono — to make peace with old hurts, nurture more loving relationships, and feel more deeply connected to yourself and the world around you.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Kumu Ramsay and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Kumu Ramsay’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions are on 2026-12-03 5:00:00 pm.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Kumu Ramsay. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to release what weighs on your heart, bring greater understanding to your relationships, and cultivate Aloha in everyday life.
Aloha, Pono, and the Art of Right Relationship: Find Your Path to Greater Harmony (2026-12-03 5:00:00 pm)
In this first module, you'll begin exploring the life this course invites you to cultivate: a life of Aloha, balance, and right relationship.
Kumu Ramsay will introduce pono as a condition of alignment and Hoʻoponopono as a practice of making things right.
Through cultural context, reflection, and lived examples, you'll discover how these teachings belong together, and begin to recognize what living in right relationship might look like in your everyday life.
In this opening session, you'll:
- Recall a moment when you were in right relationship through guided reflection, identifying the qualities that made the experience pono
- Discover how Aloha, pono, and Hoʻoponopono work together as a framework for living in greater harmony
- Recognize how Aloha is expressed through respect, care, and reciprocity
- Understand why cultural context and transmission matter in learning these Hawaiian teachings
- Identify an everyday situation where your values, relationships, and actions can align more fully
Understand How Memory Shapes Perception & Discover New Possibilities (2026-12-10 5:00:00 pm)
What you see is shaped by what you carry.
Kumu Ramsay will help you explore how memories, assumptions, inherited patterns, and experiences influence the way you interpret people and events.
Through perspective exercises and personal inquiry, you'll learn to distinguish between what actually happened and the meaning you gave it, begin noticing familiar reactions with curiosity, and discover how to respond more consciously to what life brings.
In this session, you'll:
- Participate in the "How Many Squares?" perspective exercise, followed by a guided exploration of an everyday reaction and the meaning you gave it
- Identify how your assumptions and beliefs shape what you perceive
- Distinguish an external event from the memories or meanings it activated within you
- Recognize the difference between addressing a symptom and exploring its underlying source
- Practice self-inquiry to create space between a trigger and your response
Deepen Your Sense of Belonging Through the Hawaiian Relational Worldview (2026-12-17 5:00:00 pm)
Here you'll enter a worldview in which identity unfolds through relationship.
With Kumu Ramsay's guidance, explore your connections with family, ancestors, community, ʻāina (the land that sustains us), the natural world, and the unseen.
Through the understanding that "context shapes content" and the invitation "I belong, therefore I AM," you'll discover how belonging informs responsibility, how your choices affect the relationships that sustain you, and how reciprocity can become a daily expression of Aloha.
In this session, you'll:
- Create a relationship map connecting yourself with family, ancestors, community, place, and the living world, reflecting on what you receive and give
- Discover how context shapes the meaning of a teaching or experience
- Explore aka — the invisible threads of connection that link you to others and the world around you
- Recognize how kuleana (responsibility) arises through your relationships with people and place
- Choose a meaningful way to practice reciprocity in your everyday life
Me, My Selves, and the "I": Unifying Your Three Selves to Achieve Harmony, Balance & Peace (2027-01-07 5:00:00 pm)
Kumu Ramsay will introduce you to the Three Selves: ʻAumakua (the higher self), ʻUhane (the conscious mind), and ʻUnihipili (the subconscious mind), as they're taught within his received practice.
You'll explore their functions, their relationships, and the “I” as a doorway into deeper identity.
You'll discover why care for your inner family matters and how bringing these three minds together in harmony can help you cultivate a deeper sense of wholeness. Like a raindrop returning to the ocean, you'll explore what it means to be an individual while remaining part of something greater.
In this session, you'll:
- Practice communicating with ʻUnihipili through a guided introduction, followed by quiet observation and reflection on your inner relationship
- Identify the Three Selves and their individual functions
- Understand the importance of the relationship between ʻUhane and ʻUnihipili
- Explore the "I" as an expression of identity beyond your habitual ways of describing yourself
- Recognize how unification of the Three Selves supports pono and a deeper connection with Source
Kuleana: Take Responsibility Without Blame & Restore Right Relationship (2027-01-14 5:00:00 pm)
In this module, you'll explore kuleana (responsibility) as the capacity to respond with care — honoring both your inner wisdom and your accountability to others.
Kumu Ramsay will invite you to examine forgiveness, emotional memory, attachment, and release, while approaching yourself and others with greater compassion.
You'll discover why the work begins with what you carry, how making things right involves both inner practice and outward action, and how releasing unresolved patterns can create room for a different quality of relationship.
In this session, you'll:
- Reflect on an unresolved experience through a guided practice — identifying what's yours to address and what you're ready to release
- Be guided through a practice to explore ʻoki (release)
- Distinguish responsibility from blame and recognize your part in a relationship
- Explore how forgiveness, including forgiveness of your ancestors, supports reconciliation and release
- Learn to work with an activated memory or emotion without trying to control another person
- Identify an appropriate way to make things right, such as an apology, repair, or clear boundary
Preparing the Ground: Deepen Inner Harmony Through HĀ, Mana & Care for ʻUnihipili (2027-01-21 5:00:00 pm)
Kumu Ramsay will introduce HĀ (life-giving breath), mana (spiritual energy), and care for ʻUnihipili (the subconscious mind) as essential elements of preparation for Hoʻoponopono.
You'll explore how breath and intention work together to support the relationship of the Three Selves, creating space for prayer and reflection.
You'll also be introduced to the Pillar of the Peace of “I,” exploring its role in preparing your inner family for prayer, reflection, and the practice of Hoʻoponopono.
In this session, you'll:
- Participate in a guided HĀ practice, incorporating inner-family care and an introduction to the Pillar of the Peace of "I," followed by reflection on your readiness and presence
- Discover how intentional preparation supports the Hoʻoponopono process
- Recognize the importance of caring for and protecting ʻUnihipili within your inner family
- Understand the role of the Pillar of the Peace of “I” in preparing for prayer and reflection
Hoʻoponopono: Finding Your Way to Pono & Living Aloha Every Day (2027-01-28 5:00:00 pm)
In this final module, Kumu Ramsay will bring the teachings together through a guided experience of Hoʻoponopono…
… exploring preparation, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, cleansing, release, transmutation, and closure.
You'll learn to recognize when alignment is disturbed and how to return to pono with care. You'll also discover how working with what you've carried from the past can help you live more consciously in the present, making Aloha and right relationship an ongoing way of life.
In this closing session, you'll:
- Experience the complete Hoʻoponopono process through guided practice, choosing a personal memory, pattern, or circumstance, followed by reflection and questions
- Integrate preparation and the relationship of the Three Selves into your practice
- Understand the sequence and purpose of each step, including the importance of acknowledgment and closure
- Recognize everyday signs of greater alignment in your choices, actions, and relationships
- Create a realistic plan for continuing your practice, bringing greater responsibility and care into your daily life
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-11-14 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Kumu Ramsay’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Shamanic Journeying Toolkit
Audio Tools and PDF Guide From Sandra Ingerman
In this shamanic journeying toolkit, world-renowned shamanic teacher, author, and beloved Shift Network faculty Sandra Ingerman offers guidance and practical tools to help you find your own doorway into the invisible realms, deepen your experience, and fine-tune your journeying practice. You'll receive her Introduction to Shamanic Journeying audio and PDF guide, along with three audio tracks: Whistle, Rattle, Drum, Bell & Bowl, and Ultimate Om. You'll also receive the Drumming Track for Journeying to support your ongoing practice.
Embracing Dawn: Daily Ancestral Meditation
Audio Meditation From Grandmother Moetu-Taiha
Join Māori elder and spiritual teacher Grandmother Moetu-Taiha for a daily meditation practice that invites you to greet each new day with gratitude, while honoring the ancestors who came before you. Through this sacred practice, you'll deepen your connection to your spiritual lineage and the wisdom passed down through generations — drawing strength from those who've shaped your journey. You'll discover how beginning each morning with appreciation and a sense of ancestral connection can enrich your spiritual life and bring greater meaning to your everyday experiences.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Cultivating Individuation in Collective Contexts: Does Forgiveness Have a Role?
Video Teaching From Kumu Ramsay Taum
Individuation is a sacred unfolding, a spiral journey toward wholeness that invites you to embrace every aspect of yourself, including your shadow. Drawing on the wisdom of the Hawaiian tradition and the practice of Hoʻoponopono, Kumu Ramsay will explore how forgiveness can become a bridge to inner harmony and healing within your relationships and community. You'll discover how your own transformation is woven into the larger web of relationships, and how honoring both your individuality and your connection to others can deepen your sense of wholeness and belonging.
From Inherited Pain to Personal Freedom: Releasing the Past to Remember Who You Are
Video Dialogue With Kumu Ramsay Taum and Cyndi Dale
Join Kumu Ramsay Taum and intuitive energy healer Cyndi Dale – also a beloved Shift Network faculty – for an illuminating conversation about the invisible threads of ancestral trauma woven through your lineage, and how they may continue to influence your life today. Together, they'll explore how recognizing inherited patterns can help you release what no longer serves you and reconnect with a deeper sense of identity, belonging, and purpose. You'll discover how tending to the wounds of the past can open new possibilities for your own life while contributing to healing for generations to come.
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The Hawaiian Art of Living Pono offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Kumu Ramsay Taum will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Kumu Ramsay Taum
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from cultural wisdom keeper Kumu Ramsay Taum — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option, a teaching segment of 60 minutes, and a Q&A for 30 minutes. Program sessions are on 2026-12-03 5:00:00 pm.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcript after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the insights and practices you found most impactful.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The Hawaiian Art of Living Pono
We feel honored that Kumu Ramsay Taum has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a practitioner of indigenous Hawaiian healing arts whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about experiencing the Hawaiian art of living pono to restore balance when life feels unsettled, strengthen your connections with others, and rediscover your place in the larger circle of life, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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About Kumu Ramsay Taum
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Kumu Ramsay Taum stands as a bridge between worlds — an Indigenous wisdom keeper rooted in ancestral knowing, yet fully engaged within the infrastructures of modernity.
His work does not seek to escape the systems of extraction and imbalance, but to meet them, reweave them, and offer a path forward grounded in Aloha, accountability, and alignment.
In spaces where metrics have too long replaced meaning, he calls for a deeper reckoning: not merely accounting, but radical accountability; not just reference, but reverence; not only return on investment, but a return on intellect, intention, and integrity.
His voice is both ancient and emergent, advocating for economic and ecological systems that reflect the sacred interdependence of all life. Through a lens of peace, sustainability, and relational wisdom, Kumu Ramsay helps communities remember who they are, where they stand, and how to move in harmony with both land and law, spirit and structure.
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