Renowned for being a soothing, gentle, and relaxing experience, lomilomi is the traditional art of Hawaiian massage. This resource for students and practitioners of bodywork reprints original English language source material on the practice. Most of it is taken from archived interviews of native healers who practiced lomilomi in the 18th and 19th centuries. Editor Chai is a licensed massage therapist specializing in lomilomi. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR