Karin Whitney Cooke RN, CCRC (co-founder of Kokolulu) has been involved in research, both allopathic medicine as well as CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) for the last 20 years of her career. She is currently the Research Coordinator at North Hawaii Community Hospital, on The Big Island of Hawaii. Her passion and studies for over 30 years have been in the realm of mind/body healing. This has resulted in a firm knowledge base of the link between negative emotions, toxins, and disease, and ways to

overcome those negative forces. Karin has been a nutrition consultant/wellness coach for over twenty years and uses her knowledge of both the western medicine and the alternative models to blend them in an integrative approach. With her intuitive depth of inner understanding, spatial thinking and psychic sensitivity, she can easily clear away distractions to pinpoint those areas in need of transforming. She is committed to sharing with others, the tools for enjoying a more spiritually connected, relaxed lifestyle. Karin is a Reiki Master and enjoys sharing this healing modality in individual treatments as well as in group trainings. Karin is NADA (National Acupuncture Detox Association) certified.

LuLu (Lew) Yinian Ha’ale i ka wai Whitney M.Ed. S.H. (co-founder of Kokolulu) has been a teacher/counselor/therapist/energy and body worker to adults, children, and families for over 35 years. He is an advocate for healing chronic illness, stress, behavioral and addictive issues using non-medication methods. After many years of extensive training in China under his teacher Master Zhang, Yu Lei, Lulu became certified as a Chinese Shen Han and does Shen Shan Therapy. Zhong Guo Hui Gong plays a crucial role in this practice. In 2001 Master Zhang, Yu Lei authorized him and Karin to establish the first Zhong Guo Hui Gong (Chinese Wisdom Qigong) Therapy Center outside of China at the KoKoLuLu Cancer AfterCare Retreat Center in Hawi, Hawaii.

LuLu is a passionate, caring, and sensitive man, who comes from a heart space and believes that all people are resilient and that they can return to their inherent goodness, bringing Mind, Body, and Spirit into balance to enhance optimal health.
LuLu welcomes anyone who is seeking spiritual and physical health to join us in Hawaii.

Lew welcomes anyone who is seeking spiritual and physical health to try this powerful process.

Jeanne Achterberg, Ph.D. our dear friend, colleague, and fellow staff member is a scientist who has received international recognition for her pioneering research in medicine and psychology. A faculty member for 11 years at Southwestern Medical School, she is currently a Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Institute, San Francisco. She also co-chaired the mind/body interventions ad hoc advisory panel and the Research Technologies Conference of the Office of Alternative Medicine, and was a member of the Advisory Board, Unconventional Cancer Treatments Study Group, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. She is a research consultant and advisor to foundations.

She also provides training in the use of mind/body therapies for health care professionals in Europe, Japan, Argentina, and to refugees in Kosova and Macedonia.

She has authored over 100 papers and five books. Imagery in Healing is critically acclaimed as a classic in the field of mind/body studies, and Woman as Healer is described as a ground breaking work, surveying the activities of women from prehistoric times to the present. Rituals of Healing is a primer on the use of creative therapies for health and medicine, and won the Book of the Year Award from the American Nursing Association. Her new book, Lightning at the Gate, the story of her personal healing journey, was published in 2001.

Her awards include Healer of the Year, given by the Nurse Healers' Cooperative, the Gardner Murphy Scholar Award, and the Moncrieff Award for Burn Research. In April of 2001, she was featured in Time Magazine as one of the six innovators of alternative and complementary medicine for the coming century.

Dr. Achterberg is past president of the Association of Transpersonal Psychology, She was Senior Editor for Alternative Therapies, a peer-reviewed medical journal with an international circulation. Her current research is at North Hawaii Community Hospital in Waimea, Hawaii with the responsibility to study prayer and healing..
Jeanne is often here at KoKoLuLu offering seminars, working on new books and articles, cooking, or just relaxing in our healing environment with our golden retrievers. She is a consultant and spiritual treatment advisor to both Karin and Lew and the programs at KoKoLuLu.

Please visit Jeanne's web site: www.jeanneachterberg.com.

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The Dr. Pat Show - Called "The Oprah of Radio" by her listeners, award-winning host, Dr. Pat Baccili is blowing the doors off of traditional talk radio! Our staff of Dr. Jeanne Achterberg, Karin Whitney Cooke RN, and Lew Whitney M.ED. have been guests on Dr. Pat Baccili's show.   http://www.thedrpatshow.com/

Angela Rosa our Kohala sister, colleague, and trusted friend, is a Registered Nurse, Massage Therapist, Nutritionist, Medical Aromatherapist and Integrative Health Consultant, with over 37 years of experience. She is a health educator, advocate and is known as a Barefoot Doctor in her community on the Big Island of Hawaii. Generally she works with clients "one to one" assisting them to create vibrant health by orchestrating with them a personalized health care plan to release, repair and regenerate.

She enjoys sharing SIMPLE, natural, health enhancing techniques one can easily incorporate into daily life. She focuses on the ESSENTIAL understandings of how we create health and the one cause of all disease. She especially enjoys sharing information about plants as allies in the creation of health. From the foods we eat to the household and personal care products we use, bringing the magic of plant medicine, non toxic products and natural techniques into our daily lives to support health is one of her most cherished topics of focus. She will offer ideas, resources and skills for making or purchasing simple products that will support you in creating the good health you deserve.

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"How wonderful it would be when all beings experience each other
as limbs on the one body of life!'"
Shantideva ~ 8th century Indian Sage

Our esteemed colleague and good friend, Peggy Brevoort, retired from the Natural Products Industry in 2000 after selling her herbal extract company, East Earth Herb Inc.  She is currently President of the Board of Trustees of the American Botanical Council and serves on the Bastyr University Board of Regents.  She and her husband Bill divide their time between Seattle and Hawi, Hawaii.  Peggy is a Certified Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator and built a 42’ Chartres style labyrinth on their property in Hawaii.  As a former lecturer and teacher, she now enjoys helping people learn skills to enhance their personal health and well being. She facilitates labyrinth walks and conducts Pedicure Pampering classes (each participant leaves with the knowledge  and supplies to do their own pedicure) with our retreat guests.

Master Zhang, Yu Lei is a former college professor of agriculture. Master Zhang lives in China and is a special consultant to Kokolulu, Lew and Karin. He became interested in qigong as a college student and later became a Soaring Crane Qigong instructor. Inspired by the Universe, he developed Zhong Guo Hui Gong (Chinese Wisdom Qigong) in the late 1970s. This super qigong form is so effective in treating chronic illnesses, addictions, and disorders that millions of people have learned and practiced it. Master Zhang established centers all over China and became one of the most well known qigong masters in China.

The Chinese government has approved this super energy qigong. Many chronically ill, addictive, and psychiatric patients have recovered their mental health through practice of this form. In general, qigong practice is contraindicated for mental illness. Chinese Wisdom Qigong is an exception, as it is the only form that is safe and effective in treating disorders of this kind. For many years Master Zhang has devoted himself to this cause. He loves his students like a father loves his children. He is legal guardian to several students who were rejected by their families and now live in the facility where Master Zhang primarily teaches. In addition to training his students in qigong, he also cares for them 24 hours a day. Under his care his patients have recovered their health and begun to live a normal life.

Master Zhang has published several books on the subject of qigong, addictions, diseases, chronic illnesses, and mental disorders including Non-Medical Therapy of Psychiatrics and Asking the Brain for Health. His contribution to this field of study and treatment is invaluable and gives cause for great hope among the Chronically Ill, Addiction, and Mental Health communities here in the United States.

Master Zhang authorized Lew and Karin to establish the first Zhong Guo Hui Gong (Chinese Wisdom Qigong) Therapy Treatment Center outside of China at the KoKoLuLu Farm and Qigong Center in Hawi, Hawaii.
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Patricia D. Culliton M.A., L. Ac., our dear friend and colleague serves as a consultant and on site staff member several times during the year, here at KoKoLuLu. Pat is Director of the Alternative Medicine Division at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN and is an instructor in the Graduate School at the University of Minnesota. She has a Master of Arts degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and is a Nationally Board Certified Acupuncturist.

Pat was a mental health and addictions counselor for many years prior to studying acupuncture. Since 1981 she has been conducting acupuncture research and developing complementary and alternative medicine services at Hennepin and nationally. She has published several articles and book chapters about the treatment effects of acupuncture and other modalities for addictions and pain. Presently she supervises a staff of Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners, massage therapists, and chiropractors that provide clinical services, educational experiences for physicians and allied health providers and conduct clinical research trials. She also teaches 2 courses in the U of MN Center for Spirituality and Healing graduate minor program.

Pat is a founding board member of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association and the Society for Acupuncture Research. She has been involved in several NIH funded research grants, helped develop a Post-Doctoral Fellowship program in Addiction and Alternative Medicine and consults with agencies regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicine both nationally and internationally.

Jim Berg MD, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to a family of medical doctors. Science and healing came naturally to him. From a very young age, Jim has been interested in exercise, massage, herbs, meditation, yoga, nutrition and medicine. Although he appreciated modern medicine, Jim's main interest in healing was with direct and natural manual approaches that help a person most profoundly. When he was nineteen, Jim had a vision of how he could serve people deeper if he understood the science of medicine and could practice with an unrestricted license. He also realized that in order to really help medicine evolve, he had to do this from the inside as a doctor. Jim had clear witness of the shortcomings of modern medicine and sought to bring the art of healing to the science of medicine. Jim’s life is dedicated to serving humanity with the kindest and most effective medicine feasible. He calls this service “Barefoot Doctoring”. He has been a healer and medical facilitator at the annual Rainbow Gatherings for more than 21 consecutive summers. Barefoot Doctoring is the way of healing at the Rainbow Gatherings, and Jim has learned this way well; to complement this way, he also obtained medical certification in Wilderness Advanced Life Support. He is as comfortable healing in the forests, mountains, beaches, and jungles, as he is in his office. "Nurturing and strengthening is preferable to pills and potions; Pills and potions are preferable to surgery; and surgery is preferable to death; Caring is the most important." Jim has been sincerely devoted to science, oriental medicine and acupuncture, peak performance, herbal medicine, yoga, tai chi, aikido and qigong, healthy foods, meditation, and any safe techniques that help in healing. Along with his wife, Dee Anne Domnick, a Licensed Midwife and a talented healer, they co-founded a healing school called the Barefoot Doctors’ Academy, School of Natural Medicine and School of Midwifery, where they teach people how to care for themselves, friends and family. Jim is a healing coach, personal trainer, therapist, bodyworker, herbalist, and doctor. As a member of KoKoLuLu Farm and Qigong Center's staff, his aim is to be kind, deep, and creative. He cares and lives to share his skills. Contact Jim:

Nancy Webster our dear friend and trusted spiritual leader serves as our web master and designed our first web site. She provides guidance to KoKoLuLu in the area of energy healing, nutritional consulting, spiritual awareness and is a skilled EFT practitioner and Reiki Master.
Nan, along with her husband Dick, owns a successful screen saver company, Copernicus Software www.copernicus.com and web design company, nancywebster.com. She enjoys running, web hosting, playing the piano and practicing Reiki and EFT.