Kahuna lapaʻau[edit]

Morrnah was born May 19, 1913, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Kimokeo and Lilia Simeona, both
native Hawaiians.[1] Her mother, Lilia, was one of the last recognized kahuna laʻau kaheaor
priest who heals with words.[2] Morrnah was a practitioner of lomilomi massage and for 10
years owned and operated health spas at the Kahala Hilton and Royal Hawaiian
hotels.[3] Among her massage clients at the Hilton spa were Lyndon B. Johnson, Jackie
Kennedy, and Arnold Palmer.[4] In 1983, she was recognized as a kahuna lapaʻau (healer)
and honored as a "Living Treasure of Hawai'i" by the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of
Hawai'i.[5]

Hoʻoponopono[edit]
Main article: Ho'oponopono
In 1976 she began to modify the traditional Hawaiian forgiveness and reconciliation
process of hoʻoponopono to the realities of the modern day. Her version of hoʻoponopono
was influenced by her Christian (Protestant and Catholic) education and her philosophical
studies about India, China, and Edgar Cayce. The combination of Hawaiian traditions,
praying to the Divine Creator, and connecting problems
with Reincarnation and Karma resulted in a unique new problem solving process, that was
self-help rather than the traditional Hawaiian group process. She had no qualms about
adapting traditional concepts to contemporary applications, though she was criticized by
some Hawaiian purists. "Her system uses hoʻoponopono techniques to create a working
partnership among the three parts of the mind or self, which she calls by Hawaiian names,
as well as by the terms subconscious, conscious, and superconscious."[6]
She presented trainings and lectures on hoʻoponopono to the United Nations,[7] in nearly a
dozen states in the U.S., and in more than 14 countries, among them Germany, the
Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Russia, and Japan.[8] She presented to schools of higher
learning, such as the University of Hawaiʻi and Johns Hopkins University, to medical
facilities, religious institutions and business organizations. In 1982 she organized the First
World Symposium of Identity of Man.[9] A reporter noted: "There was something very
calming and soothing about Simeona's presence and her voice, a sense of serenity about
her, as she talks about teaching people how to relieve stress and attain peace of mind."[6]
To spread her hoʻoponopono process, she founded Pacifica Seminars in the 1970s and in
1980 The Foundation of ‘I’, Inc. (Freedom of the Cosmos). In 1990, she started Pacifica
Seminars in Germany. Simeona wrote three textbooks Self-Identity through Hoʻoponopono,
Basic 1 (128 pg), Basic 2 (to use after two years of practicing) and Basic 3 (to use after five
years). The recommended waiting times for Basic 2 and 3 was for developing deep respect
for the "Divine presence." In 1990, the English original of Basic 1, 8th edition, was officially
translated and printed in German and French.[10][11]
In late fall 1990, her last journey for lectures and seminars took her through Europe to
Jerusalem. On January 16, 1991, she came back to Germany, where she lived quietly at a
friend's house in Kirchheim, near Munich, until her death on February 11, 1992.