Hula Me Ka Mahalo

27/11/2024

I’m so proud of my students! Only two classes & you’ve learned so quickly 👏🏽👏🏽 My heart is so full after every practice with you 🫶🏽 Mahalo for joining me in Hula 💕

27/11/2024

Aloha Dancing Ohana 💚💚

Reminder there is no class this Saturday as we are closed for the holiday break. We will meet again Saturday Dec 7th for the 2nd to last class of the season.

During this break, please visit my YouTube page to practice hula basics and Pearly Shells choreography. I am so proud of you all & look forward to seeing you soon 🫶🏽🌺🌺

Aloha, I'm Alexandra! Creator and head instructor of Hula Me Ka Mahalo 🌺 I am here to share my passion of Polynesian culture through dance instruction & choreography. I hope you enjoy, mahalo!

23/10/2024

Hi all 👋🏽 thank you to those who have donated so far helping me reach new milestones as well as my goal! The walk is in 3 more days 🥳🥳

Step Out® Walk is the premier walking fundraising event of the American Diabetes Association® (ADA) that creates a sense of unity and shared purpose in the fight to end diabetes. The event is fun for the entire family!

25/09/2024

🌺🌺 I’d like to think of this day as our Hula-versary bc one year ago today Sept 2023, .rose and I had our first gig together!! It’s incredible to think of the amazing opportunities that have come our way in such short time. We’ve grown together and stepped out our comfort zones, encourage each other to follow our hearts and achieve our goals. I just want to say I’m so proud of my hula sis and grateful for her sisterhood & partnership 🫶🏽 Mahal kita! 🌺

Tomorrow we start our next session of Island Fitness with the City of La Mirada 🙌🏽💚 and I’d like to announce an upcoming class “Mommy & Me - Polynesian Dancing” with the City of Orange 🥰🧡 pending details to come. We’re grateful for all the support & love shown to us on our dancing journies 🙏🏽✨✨

Please check out our new website for more details:
www.hulamekamahalo.com

20/09/2024

Please join me and my family as we walk in honor of my uncle and maternal grandparents, our team name is To Sir Ricky With Love. Please donate to the cause and help us meet our fundraising goals! Any contribution is appreciated.

Step Out® Walk is the premier walking fundraising event of the American Diabetes Association® (ADA) that creates a sense of unity and shared purpose in the fight to end diabetes. The event is fun for the entire family!

17/09/2024

Aloha! New session starts next Wednesday! 🙌🏽
If returning, please note different day and new location within the community center!
Follow the link below to sign up, mahalo! 🌺

https://secure.rec1.com/CA/la-mirada-community-services/catalog/group/1417/278980/3b63cf634bef5cace0f0b27cb8858d93

30/08/2024

With this post, I want to write about my family background and how I fell in love with Polynesian culture 💚

I am my family’s 1st generation born in the states; My father and his mother migrated here from the Philippines 🇵🇭. My mom and her siblings came with my grandparents from Belize 🇧🇿 so I am born & raised in beautiful California 🌞

Being of such a mixed descent, I grew up not feeling enough of anything, whether Black or Asian, and often confused for Mexican, I didn’t consider myself to be anything but a pretty brown gyal.

I grew up closest to my mother’s side and have been able to connect on deeper levels with my Belizean roots, experiencing the Caribbean jungles and islands. Belize truly feels like home to me and my son when we visit. Always plotting how we can stay 💚💚

Although near & far, the relationship with my dad plays a big part in how I discovered hula dancing. A long term girlfriend of his was a hula dancer and I’d tag along to her practices and use her implements whenever I’d go to visit. It was then I fell in love with the culture and knew I wanted to be a dancer too.

With all the support of my mom, she signed me up for classes at different Hālau to advance me in dancing. It was in these spaces that I felt the most at home and seen. I didn’t have to check a box and be one thing or other on paper. The dancers I see are brown skinned like me, with big hair like my own & so beautifully diverse.

I am a forever student of dance, with respect to ancient culture and traditional Polynesian dancing and embracing modern styles. With that said, I am a Pacific Island woman and I am everything my family represents. So shout out to my parents for these genes as I am grateful to be able to embody a bit of it all 😌🌺🫶🏽

If you made it this far, mahalo for reading 🤙🏽💕

Hula Me Ka Mahalo: With Gratitude, We Dance! ✨✨

Interested in bookings, lessons or collaboration?
Be sure to check out new website:
www.hulamekamahalo.com

06/08/2024

In the city of La Mirada, at the Concert under the Stars event, nā wāhine of Island Fitness had the opportunity to promote our class and dance to live performances by Faiva! A big mahalo to the ladies who encouraged us and danced alongside us. It was a pleasure making memories with new friends at this fun experience 🙌🏽

There are two classes left of our Summer classes 👏🏽👏🏽 Upcoming Fall Sessions will change to Wednesdays 7-8pm, starting August 21st. We hope you can make it 🤙🏽🙌🏽
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15/07/2024

Congrats to our ladies for completing their first 5 week session of Island Fitness! We’re so proud of everyone’s progress 💪🏽👏🏽👏🏽🥳🥳

Join us for our next 5-week session starting Tuesday 7/16 @7-8pm in La Mirada. Feel free to message me with any questions 🤙🏽 Mahalo! 🌺

15/07/2024

Next 5 week session starts tomorrow!
We hope to see you there 🙌🏽🤩

15/05/2024

Last week I was asked to join in AANHPI Heritage event and bring HM to Edwards AFB 🙌🏽 Here are some of my fav pics dancing alongside my niece Riley 🥰 I’m so proud of her efforts to practice and prep for her first event with HM 💖 I’m grateful & happy to be back in my zone of teaching kiddos, but with the added bonus of my pineapple princess 🍍👑

18/03/2024

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