{"id":34522,"date":"2026-07-02T12:54:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillandmovingcenter.com\/?p=34522"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:59:27","slug":"letter-from-the-director-life-at-the-center-we-got-music-vol-156-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillandmovingcenter.com\/ja\/2026\/07\/letter-from-the-director-life-at-the-center-we-got-music-vol-156-july-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the Director: Life at the Center: We Got Music Vol. 156 July 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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July 2026
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Sometimes we don\u2019t know what we\u2019re missing until it finally arrives and sweeps us off our feet.\u00a0That\u2019s the way music has been over the last couple years here at Still & Moving.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before I tell you that close-to-home story, let me sneak in an observation about the power of music. The ancients knew the potential of music to stir the soul in ways that the mind alone might not be capable of doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in the days before the golden age of Athens in Greece, Plato\u2019s teacher\u2019s teacher, Pythagoras (of the Pythagorean triangle and Pythagorean theorem fame) taught sacred geometry, astronomy and music. These potent fields of study developed both the rational and intuitive mind, the moral character of his students, and with music, the ability to heal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to his biographer, Iamblicus, Pythagoras was once walking in the town square where a group of musicians were playing. As he walked, he picked up on the intention of a group of young ruffians to cause some serious trouble. Understanding the mathematics of music and the power of different vibratory rates upon the human psyche, Pythagoras approached the musicians. He asked the flautist to change the beat of their song to a different specific rhythm. The flautist made the change, and the ruffians abandoned their scheme. Just from a wise shift in the music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A few years ago, as we were struggling to emerge from the Covid period, I started noticing some unusual grumbling and dissatisfaction amongst the staff and faculty at Still & Moving Center. To different degrees, many of them seemed edgy and unhappy, and it was seeping out to afflict our students as well. Of course, the overall positive influence of Still & Moving continued, but some of us could detect a few strings slightly out of tune, metaphorically speaking, in the generally joyous tone that has always hummed through the Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then music\u00a0entered the arena! Dustin Hara \u2013 then our business consultant, now our general manager \u2013 began adding live music to our Diwali festival. Doctor Mark Morisaki added live sound effects. Kumu M\u0101lia formed a musical duo called Kai Ea, and they began performing on Friday nights. Their audience grew as we appreciated both the Hawaiian music and mainstream favorites that their group played.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The general atmosphere at Still & Moving was starting to shift for the better. The off-tune notes gradually faded out, making room for merrier melodies!<\/span><\/p>\n

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With Dustin in the mix \u2013 as someone who has played music in churches and professionally, and who does vocal coaching \u2013 people at Still & Moving were starting to publicly use their singing voices, thanks to Dustin\u2019s example and encouragement. I even noticed Kumu M\u0101lia\u2019s already enchanting voice getting stronger in a greater range.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Music was in the air. M\u0101lia\u2019s \u2018ukulele classes began to produce some more proficient musicians, including hula instructor Doris Morisaki and her husband, Dr. Mark. We started hearing Mark accompanying and soloing on ‘ukulele at May Day, Open Mic nights and our birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n

M\u0101lia\u2019s Kai Ea performances increasingly included her students performing hula to the live Hawaiian numbers. Even beginning dancers get warm applause here at the Center for their efforts. Everyone feels welcome in this fun-loving musical context.<\/span><\/p>\n

Open Mic events followed Kai Ea on Fridays. More members of our existing community started sharing\u00a0their musical talents, attracting new attendees and participants from the outside community. People feel happy to have such an upbeat place – serving mocktails – to enjoy a tuneful Friday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By this time, Dustin had assumed the role of General Manager for us. The staff and faculty were moving together in sync now, not just because of Dustin\u2019s kind, firm management, but also I think because of this tonal shift in the mood of the Center. I noticed faculty and staff more happily and generously volunteering to sub for one another.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I loved walking out of my office – the Hub – one afternoon to find one of our hula students, Izumi Ponim\u014d\u2019\u012b, teaching her fellow students to make ti-leaf lei, each of them gladly learning to wrap a pliant green leaf around a toe and then gradually twist in new leaves to increase the length of their lei. They all seemed delighted to be helping to make their costume pieces for their May Day performance the next day. It seemed to be a spill-over effect from their volunteer Friday night dancing with M\u0101lia.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Valentine\u2019s Day of 2025, Dustin, with the Morisakis\u2019 help, surprised us all by landing a baby grand piano for our front lobby, renamed our Lyrical Lobby! And it was free, gifted by a military family who was being redeployed. Hallelujah! <\/span>[Read story here.]<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Now the sounds of Dustin rippling up and down the piano keyboard, often accompanied by his gospel-style singing voice, emanated through the lobby and up the stairs into the Barefoot Ballroom. Not performance style, just at random, free moments. How glorious! I could be on a business call in the Hub, and just hearing his music would change the tone of my conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve always played music in our classes and at our events, but except for Kumu M\u0101lia, almost no one\u2019s been creating new music here at the Center.\u00a0Then our jolly music makers surprised me at Still & Moving Center\u2019s 15th birthday celebration with our first-ever official theme song, \u201cFind Your Center\u201d. With the help of the Morisakis\u2019 friend and musical producer, Roger Higa, they created both the melody and lyrics for a bright, catchy piece.<\/span> Enjoy here!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

As it turns out, our staffer Thuan\u00a0also has a musical bent. I now frequently walk out of my office to find a whole little jam session happening in the front lobby – a kanikapila<\/i> as you would call it here on the islands. Now our newish hula student and guitar player, Audi Nodado\u00a0might be joining Thuan and Mark on strings or piano, or Dustin and M\u0101lia might be working on the harmony for a new song. Doris often sits on a wooden box called a caj\u00f3n<\/i>, patting out a beat to accompany them. Last week, I even heard a new magical voice filling the space, and came around the corner to find staffer Sharonne singing like a song-bird!<\/span><\/p>\n

While our kumu hula M\u0101lia was on her June trip to Japan, we lost our dear Bodies in Motion teacher, Gilad Janklowicz. In our kumu\u2019s absence, Doris danced a hula to the soul-touching song Aloha \u2019Oe<\/i>, with the refrain \u201cUntil we meet again\u201d, at our impromptu memorial for Gilad. So sad she couldn\u2019t dance it without tearing up herself \u2013 Doris brought cathartic sobs from family members of the deceased. They told us afterwards that her perfectly chosen music and dance was a healing consolation to them. Still & Moving wouldn\u2019t have been able to have provided that kind of comfort to the soul in earlier days before the spirit of music began to bouy us up as a whole.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to our beloved local singer-song writer Faith Rivera, more professional\u00a0musicians are feeling attracted to join us. When I walked into the end of their class with Cynthia Lin, I heard her \u2019ukulele students proudly playing in perfect rhythm with each other. And that was just their second class! This past\u00a0Friday, about 18 of us attended the first Taiko drumming workshop with Mikey Gonhata and, boy, did we have a great time pounding on those big drums with Mikey\u2019s both exacting yet humorous teaching. We participants all\u00a0bounced out of the room, like the sticks he was teaching us to bounce off the skin of the drum!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last Friday our Community Performing Arts Collective showcase filled the space with the wonderful, uplifting talent of newbies and experienced artists. Our grand finale piece was created by members of our \u2018ohana<\/i> in the spirit of surviving and thriving in the face of difficult events. These wisely silly, spirited ladies with hand puppets got us all up on our feet, swaying and jubilantly singing together, \u201cI am the luckiest!\u201d We all exploded into cheers and clapping at the end. (See our Video Fave below).<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m remembering Joni Mitchell lamenting some of her favorite local spots in Waikiki being paved over, singing: \u201cYou just don\u2019t know what you\u2019ve got \u2018til it\u2019s gone.\u201d Now here we are, half a century later and not far from Waikiki, realizing that, \u201cYou just don\u2019t know what you\u2019re missing \u2018til it\u2019s here.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank goodness, Still & Moving\u2019s got music!<\/span><\/p>\n

By Ren\u00e9e Tillotson
<\/em>Director, Still & Moving Center<\/p>\n

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