Alika

Alika Medeiros, better known as Alika (born 06 February 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.), is an American life coach, fitness and yoga instructor, writer, and the inventor of Kilo lani.

Personal life
Alika was raised in Kailua, Hawaii on the island of Oahu. He was the child of a Portuguese father and a native Hawaiian mother. When Alika was a child, his father left his family and it fell upon his mother and her extended Hawaiian family to raise the children. Alika quickly started to act out and became a difficult teenager.

In 1993, Alika was in a surfing accident that shredded the muscle in his left shoulder and left him without the use of that arm. According to his recounting of the incident, the doctors predicted he would never again have use of that arm. Alika fell into a state of depression but his maternal grandmother told him to have faith and that he would regain full use. She began an intensive regimen of lomi lomi on him and within weeks, he started to regain usage. Within a year, he was fully healed.

While working with Alika, his grandmother started to teach him about his ancestors and their beliefs. Inspired by his grandmother and his ancestors, Alika began to study massage in all forms as well as the healing power of both eastern and western philosophies.

Philosophy and claims
Alika is the creator of Kilo Lani yoga and a proponent of what he refers to as the “Aloha Life” which is based on a variety of international philosophies but specifically the ancient Hawaiian Huna. In the late 90s, Alika created Kilo Lani (Hawaiian translation: reach to heaven) yoga which he describes as a combination of Astanga and Hatha practices with Chinese Tai Chi and ancient Hawaiian movements. The yoga has gained in its popularity and is now taught at many gyms throughout North America.

Alika also conducts seminars, the most famous of which is his “Aloha Life” seminar, during which the participants are exposed to many of the principles of Huna in addition to Kilo Lani yoga and introduction to the “AO” a series of massage pressure points developed by the Hawaiians that compliment the traditional Reiki pressure points of Japanese massage. The aim of the seminar is to bring the “Spirit of Aloha” to the everyday lives of the seminar attendees. In addition to the pay seminars that Alika performs, he donates much of his time at Universities and for non-profits to promote the “Aloha Life”.