The Mindfulness and Aloha Breath program, created by Dr. Thao “Kale’a” Le of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, blends the Native Hawaiian ALOHA values and breath to enhance self-awareness and emotional regulation. It aims to help children and adults manage stress, improve focus, and develop personal integrity and leadership through contemplative practices.  The first book in the series, Mindfulness with Aloha Breath, provides a basic understanding of mindfulness as a practice and skill and its connection with ALOHA values.

In Mindfulness & Aloha, we investigate whether our mind and its mental processes are consistent with ALOHA, and to gently re-direct intention back to ALOHA whenever we drift away.  ALOHA values are presented in colorful, illustrated narrative-driven stories including Akahai (kindness), Hoʻoponopono is Harmony (Lokāhi), Monkʻa & the Art of Agreeableness, ‘Oluʻolu, and Haʻahaʻa: Mango Learns Humility.