Understanding Lomi
Heartworks and Temple Style: Two Languages of Touch
Within Lomi, palms and forearms create different areas of contact, rhythms, and qualities of flow. Heartworks and Temple Style are not levels or upgrades, but two distinct languages of touch that share the same foundation.
A shared Lomi foundation
Both forms begin with aloha, mana, breath, presence, and a whole-person view of the body. Touch moves along long, continuous pathways across regions rather than dividing the body into separate sections or pursuing change in one isolated area.
The difference lies mainly in the tool of contact, its surface area, and the way movement travels—not in one form being more complete, deeper, or advanced than the other.
Heartworks: clear, warm support through the palms
Heartworks primarily uses the palms, combining long, continuous kneading, enveloping contact, and rhythmic pressure. The shape and direction of the hands remain clear, like waves arriving one after another before extending from one region into the next.
The touch can carry warmth, containment, and meaningful depth at the same time. Even when the pace slows, movement continues instead of concentrating force in one point or treating the body as separate pieces.
Temple Style: broad, sustained flow through the forearms
Temple Style makes greater use of the forearms. The broader contact allows transitions between regions to lengthen as the forearms, footwork, and body weight move together like an extended current traveling through the body.
Broad contact does not automatically mean stronger or deeper work. Its distinct quality comes from continuity, connection, and immersion—the body remains held within one unfolding flow rather than waiting for the next technique.
Understand the qualities, then choose slowly
Words can help create an impression, but you do not need to classify yourself precisely from a description. For a first experience of Lomi, Heartworks is usually the more natural starting point—a way to meet palm contact, draping, and continuous movement as one rhythm.
Previous experience with Lomi, or curiosity about the long, broad flow created by the forearms, can open a conversation about Temple Style. A direct Temple Style booking for a new client is considered individually with Kai.
Session length and booking
Heartworks Lomi: 3 hours, NT$4,200.
Temple Style Lomi: 3 hours, NT$4,800. Heartworks is usually recommended first, but this is not an absolute rule.