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Manaka

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ABOUT ME: Manaka was born in San Diego, CA, on May 2, 1982. She spent most of her childhood in Seattle, WA, until about the age of 15, when she left home and started her path as a healer and musican. That is when she first picked up a guitar and started singing. She moved to Kauai when she was 17, and lived there for over five years. The Islands have played a big part in evolving her musical path. Manaka started performing for the first time with a local Kauai Reggae band, Burning Bush, who she still performs with when in Kauai. When she was 18 she had her first experience recording in a studio, when she sang backing vocals on Shimshai's CD, " I Sense Your Presence". In the summer of 2001, Manaka toured with Shimshai at various festivals along the Pacific West Coast. By 2002, she started performing and playing more of her own music, as well as recording on several other artists' CD's. With the help of real life experience, divine guidance, and support from friends, she has naturally taught herself how to sing and play guitar. Manaka has performed on stage with artists such as Shimshai and the Natural Mystique Ensemble, Burning Bush, Jah Levi and The Higher Reasoning, Lambsbread, Arjun and Gaurdians, Sasha Butterfly, Tina Malia, Satya Yuga, Shakina, Joules Graves, DJ Jahtta, and The One World Orchestra, a collective of vocalists and musicians including members of Hamsa Lila, Shimshai and the Natural Mystique Ensemble, Sasha Butterfly, Tina Malia, Shakina, and others. She has shared the stage @Reggae on the River with Damian & Steven Marley,Anthony B,Buju Banton,I Wayne,Michael Franti,and more. Also she has shared the stage with artist such as Dezarie, Midnite Band,Mystic Reavelers, Hamsa Lila, Makana, THC, Ras Gabriel and 4-Word, Fanna Fi Allah, and others.Currently I am in Morocco experiencing so many new things and lessons bringing me even closer to my heart and souls mission in life.I love to create sweet harmonys- Prayer through music to uplift our energy- Sweet and honest- Sensitive- loyal- organized & clean- Devoted to the things I love- Living life to its fullness- raw organic vegan foods~ Kale Juice - Yoga & meditation-traveling~ dancing- hiking- Crafting- Giving & Receiving body work- Keeping my body strong and healthy- Reasoning- Singing-Then a priestess said, Speak to us of Prayer. And he answered, saying: You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether? And if it is your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart. And if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing. When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet. Therefore let your visit to that temple invisible be for naught but ecstasy and sweet communion. For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive: And if you should enter into it to humble yourself you shall not be lifted: Or even if you should enter into it to beg for the good of others you shall not be heard. It is enough that you enter the temple invisible.I cannot teach you how to pray in words. God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips. And I cannot teach you the prayer of the seas and the forests and the mountains. But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart, And if you but listen in the stillness of the night you shall hear them saying in silence, "Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth. It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us: Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all." Show at the Harbin Hot Springs Temple
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Member Since: 7/29/2005
Band Website: manakamusic.com
Band Members: HAWAII TOUR WITH SHIMSHAI 2007
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My Blog

Marrakesh

I am now in Marrakesh. It has been about 9 and we went from Madrid to Granada and now Marrakeh. Everything has been so amazing. Feeling tired cuz we have been contantly on the move. I am going to...
Posted by Manaka on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:26:00 PST

on my way over seas

I am leaving the states on Dec 5th over seas for my first time with a my dear friend Ariana & her son Mojud. We will be flying into Madrid,Spain and also going to Morocco,Turkey,Egypt,& beyond...
Posted by Manaka on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:32:00 PST

Order my cd online

My album is complete and ready to be played in your cd players. You can now order it at cdbaby.com/cd/manakaI give thanks for all your love and support!!! Keep shinning your light.
Posted by Manaka on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:18:00 PST

My album is almost ready.....

I am mixing my cd which means I will have it available to all you beautiful people by Febuary. ...
Posted by Manaka on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:26:00 PST

tribe.net page

Checkout more vibes and photos at http://people.tribe.net/manaka blessed love......Manaka...
Posted by Manaka on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:10:00 PST

Kauais cleansing rains

I have been so blessed to be on Kauai this last month. I will be flying back to the mainland tomorrow. It's been wet....... With the cleasing rain life has been very emotional and a deep time for refl...
Posted by Manaka on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:50:00 PST

Kauai Bound

I am forwarding home to Kauai on Monday. I am so excitted and feel so blessed I get to be chillen in the Garden of Eden. I will be there for about a month loving the aloha life style. I also gotta tak...
Posted by Manaka on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:04:00 PST

Here I am

Blessings to all my friends. I just arrived in Northern California last night. Today was another healing day. I saw'll the sun for the first time in 2 months. That's too long. So I laid in the sun all...
Posted by Manaka on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:52:00 PST

old friends

I have found 5 friends over myspace in the last couple of days who I have not seen or talked to in 10 years or so. Amazing tecnology these days.
Posted by Manaka on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:35:00 PST

Seattle

I arrived in Seattle last night. I am visiting my sister Jaime and other family and friends through the Holy Days. It feels nice to be here. I Have been traveling on the road for a couple of months no...
Posted by Manaka on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:32:00 PST