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.
Manaka is currently living on the Hawaiian Islands taking care of her new baby boy. She has been taking a small break from performing but plans on getting back in the swing of things when the time is right and she is ready. She thanks you all from deep in her heart for the continued support.
Manaka loves to create sweet harmonys- Prayer through music to uplift our energy- She is 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- 1 loving my baby boy and keeping him healthy and happy!!! Being a mama
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."
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