Complementary Therapies

Memory making is an important part of life’s journey. We offer patients the opportunity to create hand castings, an intricately detailed sculpture created from molds of the patient and a loved one’s hands. Hand casting is a personal way of capturing the love between two people, creating a beautiful keepsake families will treasure for a lifetime.

Ease stress and pain with one of Navian Hospice Hawaii’s own therapy pets, trained to provide a calm, loving and anxiety-free experience in the setting of your choice. Pet therapy can reduce depression and fatigue, improve memory, or simply bring joy and laughter to patients and their loved ones.

Relied on for centuries as a method to improve mental, physical and emotional wellbeing, essential oils can be used in a variety of ways: added to baths, massaged into the skin, directly inhaled or even diffused to give fragrance to a room. Aromatherapy can provide a myriad of benefits, such as easing tension, instilling calm, increasing breathing and circulation, and promoting a sense of peace.

Art enrichment uses drawing, painting, and other forms of visual art to encourage self-expression, reduce stress, and improve the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. As it is particularly helpful in aiding a child’s understanding and coping of death and bereavement, this service is also available to the children and grandchildren of our patients.

Music Enrichment uses our universal connection with music to establish a pathway to healing. Patients may choose to listen to, sing, play or even write music. They can use music to promote healing, encourage social interaction, improve quality of life, and allow expression of emotions or thoughts that are otherwise challenging to acknowledge.

Healing touch is a hands-on, non-invasive, energy-based technique that focuses on restoring the patient’s energy system to promote self-healing. Healers use the gift of touch to clear, energize and balance the patient’s energy fields, thereby improving physical, spiritual, mental and emotional health.

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that promotes healing through an alternative hands-on approach, and restoring the patient’s life force energy.

Massage has been shown to have the ability to improve physical and emotional states after just one session. Therapeutic massage is provided to patients as a tool for pain relief and symptom management, and used to decrease stress and anxiety, heighten a sense of peacefulness and restore emotional balance. Navian Hospice Hawaii’s massage therapy is catered towards each patient’s own unique needs based on diagnosis and condition.