A unique Hawaiian wellness experience has opened in Adelaide, with plans for own fashion label

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Photos courtesy of Symon Carter.

Say “aloha!” to Adelaide’s first Hawaiian massage studio, Hawaiian Fusion with Symon. A former builder and carpenter, Symon Carter has worked with his hands for most of his life, but has only committed himself to being a masseuse and using his hands to heal over the last 3-4 years.

Using Hawaiian massage to incorporate sound healing and energy healing in an effort to realign the chakras in the body, Symon specialises in Lomi Lomi and Ka Huna techniques that his clients say feel similar to the ocean washing over them.

“Hawaiian massage itself is just a lovely, nurturing and beautiful flow,” says Symon, who explains that Hawaiian massage uses different techniques to those used in traditional and remedial massage.

“Lomi Lomi is known as ‘heart works’ because our hands are our heart space, so that’s about really feeling the intention and the energy over the body when massaging with the hands. Ka Huna is using the forearm, and basically waving and sliding with long flowing strokes over the body,” he says.

The techniques are therapeutic as well as calming, can be used to treat trauma as well as a host of physical and mental ailments, and zone in on a society that doesn’t focus a great deal on the importance of touch.

“Some people have emotional releases on the table,” says Symon. “It’s just a really loving massage. I guess in this day and age, we are all a bit deprived of a loving, nurturing touch, so this massage sort of brings you back home, grounds you, and brings you back to your heart.”

Only opening in late 2025, Hawaiian Fusion began as a hopeful dream in Symon’s studio home in Rosewater, which developed into a fully fledged business in Allenby Gardens, is currently taking Adelaide by storm, and now offers massage training as well as healing, intuitive readings and retreat services. In such a short time, Symon has taken his business from strength to strength, after broadening his skills by training and travelling across the globe, further fuelling a passion that he believes is his true calling.

Already widely accepted and utilised in Queensland, where Symon began his training, there are only a handful of practitioners working with the Hawaiian massage realm in Adelaide, and Hawaiian Fusion is the first studio dedicated to these techniques and this methodology.

The ultimate goal? To generate positive energy and vibes, restore clients to their inner peace, and eventually, to sell his own fashion line with pants created for practitioners and yogis, using flowy Hawaiian prints.

“I was working in sales and construction and off the tools, and I just needed something more,” he says. “I had a calling to do massage. I had a five-year plan that I ended up doing in only one year.”

Come September this year, Symon hopes to have stock lined up to sell from his own clothing range, and is available for massage bookings right now.