Te Poutama o te Ora
Articles on Te Poutama o te Ora, a nine-dimensional Māori wellness framework, including the Maramataka, whakapapa, colonisation and healing.
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The Vibration Underneath – Prayers
Karakia, Aramaic prayer and Sanskrit mantra — and the breath they share Last November I asked a question I didn’t yet know…
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Te Repo o te Mātauranga – The Colonisation of Knowing
— When the wound grows through the roots of the words themselves He kupenga kaharoa tana e hao ana i ngā momo…
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When the Bindings Break – The whakapapa-pond, and why three traditions all knew the same thing
I've seen a pattern across years of research and development that I didn’t have a name for at first. Someone comes in…
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What Your Descendants Will Thank You For – The moment the healing becomes ancestral — and what you declare forward from here
The gifts my grandparents gave me. Grandad, an Anglican minister and healer, was strong in his faith. He passed before I was…
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From Wai Māori to Waipiro: The Colonial Wound Beneath the Wine Glass
There is a man in the counselling room who does not have a drinking problem. He is not violent. He does not…
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The Wound That Became the Work
What happens when you stop surviving your wound and start metabolising it There is a difference between surviving a wound and metabolising…
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The River That Remembers – Why healing Colonisation PTSD requires the body — not just the mind
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Me and the Cave
How five years in the dark became Te Poutama Ora – and Imago Dei brought me front and centre You may already…
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Te Ngākau Tūāhua – The Normalised Heart
When the wound became the water. There is a kind of harm that is very difficult to see. Not because it is…
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When you finally have a name for it – Colonisation PTSD
The healing that begins the moment you stop calling the wound "just how I am"...to “I am suffering from Colonisation PTSD” There…
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