How we work with trauma, mental health and injury
This one hour online session offers a gentle exploration of how we, as Rongoā Māori practitioners, work with people navigating trauma, mental health, and injury.
This is for anyone contemplating Rongoā Māori services or has questions about this service.
Kaitohu Wairua Practitioner Training is a two-level pathway of learning that bridges the wisdom of Te Whare Kura with the living intelligence of the ngahere (forest). Rooted in Rongoā Māori, these wānanga are designed to strengthen your intuitive sight (matakitetanga), deepen your relationship with the rākau (plants), and strengthen your ability to work with mauri as a vibrational force for healing.
Each level unfolds as a return to simplicity and sacred awareness — guiding you to remember your body as a vessel of light and your hands as instruments of divine intelligence.
Through these wānanga, you will learn to listen deeply to the mauri of rākau, to sense the subtle movements of life-force energy within the body and environment, and to align with the natural order of healing that flows through all living things.
Open to all—kairongoā, bodyworkers, counsellors, holistic health practitioners, and those drawn to the ancient ways of healing—no prior experience is needed, only an awareness of your intuition and a heartfelt desire to support the healing of others.
Facilitator/Kaiako: Joanne Hakaraia-Olson $650 per workshop
KAITOHU WAIRUA PRACTITIONER SERIES
TE WHARE KURA
Level One
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Whakapapa of Te Whare Kura
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Preparing the whare kura (tinana/body) for healing
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How to hold sacred space for healing to take place
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Perceiving from Te Manawa (The Spiritual Heart)
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Being in Wairua Tapu (State of Sacred Presence SSP) and how to transition between states
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Your hands as vibrational instruments for healing
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Sensing tohu through your hands & environment
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Know the difference between 'fixing' and allowing
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Learn a full body alignment as a Kaitohu Wairua
TE WĀ & TE ĀTEA
Level Two
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Whakapapa of Te Wā and Te Ātea
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Know a Higher Order to 'see' the disorder in your environment
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Know how and when to share messages 'received' with whaiora
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Learn to use hands as vibrational instruments for an alignment in Ātea (the auric field)
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Learn to read tohu with your hands by attuning to the auric field of whaiora — sensing the subtle signs that emerge through Te Wā and Te Ātea
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Learn how to perceive & clear where vibration is held, stuck, or stagnant—often felt as a coldness, a block, or a dense presence within Ātea (the auric field).
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Learn a full body alignment as a Kaitohu Wairua
Choose from one of the below dates to book your space in one of our Auckland workshops.
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106 days to the eventMar 21, 2026, 10:00 AM – Mar 22, 2026, 4:00 PMRongoā Mauri Sanctuary, 21 Tumanaka Place, Henderson, Auckland 0612, New ZealandBefore Tāne ascended the heavens for the three kete of knowledge, he built a whare kura to hold the light of what would return. Your body is that same sacred house — a vessel of divine intelligence. Through the plants, the bridge is revealed, guiding you into higher realms of knowing.
162 days to the eventMay 16, 2026, 10:00 AM – May 17, 2026, 4:00 PMRongoā Mauri Sanctuary, 21 Tumanaka Place, Henderson, Auckland 0612, New ZealandLevel Two invites you to journey deeper into the sacred realms expanding your awareness beyond the 3 pou. We enter the subtle spaces of TeWā & Te Ātea, the auric fields of time & space. Here, your hands become navigators, guided to move with precision & deep intuitive knowing.