Mauri2Mauri

States of subconciousness

Just following instincts on this one

Hine Pu te Hue. Nau mai

Wā Horoi

Kawakawa and Waitai

Presence. Presents.

Not here to sell you a product. Medicine is where it’s at

Was in the Zone.
❤️

Soft vibes today. Slow, intentional and present. Have to be, I've done my back a goodie with its traditional Christmas pack up🙄 The build up of stress is always released in my lower back.
It's been a funny year. I haven't really worked my pākihi on social platforms as like other years. Just haven't been feeling into the whole pākihi Maori trap on social media, it's a full time bloody job and I want to focus my energy elsewhere because at the end of the day-I work with rongoaa, the right people will find me. This year I felt a strong calling to koha and that's what I did. A couple of workshops for my Hapori including one at my Marae (which is goals!) and one lined up for early next year. Feeling like I need a good break from the Hopi though so that's what I'm gunna do by shutting down the website next year. I also won't be making for stockists. Feels good to say that!

I've been dreaming about other things. All to do with rongoaa and business but realise I need some tauiwi tickets to do those things. So, I have to learn how to play the institutional game again and going back to finish my diploma and...perhaps a Wananga with a tohunga who has just moved to Gisborne. I want to get to know my stil better, the awa has been calling for a long time and I'm feeling more drawn towards Wai. The oils feel too hot for me at the moment. Education is somewhere in there as well.
So when I come back, because I will, Mauri2Mauri will most likely have a new name, a new game and a new energy🌟
I've been making Hopi for 9 years now pretty consistently from the start, when I started making them in my kitchen with my Op shop metal cake tins haha but the time has come to go deeper into the production of our taonga and then being selective in who I share that mātauranga with.
Time to rewrite a more relevant, more purposeful, more directional personal/business plan❤️

Last weekend I was invited to facilitate a workshop/Wananga through Manaaki Matakaoa at our beautiful marae, Hinemaurea.
It was the first time I took the rongoaa to my OWN Marae.
Spent the week letting that soak in, process and integrate. Allowing the observations I made aa wairua and aa kanohi really settle and give myself opportunities to reflect and journal.
It was a quiet safe space and I felt our tipuna observing. We were looked after in a space that felt cushioned and calm. A true sense of Ūkaipō🙏🏾

In this haerenga over the last five years it was our tipuna who have shown me where and how to find the matauranga. Sometimes what they showed me wasn't pretty, sometimes indescribably beautiful and profound but I haven't learnt it from books and our pakeke who held our secrets have long gone so I was unable to sit with them aa tinana. This last week I've felt a calm and pride in my haerenga but also surfacing is a little confusion as to why Te Ao Māori, our tikanga and spiritual beliefs are continuing to be attacked-from Government (that's a given) but also from our own...

Our spiritual beliefs are not wrong. To say that is to say we are wrong. The proof is in our toto, our whakapapa, nō ngā atua i heke mai ki te Ira Tangata.

When I feel into my journey as a whole the one stability I had was Te Ao Māori. I wasn't brought up in Te Ao Māori but our Marae, my pakeke and our values were most definitely instilled. I've journeyed though the pain of decolonization and the huge part the church played in that through my bloodlines finally coming to a place of total peace and acceptance for all religious and spiritual beliefs and practices. It's a nice place to be that acceptance.

BUT and I feel that this was the akoranga this week and an important truth for ME to stand in. If you recieve Rongoaa from me I will be using tikanga Māori-nō ngā atua Māori, to prepare that rongoaa. I've done too much mahi to believe or sway to anything else❤️

Tutu.

What I've learnt is that I can't work with this Rākau for too long...

But the small stretches of time I have had the opportunity to learn I have learnt alot. She really is a rākau that deserves respect and for me, is a relationship that will deepen over time. Coming in and out of her Wananga is a haerenga.

Dried Tutu that stands at the bottom of our waihirere.

If you are just beginning your haerenga Rongoaa I recommend you get you a set of cards. They’re great tools to take out into the ngahere with you for ID but what I particularly love and always loved was her inclusion of spiritual properties, you aren’t just out there identifying the rakau, she reminds you that there is whakapapa to each rakau and that the healing a tree offers is not just physical.

Got a pot of Totara, Kopakopa, Angiangi and Tarata boiling at the minute. I’ve lost my voice completely and there’s paru in my chest that needs to clear. Found these cards again while I was in my workshop. Perfect reminder my wairua needs that cleanse as well❤️
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