We.are.tohorā

22/09/2025

Each Whale Sound Journey I host feels like magic — and the responses from participants never cease to amaze me.

Here’s what you can experience:

💙 Calm your nervous system
Whale songs, like other natural sounds, soothe stress and invite joy, balance, and ease.

🔔 Find clarity in the pause
These oceanic voices interrupt the noise of daily life, helping you reset and realign.

🌍 Awaken your care for life
Deep listening expands compassion — for yourself, for whales, and for our planet.

🐋 Enter the whales’ world
Their voices become a doorway home — into the ocean, and into your own soul.

🌊 I invite you to join me tonight, 22nd September at 7pm NZST for an Online Whale Sound Journey.

A guided, multi-sensory immersion with real underwater whale recordings — woven together with science, sound healing, meditation, and storytelling.

This is your time to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect. With the ocean. With the whales. With yourself.

Reserve your spot here:
🔗 https://wearetohora.com/products/ticket-online-whale-sound-journey

21/09/2025

22,5kg of rubbish removed in less than 2hours!
Thank you to everyone who came to our beach clean up yesterday! You are incredible!
What a success!

Thanks again to all our sponsors for prizes and food too!

And of course to our co-host

Happy

19/09/2025

🌍Tomorrow is — and we’re heading to the beach!

We’ve teamed up with our friends at to give back to the moana and our community.

Join us for a Beach Cleanup in New Brighton and go in the draw to win some amazing prizes!

In the mix:

👙 2x entry to Hot Pools

🛥 Family ticket to Quail Island Adventure with

🌊 Online Whale Sound Journey with .are.tohora &

🍴 $25 voucher for

☕️ A round of coffees from

Plus, enjoy delicious kai gifted by after the cleanup! 🙌

📅 Saturday 20th Sept
🕚 11am – 1pm
📍 New Brighton, Christchurch

Let’s come together for the ocean, for the whales, and for each other.
See you there! 🐋🫶🏻

Please RSVP via event link.

https://events.humanitix.com/beach-clean-up-christchurch

18/09/2025

A mother’s love. A calf’s cry. A tragedy that should never have happened. 🐋
On 17 September 2025, a humpback mother and her young calf became entangled in a shark net off Noosa, QLD.

These gentle giants are not just “marine life” — they are sentient beings. Mothers and calves share strong emotional bonds, communicating through touch and song, relying on one another for survival. To see them trapped, panicked, and injured is beyond heartbreaking.

By the following morning, both were released and managed to swim away — but still trailing pieces of net behind them. Their suffering is a direct result of an outdated practice that has no place in our oceans.

Shark nets don’t keep sharks away. They kill them — along with whales, dolphins, turtles, rays, and countless other beings who call the ocean home. Experts have made it clear: these nets are both cruel and ineffective.

It’s time to end this. For mothers. For calves. For every life that belongs to the sea.

👉 Write to your government ministers.
👉 Demand non-lethal alternatives that protect both people and wildlife.

Let’s choose compassion. Let’s choose coexistence.

Take action here:
https://animalsaustralia.org/our-work/marine-animals/protect-sharks/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=wl-sharknets-25

🎥 Video by (filmed under Australian whale watching regulations)

18/09/2025

🎶 Did You Know?
A humpback whale’s song can travel up to 10,000 miles across the ocean!

Humpback males sing hauntingly complex songs, lasting up to 30 minutes and evolving over time. These songs are shared socially — like a cultural transmission — and are believed to play a role in mating.

Using low-frequency sound waves (20–2000 Hz), their melodies travel vast oceanic distances.

What if every sound you made echoed into eternity?

17/09/2025

🌍 World Clean Up Day – Beach Clean Up with we.are.tohorā
📍 New Brighton Beach, Christchurch
📅 Saturday, 20th September 2025 | ⏰ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Join us this World Cleanup Day as we come together to care for our coastline, ocean, and marine life.

Hosted by .are.tohora, – the Whale Woman, and this community beach clean-up in New Brighton is an opportunity to make a hands-on difference for the environment while connecting with others who share a love for the sea.

Together, we’ll remove rubbish and plastics that threaten our precious wildlife – from seabirds to whales – and celebrate the power of collective action. Every piece of litter removed is a step towards a cleaner, healthier ocean.

✨ What to bring:

- Reusable gloves (if you have them)
- Buckets or reusable bags for collecting rubbish
- Sun protection, water bottle, and a smile

We’ll provide extra clean-up gear, waste sorting, and light refreshments.

This is a family-friendly event – everyone is welcome.

Join us for free!
Or buy a ticket for $10 or $20 and be in the draw for an Online Whale Sound Journey Ticket!

More prices to win on the day!

RSVP here:
https://events.humanitix.com/beach-clean-up-christchurch

Let’s unite for the ocean, for whales, and for our community.

Happy World Cleanup Day!!

10/09/2025

10/09/2025

Today our brochures about our Whale Sound Journey have arrived.
Learn more about benefits and your options to participate from all around the world here:

https://wearetohora.com/pages/whale-sound-journey

Whale Sound Journey Host: Founder & CEO Julia Graeter

Are you running a yoga studio or an event space in Christchurch and trust that your customers will benefit from this? Get in contact with us and we get some brochures to you. Maybe we even collaborate?!

08/09/2025

Imagine closing your eyes and being carried into the ocean’s depths by the voices of whales. I host regular Whale Sound Journeys and the reactions of participants are ever astonishing.

Benefits of Whale Sound Journeys include:

💙 Regulate your nervous system
Whale sounds, like other sounds of nature, reduce stress hormones and boost feelings of calm, joy, and wellbeing.

🔔 Refocus with a sonic interruption
Whale songs gently disrupt the noise of daily life, helping you pause, realign, and return with clarity.

🌍 Renew your sense of care for all life
Deep listening fosters deeper care — for yourself, for the ocean, for whales, and for the planet.

🐋 Experience whales like never before
Step into their magical world, let their voices guide you home — to the depths of your own soul.

I invite you to join me for an Online Whale Sound Journey and experience the magic of whales from the comfort of your home.

A guided multi-sensory experience using real underwater recordings of whales, woven with science, sound healing, meditation, and storytelling.

This is your moment to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with the ocean – and yourself.

Next session:
Tonight, 8th September
7pm NZST

Reserve your spot here:
https://wearetohora.com/products/ticket-online-whale-sound-journey