Whakapakari Ora Wāhine Wellness

26/09/2025

🌿 Rongoā Māori Community Healing Clinic 🌿

✨ Every month on a Friday we open the doors at Kahu Collective, New Brighton for a drop-in community clinic.

A calm, wairua-led space for:
🌬️ Purea – spiritual cleansing & clearing
⚖️ Wairua balancing – harmony & calm
✨ Karakia & grounding – reconnecting with te taiao

💚 Koha-based clinic (suggested koha $40) to support the kaupapa.
🌱 Rongoā rākau remedies available separately on the day.

📍 Kahu Collective, Christchurch
🗓 Monthly on Fridays, 5–8pm
⏳ No booking needed – all are welcome.

Come as you are, stay as long as you need, leave feeling lighter, grounded, and rebalanced.

👉 Follow us on Humanitix and save the dates:
https://events.humanitix.com/organisers/whakapakari-ora

24/09/2025

🧠 Stress is more than mental.
It affects our hinengaro, wairua and tinana.

That’s why our Rongoā Mobile Clinic sessions — booked by workplaces — use rongoā Māori to bring calm back to the system.

🌿 Mirimiri
🕯️ Karakia
💬 Whakawhiti kōrero

💼 Want this for your workplace? Tag your HR team 💌

24/09/2025

🌿✨ We are proud to have delivered our very first Everyday Rongoā Wānanga this month!

This new series is all about sharing rongoā mātauranga (traditional Māori healing knowledge) in accessible and practical ways — from learning how to make balms and oils, to kōrero about hauora (wellness) and reconnecting with whānau wellbeing.

Everyday Rongoā Wānanga will run monthly, alternating between:
🏠 Indoors – hands-on workshops where participants create rongoā remedies to take home.
🌳 Outdoors – Haere ki te Taiao, Haere ki te Atua, a 6-week hikoi(walking) series learning directly from the taiao (environment) and the rākau that sustain us.

✨ We’re excited to announce that we are running Everyday Rongoā Wānanga again on Sunday 19th October — a perfect way to get grounded before our Walk With Atua outdoor series begins.

📅 Upcoming kaupapa:
👉 Everyday Rongoā Wānanga (Skin Health & Whānau Wellbeing) – Sun 19 Oct
Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/everyday-rongoa-wananga-skin-health-and-whanau-wellbeing

👉 Walk With Atua – a 6-week outdoor journey beginning soon
Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/walk-with-atua

These kaupapa are an opportunity for individuals and organisations alike to connect with mātauranga Māori, enhance wellbeing, and strengthen relationships with each other and with the whenua.

We look forward to welcoming many more people into this haerenga (journey) in the months ahead. 💚

24/09/2025

🌿 Honoured to be part of this important kōrero on menopause with some incredible voices.

Menopause (ruahinetanga) is a journey many wāhine walk through — one that connects us to the maramataka, to wāhine atua, and to each other. ✨

I’ll be sharing how Rongoā Māori practices — mirimiri, whitiwhiti kōrero, karakia, and plant medicine — can bring balance, comfort, and support through this life stage.

Ngā mihi to the organisers for opening this space for wāhine. I can’t wait to contribute and to learn alongside the other speakers. 💚

👉 Register here to join us: https://lnkd.in/gtTYASvr

Step into menopause with confidence! Join our expert panel for practical guidance, cultural insights, and strategies to support your wellbeing through this life stage.

We’re excited to introduce one of our panelists: Kandace Smiler, Rongoā Practitioner. With over a decade of experience in holistic health and the wisdom of Rongoā Māori, Kandace empowers wāhine through mirimiri, whitiwhiti kōrero, karakia, and plant-based remedies to support mind, body, and spirit.

During the webinar, Kandace will share how the maramataka (Māori lunar calendar) and connections with wāhine atua (female atua) provide profound guidance during menopause, offering fresh perspectives on this important life stage.

💡 Hear from Kandace and our other incredible experts on 17 October - reserve your spot now!

👉 Register for the webinar here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H_waYnWyRR-fKt51XbZlvg

👉 Check out Kandace’s full profile here: https://marketplace.ignite.org.nz/providers/kandace-smiler-rongoa-practitioner

17/09/2025

💫 Your hormones are talking — are you listening?
Wahine deserve balance. Many of us are navigating low energy, disrupted sleep, mood swings, burnout.

Rongoā rākau like kawakawa 🌿 and koromiko cleanse and support the body.
Mirimiri resets the nervous system.
Karakia realigns the wairua.

✨ You don’t have to suffer in silence.
💌 DM us to learn more about our Wahine Wellness Wānanga.

15/09/2025

📸 Waiwhetū Marae, 1982 — me at the very first Kōhanga Reo.

I don’t remember much from back then — I was only little — but I do remember my kuia Hariata smiling from ear to ear, telling everyone how much joy I brought her singing Māori waiata on the bus for all the passengers. Apparently, I had no shame and a lot of volume. 😅

We left for Australia in 1984, and over time the reo faded from my everyday life — replaced with accents, sunshine, and Vegemite. But those early memories? The ones soaked in aroha, laughter, and waiata? They stayed with me.

This Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, I’m honouring that bold little kōtiro and my kuia who saw my spark. Even though I lost touch with te reo for a long time, I never lost the wairua of it.

🖤 To all of us reclaiming our language, our stories, our joy — karawhiua.

10/09/2025

🌿 Cycle Syncing, Brain Fog & Becoming a Ruahine 🌕✨

When I first started coaching, I clocked real quick that the “just push through” mentality didn’t work for us wāhine. The advice out there felt... off. So I started cycle syncing—tracking my own rhythms, energy, and emotions through my menstrual cycle.

Then I found rongoā Māori—and it was like a veil lifted. I began syncing not just with my own body, but with the maramataka. Suddenly everything made sense. When to go hard on Ōturu, when to slow down on Whiro, and when my brain would turn into a forgotten shopping list. 🌀🛒

Now, stepping into ruahinetanga, I haven’t had the classic hot flushes – but the brain fog? Next level. The fatigue? Real. But also: the wairua upgrades? WORTH IT.

This transition isn’t a breakdown. It’s a breakthrough. And instead of hiding it under a cardigan and a smile, I’ve decided to lean all the way in.

✨ That’s why I’m launching the Ruahinetanga Menopause Program this October in our online Community – Menopause Month. A space where we reclaim our tikanga, share our truths (and our snacks), and hold each other through the beautiful chaos of becoming.

💻 Want in? Sign up here:
👉🏽 https://whakapakari-ora.circle.so/checkout/4-week-menopause-course

🔗 Learn more about our online Wāhine Wellness Community here:
👉🏽 https://whakapakariora.com/pages/wahine-wellness-community

You don’t have to do this alone. You don’t even have to remember what you were doing five minutes ago. 😅 Just bring your marama, your mauri, and maybe a fan... for the vibes, not the flushes. 💁🏽‍♀️

Kei te whakatūria he wānanga e tēnei rōpu wāhine hei whakaora i ngā tikanga me ngā kōrero tuku iho e pā ana ki te ruahinetanga.

09/09/2025

🌿 Karakia sets the tone.
We open every mirimiri, kōrero, raranga and wānanga with karakia — not just because it’s tradition, but because it clears, aligns and protects.

✨ It's how we honour mauri and wairua.
✨ It's how we honour you.

🕊️ Have you felt the shift after karakia?
Tag someone who starts their day with intention 🙏

04/09/2025

Papa deserves aroha (love), manaaki (care), and comfort. 💚
This Father’s Day, koha him the healing power of Horopito Pani.

✨ 25% off Horopito Pani (30ml now $15).
✨ 25% off the First Aid Skin Kit.
🎁 Code: ITCHBEGONE
📅 Until 7th Mahuru (September).

Because socks don’t keep Dad comfy everywhere. 😉

31/08/2025

✨ Exciting news ✨

Whakapakari Ora is now part of the Vitae provider network — supporting workplaces across Aotearoa through Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) services.

This partnership means that workplaces who use Vitae can now choose Whakapakari Ora as part of their staff wellbeing support. 🌱

We’re honoured to bring our kaupapa into this space and to walk alongside more kaimahi and businesses on their hauora journeys.

Ngā mihi nui to everyone who continues to support Whakapakari Ora — together, we are strengthening hauora in our workplaces and communities. 💛