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29/03/2026

Hue meets Harakeke

Have been loving creating these pieces

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Even the super fragile Gourd I was able to work with and stitch with muka threads to hold the plait in place

21/03/2026

Yah for my latest batch of Rongoā Rakau infused soaps being ready

I love bringing the mauri and Rongoā of our plants into everyday use with intention.

And Soap brings a way to wash away the day with the strength of the Forest.

💚 Kawakawa soap - intention for Soothing and nourishing

💚 Tātarāmoa soap - intention for Calming

💚 Tōtara soap - intention for bringing support and protection for our Heart space. And particularly for our Tane, to replenish your strength with some help from one of the Pou of the Forest

Simple ingredients.

Hand crafted treasures.

Kuku Made With Love.

We’re down at the Ōtaki Market until 2pm today, or message me if you’d like to buy some.

Refreshing our website for online sales soon 💚

20/03/2026

Happy Autumn Equinox / Equilux Time

A time of Balance and Marking of shifting season.

Hope you’re finding time to Connect with Nature and with Yourself today

Pause for a Beat

Notice the Space and Beauty in that Moment

I wish you a bountiful Harvest, from whatever you’ve been tending over the Summer Months.

And to take a quiet moment to Celebrate your efforts.

As we then begin preparations for storing and preparing for the Winter months.

The cycle continues around us and within us.

Mauri Aroha e te whanau

20/03/2026

Every Waterway has their own Sound. Pool to Pool, rapid to Rapid. Flood to Flood.

Forever changing.

Made up of these unique pockets of sound. They’ve a steady constant Voice.

Not until you walk a long a length do you notice.

Each section seperate, doing its one thing, but stitched together by this constant flow of Water.

Ephemeral by Nature, fleeting, flowing, moving.

Like us really.

Beings in Constant motion.

Carrying our Source stories, adjusting our makeup based on the soil or plants we flow past.

Sometimes in Turmoil and sometimes in Peace.

But always Flowing.

Somewhere between the Mountains and the Sea.

Health and Flow dependent on the environments we move through.

How’s your Health?

How’s your Flow?

How’s your Sound or Story?

When’s the last time you went to sit with your River? Your Water. Your Source.

Here’s a little moment with the Makahika Stream for you. A lil slice of Horowhenua Paradise.

16/03/2026

How wonderful is that feeling in the air, the physical cues, the mist in the mornings starting, the crops ripening, all signs of the shifts into Autumn 🥰 🍂

While it may not have been a ‘good summer’ from some perspectives, from others it’s been bountiful.

The Berries ripened, Potatoes grew, our Native Forest has been laden with Fruits.

And now, on cue with the Equinox, the Field Mushrooms are starting as our Funghi Friends start their yearly display. The warm days and increase in overnight dew. As the air cools, and the land still holds the summers warmth.

So perhaps we can reframe our narratives on what makes a good Summer, and look to Mama Nature to see if things are still happening. For things happen in cycles. Tohu of Seasons landing differently, which they have always done. Otherwise our Ancestors wouldn’t have learned to read the Sky, the Land and the Ocean to see what the coming Year might look like.

Our constant is Change, our skill, to know how to Read and Prepare for it.

What signs of the shift into Autumn have you noticed as the most pronounced to you? And what might you have Learned from that noticing?

16/03/2026

Our Group Breathwork Sessions are coming back real soon, yahoooo.

Starting in Levin, and also in Kapiti.

Levin whanau, I’m looking at Thursday evening, Friday morning and Saturday morning. If there’s interest on a Tuesday I can look at that.

Either comment below, or message me, on sessions that suit you and I’ll get em booked in.

We’re about 2 weeks away I’d say.

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14/03/2026

Calling our Weavers,

I’m soooo excited about this soap batch.

I’ve been brewing up the idea for a little while and it’s my first test batch, so am calling for some people to test run it for me 🙏🏽

Its formulation is modelled off the attributes of Sunlight Soap.

So, if you’re a Harakeke Muka Weaver or Preparer, or use Soap in your creative preparations. And you would like to test run this for me to give feedback, please reach out.

When this is cured up and ready to go in 4 weeks, I’ll send you a bar to try.

Absolutely looooovvveeeee when an idea that’s been on the To Do board comes to life.

And, she’s simply elegant in her appearance 🤍🤍🤍

Smitten 🥰

13/03/2026

And we have another contender for ‘who’s seeds are these?’

Found these lovelies while out fossicking the other day.

Which tree do you think they belong to?

13/03/2026

How lovely is the soundtrack of a Stream 🥰

Hang out with Wharemauku Stream a little.

The overall sound is actually from two different rapid sets, the water makings its way across the rocks and around the bend. Two distinct sounds, combining together.

With the Cicadas in the background.

Plus the cool feel of the Forest.

The visual movement of sun dappling the fern fronds as they dance in the Breeze.

A sensory experience every time 💚

When you pause and pay attention, and take a big beautiful deep breath in. Hold it. And release out slowly.

Everything slows down

And your sense heighten and soften at the same time.

Allowing you to feel more of yourself, and beyond yourself.

As sync in, and become part of the Forest.

Able to return their in your thoughts and bodily memory whenever you need.

Delightful really.

11/03/2026

I’m sitting here doing some Admin work, thinking about the word Well-Being.

And I was reminded of a key theme that I took away from the Braiding Sweetgrass workshop in New Mexico a couple years back.

That instead of saying ‘Well Being’ perhaps we could call it ‘Well Doing’.

We can’t just ‘Be’ Well, we need to ‘Do’ it.

Actively, intentionally, consistently and with love, Master the art of Doing Well. To thrive in this beautiful world.

Turn Well Being into a Verb.

A call to action from ourselves.

By making the time to look after the WellBeing of all of the areas of our lives.

Taiao, Wairua, Hinengaro, Tinana, Whānau, Hapori, Putea and Mahi.

Nature, Spiritual, Mind, Physical, Relationships, Societal, Financial and Career.

Create rituals that light you up, create your Hauora by Design, and then give time to those rituals. Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly.

Because if we don’t actively create our Well-ness, by default we’re making space for ill-ness.

What are your thoughts on the idea of thinking about ‘Doing Wellness’, in order to Be Well, as a reminder that it’s something to constantly give attention to?

📸 photo moment from in the Tararua Forest on one of my MindLess Meanders. By making time to have Less external distractions, I find I become quite FullFilled with much Less. 💚

10/03/2026

Metrics and Milestones are a curious thing.

I’ve always found them helpful for holding a direction, setting a target, feeling some form of success from the ‘more’ that is always rolling through the door.

Today marks a moment that I never would have thought to write into any Goal sheet or put onto a vision board.

However, I’m quietly super satisfied with it.

4 years of being a Business Owner, over 400 hours of Coaching and 160 Workshops delivered to almost 2,500 people.

Almost 3,000 trees planted during rewilding projects.

And closing in on our 100th Batch of Rongoā.

All beautiful and trackable markers to measure where we’ve provided Guidance and Connection. Connecting people to their own Purpose and with Nature.

However, today, I ordered our first bulk order of Oils for our Rongoā and Soap making.

Somewhere along the way we transitioned, with the kind of quiet confidence that only comes from consistently doing the work.

With a calm feeling of ‘oh, of course’

We transitioned into buying our primary ingredients in 5kg lots. Rather than the tentative 500g. Testing, finessing, creating and uprevving our batches. Until we have some beautiful favourites.

All connected firstly with a deep respect for Nature, for the wonderful Rongoā Rakau that we harvest. Infuse. Create Magick with.

And then for crafting products that will bring Calm to people. Either in the Easing of Discomfort, or the elevating of Empowerment.

Constantly dancing the dance to assist people to find Balance in their lives.

So, Celebrate a moment with us. For moving along a layer. How exciting.

I look forward to learning what even more consistent dedication of time to crafting our treasures brings.

What a life it is I get to lead. Out in the forest, under the Trees.

Fossicking and Creating.

What’s something unexpected you could celebrate today in your world? Perhaps something you’d not seen, for it was tucked quietly behind something more obvious.

09/03/2026

It’s a groovy kind of life.

First batches of Tallow loaded soaps, some admin done while waiting for the Lye batch to cool, a Yummo as Kai on for dinner, and prepped my Hue ready for the next stage on their creative journey.

Yeow!!

What a day.

Was lovely to use a Calendula flower infusion that I made from our own flower crop over Summer. Combined with Tallow and its lushness, it’s shaping up to be a nourisher for sensitive skin.

And the other bar has some of our very own NZ harvested Glacial Clay in it.

A focus is coming for an NZ based supply chain as much as we can.

Kuku Made With Love

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