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Kintsugi-" The fractured light of being"Esther Bunning Back in May 2022, I jumped at the opportunity to bear all when Es...
07/11/2025

Kintsugi-" The fractured light of being"
Esther Bunning

Back in May 2022, I jumped at the opportunity to bear all when Esther Bunning, photographer, creator, artist, storyteller, invited me to be part of an exhibition inspired by the philosophy of Kintsugi: the art that teaches us our cracks do not define us. Instead, if we learn to grow through the cracks, to refine our imperfections, our flaws, we indeed reveal the masterpiece within.

My journey has been about embracing all the parts of myself that once felt broken, hurt, betrayed, silenced, shamed, weak, wrong. Especially in a world fractured through the distorted lens of societal “norms,” shaped by man-made structures designed to break us, control us, feed our fear. Especially as wāhine...

Through colonisation, the schooling system, religious constraints, and power plays, the wāhine...in all her beauty..was lead to believe she was too much, not enough.

I’ve always said, my home is where I lay my hat. Disconnected from my homeland and people, I’ve never truly known what it means to belong. I still can’t say I’m fully there… but my journey through Rongoā Māori has given me a new sense of what it means to belong...to the whenua, to te taiao, and to self. I’ve found that my tūrangawaewae lives within me.

Rongoā Māori has led me back to the whenua, back to te taiao.. back to reclaiming myself. My true self.

It’s a journey. Just as te taiao moves, I move too. It doesn't always feel perfect, but I’m learning to redefine perfection.. To navigate the ever-changing currents of life, to embrace them instead of resisting the natural flow.

I am the Rongoā for my whānau... I am the tūrangawaewae for my children.. my mokopuna.

No one can tell you who are, and what you should be or whether you are enough! Only you can define that..

Ngā mihi nui e Mareikura Esther Bunning
Thank you so much for being the light and for bringing the light to so many who share their stories with you. Thank you for holding those stories with such care and aroha.

To the 10 wāhine that joined me on this journey, sharing your stories of courage, embracing strength and vulnerability, I honour you x 💜🤍

Aratoi Wairarapa- exhibition open until January 5th 2026

Ready to Waananga 💜💜
31/10/2025

Ready to Waananga 💜💜

16/10/2025

DISCOMFORT IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF COURAGE - Brenè Brown.

I’ve had many conversations this week about our inability as a culture to be vulnerable and to speak into our truth. TO LIVE IN OUR TRUTH.. to be honest with ourselves and with others despite the discomfort.

Somewhere along the way, we learned to identify vulnerability with weakness.
To keep it together.
To not show too much.
To be “strong.”

But if we’re honest, that kind of strength often costs us our authenticity and our energy.
It keeps our hearts armoured.
It stops us from truly connecting to ourselves, to each other.

Our true power and potential isn’t about living behind the mask we were conditioned to wear.
It’s found in the courage to take it off.
To sit in the discomfort of being seen.
To have the hard kōrero.. the ones that make your puku turn, but your soul expand.

Brené Brown says, “Discomfort is the greatest enemy of courage...and I believe that.

Because courage will always ask you to step outside what feels safe.
To choose honesty over pleasing.
To choose courage over comfort.

When you do choose courage, not everyone will stand beside you.
Not everyone will understand the path you’re walking, or feel comfortable with what you have to say or do..
and YES.. When you start to stand in your MANA it absolutely might make people feel uncomfortable, threatened, hurt, let down..Even though you are walking with full intigrity.
But that has to be okay whānau...you can't control how people with perceive or receive you.

I've learnt courage isn’t about being liked..
It’s about being aligned.
It’s about walking in your truth and honouring it, even when it shakes you.

I love when a session just flows.. when you can draw from a variety of tools within the kete. That’s the beauty of Rongo...
14/10/2025

I love when a session just flows.. when you can draw from a variety of tools within the kete.
That’s the beauty of Rongoā Māori/Mirimiri 💚 it allows you to hold space without confinement, guided by intuition and what naturally arises in the moment.

Rongoā Māori is expansive in its thinking, allowing you to move, adapt, and respond to the needs of the person and the environment.
It’s a living practice that honours both the individual and the world around them. Each session will look and feel different from the last, shaped by the energy and the needs that are presented.

13/10/2025

“People are just walking around like locked boxes…”

This is what my 86-year-old client shared with me today and it landed deeply because I know there is such a truth in this kōrero.

So many carry generational secrets, pain, and stories that have never been spoken aloud. Out of fear of judgement, rejection, or shame…
But when we hold it all inside, it becomes a weight that limits our ability to fully breathe, love deeply, and connect authentically with ourselves and the world around us.

When someone finally feels safe enough to open that box... to be witnessed without judgement..its like a breathe of fresh air and that's where healing begins.

It always reminds me how sacred this mahi is… Creating spaces where stories can be shared, tears can flow, and whakapapa can heal x

I love being held by te taiao...Often I wrap myself in its embrace and I'm reminded that strength often comes from recei...
11/10/2025

I love being held by te taiao...Often I wrap myself in its embrace and I'm reminded that strength often comes from receiving, not just giving 💚

Forced to to listen to my own medicine today!It's been awhile...
10/10/2025

Forced to to listen to my own medicine today!
It's been awhile...

09/10/2025

THE CRONE

The Crone is a woman who no longer menstruates physically, she is now a fully embodied wise woman.

With many moons behind her and the experience she has acquired, she can now turn her attention to being a guide for the young. Being free in her body - no longer worried about pregnancy, pretense or deep fluctuations in hormones, she has come to a serene place of acceptance...an embodied dance with the rhythms and energetics of life.

I have been guided by grandmothers with silver hair as magnificent as the moonlight for a very long time in my dreams, it has helped me develop a keen appreciation for the Crone, it has allowed me to see aging as an exquisite and delicate gift. It has helped me make healthy choices in the now and embrace with subtle anticipation the day when I too will be a grandmother to the children of our world.

In ancient times and cultures, the Crone was revered. The Crone was consulted for matters of importance and well being of tribes. Children and grown alike would come for advice and storytelling to the skirts of the Crone.

The gray hair was looked at as stripes of honor and the wrinkles as badges of courage and experience. When a woman’s blood flow would stop coming it was said she no longer needed it, as she had accumulated the wisdom of the moon enough to embody it and invite it to stay.

These wise women understood the importance of death and renewal at such a cellular level they no longer needed to be reminded every month.

In todays culture, the Crone is in great danger of being crushed. In a society where faster, better, younger is the theme and tattooed into our consciousness every day… The elders are very often overlooked and seen as nuisance, annoying, slow, their beauty is smudged over and often shoved into care homes or confined to a bedroom in the house, Google has now usurped the throne of the wise one.

We see Maiden archetype everywhere- the endless pursuit of youth.. From a multibillion dollar market of beauty products to the movie screens.. Everyone wants to be young, plump and fresh. We see the Mother archetype- the caring loving mother and as Lara Owen mentions in her book, although limited- it is even revered in religion.

But the Crone...where is she?

She is hidden, she is stashed away… all that power hidden in her belly and nowhere to go. She has been pushed to abhor her post menopausal state, as though it is a condemnation rather than a blessing, as if not being able to birth children is now a curse that spills inward into a barren womb.. All that wisdom rejected, unacknowledged, dishonored in exchange for the pursuit of staying young and ‘fertile’ only to be ridiculed and mocked by a society that in paradoxical cruelty repudiates the Crone as well.

No, the Crone cannot expect to be accepted without first accepting herself, knowing that her bones are indeed each day becoming more and more one with the earth...

The silenced Crone cannot demand a place in a society where she too has helped exile this archetype.

This is why we need to speak of Her, the Crone- the holy guide that lives and will one day emerge from you and when it does… you will have a choice: will you let her in and feast on the banquet of your holy life experience or will you shut the door in her face and leave her out to starve in hopes that the maiden and mother, whom have left, will someday come back.

Many times I have wanted to write about the Crone even create for it but I am held back by the misleading belief that I have to be one to speak of it.

‘No more...' my sleeping crone has whispered, ‘you must begin to pave the way for my visit.. planting seeds along the path that may bloom for my homecoming.’

Resting and gestating in me, she is harnessing strength to come and live fully, to guide, to teach, to dance, to remind, to slow me down, to make me softer, to be reflected on my skin and in my gaze when the time comes.

So in the meantime, I will speak of the Crone to our children and to anyone that will hear - I will honor the magnificently wise women I am surrounded by, sisters hiding their beauty behind veils. I will remind them, I will whisper, I will nudge, I will invite….

‘Take off your veil! You are holy sacred wise woman, you are here, you are a message… now is your time to guide!’
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Red K Elders Art

TE MANA O TE RĀ ☀️
08/10/2025

TE MANA O TE RĀ ☀️

The past few months have been a whirlwind of Wānanga for me ..new lessons..new growth..each phase deepening my own haere...
08/10/2025

The past few months have been a whirlwind of Wānanga for me ..new lessons..new growth..each phase deepening my own haerenga as I’ve sat weaving together Te Rangapū Whakaora- the next evolution of my mahi. A space of mentorship and training in Mirimiri and Romiromi.

It has been an absolute honour to hold and share this space, to witness others begin to uncover the depth of their own potential through the Waananga of Mirimiri.

I believe that within each of us lives our own innate Wānanga, our own inner wisdom and guidance, calling us forward in the direction we are meant to be.
When we are given the space to tune-in and explore our gifts, our true potential can truly flourish xx

Te kākano- this is just the beginning

Thank you to my beautiful pou that tuned in and supported me to get here xx..you know who you are 💜💜

"Grateful to Tū Ora Compass Health for their support in this kaupapa, helping to grow and uplift our emerging practitioners here in the Wairarapa."

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16 years as an Intuitive Healer, Massage Practioner and Bodyworker..

Nau Mai Haere Mai

I’m glad you have made it on to my page. For whatever reason, something has guided you here, whether your body is screaming at you for some bodywork, or your inquisitive nature is asking“ What is Traditional Maori Healing? or maybe you have heard about the magic of Two Hands and you thought you would head in and check it out.

Whatever has led you here, I encourage you to listen in to your body and trust that you have been brought here for a reason.

Traditional Maori healing in the form of MiriMiri and RomiRomi can be a deeply spiritual experience. In their own unique way, they both aim to agitate and stimulate the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual layers to release rooted tension stored in the cellular memory of the body. It is not a one size fits all approach to healing as each session is intuitively led, guided by what your body needs on the day.