Te Amokura Centre for Wholeness and Total Wellbeing

17/02/2026

Re-awakening and re-vitalising wairua māori - connecting the dots between wairua and wellbeing -

Foreword - Volume 6, Issue 1

17/12/2025

Kia Ora Whānau – This publication is about re-connecting the pragmatic dots between wairua and wellbeing.

What are the transformational elements that provoke and unleash our wherewithal to not only survive, but to be well and restore the conditions of our unstoppable thriving?
Anei tāku mahi-

https://hail.to/hauora-research/article/9s5vyZl

Wairua Ora

(Dr Waireti Roestenburg, Open Polytechnic) The doctoral research project Te Whakarauora Mauri explores how reconnecting with Māori and Indigenous source or spiritualities, has the power to restore "personal-collective, local-global" healing, wellbeing and development.

10/09/2025

Healed Healers Heal - Te Wānanga o Te Kawakawa

When: Saturday 13 September 10-2.00
Where: Integr8, 151 Gala Rd, Invercargill. $80.
Registrations - Waireti1@gmail.com

This wānanga introduces Māori Cycologies and Mauri-informed (life-source) approaches to healing, learning, teaching, living and trauma.

Kawakawa show us how we can stand and move into and through our lives and worlds in life-centric, vital and re-vitalising ways, holding our healing and our harming (trauma) in balance and in harmony.

Murihiku, Waihopai or Invercargill based whānau come learn and experience the healing power of Māori/Indigenous praxis based holistic wellbeing and development knowing, knowledge and practices.

Nau mai haere mai

10/09/2025

Murihiku, Waihopai or Invercargill based whānau come and experience the healing magic of Taonga Ihi Orooro - Māori Sacred Sound Healing and developing body of knowledge.

Friday 12 September 6-8.00 at Integr8 151 Gala Rd, Invercargill. $30.

Registrations - Waireti1@gmail.com

Nau mai haere mai

26/08/2025

Kia Ora Whānau

Another Taonga Ihi Orooro offering for those who live in or near the bay.

Te Wānanga o Te Taonga Ihi Orooro

Date: Monday September 1 2025 6.00-8.00

Venue: Be Different Studio, 45A Hastings St, Ahuriri (Napier) (Above Hapi)

Entry: $30 Registrations: Waireti1@gmail.com

‘Ihi and ihirangaranga’ are source vibrations. ‘Orooro’ is sound. ‘Taonga Ihi Orooro’ is a Māori Sacred Sound Practice and developing body of knowledge that expresses the source vibrations of the universe. They soothe the soul, comfort and inspire the mind, and give hearts-ease to our personal-collective bodies and being.

Experience the healing power of Wānanga — a traditional Māori approach to mauri ora (healing, learning and wellbeing) that nurtures the tinana (body), inspires the hinengaro (mind), and warms the power, presence and movement of our wairua māori (natural life-essence).

In this wānanga, ‘Taonga Ihi Orooro’ curate a resonant, re-vitalising, healing/learning ‘trans-forrmance’ (transformative performance) experience.

Nau mai

06/08/2025

Manawatia a Takurua a Mere, Matariki me Puanaga!

As we turn towards our two Te Wānanga Wairua Māori Wānanga this weekend, here is more information. If you have not yet registered please do, there is still space at both.

Te Wānanga Ihi Orooro - Sat 6-8.00 Be Different Studio, Hastings St Ahuriri

What to bring -

Warm and willing wairua, open hearts and minds
Water
Yoga mat, blanket to be comfy during 'puna' meditation
Journal, paper and pens if you want to take notes

Te Wānanga o Te Kawakawa – Healed Healers Heal
Sunday 10-2.00 Pacific Surf Club Rooms, Marine Parade, Ahuriri

What to bring - as above plus
Come early. Sunday market means parking may be tricky
Kai to share afterwards

Feedback from previous wānanga -

I highly recommend Waireti's Mahi. Absolutely beautiful. She just creates beautiful safe energetic space for people to interact. Waireti works empathically, weaving authentic, love driven connections with wairua and tipuna. I love her work. Authentic and presented with integrity, respect and aroha. Thank you aunty cuz. Thank you Kurawari for your loving space. Muwaaaaaaah

Tautoko -what an amazing experience Waireti goes above n beyond to achieve exactly what you have described.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful essence of voice, sound, and spirit. It was lovely not only to have met you but also to sit in the beautiful, sacred healing space and embrace the energies of love and healing.

Your work and your journey to normalise Wairuatanga, to help us think about ‘what does Wairua informed leadership look like’, and how can we move and shift in different ways was very influential for me last week. Thank you.

It was such a beautiful evening, I can't stop thinking about it! So much resonated with me.

It helped me open my heart and find source. I didn’t realise how closed off I had become. Almost as if I had decided I wasn't allowed to love. Well boom! That was the pathway for me in that moment to really connect, for the first time, to source. Nga mihi, nga mihi, nga mihi.

Nau mai haere mai
Mauri Ora
Waireti

30/07/2025

Kia Ora anō

Still learning how to do this. It seems the 'Te Wānanga o Te Kawakawa' personal-professional development Aug 10 10-2.00 $65 pānui got lost in the last post- here it is.

30/07/2025

Kia Ora Whānau

Here are the next wānanga offering - Napier Saturday Aug 9 6-8.00 at 'Be Different Studio' 45a Hasting St $25.

This will be followed by a 'Te Wānanga of Te Kawakawa - Healed Healers Heal' offering Sunday August 10 Pacific Surf Club 10-2.00 $65.

It was such a beautiful evening, I can't stop thinking about it! So much resonated with me.

I highly recommend Waireti's Mahi. Absolutely beautiful. She just creates beautiful safe energetic space for people to interact. Waireti works empathically, weaving authentic, love driven connections with wairua and tipuna. I love her work. Authentic and presented with integrity, respect and aroha.

Tautoko -what an amazing experience Waireti goes above n beyond to achieve exactly what you have described

Thank you for sharing your beautiful essence of voice, sound, and spirit. It was lovely not only to have met you but also to sit in the beautiful, sacred healing space and embrace the energies of love and healing.

Your work and your journey to normalise Wairuatanga, to help us think about what does Wairua informed leadership look like and how can we move and shift in different ways was very influential for me last week. Thank you.

25/07/2025

Kia Ora Whānau

To those who were able to make it last night - it was such a pleasure to share space and healing vibrations as we were sheltered by the beautiful mauri (life-force) of ‘Integr8’. Acknowledgements and greetings to Ariana Andrews, and to you all for saying yes to your own mauri and precious life force.

A post about a ‘Healed Healers Heal Wānanga' will be posted soon.

Mauri Ora
Aunty Waireti

A ‘spirit’ of Indigenous healing, wellbeing and re-vitalisation has been quietly, yet surely re-awakening our personal-global Indigenous hearts, homes and nations for the last few decades. To trace, track and understand the source, force and course of this movement and release much needed healin...

17/07/2025

Manawatia Takurua, me Matariki, me Puanga!!!

Kia Ora E Te Whānau

'Takitimu Matariki Wānanga Wairua Māori' launch update.

Ngā mihinunui ki a tātau, to everyone who experienced and shared in 'Te Wānanga Taonga Ihi Orooro - Māori Sacred Sound Healing' in Wairoa Sunday July 6, Ahuriri (Napier) Wednesday July 9, and attended the 'Taonga Ihi Orooro – The source and development of a wairua-centric Kaupapa Māori sacred sound healing practice' presentation at the Ngāti Kahungunu 'Ringa Rangahau Symposium' at EIT Friday 11 July.

We are in vibrantly special times.

The next 'Bay' offering of 'Te Wānanga Taonga Ihi Orooro' in Kahungunu will be Saturday August 9th 6-8.00 pm at 'Be different'. Cost $30. Panui to be posted soon. Registrations - Waireti1@gmail.com

This will be followed by a 'Te Wānanga Kawakawa - Healed Healers Heal'. Come and learn about mauri-informed approaches to living, healing and trauma. Sunday August 10 10-2.00 pm Pacific Surf Life Saving Club. Cost $65 bring kai to share afterwards. Panui to follow. Registrations - Waireti1@gmail.com

Next week I travel to where the Takitimu rests and will be offering a Invercargill wānanga on Friday 25 July 6-8.00 $30 at integr8. See panui below. Spaces are limited. Registrations: Waireti1@gmail.com

06/07/2025

Kia Ora Whānau - Ngā mihi to those who attended our ' Te Wānanga Taonga Ihi Orooro' in Wairoa today - what a special time we shared.

Ngā mihi Kurawari for opening your whare up to receive us when the Tai Whenua key went missing - it was lovely to be held by and share warmth with your whare.

Here is the panui for the next Taonga Ihi Orooro wānanga in Ahuriri (Napier) this Wednesday 9th 6.00.

Share with whānau and friends.

Mauri Ora
Waireti