Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 19, 2016 17:42:16 GMT 12
MAORI HEALING TAKES HOLISTIC APPROACH
How did you become interested in traditional healing?
Ruatau: I trained under an amazing Maori healer Papa Hopeha Delamere for 10 years and learnt all the traditional philosophies around healing and plant medicines. This was over 20 years ago. We are carrying on his legacy.
Tracey: I was having wairua, spirit, stuff happening within my house which was scaring me, so my neighbour introduced me to Maori healers eight years ago. Through that I started to learn the philosophies. Also, my mother had died of brest cancer. When I found out a lot of it was treating the catalyst not symptoms, it was in that moment when I realised I needed this to be my path.
What are your main practices?
Tracey: We mirimiri, which is counselling and korero - energetic exchange. It's not hands-on. Romiromi is body work like massage, removing cellular memory, trauma and experience through pressure points.
Ruatau: We use elbows, hands, sticks and stones – traditional modalities. For the stuff we can't remove we have a traditional ceremony that happens in the mountains and sea, which is a spiritual cleansing….
www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/western-leader/80161710/daily-grind-maori-healing-takes-holistic-approach
How did you become interested in traditional healing?
Ruatau: I trained under an amazing Maori healer Papa Hopeha Delamere for 10 years and learnt all the traditional philosophies around healing and plant medicines. This was over 20 years ago. We are carrying on his legacy.
Tracey: I was having wairua, spirit, stuff happening within my house which was scaring me, so my neighbour introduced me to Maori healers eight years ago. Through that I started to learn the philosophies. Also, my mother had died of brest cancer. When I found out a lot of it was treating the catalyst not symptoms, it was in that moment when I realised I needed this to be my path.
What are your main practices?
Tracey: We mirimiri, which is counselling and korero - energetic exchange. It's not hands-on. Romiromi is body work like massage, removing cellular memory, trauma and experience through pressure points.
Ruatau: We use elbows, hands, sticks and stones – traditional modalities. For the stuff we can't remove we have a traditional ceremony that happens in the mountains and sea, which is a spiritual cleansing….
www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/western-leader/80161710/daily-grind-maori-healing-takes-holistic-approach