Maori Ways of Healing by Donna Kerridge

A Look at Indigenous Knowing and Healing
By investing in understanding how indigenous peoples interpreted their landscape and wellbeing - we consider innovative ways to bridge the gap in health equity in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Māori healing (rongoā Māori), is akin to enhancing vitality (mauri), restoring the life force of people and planet and our connections to the land. Māori, saw themselves as an extension of a wider family group (whānau) and indeed the world itself (Te Ao Marama), totally interdependent - one heart, one breath, one world. Nothing, healed in isolation and the lore of nature, not human doctrine, dictated wellbeing.
Donna Kerridge (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Tahinga, Ngāti Maniapoto) is a traditionally trained Māori medicine practitioner. She is a passionate advocate for the sharing of traditional Māori knowledge as a means to address health inequities in the modern world. She is the contracted spokesperson for Te Kāhui Rongoā, the New Zealand national collective of Māori medicine practitioners.

[@tessamontgomerie4325]

I went to tangaroa and I cried and I screamed and I walked away healed after days of panic attacks. I feel this completely

[@considerable1233]

The last story bought a tear to my eye, many thanks to Donna Kerridge for sharing and doing this presentation. I agree also with the last questioner, we can all affect change for the better for our world and every other living species in it, everything is connected somehow.

[@matty8166]

Thank you so much this makes me feel whole after listening to this. I was starting to struggle with just using the ways I have been taught and told when I feel I am to heal and be so much more and offer so much more

[@theosophynz]

You're so welcome!

[@jadetaumata4913]

Thank you for sharing truely beautiful wairua...

[@moriahtukaki4543]

Such a powerful speech!

[@rachaelella6395]

Such a beautiful teaching, bless x

[@hamueranaiomiraharaha8417]

Thank you for sharing

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I'd love to have a cuppa t and good yarn 🤙

[@ropatapuru2296]

Ngā mihi nunui ki a koe i ōu kōrero rongoā e te tohunga

[@sonyaihimaera9884]

Nga mihi nui Donna! Sharing!

[@jdsmaorimaori572]

Ka nui te pai te korero e nga tāonga mirimiri e mukua e hononhono e mate kete e mate māori e makutu e nga wairua māori e nga tupuna e nga mihi Donana

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❤️

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🙂👍

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meowri

[@theosophynz]

:-)

[@TheAmieMaxwell]

She stood before these people who prided themselves in wisdom and was the light ✨Ngā mihi mai anō koe mana wahine

[@madalynnewton5488]

Maaaaari! Pronounce it right please.