Ayla Hoeta is a vibrant wahine Māori, māmā, gym trainer and a Maramataka Māori practitioner. Beyond her many talents, Ayla is a Youth Innovator for The Southern Initiative (Auckland Council), Raised in South Auckland, her whakapapa connects her to Ngāti Tahinga and Waikato-Tainui. Ayla has followed...
Exercising Hauora: Māori perspectives on maintaining wellbeing through physical activity Indigenous peoples have long been physically, emotionally, spiritually and socially strong and resilient peoples. In Aotearoa (New Zealand), a deficit narrative of physical health and emotional wellbeing has been associated with Māori in spite of...
A Mātauranga Māori approach to physical activity while living in isolation, This Toi Ako Webinar is hosted by Atua Matua expert Dr Ihirangi Heke. This webinar coalesce three decades of working in the outdoor environment into contemporary examples of surviving the recently imposed isolation. Dr...
Cultural inclusion in NZ Rugby: Applying tikanga and mātauranga Māori in a sporting context A case study of tikanga and mātauranga Māori applied in a sporting context: the Bay of Plenty Steamers. As part of his PhD research, Dr Hapeta undertook research on cultural inclusion...
Presented by the Healthy Families Rotorua team, the focus of this webinar is to apply a Māori systems approach to build the capability and capacity of Maramataka practitioners who want to participate in activities across a range of settings, contributing to long-term sustainable change that...
Mo te marama Mahuru Māori kua whakarite a Toi Tangata i tētahi hui a hiko i Te Reo Māori. He kaupapa whakarauora reo, whakapiki hoki i te ora, ma te waka o te hākinakina na Te Puni Kokiri i whakarite. Ko Eruera Lee-Morgan te kaikōrero....
In this hour long webinar, Dr Lily Fraser discusses the application of Low Carbohydrate High Fat (LCHF) nutrition at Turuki Healthcare in Mangere, Auckland. With a focus on Māori and Pacific food and making nutrition changes on a low income budget, Dr Fraser covers her...
Guest presenter, Christina McKerchar (Ngāti Kahungunu, Tūhoe & Ngāti Porou) presented initial findings from her PhD research ‘Food availability for Maori children – a rights based approach’. The first part of her research used photographic data from the Kids’Cam research project which explored the world...
Māori have a unique relationship with the ocean that stretches back many generations to the arrival of the seminal voyaging canoes. Since that time, Māori have ridden waves on various types of surfcraft but while the literature identifies the therapeutic effects of surfing and place-based...
Food security is a major issue in Aotearoa. Only two in five Maori households have stable access to nutritious kai and utilise it. Estimates are that a poor diet claims between 8,000 and 11,000 NZ lives each year, but nutritious kai doesn’t simply prevent illness,...
