Kura Rēhia is passionate about celebrating te reo Māori through play. Founded in 2020 by Kuruho Wereta and Rosie Remmerswaal, Kura Rēhia creates board games, resources and events for a bilingual Aotearoa. Their aim is for Aotearoa to experience te reo Māori as central to...
Atua Wahine – Mana Wahine: Tracing the whakapapa of physical activity among Māori women in contemporary Aotearoa. Tūpuna Māori were a strong and active people whose relationship with their natural environment was fundamental to their ability to adapt and flourish in challenging environments . During this hour-long...
Traditional Māori physical activity is distinguished by a Māori cultural definition understood through mātauranga, with shared whakapapa to Atua, and practiced through tikanga. Despite a rich understanding and practice of Māori physical activity in a pre-European era, the violent colonial experience in Aotearoa has resulted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDZmDyr1vsk Maara jamz: Mai te kakano ki te puawaitanga- The Pekepo-Ratu blueprint to mana motuhake in the home is the essence of this Toi Ako webinar. The Pekepo-Ratu whānau are not shy of mucking in and getting it done and are honest about the good, the...
Davina Thompson (Ngāti Awa, Te Arawa) is an elite sportswoman, a Māmā, a kaimahi for Te Arawa Lakes trust and a Rongoā Māori practitioner. She has pursued Mātauranga Māori for many years, passed on to her from her Kuia and Koroua. With help from communities...
A framework for listening with your head, heart and puku. Come on a journey with me, watch my art transform darkness into form. Turn your world upside down and unpack what it means to decolonise our ways of being. Let's start with reclaiming what's ours -...
He taonga tēnei āhuatanga Ko Aka, ko koe, ko au, ko tātou Nō te kauru o te rangi tēnei kaupapa Nō ngā Whare Wānanga o tāua mātua Aka is everything that we are, Its intent was to capture the essence of our origins as people, From the very depths of our...
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...