Join me and 10 other Priestesses for a month long ‘PRIESTESS’ deep dive online waananga starting Friday 14th August 2026. There will be 12 wahine in this waananga only.
$111AUD to secure your spot.
Facilitated by Te Uira.
Waananga
About my new ebook 'TOI TŪHĀHĀ: A Māori creative cultural therapy manual' coming soon
Toi Tūhāhā is a Māori creative cultural therapy framework that weaves together cultural knowledge, creative practice, somatic healing, ritual and therapeutic insight to support individuals and communities in reconnecting with identity, regulating emotion, integrating trauma, and restoring balance.
The name Toi Tūhāhā reflects a return to the creative origins of self — a standing place of identity, culture, and wairua. It honors the understanding that healing is relational, embodied, spiritual, and deeply connected to whakapapa, spirituality, self expression and whenua.
This framework is built on the belief that creativity is a powerful medicine. Through colour, movement, pattern, story, breath, artistic practice, creativity, personal narrative, storytelling, ritual, journalling, music, self expression, and cultural practice, people can access pathways of healing that are intuitive, accessible, and culturally grounded.
Toi Tūhāhā is designed for clinicians, facilitators, educators, artists, youth workers, community practitioners, and individuals seeking tools that honor spirituality, culture, and wellbeing.
It is not a clinical replacement — it is a cultural companion. A kete of practices that strengthen identity, reconnect people to their ancestors, integrate the power of ritual, facilitate productive creative self expression, and support emotional, spiritual, and somatic healing.
Chapters
Introduction to Toi Tūhāhā
Ngā Rangi Tūhāhā — The 12 Realms
The Toi Tūhāhā Framework
The Science of Creative Cultural Therapy
Core Principles of Toi Tūhāhā
Acrylic Painting & Colour Healing
Toi Māori Modalities
Individual Practices & Exercises
Group Waananga & Collective Practice
Clinical Applications — Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Addiction
Identity, Whakapapa & Cultural Reconnection
Somatic Healing & Body-Based Practice
Advanced Facilitation & Cultural Safety
Realm Integration & Holistic Practice
MY NEW COMPREHENSIVE ‘TOI TŪHĀHĀ MĀORI CREATIVE CULTURAL THERAPY MANUAL’ IS COMING SOON!
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Checking out some of the mahi whakairo (carving).
Recent tattoo convention and artist waananga in Tauranga
Earlier in March I was grateful to attend a week long waananga for moko artists in Tauranga, followed by the weekend-long Tauranga Tattoo Extravaganza - two awesome events with amazing artists to work alongside. Thanks to everyone that got tattooed by me in Tauranga recently.
I loved making new friends with some new indigenous tattooers that I hadn’t met before, from Canada, Greenland, Tahiti and The States. It was also awesome to collaboratively work on some new paintings with some of these international artists, all cultural art revivalists in their own respective parts of the world.
Big thanks to everyone involved in making these two events, amazing kaupapa to be involved with.
Indigenous Greenland Inuit Inuk artist contributing to one of my collaborative canvases at our waananga.
Getting tattooed by my whanaunga at our artists waananga.
With my new friend, Inuit Inuk Tattoo Revivalist from Greenland.
With First Nation sisters from California region.
With some of our taa moko tatau artist crew.