Certified Māori Healing Training
A rare month-long Māori Healing immersion
In August and september, Kura Waka becomes a place of Traditional Māori Healing, bodywork, ceremony, and shared living. Kura Waka is one of the only places in the world offering a full month-long, hands-on immersion into these Māori healing traditions — allowing space to deeply integrate the wisdom
We are deeply grateful to announce that Māori healers Ruatau and Rachael are returning from Aotearoa (New Zealand) to Kura Waka, where we create a rare space in which the teachings of Romiromi, Mirimiri, and Rongoā Māori can be experienced slowly, deeply, and over time.
Ancestral healing passed through generations
From the Tūpuna Mātua (ancestors), these sacred healing practices have flourished for thousands of years. They have been carried through tribal, family and environmental knowledge — shaped by land, sea, forests and mountains.
Each environment holds its own role, wisdom and responsibility. This is why Māori healing is alive, adaptive and deeply connected to whenua (land).
We are super grateful to welcome our friends from Aotearoa to share this wisdom and keep the spirit alive.
Level 1, 2 & 3
Learn the foundations of Traditional Māori Healing through Romiromi & Mirimiri bodywork, deep tissue techniques, breath work, intuitive healing and energetic awareness.
You will explore how physical, emotional and spiritual tension is held within the body, while developing practical hands-on skills, deeper presence and connection through touch, rhythm and wairua.
Open to both practitioners and those on their personal healing journey.
Fri. 21 August – Monday 31 August 2026
Level 4
Level 4 deepens the practice through sound, vibration, intuitive listening and deep energetic alignment within Romiromi & Mirimiri healing.
You will learn to work beyond the physical body by sensing emotional, spiritual and energetic patterns through touch, presence and vibration — supporting deeper release, balance and reconnection between body, heart and wairua.
This level strengthens intuitive awareness, healing sensitivity and advanced bodywork practice.
Thu. 03 September – Tue. 08 September 2026
Level 5
Level 5 focuses on intuition, elemental healing and working with natural rhythms through Māori healing practices.
You will deepen your ability to sense energetic blockages, strengthen intuitive awareness and learn how to work with the elements, vibration and lunar cycles within healing sessions.
This level supports deeper alignment between body, emotion, energy and wairua, while expanding your confidence and sensitivity as a practitioner.
Fri. 11 September – Fri. 18 September 2026
More about Maori Healing
The Elements of Traditional Māori Healing
Traditional Māori Healing is not only a bodywork practice. It is a way of listening — to the body, the breath, the land, the ancestors and the unseen layers of life.
Within Romiromi and Mirimiri, healing is approached as a connection between the physical, emotional, spiritual and energetic body. Tension, pain or stagnation are not seen as separate from the whole person, but as messages held within the body, the heart and wairua.
This training invites you to explore the living elements that support Māori healing: touch, breath, sound, vibration, intuition, ancestral wisdom and connection to whenua — the land.
Romiromi — Deep Tissue Māori Bodywork
Romiromi is a powerful form of Māori healing bodywork that works deeply through muscles, tissue, organs and energetic blockages.
It is often used when deeper physical and emotional release is needed. Through pressure, rhythm, breath and presence, Romiromi supports the body in releasing stagnation and restoring flow.
Mirimiri — Intuitive Energy Healing
Mirimiri is a more intuitive and subtle healing practice. It may involve touch, but it can also work through energy, vibration, prayer, intention and spiritual awareness.
Mirimiri listens to what is hidden beneath the surface — supporting emotional release, energetic balance and reconnection with the self.
Te Hā — The Breath of Life
Breath is an essential part of Māori healing. Te Hā, the breath of life, helps to move energy, soften resistance and bring awareness back into the body.
Through breath, the body can begin to open, release and remember its natural rhythm.
Wairua — Spirit and the Unseen
Wairua refers to the spiritual essence or unseen life force within us.
In Māori healing, the body is not treated as separate from spirit. Healing often moves through both the visible and invisible layers — the physical body, emotions, energy, ancestors and spiritual connection.
Whenua — Connection to the Land
Whenua means land, but also placenta — reminding us of the deep relationship between body, ancestry and Earth.
Māori healing is connected to the natural world: the land, sea, forests, mountains, elements and cycles of life. Healing is not forced, but guided by listening to these natural rhythms.
Tūpuna — Ancestral Wisdom
Tūpuna are the ancestors.
Within Traditional Māori Healing, ancestral knowledge is not something from the past only. It is living wisdom — carried through generations, families, teachings, stories, bodies and spirit.
Learning from Indigenous healers offers a rare opportunity to receive from this living lineage with respect and humility.
Wānanga — A Sacred Space of Learning
A Wānanga is more than a training. It is a space of learning, sharing, remembering and transformation.
During this Māori Healing Training, you are invited not only to learn techniques, but to enter a deeper relationship with presence, intuition, bodywork, energy and wairua.
Ruatau
Ruatau trained for over 10 years under Papa Joe, continuing his teachings through wairua after his passing. Introduced to Mirimiri as a child by his grandmother, Ruatau has been practicing and sharing Rongoā Māori, Romiromi and Mirimiri since the year 2000 — both in Aotearoa and internationally through Te Maurea.
“We weave the threads between Papatūānuku and Ranginui, guided by Whare Wānanga lore, Ngā Atua and our Tūpuna — bringing ancient Māori philosophies into this ever-changing modern world.”
Book a session
During this period, you can book individual healing sessions with Ruatau, also if you are not participating in the training.
