Harata Meretana Ma Charitable Trust

Romiromi Wānanga Notes

5th & 6th – 26th and 27th May 2025

Kia Ora e te Whānau

This app is designed to support your learning by revisiting some of the content I present during our romiromi wānanga sessions. I know the knowledge shared is deep and often a lot to take in … so by sharing it here in picture form on an app, it becomes easier to remember and apply in your everyday lives. This isn’t just about learning, it’s about healing. Healing ourselves, and on that healing waka, healing our whānau at the same time. What you do in terms of healing, ripples out to your whānau.

It was awesome to meet you all as part of the Hoki whānau, starting out with the parenting program in May. Nau mai to the new and the not-so-new facilitators joining us on this romiromi healing journey. It is not by chance that the universe has bought each and every one of you together for a shared healing journey. Sometimes, there is only standing room in our wānanga from all your ancestors being with us as we work together as a whānau to heal. Remember, spiritually, you are never alone!

Romiromi can be life-changing so well done to those of you who had the courage to come and have a one-on-one sessions with me. Just a reminder, it’s important to do your self-care after a session, drink water, have a hot Epsom salts bath and oil your body up with coconut oil to support your body and do the homework I may have asked you to do please.

After 20 years of medications by Drs (that never worked) the romiromi I experienced made such a difference in my everyday life. I became more aware and more committed to becoming the best version of myself without dragging all the hara and mamae that I’d experienced right throughout my life. It’s like getting a second chance where you rise up and stand in your own mana, like never before.

Please know that under no circumstances are you EVER unsafe during the romiromi wānanga nor during a romiromi session with me. I have worked in this field for over 30 years with both lived experience as a whaiora seeking wellness as well as having professional traditional Māori healing romiromi and rongoa experience working with high and complex needs whaiora. Many are blown away that I can work intuitively with whānau to find what is at the core to heal long term mental health and chronic health conditions otherwise known as incurable to health professionals.

If you need extra support, look for Charlotte Mildon once you’ve downloaded the Telegram App. This link has my Healthpoint profile with my contact details on it:

https://healthpoint.co.nz/community-health-and-social-services/acc-registered-rongoa-maori/dr-charlotte-mildon-of-aio-healing-limited/

Papa Joe De La Mere

Romiromi is very old. It is not a new contemporary healing modality like massage that only works the body physically. Romiromi has deeply spiritual healing rituals and practices that our old people have used for many generations. When I was first introduced to Papa De La Mere, he could not even look at me because I was full of ngangara (spiritual entities) after working people for 10 years not knowing how to clear myself. I was like a magnet drawing people’s hara and mamae into my own body. They got well but then I carried all their mauiui in my own body. It took 6 months of being worked on every week to release all the mamae and hara from my body.

Papa De La Mere otherwise known as Papa Joe was very patient and kind with me. Did he growl me? Of course he did! I was a haututu with no ears. Falling into my human self, the mind, instead of standing in my full power in the whatumanawa. Asking dum questions that were based in the mind. There is only YOU in the mind but in the whatumanwa has ALL the ANCESTORS going back to mai rano (the beginnings of time) there to support you. Papa De La Mere was always there for me spiritually. I could hear him talking sometimes even when he wasn’t there physically. He knew I was a haututu but said that those who could think outside of the square, had the makings of a good Tohunga.

I feel very privileged to have learned this mahi from Papa De La Mere back in 2003 that was taught to him at the age of 3 years old. His parents took him to learn from his grandparents where they did takutaku every morning at 3am. It is my passion that our tamariki learn this mātauranga at an early age so they will have it for a lifetime. It means though that you have to DO YOUR OWN HEALING as our tamariki are sharp. They know when you are telling them to do something but you are doing something very different. So, walk your talk whānau! As a parent and a grandparent, you are a blueprint for your tamariki or your mokopuna as they do exactly what you are doing or saying AND/OR copy what you are not doing or not saying?

The left side of the body is the female side which is allyour spirituality. The female side is all about your spiritual insights, your intuition, your creativity and your passion in life. Being able to link into your spiritual abilities supports you to work smarter instead of working harder.

In my experience, the female side is the spiritual side of your body. According to Dr Rose Pere, (who mentored me for 17 years) the male Atua Tumatauenga resides in the right side of the brain to govern the spiritual side of the body. Whaea Rose growled me when I said he is the God of War saying he is most certainly not but instead is the God of People. Many matekite (visionaries) were able to see him in my work space and they would look right up in the air, as he is a giant. Some women would blush because he had no clothes on and has a toned muscly body. I did not know who this was until Dr Rose Pere came into the tent where I was doing romiromi at a Women’s Indigenous Wellness Conference we hosted in Flaxmere, Hawkes Bay. She looked right up in the air and laughed and said to me ‘I see you have out tipuna Tumatauenga working with you Charlotte, the keeper of the Violet flame of healing (Kahukura). I explained to her that I did not know his name but became aware of him when the late Tom Maraki, Tohunga Rongoā from Ngāti Porou, said he would put an Atua in place for me in my work because I kept forgetting to do karakia before and after my work. Once she asked me how I knew that Tumatauenga was there working with me. I described that I could see a vision like a ship moving through the ocean like how the Titanic moved through the water at the front and so knew that he was there, guiding me and keeping me safe in my work. Dr Pere nodded and commended me in my work explaining how the Kahukura is about spiritual cleansing, transmuting negative energy and protecting.

The right side is the physical otherwise known as the male side. The female Atua Rongo resides in the left side of the brain and governs the right side of the body. The male side of the body is about our strength, our courage, our determination and our leadership abiities.

The right side of the body connects with the left side of the brain that works with the rational mind and the physical body. Remembering that we are a spirit first having a physical experience not the other way round where we are taught and conditioned with Pakehā/Palangi philosophies where we are only a physical body having a spiritual experience every now and then. We are deeply spiritual as Māori and Pasifika so when we become unwell, depressed or become seemingly blank where the spirit has left the body, the physical body is affected. Just treating the physical body with drugs does not heal the body or the mind, it is the synchronicity of the spiritual female energies with the male energies that can rebalance the spiritual imbalances. When the right side of the body is swollen and sore this is the body communicating that the person is struggling with having to take the lead in their lives.

Understanding this concept of the male and the female sides of the body is incredibly healing for us. Many of us were conditioned by the state schools being told by teachers to be quiet, sit still, and don’t cry and this has affected us in terms of our healing as it is normal for us to cry out loud when we are sad or overwhelmed with hara, mauiui or mamae.

All the indigenous cultures have very similar philosophies in terms of healing and with the personification of the elements of nature being Atua, all of which are both male and female, not just male. Unlike the colonisers who bought their own worldview of only having a male God with no Goddesses. The synchronicity of both the male and female Atua are a very important part of our indigenous healing ways especially in nature.

According to our Tohunga, both males and females have a feminine and a male side to their bodies. The feminine side (left side) is your creativity, your passion and your intuition. The male side is about taking the lead, your strength and your courage.

In order to do the healing mahi, you need to access the whatumanawa otherwise known as the third eye

The whatumanwa is a deep place of knowing where you can have access to all the spiritual ancestors and the Atua. You cannot make sense of the whatumanawa but if you discipline yourself to breathing every day little and often, the whatumanwa can take you to a place of enlightenment providing you can silence the mind. Below is an diagram of what we went over during the 26th May session. In here we can have a rest from the relentless questions and negative thinking. It’s a place where you can heal. There are no emotions or thinking in the whatumanawa. If you find yourself thinking then know that you have gone back into the mind and breathe. This is who we really are!

The Mind

It is only you in the mind. Nobody else. The mind is the enemy of the Whatumanawa. It is often difficult to shut the mind down. It’s like a TV that won’t turn off even when you go to bed, it is still going on and on and on like a dripping tap. It is very critical, full of emotions that will guilt trip, shame, and blame that comes with lots of negative illusions we create to justify what we are doing. The mind will analyze criticize, justify, deny, blame and shame with lots of emotions. Drs will prescribe anti-depressant medications to numb the mind and antipsychotic medications that make you a duuuuuhhhhh. I was told that I was to take these medications for the rest of my life. This is a lie and only makes Pharmac more money as we are the highest users of their medications that keep us down, slowly killing us by harming our organs. It is merely another colonising tool. There are ways to detox ourselves from these synthetic medications using our breath, grounding ourselves, making rongoā and eating raw and healthy foods that heal the body as opposed to processed sugar laden foods that keep us sick with many diseases.

TAA MIRI – Intuitive Diagnosis

The slide show shows a number of you learning about the whatumanawa to spiritually tune in to what is going on in the body. Knowing the different parts of the body and seeing when they are swollen, knowing that that area is often sore, is how we intuitively diagnose where they are sitting in the cellular memory of the body. Romiromi opens up and releases these memories so you have more room for yummy things instead of holding on to this hara and mamae for a lifetime. It is life changing to shift and move these old memories out of the body.

Change your perception of how you see things in order to heal. Is there any other way you can see your most innermost mamae? Otherwise, if you don’t, you will continue to do the same things and get the same outcomes!

The thighs are about relationships

In the pic above, the left thigh (right in the pic) are about female relationships and the right thigh (left in the pic) is about male relationships. The memories we have had during our lives, sit in the cellular memory of the body. Can you see which one is not right? Releasing these memories can make profound changes in our lives and we feel lighter

In the picture below we see the right calve muscle in the picture is swollen, much bigger than the left side (female) which shows the male childhood memories that are being held in the right calf. Can you see it?

The calve muscles are about childhood memories

Working the lower back and the tailbone

Working the Haemata (master psychological points)

I trust that you will find this app valuable and ask that you do not share any of this information on social media. As so many of you already know, the Western health, justice, education, social services and child services systems (and so many more Crown systems) have failed us since the coming of the colonisers.

Our Tohunga went to great lengths to keep this mātauranga safe for our future mokopuna yet to come even right through the Tohunga Suppression Act that was in force for over 60 years. So let’s take back our mana and stand in our own truth and the wisdom of our ancestors. Now we will do some more content after our next hui in June. Remember to make an appointment with Kendall if you want to see me in June.

More soon so watch this space!