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Kia Ora e te Whānau
Great to have shared time with you last month and to see you engaging on the Telegram page. Love it that you are all supporting one another on your healing journeys. He Whakatauki: Awhi mai awhi atu.
Thank you for sharing your pics and movies. It’s very exciting to have access to the information on the app. Please remember not to share any of our videos or pics on social media please as the wānanga information is only for us as a roopu not for the public. We never know who’s looking on public social media pages so let’s keep us and the tamariki safe. Likewise, with anything that happens in our romiromi sessions please, let’s keep what happens in the wānanga, stays in the wānanga with us as it is is tapu (sacred).
The link below is some feedback recordings that you have shared.
Another māmā’s feedback:
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The session with Whaea Charlotte:
– amazing
– therapeutic
– releases trauma from our experiences
– beautiful connection
– lots of learning & knowledge
– beautiful Mirimiri & Romiromi
– no words on what she does for others with her knowledge
Tiwawe is a means of cleaning the body’s organs using this rocking motion. It moves the waters in the body which will move and shift the paru that is underneath the organs. You will see the movement in the gut especially which is cleaning all the intestines, those things that look like sausages all joined together. Sometimes it gets blocked in there and we get constipated. Ehara te tutae! Then we get all blocked up and mauiui. Water is a very important part of helping to clean the body. Without wai then our body is paru as which makes it acidic. Disease will thrive in an acidic body.
Tiwawe will also clean under the kidneys and the liver as well as the lungs. You can do Tiwawe with your children if they start getting sick but mustn’t do this for babies though. Toddlers are ok but not babies. To look after your own body when doing Tiwawe as its hard work and you can pull your own back out doing it.
I have done this move with the tailbone for decades but I pull my own back out doing this move sometimes especially when they are too big and heavy. Notice the legs go out straight, this is hard on my back which is why I tell them to keep their legs up. This move is not for the feint hearted and you have to be strong to do this move but it is very helpful for those who are crooked. The osteopaths don’t put the tailbone back in and asked me ‘who taught you to do this’ and I told them our Tohunga. They are blown away but their national standards do not allow them to sit on anybody. Our Tohunga will not join a national body so that we don’t get controlled, assessed and monitored by the Crown.
The tailbone is sometimes tucked under and this is the body communicating with you like a dog with its tail between its legs which means it scared. When we are able to figure out what our biggest fear it then we are able to make a decision about whether or not we want to focus on that because remember, what we focus on, our infinite intelligence will manifest just that. I get people to think about the opposite of what that fear is so that we manifest that instead. Your infinite intelligence is incredibly obedient. There is an old saying ‘face the fear and do it anyways’.
The haeata (master points in the head) seen here are psychological points to release the tension and stress held in the head. It is used with those who are highly stressed, depressed, or for those who are using their brain a lot like if you are studying or reading a lot. It can also be used if you are overtired or cannot sleep. You can do this yourself too.You need to push deep with your fingers so that it hurts. If it doesn’t hurt then you are in the wrong place. Starting at the top of the head and going all the way down holding the point with both fingers for 2 – 3 minutes then moving all the way down the head or starting at the cerrebellum or moitoi in te reo at the base of the head. This point is really good for vertigo or migraine headaches. Then after going from the moitoi right up to the top of the hairline, do a deep pulling movement with tips of your fingers. Not only does it feel good but it gets the blood in the head flowing. This can calm the grumpiest or most stressed person down in minutes so that they are putty in your hands. It is a really good idea to soak your head in the bath with 1/2 to 1 cup of epsom salts. Very good for the brain and the bones.
Here are some of the notes we took of what we went through here.
The wisdom you possess in your body is amazing. We just need to tune into our bodies to hear what it is trying to communicate with us. Talk to your body so it knows you are there. Often, because we have been raised in te ao Pakeha or Falangi ways at school, we are taught with commands like ‘be quiet’, ‘sit down’, ‘stop talking’, ‘stay still’, or ‘don’t cry’ by teachers, the majority of whom are Pakeha. This is called state conditioning where the teachers stifle our creativity and we push down our emotions instead of expressing it in some way. Stifling our emotions makes us unwell. Wahine especially are taught to be a good girl as a child but this is not healthy for us to not express when we are upset. As children we would cry out loud but as adults, we struggle to do this. Why? It is a natural part of living to release things and cry. Took me many years to cry as I had eating disorders as a teenager as this stopped me from feeling any emotions. Little did I know that this was from the abuse I had experienced at home. It is never too late to heal e te whanau/fanau.
It took many years to understand the shifting of ngangara in the body. It is not for the feint hearted and has to be done without fear otherwise, nek minute, you get taken out. However, this gives you an idea of the transformation that can happen when you become aware of the pain in the lower belly area and then when you are ready to let them go then it can be life changing. The ngangara have a kaupapa where they can take a lot of the mamae and the raru with them when you are ready to let them go.
The intuitive diagnosis of the body is called taa miri. All of you were able to do this once you figured it out. Know that not everybody can see what the body is trying to say. It is a spiritual technique of knowing what those parts of the body mean. You can see certain parts of the body are swollen or crooked then you can go on google to bring up what the spirtual significance of that body part means. It’s pretty simple really. I learned all these body parts and their meanings from a book written by Louise Hay ‘You Can Heal Your Life’. This book was like a bible to me when I was younger and it helped me learn what each part of the body meant so when I went to study with Papa Joe De La Mere, I already knew what the different parts of the body meant but nowadays, we have Aunty Google! Karewa ne ra?
The unconditional love of the kuia has incredible healing potential. For me, as a child, it was the first and only experience of unconditional love that I had ever had in my entire lifetime. As I got older, when the waves come during the trials and tribulations of my life, I was grateful that the unconditional love of my kuia carried me through so that I could keep my head above the water and live to tell the story. The kuia can speak to the pepi whatumanawa ki te whatumanawa. Remember this? The eye of the heart is in between the eyes and is a spiritual communication with our babies. Its a place of just knowing without words.
Look up on the board to see how many litres of water (with nothing added) you need to take a day to clean your body and all the organs so that it can work properly. Otherwise, a paru body is full of disease and pain. Remember the example of having a shower where you might use 9 – 18 litres a day cleaning the body on the outside but no water to clean all the body’s systems and organs on the inside. The body struggles to survive without water to clean itself. Try not to drink water with food added though otherwise, the body will digest the water like it is a food and not use it to clean itself. It took me about a year to learn how to drink water and I have to be aware of drinking enough water all during the day, everyday, so I can be well and healthy. Living a life without pain!
The kidneys need at least 3 – 4 litres of water every day otherwise they can shrivel up and die then you have to get them surgically removed. Cannot survive without the kidneys.
Here are some of the symptoms so that you know if your kidneys are failing. That back area where the kidneys are can go very hot when they are inflamed from no water. Here are some other symptoms so that you know when the kidneys are communicating with you.
Kidney failure is important. Water is the key to supporting the kidneys to heal. Without water the kidneys cannot survive. Some people who won’t drink water end up needing dialysis treatment every day to survive or kidney transplants when all you had to do was drink water.
It is never too late to heal the kidneys but it means changing the diet. No refined (white) sugar, fresh raw vegetables and an alkaline diet with 3 – 4 litres of water per day can heal the kidneys. I’ve worked with whaiora whose kidneys were dying and the drs wanted to prescribe a meds long terms but this is not healing the disease, it is only easing symptoms. Doesn’t cost a lot of money to heal the body in changing what you eat and drink
Healing is also about being in touch with how you are living, breathing or behaving. Not just about diet and drinking water. Healing is a way of living not just a modality where you go to receive it. The way we teach our children how to heal is to role model how to live and harmony with your body.
Every body part has a spiritual significance that communicates with you. Being in tune with your body is important to live strong!
Ngā mihi aroha ki a tātou e te whānau
Nā
Charlotte
