Wananga 4 - Harata Meretana Ma Charitable Trust

Why is important to do deep breathing exercises everyday?

To help with anxiety and stress

To stop smoking lung damage from smoking and vaping

To slow down the heartbeat

To gain access to the whatumanawa – the eye of the heart

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When is the most important time to drink water and why?

While you are eating kai so it will be digested

Only at night time so you don’t get dehydrated

An hour before or an hour after eating kai to help with digestion

First thing in the morning before kai

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The tailbone being tucked under is similar to the dog because …

It indicates fear

It shows childhood trauma

Shows a problem with sleeping

Tell the story of a past life

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Why should we not do healing when we are frightened?

You are not in the whatumanawa and are stuck in the mind

You might make the whaiora nervous and they might cry

You will be like a magnet and draw in all their energy

None of the above

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Where is the whatumanawa situated on the body?

By the anus

Inside the ears

In between the eyes

On the lower back

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What is matakitetanga?

Spiritual visions, revelations and realisations

The ability to see, hear, feel, smell and/or taste mauiui

Prophesying when something is going to happen

All of the above

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What does traditional Māori healing connect to?

The body and the spirit

Papatūānuku

Personified atua (gods, goddesses of nature)

All of the above

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Why do the mokopuna of the Takitimu waka have the highest mental health statistics?

The Western mental health system does not understand the spirituality of the tangata whenua.

Because they eat lots of sugar foods.

Because they were born with Tohunga matekite abilities that are diagnosed by Western Drs as schizophrenia.

Because they are crazy.

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Being a kaitiaki of the ancestral healing knowledge means we ….

Put the teachings on social media like Facebook

We give the teachings learned in wananga to our friends who didn’t go to wananga

We apply the healing mātauranga to our lives so it becomes lived wisdom

We live, breathe and honour the teachings so our whanau learn from our role-modelling

We keep the mātauranga a secret to give to our mokopuna one day

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10.

Who is the founder of Te Oomai Reia Romiromi

Papa Joe Rupene

Papa Hohepa De La Mere

Hohepa Kereopa

Ngarino Te Waati

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11.

To link into the power source of another is …

Nose to nose

Lips to lips

Feet to feet

Hand to hand

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12.

Who are the ultimate spiritual parents in the realms of te ao Māori?

Tangaroa and Papatūānuku

Tane and Hineraukura

Rikoriko and IO matua te kore

Tawhirimatea and Hinepukohurangi

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