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Toitū Te Rongoā Māori Healing Symposium 2025
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Wananga 4
Apr 16, 2025
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by
Charlotte Mildon
1.
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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2.
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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3.
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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4.
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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5.
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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6.
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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7.
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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8.
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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9.
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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Time’s up