26/11/2025
My cosy treatment room for nearly the past 3 years which ive now closed the doors on. The final ending to my Hāwea Flat life of the past 6 years
As is with my life for the past few years, there is a story to getting this room.
I’d just returned from doing a donation drive up in hawkes bay due to the cyclone and flooding.
Previous to going up there, I’d been working with a mate, doing painting touch ups out at a new sub division (which all looks the same 😑)
I don’t mind doing labour work if it’s physical, or mentally stimulating
Painting is not physical, and the only thing mentally it was doing for me, was doing my fu***ng head in.
Anyways when I returned back from Hawkes bay, fresh from watching people move their belongings out of their flooded homes, clean up and move back in, I found myself on a Monday morning painting, back doing touch up jobs at a new subdivision.
I didn’t even get one stroke of paint down, before saying to my self, something along the lines of
“F**k this, what the f**k am I doing? Why did I even bother to do 3 wānanga in the body and energetic work, if I’m just going to do this?”
Right there and then, I’d had enough.
I gave my mate my word of working 3 days with him, but then told him “I need to be doing what I’ve trained for”
Fast forward to Thursday, I’m at home, awaiting on Baby Mumma to have a shower, and doing a card reading before heading down to Camphill Coffee.
The thought “I wonder if i could do my mahi down at Leanne’s (Camphill Coffee)” runs through my head as i did my card reading.
We arrive at Camphill Coffee, to which there was a bit of a line up. I look across the yard of a place I’d been many times before, and spot this little shack.
I walk up and look through the windows, with nothing really going through my head as I look through, my legs just took me over there.
I walk back to the line, where I’m stood for not even 5 seconds, before I walk back to the room and look through the window again.
This time a thought runs through my mind.
“I could probably do treatments in there”
“But it’s pretty small though”
“Nah nah nah, it’s cosy”
I walk back to the line (which we were now at the front of) before Leanne asks me “Michael, what are you looking at that room for?”
I was not even half way through what I was saying, before Leanne cuts me off…
“Yep, you can have it”
Whaaaaatttt?
“Yep I’ve been waiting for the right thing to put in their and this is what I want”
Boom 💥
Many many thanks to Leanne for having me, giving me a start and helping me build myself up, and for the awesome space you’ve created.
I’ll be forever indebted to you for this 🙏🏽
And a massive thanks to everyone that has supported me over the past nearly 3 years ❤️
