Rongo Ora

13/12/2025

This is the kawakawa looper 🐛💚

When the leaves are fed on by the caterpillar it changes the chemical make up, increasing the potency of the Kawakawa leaf. It will naturally try to heal itself so will send its kaha out to the leaves to heal which increases the potency.

I see the caterpillars around a lot but not really the adult moth as they camouflage into the leaves on the forest floor. Pretty special little looper. I thought they only chewed on kawakawa but recent reading has said they can be found on the ake ake and horopito.

They eventually turn into a brownish moth.

10/12/2025

08/12/2025

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05/12/2025

🥳 yay

Made it through 2 weeks of wānanga

Te Rongopae 2025, kaumatua day 🙌

03/12/2025

Romiromi ✨
Whanau 💜 Whenua 🌱
Connection ✨
Teenagers 💚

This one came back to Aotearoa with a sore back and a cluttered hinengaro. Been away too long and disconnected.

She got on the table to get some bodywork done, she’s not new to the mahi, she was alongside me in wānanga in her childhood.

She’s 15 and she did well on the table. She was out of alignment and had been for sometime. It was affecting the hinengaro. It went deep at some points and it was mamae but she was solid as.

I observed, I didn’t participate in her Romiromi. They asked her about the pressure and shes says my mum is worse, its fine 😂

When she got up she said she felt like crying, I told her that it’s ok to cry and to allow it, if you ever feel that emotion when you’re on the table - let it out. Later that day, I picked her up and she says to me ‘ I feel good after today mum, like real good’ she looked different too. Lighter, happier and walking straighter.

I see the benefits of this mahi so much, encourage our rangatahi, kuia, kaumātua and all our whanau to get the mahi done. If theres a community clinic on, go and get in there.

It’s not just about the tinana, it’s so much more than that.

❤️💚💜

02/12/2025

01/12/2025

At the Whare Rongoā with Jo bro

30/11/2025

Te Rongopae 2025.

I’m a tauira on this wā and it’s been awesome. Learning never ends and i must say its been humbling 😂

Been big support from mahi and above☝️ Ngāmihi nui ki a koutou.

25/11/2025

✨ Grateful

My mahi has supported me in attending Te Rongopae in Ahipara this year and damn I’m grateful as 🙏

I knew this would be good but it’s more than I could have imagined and we’re only on day 2. We still have like 9 or 10 days to go.

I’ve already taken in heaps and my main lesson so far is just to really slow things down, listen and breathe.

❤️