Decolonise and undoing patriarchy, period.
2. Connecting with Nature
OUR FIRST MOTHER IS PAPATŪĀNUKU (MOTHER EARTH), OUR CONNECTION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT IS SACRED. Take time during your period to be in nature and mediate. Take a bush walk, sit on...
2. Connecting with Nature
OUR FIRST MOTHER IS PAPATŪĀNUKU (MOTHER EARTH), OUR CONNECTION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT IS SACRED. Take time during your period to be in nature and mediate. Take a bush walk, sit on...
3. Connecting through Ancestors
OUR TUPUNA DID NOT WORK DURING THEIR IKURA. Instead it was a time for rest and to learn arts such as karakia (prayer), crafts like weaving, waiata (songs) or whakapapa...
3. Connecting through Ancestors
OUR TUPUNA DID NOT WORK DURING THEIR IKURA. Instead it was a time for rest and to learn arts such as karakia (prayer), crafts like weaving, waiata (songs) or whakapapa...
4. The arrival of your first ikura
TE AWA ATUA, THE DIVINE RIVER For many of us, how we talk about our own period and what we learned when that day came, is so very different to...
4. The arrival of your first ikura
TE AWA ATUA, THE DIVINE RIVER For many of us, how we talk about our own period and what we learned when that day came, is so very different to...
5. Period ceremonies: a deep dive with Dr Ngahu...
PERIOD CEREMONIES, HOW TO START. Listen to On The Flow with Dr Ngahuia Murphy as she takes us through a deep dive into ikura ceremonies and traditions.
5. Period ceremonies: a deep dive with Dr Ngahu...
PERIOD CEREMONIES, HOW TO START. Listen to On The Flow with Dr Ngahuia Murphy as she takes us through a deep dive into ikura ceremonies and traditions.
6. Māori ikura traditions
MĀORI ATTITUDES TO PERIODS. Watch Michele talking with Leonie Hayden about how wahine Maori used to view their mate marama or ikura on the spinoff's On The Rag.
6. Māori ikura traditions
MĀORI ATTITUDES TO PERIODS. Watch Michele talking with Leonie Hayden about how wahine Maori used to view their mate marama or ikura on the spinoff's On The Rag.
12. Ceremonial return of your blood to the earth
CEREMONIAL RETURN OF WAIWHERO TO PAPATŪĀNUKU In a Maori world view, we are from the land and so everything belonging to our bodies are returned to the land. When we...
12. Ceremonial return of your blood to the earth
CEREMONIAL RETURN OF WAIWHERO TO PAPATŪĀNUKU In a Maori world view, we are from the land and so everything belonging to our bodies are returned to the land. When we...