Te Whare Tapa Whā is a model of hauora (health and wellbeing) developed by psychiatrist Professor Sir Mason Durie in 1984.   The model conceives of hauora in terms of a whare. A whare has whā tapa (four walls). Unless all four walls are strong, th...

Ngāhuru on the farm In the Maramataka, Ngāhuru (Autumn) marks the season of harvest and preparation. At Aotea, skincare doesn’t begin in a lab. It begins with our hands in the soil. As we clear the nor...

In https://aoteahealth.com/blogs/journal/the-intersection-of-land-whakapapa-and-purakau we discussed the origins of Māori place names. A culturally significant story lies behind the Māori name for Mount Maunganui, the extinct volcanic cone that st...

Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed on nine separate sheets by roughly 500 Māori rangatira in many different locations throughout Aotearoa New Zealand during the year 1840.The first sheet to be signed was the Waitangi Sheet, at Waitangi, on 6 Februar...

Prior to European contact, Māori in Aotearoa practised a traditional medicinal system known as rongoā Māori. Rongoā Māori was a holistic approach to health, addressing spiritual, psychological, physical, and whānau (family)...

From Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) all the way to Cape Reinga, the northern reaches of Aotearoa unfold as a beautiful cavalcade of bays, beaches, and harbours. There are two main routes heading north from Tāmaki. One cr...