Te Ao Māori has a concept called ahi kā. Ahi means fire and kā means burning. This concept explains how the presence of the iwi at home is critical for the vitality of the marae. When the iwi is on the marae, their fires are burning. Burning fires...

Matariki is being celebrated as a public holiday for the first time in 2022. Friday 24 June will be a national holiday. This new public holiday commemorates the traditional celebration of Matariki in Māori culture. The reappearance of Matariki in...

Mānuka honey is wonderfully healing and therapeutic for our skin with compounds which are a rich source of medicinal properties which do wonders for our skin. Antimicrobial property Firstly, mānuka honey is a rich source of an antibacterial compou...

The traditional medicinal system used by Māori in Aotearoa prior to European colonial contact to treat the sick and injured was called rongoā Maori. Rongoā Maori was a holistic approach to health that incorporated spiritual, psychological, physi...

What is rongoā? Rongoā is the traditional holistic Māori healing system, which often uses the medicinal properties of New Zealand native plants.Long before pharmaceuticals arrived in Aotearoa, Māori relied on native plant based remedies to keep th...

Kawakawa balm or kawakawa ointment is a very versatile product. Māori healers (tohunga) and medical practitioners (kairongoā) traditionally used the kawakawa plant from the bush for its proven healing properties in a wide range of treatments such ...