Ruhia will provide an introduction to how to move energy to help with healing, using a quick and easy routine that takes just a few minutes every day to build your immune system, give you energy, make you feel younger, and relieves pain. In five to seven minutes every day, you too can establish positive “energy habits” in your body which strengthens your immune systems and help you navigate through the stresses we all face today.

Kelly is a business owner of Kete Ora Plants. Her presentation will focus on how healing the whenua can help also with emotional and mental healing through Horticulture Therapy. She believes that although it has a ‘modern-day’ title now, Horticultural Therapy was practised by our tipuna. She shares a personal view and experience on horticulture therapy and how healing one’s hauora wairua (Spiritual Health) and hauora hinengaro (Mental Health) through horticulture, can help re-connect to oneself and nature to help through everyday stresses.

What systems of ‘oranga’ were utilised by our tupuna to maintain optimum health and wellbeing and why would these become important for the realisation of individual and collective health and wellbeing potential today? While the health reality and poor status of Māori has been well researched from scientific and clinical perspectives, harshly publicised by media and used dramatically for political positioning by Maori and non-Maori alike, there are very little Hapū and Iwi centric responses by, from, for, or as Māori for the improvement of Maori health and wellbeing.

This presentation is an insight and discourse into a group of elderly venerable people over the age of sixty-five years. Primarily they exercise, have fun and engage in a variety of social and community activities. Many come from a diverse range of backgrounds, race and social stratification. The group objective is to attain a fit and healthy disposition, enjoy the activities have fun and be happy. These objectives and activities come under the mantle of cultro-linguistic alignment.

In order to develop her knowledge of Te Reo Māori Haani moved to Farifield College to study under Erana Coulter and Te Ururoa Flavell. From there she went to the University of Waikato and gained her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Māori and her Masters of Māori and Pacific Development, being the first student to do so. While tutoring in the Māori Department she also worked as a travel agent at Student Travel Association on the University of Waikato Campus.