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Moana Māori Healing

Community Health Service, Kaupapa Māori

Description

Moana Māori Healing is an ACC registered Rongoā Māori practitioner based in Kirikiriroa.

Moana founded Manaaki Therapies in 2014 and Moana Māori Healing in 2019.

A seasoned Māori healer who has been mentored since 2001 by her brother, Nephi Skipwith, (Tuhourangi/Ngāti Kahungunu/),  Atarangi Muru (Te Rarawa/Ngāti Kuri), the late Manu Korewha, (Hokianga), and is currently being mentored by Dr Charlotte Mildon (Ngat Kahungunu).

Moana specialises in romiromi/mirimiri and rongia rākau treatments.

Staff

Moana is an ACC registered rongoā māori practitioner.

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Services Provided

ACC Rongoā Māori

ACC Rongoā Māori ACC recognise rongoā Māori as a kaupapa Māori service. It's culturally grounded care that weaves tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori, te reo Māori, and te ao Māori through all aspects of the service. We respect that these aspects embrace ngā taonga tuku iho (intergenerational gifts and knowledge handed down from tupuna Māori). We see rongoā Māori in the wider context of traditional Māori healing methodologies. ACC don't consider healing techniques from non-Māori cultural traditions, such as reiki or hyperbaric oxygen treatment, part of rongoā Māori. Even if they're provided by rongoā Māori practitioners.

  • ACC registered rongoā Māori practitioner

ACC Rongoā Māori

ACC recognise rongoā Māori as a kaupapa Māori service. It's culturally grounded care that weaves tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori, te reo Māori, and te ao Māori through all aspects of the service. We respect that these aspects embrace ngā taonga tuku iho (intergenerational gifts and knowledge handed down from tupuna Māori). We see rongoā Māori in the wider context of traditional Māori healing methodologies.

ACC don't consider healing techniques from non-Māori cultural traditions, such as reiki or hyperbaric oxygen treatment, part of rongoā Māori. Even if they're provided by rongoā Māori practitioners.

Kaupapa Māori

Kaupapa Māori community and/or social support that is culturally appropriate for Māori, promote Mātauranga Māori, tikanga Māori, and whānau-centred models of care.

Kaupapa Māori community and/or social support that is culturally appropriate for Māori, promote Mātauranga Māori, tikanga Māori, and whānau-centred models of care.

Region

Waikato

Contact Details

This page was last updated at 11:10AM on April 9, 2025. This information is reviewed and edited by Moana Māori Healing.