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BIRTH AND DEATH RITUALS
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CLIMATE CRISIS RESPONSE
CONNECTED LIVING
EARTH CONSCIOUSNESS
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FEMININE LEADERSHIP
HOLISTIC HEALTH
INCLUSIVE HEALTHCARE
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
KAHU WHAKATERE RITUAL
MAATA WHAREHOKA
MANA AKI
MAORI MEDICINE
MAORI WISDOM
NONVIOLENT PROTEST
PARIHAKA STORY
SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
TRADITIONAL HEALING
TRAUMA HEALING
Product details
- ISBN 9798888500958
- Weight: 213g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Maori elder Maata Wharehoka’s teachings on birth, death, climate, and healing
• Reveals how Maata integrated her own experiences of trauma and colonialism with traditional Māori wisdom to develop modern teachings
• Shares Māori practices around birth, death, and healing, and Maata’s ritual of Kahu Whakatere to embrace bereavement, transition, and loss
• Tells the story of Parihaka, the birthplace of nonviolent protest, and how its teachings speak to humanity today
Entering the Māori worldview is like stepping into a verdant landscape where humans and plants, animals, the land, rain, and mountains are united. This may sound like a step into a distant past, but it is the model of living that matriarch Maata Wharehoka has been sustaining her entire life in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
The Māori word manaaki means to protect, to show respect, and to take care. This is the essence of Maata Wharehoka’s wisdom. Transmitting Maata’s wisdom to the world is the task Stephanie Mines set for herself as she shares in this book Maata’s pioneering efforts in healthcare, parenting, and social justice as well as her interpretations of traditional Māori teachings. Stephanie reveals how Maata used her experiences of trauma and colonialism, along with generational Indigenous wisdom, to develop teachings for our times. Readers will learn Maata’s Māori practices around healing, death and dying, and relationship to elders as well as her views on the sanctity of birthing, parenting, kuiatanga (the way of the kuia, or women elders), inclusive healthcare, and the Earth. Maata’s practice of Kahu Whakatere—a ritual to embrace bereavement, transition, and loss—shows how death can be a peacemaker and unifier. And lastly Stephanie lets us see and understand the Māori view of the climate crisis and how to address it with nature-informed consciousness.
With reflective exercises that share the hard-won wisdom of an elder, this book allows Maata’s spirit of manaaki—protection, respect, and care—to reach beyond Aotearoa to the world.
• Reveals how Maata integrated her own experiences of trauma and colonialism with traditional Māori wisdom to develop modern teachings
• Shares Māori practices around birth, death, and healing, and Maata’s ritual of Kahu Whakatere to embrace bereavement, transition, and loss
• Tells the story of Parihaka, the birthplace of nonviolent protest, and how its teachings speak to humanity today
Entering the Māori worldview is like stepping into a verdant landscape where humans and plants, animals, the land, rain, and mountains are united. This may sound like a step into a distant past, but it is the model of living that matriarch Maata Wharehoka has been sustaining her entire life in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
The Māori word manaaki means to protect, to show respect, and to take care. This is the essence of Maata Wharehoka’s wisdom. Transmitting Maata’s wisdom to the world is the task Stephanie Mines set for herself as she shares in this book Maata’s pioneering efforts in healthcare, parenting, and social justice as well as her interpretations of traditional Māori teachings. Stephanie reveals how Maata used her experiences of trauma and colonialism, along with generational Indigenous wisdom, to develop teachings for our times. Readers will learn Maata’s Māori practices around healing, death and dying, and relationship to elders as well as her views on the sanctity of birthing, parenting, kuiatanga (the way of the kuia, or women elders), inclusive healthcare, and the Earth. Maata’s practice of Kahu Whakatere—a ritual to embrace bereavement, transition, and loss—shows how death can be a peacemaker and unifier. And lastly Stephanie lets us see and understand the Māori view of the climate crisis and how to address it with nature-informed consciousness.
With reflective exercises that share the hard-won wisdom of an elder, this book allows Maata’s spirit of manaaki—protection, respect, and care—to reach beyond Aotearoa to the world.
Stephanie Mines, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in neuropsychology at the Union Institute. She is the author of six books, including The Secret of Resilience, that reflect more than three decades of research as a neuro-scientist, embryologist, and climate activist. She is the founder of The TARA Approach, a nonprofit dedicated to providing sustainable health options to individuals and communities, and the founder of Climate Change and Consciousness, a global network to accelerate regenerative responses to the climate crisis.
