Romiromi

Romiromi is a powerful healing modality originating from the centuries old Wānanga lore of traditional Māori healing. Romiromi utilises a natural approach to restoring wellness of the mind, body, spirit and emotional being.

Romiromi is a combination of pressure-point stimulation and deep-tissue massage, which works on releasing and removing harmful toxins that have built up in your body. Romiromi is translated to Ro - internal / Mi - to stimulate. We stimulate and agitate to help the body re-order itself, release energy that serve no purpose to a person's physical (tinana), spiritual (wairua), mauri (life force) and psychological (hinengaro) wellbeing.

The Romiromi practitioner facilitates the release of blocked cellular memory stored in the body and DNA. At a deep level it can release lifetimes of trauma and dysfunction held within families for generations causing imbalance and disease. 

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Romiromi healing bodywork is multi-layered combining ancient karakia (prayer), pressure on haemata points for the release of cellular blockages, body alignment and rebalancing of energy centres. Physically it works on the central nervous system and spiritually helps to balance mauri (life essence) with wairua (spirit). Romiromi can include mirimiri counselling and clearing of extraneous energy and burdens not serving you.

source: https://www.wikitoriamaorihealing.co.nz/traditional-romiromi-healing/

In conjunction with protective recitation (kaupare) and or ritual chant (takutaku) the practise of RomiRomi and MiriMiri is intuitive (uhumanea). Neutrality (remaining in whatumanawa) is maintained during the MiriMiri healing process to procure a state of calm, silencing conscious thoughts, aligning the individuals wairua and mauri (material symbol of a life principle).

Neither MiriMiri or RomiRomi is carried out without first clearing the healing space (whakawātea) utilising blessed sea water (wai tai/wai tapu) and progressing with a kaupare or prayer.

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Māori healing aims for the restoration of balance between four primary dimensions represented by the whare tapa whā (four walls of a house) model of well-being: the tinana (physical body), wairua (life force and spirit), hinengaro (thoughts and feelings), and whānau (kinship ties) (Durie 1988). All four dimensions are important to keep the ‘house’ upright and stable. If one dimension is lacking, a person becomes unbalanced and subsequently unwell. 

Durie (1998) further recognized that holistic wellness includes healthy connections with te taiāō (environment) and te ao hurihuri (social world). Understanding the interconnected kinship ties to forests, lakes, animals, and people affirms identity and belonging. In addition, research highlights the need for Indigenous communities to decolonize their historical narratives with the aim of alleviating inter-generational soul-wounding (Duran 2015), through pūrākau (story-telling) and mātauranga (Indigenous wisdom) (Edwards 2012).

Healing requires rebalancing the whare tapa wha at all four dimensions of being, with particular attention to spiritual recovery, reconnection, and reconciliation (Durie 1998).

After several sessions of nohopuku and meaningful conversations, whaiora organically come to a place within themselves of restored energy and enlightenment. At this point, they will share a light meal and sing tribal songs to acknowledge the end of their journey together in the healing context. This process, called poroaki (farewell) is a joyful celebration of new beginnings and rebalances the relationship back to whakanoa (from sacred to normal).

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