This is a transformational kaupapa. It has helped me become 100% authentically myself. When you give yourself permission to go deep and do the mahi, you become filled with wairua. That is the gift this work gives you permission to be fully, completely,
unapologetically yourself.
Te Rau Aroha Alignment™ Graduate | Te Tai Tokerau
This experience has strengthened my trust in my matakite and affirmed that what I feel is tika and pono. The space Marama has created allows that knowing to be amplified and magnetised. Deepening my self-trust has confirmed for me that what is being spoken is the truth and that I can trust myself to hold it.
Te Rau Aroha Alignment™ Graduate | Te Tai Tokerau
Te Rau Aroha Alignment has been a beautiful journey. I have felt so much love, connection with the rākau, and a deep sense of peace throughout. I leave feeling lighter and more connected to myself, to the medicine, and to the wāhine who walked this path alongside me.
Te Rau Aroha Alignment™ Graduate| Te Tai Tokerau
This course has transformed me by helping me reclaim my mana and reconnect with the
centre within myself that I had been searching for, for a very long time. It has given me the ability to be unapologetically myself — without having to fit into anyone else's shoes. That is not a small thing. For many of us, it is everything.
Te Rau Aroha Alignment™ Graduate | Te Tai Tokerau
This has been an experience of a lifetime. I am so grateful to be part of the rōpū and this retreat. I have felt so much aroha from the wāhine, who encouraged me to let go, stop overthinking, and follow my wairua journey. Being held in that way — by the kaupapa, by Marama, and by the sisterhood — is something I will carry forever.
Te Rau Aroha Alignment™ Graduate | Heretaunga
This is my second time taking this course. I returned wanting to go deeper within myself and explore the things I was still working through. It has been a powerful journey of personal development — stepping out of my comfort zone and accepting who I truly am. I have been able to go deep into my trauma, recognise it, accept it, let it go, and grow from it. Each time I enter this kaupapa, I leave more whole.
Te Rau Aroha Alignment™ Graduate | Returning Tauira | Te Tai Tokerau
This whole experience has been life-changing. Being able to express myself authentically, be held, and share my tears has brought about so much change within me. I have noticed how my voice has opened while being supported by like-minded women. Working with kawakawa and learning how sacred she is felt like it activated something within me — we do
not truly understand her potency until we come into spaces like this and learn. I feel as though I have been rebirthed into a whole new chapter of my life.
Te Rau Aroha Alignment™ Graduate | Te Tai Tokerau
This has been a deeply heart-opening experience. I feel more confident to mahi with kawakawa and connect with her mauri while working with others. Giving and receiving messages from kawakawa has been beautiful. Being on this journey with other wāhine Māori, supported by healers and seers walking the same path, has been such a powerful experience. I feel grateful — in the deepest sense of that word — to be held in this space.
Te Rau Aroha Alignment™ Graduate | Te Tai Tokerau
This has been an amazing transformation for me. I have been able to work through all areas of my life, right back to the time of my conception. Learning to tap into my matakite and spiritual gifts has been powerful. I feel able to be my authentic self, surrounded by sisters in a safe learning environment — held, seen, and supported every step of the way.
Te Rau Aroha Alignment™ Graduate | Waikato
