Rotorua Winter Retreats/Workshops/Guided Tours

Due to demand there is another season of Maori healing and traditional massage workshops (Rotorua and Melbourne) at Lakeside Retreat, Rotorua and Camberwell Health and Healing Centre, Melbourne. The Rotorua June Romiromi workshop will be facilitated by Wikitoria and her apprentice Timoti Bramley followed by A Woman’s Retreat – A Matariki Wahine Retreat to honour [...]

Matariki and Romiromi

May 19, 2013 Romiromi Massage

Always an exciting and auspicious time as we approach the Maori New Year of Matariki marked by the appearance of the Matariki constellation (Pleiades), above the north east horizon late May and the new moon following. Depending on the tribe and star one belongs too, Matariki is celebrated during June and July. Maori remember the [...]

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Maori Hawaiian exchange in Rotorua

April 18, 2013 Maori Healing Workshops

Students travelled from Poland, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Australia and Hawaii to participate in a Hawaiian Lomilomi massage workshop and a Maori Romiromi healing and massage workshop to continue the global demand for authentic, traditional and indigenous healing bodywork practices. For the second time Haunani Hopkins from Hawaii was hosted by Wikitoria Maori Healing in their [...]

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Wahine-Toa Three Hearts Hauora Workshop

April 18, 2013 Three Hearts Hauora Workshop

Venue : RAVE-Rotorua Community Arts Village Facilitators: Wiki Oman, Lily Eden Sponsored by Rotorua Creative Communities Date: 16-17 February, 2013 Wahine-Toa Three Hearts Hauora Workshop was the first holistic wellbeing workshop offered for teenage girls in Rotorua initiated by Wikitoria Maori Healing. With a small group of young Rotorua women aged between twelve and seventeen [...]

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Maori Massage Workshops 2013 – Busy Calendar

February 11, 2013 Maori Healing Workshops

A busy calendar ahead for traditional Maori Massage and Healing. On February 16-17 Wiki facilitates her second much loved Kotiro Workshop-’Wahine-Toa 3 Hearts Hauora’ Workshop for young Rotorua women at RAVE community village. Her aim is to empower and inspire and educate young women in her Te Arawa rohe to sew the seeds for future [...]

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Wahine Toa Three Hearts Hauora Workshop

January 4, 2013 Maori Healing Workshops

Wikitoria Maori Healing is facilitating a two day health and wellbeing workshop for young Rotorua women ages 13 – 17 years, February 15th-16th, 2013 at RAVE Community Arts Village and sponsored by Creative Communities NZ Rotorua Scheme. This project is based on the traditional Maori healing arts originating from the three baskets of knowledge. It [...]

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Maori Healing Seminar at Arataki Visitor Centre, Auckland

November 30, 2012 Maori Healing Seminar

Wikitoria Maori Healing gave a presentation to ten German medical doctors interested in the indigenous healing and medicine practices of the South Pacific. The group were welcomed with a traditional whakatau (greeting) before Wikitoria delivered an informative seminar that included an overview and origins of traditional Maori healing, Dis-ease (why we get unwell), Maori concepts [...]

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RONGOA Maori – Traditional Maori medicine

October 7, 2012 Traditional Maori Medicine

I had the great privilege of spending a weekend on one of Pa Ropata’s Rongoa Waananga in an area called Whare Tangata, Bay of Plenty. Our group of twenty-four climbed through pristine bush on Maori land especially preserved for the perpetuation of Rongoa. Before Aotearoa (NZ) was colonised, the ngahere (bush) was our main food [...]

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Rotorua Daily Post – Article – Wikitoria Maori Healing

September 18, 2012 Traditional Maori Healing Clinic

An article about Wikitoria Maori Healing was recently posted by The Rotorua Daily Post. It explains a lot about Wiki’s Maori Healing clinic and also her Rotorua massage practice. Here is an excerpt: Getting mind, body and spirit in balance Sonya Bateson | Tuesday, September 18, 2012 “Ms Oman says romiromi works on the central [...]

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The Revival Of Romiromi – Traditional Maori Healing

July 23, 2012 Romiromi Massage

perpetuating the indigenous healing arts Romiromi, an holistic healing bodywork derives from the ancient Waananga Lore of Traditional Maori Healing. This body of knowledge has been passed down through families and tohunga with tribal variations. Throughout the Pacific, similar bodywork exists, for example Cook Island Romiromi and Hawaiian Lomilomi, however New Zealand Maori retained a [...]

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New Location for Rotorua Lakeside Retreat

July 13, 2012 Massage Therapy

From July 15, 2012 Wikitoria Maori Healing will be located at lovely lake edge property at Ngongotaha. Wiki has chosen this location to provide a more central service for the growing demand of Romiromi, traditional Maori healing and massage. The Retreat looks out over Lake Rotorua to Mokoia Island where Wiki’s great great great grandmother [...]

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What is Romiromi Massage?

June 27, 2012 Massage Therapy

Traditional Maori healing is centuries old and has been passed down from generation to generation in the form of Romiromi bodywork (traditional Maori massage supported by ancient Waananga Lore, a body of knowledge based on universal principles). Romiromi is Body, Mind and Spirit Structural Integration. Romiromi massage is a holistic practice working safely in the [...]

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Rotorua Traditional Maori Healing Clinic

April 8, 2012 Traditional Maori Healing Clinic

Rotorua Traditional Maori Healing Clinic, Waananga and Rangatahi Programs at Local Marae. Wikitoria Maori Healing opened a traditional Maori Healing Clinic at Te Roro o Te Rangi Marae, Ohinemutu Village on Monday 30th April, 6pm-9pm – and Monday May 28th 6pm to 9pm. This is a continuing service for the local community and visitors to [...]

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Traditional Maori Massage & Healing in Australia

March 14, 2012 Maori Healing Workshops

Traditional Maori Massage and Healing in Australia Queensland-May | Sydney-June | Melbourne-July Wikitoria Oman of Wikitoria Maori Healing is returning to Australia to facilitate three intensive Romiromi Workshops over the next few months. In Kuranda – Queensland and Kiribilli – Sydney The workshops are three day intensive and include: Haputanga (pregnancy massage), fertility and an [...]

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Waiheke Island Romiromi / Mirimiri Workshop 2012

January 6, 2012 Maori Healing Workshops

Traditional Maori Romiromi massage is a fast and effective modality to release blocked energy (tension) you are storing… giving your body, mind and soul more space and freedom, replacing with vitality and flowing positive energy… mmm… sound good? Another unique gift our ancient body therapy offers is a path to shifting your wairua( spirit) and [...]

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What To Do In Rotorua

January 2, 2012 Rotorua Attractions

Visitors to Rotorua can experience a Maori cultural show, have a thermal bath in the geothermal pools and experience a unique traditional Rotorua massage! For hundreds of years people have come to bathe in the Rotorua healing waters and for centuries Maori have had their own holistic healing bodywork known as Romiromi highly recommended as [...]

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Island Massage – Gulf Islands – Waiheke Island – Great Barrier Island

December 22, 2011 Maori Healing Workshops

Returning to the Gulf Islands this summer. Must be in the blood. I lived on Rakiura (Stewart Island) for a year when I was a teenager and Waiheke Island more recently. We have a whanau (family) home on Aotea (Great Barrier Island) at Whangaparapara, so I will be available for traditional Romiromi massage and healing [...]

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Rotorua Massage – Traditional Romiromi Massage

December 12, 2011 What To Do In Rotorua

What To Do In Rotorua Thinking of coming to Rotorua for a holiday weekend? Want to experience something that will be life–changing? Do you want to experience something new and dynamic? Are you ready to face your fears? Well, in Rotorua you can have a not-widely-available ‘traditional Maori Massage’ called Romiromi; an ancient indigenous massage [...]

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Rotorua Holistic Healing On The Marae

December 5, 2011 Maori Healing Workshops

After ten popular traditional Romiromi massage workshops in 2011; in Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia I am very excited to confirm a workshop next year in January 2012, at Te Roro o Te Rangi Marae, named after one of our Ngati Whakaue tupuna (ancestors). The oldest and smallest marae at Ohinemutu village, Rotorua, will be [...]

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Rotorua Couples Massage and Accommodation

November 30, 2011 Rotorua Massage Traditional Maori Healing New Zealand

After much demand Lakeside Wellness Retreat now offers Rotorua Couples Massage. For accommodation, I recommend our friend Stewart’s place not far from our Retreat, listed under the ‘BookaBatch’ website…..you will find his stylish and affordable modern batch with a state of the art kitchen overlooking Lake Rotoiti – listed under ‘Cosy for Couples’. Gorgeous! Shayne [...]

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