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MANAHAU EMBODIED MOVEMENT 

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  • PERSONAL PRACTICE ~ KO AU TĒNEI
    Multiple Dates
    Fri, 02 Jun
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    02 Jun, 6:30 am – 7:30 am
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    Dedicated to shortening the distance between all parts of you.
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  • SUNDAY MORNING DANCE
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    Sun, 04 Jun
    Te Whaea School of Dance and Drama
    04 Jun, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Te Whaea School of Dance and Drama, 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington 6021, New Zealand
    Our regular drop in Sunday Morning Dance FEAST! For all movers, all genders, all bodies ~ Yes my friend that means you x
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  • THE CENTRE WILL HOLD ~ ART IN MOTION
    05 Jun, 7:00 pm – 26 Jun, 8:30 pm
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    The Atlas of the Heart - Brene Brown's book on Emotional Intelligence is our Guide. Five weeks for this round - ONGOING 05.05.23 - 26.05.23 ONLINE Chapter - The Places We Go When Things Aren't What They Seem; Amusement, Bittersweetness, Nostalgia, Cognitive Dissonance, Paradox, Irony, Sarcasm.
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  • Tuia te Muka Tangata ~ Thursday Night Ongoing
    Multiple Dates
    Thu, 15 Jun
    St Peters Hall
    15 Jun, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
    St Peters Hall, Beach Road, Paekākāriki 5034, New Zealand
    Fortnightly in Paekākāriki we gather together to deepen our practice for this term. Committed Group.
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  • ECSTATIC DANCE
    Multiple Dates
    Fri, 30 Jun
    Te Whaea School of Dance and Drama
    30 Jun, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
    Te Whaea School of Dance and Drama, 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington 6021, New Zealand
    They say we come to dance to lose ourselves, I say we come to BE ourselves in the trueness of our expression!
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  • MATARIKI WĀNANGA - TAI TIMU TAI PARI
    07 Jul, 6:30 pm – 09 Jul, 4:00 pm
    Paekākāriki, 98 The Parade, Paekākāriki 5034, New Zealand
    Presence at the changing of the tide, into the depths of winter we go.
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"Dancing in Kaia's dance space is the very best medicine anyone could offer me. Medicine for my soul. The opportunity for me to really connect with who I truly am and come home to myself. To simply be my true, authentic self in a space free of judgement"

Lynne Long

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MANAHAU EMBODIED MOVEMENT

Manahau Embodied Movement is the meeting of Te Ao Måori, Open Floor Movement Practice, Rongoa Toi and Ringa toi practices.

Manahau Embodied Movement has been born out of the five years of teaching Open Floor Movement Curriculum with Måori tikanga, kaupapa, and Måori world views | Te Ao Måori.  The tipping point came when teaching at Te Papa National Museum of Aotearoa for the first Indigenous Public holiday MATARIKI 2022. So began Manahau Embodied Movement. 

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Manahau Movement kaupapa is to create Indigenized dance floors/movement spaces, so we can decondition ourselves and stand with our MANA MOTUHAKE - self-sovereignty,

Mana Tangata, Mana Atua, Mana Whenua.   

The Five Pou of Manahau Embodied Movement.

Manawa | Rongoa | Hau tu a Rongo | Ahua | Ringa toi |

Open Floor is a resourcing type of DANCE where people come together to express themselves through MOVEMENT, CREATIVITY, MUSIC & COMMUNITY... BUT NOT IN A CHOREOGRAPHED WAY!!

At Manahau Movement we encourage you to listen to your body with your body Whakarongo, Whaka.Rongo. Only you can do you and that amazing body brain you have, will do the rest. 

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KO WAI AU

Ko Kaia Hawkins toku ingoa

Ko Ngāti Pahauwera, Ko Ngāti Kahungunu, Ko Ngā Ruahine oku Iwi.

I whakapapa to the East Coast and the West Coast of Aotearoa, I grew up in Poneke and Porirua. My first love was dance, and then life lead me to become a martial Artist in my formative years. I rediscovered the power of movement and dance in clubs and at festivals in Europe at which time I was a bodyworker/massage therapist.

With my Scottish and English whakapapa I began sitting in circles with the witches they didn't burn,

discovering more about the cycles of my feminine self and our world.

When I returned to Aotearoa I began a journey of healing, it lead me on many paths and adventures including that of 'the process' of decolonizing my mind, and my body. These paths are what I fill up my tool kit/my kete with and the accumulation all of this and more, is how I teach. 

I am Ringa Toi, Māmā, magical soundscape creator, a weaver of music and humans, a neurodiverse human being, and a powerful space holder. The space I create on my dance floor brings a grounded spirituality. It is a brave space an indigenized space, a space of empowerment, and radical self-responsibility.

I play phat beats and melodies that call you home to yourself again and again and I fucken love it!

Come join in. It is revolutionary. 

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