Tempo Festival Hauora Clinic
Tempo Festival’s Hauora Clinics offer a series of wellness sessions, each designed to support your physical and emotional wellbeing. These 20-minute one-on-one clinics with an experienced practitioner offer unique opportunities to connect with traditional healing practices and other holistic approaches.
Sessions with each practitioner are for 20mins. Please book in person via the blackboard in the Strand Arcade.
PIRIPI MORUNGA
Saturday 12 October and Sunday 13 October, 12.00 pm - 3.00 pm
// Strand Arcade, Shop 17 //
Book in person via the blackboard in the Arcade
Piripi Morunga (Ngāpuhi) is a Rongoā practitioner with more than 18 years’ experience in health and community education. Piripi practices romiromi and works extensively in Aotearoa. He trained under the guidance of Te Maurea - traditional Māori healing.
Piripi also works with whakairo and the performing and creative arts delivering Māori movement, taonga pūoro (Māori instruments/music/healing practices), taiaha (working with rākau/staff), and art wānanga and workshops. Piripi's recent work in collaboration with The Dance Studies Department at The University of Auckland, UNITEC, Ngā Waī a te Tūī Māori and Indigenous Research Centre has focused on indigenous perspectives on chronic pain, and the relationship between Uhi Moko and Romiromi.
ROSE TAPSELL
Rose is a movement artist, Fitness Trainer and Contact C.A.R.E practitioner aiming to support community wellbeing and regeneration through their work in group and one-to-one settings. Their experiences and training as a contemporary dancer and movement teacher informs the sensibility that they bring to their Contact C.A.R.E practice. They are passionate about helping clients create lasting transformations, building strength and vitality from the bones up.
KOMAKO SILVER
Sunday 13 October, 12.00 pm - 3.00 pm
// Strand Arcade, Shop 13 //
Book in person via the blackboard in the Arcade
Komako Silver is a creative artist and healer working in a wide range of practices including film, taonga puoro and hauora. Her journey with taonga puoro began through her family's connection to the land and their cultivation of hue (gourds). Her passion lies in highlighting lesser-known Māori ceremonial practices and exploring the healing properties of taonga pūoro. She seamlessly weaves her knowledge of tikanga and atuatanga into her practice, making her a unique and respected figure in the world of Māori music and healing. Komako also advocates for indigenous voices to be heard, using film and theatre as powerful mediums for storytelling.
Brydie Colquhoun
Saturday 12 October, 12.00 pm - 3.00 pm
// Strand Arcade, Shop 16 //
Book in person via the blackboard in the Arcade
A freelance creator who is from Ngāti Kawa, Ngāpuhi, Bridie grew up in Ahipara, ki reira tana ūkaipo. The moana feels like home and she was lucky to grow up in rural Aotearoa surrounded by the taiao.
Bridie graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance in 2012 and has loved navigating a life of movement and creation amongst the hapori hauora ki Aotearoa. Over the past year, Brydie has been learning the practice of Zenthai, a therapeutic combination of hands on yoga assisted movements, Thai massage and Chinese Medicine.
Brydie is passionate about accessibility and inclusivity in movement, physically, emotionally and spiritually. She loves leading yoga, meditation and movement wānanga and recently created a kaupapa of connection called Kind Contact, where communities get together to move, kōrero and share thoughts.
