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We would like to thank and acknowledge the people and organisations who share our vision to ensure Rongoa Māori and this Mātauranga is accessible for all.
NZ Doctor Rata Aotearoa | 19 June 2025
Integration of Māori healing and mainstream healthcare delivers social impact
Te Arateatea Trust is successfully bridging traditional Māori healing practices with mainstream healthcare, offering an inclusive, holistic health service, particularly for expectant and new mothers.
Rātā Foundation | 27 March 2025
Rātā Foundation Faces of Funding - Te Arateatea Trust
Hear from founder Ruatau Perez, along with clinic practitioner Danielle and Juliette a Māmā/Hapūtanga client explain what Te Arateatea offer. Including how funding from the Rātā Foundation has contributed to making services more accessible.
Metro News | 2 June 2023
Healing with hands
Traditional Māori healing is proving so popular, those providing the treatment have had to find a bigger premises. It involves healing with hands to reduce stress, anxiety and much more. Halle Taite-Pitama from Metro News visits the Te Arateatea Whare Hauora to learn more.
ACC Newsroom | 29 April 2022
Rongoā Māori practitioner hopes traditional healing system becomes mainstream
Ruatau Perez is a rongoā Māori practitioner in Canterbury. While ACC offers the traditional healing system as a treatment option, Perez wants to see it become a more mainstream option among New Zealanders.
Seven Sharp | 26 April 2022
The resurgence of Rongoā Māori healing
Traditional Māori healing was suppressed for 60 years, now there's a nationwide resurgence. Seven Sharp reporter Jendy Harper visited the Te Arateatea Community Clinic to learn more.
Te Pütahitanga o Te Waipounamu | 15 April 2021
Te Arateatea – a different approach to health and wellbeing
Ruatau Perez and Hannah Livingston have been introducing whānau to the philosophies and practices of traditional Māori healing for over twenty years but they never tire of seeing their wānanga participants reconnect to their culture and customs.
RNZ | 13 August 2019
Gang turns to traditional Māori practice to better mental health
A Hawke's Bay gang is using the ancient Māori tradition of massage and healing to help recover from a spate of suicides and prevent further deaths.
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View the Te Ara Teatea seasonal panui/newsletters below.
December 2024
Raumati/Summer
A powerful and transformative time in Aotearoa and across the globe, as we support Hīkoi mō te Tiriti, we witness the shifts in power and political structures, and we acknowledge the enduring loss caused by conflict and war. Now more than ever we need to unite in aroha, in kotahitanga - in unity and solidarity. Both collectively for the external reality but also individually and internally within the microcosm of our own being.....
September 2024
Takurua/Winter
At Te Ara Teatea we were riding the ebbs and flows this Takurua Winter. We have had beautiful waananga and connections over Matariki and we have also weathered personal days of whiro and inward reflections for the future. Sometimes holding fast in the turbulent waters can feel really hard and overwhelming until the calm waters of karamu flow again.....