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The Essence of Maori Healing and Wānanga
IRAĀIO: Honouring Tradition Through Holistic Healing and Education
With a focus on inner identity, IRA AIO is dedicated to sharing ancient healing traditions and fostering a profound understanding of traditional practices.
Our Journey in Healing
Founded by passionate Māori, our story is rooted in a need to share the transformative powers of traditional Maori healing with the world. We are committed to preserving and promoting Māori practices that resonate with cultural and spiritual significance to all people throughout the world.
To provide quality instruction in the traditional Māori art of healing. By healing the individual, we heal the family, reconnecting with our traditions to enhance the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of the community.
Our Mission
Our Mission
To provide quality instruction in the traditional Māori art of healing. By healing the individual, we heal the family, reconnecting with our traditions to enhance the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of the community.
To be a leading institution of Māori healing and empowerment, inspiring individuals, families, and the wider community to embrace ancient practices that connect them to their heritage and promote overall well-being. Our Legacy
Our Vision
Milestones in Our Journey
Founding Year
IRA ĀIO established by our whānau, dedicated to preserving traditional healing practices and imparting knowledge to future generations.
First Workshop
Held our first workshop, bringing together family eager to learn the art of traditional Māori healing through reo kohatu and vibration.
Moving on
IRA ĀIO was placed on pause when we moved to Australia to pursue new opportunities. During this time, Pani followed another long-held passion and stepped into the ICT space, allowing both of us to grow in different yet complementary ways.
First Steps Toward Re-Opening
In 2013, we attended a wānanga led by Ruatau Perez, hosted at the home of Tū and Ify Duley. This experience was pivotal for us. It reawakened ancient knowledge while also introducing expanded ways of being and thinking, helping us reconnect with the deeper purpose of our work.
Aroā Tinana Wānanga
In 2016, IRA ĀIO, under Te Whare Porotiti o Ngāti Pāhauwera and Native Soul Healing, opened its doors to the Brisbane community. We hosted an Aroā Tinana wānanga, marking our return to facilitating spaces for healing, learning, and embodied wellbeing.
IRA ĀIO - Time to Transcend
In 2024, we recognised that the time was right to close Native Soul Healing and move forward solely as IRA ĀIO. This decision reaffirmed our commitment to transcendent change, empowerment, and holistic wellbeing, and allowed us to fully align our work with the vision that has always guided us.
IRAĀIO
Within a sacred space of learning and remembrance, we return to the power of karakia — to call upon our whakapapa, to honour the presence of the atua, and to acknowledge IO as the source from which all flows. Our wānanga are a pathway of reconnection, where each participant is supported to reclaim and live their own divine essence.
Through te mahi — the sacred work — we move with intention, activating our whatumanawa, pūmanawa, and manawa. This is not about striving, but about remembering. About standing in our birthright of connection — to wairua, to whenua, to ngā rangi tūhāhā — and carrying that awareness into the way we live.
At IRAAIO, each wānanga is a return. A return to mauri. A return to whakapapa. A return to being. To be! Through karakia, pure, tohi, and the sacred rituals of our tīpuna, we embody the wisdom passed down through generations. This is not something we learn — it is something we remember