Intuitive Ritual: A Mana Wahine Sourcebook

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A beautiful and powerful piece of writing that conveys a deep connection to spirituality, nature, and the divine feminine. It has the potential to resonate with many people, particularly those interested in indigenous cultures and feminisms. The primary purpose of this book is to provide Mori and other Indigenous women with the tools and inspiration to create and deepen their own personal ritual practices. Extending the wisdom and traditions shared in her previous works Te Awa Atua: Menstruation in the Pre-colonial Maori world, Waiwhero: A celebration of womanhood and Ngahuias PhD research regarding the global resurgence and preservation of Indigenous womens ritual practices, this book offers a carefully curated collection of chants, poetry, meditations, writings, intuitive rituals and creative exercises.
The book aims to empower Maori and Indigenous women by providing resources and guidance to craft their own healing ritual practices. The book helps Indigenous women connect with their bodies as sacred, sovereign land and provides support and encouragement to assist whine to create their own practices for themselves and their whanau..
While the book is specifically targeted towards Mori and Indigenous women reclaiming their own cultural wealth, it also serves to inspire a wider audience who are learning about their own matrilineal knowledge, the divine feminine, decolonisation, social justice and the restoration of balance through the upliftment of women.
Through the practice of ritual, meditation, and creativity, the book encourages readers to nurture their well-being and develop a stronger relationship with themselves and the divine as an act of spiritual growth, for the betterment of the planet.

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Intuitive Ritual: A Mana Wahine Sourcebook is an act of love, service and legacy. Its an act of Revolution. A revolution isnt just slogans, flag flying and rhetoric. Its ears, eyes, minds and hearts. A full body experience. Intuitive Ritual A Mana Wahine Sourcebook is a full body experience. In Intuitive Ritual A Mana Wahine Sourcebook, Nghuia Murphy combines academic rigour with heart-centred, tpuna grounded practice and creativity and in doing so births a third space, where Indigenous scholarship exists equally alongside poetry and artistic endeavour.
Dr Maraea Rakuraku, playwright & poet.

"Intuitive Ritual A Mana Wahine Sourcebook is a deep, tender and revealing return to our sovereign selves. A reverent homecoming. A rekindling of whakapapa connections to our Atua whine. A scintillating, sensual suite of supreme mana wahine sacred practices. A portal to our Atua whine which serve as compasses from the past to the present allowing us to understand who we once were and empowering us to become who we are meant to be... I envisage every mana wahine will seek out, obtain and use the wisdoms of this taonga for generations to come."
Te Huamnuka Crown, Rise Global Collective.

"Page by page parts of myself became awakened... Intuitive Ritual he taonga oranga m rtou, m mtou, m ng khunahuna ... Ngahuia, I missed the guidance of your words during my transition from Khine to Wahine, but I am excited now for my transition from Wahine into Ruahine."
Maisey Rika, Singer, songwriter.

"E rere ana taku mihi ki tnei uri o Hinekura, ki tnei mokopuna a Tangiharuru, me kore ake koe Nghuia ka ngaro haere nei rongo ki ng whine, o nianei. Huge appreciation to this descendant of Hinekura, this mokopuna of Tangiharuru, without you Nghuia these healing practices for women of today's contemporary world would become more and more obscured."
Dr Hinemoa Elder.

Author Bio

Dr. Nghuia Murphy (Ngti Manawa, Ngi Tuhoe, Ngti Ruapani ki Waikaremoana, Ngti Kahungunu,Te Arawa) is an award winning scholar, author, artist and public speaker committed to reclaiming and reactivating Indigenous womens sacred knowledge and ritual practice. Her widely celebrated research work in Aotearoa New Zealand has been instrumental in reviving lost Mori menstruation rites of passage and womens ceremonies that were deliberately erased through patriarchal colonial processes. Her books Te Awa Atua: Menstruation in the Pre-colonial Mori world (based on her award winning Masters thesis) and Waiwhero: A celebration of womanhood continue to be wildly popular, inspiring a broad movement of reclamation concerning Mori womens ceremony. The books have inspired multiple art exhibitions, international and national theater works, a short film and documentaries on the revival of Mori matrilineal knowledge. Ngahuias publications have been distributed in all schools in Aotearoa New Zealand by The Ministry of Education recognising the empowering and transformative content.