Deep listening is about practicing receiving, of opening yourself to the experience and wisdom’s of your own body, of your tupuna, and the living world around you.
Deep listening is about practicing receiving, of opening yourself to the experience and wisdom’s of your own body, of your tupuna, and the living world around you.
Mauri Tau is more than a practice—it’s a journey of returning within to resource your systems and restore your mauri (lifeforce)
Movement is life and the body is like our antenna receiving and transmitting and creating our experiences generated through movement; from our cells, our blood, our breath to our whole body running, jumping, swimming and dancing. Mauri Tau offers a range of gentle, intentional guided movement practices to release tensions and to settle your nervous system into rest and help you feel at ease in your own skin. It is a way of gently catching up with yourself not just mentally but physically, authentically connecting and resourcing yourself to navigate life’s challenges.
What Does Mauri Tau Mean?
Mauri Tau transliterates to "settled life force." implying being in a state of inner ease with a calm inner vitality balancing you with your world.
How Does Mauri Tau Work?
Mauri Tau practices are centered on movement, breath, and listening through the body’s information provided through the sensations in the experience of connection. By tuning into your body’s intelligence and natural rhythms and moving with them, you can shift from states of stress or exhaustion to ease and restoration.
Is Mauri Tau For Me?
Mauri Tau practices can be helpful for anyone on their hauora journey. Whether you’re seeking relief from hypertension and stress, anxiety and depression or wanting to restore yourself from burnout, and enhance your mental health Mauri Tau practices can improve your moods, enhance your creativity, or simply bring you to feel more at peace, Mauri Tau offers accessible practices for all stages of life.
About your Kaiako
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Cathy’s journey began with a deep call from her tupuna (ancestors) to reconnect with the old ways. Moving to Aotearoa as a young adult, she immersed herself in learning about her whakapapa and traditional Māori practices.
Combining her extensive background in performing arts, somatics practices and body-based therapies, Cathy developed Mauri Tau as a way to support her own hauora initially after becoming a māmā for the first time.
She then shared what she was doing with a whole range of others and became inspired by the majority of participants feeding back how, after they actually gave it a go, they felt how much it had real benefits for them; it left them feeling good, feeling lighter and less tense, and they felt energised but relaxed. It also gave them insight into their own personal journey to well-being.
Some were surprised to discover that movement can be so transformative, and that moving in different ways has different effects that we can apply to our own bodies to regulate and manage our own systems, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually compassionately and creatively with ease.
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Mauri Tau practices have been facilitated in community, corporate and education settings nationally and internationally and shared in:
hauora and wellbeing workshops, programmes and retreats,
mental health programmes,
creative arts workshops, programmes and retreats,
leadership programmes
therapeutic, trauma-informed sessions and group therapy
tertiary education programmes
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Cathy’s career spans 25 years in performing arts, somatic practices, and body-based therapies, including massage, yoga, pilates, and Rongoā Māori.
Cathy has also taught and facilitated for 25 years in tertiary education, corporate and professional arts as well as diverse community spaces.
Cathy has experience in diverse roles including Producing, Directing, Project Lead and Project Management and Programme Design and Delivery as well as being happy to pick up a tea towel or cut the veggies.
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Her own path of healing has been both bitter and sweet, teaching her the value of resilience, humility, and deep listening.
Cathy’s work is inspired from growing her relationships and wānaka with our Hine Atua. Beginning with Hine Ahu One, who provided the first practice, Mauri Tau practices have organically evolved and developed over the past 10 years as different Hine Atua came into wānaka with me.
All alongside the rest of my life experiences shaping me through this time, Mauri Tau has been the rokoā that my body needed that steadied and supported me forward and through life with. These practices gave my body a voice and a way to process Te Ao Māori and all the teachings I was receiving in different wānaka into a felt understanding, in my body, not just in my thoughts. At the same time it also provided practical ways to ground myself, to manage, to heal, to restore myself a tinana, a hinekaro, a wairua.
I have learnt that we are our own greatest teachers and our biggest lessons to learn about, if we can take the time to listen!
Mauri Tau is informed by pūrakau (stories), mōhiotaka Māori and wānaka with Hine Atua offering a unique blend of traditional knowledge and contemporary application to find the rokoā for ourselves today in Te Ao Hurihuri from the taoka our tupuna have carried forward to bring to us.