Intuitive Ritual
A Mana Wahine Sourcebook
Coming November 2024
Intuitive Ritual is a sumptuous work of art, full of ancestral Māori feminine wisdom, original artworks and lavish photography by acclaimed wahine Māori artists. QR codes embedded in the work link to audio-visual recordings of ritual chants (karakia). A pull out gatefold highlights rituals for each night of the lunar calendar (māramataka). Poetry and creative writing sits alongside robust scholarship to inspire and illuminate. Designed pages invite the reader to journal and create their own sacred ceremonies and healing practises of self growth from the knowledge and tools provided in the book.
The book showcases traditional and contemporary Māori sacred feminine knowledge. There are sections of the book that celebrate the Atua Wahine, offering stories and understandings not widely shared in print. Other sections relate to the different phases of womanhood, to feminine sensuality, beauty rituals, meditations, and creative exercises to inspire personal growth. 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. This is a source book, a self-help guide and a toolkit for healing, empowerment and self-acceptance. It can be read and applied by anyone interested in deepening connection with the Atua Wāhine and feminine divinity through the portal of their own intuitive wisdom.
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Praise for the new book
“Intuitive Ritual: A Mana Wahine Sourcebook is an act of love, service and legacy. It’s an act of Revolution. A revolution isn’t just slogans, flag flying and rhetoric. It’s 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, Ngāhuia Murphy combines academic rigour with heart-centred, tīpuna 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 wāhine. A scintillating, sensual suite of supreme mana wahine sacred practices. A portal to our Atua wāhine 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 Huamānuka Crown, Rise Global Collective.
"Page by page parts of myself became awakened... Intuitive Ritual he taonga oranga mō rātou, mō mātou, mō ngā kōhunahuna ... Ngahuia, I missed the guidance of your words during my transition from Kōhine to Wahine, but I am excited now for my transition from Wahine into Ruahine." Maisey Rika, Singer, songwriter.
"E rere ana taku mihi ki tēnei uri o Hinekura, ki tēnei mokopuna a Tangiharuru, me kore ake koe Ngāhuia ka ngaro haere ēnei rongoā ki ngā wāhine, o nāianei. Huge appreciation to this descendant of Hinekura, this mokopuna of Tangiharuru, without you Ngāhuia these healing practices for women of today's contemporary world would become more and more obscured." Dr Hinemoa Elder.
Dr Ngahuia Murphy
Ngahuia is from Te Urewera in Aotearoa. Through her father she descends from Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti Ruapani ki Waikaremoana, Ngāi Tuhoe, and Ngāti Kahungunu. Through her mother she connects with the ritual feminine traditions of Ireland.
Te Whare Werewere
Learn ancient names for the sacred blood of the womb, simple ceremonies and karakia, and make your own cloth pads. Te Whare Werewere is a working site that houses strands of knowledge from Ngahuia’s research.