06/10/2026
🌿 OCTOBER SPECIAL — INTRODUCTION TO KARANGA 🌿
For the month of October only, our Introduction to Karanga Pre-recorded Online Tutorial is $75 — normally $99.
I also want to acknowledge some whakaaro that has been shared about wāhine learning karanga from their own marae, their kuia, reo karanga and hapū.
I tautoko that whakaaro.
Where we have those connections available to us, I absolutely encourage our wāhine to return to their tūrangawaewae. Sit with your kuia and kaumātua. Learn the reo, tikanga, whakapapa, histories and kawa that belong specifically to your people. No online tutorial can replace the mātauranga held within your own whānau, hapū and marae.
But I also believe we need to recognise the realities of our people today.
Karanga does not exist only on the marae ātea.
We have whānau living in Australia and across the world who cannot always bring their tūpāpaku home, and their loved ones may lie in state within their whare.
We have wāhine who want to karanga to their māra, their whenua and their taiao.
We have māmā who want to use karanga to welcome their new pēpi/ moko/ iramutu into Te Ao Mārama.
We have māmā, aunties, nannies and caregivers who want to learn karanga so they can tuku karanga for their own tamariki and mokopuna through the significant milestones of their lives — their 21st birthdays, graduations, the birth of their pēpi, when their daughters enter ikura, and the many other moments of transition, celebration and growth that deserve to be acknowledged through our own tikanga.
Karanga is not only something we experience on the marae. It can be a way of honouring, welcoming, acknowledging and uplifting our whānau as they move through the different stages of life.
It is ceremony!!
We have whānau who have experienced the devastating interruption of whakapapa and culture through adoption, state care, urbanisation, displacement and generations of disconnection. Some do not know their iwi or hapū. Some have never stood on their marae. Some don’t have a kuia they can simply ring and ask to teach them.
And through delivering karanga wānanga kanohi ki te kanohi, what I have seen again and again is wāhine who are hungry to reconnect.
Some arrive whakamā because they don’t speak much reo. Some have spent their whole lives feeling as though they aren’t “Māori enough” to enter these spaces. Some know exactly where they come from but have never been given the opportunity to learn. Others are beginning a journey that will eventually take them home to their own people.
For some wāhine, learning the foundations of karanga isn’t the end of that journey.
It is the beginning.
My intention is not to replace hapū knowledge, local kawa, or the reo karanga of your own people. It is to create a safe starting place where wāhine can learn, build confidence, understand some of the tikanga and responsibilities surrounding karanga, and hopefully feel empowered to continue seeking the mātauranga held within their own whakapapa.
Our tūpuna could never have anticipated every circumstance our people would face today, but they left us taonga that continue to live because our people continue to carry them.
Karanga is a living practice.
And sometimes reconnection begins with one wāhine having the courage to say, I want to learn.
For October, our Pre-recorded Introduction to Karanga Tutorial is $75 and includes the tutorial, editable workbook and activities, Mahere Whakaaro, additional resources, private Facebook community, ongoing support and a certificate once your completed workbook is returned.
No previous karanga experience or reo fluency is required.
🌿 October only — $75, normally $99
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