He pakihi Māori mō te Mana Motuhake o te Ao Tūroa
A Māori business supporting decolonisation & earth healing
He Puna Manawa Ltd was established in 2008 by Dr. Ngahuia Murphy and Nāndor Tānczos to be a platform for a range of activities aimed at people healing ourselves, our relationships with each other as humans, and healing our relationship with the rest of life, including the living Earth that we are part of.
The two bring extensive experience and skill in social / ecological thinking, Mana Wahine & Kaupapa Māori research, writing, communications, governance, strategic planning, group processes & facilitation, and event management.
Micropublisher
He Puna Manawa specialises in publishing indigenous voices, particularly indigenous women. We have pushed three titles to date – Te Awa Atua, Waiwhero and Intuitive Ritual: A Mana Wahine Sourcebook, all by Dr. Ngahuia Murphy. We are currently working with other Indigenous women to explore publishing their important mātauranga in book form.
Governance & Strategic Planning
He Puna Manawa was a core part of developing the Ngāti Manawa Reo and Education Strategy, and its directors have been the drivers in strategic planning in a range of national and local organisations, including local government. They have experience working in a range of co-governance and co-design arrangements.
RMA Consent Matters
Within the HPM team we have people who hold qualifications to chair or sit as an independent commissioner for consent hearings, plan changes, and notices of requirement.
Wānanga
He Puna Manawa has extensive experience in facilitating wānanga on mātauranga wahine, decolonisation, understanding political processes at Parliament and Local Government level, permaculture and ecological thinking, group dynamics and conflict resolution.
People
A world-changing team
Dr. Ngahuia Murphy
Ngahuia is from Te Urewera. Through her father she descends from Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti Ruapani ki Waikaremoana, Ngāi Tuhoe, Te Arawa and Ngāti Kahungunu. Through her mother she connects with the ritual feminine traditions of Ireland.
Ngahuia is an award-winning scholar, author, artist and public speaker committed to reactivating Indigenous women’s sacred knowledge and ritual practice. Ngahuia has worked with Indigenous Peoples around the world in reclaiming matrilineal knowledge through scholarship, theatre work, activism and art.
Ngahuia’s work is guided by mana motuhake, tino rangatiratanga and the resurgence of the divine feminine.
Nāndor Tānczos
Nāndor was born in the UK but his whakapapa is Hungarian through his father, and Cape Coloured (South African) through his mother. He identifies as Tangata Tiriti.
Nāndor has co-founded a number of successful businesses, been a community activist on drug law reform, GE, and various social and environmental issues. He was a Member of Parliament for the Green Party from 1999 – 2008 and has been an elected councillor on the Whakatāne District Council since 2016.
Nāndor has a B.Soc.Sci in Psychology & Sociology, a Post Grad Diploma in Management and Sustainability, a Permaculture Design Certificate and has studied Te Reo Māori to level 5.
He Puna Manawa Publishing
He Puna Manawa specialises in publishing Indigenous voices, particularly Indigenous women who may find it difficult to find support in mainstream publishing houses. Publishing houses make commercial decisions that do not always recognise the importance of the work. In light of that our business model is atypical and relies on authors’ ability to sell books through their own networks, particularly through wānanga they run as cultural experts, in addition to the normal channels.
We have pushed three titles to date – Te Awa Atua, Waiwhero and Intuitive Ritual: A Mana Wahine Sourcebook by Ngahuia Murphy. We are currently working with other Indigenous women to explore publishing their important mātauranga in book form.
To purchase our books
Ask at your local book shop, or buy on-line here
Wholesale orders
Booksellers or other outlets wishing to stock any of our publications, please get in touch with us by emailing info@hepunamanawa.com, or using the form on the contact page. Standard industry wholesale discounts of 40% off RRP apply
Case Studies
Our publications
Intuitive Ritual: A Mana Wahine Sourcebook
Available from 1 November 2024
Intuitive Ritual: A Mana Wahine Sourcebook, written by Kaupapa Māori scholar, Dr Ngahuia Murphy, is a curation of rituals, chants, meditations, writings and interactive creative exercises linked to audio recordings to inspire Māori and other Indigenous women to craft their own personal ceremonial practices of devotion.
The writings can be read and applied by anyone interested in deepening connection with the Atua Wāhine and their own spirit intelligence through the portal of intuitive wisdom.
Te Awa Atua: Menstruation in the Pre-Colonial Māori World
Te Awa Atua is groundbreaking, timeless and incendiary scholarship. It recovers traditional Tangata Whenua menstruation ceremonies, stories and attitudes that have been largely censored from the historic record. The author examines karakia, pūrākau, mōteatea, navigational and tribal histories and interviews with elders to unearth sacred ritual teachings that demonstrate the mana of the blood, and the mana of wahine in customary society.
Waiwhero: A Celebration of Womanhood
Waiwhero is a bilingual resource written for whānau who wish to recover tikanga to celebrate the arrival of menstruation as an ancient medium of whakapapa. It provides examples of traditional ceremonies and also encourages the creation of new ritual practices that heal and empower future generations.
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