Author: Paora Moyle

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POUHINE

AboutPouHine is a traditional Māori model of healing from mahi tukino that centres the divine feminine, the mareikura or wāhine atua, as the wellspring of restoration and guidance. She guides me in the work I do to serve Te Whare Tangata and mana wahine. PouHine is a living model drawn from whakapapa and lived practice that teaches wāhine to return to their true knowing, remembering who they are as descendants and embodiments of wāhine atua. She reconnects us to whakapapa, whanaungatanga, and mana wahine, the sacred authority of women grounded in care, justice, and reciprocity. In my mahi, PouHine underpins research, service design, and healing work led by wāhine Māori, reshaping social and health systems around Indigenous knowledge. My pen and my voice are my weapons, my tools in this work. PouHine shows that meaningful change happens when leadership flows from the source, the women and whānau themselves, creating conditions for people to remember, reclaim, and embody their own sacred authority and connection to whakapapa. PouHine is also the name of my online pūrākau and commentary space, because it makes sense that she is.
AuthorSee the author’s bio and fuller work at Orchid: Paora Crawford Moyle KSO (Ngāti Porou) is Senior Research Fellow & Director of Research at Te Whāriki Manawāhine o Hauraki (Te Whāriki). They are an award-winning researcher and social worker, with lived experience of abuse in state and faith-based care in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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