Hera Cotter from Te Whare Whakaora joins the Flourishing Practitioners Podcast to discuss Rongoā Māori, Mirimiri, and Romiromi, her whakapapa, and her mahi across Tāmaki Makaurau and Te Tai Tokerau.

Hera shares recent prison work supporting a nine-month program where a participant received a positive parole outcome, highlighting the power of sustained mahi to shift vibration.

She describes Romiromi as holistic work that shifts vibrational patterns and cellular memory through practices such as kōrero, karakia, waiata, taonga pūoro, and haemata ~ pressure points.

Hera recounts being drawn in through her own illness, surrendering control, giving herself to wānanga, and being pushed into leadership by her kaiako Ruatau Perez.

She discusses daily spiritual protection, neutrality, community clinics, barriers created by fear and colonisation and the need to decolonise our thinking around Rongoa Māori, and her journey to receiving her moko kauae.