Wakagetti Indigenous Corperation is coming to Voices 2019. First we thought only their director Waylon Boney and Michael Robinson were coming but are now elated that they are bringing Aboriginal respected elder Paul Gordan and another of their group Taine Davison.
They are dedicated to empowering and strengthening youth and communities through sharing story and connecting people to traditional Aboriginal cultural values and beliefs.
Wakagetti’ means “to dance’ in the Aboriginal Language groups of Northern and North Western NSW. With over 100 years of combined experience working with students, staff and the wider community, traditional Aboriginal cultural values are the foundation of Wakagetti’s engagement style; Respect, Humility, Trust, Responsibility, Sharing and Love. They will be performing and doing workshops on their culture and teaching on The dream time.
We hope you will join with us and become a part of the story.
(Beez) Ngarino Te Waati
Co-Founder and Creator of Māori Movement
Iwi: Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngati Pūkenga, Ngāti Awa
Ngarino (Beez) has studied under many paramount specialists in the arts of traditional haka, contemporary movement, Māori weaponry, Māori martial arts, taonga puoro, incantations and rituals, traditional Māori romiromi, theatre and Māori performances art. He has an immense passion for Health and well-being which has led to a number of experiences and opportunities around the world. Since graduating with a Bachelors in Māori Arts at Te Whare Wānanga ō Awanuiarangi he also achieved a Diploma in Fitness and Business at Max International College. With a fusion of traditional movement and contemporary influences Ngarino (Beez) and is wife (Kura Te Waati) designed a movement class aiming to connect their audience to a rich world of ancient knowledge, philosophies and mythology that would allow people to discover their own unique power, purpose and passion. Beez has built a program to a vision that would benefit not only you as an individual but your whole entire whānau (family). All Ngarino (Beez) asks is that you’re ready, open and willing to receive the key to a world of self-discovery and personal growth.
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Lyla June
Lyla June is a poet, musician, human ecologist, public speaker and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her dynamic, multi-genre performance style has invigorated and inspired audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing. Her messages focus on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, inter-cultural healing, historical trauma and traditional land stewardship practices. Her undergraduate studies in human ecology at Stanford University coupled with a traditional upbringing inform her potent messages conveyed through the medium of powerful yet prayerful hip-hop, poetry, acoustic song and speech. Her personal goal is to grow closer to Creator by learning how to love deeper.
She is a co-founder of The Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council, which works to heal intergenerational trauma and ethnic division in the northern New Mexico. She was a walker within the Nihigaal Bee Iiná Movement, a 1400 mile prayer journey through Diné homelands for environmental and social justice. She is the lead organizer of the Black Hill Unity Concert. She is the also the founder of Regeneration Festival, an annual celebration of children that occurs in 13 countries around the world every September.
In 2012, she graduated with honors from Stanford University with a degree in Environmental Anthropology. She recently graduated from the University of New Mexico with distinction with a concentration in American Indian Education. She is a poet, musician, human ecologist, public speaker and community organizer.
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Prem Morunga is practitioner and student of Mirimiri, Romiromi, Taonga Pūoro and Whakairo. He is an arts and well-being practitioner working extensively in Aotearoa and the Pacific with whakairo, performing, and creative arts. Prem facilitates workshops exploring Mātauranga Māori philosophies, and delivers movement & dance, taonga pūoro, taiaha, and art workshops. He is inspired by the desire to support the holistic well-being of people from all cultures.
He will be running workshops on “ manu waewae” , a muscle and bone session derived from our native bird movement and koauau (making and using a traditional flute) with an emphasis on technique and energy.
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My name is Ruatau Perez and Te Maurea is the development and evolution of my Mahi as a Kaiako and practitioner of Maori healing over the past 17 years. My specialities include Māori Rongoa, romiromi, mirimiri, koomirimiri and whare wananga lore. I currently run two weekly wananga clinics in Auckland and there are many of my past students practising in Auckland and throughout New Zealand and Australia. Te Maurea is a Karere for upcoming wananga workshops, puure, romiromi and mirimiri clinics. I was privileged to have trained under Hohepa Delamere affectionately known as Papa Jo for ten years, and have been running his wananga since his untimely passing. Papa Jo was a highly renowned and internationally respected practitioner of Mātauranga and Rongoa Māori. I am proud to contribute to the continuation of his teachings and good works in the hand to hand way that keeps Māori healing alive.
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Waylon Boney
“My Name is Waylon Boney I am a Kwiambal descendant from kamilaroi language group in Northern NSW from my mother as well as Wanaruah through my father. I am connected to Ngemba country through Dhumuu Paul Gordon and have been shown many stories for that country and many stories throughout NSW from this old man (elder). I live these stories and share with all who want to learn.”
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Franco Luciani and Carolina Garcia
Franco is a Didacta in Biodanza and a Biocentric Educator. Provides training modules in Biodanza Schools and Biocentric Education workshops for children, youth and teachers.
Founder of Biodanza Activa and coordinates his social projects.
Carolina is a Biodanza Facilitator, Psychologist and Yoga Teacher, with vast experience leading Biodanza groups of children, adolescents and adults. Some of them in context with high social and emotional vulnerability. She has led biodanza sessions both in Chile and abroad.
Mole has a keen interest in symbols & symbolism, intent in crafting, and use of sacred geometry in design.
Mole chooses to see the beauty & symbolism in the world around him and incorporate this into his work using sacred geometry and the shapes provided by nature in his preferred medium of native timbers and natural materials.
As an artist & craftsman in all mediums, he enjoys creating pieces with multilayered symbolic imagery and focused intent for people of many different paths, with many different intentions.
Mole will also be helping people to design & create their own magickal item/s using natural materials & the wonder of symbols, symbolism & sacred geometry; be it necklace, talisman, runic tines, ceremonial or ritual tool, staff or wand, along with creating commission pieces for those who would like something made with intent for them.
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Heather Bruce –
Holistic multi modality energy body worker. Keeper of women’s wisdoms.
Always an inquisitive outlier, Heather stumbled upon natural therapies when she was pregnant with her now 42 year old first born. Not looking back, she forget ahead with the holistic natural way to live and love well. The maternal / save the world journey lead her through acupuncture, traditional wisdoms, herbal and touch therapy and out into the world arena inspiring others to Follow Life. Transformative Energy Body Worker, Founder of Heather’s Gentling way. Accredited Mercier therapist. Argivo® / Maya self care teacher, certified and pregnancy Arvigo® worker.
Workshop 1 – Honoring our Bleeding ( for women only)
Let us make menstruation (women bleeding) an easy, even joyful, happy time by ensuring that the elder’s knowings from many cultures are instilled back into our being. Weaving ‘Old wives’ tales’ back into our lives to help us learn how to Live Well as a woman. This practical workshop will gift you ways to enhance bleeding and sexual ease.
Lovingly being present (open for men and women).
Being together – how can we make this a time of continual celebration? We explore some of the simple ways we can cement loving sensuality and being present physically into daily life
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Herman Saiz and Sia Hu Heka
CACAITO DANCE ( CACAO CEREMONY & ECSTATIC DANCE )
The fusion of these sensory stimuli with cacao, prayer and dance are a potent blend that enable altered states of consciousness and deep healing. You will be guided on a dance journey through sacred sounds, embodying, aligning and dancing your true nature.
A Cacao Ceremony is a heart-opening experience where we are invited to slow down and intentionally set time aside for ourselves, bringing more awareness, love and gratitude to our lives. Because of cacao’s ability to increase your connection to your inner self and your heart chakra, it aids in any transformational shift you are working towards. Whatever your path, the intention is yours to set, and the cacao allows you to the insight and awareness to move towards that goal.
Ecstatic Dance is a free form dance/ expression journey where ritual is reinvented, beauty unfolds, and energy flows in a safe space. Electronic and world rhythms weave us together as individuals within a greater family. We come together connecting our bare feet to the earth, purely communicating through our bodies, and celebrating life in all its aspects!
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