Mātangireia - (Healing / Renewing the Whare Tangata)
Thu, Oct 30
|Wiremu Niania Education Centre Kaiti Hub
Bringing together the ancient houses of wisdom - Yoga, Ayurveda and Te Whare Wānanga with Lesley Niania and Ruth Diggins.
Time & Location
Oct 30, 2025, 9:00 AM GMT+13 – Nov 02, 2025, 12:00 PM GMT+13
Wiremu Niania Education Centre Kaiti Hub, Kaiti, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
Guests
About the event
Join Ruth Diggins (student of TKV Desikachar, Dr Kausthub Desikachar and Mrs Menaka Desikachar) and Mahi Wairua Practitioner and Trainer, Lesley Niania in this unique introduction to the Houses of Wisdom and their similiarities - Yoga and Te Whare Wānanga.
Yoga is more than postures. It's more than a skinny body in lycra tights (says Lesley). It's about the unity of Wairua, Hinengaro and Tinana, and how Te Hā brings them all together. If you can breathe you can do yoga.
Yoga is not dependent on size, or shape. It's about how these ancient knowledge houses are relevant to us today.
In this wānanga we will be focused on the cleaning of the Womb.
In Yoga and Ayurveda, the whare tangata is called the Yoni, the golden womb, the spiritual gateway, the source of creation.
Often, through a lack of knowledge of our sacred yoni (or through lack of knowledge of…