Feminine ways of knowing - cultivating versus conquering health
Description
This is the fourth of a monthly event series exploring women's health with diverse practitioners - science, somatic, holistic.
Coming home to meet the mix within.
An evening weaving together our nervous systems, our heritage, and the embodied ways we make meaning of health and wellbeing.
We are each a mix - heritage, culture, ethnicity, the environment we grew up in, the lineage carried in our bodies before we had words for it. This mix shapes how our nervous systems learned to move through the world: what we reach for, grasp for, push toward. So much of how we function lives in that outward pulse, expanding out, action oriented and always doing.
This evening is an invitation to move the other way. To exhale. To release. And come home to our body.
Guided by practitioner Cathy Livermore of Mauri Tau, drawing on 20 years across somatic practice, performing arts and Rongoā Māori, we’ll explore meeting the gritty, difficult parts of ourselves directly. This is not to fix or push past them, but to be with them long enough that they stop quietly running the show.
A guided somatic practice will bring us back into the body, building a take home self-practice for your nervous system, long after the evening ends.
We close with a simple question: within the home of your own skin, what does your home need?
Event flow:
6pm- Arrive, snacks and chats together.
6.30pm- Session with Cathy.
8:00 pm – Starting to close the evening
Closing - 8.30
Journaling, reflection, questions, tea & connection to close the evening together.
About Cathy Livermore (Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe, Kāi Tahu, Pākehā)
An interdisciplinary dance artist, educator, Rongoā practitioner and programme creator, Cathy’s experience spans 30 years’ across creative arts, tertiary education, mental health and wellbeing, leadership and community development sectors. The founder of Mauri Tau practices, a trauma-informed cultural somatics approach, she has for the past decade successfully supported holistic wellbeing through mātauranga Māori. Documenting this applied research, Cathy’s Masters thesis discusses decolonising wellbeing to inform systems change while shaping intercultural processes of future-making.
A skilled educator, facilitator and project leader, Cathy specialises in culturally grounded pedagogy, creative practice, and designing initiatives and programmes that foster connection, creativity, resilience, and meaningful transformation.
Choose the ticket that best reflects your current financial situation. Every ticket provides the same event experience. Higher-priced tickets help us offer lower-cost options to others.
Excited to have you there Lulas x
This evening's women's health practitioners and their offerings
Cathy specialises in culturally grounded pedagogy, creative practice, and designing initiatives and programmes that foster connection, creativity, resilience, and meaningful transformation.
Maya Nova supports people to navigate life's complexity with greater presence, resilience, and self-awareness. Drawing from her experiences of war, displacement, monastic life, and personal transformation, she creates spaces that foster reflection, compassion, and the inner steadiness needed to meet life with greater wisdom and humanity.
Valeria Sumar | Co-founder of Lula, Somatic Nutritionist and Women's Health
Bridging modern science and holistic approaches to help you understand your unique cyclical body - and make decisions that truly support your energy, hormones, and well-being.
Kat Lintott | Activating Systemic Change within Women’s Health
Kat's purpose in life is to empower people to make better decisions about the future, and what's more important than empowering women on their health journeys!
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