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MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship

ISSN 2230-6862

1 paper in the library · publishing 2023

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Creating a hā habit: Utilising Māori innovations in breathwork

MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship September 1, 2023 Rawiri Waretini-Karena, Julia Wikeepa

This article begins by identifying and defining a range of debilitating disorders— trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and generalised anxiety—and their symptoms before presenting a statistical analysis to give scope to the impact of the disorders. The article then explores the science behind breathing and breathwork as a valuable antidote to these disorders. The whakapapa of the...