RITUALS OF CHANGE with Kaia Hawkins (Aotearoa/NZ) ~ Warrane//Sydney
Schedule
Fri, 10 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 am to Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 am
UTC+10:00Location
Glebe Town Hall | Pyrmont, NS
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An embodied movement workshop where we remember that change is not an interruption of life but the oldest rhythm we belong to.Workshop over one evening and one full day:
Fri, 10 Apr 6pm - 9pm
Sat, 11 Apr 10am - 6pm
Glebe Town Hall, Sydney
About:
We will gather inside a story far older than the colonial moment.
Te Kore ~ the fertile nothing, the shimmering field of potential.
Te Pō ~ the long night where forms loosen, where certainty softens, where what has been begins to dissolve.
Te Whai Ao ~ the reaching toward that first bit of understanding.
Te Ao Mārama ~ the world of illumination, right relationship, and responsibility.
This sequence is not myth as metaphor alone.
It is a living map of transformation that moves through whenua | land
through cosmos, through body, through collective time.
It reminds us that failure, uncertainty are not weakness,
and endings are not the opposite of life ~ but the conditions that allow life to continue.
We meet at a moment when the colonial project is visibly fraying
and something unnamed is pressing to be born.
Many of us can feel the instability, the grief, the disorientation,
and also the quiet insistence that another way of living is possible.
Not a return to innocence !!!!! A maturing of right relationship.
This wānanga//workshop moves with te kore and te pō as necessary spaces of change.
Spaces where we do not rush to answers.
Where we learn to stay present with what is ending,
to listen beneath the noise of urgency and the grasp of control
to feel how transformation is already happening in soil, in season, in breath, in tide.
Workshop ticketing options:
1. Community Ticket $120
A lower-cost option for those needing support right now.
2. Sustaining Ticket $160
The balanced, true-cost exchange.
3. Solidarity Ticket $200
Contributes extra to strengthen access and collective resilience.
4. Friday Evening - Threshold pass - $35/$30
Join the opening circle and embodied gathering on Friday night.
A standalone option or a doorway into the full experience.
Scholarships and payment plans available. Please be in touch if you would like to arrange these options:
email Caitlin - [email protected]
Change is something we enter, witness, and learn to move with.
Through embodied practice, movement, ritual, and collective inquiry,
we explore how colonisation lives not only in systems
but in nervous systems, habits of perception, and ways of relating.
And how healing is not an abstract idea
but a lived re-patterning toward right relationship
with whenua with each other, with ancestors,
with the more-than-human world,
and with the futures asking to arrive through us.
Because the worlds we inherit are shaped by what we are willing to feel, to face, and to create together.
This gathering is a decolonisation awareness wānanga
Not as concept >>> but as lived practice.
A space to notice what is ending,
to honour what must be grieved,
and to sense what is already growing.
We will move between stillness and motion,
between personal reflection and collective field,
between the ordinary gestures of care
and the depth of ritual.
Because we are changing.
Because the world is changing.
Because even now, inside uncertainty,
the light of te ao mārama
is waiting to be lived differently this time.
This wānanga is held with deep respect of the Indigenous peoples of this place now called Australia | Te Whenua Moemoea ~ the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations
whose sovereignty has never been ceded.
It is for those walking the layered paths of responsibility, relationship, and repair within lands shaped by colonisation.
For those willing to listen, to unlearn, to remember, and to move differently in service of collective futures grounded in care,
truth, and right relationship with whenua and with each other.
About Kaia/ Manahau Embodied Movement:
MANAHAU EMBODIED MOVEMENT
MOVE.MEANT AS MIHI
Manahau Embodied Movement is the meeting of Te Ao Måori, Open Floor Movement Practice, Rongoa Toi and Ringa toi practices.
Manahau Embodied Movement has been born out of the seven years of teaching Open Floor Movement Curriculum with Måori tikanga, kaupapa, and Måori world views | Te Ao Måori. The tipping point came when teaching at Te Papa National Museum of Aotearoa for the first Indigenous Public holiday MATARIKI 2022. So began Manahau Embodied Movement.
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Manahau Movement kaupapa is to create Indigenized dance floors/movement spaces, so we can decondition ourselves and stand with our MANA MOTUHAKE - self-sovereignty,
Mana Tangata, Mana Atua, Mana Whenua.
The Five Pou of Manahau Embodied Movement.
Manawa | Rongoa | Hau tu a Rongo | Ahuatanga | Ringa toi |
This practice is a resourcing type of DANCE where people come together to express themselves through MOVEMENT, CREATIVITY, MUSIC & COMMUNITY... BUT NOT IN A CHOREOGRAPHED WAY!!
At Manahau Movement we encourage you to listen to your body with your body Whakarongo, Whaka.Rongo. Only you can do you and that amazing body brain you have, will do the rest.
Refund Policy
As this wānanga involves travel from Aotearoa (New Zealand) and significant preparation costs, refunds are not available within two weeks of the workshop start date.
Cancellations made more than two weeks in advance may receive a partial refund, minus any non-recoverable expenses already incurred. If you are unable to attend, you are welcome to transfer your place to another person with prior notice.
Thank you for understanding the care, commitment, and resources required to bring this work across the moana.
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Where is it happening?
Glebe Town Hall, 160 St Johns Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia, PyrmontEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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