Mirimiri + Fofō

A person resting during a Mirimiri + Fofō session, hands on their chest with kawakawa leaves

Traditional Māori and Samoan bodywork and healing practices.

Are you ready to release what the body's been holding? This session supports your body to release held trauma and stress, restoring balance across body, mind and spirit.

What to expect: a short arrival kōrero, bodywork, and space to integrate before you leave.

Good for: stress load, tightness, fatigue, overwhelm, and nervous system overdrive.

You will leave feeling steadier, clearer, and more like yourself.

$140 · 60 min, until Sunday 11 October.
From Monday 12 October, a session is $175. Book before Monday and you keep $140.

A deposit holds your booking. Give us 24 hours' notice to move your session and your deposit carries across. Late cancellations or missed sessions keep the deposit.

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After-Hours, By Request

Some healing needs privacy as much as it needs skill. For MPs, CEOs, and leaders who carry a public face, this session is held in confidence, outside standard hours. No public calendar, no visibility. By enquiry only.

Enquire, in confidence →

We Also Come to You

Mirimiri + Fofō doesn't only happen at the whare. As part of Kaimahi Hauora, our workplace wellbeing programme, we bring this same bodywork on-site to teams and leaders. Recent sessions have been held at Bowen House and Z Energy.

See the full Kaimahi Hauora programme →
A wāhine resting during a romiromi session, kawakawa leaves over her eyes and moko on her shoulder

Mirimiri + Fofō · 60 minutes · 1:1

Your body already knows.

Traditional Māori and Samoan healing, blended into one practice and held privately, just for you.

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One practice, two lineages

Mirimiri, Romiromi and Fofō, held as one.

Our practice doesn't hold Māori and Samoan traditions as two separate things.
Developed by Kailah, it blends Mirimiri, Romiromi and Fofō into one singular form, built through years of training in both lineages.

Fofō came to Kailah through her Nana, her Papa and her Aunty, in a Wellington home the Samoan community came to for hands-on healing from the 1960s through to the 1990s.
Rongoā Māori came through her training under Marama Mata of House of Rehua.

Your session

Ground. Activate. Integrate.

Every session moves through three stages, and through whichever medicine your body is asking for that day.

1

Ground

Takutaku, breathwork, karakia and waiata, with whitiwhiti kōrero woven through.
Toso, mahi wheua and alignment.

2

Activate

Rau hinengaro, mirimiri, fofō and romiromi, worked into stagnant energy centres, at a cellular level.

3

Integrate

Takutaku, waiata, breathwork and karakia, to close and settle what moved.

Rongoā Māori

Different medicine for a different phase.

Rongoā Māori runs alongside all of it: kawakawa and other plant medicine, breathwork to bring a nervous system back to itself, and sound to return the body to its own frequency.
A session moves through whichever of these the body is asking for that day, the same way the Sanctuary moves through its own six phases.

It helps with stress load, tightness, fatigue, overwhelm and a nervous system in overdrive.
You'll leave feeling steadier, clearer and more like yourself.

Ways to book

Come once, or come regularly.

Single session

Mirimiri + Fofō

$175

60 minutes, 1:1

$75 deposit when you book, $100 at your session.

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Hihiri Pack

Paid once

from $199

Valid to the end of the third month

1 or 2 Mirimiri + Fofō, with Sound + Breath.

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Heal membership

Every month

from $88a week

Billed weekly

2 or 3 Mirimiri + Fofō and Sound + Breath, every month.

See Heal

Recognised + supported

Your healing, supported

We're a NIB Health Provider and a professional member of the IICT, the International Institute for Complementary Therapists.

Your workplace EAP, Cultural Supervision or professional development funding can also be used with us, including for Hihiri Packs.
Check your policy, or ask us when you book.

Voices from the Sanctuary

What people carry home

I walked in with chronic tension and headaches for days, and left with no tension — relief like I haven't felt in months.
I'm definitely coming back.
Mirimiri + Fofō client
The next day I felt so tau (at peace) and really refreshed — and that feeling stayed with me.
Highly recommend if you feel ready to release what's no longer serving you and come back into balance.
Mirimiri + Fofō client

Before you come

Good to know

Deposits and changes

A $75 deposit holds your booking, and the $100 balance is paid at your session.
Give us 24 hours' notice to move your session and your deposit carries across.
Late cancellations or missed sessions keep the deposit.

Can I use my health insurance or iwi benefit?

We're a NIB Health Provider.
As a NIB member benefit, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei and Te Rūnanganui o Ngāti Porou members have a Rongoā Māori benefit of up to $500 per policy year, and it can be used with us.
Check your policy, or ask us when you book.

Can my workplace cover it?

Yes.
Your workplace EAP, Cultural Supervision or professional development funding can be used for our sessions, and for Hihiri Packs.
Email us and we'll help you set it up.

I have a Hihiri Pack or Heal

Book with the members' link in your welcome email.
No payment needed, your session comes out of your balance.

After-hours, by request

Some healing needs privacy as much as it needs skill.
For MPs, CEOs and leaders who carry a public face, a session can be held in confidence, outside our usual hours.
By enquiry only.

Enquire, in confidence

Mirimiri + Fofō for your team

Through Kaimahi Hauora we bring this bodywork on-site to teams and leaders.
Recent sessions have been held at Bowen Campus and Z Energy.

See Kaimahi Hauora