MiriMiri is a form of healing. The way I practice MiriMiri is through Māori hands-on healing that has many similarities to massage and intentionally works with energy, guides, tīpuna (ancestors), wairua and with soft energy that emanates through the heart.
This practice uses energy to work directly with skin, muscles and tendons to drop people into the heart. I was recently discussing my work with my Mum and realised that I rarely discuss MiriMiri, despite using this practice in the majority of my indoor sessions.
MiriMiri is more known at home in Aotearoa, whereas, RomiRomi is still emerging and still becoming known more widely. So, I focused on sharing the teachings of RomiRomi to allow people to understand and connect with the potential of this practice.
MiriMiri works directly with the holistic healing system that integrates the body, mind, and spirit. If the term is broken down the words Mi ~ to stimulate and Ri – to agitate. The energy of love that is used activates and moves any energy from around the body. This practice stimulates and transmutes energy at a cellular, muscular, and bone level to assist activation with physical, energetic and spiritual health.
Although many people can have a MiriMiri hands-on healing session without RomiRomi, many of us who practice RomiRomi view that a successful RomiRomi practice rests on the heart of MiriMiri. The energy and love from the heart that is expressed through the hands. While this can be a stand-alone practice, such attention provides the foundations for RomiRomi later allowing the deep release to happen.
I typically combine the two – MiriMiri and RomiRomi. The use of Māori massage work in this way draws on the ancient energy of our tīpuna – ancestors, while also acknowledging the emerging energies of the present. While the practice dates back from before Māori arrived in Aotearoa, New Zealand, the techniques are still evolving to embrace the changing body temples that we now hold. Both RomiRomi (Tangoaroa, the god of the sea) and MiriMiri (Hinemoana, the goddess of the sea) are the force of creation flowing through the energetic work.
MiriMiri is most often practiced as an intuitive and holistic practice that draws on various techniques, rather than routine movements. This supports, nourishes and align a client’s body temple in the manner that it is requesting.
Other known benefits of MiriMiri include:
Body realignment
Therapeutic tension release
Stress relief
Pain relief
Rejuvenation
Clarity of mind
Sense of calmness
A deeper sense of breath
Relaxation.
Ngā mihi, ngā mihi,
