Past Webinar

Oro Atua: Support your hauora

A puoro Māori sound healing experience

Jerome Kavanagh,

Instead of inspiring you with new ideas and change, at the end of a fraught and often difficult year, we want to look after you. Our last webinar for the year is a hauora offering by sound healer Jerome Kavanagh (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Kahungunu).  He shares his pūrākau (story) and puoro (Māori musical instrument) sound healing experience using his collection of unique and rare Māori musical instruments. Join us for a journey of reflection and self-healing through the vibrational power of nature’s sound – an opportunity for you to be kind to yourself. 

We recommend you use headphones, if you can, so that you can hear the lower frequencies of sound. And we invite you to sit comfortably to listen to this recording.

Taonga Puoro, traditional Māori musical instruments, reflect the sound of our natural environment from the mountains, rivers, land to the sea. Our ancestors used these instruments in days gone by as tools to heal and promote a healthy body, mind and spirit. Taonga Puoro holds the vibration of the natural world and when played, this vibration resonates within us and helps to reconnect to the intelligence and power of nature.” Jerome Kavanagh

Resources:

https://www.puorojerome.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNIKE1lS1SpUPCdcr-JpJPg

About the Presenter

Jerome Kavanagh

Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Kahungunu me te rohe o Mōkai Pātea.

Grammy award winning featured soloist and Maori musical instrument specialist Jerome Kavanagh (Poutama) hails from the Mokai Patea, Maniapoto, Kahungunu tribes (Māori) and the Caomhanach clan (Irish). He was first introduced to the sound of Taonga Puoro at aged 16 by one of his aunties. A family owned Koauau (Maori cross blown flute) was the first instrument he recalls learning to play.

Maintaining his strong roots, Jerome has become part of a movement introducing Māori music, art and culture to the world. Over his career he has performed/recorded with artists from a variety of different genres which range from Hip Hop to Classical. His collaborations include The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (U.K) Moana and the Tribe (N.Z) Daniel Beddingfeild, Hayley Westenra, Joler Gaan (Bangladesh), Kevin Mark Trail "The Streets" (U.K) and two times Grammy award winning composer Christopher Tin (U.S.A). ​

Jerome joins only a handful of New Zealand musicians as a featured solo artist and lyricist on two-time Grammy award winning album "Calling All Dawns" 2011 in "Kia Hora te Marino"(May peace be widespread) recorded at Abbey Road studios, London.

​More recently he performed at New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall and The Lincoln Center alongside Distinguished Concerts New York International orchestra, Sydney Opera house with his band HuiA, The British Museum, Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum, Guest artist at Pasifika festival 2016 and was also a selected member of the New Zealand Art Delegation at the 11th Festival of Pacific Arts in the Solomon Islands. Jerome recently toured India and Bangladesh sharing his Oro Atua Taonga Puoro sound bath experience and live performances with as a guest artist with the legendary Bangladesh band Joler Gaan. He is also currently a band member of International Indigenous music collective Small Island Big Song and is simultaneously working as a composer and recording artist for The Deadland series.

Alongside his musical career, Jerome is one of New Zealand’s most active Taonga Puoro workshop providers. At present he travels sharing his interactive, live show "Power to the Puoro" to thousands of children in Aotearoa, New Zealand along with, universities, museums, colleges, Indigenous communities globally. Jerome shares his ORO ATUA Puoro Maori sound healing events and clinics worldwide reviving the practices of healing through traditional Māori musical instruments.

This Webinar was held

11am NZ Time
23 Nov
2021
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