Watch: Online Movie with Māori Wisdom Keepers
Mauri is a Māori word that speaks to the vital essence in all beings, the life force that flows through land, water, people, and all living things. It is the pulse of existence itself, the vibration that connects us in the great web of life.
This new film directed by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo Mauri: The Vital Essence in All Beings, invites you into that living current. The second in the Wisdom of the Ancestors 12-film series, it weaves ceremony, story, and song to reveal how Māori Elders and healers tend to the wounds of colonization and guide a collective journey of reconnection and remembrance.
You can join by offering a small donation of any amount (including $0).
🎥 Community Screening of Mauri: The Vital Essence in All Beings
What you’ll witness in Mauri:
- Ceremonies of reconnection — ancestral chants and karakia (prayers) offered to the land, asking permission, offering healing, and opening the way for dialogue with the ancestors.
- Healing as collective remembering — Māori Elders and healers tending to intergenerational wounds through language, ritual, and the living relationship with whenua (land).
- Trauma held, not treated — spaces where pain is met with story, song, medicine, and presence rather than diagnosis or isolation.
- The return of sacred language — words and sounds that awaken memory and identity, carrying the vibration of belonging.
- Women as keepers of lifeforce — voices of mothers, aunties, and healers guiding the reweaving of balance and care.
- Decolonization as ceremony — healing not as resistance alone, but as the restoration of right relationship with land, ancestors, and each other.
- The spirit that endures — a quiet honouring of what colonization could not erase: the Mauri that continues to pulse beneath all things.
This is sacred work made visible through story, song, ceremony, and the quiet power of presence. It is not merely a viewing, but a transmission, something to feel, to absorb, to remember.
By joining this Film Event, you are contributing to a living tradition of respect and reciprocity, where Indigenous healing ways guide us back to connection to land and lineage.
P.S. Your support helps these stories reach the next generation. If you feel called to contribute, even a small donation makes a difference.
You can register to watch the film here
