Environment

Belonging as an ecosystem

This is an excerpt from, "Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home: © 2018 Toko-pa Turner, Her Own Room Press.

Can anyone guess who the most valuable people are?

This article first appeared in The Kiwi Diary 2011! The message has not dated however. Hopefully it inspires you to plant a veg or two.

The Duality of One

The Oceans Health is Our Health

At 12:10pm every Wednesday the ‘No wetsuit Wednesday’ crew convene for a lunch time ocean swim. During the winter months it's more uncomfortable but the health rewards are even greater.

Yoga , te ao Māori and climate change action

I see te ao Māori and te reo Māori starting to be incorporated into the Aotearoa ‘yoga scene’ – from a weekly theme of Whanaungatanga at my local studio SPACE in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara, to the ‘Te Reo Yoga Cards’ and movements to teach rangatahi yoga based on local purakau (see M3 Movement). Although from completely different origins, these two worlds appear to complement each other, acknowledging that we are all connected, and our actions have consequences. And no other consequential action is more evident now than climate change due to human greenhouse gas emissions.