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Episode 47: Gabrielle walker: RomiRomi, Healing & The Certainty in an Open Heart.

Jarna Saunders Season 2 Episode 47

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There are people who don’t just change your life but they change the whole you experience your life, Gabrielle Walker is one of those people for me.


When we first met over twelve years ago, I had no idea the journey we were about to begin together. Through some of the hardest seasons of my life, marriage struggles, motherhood, grief, and learning who I really was Gabrielle became someone who helped me reconnect with myself in a way I'd never experienced before.


In this episode, I'm sharing one of the most personal conversations I've ever had on the podcast.


We talk about how we met, my first experience with RomiRomi, and why Māori healing completely transformed the way I relate to pain, trust, and my own power as a woman.


For so many years, I searched outside of myself for answers. This work taught me that everything I was looking for was already within me. I just needed to learn how to listen.


We explore the difference between trying to fix ourselves and learning to fully accept ourselves, how healing happens through the body, and why building self-trust has been one of the greatest gifts I've ever received.


If you've ever questioned yourself, struggled to trust your intuition, or felt disconnected from who you really are, I hope this conversation reminds you that your body already knows the way home.


Gabrielle is a Māori Healing practitioner, Counsellor, teacher, writer and space holder devoted to healing, and embodied spiritual remembering.


Through her work, Gabrielle weaves Māori healing, counselling, wānanga, body-based wisdom, whakapapa, intuitive practice and sacred reflection. Her teaching style is gentle, grounded and spacious, inviting people to learn not only through the mind, but through the body, the wairua, the heart and the unseen.


In this season of life and practice, Gabrielle is exploring new ways of teaching, creating and living with more softness, presence and play. She has also recently become a fur-Mum to Luma, her Groodle, who is bringing a lot of movement, laughter, patience and new energy into her everyday life.


Gabrielle holds all healing spaces as sacred moments for those who feel called to deepen their relationship with their own inner knowing. Her intention is to support each person to listen more deeply, remember what is already woven within them, and walk this work with respect, tenderness and courage.


Website: www.tirohanga.com.au

 Next wānanga ~ training is a retreat in Balingup: https://tirohanga.com.au/balingup/

 Perth October wānanga: https://tirohanga.com.au/akotorowhanui/


Before you go, I have something really special to share with you.


The Heart Is The Bar is officially open


This is the space where I get to go even deeper, where we continue the conversations that don't end when the podcast does.


If you're craving to not only know your power but how to also embody it then these 12 weeks are for you.



Thank you for being here, and I'll see you in the next episode.