Kia ora e te whānau. Marlane is the name bestowed upon me at birth. I am Māori, of proud Te Kapotai, Nga Puhi lineage, from Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Being Māori shapes how I understand what is carried through generations, how I listen, and how I recognise when something does not belong to the individual alone. My approach is grounded in whakapapa, lived experience, and long personal practice rather than theory or trend. I have had to meet inherited patterns directly in my own life through family, identity, rupture, responsibility, and choice. These experiences continue to shape how I sit with others, and that way of working is always evolving.
The way I hold sessions is informed by Māori models of health, including Te Whare Tapa Whā and Te Wheke, where wellbeing is understood as layered, relational, and inseparable from whānau, wairua, hinengaro, tinana, and whenua. Nothing here is viewed in isolation or reduced to a single issue to be fixed.
People arrive through different entry points. Some come through Inherited Release Method (IRM). Others through Te Rau Aroha Alignment, a Māori energy alignment practice grounded in mauri and ancestral knowledge. Some come for direct, grounded mentoring that addresses what is present without cushioning or performance. These are not separate paths. They sit within the same foundation and respond to what is ready in the person at the time.
Not everything the body holds began with you. Some of what we carry comes through family, upbringing, learned roles, energetic connections, and lives lived before this one. Some of it comes from the choices we make, or do not make, along the way. In te ao Māori, this is understood through mauri, the life force at the core of who you are, shaped through whakapapa, experience, and what is passed down. What happens here is about releasing what has layered over that core over time.
Hopeful Essence Co was not chosen from a list. The name came slowly, through dreams, long before there was a business. Hope is my middle name and reflects backing myself and building something grounded in real life rather than strategy. Essence speaks to what remains beneath the layers. Co acknowledges that this is not a solo journey and that nothing here exists in isolation.
Sessions are not about performing wellness or talking things through for insight alone. They respond to what the body brings and what is ready to move. People usually arrive when something they have been carrying, personally or ancestrally, is ready to shift, even if they do not yet have language for it.
Hopeful Essence Co is for those who recognise that moment.
