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The earth beneath our feet is not separate from us, it is us. We are the land, and the land is us. The skin we wear, the stories it carries, the markings that show where we’ve been and where we’re going, all echo the landscape around us. Ko au te whenua, ko te whenua ko au. “I am the land, and the land is me.” This whakataukī reminds me of the deep connection between our bodies and the whenua. We are not simply living on the land, we are made of it, formed by it, and continuo