About

There is more to HAAAA than meets the eye

The HAAAA meditation experience is a fusion of Polynesian sounds, instruments and voices, brought together in a unique Pacifika meditation series supported by indigenous Pacifika practitioners and experts including the renowned Opetaia Foa’i, composer of the world’s most popular ever Pacifika movie, “Moana”.

The ancestral instruments and voices are recognised in our DNA and when unlocked resonate in a way that brings about true healing. Our experience is that other cultures nurture their healing and find a sense of home through this meditation.

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Rob Kipa-Williams

Founder & Executive Producer

One day after meditating I decided to watch a movie. That movie was Moana and from that moment on I have felt a tireless desire to bring the heartbeat of Polynesia to the world through meditation. A desire to explore all our Polynesian similarities and celebrate our differences and to explore my ancestral origins.

Opetaia Foa’i

Music Producer

Opetaia’s contribution to the Moana movie soundtrack led to the soundtrack spending 23 weeks in the Top 10 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart (peaking at no. 2) and a single from it We Know the Way spending 2 weeks on the Billboard Top 100. In November of 2017, Moana won “Top Soundtrack” in the American Music Awards (AMAs) and was nominated in the 60th Grammy Awards for “Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media”. Opetaia Foa’i composed and wrote the music for the HAAAA app along with Malcolm Smith.

Bert McCarthy

Writer of the Methodology

Bert McCarthy is a Transformational-list, a spiritual and transformational life coach, a spiritual mentor, teacher, adviser and counsellor. He is the writer of the Seven Steps to Heaven Meditation Methodology.

Denise Kingi-Uluave

CEO of LeVa & Creator of LifeKeepers

Denise Kingi-Uluave of Tongan heritage is the CEO of LeVa Pacifika Suicide Prevention Programme in New Zealand and was key in providing seed funding for the HAAAA meditation series.

Dr Michael Walmsley

Head of Development

(Ngāti Kahungunu) is the Head of Development behind the “HAAAA App”. His large whanau includes 29 school teachers and he has been coding since he was 12. For his PhD he combined these passions to build a language learning app that the CIA wanted to fund further development of. Instead, Michael created online education company CodeAvengers, which is used by 500 NZ schools to teach digital technologies, and has millions of users globally.