Southern Oregon Pachamama Alliance (SOPA) is presenting the film Māori, part of a series of The Eternal Song films produced by nonprofit Science and Nonduality (SAND).
Māori is a cinematic invitation into the healing traditions of Aotearoa, a journey carried by Māori healers, elders, and knowledge keepers who tend to intergenerational wounds through land, language, and ceremony. Filmed in close relationship with those who carry ancestral wisdom, Māori reveals how healing is not an individual pursuit but a collective remembering – guided by spirit, whenua (land), and the relational threads that colonial disruption could not sever.
With breathtaking imagery and intimate storytelling, the film brings us into the spaces where trauma is not “treated” but held, where stories, prayers, medicines, and rituals offer pathways back to connection. Māori does not explain Māori healing. It moves with it – listening to what still pulses beneath silence, and honoring what remains alive in the hands of those who never forgot.
SAND’s vision for the 12-film documentary series is to honor Indigenous resilience, illuminate sacred wisdom held for humanity and Earth, and invite healing across communities facing trauma and colonial erasure.
The Eternal Song film series emerged from a deep calling to bear witness to both the wounds of colonization and the powerful ancestral wisdom that continues to guide Indigenous communities toward healing. Over two years, the film’s production team’s journey took them across sacred lands where they encountered stories of profound suffering, injustice, and beauty alongside remarkable resilience.
SAND believes the Indigenous voices offer vital medicine for our fractured times, helping us all to remember our fundamental kinship with Mother Earth and to reawaken to the eternal song of existence that calls us back to belonging. In their words, the project is a “humble contribution to a necessary global conversation about how we might collectively heal from historical traumas and remember, re-imagine our place in the sacred web of life.”
See more about SOPA. See more about SAND. Donations are gratefully accepted at the door but not required.
