Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul
Do you sense that your most meaningful work in this world is still ahead of you — even after a lifetime of inner work?
Experience a lineage-based path of grounding, sacred sound, breath, and devotional presence for living with greater trust, steadiness, and connection during times of personal and collective upheaval.
You've spent years healing, growing, searching, and doing inner work, and yet something may still feel incomplete, as though the most meaningful chapter of your life is waiting to begin.
Many people reach a point where more information, more insight, or another spiritual practice no longer feels like the answer. What they’re truly longing for is a deeper connection… with the Earth, spirit, ancestors, and the deeper intelligence that lives within them.
But in a world filled with constant mental overwhelm, it can become difficult to hear the wisdom of your own soul or trust where it’s trying to lead you.
Māori Grandmother (Whaea) and Sufi mystic Eila Paul teaches that your soul’s purpose is not something you need to force, chase, or intellectually figure out. It naturally reveals itself when you return to inner alignment with Spirit, the Earth, and the deeper truth of who you are.
Join Whaea Eila for a new 7-module live video journey designed to help you reattune to the deeper truth of your body, voice, ancestry, and sacred wisdom of the elders , so you can move through life with greater presence and purpose.
For more than 30 years, Whaea Eila has guided seekers through sacred Māori lineage teachings and Sufi devotional practices of breath, prayer, remembrance, and presence. Through storytelling, ancient traditional songs, movement, and Earth-based rituals, she helps people experience spirituality as a living relationship that can be felt, embodied, and woven into everyday life.
Throughout this journey, you’ll attune to what modern life often drowns out, exploring grounding, breath, movement, chanting, deep listening, and elemental practices that can help regulate your nervous system, release emotional heaviness, deepen spiritual connection, and restore the inner conditions where your soul’s purpose and authentic expression can naturally arise.
Each session also includes downloadable PDFs with reflective journal prompts, affirmations, and guided practices designed to help you integrate and embody these teachings in your everyday life.
If you sense there’s a deeper calling trying to emerge through your life, this journey offers a grounded path for embodying the wisdom and spiritual alignment needed to fully live it.
Are you ready to rediscover the deeper purpose your soul came here to live — and walk through life with greater presence, trust, and connection?
During this soul-nurturing journey, you’ll:
- Reconnect with your soul’s deeper purpose by learning how to return to inner steadiness, presence, and spiritual alignment through Māori and Sufi practices
- Discover how breath, grounding, and sacred remembrance can help you regulate your nervous system and feel calmer, more centered, and emotionally supported
- Release emotional heaviness and ancestral patterns through water rituals, movement, prayer, and practices designed to restore flow and renewal
- Develop a more authentic relationship with your voice through chanting, song, and sacred sound practices that help you express what’s true rather than what’s expected
- Strengthen your connection with the Earth as a source of wisdom, healing, and stability so you feel more rooted, supported, and connected in daily life
- Learn how to listen more deeply to your body, intuition, emotions, and spiritual guidance so you can move through life with greater trust and clarity
- Experience movement, stillness, and embodied practices that help you release stored tension, reconnect with your body’s intelligence, and feel more fully present
- Create simple devotional rituals and grounding practices you can return to daily to support greater purpose, alignment, and spiritual connection in everyday life
- And much more…
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-module, 8-week transformational course, Whaea Eila will guide you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to greater purpose and meaning into your life through Earth-based practices and elder wisdom teachings.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Whaea Eila and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Whaea Eila’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions 2026-06-29 4:00:00 pm.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Whaea Eila. (Module 5 will be pre-recorded.) Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to integrate centuries-old Māori knowledge, and Sufi spiritual practices into your life for ongoing guidance, greater joy and overall wellbeing.
Module 1: Ko Wai Au? (Who Am I, Truly?) - Locating the Self Through Ancestry, Land & Spirit for a Deeper Sense of Belonging (2026-06-29 4:00:00 pm)
You'll explore who you are beyond roles and identity by reconnecting to land, ancestry, and Spirit through Pepeha - a Māori way of introducing yourself - and Sufi remembrance practices.
You'll also discover why self-location is essential for spiritual integrity and belonging, and begin anchoring your sense of self into a place of humility and truth.
Along with providing journal prompts and affirmations designed to reveal insight into self-knowledge and life's deeper mysteries, Whaea Eila will also lead you in a Sufi meditation for grounding and remembering...
... and an at-home spiritual practice where you'll craft and speak your Pepeha-style self-location daily, ideally outdoors, acknowledging land, ancestors, and Spirit as a devotional act and helping you understand your place in the greater web of life.
In this opening module, you'll:
- Gain clarity around spiritual authority rooted in humility, learning how to stand firmly in truth without ego-driven identity
- Practice an embodied experience of Sufi remembrance (dhikr) as a return to one's divine origin, cultivating presence rather than performance
- Find a sense of belonging that transcends role and title, reconnecting to ancestral and spiritual continuity
- Learn about an ethical framework for spiritual work, grounded in accountability to lineage, land, and community
Module 2: Work With Sacred Waters for Emotional Cleansing & Renewal (2026-07-06 4:00:00 pm)
You'll learn about your emotions as sacred movement rather than something to avoid.
You'll also find out how water holds memory, and why emotional flow is essential for healing and balance. Through water-based rituals and reflection, you'll begin to release what no longer serves.
Exploring emotional honesty through Māori water teachings and Sufi heart-clearing practices - rather than bypassing pain - Whaea Eila will share how to honor emotion, allowing for cleansing, forgiveness, and greater compassion.
In this module, you'll:
- Gain an understanding of water as a living spiritual teacher, carrying emotional, ancestral, and energetic memory
- Learn about tools for emotional cleansing without bypassing, allowing grief and truth to move with dignity
- Practice a water blessing ritual for forgiveness and release, grounded in compassion and self-responsibility
- Discover a softened relationship with vulnerability, fostering emotional resilience and clarity
- Find trust in surrender, learning when to release control and allow flow
Module 3: Explore Sacred Sound & Your Voice as Prayer for Healing & Empowered Self-Expression (2026-07-13 4:00:00 pm)
Sound can act as a bridge between worlds. You'll focus on reclaiming authentic expression, deep listening, and the healing power of vibration.
Through Waiata, chanting or song, and Sufi sacred-sound practices, Whaea Eila will demonstrate using the voice as a vessel of prayer and memory.
You'll discover how to reclaim your voice as a sacred tool for healing, and why authentic self-expression is essential for spiritual alignment...
... leading you to feel more confident expressing truth and more connected to your inner resonance.
In this module, you'll:
- Gain an embodied understanding of sound as medicine, not performance
- Learn chants and songs from the Māori and Sufi traditions so you can begin using your voice as a devotional practice
- Develop confidence in authentic expression, releasing fear and self-censorship
- Discover greater sensitivity to vibration and resonance, within the body and environment for enhanced awareness
- Grow your listening skills, fostering presence and discernment
Module 4: Connect With the Earth as a Healer & Ancestor for Grounding & Unwavering Stability (2026-07-20 4:00:00 pm)
The Earth teaches patience, responsibility, and endurance. You'll reconnect to the wisdom of the body, ancestral bones, and the stabilizing presence of land, while exploring grounding as a spiritual discipline, and Earth as a living ancestor.
You'll also practice journaling, and experience a barefoot connection ritual emphasizing breath, stillness, and listening. It's a chance to explore how grounding supports healing - and why slowing down is essential for integration.
Through body awareness and Earth-based practices, Whaea Eila will show you how to root into presence, helping you feel more steady, supported, and connected to your body and the land.
In this module, you'll:
- Develop a deeper relationship with Earth as teacher and healer to feel powerfully supported
- Learn about practices for grounding trauma safely and respectfully
- Practice ancestral body awareness, recognizing inherited patterns and strength
- Discover the spiritual value of slowness and stillness
- Find your place of stability rooted in presence, not control
Module 5: Sacred Dance as a Form of Prayer & Reverent Self-Expression (2026-07-27 4:00:00 pm)
Movement becomes devotion and sacred dance becomes a form of prayer. Whaea Eila will teach you how to allow emotion, story, and spirit to move through the body with intention and reverence.
You'll learn how the body holds story, and how specific movements can help release and transform your energy.
Through guided movement practices, you'll begin to express what lives within you, thereby feeling more free, embodied, and connected to your body's wisdom.
In this module, you'll:
- Discover movement as spiritual language, far beyond choreography
- Release stored emotion through embodied expression
- Learn how to trust in the body as a sacred messenger of truth
- Discover freedom from self-judgment in movement
- Experience deeper embodiment of prayer in your daily life
Module 6: Experience Divine Alignment Through the Breath of Spirit (2026-08-10 4:00:00 pm)
You'll explore experiential Sufi practices as a path to divine alignment, using breath as your gateway to presence.
You'll be guided to deepen your awareness of breath as more than a function of the body, awakening it as a living prayer that connects you to spirit. As you attune to its rhythm, you'll begin to access greater clarity, stillness, and inner coherence.
Through gentle yet powerful breathwork, Whaea Eila will demonstrate how you can regulate your nervous system, soften resistance, and open into a direct experience of the sacred within, helping you feel more centered, receptive, and aligned with a deeper intelligence moving through you.
In this module, you'll:
- Refine breath awareness as a tool for spiritual alignment
- Regulate your nervous system through conscious breathing
- Experience breath as a form of prayer and devotion
- Access inner stillness and mental clarity
- Deepen trust in surrendering to spirit
Module 7: Weaving the Cloak of Light for Integration, Blessing & Walking Forward With Clarity (2026-08-17 4:00:00 pm)
This closing session will act as a sacred threshold, an opportunity to gather all you've experienced and consciously weave it into the fabric of your daily life.
Whaea Eila will guide you to reflect, integrate, and honor the inner shifts that have taken place, while anchoring the wisdom, practices, and insights that now live within you. Through ritual and shared presence, this week will bring a completion while also opening the path ahead.
As you step forward, you'll clarify your relationship to your spiritual path and the responsibility it carries, learning how to embody what you've received with integrity, intention, and trust.
Through blessing practices, you'll honor both your own journey and the collective field, leaving with a deeper sense of continuity, purpose, and quiet confidence in what comes next.
In this closing module, you'll:
- Integrate the teachings into your everyday life with clarity and intention
- Clarify your spiritual responsibility as you move forward
- Experience ritual closure and blessing practices
- Strengthen trust in walking your path with integrity
- Embrace a sense of completion while remaining open to what unfolds
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-06-13 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Whaea Eila’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Voices of Remembrance: Sacred Stories, Waiata & Living Wisdom From the Grandmothers
Video Transmissions (and PDF) With Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul, Grandmother Devi Tide, and Grandmother Moetu
Enjoy this intimate collection of sacred storytelling, waiata, and wisdom transmissions from Grandmother Whaea, Grandmother Devi Tide, and Grandmother Moetu - offered in the spirit of remembrance, devotion, and living prayer - and you'll feel like you're sitting at the feet of wise Elders. Through stories shared from lived experience and songs carried through ancestral lineage, you'll gain intimate access to wisdom that unfolds through lived experience, memory, and quiet transmission. You'll receive songs to engage with privately or devotionally, allowing the teachings to move through you beyond the mind. The experience supports emotional integration and vibration-based healing through direct resonance. With gentle context, you'll be introduced to waiata as living prayer, approached with care and respect. These songs offer a way of remembering that is felt in the body, restoring connection through sound. As you listen, reflect, and sing along, you'll experience how sound, story, silence, and presence can help restore connection to yourself, spirit, and the sacred intelligence woven through life itself.
Listening Beyond the Veil: Ancestral Reflection Practice
Guided Reflection and Journaling Practice PDF From Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul
Enjoy a guided reflection and journaling practice that offers a grounded, respectful way to connect with ancestral presence. You'll be guided to listen with discernment, learning how to sense what is true while staying rooted in your body and awareness. The process will open a steady container for grief, gratitude, and a deeper sense of responsibility within your lineage. Designed for those who feel the quiet pull of ancestral connection, it brings clarity, humility, and emotional steadiness to the experience. Through this work, you will begin to build a relationship that is both intuitive and deeply anchored.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Walking the Sacred Path
Video Meditation From Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul
This mediation practice will guide you into a direct remembrance of the Sacred Path - where breath, land, ancestors, and spirit are felt as one living presence. Through deep grounding and nervous system settling, you'll receive a practice you can return to long after the course ends, one that feels less like being guided home to yourself. Blending Māori and Sufi wisdom through lived experience, this meditation offers a lasting companion for your spiritual path.
Karakia for the Living Path: Prayer Collection
PDF Guide From Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul
This collection of seven sacred karakia from Whaea Eila offers authentic prayers for life's key thresholds - beginning, grief, gratitude, uncertainty, devotion, and closure. You'll receive language for the moments when words feel out of reach, supporting a steady rhythm of daily connection with spirit. Each prayer carries a spirit of humility, presence, and reverence, inviting you into a living relationship rather than repetition. Rooted in cultural integrity, this offering deepens your understanding of prayer as something felt and embodied - available in written form with optional audio, so these karakia can meet you wherever you are. Over time, they become anchors you can return to in both stillness and transition, drawing you into a more intimate relationship with prayer, ancestry, and spirit.
What People Are Saying About Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul…
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Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul will share in this powerful program.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to live with greater trust, steadiness, and connection during times of personal and collective upheaval. Course sessions are on 2026-06-29 4:00:00 pm.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are available for live attendance only and are not recorded for playback. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, A Spirit-Aligned Life
We feel honored that Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a Māori elder and Sufi mystic whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about aligning your breath, mind, and spirit for transformation, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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More Praise for Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul
Maori Elder and Wisdom Keeper, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Founding member of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and founder of The Path, New Mexico
About Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul
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Grandmother (Whaea) Eila Paul is a descendant of Māori heritage, the Indigenous culture of Aotearoa (New Zealand). She is richly blessed with the heritage of two strong Iwi (tribes) and is a Grandmother of five Mokopuna (grandchildren).
She works with people of all walks of life, weaving deep and sacred connections to Mother Earth (Papatuanuku) and to the hearts of all beings using nature, storytelling, sound healing, ancient traditional songs, prayer, and dance.
She has followed the Sufi tradition for many years (her Sufi name is Jamia Haqq). She is a trustee and manages the Sharda Retreat Center in New Zealand (Aotearoa).
“My mountain is Maunga Tautari and my Awa (rivers) are Waikato and Waihau, holy to my people.”
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