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About Us.

Meet Mary Jo your massage trainer and Steve your wellness chef. We are the Vibrant Wellness Team and previous owners of Vibrant Living Retreat in Hanmer Springs from 2015 - 2023. 
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VWA Director and Trainer Mary Jo launched V.W.A. in 2017 as an inspired idea and new paradigm vision that was guided from her heart and soul. VWA trainings is where she share's her intuitive massage & postural knowledge, holistic hands on skills, mind-body-emotional connection and personal journey of transformation to uplift, encourage and extend the reach of caring, skilled, intuitive and holistic therapists into a world in need of heart-centred grounded support, mindful reassurance, encouragement, unconditional love and harmony in the weeks, months and years ahead.

In 2010 Mary Jo launched her 1st Holistic Day Spa Business Mountain View Massage which in 2018 became the No.1 Rated Day Spa in Hanmer Springs on Trip Advisor. In 2015 Mary Jo & her husband Steve Launched Vibrant Living Retreat as their dream vision and 3 years on is growing more and more successful as a thriving N.Z. wellness retreat with B&B stays and Day Spa. 

Read Mary Jo's Blog post to celebrate her 1st Heart-centred Biz being Rated No.1 on Trip Advisor and what it took for her to have the courage to strike out on her own in 2010 and stick to her unique soulful path especially on the days when she felt unsure and unsupported. May it inspire you to have the courage to follow your heart and greatest joy as your most perfect purposeful path in life.   Mj's Blog Here 

To read our update JUNE 2024, scroll down to the bottom of this page. 
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Vibrant Living Ltd 
​Established 2014 Launched 2015

Vibrant Living is co-directed and co-created by wife and husband team Mary Jo & Steve Halligan originally from Ireland. 
The couple settled in Hanmer Springs in 2008. After reading a book called " integrity is everything ", the couple got inspired to explore personal development to empower themselves with the life tools and understanding to create there heart centred dream life style and visions for humanity. 

Our Goal and Intentions

We are an exciting new paradigm business & education model intend on supporting a balanced holistic and intuitive approach to learning and up-skilling in the field of wellness. Our aim is to nurture and grow confidence in our students as quickly as possible by simplify the seemingly complex and restoring trust in oneself and ones heart centred, creative and caring nature. We believe that with a natural passion, trust and openness to new ways of thinking, learning styles and looking at things that anyone can become a great masseuse & empowered healer running a thriving wellness business in these new times.
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Our Team

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Mary Jo Halligan 
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Co-Director & Creative Visionary 

Mary Jo wellness enthusiasm is build on a strong foundation of personal experience that made her determined to discover the keys to heal and transform her own life after a challenging childhood. This ushered her to follow her heart which lead to her training as a Yoga Teacher in India in 2004 / 2006 and exploring many healing art modalities over the last 13 years. 
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"with experience comes much wisdom" and Mary Jo is recognised as a caring intuitive mentor and compassionate teacher poised to be of uplifting support during these transitioning years upon earth. 
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Steve Halligan
Co-director & all round ' get the job done guy' . 

Steve is a Builder by trade and wellness chef and talented gardener by practice.

​He is a endurance mountain bike enthusiast and in between the 'daily do' at Vibrant Living he is off riding the mountain trails around Hanmer Springs. 

Steve has a kind and gentle way of making everyone feel at ease, welcomed and taking care of. 
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We're Here  To support your natural well being and passionate wellness career. " Caring for you helps you to truly care for others" . 

We believe that it does not need to be hard or difficult to learn and gain confidence in new skills if one truly is passionate about the topic. We encourage continuous learning for personal growth, evolution, discovery, open mindedness and new development. After all life is an experience ! 

We are living in very special times on earth where science and spiritual wisdom are beginning to complement one another more and more with the latest discoveries and thus helping to support the balancing of our humanities left and right brain hemispheres known as the Heart - Mind Coherence. 

At Vibrant Living we welcome the return of previous trainees on a  'work stay' experience to advance the training experience and grow confidence quickly. Trainees will also have access to individual mentoring and training in other holistic day spa modalities and yoga sessions offered at Vibrant Living over longer stays. 
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Our JUNE 2024 update. Life in Transition. 

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In December 2023 myself Mary Jo and husband Steve sold our Vibrant Living Retreat business in Hanmer Springs. This was our dream vision that we launched in 2015 to run a Wellness Retreat and Day Spa together. We did this for 9 years and sold it December 2023 to Adela and Jan.

In December we also departed Hanmer Springs which is where we lived for 15 years. In 2010 I started my 1st Day Spa called Mountain View Massage in Hanmer Springs which became the No.1 rated Day Spa on Trip Advisor.

Over the years I trained my own therapists at M.V.M. and eventually this lead me to launching Vibrant Wellness Academy in 2017. I launched this Academy to offer my massage trainings and V.W.A. certification to more people interested in learning professional massage with a holistic intuitive approach. I love witnessing my students getting rave reviews from their happy clients and getting inspired to start their own massage and wellness businesses. I have run 15 or 16 of these Level 1 in-person massage training retreat hosted at Vibrant Living Retreat between 2017 and 2023. 


In 2024 Steve and I have been taking some chill time house sitting and pet sitting around the South Island. It is proving to be a beautiful time to rest, reset, connect more with nature as we learn and grow to work on launching our in-person massage trainings as a online course. We are excited to make this trainings and others that support human wellness and empowerment and make them available to more people globally. These will launch over the next few months as a 5 day immersive home massage training retreat and over 5 weekends. Then eventually as a self paced learning option. 

WHAT THIS NEW LIFE STYLE OPENS UP FOR US IN 2024 and 2025.

As in 2024 we don't have a Vibrant Living Retreat to run, we are more mobile and open to options and opportunities to travel to different location around N.Z and elsewhere over seas.

We require a minimum of 5 or 6 people to run this Level 1 massage trainings and a maximum of 14.


If you currently own or manage a day spa and want to support your staff with enhanced self care and awareness to sustain a good massaging body and encourage a massage attitude with a more holistic intuitive approach and values, I offer shorter professional development training options over a weekend or weekday to suit your business and intentions.  Please EMAIL Mary Jo directly to enquire about these options.

​I am open to collaboration. It is a dream of mine to run a Yoga TTC and Massage Training together over a immersive 4 to 5 weeks. 


You can Text to arrange a connections call +64212802447. You can also find me via Whats app and Facebook as Mary Jo Halligan or via the Vibrant Wellness Academy Facebook Page HERE. 
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Alternatively use this online Calendar to book a call at a date and time that suits you to discuss options. USE THIS LINK HERE

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Review from Vibrant Wellness Academy Massage Student. 

Training with Mary Jo has been such a magical journey. Being taught in a space that allows you to just be and provides such inspiration and connection. You are not just becoming a massage therapist you are learning so much more than that. You will be exploring the holistic/intuitive way to approach massage. It’s all about the whole body and each individual and what they need, no two same bodies are the same and that’s the beauty of it. This is the perfect way to learn massage " Abbie Lee Chapell 

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Vibrant Wellness Location:
serving Tairua & the Coromandel Peninsula

Intuitive massage, holistic wellness & Qhht sessions by appointment only with Mary Jo.
Professional Therapy Room Location: Main Rd, Tairua.
Receive the exact address details upon booking.
📱 021 280 2447 | Online Bookings via Fresha
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