The approach to COVID19 taken in Aotearoa to isolate at home has resulted in almost eliminating transmission of the virus. We are now working towards returning to business activities, schooling, cultural activities, socialising and a new reality. Expanding our bubbles, continuing tapu and public health practices such as physical distancing and handwashing, and maintaining the gains that have occurred in both the natural environment and within our minds, hearts and homes, can benefit from taking a Māori approach.