Original Medicine
4-Part Series

 

About the Series

Original Medicine 4-Part Series is a platform for Indigenous elders, teachers, and healers from all four corners of the world to come and share their wisdom. This series seeks to illuminate the often overlooked and unheard voices of Indigenous people. These sessions offer a psycho-spiritual, cross-cultural, and mindfulness approach that weaves Indigenous Wisdom, Buddha-Dharma, and Earth-based practices. We work with each Season as a teacher, featuring a different guest speaker every Season, so that we may be in an intentional practice of connecting ourselves with the natural world.

In Indigenous societies, there are long-standing practices of honoring the sacred, cultivating stillness, embracing silences, and forming a relationship to deep listening; these practices open our hearts to the mysteries of life. They are the messengers that guide us back to the wisdom of our precious hearts. Join our sessions to explore these ancient ways of being with ourselves and the earth.

We invite you to join any of our sessions to explore the possibilities that lay within, allowing authenticity to emerge as Original Medicine. Prior participation in previous Original Medicine 4-Part Sessions or Original Medicine Yearlong Program is not required to attend.

Guest Teachers

  • Dr. Leslie Gray

    Clinical Psychologist

  • Mamerto “Lagitan” Tindongan

    Shaman

  • Verlinda Montoya

    Medicine Elder

  • Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal

    Mindfulness Teacher

  • Mbali Marais

    Diviner & Medicine Elder

  • Kanakan-Balintagos

    Film Maker, Indigenous Rights Advocate

  • Amelia Butler

    Cultural Practitioner & Māori Cultural Consultant

  • Nobantu Mpotulo

    Buddhist Teacher

  • Abuela Amalia Salas Y Casales

    Medicine Elder

  • Elvina Charley

    School Psychology Practitioner, Mindfulness Teacher

  • “I've learned that I'm able to trust myself and to honor myself even when my way of being in the world isn't always supported -- to stop caring so much about how I'm perceived -- learning to lead from the heart balanced with mind.”

    OM 4-Part Series Participant

  • “I learned that the elements, movement, and breathing are always available to ground me and support me.”

    OM 4-Part Series Participant

  • “Among the many things I learned this year, learning, or being reminded that I am worthy and abundant.”

    OM 4-Part Series Participant