
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
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Dr. Leslie Gray
Clinical Psychologist
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Mamerto “Lagitan” Tindongan
Shaman
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Verlinda Montoya
Medicine Elder
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Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal
Mindfulness Teacher
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Mbali Marais
Diviner & Medicine Elder
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Kanakan-Balintagos
Film Maker, Indigenous Rights Advocate
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Amelia Butler
Cultural Practitioner & Māori Cultural Consultant
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Nobantu Mpotulo
Buddhist Teacher
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Abuela Amalia Salas Y Casales
Medicine Elder
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Elvina Charley
School Psychology Practitioner, Mindfulness Teacher